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Newspaper Page TextPAGE HERALD fcdiitfiiaL (paqiL ; . Now and then a nation surfeited with news of automobile fatalities hears of a traf fic mishap with real shock value. The question Is whether the driving public learns from it. Such an event was the multiple crash of 17 vehicles 14 of them trucks on the New Jersey turnpike, a major toll artery with a gen erally good safety record. In that frightening disaster six truck driv ers were killed and a number of other persons hospitalized with injuries. What is the lesson in this for all molor- fsts? Basically it is simple. Most drivers do not . allow a proper margin of safety as they move about on streets and highways. The New Jersey accident occurred in thick nighttime fog. Only 45 minutes earlier, police had turned on electric signs reducing the speed limit from a normal 60 miles an hour to 35. The crash was a typical chain reaction, one truck or car piling after another into the tangled mass. Some vehicles were buried two or three deep, suggesting speeds above the ! prescribed maximum may have been observed. ' it; takes a lot of impact to put one car atop aripther. 'i Fg obviously ' should dictate extreme Jlcaution. But so should "normal" conditions on toclav s modern exnress mutes. ',; On most of these, the whole heavy flow 'of traffic moves at swift pace. Few drivers can see very far ahead, and not many try. Few s The 1 Get 100 or more psychiatrists, social ; workers and teachers in one room to discuss ;the delinquency of teen-agers and out comes ;.a sordid picture of male prostitution, syphilis, violence, robbery and homosexuality. That's ; what just happened at a conference of pro fessional workers with youth. Naturally each has a raft of case his tories to relate and tho impact of collected experiences can bo shocking. It doesn't mean ythat young people these days are going to the dogs. Quite possibly it could mean that we are investigating the problems of youth as never before and what was concealed in for mcr generations is now being brought into the ;.light of day. . Nevertheless, the situation is serious and ?;lhe conferees wore right to be deeply con cerned. They said the lack of co-ordination ' among youth agencies, rivalry among pro fessional workers and the lack of treatment r HOLMES ;iiy holmes alk.vimii-.k ' WASHINGTON. D.C. - Presi dent Kennedy got little or no ' heckling on his trip to Germany, Ireland, Britain and Italy, and no overt stiff-arming by the heads of these governments ergo, the Journey, while a commendable ef fort by an earnest statesman, tells us nothing we did not know. Paradoxically, it is from t h e stormy and strife-marked visits iy ; national leaders to foreign 3ands that wo learn our lessons. Toor Nixon, who was mobbed in Venezuela, came home wiser than Jie did from Poland, where ho Jvns virtually worshipped. Poor lke showed lis more from his rejection in Japan than from his adulation in other parts of the Far East. Khrushchev, lolling in the Spirit of Camp David, was a falsification, whereas Big K pound ing with his shoe at lire United Nations and bawling insults at the busted-up Summit Meeting of Paris was honestly instructive. The curiosity seekers are al ways with us, and tlioy turned . out in their millions to see and ;hear the handsome and eloquent President. But I was with Vice ti :.i , l....l.,.i I... -J ll'MUCIll UUMI131UI UUI 111(4 Ilia lll- mulluoiiH welcome to Bonn and Berlin in the summer of 1961. Tlhe time was far more dramatic Ithnn now. We had suffered a rffre?t failure that April at tlie Bay of Pigs. The Hussians in East Berlin were Just In the pro cess of building the Wall and were threatening to take the whole city. Johnson then had the terne supporting cast as Mr. Ken nedy did last month In Berlin, principally tho heroic Lucius Clay and the populsr Willy Brandt. Johnson rede tiie same adulation circuit as Mr. Kennedy did through the blubbering mobs of Hitler s .ine-lim capital. Like Mr. Ken AND NEWS. Klanulh Falls, Oregon When Luck Runs maintain-adequate distance between their car and those ahead and behind. Everybody trusts to luck that nothing will happen. This isn't good enough, and the proof is in the chain reaction mishaps, worst of which was the California affair involving 200 cars. But there is more to it than keeping sen sible distance and trying to judge the traffic situation far ahead. Just as serious a failing, and very com mon, is chronic inattention on the part of drivers. Recently, on a high-speed road, a woman going 50 in heavy traffic turned her head for several seconds to kiss her baby on the nose. If she had crashed in those critical seconds, the report would have said "the car went out of