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Newspaper Page TextI 4 PAGE -A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, May 15, 1963 era It) ani eto EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Failure Threatens . UMW Hospital Plan "The First Order of Business-the Secretary General Will Pass the Hat'7 fcdiitfiiaL (pajqsL (Th. AMA News) ! The King-Anderson bill has been de scribed by Nelson H. Cruikshank, director of the AFL-CIO's social security department, as the "best bargain" working people can get. It is always a good idea to take a second look at bargain merchandise. For the 18 million persons who will be 65 In 1965, the King-Anderson bill may seem to be the bargain of their lives. They will have contributed nothing to the hospitaliza tion fund and they will extract benefits es timated at $35 billion. Most of these people will, on second thought, realize that their bargain must become a burden for their heirs. The working man must pay this S35 bil lion bill. He must also pay for his own health care and he must contribute enough in rising taxes to keep the Social Security System func tioning. Bargain hunters should note that the trust fund is already committed to more than $300 billion to meet obligations to all covered by the program since it began. The "bargain" offered by the King-Anderson bill involves V of 1 per cent increase in social security taxes for employees and employers, plus an increase in the tax base from $4,800 to $5,200. This amounts to a . 16 per cent rise; with the man who makes $5,200 paying as much as the man who makes $50,000. With the social security increase that became effective Jan. 1, plus the pro posed health cate Increase, employees and employers would be paying 40 per cent more than they paid in 1961. With further auto matic increases already in the law, they ' would be paying 76 per cent more by 1968. Those who support the King-Anderson bill are counting on further increases in the social security tax, not only to keep the pro gram going but to provide expanded benefits in future election years. Wilbur J. Cohen, assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, has said the system is sound "as long as it operates under a plan of financing which is designed to provide income sufficient to meet all benefit costs as they fall due" IN WASHINGTON . By RALril dc TOl.KDANO 'When tin White House abrupt ly announced Uiat Admiral George Anderson would not be retained ai Chief of Naval Operations, the news came as a shock to many even in Uiese shock ridden times. Tlie admiral was not a "controversial" man, he was admired by the press, and ho had the respect of his peers. But those who have come knowledge of what has been going on In the Pentagon and at the White Ilmiso were not surprised. For Admiral Anderson is a deep ly ninccre person. As a public spokesman lor the Navy. Ik has always followed the correct line of stating Administration policy. But he has felt that within the framework of civilian control of the military, the Joint Chiefs of Staff must speak up plainly when consulted by the President, the Secretary uf Defense, or the serv ice secretaries. And he has done so, much to the annoyance of Presidential advisers. Ho has not been unique in this. Since Mr. McNamara began mak ing messenger boys of our mili tary loaders, the Joint Chiefs BERRY'S WORLD ii m On tt gavtrnort wtntt t knew low much bi teuld rain itatt taxtt If Ibt tax tut till fori tbrgk. A Look At A Bargain Admiral Anderson Fired have struggled to be heard above the whirr of the computers and tlie whining of the whit kids. It Is the duty of the Joint Chiefs to place their long experience at the disposal of the civilian lead ers. It is the duty of the civilian leaders to consult Uic Joint Chiefs. Itut in instance after instance, major military policy decisions were made without so much us a word being said to those entrust ed with Hie nation's defense. Tile Joint Chiefs have tlicre fore done what they could, with out creating public controversy, to make tlicir views known to the President. And this has irri tated Secretary McNamara might ily. As a consequence, he lias yearned (or tlie day when he might surround himself with more docile military leaders. General Iemnilzcr was kicked upstairs to take over tlie NATO command in Paris wliere he could not be in Mr. MrNamara's hair or confide his troubles to Congressional friends. (Icneral Curtis LcMny has been retained for a half-term as Air Force Chief of Staff. There would have been too much hiihhnh in tlie Senate that is as long as Congress is willing lo raise taxes. In 1961 Cohen told Congress that he advocated raising the taxable wage base to $9,000 a year by 