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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Thursday, May 16, 1963
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
Still a Few Chestnuts in the Fire
Education A Suspect
In Jobless Problem
Salute
There are many portions of federal spend
ing that come in for severe criticism, but mon
ey spent for defense of this nation is given
gladly by its peoples with the single reserva
tion that it be spent as wisely as possible to
build as sound a defense of this nation as is
possible.
, : We are all aware that all wc possess will
be lost if ever we find ourselves a conquered
people.
: Our visits have taken us to many of the
. defense strongholds that are the vital hub of
"our safety across this nation. We have had
'.he occasion to see these defenses in action
;' first hand, and to talk with the men that man
them, from the top commanders on down
from admiral to seaman, from general to pri
vate. Virtually to a man, we have found these
people dedicated to their task with a special
zeal. Whether it was a seaman aboard one of
the ships of the fleet in the Pacific, an air
man bending over a radar scope in one of the
blockhouses or at Air Defense Command
headquarters in Colorado Springs, wc found
. they were intent on performing their particu
lar part of this pattern of safety for all of us
, to perfection.
Armed Forces Day, this Saturday, is a
day in which we can show our appreciation
' for the job they are doing for us.
It is a day dedicated to people like this.
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at Kingslcy Field and at the Hamakcr Radar
site. It is dedicated to the men and
The World Is Still Imperfect
(Th Sacramento Bee)
There Is a growing concern among Amer
ica's men of letters, at least a goodly share of
them, that the generation now coming into
i maturity is more preoccupied with security
and the comfortable life in some grassy Utop
ian suburb than with building and molding to
morrow with anxious, strong hands.
Dr. W. Bay Irvine, president of Marietta
College in Ohio, touched on this recently In
a remarkable open letter to parents. Today's
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' pressed the belief the student who graduates
from a college now has been subjected to a
sterner, more demanding academic discipline
than was his father. But he added and this
is what should concern us:
Acknowledging the Improvement in
performance and In the willingness to
work at and for their education I often
find it necessary to question the motives,
the goals, of our young people. As others
have recently suggested, many of these
intelligent, capable young men and worn
: en seem to be intent only on buying a
;.; ticket to security, to the safe haven of
,; suburbia. In the academic area, I sense
their desire for the swiftest, surest path
IN WASHINGTON
Israel
oy nni,rii or nji.ciirt.su
;wdy wins anollier four years In
She While House may depend on
'dent Nasser o the United Arab
Republic. It is lip lo Nasser to
tickle wlieilivi' it Mii't be war or
peace in the. Middle East. If
Egypt and its wavering partners
in Uie U.A.R. Invade Israel, Uien
the (at will he in tlie fire for
Mr. Kennedy. And it will not be
tlie slowly simmering kind of fat,
For an Isracli-U A.R. war will be
swift and Woody. By the time
Mr, Kennedy has finished consult
ing with Ambassador Stevenson
and Belling the creaking United
Nations machinery lo move, the
fighting may well be over.
I do not mean that Israel will
be defeated. But I do know that
there can he no extended war In
the Fertile Crescent. Israel I too
small to allow for a war of move
ment, of advances and retreats.
The Israelis must eitiier crush the
U.A.R. forces rapidly, as they
did in Sinai in l!jt-or them
selves lie awept into the sea as
Nasser has repeatedly Utre.it
ened. Tlie Israelis have the best
army In the Middle East, far su
perior to anything that tlie Egyp
tians, tlie Syrians, and the Iraqis
can put into the field. But force
of numbers and tlie vast quanti
ties of arm tlie Soviet Union
has poured Into Egypt may more
Uian counterbalance superiority In
training and morale.
If Israel is destroyed, President
Kennedy'! chances for reelection
To Armed Forces
serve today in our armed forces at home and
abroad.
Looking back through the pages of our
history we find that all-too-often this nation
stood almost stripped of its military power
during times of peace only to find itself com
pelled to bend backwards under the blow of an
enemy, rebounding to victory only after pay
ing a tremendous toll in blood and sweat.
