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XV PAO PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath FalU. Oregon Sunday, August 11, I9SJ EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Ex-Eisenhower Aides Map GOP Guidelines Relax on That One. How About Trying e Your Hand Over Here?" M gof Fire don, a gel 111 Goji are alte Can reel i DU I ess Ma at: an hu ria riv en Bumpy Road To Love Let's concede that romance is wonderful. It is obviously popular, is undoubtedly here to stay, and nobody in his right mind is going to knock it. But lovers, PLEASE not behind the wheel of a moving car in today's traffic. There just has to' be a better and safer place to neck and nuzzle! Yet there is increasing evidence that the driver's seat is replacing the davenport, the park bench and even the movie balcony as a favorite sparking spot. No one has any figures so far to show how many accidents have been caused be cause a driver was smooching instead of steer ing and wooing instead of watching. But you don't have to be a safety expert to know that high horsepower love can be lethal. Let's forget any bad taste involved and consider the problem from the standpoint of safety alone. Surely no one can seriously believe that a young lover or even an older one can keep his mind on traffic when he has at least The (Tha New York Times) The leaders of the rail unions persist in resembling the wreckers who in the early nineteenth century refused to accept the in evitability of the industrial revolution. Their position, however, is much more hypocritical and dangerous than the simple-minded, know nothing resistance that sprang up with the in troduction of the spinning jenny. The rail union leadership fully understands its pow er to disrupt the nation's economy through a strike; and it is counting on the threat of stoppage to maintain the present archaic and intolerable work rules. To the last, the rail leaders are main taining their opposition to any change, claim ing that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz is undermining collective bargaining and tak ing a step "toward totalitarianism" by his de termination to prevent a strike. Their pose as the champions of democratic principles is . an utter sham. The rail unions alone are re sponsible for undermining the collective bar 1 By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C.-"It they convince, me we can catch any Communist cheating, I'm for the treaty," said Sen. Stuart Sy mington (D., Mo.) in nutshelling his position on the East-West Nu clear Ban pact. He added: "But I won't know until we get through the Stennis Subcommitlco hearings on Pre paredness. I want to learn more about detection in space." Symington has, I would say, tho widest scope among the in formed, influential Senators whose votes on treaty ratification are uncommitted and therefore cru cial. He belongs to what may be called the Hardware Set. He's a member of two of the three committees dealing with weapon ry. Armed Services and Space (Atomic Energy is the third). Also, he's a member of For eign Relations. In this combina tion, Symington encompasses the utmost of both practical and theoretical thinking as applied In tlie treaty. More than that, Symington, born in 1M)1, is in the grandlaUier class, and this adds a dimen sion that is missing in his col leagues of tlie World War II gen eration. Symington's greatest ad miration is for his friend, Sir Winston Churchill. Ho is constant ly aware of how that' grand old man foresaw both the intracta bility of the Communists and tlie Inevitability of nuclear conflagra tion unless I together w ith the Communists! we can somehow control nuclear power. This awareness of Churchill's prophetic sense goes a way to ward explaining why Symington is one degree above the anti Communist Hard Liners who would make no bargain whatever with (lie Reds. The Senator be lieves in bargaining with, but never trusting, the Reds. There lore, our ability to detect Russian cheat-testing, and our ability tn snap almost instantly into re sumption of testing, are twin condiUonn to Symington's support of Mr. Kennedy's treaty. If this seems complicated, so in the treaty-making, despite its apparent simplicity end limitation. And complicated, too, is Syming ton' thinking, being combina one arm around a cuddling cutie and is driving cheek to cheek. If he can, he just ain't much of a lover1 If he can't, he ought to get out of the driver's seat. What to do about the problem? Legislation? Let's face it, you can't out law love. You would have to put a traffic officer in every car and keep him there as a chaperone. For unlike alcohol, romance doesn't show up on the breath in a balloon test or in a traffic spot-check. Seatbelts? Do you think these lovebirds would use 'em unless someone invents one that will buckle the lovers cozily together? Public opinion and education? Probably the best hope. If only a fraction of these immature exhibitionists could be persuaded that they are inviting death and disaster for themselves and others, and looking cheap and silly as they do it, it would be a big step in the right direction. Or we might pass a law that every driver and passenger must sit in an individual bucket seat. That might just do it! Rail Wreckers gaining process. They did so, moreover, with premeditation. From the first, they have re fused to indulge in the give and take of col lective bargaining, knowing that they could always resort to the strike or the threat of a strike that would cripple the economy. As long as national security is not at stake, the right to strike should normally not be subject to automatic suspension, even in such an industry as the railroads, where the economic costs of a strike are incalculable. But the rail unions have lost their privilege to halt the nation's traffic by their consciously ir responsible refusal to. bargain in good faith. Mr. Wirtz has taken pains to point out that any legislation will be directed specif ically to resolving the dispute over work rules, and not to labor as a whole. The dem ocratic principles of collective bargaining and the right to strike can be as useful as ever in (he new age of automation. But not if they are abused by the wreckers. HOLMES ALEXANDER Taking The Long View tion of distrusting Russia, hoping to leave a free country and an uncontaminatcd earth for his grandchildren, and doing the right thing with the knowledge he possesses. Because of so much compound ed complication, Symington's po sition has been misunderstood. After tlie "Post-Dispatch" of St. Louis, his home town paper, IkkI repeatedly called him "opposed to a nuclear test ban," the Sena tor fired off a curt lettor-lo-the-editor. He explained that he was against "unilateral disarma ment'' trusting the Russians' "good faith" but he was n o t against a cheat-proof agreement. This will not satisfy the disarm-crs-al-any-price