control." Worse still is failure to control the ve hicle effectively. The business of driving with one arm out of the window, of keeping no more than a wrist or a couple of fingers on the wheel, should stop for good and all. If ob served by police, it should carry automatic penalty as reckless driving. The people who don't attend to the road, who don't control their cars, or who drive when they are either drunk or in an over wrought emotional state, are the villains in the accident picture. They make thousands of mistakes at the wheel every day. Luck gets them by much of the time, so they get a false sense of securi ty. But when luck runs out, they have no margin. Family Obsolete? centers hamper rehabilitation of rebellious youngsters. This kind of analysis is good and may lead to constructive effort. But to sug gest, as does Charles Prigmore, consultant for the New York Council on Social Work Educa tion, that the modern family has failed to prove itself and may be obsolete, smacks of giving up the sponge. Not the family but old values like inde pendence and discipline have become obso lete. It's not fashionable today to speak in such terms. Youth needs vocational guidance and job opportunity in a complicated society. They also need toughmindeclness willing ness to face harsh facts without flinching, refusal to whimper when the going gets dif ficult, absence of self-pity, the ardors and heroisms of work. Let's start rescuing these values from obsolescence. Then perhaps, we may not be so filled with doubts about the structure of the fam ily as an institution. ALEXANDER . Thoughts On A nedy, Johnson gave Berlincrs the same assurances of total Ameri can protection and received su perlative compliments and ap plause. Vet, within a fortnight, Johnson's visit might have been a stone dropped into a pool. The ripples died. The object of impact disappeared. Some say that the President shurid not have gone. My opinion is t.itt it makes little difference whetliT he went or staved; ex cept that the trip was expensive and exhausting, not just in money and physical strength, but in the fluctuating currency of prestige. It is not likely that JFK . can return to these countries a n d draw the same attention to him self and his programs when some thing is really at stake. One would surmise that the cen tral purpose of this KuroHan campaign was to overthrow the political domination of 1'e Gaulle, who is now cock of the Europe an poultry pen. Hut the place to have defied Do Gaulle would have been in Franco. Mr. Kennedy tried to do it from West Germany by llattering Adenauer and by trad ing jibes of "isolationist" with the girat Frenchman. Mr. Kennedy, perhaps localise he sensed a campaign air about this trip, cut loose unite a bit of extravagant and contradictory rhetoric. No one would Ik sure from these speeches and state ments whether wo re concilia tory or defiant toward Commu nism, whether Gaullism or Marx Ism is tho worst menace, wheth. er we regard it as more Import ant to share nuclear weapons with the Allies or abolish nuclear weapons by dealing with Moscow, whctlier Ameriron troops are welcome to stay In Europe or whether Europe is on tlie point of inviting ui to get out. Monday, July I, 1963 Out Journey Still, it's probable that Mr. Ken nedy did no real harm. In that, he is far ahead of President Wil son, who botched the works at Paris; President Hoosovelt. w h o lost our shirt fur us at Yalta; President Truman, who sort of got to like amiable "Old Joe" at Potsdam, and President Eisenhow er, who lust a grinning mulch to Khrushchev and Bulgauin at Ge neva. Like a lot oi baseball teams, our Presidents don't do much win ning on the road. Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, July 8. the With day of l.ni with 176 to lollow. The moon is approaching the last quarter. Tho morning stars are Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In l?7t. the Declaration of In dependence was read publicly for tlx- first time in Philadelphia. In 1R22, the English Ket Percy Bvsslv Shelley drowned in the Gulf ol Spczia. Italy, when his boat capsiml. In lBIKi. William Jennings Bry an of Nebraska made his famous "Cross of Gold" speech in Chi cago. In 1951, the city of Paris cele brated the J.lKXHh anniversary of its founding. A thought for the day English slatcsmnn, Benjamin Disraeli, said; "Nature has given us lo ears but only one mouth." 