We have learned our lesson from the
grim past. Today, we willingly support a
large military force in being, knowing also
that it is the only deterrent that prevents
the forces of tyranny and dictatorship from
overwhelming us, depriving us of our free
doms and casting us into the chains of cap
tivity. Today, our physical freedom is main
tained and preserved by our physical strength,
and this strength is the shield fashioned by our
armed forces.
Let us, in gratitude for the service they
are giving us, accord them special honor on
their day, Armed Forces Day. We can do this
in many ways.
We can fly the flag proudly and visibly
for all to see. We can examine the displays
that will be shown at a number of business
places in the community. We can visit Kings
Icy Field for the Armed Forces Day program
and see for ourselves that our armed forces
are the forces of freedom that forge the se
curity we enjoy.
On this day, let us salute our flag anew,
and pay tribute to those who stand ready to
defend it.
women who
to economic success. They seem to feel
they have little or no time to explore
those areas of knowledge that will not
offer tangible, materialistic rewards.
One must wonder with Dr. Irvine what
these will take with them to those hours in
the living room of that split level house
when the day's work is done and the chil
dren have been put to bed, when all of life
is concentrated on bank statements and en
dowment plans and paying off the mortgage.
Perhaps the fault really is ours. They
are emerging into their maturity, these
young, in a world where status and success
all loo often are measured by bank accounts
and endowment plans, and the size of the
swimming pool in that grass green suburb.
This urge for security, moreover, may
be excited too by the wispy vapor of impcr
manence wheih shrouds much of the world
in the debates over nuclear bombs and mass
annihilation.
In the youth of many of us, especially
those who still can remember the model T,
there was the feeling that everything would
last forever and wc would outlast even the
earth. Today's young have no such security
and so they may be reaching for it in ma
terial things they can see and feel and touch.
Issue Faces JFK
will be slim indeed. This does
not mean that the so-called Jew
ish vole is so large or so stra
tegically placed in the United
States. Its major concentration is
in New York City and Its sub
urbs, which would deprive the
chunk of electoral votes. But tile
President could conceivably win
without New York Slate. He
would have trouble in Southern
California, loo but just how
much it is hard lo judge.
The President's major difficul
ties under these circumstances
would be widespread. Many
Americans watched Israel's War
of Independence In l!MS and ap
p I a u d e d President Truman's
prompt recognition of the new
state. There was considerable
sympathy for Israel among the
Irish In this country, If only be
cause Uiey were glad to see
Great Britain get it in the eve.
Israel was a pet of news com
mentators and otliers in the mass
media and still is.
Hie emotional aspects of the
Arab-Israeli Issue aside, any out
break of war In the Middle East
would do damage to President
Kennedy. Tliere has been grow ing
criticism of U.S. aid to Egypt
aid which allows President Nas
ser to purchase tbe arms he has
had all along been brandishing
against Israel. That the Eisen
hower Administration sat Idly by
while Nasser seued tlie Sues
Canal can be cited in extenuation
of tlie Kennedy policy. But when
guns are firing, people seldom
bother to read the history bonks.
Mr. Kennedy's announced In
tention of taking the case of a
U.A.R. invasion lo the United
Nations will not sit well with
Ihose who have watched with
mounting frustration tlie concili
atory nature of liia msI-ijuiuu-tine
response to the Soviet threat
in Cuba. The loss of Israel if it
should come would raise serious
questions about the efficacy of an
American foreign policy depend
ent on the self-interest and ri
valries of one hundred bickering
countries.
A categorical guarantee of Is
rael's territorial integrity, cou
pled to a firm commitment of
U.S. military support, would end
the threat of United Arab Re
public invasion. Such a guaran
tee, morener, would have stand
ing elfect on the touchy Middle
Eastern situation. War over Is
rael could easily cause that
whole area to blow up like a
homemade bomb, with conse
quences no one can foresee.