1970, and Cruikshank has also suggested $9,000 as a likely figure. Future generations may very well con sider this compulsory blue-sky financing a bad bargain. Today's younger people are al ready being shortchanged. At the present time the young person and his employer are paying $177 for every $100 worth of .social security benefits to be received. Under the proposed King-Anderson bill, the young em ployee earning $5,200 a year and his em ployer would pay about $400 for even- $100 worth of hospitalization benefits to be re ceived at retirement. Most Americans do not object to paying taxes which are necessary to assist people who need help, regardless of age, but most will find it hard to understand why they should pay unlimited taxes to provide a windfall for millions of people who are self-supporting or well-to-do. Working people have reason to wonder why labor leaders are recommending a bargain that promises a return of 25 cents for each dollar and places increasing pres sure on employers. The rising expense to em ployers, who must match employees' pay ments, does not augur well for future salaries, fringe benefits, prices and perhaps even jobs. Millions of persons are relying on the So cial Security System for some support in their retirement years. Before they buy the King Anderson "bargain" they should ask them selves who is going to pay the bill. They should, with Rep. M. R. Snyder of Kentucky, "pause and reflect on the fact that the social security fund went $1,248 million deeper into the red .in the last fiscal year." They should consider the warning of Sen. Harry F. Byrd: "I am opposed to . . . compulsory medical service and hospitalization under the Social Security System. I am convinced this would lead to socialized medicine with the possibility that it would bankrupt the social security trust fund." had lie been poleaxed like Ad miral Anderson. The whiz kids, however, had gotten very tired of his battle to save the Strategic Air Command from the extinc tion tlie computers have decreed. Admiral Anderson, of course, fought against the conlemplaled liquidation of tile U.S. Navy. He did not believe that it should he reduced to the status of under water artillery. And he insisted that the Navy has and will con tinue to have an important ait in the defense position of the I'niled States. But wliere he real ly infuriated the White House was in the discussions of Cuba. Ixing before tlie President sudden ly decided to "quarantine" (well, sort ofi the Castro Communist regime. Admiral Anderson w a s warning of the dangerous, mili tary buildup in Cuba. He was ignored, but be continued to press for some kind of policy, for a halt to tlie Administration's drift-ar.d-wait attitude. In the debate at tlie Pentagon mid the While House prior lo Mr. Kennedy's October 22 seech, Ad miral Anderson took a position which subsequent events have ful ly )usti!:cd: He argued that any halfway measures would be of lillle value, that if we were tn take tlie risk of action we should clean up tlie job at one sweep, that failure to do so would lead to protracted negotiations in winch the U.S. would lose u:t. It is reported that wlien one group of the President's advisers urged that tlie mailer Iv turned over to the United Nations, Ad miral Anderson said that if it were he would resign and take Ins case lo the people. This story may or may not be true I do not have It fust hand There is no dotiht. however, that he made enemies in arguing energetically tor quick surgery to cut out the Castro cancer. It is being said that Admiral Anderson was relieved as CNO liecause of his testimony in the TFX allair Hut there were oth ers at tlie Pentagon who answered truthfully the question put lo them by tlie Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee. Sec retary McNamara could have gotten no comfort fiom any of this testimony, ami the While House was not exactly happy at seeing the Defense Department s duty linen washed in public. But before then. Admiral Anderson was slated lo go. 11 is sad to ee su able an officer in effort demot ed for doing his duly. S tTt V 7 MPiiVS Wrr. xJf-l 1 art By SYDNEY J. HARMS In any discussion of world proh lems and man's falc, somebody sooner or later is bound to pro claim. Willi sweet smugness, "Well, if we only would obey the Decalogue, everything would be fine. After all. the Ten Com mandments are still the best rules lo follow. Yet, if we took such a man seriously and questioned him on only one of the Ten Command ments, and perhaps the most ImiHirlant, what would be the re sult? "Thou shall not kill." A plain, flat statement, without qualifica tion or modification. What does our friend of Uie Decalogue say to this? Does he accept