9SSw . , r ill" IN WASHINGTON . . pAre By RALPH de TOLEDANO For many years, it has been a platitude of American politics that the people of this country were anti-Communist. This argu ment was used to prove that ar.y talk of Red infiltration in t h e government, the school, t h e churches, and the trass media was the lunacy of right-wing ex tremists. That this was bad logic never seemed to bother those who pro pounded tlie argument. Nor did it occur to the critics of anti Communism that whatever the sentiment of thee and me, there could be considerable infiltratiun that we did not know about. It also ignored the contingent posi , lion that the government and the mass media could be non-Communist without being anti-Communist. Recent developments . have raised a new issue. Are some of the non-Communists in America pushing their "non-ncss" to the point where it becomes non-subversive pro-Communism? I be lieve they are and that wc have reached a crisis point. Look the board over carefully. Item. The U.S. Court 'of Ap peals in Washington has ruled that the American - Soviet Friend ship Council, cited by the Attor ney General as a Communist front, is not a Communist-action group. In direct contradiction of the Supreme Court ruling that every member of the Communist By SYDNEY J. HAKIMS 1 was talking with a man not long ago, who turned out to be a John Bircher, and his conversa tion struck a reminiscent note that 1 could not recall until afterwards. Suddenly I remembered he reminded me of the occasional Communists I used to rim into during the l!M0s. In fact, lie was the perfect: "mirror image" of the Communist zealot. It was not merely that all his arguments were the Communist line turned inside out: it was also that his attitudes and reac tions were the same as tlieirs. only "right-handed" instead of "left-handed." He had what mother used to call "a plaster for every sore " His conversation was made up of a vast supply of cliches and labels and stereotypes to cover all situations. There was no doubt, no modifications, no qualifica tions, no admitting that prob lems are difficult and good mm may not agree. Like the Communists, his world was divided into black and hite; the "loyal Americans" and the "traitor;!," conscious or uncon scious. He would yield not an inch, for he possessed the ab solute gospel truth. Those who could not see it were fools or dimes or rogues. It is an interesting psyclmlogi. ell fact that xealnts on opposite sides of questions aie more alike than they are different: they differ In abstract principles, but tlieir motivations and atti tudes arc quite similar. Fascism and Communism are uclv twins. Life Blood We Really Party is, by that token, a Soviet agent, the court rules that the council cannot be forced to regis ter because, after all, vve do not know whether its officers are un der Communist discipline. Item. Sen. Thomas Dodd, a lib eral in economic matters but a . hard-core anti-Communist in for eign policy, has been marked for extinction by the bright boys of tlie Kennedy Administration. In his home state of Connecticut, "independents" and left - wing Democrats arc planning to run one of their own in order to de feat Senator Dodd in his 1964 bid for reelection and Democratic National Chairman John Bailey, also of Connecticut, is reported to be among those applauding the loudest. Splitting the vote by run ning two Democratic candidates will guarantee victory for the lie publicans, but if the GOP has any sense, it will give Senator Dodd the Connecticut senatorial nomin ation. The Senator, who is vice chairman of the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, is violent ly hated by some left-wingers be cause they want no further in quiries into Communist activity here. Item. The State Department said not a mumbling word about the big wet kiss which the United Nations has given the murderous Kadar regime of Hungary. Ka dar's bully boys have had their prerogatives and their seat in the I nited Nations restored, even though they are clearly in con tempt of tiic UN. The U.S. also STRICTLY PERSONAL for they share the same deforma tion of the human spirit, only curved in opposite directions. And it is no accident that the official, title of the Nazi party was "Na'mn.d Socialist" fur Hitler was shrewd enough to ap peal to both extremes of fanatical thought in Germany; to those who believed in "tie-many Over All." and to Uiose wl;o wanted a col lectivisi society on a national ElfsiroFo" "Aren't you tit going 7 . Anti - Red sends its aid to Poland and tries to dangle it in front of the other captive nations. But the U.S. team on the International Labor Organization is determined to throw out South Africa. Obvious ly, it is wrong for the South Africans to discriminate against Negroes, but perfectly all right for the Hungarian government to slaughter anti-Communists. Item. One of New York's larg est bookstores still tries to keep anti-Communist books off the shelf. I know. It has happened to my books before and is happen ing today to my Greatest Plot in History. Unkind to J. Robert Oppenhcimer, you