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5 ; : : herald anojfrtos I Rocky Gambles On New Posture No political forecaster is daring to say whether or not New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller has a really strong chance of re couping his springtime losses in the fight for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination. But the governor himself is not waiting for the tides to change. " In recent weeks he has taken a militant stand for powerful civil rights legislation and for expressions on this score from the gover nors who assembled In July in Miami Beach for their annual conclave. Fundamentally, this represents no shift for Rockefeller. But in much of his political Utterance from mid-1962 until the time of his remarriage In May, he seemed to play down his advocacy of civil rights action as he ap pealed for conservative Republican support. - Evidently he has decided that the con servative surge to the candidacy of Arizona's Sen. Barry Goldwater largely undercuts his : own earlier efforts in the conservative ranks. ; ; He is acting like a man who has not thore ! By yielded his presidential hopes but who has ; concluded they now may lie only in a course I ranging from middle of the road to progress ; iyism. : He is betting there are still enough pow erful Republicans, especially in the big indus trial states who, in the final test, will seek such a candidate as he rather than the avow edly conservative Goldwater. Their argument would be, as so often before, that only a mid Castro's (Das Moines, Iowa, Register) ; Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has now made in Russia the point that Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev has been making since the crisis with the United States last October. This point is that Khrushchev saved Castro's Marxist-Leninist regime from the might of the United States, and would do It again. Khrushchev is still more anxious to get this point over to Communists, including his critics in Russia and China. ; For Khrushchev's purpose, it was not enough to say this himself, while Castro in Havana muttered in his beard about the in-' dignity of Khrushchev taking the missiles Out without consulting him. Now Castro has publicly and personally made Khrushchev's HOLMES Man HOLMES ALEXANDER Conarcssman Gerald Ford of j ; gfflj fiii ' Michigan, mid-continent in gcog ! rciphy and mid-conservative In ! politics, gets frequent mention for ; the Republican national ticket of ; 1064. His national image ia a lit . tie too dim at the moment for presidential likelihood, but lie conceivably could run In second place for Barry Goldwater, Nel son Rockefeller, Tom Kuchcl or Gen. Lucius Clay. Ho would do '; credit to any ticket. "l Just turned 60, a balding, onc I; time blond football star and box ing coach, Gerry Ford, In the role ot a national candidate, would represent a trend that began in i960. Three years ago, both par ties left the old presidential sup- ply sources, which for years had ;'. been the governorships and mili- tary shrines, and readied into : the Senate. Kennedy was preferred i;to Stevenson, Nixon to Rockofcl '. ler. The Democrats did the in ', credible by fielding two senators, '. Kennedy and Johnson, despite Uie T fracture of precedent. Today, with the Senate gone ; heavily liberal, most of the close party battles are fought In the ' House, where the Republicans keep gaining membership, and gaining quality, despito losing ; governorships, senators and their I only president since the Great J Depression. f Ford camo to Washington from ' Grand Rapids in 1948, when Har- ry Truman was scuttling Repub '. lican majorities In both cliam . hers and in the Gallup polls. A ; Yale Law School graduate and a ; Navy veteran, Ford took the slow ; way upward by Inconspicuous work on the Appropriations sub ;i rsm'Tv" " "r defrr.oe spending, f. iKe op, e number of Democrat (i-orge Mahon whom lie greatly ;! admires. Ford was nearly always with the GOP leadership in votes, but not entirely in lock step with the ' plodding of the Old Guardsmen. I; lie was part of the youlh movo '. ment in 1959 which ovcrUirew '. Joe Martin and installed Charlie Ilalleck as (lie Republican leader. ; Tlien; this year. Ford himself rode the surge for a New Breed of '. party leadership. He unhorsed the .' elderly Hoeven of Iowa, a Ilalleck '.