it. com pletely and unequivocally? Or docs he try to get around it in one way or another? First of all. he will say that we have a "right" to kill in self defense even though the Deca logue does not say, "Thou shall not kill, except in self-defense." Then he will say that society has a right to kill olfenders. if their offense is deemed grievous enough even though the first kill er, Cain, was not executed by God but was branded and sent into exile. Next, he will insist that a na tion has the "right" to kill ene mies in lime of war; he may de plore such a necessity land gen erals are the greatest dcplorers of all', but he docs not doubt that the Lord is on the side of the "just" nation. He will also point to many Animal Life ACROSS 1 On of thr for Goldilocks 5 Young horM 9 Linn, for tnitinre 12 Feminine sppellillon 13 Range 14 Mouth! 15 Pilrh men 17 Vehicle 1A r.avlrnnnd molluKk IdMediral term 21 Clock lace 23 Ace 24 Hons' kiln 27 Require 2A(reh .12 Roan .14 t'ndertake SS Ktamierate .17 frugal ealer .'UJ majeatf .19 Inadequate. 41 Manner direction 42 Month tab.) 44 Kmptnyt 4 Scholar 49 Brazilian aeaport M Rocky pinnacle , 54 Nonconductor SS Kslat S7 Angered M Son of Seth SfHienui of raltla so tjnd parcels ol alitcnes nows 1 Rug larvae 2 Ardor 3 Site of TiJ Mahal 4 Virulent 5 Tax, Bird 7 Dregs a Sample UPalm fruits 10 Ancient countrv I U 13 4 J la 16 7 (8 I j 1 1 0 III yj ej Ti - 15 16 T7 18 Jji9 20 """ 21 zt zi Ui U zfrE XET imi let: 32 U 34 Jb 36 il 55 rSTw Tift n "Q H 6 U7 it) 715 50 161 52 33""""3 "b5 . 55 57 3 53 63 ST" in STRICTLY PERSONAL Old Testament passages, which seem to confirm his position. So. finally, what does tlie com mandment, "Thou shalt-nol kill," amount to? It amounts to what ever e want to make it. Nobody but a "crank" takes the com mandment literally; nearly every body believes that under certain conditions it is right and proper to kill. Hardly anyone except Socrates, Jesus and a few saints has ever truly believed ,that it is better to suffer pain than to in flict it. The trouble with the Ten Com mandments is not that unbelievers flout it; it is that even "believers" do not believe it, do not agree on it. do not act on it. A simple sentence ol four one - syllable words. "Thou shalt not kill." has confounded Christendom for two thousand years for the bloodiest wars of all have been religious ware.' Of course, "everything would lie line" if we followed the Ten Com mandments. It is not even that we try lo follow them and fail it is that, confronted with tliese four plain words, we interpret them as we want to, for we have made our own Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt follow the Decalogue only (nit it It hurts." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q How many elements were known in ancient times? A-Ten. Anwr to Previeut Pulfl U Irish Frc Stale parish IB Arrayed 2(1 Epunft 22 Fable! 24 Greek coin :- Sal van 20 NumiamitiC term (pi I 28 Sen Into froovei oar) M Dutch u oc lei 31 Kxttted 35 Eel-shaped amphibian 40 Mart 4 Hiiard 4S r.iuta 4 Pierce 47 Bull iSpl 4 Deep near Guam 50 Prone 51 Confen 52 Fewer 55 Hypothetical Cupiditv structural umti WASHINGTON . NOTEBOOK . . . Easy Lesson In How To Get Ahead! By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Attorney General Robert Ken nedy was giving a speech at the University of South Carolina. A sludent asked him how to get ahead at the Department of Jus tice. Said Kennedy. "Well. I started at W.'iOO a year, worked hard, stayed late at night, was loyal and picked the right brother." Through a misunderstanding. Peace Corps director Sargent 1 Shriver Jr. show ed up in a tux edo at the white House dinner fur '-A oiiacf - fcu.,,.. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Lux- lte3cTvra son. Prince Jean. V?.. It was all the more embarrassing because Mrs. Shriver, President Kennedy's sis ter, was subbing as official host ess for First Lady Jacqueline. But the resourceful Shriver got oui oi nis social blunder neatly nere not so formal in Peace Corps," he said, don't approve of white lie tails." tlie We and Wlicn Nelson Hockefcller Mas introduced at tlie American News paper Publishers' Bureau of Atl vcrtisin' dinner in New York. Jack Tarver, Atlanta Constitution president who presided, declared they were all proud to welcome the illustrious New York gover nor .. . "particularly our wives, who arc most interested in his .coming announcement. "We've had distinguished guests of honor before." Tarver contin ued. "We've had Gov. Rockclcl ler before, and I remember Wen dell W illkie. Tom Dewey and Dick Nixon. "Our Bureau oj Advertising has done a meticulous research job on Gov. Rockefeller frr this oc casion, buildin.j up a file on h.m exceeded only by those of At torney Grnerai Robert Kennedy and Chairma.1 Manny t eller ii liie House Judiciary Commitlre iho is investigating AN'P.Vi "And now 1 give you tlie for mer assistant secretary of stale, the former undersecretary nf health', education and welfare, the present governor ol New York and you- nexl . . . 