know. Item. As a protest against the Berlin Wall, NATO attempted to keep East German scientists out of the U.S. They were invited here to attend a conference. But when SANE, the group which pro tests all our nuclear testing, ap pealed to the State Department, our diplomats overruled NATO and allowed tlie Red scientists to enter the U.S. Item. As previously noted in this space, the AFL-CIO's political arm, COPE, is subsidizing some thing called Group Research, Inc. GRI calls itself non-profit and may be getting tax exemption meaning that tlie tab is for you. Group Research devotes itself to preparing dossiers and black lists of those who take up the cudgels against the Communists. They haven't yet put AFL-CIO Presi dent George Meany on the list. Item. Tho Stale Department stood calmly by while the Central Congolese government broke its pledges to Katanga President Moi se Tshombo and divided hi prov incethereby culling his political throat. Tho'sfiie Sla' Depart ment twitched i.ot a muscle when . pro-Communists were given im- i portant executive positions in tlie Centra! government Item. A press b'i'ck'iut (but don't try to check il because it will lie (tanicd has been suggested by '.he-Administration on all anti Cast i-') speeches by members of the House, and Senate. So far. the Congressional Record has n 0 1 been censored. Ut would require an amendment to the Constitution for the Administration lo tic able tc pull this off.' But the press, ac cording to Svn. Barry Goldwaler, has been toll.' to play down news harmful to the Castro Communist regime. to atk me about the trip" ft WASHINGTON Population Control imzm ' By THE WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. W ASHINGTON NE A New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's chief political aide. George Hin man, holds forth in the pastel tinled, thick-carpeted offices of the Rockefeller brothers in New York's RCA building. Tlie other day William Pren dergast. research director of the Republican National Committee, came to call on Hinman but for got which floor he was on. He asked the lobby information man: "Can you tell me where I might find George Hinman?" The information clerk quickly thumbed through his list but he couldn't find the name. Puzzled, he asked Prendergast: "What is he, the plumber?" When Prendergast laughed and mentioned tlie magic name "Rockefeller," the clerk picked up the telephone, got tlie unlist ed floor, and muttered sheepish ly: "Fifty-sixth floor, sir." Richard Gardner, deputy as sistant secretary of state for In ternational Organization Affairs, was speaking before a joint meet ing of the International Council of Women and the National Coun cil of Women of the U.S. on "poulation explosion." 1 Gardner related how at a re cent United Nations conference "Outer Space" and "Population Explosion" were listed together on the same program. "The connection, of course, is obvious," observed Gardner. "There's really no population problem since you can always export the excess people to other planets. "This is called," he said "sim ply curing overpopulation through artificial dissemination." Public information specialists of the Department of Defense har assed by accusations of bad han dling of the news have adopted a phrase from Homer, "After the event, even a fool is wise." Finance Chairman Richard Ma guire gave Uie Democratic Na tional Committee meeting in Washington the shortest and least revealing report ever made on how much money the party had or did not have in its treasury. "It's like my wife's cookie WASHINGTON By FL'LTON LEWIS Jit. To Congressman John Rooney, Brooklyn Democrat, goes much deserved credit for saving John Q. Public more than $100 mil lion. Rooney heads a subcommit tee of the Committee on Appropri ations that annually reviews the budget requests of the Federal judiciary and the Departments of Justice. Commerce and State. His tireless efforts this year led to cuts of $308 million in those budgets The assur'.ed agencies and bureaus nil! get $1.8 billion instead of the S2.1 billion they asked for. No ilem is too small to escape Rooney's eye. Take the matter of S4.201.0IIO listed by Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges for the U.S. Travel Service (USTS. In vestigation by Rooney uncovered t.ie following tidbits about t h e L'STS, set up to encourage travel in this country by foreign tour ists. 1. The USTS signed a S30.000 lease and spent an additional $t. 000 to open an office i.n Tokyo at the same time Japan w a s cracking down on foreign travel. 2. The Paiis office spent Stli. 330 of its annual $53,000 budget in the last two days of fiscal 12 in an obvious maneuver to keep from turning back unused funds to the U.S. Treasury. 