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PACK HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Tuesday, Auguit t, 1963 I ' 1 ' " 11 " ' ' .w WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Navy Aide Reveals TFX Involvement i r fcdihftiaL (paqsL -'AN ', i P l- V Everyone's aware that we've been run ning up Federal debt for our grandchildren to pay, but fewer people know that we have been running up bills that we'll have to pay ourselves in the foreseeable future. Rep. Clarence Cannon pointed out the other day that while Congress is debating de tails of the 1964 budget at this time, many of . the decisions already have been made. In pre- vious years, Congress authorized projects and '. now has no option but to pay for them. ; Total requests from the Administration ; to Congress for money now come to about i $107 billion almost $2,000 per American family. However, all but about $50 billion i.must be passed because we're already com i 'mitted to the programs. : Such authorizations of new programs have led to an escalator effect in Federal spending. The requests for 1964 are more than $3 billion over those for 1963. They are (Dallas Timet Herald) Defense Secretary McNamara can be whipped with a belt. Or, more properly, a ;buckle. !?: Back In December, 1961, the Secretary became news when ho got into a fight with 'the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines over belt buckles. Attempting to save money, he ordered all services to pick one buckle they could use in common. But the Marines didn't want to give up their open-face brass 29 cent buckles, the Army and Navy voted for their brass slide tongue 12 cent buckles and the Air Force said it wanted its 12 cent silver colored buckles. McNamara cut this guardians' knot by or By HOLMES ALEXANDER "I'd vote against it now," said Senator Howard Cannon, the hus ky, hard-working Nevadan, who .had a draft of the East-West Nu clear Treaty before him on his of fice desk. ".That wasn't the whole of his .Statement to this reporter, as we'll see in a moment, but it puis -up a warning flag to the Adminis tration steamroller with which President Kennedy intends to smash through to early and easy ratification of his historic pact. Cannon is not one of the Hard Liners who would automatically vote against any accommodation with Communism or with Mr. Ken nedy. He is a thoughtful, moder ate Democrat (sometimes touted to succeed Mike Mansfield as Majority Floor Leader), a former County and City Attorney, a .World War II bomber pilot shot mown in combat, an Air Force Brigadier General (Ret.) one of the most industrious and respect ed men in the Senate, although still a first-termer. Cannon's out spoken skepticism is the more re markable in that he is up for reelection next year, and already is receiving tliose letters from home that demand he vote (or the treaty in the name of "peace." . To this argument. Cannon re sponds with a bisyllabic expletive . . f Would you bavt tint to our Domettic Economy Problems more than $20 billion over those for 1961. And they are more than $44 billion over those for 1954 just ten short years ago. Congress acts in steps on spending. First, it gives what is called "obligational authority." That means the Federal agency in question is allowed to run up bills. Then Congress appro priates to pay them. Often a new program is given spending authority for several years ahead That is why, although the performance of the Area Re development Authority displeased the House so much it refused to grant new obligational authority, the ARA can go merrily on for a year or more spending what it already has au thority to spend. It is hoped that Congress will cut back the annual appropriations on which it still has options for fiscal 1964. It is also to be hoped that our representatives will get us off the spending escalator by curbing obligational authority for future years. Buckling Under dering all of 'em to knuckle down to a black enamel buckle. In February, 1962, tests however, the black enamel buckle showed up to be bad about chipping. Quartermaster Research Cen ter immediately said it would conduct "accele rated research and development" on the buckles. Sixteen months later, the Journal and Register (a pro-Pentagon service magazine published by civilians and retired officers) reported with relish and satire that the re search and development was still going on. And everyone was still strapping up his pants with the buckle of his choice. HOLMES ALEXANDER . . . Skepticism Runs High meaning "Hokum!" His eventual treaty vote will be decided entire ly upon the treaty's merits and in the American interests. His misgivings are those which reside in the minds of other members of the Armed Services Committee, other members of the Space Com mittee and other lawyers who know how to look for loopholes in the fine print of any contract. In reviewing Cannon's misgiv ings, then, we are covering Sen atorial territory which the Pres ident must conquer if he is to come up with the two-thirds ma jority for ratification. Cannon's first objection to the treaty is that the Husso-Ameri-can negotiators in Moscow admit tedly discussed a European non aggression pact. The President has already given his personal word .to at least one member of the Foreign Relations Committee that no secret deal was made, on mat ters outside this treaty, to obtain Khrushchev's agreement to do what he had previously refused to do. Cannon is willing to ac cept Mr. Kennedy's pledge on this, but