'long pause for dramatic'clfecti . . speaker of the evening ." James W. Smmglon, adminis tralive assistant to the attorney general. has decided to leave the lVpartm-nt of Justice and go into private practice. As he was being ti'a-lcd and congratulated by his colleagues. Symington saici. "I feel little like Bob Hope when he landed in Moscow. He tnid tiicm he was grateful for tne 51 gun salute but wished they had waited until h" had gut nn the ground." Gov George Knrnney of Mich igan wowed the I S. Chamber of Commerce annuai meeting with a rip snortin' jpwh agin' Hie guv' ment, but did admit "there has been some improvement." in Washington in the last 40 veais When his fa'her-in-law. H.unld LaKount. was appointed to the By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON iNEAi There is a great national lesson and a moral some place if anybody can figure out what and where in the announcement that the United Presbyterian Church Board of Na tional .Missions is considering a takeover of 10 hospitals in Ken tucky and the Virginias, built by United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund. Miners Memorial Hospital Assn., which has been operating the hos pitals since 1956, has announced that it will have to close four of the hospitals July 1, the others by Oct. 1 because it is no longer financially able to keep them go ing. This has caused a great protest in the tri-state coal area. There have been threats of violence and fears of bombings. The Appala chian mountain people who never had decent medical care before want them kept open. There is no doubt they are needed. The story of these hospitals is something of an American classic in human understanding. At the end of World War II United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis inspired a survey of health and medical care throughout the area. It was conducted by the U.S. Coal Mines Administration with Rear, Adm. Joel T. Boone, retired Navy surgeon genera! in charge. The survey revealed scandalous conditions. No modern hospitals, not enough doctors, fewer dentists, terrible infant mortality, mid wives for obstetricians, bad nurs ing service, high disease and death rates, inadequate lirst aid services at the mines. Lewis then took characteristic action. He decided to have the hospitals built by his union. Us ing welfare and retirement funds being built up by royalties of five cents a ton at first now 40 cents a ton paid by coal operators with which the union had contracts, ten 100-bed hospitals were built. They were planned to cost $10 million in all. They ended up cost ing $27 million, but they were the last word in everything, including medical staff and service. UMW's wellare fund agreed to pay $35 a day flat rate foi every hospital ized miner and members of his family, but that covered every thing. Facilities were also open to WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Hungarian Policy Undergoes Change By KtXTON LEWIS JR. As a candidate for the nation's highest office. John Fitzgerald Kennedy deplored tlie "ugly bru tality" of Soviet troops who crushed the Hungarian revolution. He pledged to those behind the Iron Curtain that his Administra tion would not forget their des perate fight for freedom. Six years alter blood ran in the streets of Budaiest, two years af ter he won the Presidency. John Kennedy has quietly altered American policy on Hungary. From 1956 to 19t3. it was ofli cial policy to boycott the Hun garian United Nations' delegation. "We took tlie position that they did not represent the Hungarian people." says Francis Carpenter, press secretary for the C S. dele gation. "We rei'uscd to attend any of their diplomatic alfairs. We in vited them to none of ours." Now all that is changed. With out public announcement, this pol icy nf "disengagement" was dropped one day last fall. Ameri can and Hungarian envoys began lo nuncio socially. And Lyndon Barnes Johnson has done his part tn forget Budapest by laving out tlie red carpet for Karoly t'satoitlay. Hungarian am bassador to the world body. Comrade Csatorday wai one of 2S U N diplomats feted at LBJ's Texas ramh a fortnight ago. Along with Communist envovs from Rumania and Bulgaria and "uncommitted" delegates from Ctanda. .iseria and Somalia. old Federal Radio Commission in the l'i20s. Romnoy related that "am body who lelt home became a celebrity." LaFount was so im pressed by