3. Purchasing agents for t h e service contracted to buy 21 uni forms for overseas counter per sonnel at a cost of $2,018 One week earlier, the service had agreed to buy 48 uniforms at S2.724. 4. USTS officials published, at a cost of . '.0.109, 50 copies of a service manual ihalf of them with gold-stamped covers' which was so "obvious and elementary" th.it it was not even read by those for whom il was prepared. 5. Almost $15,000 was sient for tlie design of insisnia that had no iclationship to the sen ice. b. A sum of $l.ooo was paid by I'STS to a single interior dec orator, w ho recommended such tilings as $18-a-yard carpeting. 7. Service officials hired with ntt competitive bidding a pub lic relations adviser. One of his qualifications seems to he that he thought up the idea of t federal travel service several years ago. 8 Washington officials bought 2co paus of fancy cufflinks at $10 NOTEBOOK 1 jar." said the red-faced Maguire. "No matter how many cookies she puts in, it soon gets empty." None of the committeemen were impolite enough to ask the chairman to translate that into numbers of dollars on hand or in debt. The general understanding was that the party is in the black thanks to President Kennedy's 51.000 - a - ticket dinner and gala. But when a political party has money in the bank, it doesn't boast about it. The act is to put on a poor face to beg for more. Sen. Kenneth Keating of New York received a letter from a senior citizen of Buffalo in sup port of Health Care for the Aged. The old gent gave his. theory on why the bill didn't pass last year. He said it was due to the fact that the young people of today don't have enough respect for their elders. Then he concluded: "It seems that "the whipper snappers in Washington today re spect old age only when it's bot tled." After the Senate approved a res olution designating Sept. 17 as a legal holiday to be known as Constitution Day, Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., observed: "The way the Supreme Court has been going, one wonders if the holiday will be 'in memoriam to' or 'in honor of the Constitu tion." U.S. Chamber of Commerce national headquarters in Wash ington is going to run up a flag and march around the flagpole at 7: 12 p.m. July 9 in observance of "D" for Deliverance Day. At Uiat precise moment, accord ing to chamber statisticians, 52 per cent of the calendar year 1963 will have passed. Up to that moment corpora tions that pay 52 per cent of " their net profits in income taxes will have been working for the government. From 7:13 p.m. on through Dec. 31 they will be work ing for themselves. "I hope our economists have better things to do most of the lime than figure out thmgs like this," says chamber President Ed win P. Neilan, Wilmington, Del., banker. "But 1 also hope the House Ways and Means Commit tee will cut taxes and move D Day back a little closer to New Year's Day in 1964." REPORT . U.S. Travel Service Wasting Our Money apiece for gifts to visiting V1PS. After an intensive investigation, Rooney called Commerce Secre tary Luther Hodges for an explan ation. The onetime North Caro lina governor could throw little light on the situation until he mused: "The sad part of govern ment is that you really don't know what is going on most of the lime." Rooney then saw his subcom mittee cut $16 million from the USTS budget request of S4.2 mil lion. The reduction was approved by the full committee and then by the House. Acting on recommendations by the Committee on Appropriations, headed by the venerable Rep. Clarence Cannon of Missouri, the Hutisc has chopped $3.4 billion from the Administration's budget. And this is on but nine money bills. The Communist Party's chief journalist is crying poor mouth mi-i again. James E. Jackson, ediior of the party's official or gan The Worker, has dispatched to cimrades across the country a mimeographed letter begging for funds. Jackson claims the paper needs $80.00) over and above regular income within the next two mi nth i if it is to survive. Se em ity officials of the U.S. Gjv errnieiit are confident that die moiey will be found. Party 'at cats have bankrolled The Worker for many years and will continue to do so. Funds e;:n be expected from Moscow, for ;he Communist Party USA is actively supporting the '.'SSR in its i leological dis pute with Red Chiya. U.S. P-jrty czars rvould consider il a sychological disaster if The W'orkt r, now published twice week!;-, should co under. . QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q How many secretaries of state have become presidents? A Six. .Iclfrrson. Madiwin, Monroe, John Qulncy Adams, Van Burrn, and James Buchanan. Q Vk was the first U.S. woman governor? A Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming 192S.