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PACE. I UERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, July J, 1963 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . Gross Nationa You Seem to Have Lost a Little Weight!' Product Lagging When ' In America today, the man who masters a specialty of major consequence, like space or nuclear or military science, is sometimes judged to be an expert in fields beyond his own. To some degree this has perhaps always been so in this country. When industrialists were building America in earlier decades, they were listened to on everything under the sun. Yet there is great danger in imagining that the man with expertise in one realm is thereby qualified to make broad political, ec onomic or moral judgments. For instance, the scientist who works at improving our nuclear weapons is not by that fact necessarily fit to tell us when and how, as a nation, to use them or to say we should not use them at all. Similarly, the general who spends a great deal of his time fathoming the military tac tics of Communist nations is not by that alone qualified to judge best what we should do about Red tactics in the political and diplo matic world. A number of prominent men get into this problem in a new document prepared for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institu tions, a Ford Foundation offshoot. Charles Frankel, professor of philosophy at. Columbia University, says most political The Television Wrestlers (Washington Post) Television wrestling is, for all its syn thetic sadisms, probably the safest of all pro fessional sports. Ballplayers, as you know, are sometimes felled by line drives or put out of action with broken fingers. Matadors are sometimes painfully gored. Boxing has be come so lethal as to incur a papal condemna tion. Golfers must take the risk of ivy poison ing in the rough, of flea bites in the sandtraps and of bee stings on the putting greens. But if anybody has ever been seriously injured in; a televised wrestling bout, it has escaped our notice; indeed we never cease to be as THE GLOBAL VIEW Jj Softer . By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst NEW YORK (NEA)-President Kennedy's swing through Europe coincided with what his "liberal" advisers call the "end ot Uie Kon rad Adenauer era" in West Germany. The 87 - year - old chancellor, known as dor Alte, who so ably guided Bonn's destinies for 14 years, will bo hueecded in Au gust by his economics minister, Prof. Ludwig Erliard. Though the President lavished praise on the retiring chancellor when they met in Bonn, influen tial members o( the Kennedy Ad ministration aro not sorry to see the "stubborn old man" go. They never liked the "reactionary" Adenauer who doggedly resisted Western concessions to Moscow, especially on Berlin. Yet even the cheers of the millions of disciplined Germans who greeted President Kennedy cannot obscure tlie fact that Adenauer's departure carries new elements of uncertainty into NATO which is already in dan gerous disarray. It was Dr. Adenauer's historic achievement that lie guided Ger many's rehabilitation and tied Uie Bonn Republic to tho West through NATO and the European unification movement based on French - German reconciliation. But even Erhard's fervent parti sans concede that lie does not -nr. few $sm&mm&. lSS obscuro ,Uo Experts Keep decisions involve weighing evidence from a wide range of different specialties. He adds: "This means that even those who are ex perts in one field become laymen the moment they move into another field. . . . "No one today can be an expert in all the fields that he should ideally be ... to make public decisions." What counts in such decisions, says Frankel, is not "omnicompetent knowledge but something closer to wisdom and common sense, and an understanding of when and where and for what reasons to rely on the ad vice of experts." As another contributor to the document, Arkansas' Sen. J. William Fulbright, observes, this kind of judgment is especially required where matters of morals are concerned. "There are no experts in morals," says Frankel. A subject apart is how to get wise, broad, common sense judgments from both the rank and file electorate and the political leader ship in a democracy. It is enough here to make the one big point: "Expertise" does not transfer. The ma jor public decisions involving our goals, our moral bent, our pace of effort, our priorities in national life, are not the province of the narrow specialist however supreme he is in his chosen field. tonished by the frantic eagerness of the par ticipants to renew the combat even after the decision has been announced. Wrestling is also the most egalitarian of sports. In other forms of athletic endeavor the race is usually to the swift, the battle to the strong and favor to men of skill. But wrestling championships appear to be award ed on the basis of popularity, and since crowds are notoriously fickle with their favorites the title is constantly passing from one performer to another, so that in the end, probably, every body gets a fair turn at being champion. This, we take it, is in, the true democratic tradition. Policy For have Adenauer's unwavering at tachment to the West. Chancellor Adenauer was strongly opposed to the man who will succeed him because he did not consider Erliard a suitable political leader to steer Germany through perilous times. Bonn's new chancellor is a bril liant economist, lie is justly re garded as the architect of the "miracle" of German economic recovery an1 prosperity