his new job that when he got to Washinston he called at Hie White House to thank Pres ident CnnlKke personally The White House appointment secretary received him but said that if be waiu.'d to see the Pres ident, he'd have to gel a morn ing coat and stuped tnniers. At a rust nf !75. UiKi.unt got tlie formal att're and showed up lor tlie ceremmv. Ho was u-her-ed into the Oval Room The Pies. nVnt was writing at hit desk Aiter a wait to be rivogmzed. the new nldcil made his brief speech of thai kj for the honor betocd iiin him Then Piesi dent Conhdge '""kod up and said ' When in do-ibi. read the law. Good morning." all members of the communities. Lewis had enough confidence in the coal industry to believe that his investment would pay out, but here he may have made a miscal culation that turns his monument into a cross. U.S. coal production has dropped from 500 million tons in 1956 to 400 million Ions in 1962. Mechanization of the big mines closed down pro duction of marginal mines. More coal now is produced by 150.000 miners than used to 'be produced by 300.000 miners. There are 150.000 unemployed miners today. .Many former union mineworkers now work for below scale wages at non-union wagon mines which account for a fourth of today's production. The UMW welfare and retire ment fund has come upon leaner days with these developments. The $100 a month pensions prom ised to union miners on retirement at age CO has been cut to $75. And the fund no longer is able to subsidize the hospitals. No figures are given out on oper ation costs for the 10 hospitals, but $750,000 a year losses are men tioned unofficially. So the hospitals will be closed the patients locked out unless some new formula can be found to keep them going in what now are depressed areas. The Presbyterian Church Mis sions has slopped into the situation to see what can be saved. No deal has been closed, no figures men tioned. The Presbyterians don't have $27 million or even $20 million to buy the hospitals, and don't want to buy them. The principal aim is to keep them open until a permanent operator can be found, mobilizing local resources. Some help may come from the U.S. government's Area Redevel opment Administration under a section of the ARA Act which authorizes grants to improve op portunities in local rehabilitation areas. Gov. Bert T. Combs of Kentucky says he will call a special session ' ol the slate legislature if that will facilitate continued operation of the hospitals. Two broad generalizations may he made on the whole situation. Something is wrong w ith an econ omy in which this can happen. Something is wrong with health care planning. Both need fixing. Csatorday received a royal recep tion from Lyndon and his Lady Bird. The Hungarian Red stuffed him self on barbecued beef under the big oak trees in front of Johnson's rambling white frame and stone ranch house. He was lo have watched a sheep roundup, ridden horseback, toured the working ranch and "stared at the humble shack where tlie Vice President was horn," according lo a John eon aide. Alter the fete. Johnson was Hon orary Grand Marshal in a trium phant parade for Csatorday and friends through San Antonio. Congressional reaction to the change in U.S. policy has been angry. Informed by my associate. Bill Schulz. of the switch. Rep. Ed Dervvinski said: "It is highly disturbing but hardly surprising that official policy Ims the Vice President of this country glad-handing the Com munist chief of an illegal govern ment. "The Administration has delib erately embarked upon a policy of 'accommodation' with the colonial ists of Eastern Europe. We have asked Ambassador Stevenson to make Hungary a central issue but he will not respond. "It is my position thai the Unit ed Stales delegation should boycott not only the Hungarians but the representatives nf every Eastern European country. They do not represent their captive peoples. "If nothing else, our policy does iniustice t" Woodrow Wilson's right of sell-determination. It is ri diculous strategy to consort with the enemy in a cold war where our existence is at stake." Note: Five Senators three Re publicans and two Democrats last year becued Secrelary of State H ik lo stand firm on Hungary. Democrats Dodd and McCarthy along with Republicans Scott. Mundi and Keating asked T.usk to make sure that Sir leslie Mon ro continue in his post as special U N. Representative on Hungary. Rusk ignored the pica. He in sliuclcd Amhassador Stevenson in vote tn abolish Sir Leslie's posi tion. Secretary General U Than!. confirmed "neutralist." was akrd to keep an eve on Hungary. He did by cancelling the U.S. news broadcasts that were ollen the only non-Communist words that Hungarians ever heard.