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PAGE t HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, July I, 1963 fcdiimiaL (paqiL Summer Is Water Safety Time From toddler to four score and ten, peo ple have more fun with water than almost anything else. Summer is upon us and as hot weather settles on the land millions of Amer icans will be rediscovering the pleasures of water. It is the time for swimming, boating, water skiing, and all the rest. But tragedy can strike with appalling swiftness when basic safety rules which should be observed on or around the water are forgotten in the excite ment and confusion that often accompanies having a good time. If you are a swimmer for example, don't swim at unfamiliar or untended beaches where tides and currents may cause dangerous un dertow, don't swim alone, don't try spur-of-the moment swimming stunts and endurance : trials that are beyond your skills. If you're a water skier don't forget to wear some ap proved flotation equipment. Every member of a group of people around the water will not be a swimmer, but every swimmer should ; - i (The Christian Science Monitor) Current concern over the extent of un employment among young people in the Unit ted States is well warranted. Exploration of ; remedies for the situation may lead in other rprqfJtable directions as well as those most ob yiou" ;j : Clearly, of course, . the nation must jachieve a better economic growth rate to provide jobs for the 1,000,000 new workers .'coming of age in the labor force annually. ;Also there is dire need for more adequate ; vocational training in American elementary and secondary schools. Beyond that, however, are two situations t which offer both hope and challenge. i'l One is that with urbanization and air (Oregon Statesman, Salem) With reenactment of the law giving the State Department of Agriculture power to f fix price to producers on Grade A milk, the ; machinery for price-fixing will be in motion. ; jn the interval since Dec. 31 when the old ,'3pv expired the price situation was more j stable than had been expected probably ''tjo one wanted to upset the milk can lest grievous damage result. Now the milk price 5 will be debated before the milk administrator, with producers and distributors each pre senting their views on the price which should prevail. One trouble with milk control, in our .opinion, has been the comparative inflex : ibility of the milk price. Stabilization is good f '' 1 Holmtc AUlandMr By HOLMES ALEXANDER "They better watch what they're doing," said Congressman Oliver Oldstyle, the Old Guard conservative. "Those Republicans better nominate a Heal Republi can in 1964, or else. . . .' Or else, what, Mr. Oldstyle was asked. He wasn't suggesting, was lie. that lie and his kind were likely lo support President John F. Kennedy (or reelection? "They belter watch out," de clared Oldstyle menacingly. "You let the Republican Convention go to San Francisco and nominate one of those maybo-so fellows and I won't be responsible for the con sequences south of the Potomac and west of the Allcghenics." Did Mr. Oldstyle mean Uiat the rampant conservative movement, plainly visible in American Youth, American Labor, American Busi ness, American Intelligentsia and American Nationalism was going to landslide for the New Frontier? "Not for the New Frontier," said Oldstyle. "That would never be. None of my spiritual kinfolk could ever be kissin' cousins with Bob Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Soapy Williams, Walt Rostow, Je rome Wiesncr, Ted Sorensen, Dean Rusk end the rest. Con gress will wreck the Kennedy pro grams, but. . . ." You're against the Kennedy brain trust, end yet. . . . "Not brain trust," broke in Oli ver Oldstyle, who likes things as they used to be. "I call 'em brain trash I No, we're off tlie equal Finding Work For Milk Price Control HOLMES ALEXANDER . . . Oldstyle Thinks izers, the socializers, the share America addicts and the Lunatic Leftists. But Mr. President is a different matter." Was he saying Uiat the Repub licans liad better nominate Sen ator Goldwatcr or else? "Not necessarily Goldwatcr," averred Oldstyle. "I don't say tlie conservative movement is a one man team, Far from that. Gold water himself would like to got out of the presidential rat . race and stay in the Senate. He would like nothing better Uian to have former Sen. Bill Knowland at the head of the GOP ticket. Or Sen. Thruston Morton. Or Congressman Gerald Ford. Or somebody like Gen. Lucius Clay. But a lot o.' my kinfolk would positively vote lor an experienced, hard-working, attractive, in - office President than to go to tlie polls for a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair." Was Mr. Oldstyle talking alwut some of the tailor's dummies that tlie slop-Goldwaler Republicans were putting in tf j show win dow? For instance, did he menu Gov. Bill Scranton of Pennsylva nia? "Scranlon?" echoed Oliver Old style, who believes in Uk proven product. "Bill Scranton is u fine fellow. But lie's a one-term Con gressman and freshnvin governor. Can't the Republicans do better than that?" Well, the wise money was going to Gov. George Romney of Mich igan as the man umk-r tlie mis tleloe for 'fit. "Romney?" re. ei berated Old- know the basic techniques of rescue and ar tificial respiration. With millions of pleasure boats now on the nation's waterways, and more coming every year, there are essential requirements which their "captains" must meet. Unless every operator of a pleasure boat assumes the responsibility that is his for the safety of his passengers and proper handling of his boat, it is inevitable that there will be severe re strictions and regulations which will take much of the fun and