Because of the Cuban fiasco,
Mr. Kennedy can no longer brush
aside the steady deterioration of
tlie world situation or blame it.
hy some circuitous reasoning, on
the Republican Party. He can no
longer turn to his critics and ask
them to suggest alternatives.
Rightly or not, conflict in the Mid
dle East would be one baby that
tlie public would place on the
While House steps. His job today
Is lo prevent that war. If he
lails, not only he. but tbe world,
will sutler.
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
Apart from all other considera
tions, the deep psychological rea
son that we need someone to love
us is that we can freely confess
our faults and our defects only to
someone who acknowledges our
lovcability.
When people (lee tyranny and
persecution, and set up a com
munity of their own, they do not
permit any more freedom to their
own dissidents than they them
selves had been permitted in the
past; with one exception, the reli
gious settlers in the New World
were just as harsh and tyranni
cal toward their heretics as the
despots they fled from. What most
people want is not freedom, but
orthodoxy of their own sort.
The layman's Idea (if rigorous
proof is to say, "For example
..." and then proceed to cite
some case so exceptional and
dramatic that it proves noth
ing of a general nature.
A woman who docs not know
how to keep quiet when she is
in the right quickly forfeits her
moral advantage; as her Tightness
degenerates into self - righteous
ness she loses her superiority and
permits the man lo counter-attack:
for silence on the part of the
woman is a much more cllective
weapon of domestic combat than
haranguing.
Speaking of the sexes, secret
lovers give themselves away more
by avoidance than by engage
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PERSONAL
ment; as Bruyere observed a
long time ago: "A woman with
eyes only for one person, or with
eyes always averted from him,
creates exactly the same impres
sion." II is relatively easy for us to
detect when others are bad from
good motives, and to be tolerant
of them ; what is much harder is
to detect when we ourselves are
good frum bad motives, and lo
be intolerant of ourselves for
; presenting this plausible coun
terfeit of virtue.
The youth's quest for self-knowledge
is so tormenting and fruitless
because self-knowledge cannot be
obtained alone, but only with an
other; we cannot know ourselves
until we have disclosed ourscf to
another and see our reflection in
eyes that understand . . . and
forgive.
The moralizcr who is so scan
dalized by "obscenity" every
where would do well to ponder
the remark by a true moralist,
Thoreau, who said: "You cannot
receive a shock unless you have
an electric affinity for that which
shocks you."
The world of politics today is
a full generation behind the
world of physics: the significant
"race" of our time is not the
arms-race between nations but
the thought-race" between our
political practices and our poten
tialities for destruction, on both
sides of the curtain.
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3SUth
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Correction
A short time ago you published
a news account, summarizing our
letter to the State Highway De
partment, pertaining to tlie con
struction of the interchange on
Highway 97 north. Regarding the
last paragraph in the news ar
ticle, we do not maintain, nor
did we write so in the letter, that
the highway department changed
the alignment in the Quarry
Street crossing. The change in the
alignment and construction took
place in the merger of the new
interchange with the regular
Highway 97 north, approximate
ly one fourth of one mile, short
of the north end of the project,
creating a bottleneck and a very
confusing condition for motor
ists. Carl Brnathen.
Al
manac
Ry United Press International
Todav is Thursday, May 16.
the 1.16th day of 1963 with 229 to
follow.
The moon is at last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Tlie evening star is Mars.
On this day in history:
In 1868, tlie Treasury Depart
ment was authorized to manufac
ture and place in circulation the
first U.S. five cent piece.
In 1927, despite the fact that
the manufacture and sale of al
coholic beverages were unlawful,
the Supreme Court ruled that
"bootleggers" must file income
tax forms.
In 1933, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt called on national gov
ernments to adopt a scries of non
aggression pacts.
In 1962. U.S. forces began land
ing in Thailand to bolster the
Asian nation against any spread
of fighting from bordering Laos.