-Henchman, and became chairman Mission To Moscow point for him in Russia itself. This would make it harder than ever for Khrushchev to back down on his promise to come to Castro's aid if Castro is threatened once more by military moves staged or assist ed by the United States. Those whd urge military moves against Castro rely upon Khrushchev's backing down. President Kennedy has to consider the possibility (1) that Khrushchev might go through with his threat, and (2) that he might strike back elsewhere, in places where Communism has local superiority of power. This explains the moderation of Kennedy's ' demands, even during the crisis last October, and the limited nature of the measures he is taking against the Castro regime now. ALEXANDER In The House of the hitherto moribund Repub lican Conference. Since then the conference has been a garrison post from which Ford - appointed subcommittees have made daring raids on a num ber of rather complacent Demo cratic positions. The Hosmer (Calif.) subcom mittee has hit the Administration some telling blows on the matter of detecting nuclear blasts. Schwengcl of Iowa leads a sub committee which has awakened slumbering attention to the scarci ty of minority staff workers. A new subcommittee under Guliser of California is readying a study of Democratic assumptions on space spending. An Ad Hoc sub committee, headed by Poff of Vir ginia, is reporting on ways to improve the work of the confer ence itself. By marshalling these and oth er youngish House members. Ford has become something very admired on both sides, and in "We're lemtint btr to dle roadcr could attract enough Democratic and independent votes to win the fall election. Perhaps the big conservative push for Goldwater left Rockefeller no choice but to move leftward. Certainly the right has been quite thoroughly pre-empted by the Arizonan. However that may be, it is clear from published indications that the governor is happier in his present posture. It is his origi nal one in politics, and he seems most at home with it. In his earlier attempts to woo Republi can conservatives, he managed to make very few happy. A good many were prepared to ac cept him as the nominee when they believed that prospect inevitable, but they were not real Rockefeller fans. And the wooing cost him some of his moderate to liberal backing. Today he is fairly close to being a free agent. He can fight with the knowledge that most of the worst probably is behind him the impact of his remarriage, the liquor scan dals, his budget troubles. In the next several months he should learn whether all this is truly behind him or riding with him as a dead weight wher ever he goes. If the latter is true, then his big political bet that the center-left is the place to be for 1964 could be a wasted wager. But if his image is somehow restored, then his gamble will be watched as one of this decade's most fascinating political maneuvers. both parlies, of Capitol Hill a politician's politician. His rise is not dissimilar to the ascendency a few years ago of Sen. Lyndon Johnson, although without LBJ's flamboyant and publicity con scious style. Fold's economic conservatism would balance a Rockefeller ticket, and bolster a Goldwater ticket, His ideology, while activist and nationalist, is not doctri naire. He can see some reason in bending a principle to make it lit an historical opportunity such as invading Cuba at a ripe m o m e n 1, aiding Yugoslavia to help split the Communist bloc, curbing civil rights (in which he deeply believes) at the point where they Intrude upon property rights. A go-slow, hut go-forward prod uct of the postwar House, Ford is one of many Republicans who arc w illing to march, but not to stam pede, toward the betterment of his country and party. Varh to study trench!" PAGE I HERALD WASHINGTON wS-. 4 r ) SA Riotous Education? By THE WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-ln Hy annis, Mass., near the Kennedy summer home on Cape Cod, this sign is in the lobby of a main street-movie theater: "Fruit Drink, 25 Cents. Deli cious. Cold! Vigah!" Harlan Cleveland, assistant sec retary of state for international organization affairs, has a trick relief map of Antarctica in his office. Take off a transparent plastic cover and it shows what the place would look like if all the ice melted. There would be only a few mountain peaks show ing above the water. "Please understand." empha sizes Mr. Cleveland, "there isn't any U.S. or U.N. aid program under consideration to melt all this ice." But Antarctica is one of his responsibilities, since this south ernmost continent is under joint Antarctic Treaty administration of a number of countries, in cluding the United Stales and So viet Russia. It's the one place on earth where the Russians cooper ate with everybody in perfect har mony. "Wherever the population is all penguins," Mr. Cleveland ex plains, "we can get international cooperation. If the population is people, it's more difficult." At the lunch honoring the suc cessful American climbers of Mt. Everest. National Press Club Ity SYDNEY J. HARRIS There arc some problems that have no solutions. Being by na ture and background an almost incurably optimistic people, we Americans do not like to admit this may be the case, and we struggle against it furiously. Consider the running argument over the subject of divorce: is it better for the children if hostile parents stay together, of it they separate? There is