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Friday, July J, 1963
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' 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
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(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
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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
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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."
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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.