relaxation out of a most rewarding sport. Proper equipment, including fire extinguishers, life preserver for each pas senger, lights, horn or whistle, anchor and line, bilge pump and so forth, are the begin ning of safety afloat. Just a reminder water safety boils down to common sense. Let's use it and be around for another summer of fun in and on the water. Youth conditioning there is no need to interrupt schooling for three months every summer, dumping a seasonal crop of job applicants into the market. Why not more 12-month high v school or trade school programs with part time work schedules to vary the tedium and give point to the studies? This question runs into the second prob lem: Extension of child labor laws up to ages of 16 or 18 has prevented or discouraged em ployers from offering work experience to boys at an age when their fathers were laying a foundation of usefulness. These laws were designed to assure youths an opportunity for education. In some cases today, of the lad un interested in studying, the effect is to assure hiin neither an education nor a job. Again up to a point; but the economics of produc tion and of distribution call for adjustments from time to time. Also the price ought not to be set so high as to invite overproduction. Demand for milk is not subject to wide fluctu ations, save for certain seasonal variations; and when too much is produced the excess over consumption in the bottle and can trade goes into production of dairy products and the blended price for the two uses is de pressed. Producers have asked for this price pro tection, though some preferred to rely on the tree market. Other interests must be respect ed, too, those of distributors and of consum ers. State price fixing is not a one-way street. Aloud style. "What are tlie Republicans supposed to do about Romney? Get out their old win-with-Willkie buttons? If anybody knows what Romney stands for, you come around and let me know, lie can grin. He can equivocate. He can concoct compact automobiles with a love seat and a fringe on top. But there's a mood in tlie coun try today in which not even a siiporsalcsman can sell a Ram bler in the guise of a Republi can." Milton Eisenhower? The mag ic name? Of course, he's got the wrong first name, but. . . . "Cuba!" said Oldstyle. With that single bisyllahle, ho d i s missed Milton Eisenhower. So, it all came back to Barry Goldwatcr or a reasonable facsim ile of Mr. Conservative, it seemed. Otherwise, Uic numerous and in creasing conservative cousins of Mr. Oldstylo were going to con found the prognosticators. That's what liunuei;cd in 1!H8 when the country decided to rehire Mr. Truman, a tough little fighter In a job so tough that nobody could please everybody. "That's about tlie size of it." said Oldstyle. wlio frankly be lieves tliat things were better or dered in tlie okkvi days of Amer ica. "You don't have to like Mr. Kennedy's politics, hut you've got to say he's a tiger." And it takes a tiger to beat a tiger. "You can say that again," de clared Oliver Oldstyle, w ho speaks for a wliole lot of Americans. IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO When Congress appropriates money to an executive depart ment or agency, the popular as sumption is that the year's needs are taken care of. After all, the federal budget is always padded to allow for a little shav ing by House and Senate Appro priations committees and also because the bureaucratic ap proach is always one of "gim me." But the bureaucrats believe that if the Congress loves them in December, it should be ready to pay in Jlay, June, July, and throughout the year. From time to time, the President imple ments this philosophy of asking by sending a deficiency appro priations bill to the Congress, In effect, a measure of that kind says. "Oops, we didn't fig ure it right. So ante up with some more dough or w e'll have to give a lot of federal employes with even more voting relatives pink slips." Congress gulps and pays. Th? cost of government keeps g' J up. And the whole process oi appropriations becomes a fat uous myth. Congress says, "You will spend so much this year" and the agency says, "Yup," then runs up the bills. To prevent this kind of free wheeling by the servants of the people. Congress passed 3n Anti Deficiency Act which requires ev ery department or agency to re port to our harried legislators the moment it discovers that money By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Antics with Semantics: I am amenable to reason; you are easily persuaded; he is brib able. 1 make my subordinates toe the mark; you like to crack the whip; lie is a petty tyrant. I answered the awkward ques tion with a "polite evasion"; you answered in double-talk; he answered with a whopping lie. (Speaking of questions, most of them arc semantical and nothing more: for instance, the next time someone asks you, "Can you keep a secret'.'", answer "no," and you will be told the secret any way.) What a difference a little prep osition makes a promiscuous and unattached male is amiably referred to as a "man about town." but a woman of the same habits and inclinations is dispar agingly referred to as "on the town." My son is "the leader among his peers." but your son is "the chief instigator ol his gang." I bought the long, large and ex pensive car because "it's heavi er, more comfortable, and holds k road better"; but you bought it as a "status symbol." If you arc proposing a change I disagree with, I call it an "innovation"; but when I m proposing a change, I call it a "necessary alteration." My illicit affair is motivated by "passion"; yours is prompted by " desire"; his is driven by "lust." Someone who was versatile 41H1 years ago, we designate as " a man of tlie Renaissance"; some B uuiK !l: .jf ..:. Hi Government's Long Reach is running short. That is lo say, as soon as tlie glad-handing bu reaucrats start exceeding their budget, they miut let Congress know. In practice, of course, the act is honored far more in the breach than in the observance. One Congressman, Representative Mel vin Laird (R.