through his "social market economy" based on private enterprise. But Erliard is not a lighter like the tough old man whom he succeeds. His views on international af fairs, including the cold war, are at best hazy. Erliard is also closely associ ated with some of Bonn's load ing industrialists who are con vinced that a solution to Ger many's problems can be found halfway between the West and the Russian bloc. They are baldly Communists or even pro Russian. But, in search of new and profitable markets, they would like to be friends with ev erybody and postpone to a dis tant future the disagreeable task of taking sides. They want Germany to be neu tral while the West, especially tlie United States, holds the Reds in check. NATO diplomats tints believe thai there was more than mere coincidence that when Premier Khrushchev recently invited Er liard to visit Moscow he used as ' C&3gfc' L: Silent Bonn? his emissary Berlhold Beitz. man ager of West Germany's Krupp works. Beitz. in fact, is emerging as a dominant figure among Ger man industrialists whose deals Willi tlie Russians should be watched by tlie West. In recent months, he spent more time vis iting tlie Iron Curtain countries and negotiating secretly with Khrushchev than managing tlie Krupp industrial empire at home. According to the German news paper Sontagsblatt, industry, trade and economy are the only links between Germany and Rus sia that have never been entirely broken. "And Mr. Berlhold Beitz is intent on more than strength ening those links. He also wants to tighten tlie wire of political un derstanding." Sontagsblatt said. Krupp's manager is a repre sentative of "Big Capital," to be sure. But he is obviously con sidered by Khrushchev as a friendly capitalist who wants to sell the Russians even strategic war goods. He is also close to Erliard. In 1922, "realistic" German politicians and businessmen signed at Rapullo a secret eco nomic and military treaty with Soviet Russia's emissaries under the very noses of tlie victorious Western allies. Rapullo prepared the ground for Hitler's war almost two dec ades later. Will history repeat itself under Professor Erhard." Uct ,h,t Adcn"ncr'1 d- Letters To The Deerslaying I have read with much interest Mr. Hublcr's letter about the Game Commission's abundance of deer. Such letters burn up any true sportsman and lover of tlie outdoors. The small minority he spoke of that scared the pants off of the Game Commission con sisted of 50.000 true sportsmen that signed the petitions to stop the ruthless butchery of does and little fawns. I don't believe over 51,000 were asked to sign the petitions so 50 out of 51 is a small minority. I took petition after petition around and only one said he didn't care to put his name to any kind of a petition, and two be lieved that the killing of does wouldn't deplete the deer herds. I am glad we scared the pants off of the Game Commission, so they closed tlie interstate unit to doe killings and are going to give only 500 permits for the Klamath unit. My hope is that every true sportsman will apply for a doe permit and use it to start a campfire, 1 sure intend too. That way we'll save a few more does to produce bucks and save a few Ily SYDNEY J. HARRIS Our naive and pathetic national faith in "questionnaires" and their results was again demon strated recently, when a news story out of Washington disclosed that the government has decided to find out what Americans think about money and investment. The U.S. Census Bureau is go ing to sample 3,600 families in 100 areas in an effort to obtain statistical data on public atti tudes toward "disposable in come." In a formal statement, Uie bu reau said. "This information can be obtained only from the individ uals involved and will be of great hcip to those responsible for Uie nation's monetary policies." What we think about the uses of money, and how our practices square with our expressed thoughts, will never be told to the government or to anyone else because we ourselves are con fused, contradictory, and t h e truth is buried deep in our own unconscious motivations. Money, like sex, is a subject that cannot lie verbalized ade quately. It carries too much psy chic weight, it means too many different things on too many lev els, it has symbolic significance that goes far beyond any canons of prudence or common sense. Any experienced hroker w ill tell you that even the customers who voluntarily come to him for coun seling and investment won't re veal their real motives in many cases, because they arc not aw are of them. They will say one thing and mean another; they will take only the "advice" tlicy were pre pared to take before they stepped into his ollicc. What they really want again In money as in sex is the fluid's f.mtasy of omnipotence to come magically tine for them. They want to make an investment that uill do everything for them give them rapid growth, quick profits, absolute security, and prove to themselves that they are more little fawns from a death by cold and starvation, because some brute has killed their mothers. I,ct's everyone of us, when we meet a doe killer, ostracize him and try to do all we can to make him see the ignorance of that talk about the lack of forage for tlie deer. Then, if he still persists in the murder of does, make it so miserable for him he'll go home. As to the talk about all the deer up around tlie snow line where is the snow line? At the North Pole? Sure you can see a deer now and then as they are here and there, but not 25 and JOO in a band. There are no more deer up