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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore.
Wednesday, May 15, 1963
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.