-Wis.l, has been rather disturbed by the cavalier attitude of those whose bread is buttered with tax dollars. This may be a little naive of Mr. Laird, for the Executive branch has tacitly held that it is above such mundane matters as the w ill of Congress. Congress' job, say the bureaucrats, is to hand out money to deserving federal em ployes - and Mr. Laird should have realized this. But perhaps because he is naive enough to take his duties serious ly. Representative Laird was ir ritated by a flagrant abuse of the law perpetrated by the Labor De partment. The department's Bu reau of Employment Security has run out of money in 20 stales. It was aware of this condition for some months. But suddenly it ran hysterically to Congress, seek ing a deficiency appropriation and wailing that there was not enough money to pay the hired help. "Several of these states," Mr. Laird nolcs, "have had to lay off all their employes." Not un til it had reached this terrible state of affairs did the Bureau of Employment Security ask for STRICTLY PERSONAL one in our midsl who is versatile, we designate as "a jack of all trades." A risque book I happen to en joy is "Rabelaisian"; one that I happen to dislike is "obscene." The principal difference be tween a "dislurbed" adolescent and a "delinquent" one is about $25,000 in tlie annual income of the father. "If m play ball uitb you, Avtrtll, can jo gtt me into bitneyland" mm. a deficiency appropriation which should indicate that its interest in its own employment security is pretty slight. To add insult to injury, tlie La bor Department is attempting to lay the blame for its poverty on the Congress. Yet as Mr. Laird has pointed out, it takes time, even with tlie best will in the world, to get through an appro priation. The affected committees in House and Senate would have to put aside other business to report out a resolution and then they would have to wait for a rule to bring this matter to the floor for a vote. Calling these facts to the at tention of the House, Representa tive Laird said: "I feel quite cer tain that the Bureau of Employ ment Security or tlie Bureau of the Budget, or both, have violat ed the Anti-Deficiency Act and I think an investigation should be made to determine the full facts leading to this fiscal fiasco." But tins gentleman from Wis consin had better not count too much on an inquiry. It will be a very long day before this Con gress votes an investigation of the sloppy fiscal habits of the present administration. The Bureau of Employment Security knew a long time back that it was over spending its budget. It waited un til after tlie 12th hour before go ing back to the well because it knows that if it cries crisis it will get the money without too many questions being asked. Had it informed the Congress in time as it should have under the stat ute, efforts might have been made to discover the whys and wherefores of the overdraft. This, of course, would have es tablished a terrible precedent. The House and Senate might have then said, "Live within your in comeor don't live at all." The bureaucrats might have been forced to reduce expenditures, which is enough to get you read out of the club. Executive instru mentalities other than tlie Bureau of Labor Statistics might have been compelled to scrimp and save enough not to exceed their incomes and as any official in the Executive branch will tell you. that way lies madness. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-A Ne gro march on Washington sched uled for Aug. 28, to influence passage of civil rights legislation would be the third such capital demonstration in American his tory. The march of "Coxey's Army" of 500 unemployed during the 1893 depression was first. The march ers were led by Jacob S. Coxey, later mayor of Massillon, Ohio. Coxey had what was then con sidered the silly idea that the government should authorize a $500 million bond issue to finance public works which would give the unemployed jobs. He failed to influence Congress, which rejected his notion as a proposal to print $500 million in paper money to give to the unem ployed. Coxey himself was ar rested. His army dwindled lo 300, and finally faded away in despair. Just how "silly" Coxey's idea was may be indicated by the fact that last year Congress ap propriated $400 million for Presi dent Kennedy's accelerated pub lie works program to relieve un employment. . This device was also used by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt to create jobs during the depression of the 1830s. Coxey was simply 40 years ahead of his time. Shortly before Roosevelt's elec tion in 1932 came the second march of the unemployed on Washington. This was the Bonus March of 4,000 unemployed veterans. They demanded that their adjusted compensation insurance cer tificates of 1924 be paid in cash on demand, instead of 20 years after issuance or on the death of the insured, if that came first. There were several bitter riots in Washington until federal troops drove the Bonus Marchers across By FULTON LEWIS JR. Sens. Tom Dodd and Ken neth Keating, "notorious cold warriors" to those who turn out scripts for Radio Moscow, head a bipartisan purge list drawn jip by Communist Party boss Cus Hall. Hall, an avowed revolutionary who has boasted under oath that he is ready to tnkc up arms against this government, d i s closed the existence of the list in