near the snow line than anywhere else. As to tlie lack of browse. The only place tliere's a lack of browse is where tlie cattle and sheep have destroyed the teed that right fully belonged to the deer.. If Mr. Hublcr saw so many deer in the Lava Beds, they had cither been killed by poachers or died as a result of some epi demic, not a lack of feed. I'm not a tenderfoot hunter by any means, but a true sportsman who enjoys the out-of-doors wheth er I get a deer or not, and if I STRICTLY PERSONAL both sagacious and the favorite of tlie gods. Money has many meanings for everybody, and some of these meanings go far back into child hood; how else explain the multi millionaire who becomes panicky if ho loses a few thousand in one month, or the men who make and lose several fortunes in a life time? They may seem to be ra tional businessmen, but they are driven by irrational forces that have nothing to do with the reali ty ot the present situation. What people answer to ques tionnaires is what they think the questioner would like to hear, or what makes the best impression, or whal they may sincerely Ihow cver mistakenly I believe about themselves. A questionnaire may, more or less accurately, tell us what someone thinks about some one else; never what he feels about himself. "If you ttink Moscow to East Editor can't get a buck and do it legally I don't want a deer. Two years ago I could have brought a mon ster of a buck home if I had been the type of some of the so-tailed sportsmen. I saw a buck I would say weighed at least 250 pounds, near Keno Springs, by my head lights, and no one was within miles, but I let him go without molesting him. I could have killed him easily then told how easily I got my buck and been a real hero to some, but in my own mind I would have been a rat. Paul E. Pfefferle, 5602 Denver Ave. Puzzling I noted with interest and ad miration your remarks in Sun day's paper regarding the arro gant behavior of our sheriff. You mentioned the surprising lack of comment of protest against the actions of the office of sheriff and district attorney. I have spoken to many people regarding tlie last few charges brought against the sheriff. It seems to be the opinion of most of tlie people I have spoken to that he is being persecuted! A man is held in jail for 105 days and denied his legal rights and tlie Lord High Sheriff is Perse cuted! It is my belief that the people of Klamath County de serve what tlicy have put in of fice and are allowing to slay in office if they are not sufficiently aroused to demand an immediate change. The other comment I heve re ceived puzzles me most of all. This comment is that the sheriff is a Democrat and they could never vote for someone who is not a Democrat. I am also reg istered as a Democrat, Mr. Edi tor, but I would like to know when, or why should a political party enter into the enforcement ot tlie law? I am employed by people who are very easy to work for and as lenient as any employers I have ever had. They have shown that tlicy like me as a person and they have shown respect for me. Yet I have no delusion as to how long 1 would hold this job were I to make repeated mis takes that proved to be costly to my employers; especially regard ing duties to which they have gone to great lengths and expense to train me. Eloise York, 2121 Applegate. dtfresring, you ihcnld ic$ Berlin." By PETER EDSON , Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA - Inter nal Revenue Service has just reported that for the third year in a row American business re ceipts were in excess of one trillion dollars. That's $1,000 billion or $1,000. 000,000,000, an amount to ponder on. This accounting for tlie calen dar year 1062 and for business fiscal years ending in 1962 was made from income tax returns filed by nearly U.4 million busi ness concerns. The returns came from 9.2 mil lion sole proprietorships. 939,000 partnerships and 1.2 million cor porations. Corporation returns were over a million for the third year in a row. Every figure is up over the previous income tax year except the number of part nershipsdown about 1,600 and their volume of business, down $276 million. Business profits rose 4.3 per cent during the year to $87.4 bil lion. Profits of corporations were up 3.4 per cent to over $52 bil lion. Profits of sole proprietor ships were up six per cent to $25.7 billion and profits of part- nerships up four per cent to $9.7 billion, in spite of the drop in concerns. This statistical rundown hard ly indicates that U.S. business is terrible or that private enter prise is about to disappear. But with these figures in mind, it is interesting to take a look at Treasury Secretary C. Doug las Dillon's pretty realistic round up on the economy in his talk before the National Coal Associ ation. Speaking of more recent eco nomic developments, Dillon point ed out that in the past 12 months, 'U.S. gross national product has risen $28 billion or 5.5 per cent to an annual rate of $580 billion. He said this isn't good enough. The bad part of the situation is that unemployment is up from 5.5 per cent of the labor force a year ago lo 5.9 per cent in May, and likely to go over six per cent for June, as graduates start looking for jobs. "To put it another way," says Dillon, "we would need an aver age GNP rise of $14 billion a WASHINGTON REPORT By FULTON LEWIS JR. A wealthy Deputy Secretary of Defense who formerly served in the Administration of Harry Truman has submitted his resig nation. Tennis - playing, thrice-married Roswell Gilpatric will step down this summer to return to a lucra tive New York It., practice. Meanwhile, investigators of John McClcllan's Senate Permanent In vestigating Subcommittee have turned up information pointing to a possible conflict of interest on Gilpatric's part. Gilpatric. whose furmcr law firm had General Dynamics Cor poration, as a client, did not dis qualify himself from negotiations that led up to the controversial $5 billion TFX contract won by that company. The subcommittee, which seeks to determine whether General Dy namics of the Boeing Company deserved the contract, has dis covered tlie following; 1. Gilpatric's law firm, Cravath, Swaine and Moore, continues to represent General Dynamics and has received more than $300,000 in legal fees. 2. One of Gilpatric's law part ners has been named a director of General Dynamics. 