A thought for the day French
philosopher and author Francois
Voltaire said: "I disapprove of
what you say, but I will defend
to the death your right to say it."
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What French painter died
In poverty In the Smith Sea Is
lands but became famous after
his death?
A Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin.
Q It hat animal Is considered
the mest Important foir-lcggrd
fee of modern man?
A The common rat.
Q How many bridges span the
Seine River at Paris?
A Thirty three.
Q With what esplnrer do yon
assnrlaie the ship "Half Mora"?
A Henry Hudson.
Q Is there any evidence to sub
slanllile the visit t Norsemen to
American?
A No Norse remains have been
found so far on the American con
tinent. Q According In legend, who
painted the lint Madonna pic
ture? A Saint Luke. The Virgin and
Child became sjmbol! of the ac
cepted Christian faith only alter
tlie Councd of Ephcsus in ASl.
By PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON (NEAI Vir
ginia State College at Norfolk. ,
Va., has embarked on a combined
research and manpower retrain
ing project to find some of the
answers for hard core unem
ployment. When advertising and radiu
spot announcements failed to
bring in prospects, college re
searchers went to the churches,
the pool halls and the street cor
ners to recruit men who had
been out of work for long periods,
had dependent children and were
on relief. One hundred unem
ployed finally were enrolled.
There was a demand in the
area for hotel maintenance work
ers, auto mechanics, masonry and
sheet metal workers and helpers.
When classes were started,
however, it was found that many
of the selectees couldn't read a
hotel menu, Auldn't r e a d a
short order cook's recipe, couldn't
read labels on cans of cleaning
materials or insecticides, let alone
simple textbooks on the mechani
cal arts and crafts.
There is no money under the
Manpower Training Act to teach
the unemployed to read and write
or do simple arithmetic. So a
special grant had to be obtained
from Department of Health. Ed
ucation and Welfare.
A year's course is under way
and at the end of that time there
may be some factual information
on whether the illiterate unem
ployed can be trained for useful
jobs.
The Norfolk experiment is be
ing watched closely to see if it
proves what a lot of people have
suspected that today's educa
tional system doesn't fit young
people for today's job openings
in either skilled, semiskilled or
unskilled occupations.
This is one of the most potent
arguments that advocates of aid
to education can use. though it
isn't a complete answer.
The problem of fundamental
education also involves school
dropouts. That leads into Presi
dent Kennedy's youth employ
ment program which passed the
Senate last week and now faces
an uncertain fate in (he House.
Republican congressmen have
come up with proposals to amend
the legislation to provide more
vocational education, which makes
sense.
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Kennedy Disbands
Intelligence Squad
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
The Kennedy Administration has
disbanded an experienced, ef
fective ring of nearly two score
anti-Castro intelligence agents op
erating in and out of Cuba.
For two years, Uncle Sam has
fooled the $15.000-a-month bill for
.v. Cuban nationals stationed
throughout Latin America to re
port on Castro activities. The
money, funnclcd to the agents by
the Cuban Revolutionary Council,
was well spent.
The agents operated effectively
inside Cuba. In other Latin Amer
ican nations, they reported on
Castro attempts at subversion
and insurrection.
Now all that Is changed. Tlie
men have been fired.
On April 27, a State Depart
ment official named John Crim
mins informed Dr. Antonio Ma
ceo. president of the Cuban Rev
olutionary Council, that all politi
cal, military and economic sup
port by this country would end
three days later.
All those Cubans receiving
checks also got a short note that
read:
"As a consequence of the pres
ent circumstances, the persons
and institutions who up to now
have been contributing to help
the cause of tile liberation of
Cuba, have suspended these con
tributions, and for that reason
tlii will be the last pavment. for
lack of funds in the future. May
1. 1963."
The notes were signed "Juan
Paula. Department of Control."
Congressman Bill Cramer, one
of the most emphatic critics of
Administration policy on Cuba, is
furious. Tlie Florida Republican
says:
"The Revolutionary Council
has established one of the mn.st
ellective propaganda, information
and intelligence gathering net
works in Cuba and throughout
Ijtm America. The continuance
of such a network is vital to the
security of this hemisphere."
