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; . 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
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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 . ,
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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"
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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.