absolutely no answer to this question. Those who oppose breaking up marriages can point to a wealth of evidence indicating that tlte children of broken homes are oft en in trouble, psychically, social ly and academically. There is no doubt that a child w ith only one parent is severely handicapped in growing up. Those who take Hie opposite view point (Hit I hat it is healthi er for a child to grow up with one parent than in a bitter and wrangling atmosphere, in which the child often becomes an emo tional pawn between the parents and suiters lifelong scars. Neither side can ever convince the other, because tliere is no so lution for a bad marriage: stay ing together is terrible lor the children, ami so is breaking up. There is only a choice of evils. Very well, says the optimist, but there must be a lesser evil: we can surely make some ration al estimate of wuat is less bad AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. NOTEBOOK President Bryson Rash noted that the expedition tried to locate some mementos claimed to have been left at the summit by a Com munist Chinese team. Since the Americans failed to turn up any trace of the Com munist expedition, Rash conclud ed: ."Either tile Chinese didn't climb the mountain, or Khrush chev sent Mikoyan up there to get rid of the evidence." The Defense Department has discovered that women are right after all when they use hairpins to fix tilings. Secretary McNamara estimates that the department now is saving $1,330 a year by using ordinary women's hair wave clips at two cents each in place of more com plicated gadgets at $1.35 each for merly used to prevent solder ing heat from damaging transis tors during manufacture. Handling fan mail from irate citizens at home is one of the newer problems of U.S. ambassa dors stationed abroad. If Ameri cans don't like the way things are going in some foreign trou ble spot country, they write the U.S. ambassador to ask what's wrong and why he doesn't run things better. Some of the letter writers aren t too sure of their geography.' Am bassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr., back in Washington for con sultations recently, says he gets letters addressed to Saigon, Indo- STRICTLY PERSONAL for Uie children. And that we will choose. Tile doctrine of the "lesser evil" is one that has beguiled mankind since the beginning of time, and its pursuit has always proved a will-o'-thc-wisp. Lesser evils have a w ay of turning out to be as bad as the greater evil, if not worse. Where human beings are con cerned there is no calculus of probabilities for the future. Tile fact is that mistakes must be paid for, and when children ore involved, they arc paid for by the children. This is what the Book means when it says, "The parents eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge." In a bad marriage, what ever one does is wrong. We are not realistic enough or grown-up enough to understand or accept the bargains we have to strike with life. We think of life primarily in terms of "prob-k-ms" and "solutions "but much of life is simply a predicament without a truly satisfactory way (Hit. Man has been defined as "the problem - solving animal." But lie is also die problem - creating animal, with a capacity for de vising problems that tie cannot solve. Unless we begin to compre hend tlie slf-iofcaling nature of many of our activities, we will think we are finding solutions ulien we are only changing the svmptonis of our malaise. Friday, July 26. 1963 ncsia, or Saigon, Laos. But even tually he gets them at his sta tion in Saigon, Viet Nam. U.S. Ambassador John Martin, home on leave from his post in Dominican Republic, told the sto ry of a bright young Dominican girl studying English in a class taught by his daughter. The senorila was an apt pupil and said she wished to perfect her English so she could go to college in the United States some day. Asked about how she in tended to get enough money for this, the girl replied, "Oh, I get paid for taking part in demon strations staged by the Commu nists." For small marches, it was learned, they pay the crowd $150. For riots where they want cars overturned and burned, the pay is $500. Sen. Norris Cotton, R-N.H., says of the Area Redevelopment pro gram: "Tax-paid projects steered to the party faithful have always been called 'pork.' "Plain . spoken old John Gar ner of Texas used to boast, 'Ev ery time a Yankee gets a pound of pork, I take a barrel for Tex as.' Texas is one of the stales that has been getting the lion's share from Area Redevelopment. "I bet old John is chuckling as he sits on his porch down in Uvalde." Defense Secretary Robert Mc Namara has taken note of news paper editorials advising h i m that he would get further with Congress if he were more dis creet and tactful in his attitude. v He told newsmen at his last press conference he had decided to take this advice. Therefore, he said, answering a query, he would not comment on recent statements by Rep. Earl Wilson, R-Ind., who has been con ducting a one - man campaign against Pentagon spending. Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday, July 26. the 207th day of 1963 with 158 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Those born today include play wright George Bernard Shaw, in 1856. On this day in history: In 1925, American political lead er William Jennings Bryan died of a stroke in Dayton. Tcnn. In 1941, Gen. Douglas MacAr thur became commander of the U.S. forces in the Philippines. In 1952. King Farouk ol Egypt boarded his royal yacht and sailed into exile. In 1959, Cuban premier Fidel Castro agreed to return to the premiership. A thought for Uie day British playwright George Bernard Shaw said: "The more tilings a man is ashamed of. Uie more responsible he is." DISPATCH FROM THE FARM . Scandal In The By JOHN GOULD (In The Christian Science Monitorl LISBON FALLS, Maine The an nual report on my crazy ducks is about to be rendered, and it is a bit more didactic than usual. It seems we have had a scandal in the barnyard, but you'll have to take my word for it. The evi dence has been destroyed. This story isn't all funny, unless you say sort-of, and even tlien it's stretching the rules and regula tions of this department. But na ture winds a devious and curious route, with instruction plentiful. As paid-up members from other years know, these ducks are mal lards, and they serve only to beautify and adurn my little farm pond beyond the barn, toward the woods. Their number weaves up and down with the seasons, but we always have some, and this spring we came through with only a pair. I hope old-timers in the bird business will nod, and others will go to their books and look up the mallard. L have always thought the mal lard drake to be the prettiest bird I know of in nature the wood duck is much the same, but not so well balanced in stature. The mallard drabs out some in his fall plumage, but at nesting time he is gorgeous. And, unlike the other barnyard ducks, the mallard really is a wild bird. No body ever had much success bringing other kinds of wild waterfowl into the family, but a mallard will stay, make a pet, and live from a hopper. So, we had this pair last win ter, and after the pond thawed I rousted them out of their little house, cleaned out the litter and got it ready for next fall, and left them to their duties. They usually nest right away, the lady going into four weeks of medita tion that will produce about eight ducklings, and the gentleman sit ting out in the middle of the pond looking as if he didn't know what was going on. During nesting the mallards revert to their wild ncss. They won't come and feed from my hand, and they do a lot of sneaking around. They also become noisy if a pussycat goes by or something otherwise dis turbs them. Then one day the madam appears with her clutch of new ducks, each looking like an oversized bumblebee, and she trots them up for my inspection and demands rations. Well, that's the way it hap pened. She brought off 11 duck lings, more than the usual, and I was greatly astonished. Be cause, six of the ducklings were clear, unmistakable mallards with the yellow streak across their eyes, and five of the ducklings were not. Five of the ducklings' were all black on the heads, which is the touchstone of quite another race of waterfowl and the reason for this discrepancy should be evident to any well in formed citizen. It so happened that Steve Powell, custodian of the Swan Island game refuge of WASHINGTON WINDOW Living Beyond Our Means Creates World Problems By LVLE C. WILSON United Press International In the simple terms of what really goes on. the Federal Re serve Board's increase in its dis count rate is in recognition of the unhappy fact that the United States is living beyond its income abroad as well as at home. The immediate purpose of the rate increase is to make it more profitable to keep certain money on deposit and drawing interest in the United States than abroad; or. at least, not less profitable to have the money here than elsewhere. If it works that way, the Unit ed States balance of payments position will be improved. The U.S. balance of payments posi tion is the end result of the all international dealings between the United States and its people and foreign nations and their people. For some years now we have spent or given away abroad a lot more than foreigners have sient in the United slates. This deficit in the international b a 1 ance of payments is made up by payment in U.S. dollars. Accumulated Dollars Foreign individuals and govern ments happily accumulated these dollars immediately after tlie war. The U.S. doilars was so sturdy and so much sought that much of tlie free world used ac cumulated dollars as backing for its own currency. The dollar, literally, was as good as gold. Better, maybe, because