that isn't enough. The Sen ator wants to hear from Am bassador Harriman and others what the discussions were all about. He'll have to be convinced that the rights of non-signing NATO allies were in no way com promised by the Nuclear Treaty. ,tli to terv w coniultout Ttoco Corptl" 'Die treaty would forbid atmos pheric and space testing, but Atomic Energy experts today will concede that it's possible to test in the air and in space without being detected. The argument is made that the non-detectable shots are of small yield and are not important. "t won't agree." says Cannon, "that they are unimportant." He will have to be convinced by the Atomic Energy Commis sion that the USA does not have a pressing need to round out its knowledge by the very tests which this treaty would forbid. He has heard that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are generally agreed to accept the treaty, although they feel that we would profit by going ahead with some tests which are now incomplete. He wants to hear this seeming contradiction dis cussed in person by the military chiefs. Cannon is deeply concerned over the acknowledged fact that the treaty gives many clear advan tages to the enemy. The pact halts above-ground tests, where the Russians are ahead, but al lows underground tests, where we are ahead. The Senator finds these startling disadvantages to the American military posture: 1. "The treaty would almost do away with our anti-missile devel opment. It can't be carried on without testing." 2. "Our scientific manpower would be dispersed. You cannot keep scientists of this caliber wailing around with nothing to do." 3. The 90-duy escape clause un der which any treaty . member could cancel all obligations is all in favor of a nation which plans to cheat, as Russia did during the 34-month moratorium that was broken by the Soviets in Sep tember, 19(11. As a lawyer, Cannon feels that Article Two, Paragraph 2, dealing with amendments to the treaty, is fiuzy. It intends to give a uni lateral Big Power veto to the USA. the USSR and Great Britain, but doesn't quite say so to Can non's satisfaction. Finally, since he expert. France to go on test ing and expects Red China soon to start testing. Cannon asks: "What do we do then?" He wants to hear some policy discussion on how non-testing nations should react toward the testers. Cannon is a skeptic, not an op ponent, a doubter but not a neija tivist. He is a nervy, out-loud thinker, a voicer of Ihoughllul opinions which many of his mod erate colleagues share but keep to themselves, or confide with don't-quote-me precautions to their friends o( the press. NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV engages in an orangj juice toast Togo premier, during I960 visit to New York, .THE GLOBAL VIEW . . By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analvst UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NEA There was unconcealed joy in the U.N. over Russia's pro posal that heads of state and government attend the General Assembly session in 1863. Another summit in the United Nations? Delegates of the small er nations, who like to rub shoul ders with the mighty of this world, were especially elated. They were completely uncon cerned with the fact that, while calling for a summit meeting, the Russians have again refused to pay their share of the U.N. peace-keeping assessments. "Isn't there a danger that the United Nations might go bank rupt before 1965?" an African delegate was asked. "Fear not, my friend," he re plied. "The United Nations will exist as long as there are dol lars in the American treasury." The delegate was a handsome young man attired in a short jack et with well-padded shoulders and tight-fitting trousers which seem to be the status symbol of the new breed of U.N. diplomats. He was confident that, because Pres ident Kennedy intends to run for reelection on a "peace plat form," the United States will not let the U.N. die "even if the Rus sians never contribute another ru ble." Actually, the delegates of the .12 African states are currently too occupied with their "historic" effort to expel South Africa and WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA1 -Australia's Labor party leader Arthur Calwell was able to match Irish ancestry with President John F. Kennedy when he called at the White House to pay his respects. Calwell's grandfather migrated from Ireland to Australia about the same time Kennedy's grand father migrated to America. The brother of Calwell's grandfather migrated to the United States and settled near Harrisburg, Pa. The Australian political lead erwho just missed becoming prime minister by one vote in the House of Representatives hasn't been in the United States for 17 years. He stopped off in Pennsylvania to renew ties with his American cousins. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, reminiscing before the American Legion convention in St. Louis, Mo., observed that: "Those of you who arc army veterans w ill recall that your lot in war was determined largely by three ever-present factors: the enemy, the weather and the ter rain. "You may recall, also, that the enemy always seemed to oc cupy the high ground in positions that were difficult to locale; that the weather ran heavily to rain, heat or mid ; and the terrain over which you moved invariably tend- Almanac Ry United Press International Today is Tuesday. Ann. 6. the 2tmh day of 196.1 with 147 to follow. The moon is approaching its last phase. Tlie morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars arc Mars and Saturn. Those born today include British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1809. On this day in history: In 1890. William Kemmler be came the first person in (he Unit ed Slates to be executed in an electric chair. A thought for the day Ameri can writer Mark Twain said: "Always do right. This will grati ly some people, and astonish Hie rest." 1 Will Hotheads Wreck U.N.? Portugal from the General As sembly to worry about the U.N.'s finances. As they see it, the only "ur gent" problem facing the U.N. is South Africa's policy of racial se gregation and Portugal's reluc tance to relinquish Angola to strife-torn "liberators" headed by two self-styled governments-in-exile. The western nations have made it clear that, although they also abhor apartheid and colonialism, the expulsion of South Africa and Portugal might only lead to the disintegration of the U.N. with out solving the problem of racism or the liberation of Angola. The United Nations "was found ed as a forum in which opinions could be expressed, argued fully and freely, and in which all de cisions could be democratically arrived at," said Ambassador Ad lai Stevenson. "If that tradition should be altered now we threat en not only the political future of the U.N. but also its economic and social aims." Stevenson also warned that the developing countries would be the first to suffer from such a "tragedy." ( Nevertheless, the African-Asian bloc, egged on by Moscow and encouraged by the U.N.'s General Secretary U Thant. has already scored some preliminary victories in the relentless campaign against South Africa and Portugal. India's Prime Minister Nehru has suspended diplomatic con tacts with South Africa and im posed economic sanctions on it. Australia Matches President Kennedy ed to be uphill, consisting of eith er a wet or dry mixture of earth which both the dictionary and the soldier call mud and dust, respectively." The general added, "the dic tionary probably describes them in more refined terms than the soldier does." Dr. Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting Corp., had a bad time of it when he testified before a congressional committee in favor of permitting radio and television stations to editorialize on the air. "If you were to put Uie U.S. Constitution up for adoption by this Congress," he observed later, "I don't think you could get even the First Amendment ratified." That's the one that guarantees freedom of speech." Gen. Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, chicl of staff of India's army, came to the United States at the invitation of American army of ficers who are advising him on equipment and training to hold back tlte Red Chinese. He picked June because it is the monsoon season back home. But he hit Washington in a week of 95-degree temperatures with the humidity near tlie 100 per cent mark. His observation: "It's worse than tlie monsoons." Asked what American military equipment India was buying, Gen. Chaudhuri replied: "Helicopters are no good at high altitudes. Trucks and Jeeps are no good in tlie mountains because there are no roads. But we've bought Missouri mules from almost every country that had any, ex cept the United States. "With the present patchwork of farm legislation now in effect, nobody could be a good secretary of agriculture." says American Farm Bureau President Charles B. Shuman. "If anybody proposed me for secretary of agriculture," he adds. "I'd run so fast ami so (ar they would never find me." Sen. John G. Tower, R-Texas. is showing two photographs taken at tlie National Dratt-Goldw alerter-President rally in Washington to prove there were a few Ne groes in attendance. Commenting on tlie rally. NEA columnist Peter Edson had noted tlicre were no Negroes inside tlie armory, an observation con firmed by a number of reporters covering tlie rally. V V V, iifc. vmitr with the late Sylvanus Olympic Portugal was recently expelled from the International Conference on Public Education, a body backed by U.N., despite the pro tests of John H. Fischer, presi dent of Columbia University's Teacher's College. Professor Fis cher termed the expulsion irregu lar and of "no legal effect." Tlie International Labor Office, headed by a more pliable Ameri can, David Morse, was pressured by the African and Arab coun tries to propose an amendment to its constitution providing pow ers to expel South Africa from the ILO. As seen by the African dele gates, these are all preliminary, though decisive steps toward the expulsion of South Africa and Portugal from the U.N. "Suppose the African - Asian bloc musters enough votes to ex pel (the two nations where will it all end?" a western diplomat asked. He concluded sadly that it is the political extremism of the new nations even more than fi nancial bankruptcy that is today the greatest threat to the exist ence of the United Nations. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS I was spending the weekend with a friend whose character and outlook on life I much ad mire. On Saturday morning, I ac companied him to his barber, in the little town where he spends his summers. The barber was a sullen and un responsive man, and when we left I asked my friend why he put up so equably with such surly treatment. "I wouldn't care to have my hair cut by such an un pleasant fellow,)' I said. "He's in pain," replied my friend, "and I have a great sym pathy with pain especially the kind that can't be seen with the eye." "What do you mean?" I asked him. "I mean that people like him are suffering from intense psychic pain," he explained. "Most of us can sympathize with someone suf fering from cancer or a broken leg, or any physical ailment. We make allowances for them, if they are cranky or withdraw n. "Yet the really awful pain of the human animal is psychic pain, of which the person himself may By FULTON LEWIS JR. President Kennedy, a devotee of speed reading, might spend a few minutes on the transcript of Navy Secretary Fred Korth's recent closed-door Senate testimony. He might then scan the Su preme Court's famous Dixon Yates decision spelling out the federal conflict-of-interest statute. Korth's testimony was taken in executive session by John McClel lan's Permanent Senate Subcom mittee on Investigations, which has for months probed tlie con troversial TFX contract. Entered in the record of Mc Clellan's subcommittee was volu minous evidence indicating that Korth may be guilty of conflict-of-interest improprieties. Consider the following: 1. Korth was president of the Continental National Bank of Fort Worth up until tlie day he assumed his Pentagon post. In that capacity he approved a loan to General Dynamics Corpora tion. 2. Testimony indicates t h a t a substantial part of General Dy namics' loan is still owed to Korth's bank. 3. Korth received 16 visits and 5 telephone calls from officials of General Dynamics before the TFX contract was awarded. His own log shows these visits totaled 391 minutes, or more than 6'.i hours. The same log indicates that Korth spent a total of 33 minutes with officials of tlie Boeing Com pany who also sought the contract. I One of the two visits paid to Korth by Boeing personnel dealt not with TFX but helicopters. I 4. The Pentagon Source Selec tion Board, after months of in vestigating, awarded the TFX con tract to Boeing on tlie grounds that its craft would be more eco nomical and more efficient. 5. Korth and Defense Secretary STRICTLY PERSONAL be unaware. It's my belief that men and women like my barber are suffering acutely, almost all the time, and I feel sorry for them. I don't say I'll go out of my way to be with them but I won't go out of my way to avoid them, either." ; "A lot of people suffer but they aren't that unpleasant," I de murred. "That's true," he said, "but each personality copes with its problems in the best way it can sometimes in the only way it can. Some people drink, some lie. some are cruel, and the really unhappy ones simply retreat into a private world of their own. My barber has a personality we call 'miser able' because he's in misery much of the time." "It doesn't make him any more likeable for me to know that," I said. "No, it doesn't," he agreed. "But, then, a beggar isn't like able. A leper isn't attractive. Un fortunate people shouldn't have to be winning in order to win our sympathy. In fact, tlie less win ning they are, the more we should feel sorry for them. Gift Horse? : tT v. .y-i;r.xV V jVfji Robert McNamara overruled the Board's unanimous decision, and gave the $8 million contract to General Dynamics. 6. On Jan. 18, 1962. in an ap pearance before another Senate Committee. Korth revealed that he planned to return to his post at the Continental National Bank upon completion of his Washing ton stint. Because of his Fort Worth bank ing interests, Korth faced a prob lem that "would stagger a Solo mon" in objectively considering tlie TFX contract, said Senator Karl Mundt. Korth replied: "Senator Mundt, I repeat that'I believe that I am a man of .in -tegrity. If you find, or this com mittee finds I am not, certainly you should so recommend to the President and I will promptly hand in my resignation." Mundt and other members of the subcommittee will make no recommendations until they finish their investigation, which may not be for many months. At least one congressman, however, has de manded that President Kennedy seek Korth's resignation. He is Iowa's H. R. Gross, a Republican, who calls tlie TFX contract a "real Texas-sized scan dal." The Supreme Court's Dixon Y'ates decision made crystal-clear the statute's meaning: "It is directed not only at dis honor, but also at conduct that tempts dishonor. To this extent, therefore, the statute is more con cerned with what might have hap pened in a given situation than what actually happened. It at tempts to prevent honest govern ment agents from succumbing to temptation by making it illegal for them to enter into relation ships which are fraught with temptation." "It seems to me," he continued, "that all of us could handle peo ple like that much better if we understood that they are in pain. Not physical pain, which we can easily identify with, but mental pain of some sort, which began at an early age. Once we grasp this fact, we no longer resent them, or react unplcasanlly toward their unpleasantness. They are, as it were, 'patients' in life, not peo ple, and they carry their sick-bed around with them everywhere they go." "I'd still rather get my hair cut by a friendly barber," I said. "So would I," he smiled. "But even though my going to him doesn't make him any better, in some way I like to think that it makes me better. It gives me a greater tolerance for people of his sort, and it helps me to sub due my own dissatisfactions. When I see his unexpressed and unknown pain at being what he has become, 1 feel renewed grati tude that I don't have to live inside'1 that shell. Probably that's why I always tip him more than I should."