3. Gilpatric plans to rejoin Cra vath, Swaine and Moore upon service. 4. Gilpatric has refused to tell reporters about legal fees he has received since joining the Govern ment in January, 1961. A second top - ranking Admin istration figure is also under Sen ate investigation for possible con flict of interest. He is Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth. a Fort Worth banker before he accepted his Pentagon position. Korth was president of the Con tinental National Bank and a di rector of the Bell Aerospace Cor poration which borrowed funds from his bank. He plans to rejoin the bank when his present job is finished. Observes Iowa Congressman H. R. Gross: "This past rela tionship to tlie Continental Nation al Bank does create a problem of conflict of interest when the Bell Aerospace Corporation or any other firm doing business with Continental National Bank is in volved in a contract competition that must be considered by the Navy." A subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee head quarter beginning now to close the gap between unemployment and output by the end of 1964." At the present growth rate of a lit tle over $8 billion a quarter, it would take 10 years to reach the interim target of four per cent unemployment. One reason Dillon gives for the increased unemployment is that by June 30, 1964. there will be 10 million more Americans than there were the day President Kennedy took oificc. Population is growing faster than jobs. This gave the secretary who is a Republican, by the way his chance to put in a plug for the administration tax program, which is having its troubles in Congress. House Ways and Means Com. mittee Chairman Wilbur Mills, D-Ark., now hopes to get a tax bill passed by the House by late July or early August. Senate Fi nance Committee Chairman Har ry F. Byrd. D-Va.. has promised he won't delay action on the House bill, although he is per sonally opposed to the adminis tration program. But if the bill runs into a Senate filibuster on civil rights tliere's no telling whether a tax bill can be passed to become effective next Jan. 1. If the bill can be passed by Oct. 1, says Dillon, there would be $10 billion in tax relief in tlie following 15 months. The Joint Economic Commitlce of Congress has estimated this would even tually increase GNP by $40 bil lion, which would give a consid erable lift to employment. On the question of reducing gov ernment expenses to offset the lax cut, Dillon charges that there has been a lot of "loose and spendthrift oratory" on holding 1964 expenditures to the 1963 lev el. "The truth is," says Dillon, ' "that the entire $4.5 billion in crease can be accounted for in only three areas defense, space and interest on tlie public debt. The total of all other expendi tures is being held below the 19H3 levels." If this is irresponsible financ ing, it was not reflected in the most ro !'it Treasury bond of fering of $1.2 billion bonds matur ing in 1970. It drew subscriptions of $lo.2 billion, or nearly 14 times the otfer. Interest Conflicts Under Senate Study ed by Mississippi's John Stcnnis has been looking into a Defense Department contract for tlie X-22, an experimental vertical take-olf craft. The Bell Aerospace Corporation sought the contract. So did tho Douglas Aircraft Company. Testi mony before the Stcnnis Subcom mittee revealed that the Navy Source Selection team was unan imously for the Douglas Com pany on the basis of a superior technical proposal and a lower price. The Bell proposal was rated as "unacceptable" in four major areas. Nevertheless, Bell received the contract. It was Gilpatric's decision to award the contract to Bell. He acknowledged in an appearance before the subcommittee that he had sought advice from Korth be fore making up his mind. He explained: "I thought I could rely on his judgment as being objective since I had to make the decision and he did not." Comments Rep. Gross: "It is my judgment that the Government could terminate eith er the TFX contract or the X-22 contract on the ground it is in fected with a conflict of interest that is against the public policy." He cites a Supreme Court de cision i in tlie Dixon-Yates case' that gives the Government the right to void such a contract. Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday, July 5, the 186th day ot 1963 with 179 to follow. The moun is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1811, Venezuela declared her independence from Spain, the first South American country to do so. In 1865, the Salvation Army was founded in London. In 1943. Gen. Douglas MacAr tliur announced Uie Philippine Is lands were liberated from the Jap anese and tlie campaign could be regarded as virtually closed. In 1961. 80 persons died n riot in Algeria.