it was handier in the pocket The U.S. gold dollar also had some gold backing, up to 25 per cent. About $12 billion of tlie gold hoard accumulated by the United States was and is required to provide that 25 per cent gold backing of the U.S. dollar. For eign owners of U.S. dollars got a much better deal than that. Each of their dollars was backed by gold 100 per cent. That came about because t h e Roosevelt administration commit ted tlie United States in 1934 to sell to foreigners gold at $35 an ounce. That commitment still holds. So a foreigner with U.S. . Barnyard the Maine Department of inland Fisheries and Game, a game war den and nature biologist, and the best authority we have on migra tory birds, stopped in that after noun on aiiot lie r errand, and he confirmed my suspicions. "There's only one way for that to happen," he said. A Black Duck, the prevailing game bird of this (lyway. came w inging north, and paused on our pond. Blacks don't often move in this close to duellings, and 1 certainly never knew he was here. But he paused long enough to manage this split personality in my domesticated brood, and tlien went his way. But Uie story is not over, yet. Up in our woodlot a pair of Cooper's Hawks has nested now for some years. You should go to the book again if you don't know them. They are a hand some bird, magnificent in flight, and big. They can be identified in flight by the white lines under the wings, and as everybody know; or should know Uie hawks are both good and bad. What they will do to a flock of poultry is a sad thing, and sometimes a farmer has little choice except to go after them. But they have their good points, too. It has been many years since we've had hawk trouble, partly because the duck pond also en courages redwings, and the red wing will go after a hawk. So will the kingbird, and we have kingbirds all around us. And as for the ducks, in particular, they have built-in protective measures, and know how to scatter in the weeds. Their vision upwards is so good that I have seen them scatter for a jet fighter plane go ing over so high you can't hear it. But now the Cooper's Hawk came for the ducks. Instead of 11, one morning there were nine. It went to eight; and finally to six. The old lady quacked plaintively for me to do something, and f rigged some tin pic plates on poles and strung some old shirts on bushes. One day I dusted the tailfeathers of the hawk with some No. 6 from the old woodchuck gun not likely to bring him down at that distance, but possibly per suasive. It's not the most drastic avenue, but in this instance it proved adequate. The raiding has stopped, and I imagine Mother Duck will successfully rear the remaining six ducklings, who now have some size, to beautify and adorn as aforesaid. But, the five ducklings the hawk took were the five Blacks. My re maining ducklings are pure and unquestionable . mallards, the ob vious offspring of my salaried drake. He sits on the pond sur veying his family with inscrut able diffidence, seeming to know neither cark nor care, preening himself as if all was well and he knew precisely why. That we had a scandal in the barnyard is something you must take my word for. There is no evidence otherwise. dollars has been able to demand in exchange U.S. gold to the value of his dollars. The Citizens Foreign Aid Committee calculates that on Dee. 31, 1952, the U.S. gold reserve was $23.2 billion and the gold reserve of all other free world countries was $13 billion. The U.S. gold hoard today is down to $15.6 billion whereas the gold holdings of other free world nations had increased by Dec. 31, 1961, to $23.6 billion. Sonic Still Hold Dollars The committee calculated that from Dec. 31, 1952, to Dec. 31, 1961, the U.S. balance of pay ments deficit was about $19.6 billion. Our overseas spending in those years was that much more than we received from overseas. Obviously, many foreigners no longer regard the U.S. dollar as good as gold. But some still do hold dollars and that creates an other problem. The American Institute f o r Economic Research at Great Bar rington. Vt., calculated in Au gust. 1962. that those outstanding foreign dollar claims already ex ceeded the capacity of the Unit ed States to make good in gold. If the foreigners demanded their gold we could not pay up. This would create a catastrophic chaos in the free world where the dollar is a vital part of the in ternational economy. Chairman Harry F. Byrd of the Senate Finance Committee ex plained this situation in a speech the other day and added: "I re gard this as our most serious fis cal and financial problem." Byrd was being consistent. He abhors living beyond means whether at home or abroad. THEY SAY... I am not against tlie United States, but a lot of people believe that if you live in this hemis phere you must get down on your knees and bow to capitalism. Prime Minister Cheddl Jagan of British Guiana.