Representative Cramer learns
that some hy no means all of
the agents may he hired hy the
Central Intelligence A g e n c y.
"Their usefulness." he tells my
assistant. Bill SchuU. "will be
One curious aspect of this is that
if the administration had proposed
a bigger vocational education
program, the political opposition
probably would have been against
it. But that's beside the point.
The federal government already
is spending millions of dollars
on manpower retraining, area
redevelopment, vocational and
national defense education.
Area Redevelopment Adminis
tration, with $120 million allocated
lor 800 projects has created 40,
000. direct jobs, 19,000 training
jobs and an estimated 370,000 on
site, indirect jobs.
The Emergency Public Works
program with $312 million allo
cated for 2,700 projects has creat
ed 420,000 man-months of employ
mcnt. More money is being sought
for both.
Other new programs are pend
ing. The Youth Conservation Corps
would put 15,000 boys in the woods
at a cost of $30 million the first
year to set up camp's. The Home
Town Youth Corps would enroll
60,000 at a cost of another $i0
million.
The President's trade develop
ment program which is supposed
to build employment by increas
ing exports or retrain workers
displaced by imports won't be
fully effective until 1966.
Finally, the great tax reduction
bill, if passed, is supposed to un
, leash business so it can create
more jobs. It is admitted that if
a tax cut bill isn't passed, un
employment may get worse. As
of today private industry is creat
ing only 175,000 new jobs a year.
Private industry is retraining an
unknown number, far greater than
this, on the job. These are cm
ployed workers being trained for
higher skills.
This completes the unemploy
ment daisy chain, emphasizing
the contention that what's need
ed first is more and better edu
cation. As Labor Secretary Wil
laid Wirtz told a Senate com
mittee: "Unless and until the education
al system in this country is
strengthened, two danger spots
in our manpower situation are
going to get worse. One is the
concentration of unemployment
among unskilled workers. The
other is the imminent shortage
of personnel in a good many
skilled, professional and technical
occupations."
severely limited if they come un
der tight CIA control. Their rec
ord was nothing short of amazing
while working (or the Revolution
ary Council.
"But tlie Administration, so in
tent on curtailing all exile ac
tivities, has severely cramped our
intelligence operations. It is ob
vious that it is the intention of
tlie Administration to talk tough
and act with a ponder puff on
Cuba."
Note: A former top-ranking Cas
tro officer has defected to the
free world with details of Cuba's
most important export revolu
tion. Noel Salas Santos fought with
Castro against Fulgcncio Batista, -joining
guerilla forces in the Es
cambray Hills in March, 193",
and continuing (he battle until
it was won 22 months later.
He became chief of the San
Julian military base after Cas
tro took power and fled In Hava
na's Brazilian Embassy last year.
He arrived in Brazil in Febru
ary of this year and told intelli
gence officials about the San Ju
lian base. In one short period
in 1961. he said, five groups of
Latin Americans were receiving
instruction in guerilla warfare:
Mexicans i70, Puerto Ricans
i42'. Argentines ili, Brazilians
'37, and Chileans i3.
All students used false names.
All received training in use of
American weapons. They were as
sured that similar weapons eas
ily available from gun runners
and dealers in surplus material
would be shipped to tliem when
they returned to their homelands.
An indoctrination program was
headed by a Russian called "Bil
ly." The textbooks were all those
of Lenin's. A Czech instructor
named "Pablo" taught students
the proper use of mines. Cuban
leachers showed them how to
use .30 and .50 caliber machine
guns: Thompson and Sten subma
rine guns; the M-l carbine and
M-l rifle; bazookas, mortars and
anti-tank cannon.
Chief of the guerilla program
was Major Ernestn "Che" Gueva
ra, whose signature appeared on
all orders and Instructions, and
who often visited the base.