late May at a super-secret meeting of the party's 18-man National Executive Committee. His remarks were then distribut ed to comrades around the coun try in a special supplement of tlie Worker, the party's organ. Hall's plan calls for a major , effort next year to retire from Congress those representatives of the "aggressive and irresponsi ble war-now forces." The two ma jor targets of this campaign are Democrat Dodd and Republican Keating. Hall is frankly worried by a re surgence of Republican strength. "This party," he says, "is now dominated more than ever by a deadly combination of the fa natical ultra-Right alliance with the most aggressive circles of U.S. imperialism." Republicans Barry Goldwatcr and Nelson Rockefeller are sig nalled out for special attacks by Hall. The Arizona Senator is de scribed as leader of a cabal that is riding roughshod over t h c more moderate elements in his party. Rockefeller is called a "phony liberal" who is "possibly the most active and tlie oldest cold warrior around." Hall be comes violent on the subject of Rocky: "Without a doubt he is one of the most sinister and dangerous political figures on the scene. He has never given up his war whooping. He was father of the mass air raid shelters when they served the purpose of fomenting war hysteria. He has opposed tlie nuclear test ban agreement at every turn. He is for war over Cuba. He made a special trip to Washington in an effort to get tlie restrictions against the exiled Cuban raiders lifted. He is tlie most calculating demagogue around. He is Mr. V S. Imperial ism." Kejectivi; tlie idea of a Com munist ticket nct fail. Hal' urges .u olloers to work for the de feat of all Republican candidates. He praises President Kcnnedv, who has " kept the lines of com munication open with Russia." He says the President's quaran tine of Cuban exiles and his pol icy of "no raids, no bombings, no invasion ' makes up for his "mistake" when be blockaded the island last year. EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Rights March Looms Biggest In History the Potomac to a camp on what is now Pentagon grounds. Congress then passed a bill giving the marchers 75 cents a day and railroad fare home. They were finally cleared out at a cost to the Veterans Adminis tration of $77,000. It was not until 1936 that Con grcss settled tlie veterans' griev ance by making the adjusted compensation certificates trans ferable into government bonds, which could then be cashed on demand. History never repeats itself ex actly. But both Coxey's Army antl the Bonus Marchers left lessons applicable today. Neither demonstration stam peded Congress into granting the petitioners immediate relief. The reforms they sought came later, but ultimately they got what they were after. What is being planned now, however, is not a Washington demonstration by a mere 500 or 5,000 bedraggled marchers ar riving on foot. Negro leaders are talking about a pilgrimage of from 100,000 to 150,000, or prob ably 300,000. It is no idle dream. Over 120,000 Negro protestors marched peace fully in a Detroit freedom walk on June 24, then quietly d i s persed without incident. The march is planned as a peaceful demonstration. Negro leaders have declared that if there is to be violence the march should be called off. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy is using his influence to have the march called off, fearing that it will gel out of hand and believing that it will do no good in influ encing Congress for the Negro cause. Some Negro leaders seem to thiiS;, however, that if a filibuster against civil rights legislation de velops in the Senate, this mass protest would help break the deadlock. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Commie Organizer Seeks GOP Defeat Hall says tlie President's use of troops in Mississippi and Ala bama, his cooperation with Rev. Martin Luther King, and "other action" merit Party support. "The time has come," he says, "to abolish the theory of states rights in this nation." The chunky Party Czar speaks of a "broad movement" which the Communists will back, made up of labor, peace and integra tion groups engaged in ever more militant mass actions. He says the party will not field iLs own candidates next year but will work "to shape decisions on Negro candidates, peace candi dates and labor candidates in the primaries." In conclusion. Hall notes that almost all "people's political movements are operating within the orbit of the Democratic Par ly." He urges joint action against the sinister forces of the Cold War: "If we give leadership, if we can convince our Left friends to avoid abstract hair-splitting, and if we all get into the churning waters of our political life, then Hie campaign and the election can be an historic one. "We can give the ultra-Right war forces a trouncing. We can raise American political life to a now level. Wc can Have a C jjy lallized anli - monopoly move ment." Al manac By L'nltrd Press Intrrnnlinnnl Today is Tuesday, July 2. the llL'tid day of with 1112 to follow. Tlie moon is npproaching its full phase. The morning stars arc Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mais. On this day in history: In 177B, the Continental Con gress formally passed the Declara tion of Independence, which was signed two days later. In 1081, President James Gar field was shot in the back by a disappointed office-seeker. In 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, later to he used to break up the business trusts. In 1912, on the 4bth ballot. Democrats meeting in Baltimore nominated Woodrow Wilson for President. A thought for the day English satirist. Jonathan Swift, said: " Every man desires to live long, hut no man would be old." - r ,1