or the betler-rcd-than-dcad extremists. Syming ton may be hearing Irom them again in his reelection race of next year. But he will not alter his posi tion under pressure. Last spring lie declined to become one of 30- IC'iwow, Chortle, Jf yeu it would bav odd co-sponsors of the Dodd-Hum-phrey resolution to ban nuclear testing in the atmosphere and water. Earlier in the year, he joined with Senators Russell and Jackson in warning President Kennedy against too many conces sions to Khrushchev in the mat ter of underground testing. On these two criteria, the Missouri Senator did seem to resist test banning because of its r i s k s to national defense. Today, howev er, he feels that the President's treaty, which docs not include un derground tests, and which is be ing closely examined for cheat possibilities, presents a very dif ferent kettle of fish. "Somebody said to me," relat ed Symington, "that Russia is our problem of the '60s, but that Red China will be our problem in the '70s. I'd rather see Khrush chev moving our way than theirs. China scares me. . . ." Thinking of the treaty, he was also looking far down the road. M let that one go, bt cut-" IN WASHINGTON Farm By RALPH de TOLEDA.NO In his weekly letter to constitu ents. Representative John Byrnes (R.-Wis.) writes: "One by one, the campaign is sues of 1960 (economic gap with Russia, missile gap, etc.) have fallen by the wayside as events have proved them to be false. Perhaps the most persistent Dem ocrat charge was that the family farm was on its way out under Eisenhower. (For example, "The family farm is disappearing," Kennedy, November, 1960.) "Last week, this issue, too. bit the dust. On July 11, Secretary of Agriculture Freeman testified, 'Instead o wasting away, tlie family farm is a growing dynam ic force in agricultural produc tion.' And, he said, this strength ening of the family farm has been taking place since 1914. "It should also be pointed out that, under Secretary Freeman, there are 369 fewer farms, a mil lion less farmers, 19.000 more Department of Agriculture em ployes, and a massive $7.7 bil lion outlay for farm programs." Secretary Freeman's admission caused not very much of a stir WASHINSTON WINDOW . Goldwater's Strength Shows Healthy Balance By LYI.E C. WILSON United Press International If it is a fact that Sen. Barry Goldwater is the presidential choice of what Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller calls the radical right then there must be a great many more radical righlers than any one has suspected. Goldwater's national following is no mere fringe, lunatic or not. The polls show that the Arizona senator has substantial support in all parts of the United States. The latest Gallup poll was an eye-opener. Goldwater appears lo be the choice of about 31 per cent of the nation's political independents. He appears also to have about double the independent support which had attached itself to Sen. Robert A. Tall a few weeks be fore the 1932 Republican National Convention. It is a fact, of course, that the northeastern modern or liberal Republicans strangled Taft in 1951. But the strangle had going for them more than their anti conservative, modern or liberal point of view. That would not have been enough. Taft would have been easily nominated acainst mere opposition by the northeastern Republican king makers. Two Factors Involved Two actors made the king makers' attack on Taft the dead ly maneuver it was. First there was the (ear among Republican moneybags everywhere that Tatt could not win. that lie had no voter appeal: that he was not an effective campaigner. This fear was in error but it was smartly nourished by the northeastern Republicans who finally did Taft in. They also had going for them an ideal candidate of their own, a hero-general as corny as Kansas. U was these latter factors that finished olf Tafl's xlitical ca reer. The kingmakers urgently need another such hero. The ele ments of the Republican par Family Politics in politics-hardened Washington. But farm state legislators nodded bitterly and wondered how long the facts would be allowed to stand without tampering. Croco dile tears for the passing of the family arm have been standard equipment for Agriculture Secre taries under Presidents Truman and Kennedy. Every time a mas sive new handout (with chains attached) is proposed, the family farm is cited as the reason for agreeing to it. The hardy Representative or Senator who did not w ilt or trem ble at any mention of Uie family farm was about as rare as a politician coming out against motherhood. Anguished cries over tlie plight of the vanishing family farmer were heard when the American Farm Bureau Federa tion opposed Mr. Freeman's ball-and-chain program. The farmers. ( mostly of the family type, voted against wheat program decisive lypresumably satisfying thejr death wish. The secretary's sense of duty toward the American farmer has carried him past the crisis in confidence of Uie wheat referen- ty who master-minded Taft's re jection in 1952 are maneuvering now to cut down Goldwater. The guilt-by-association plot seeks lo tag Goldwater as a member, advocate of or sympa thizer with the John Birch So ciety. That is supposed to be enough to lick him if the accusa tion can be made to stick. Goldwater's answer tn that is that he does not regard the far lighters as dangerous to the American way as are the far letters. And he makes the fur ther point that the far rightcrs are not in federal ofiice whereas the Kennedy administration is salted with representatives of the well left of center Americans for Democratic Action. Command In Northeast Since the nomination of Wen dell L. Willkie in 1940 tn run saainst FDR's third term can didacy, the command post of the Republican party has been in the northeast. Some of the Goldwater enthusiasm in the Midwest and mountain states unquestionably is an excitement over the possibility of shifting tlie parly's center of gravity westward. Goldwater fans claim they can elect their man without the states of New York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Massachusetts. Connecti cut. Rhode Island and West Vir ginia in tlie northeast. They are willing, also, to concede to Pres ident Kennedy in 1964 Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri. Orecon and Nevada. They call California doubtful. Ohjective observers have called Goldwater more conservative than Taft. Bui this does not implv membership in the John Rirch Society or anything like it. There evidently are some millions of Americans who want no part of that society or its leaders but who believe the senator from Arizona is the newly discovered prophet lor a holy political war against over centralized, big spending, deficit government. dum. But it has not brought tn him the cold second thoughts of early morning on the travail of the cotton farmer. Mr. Freeman's concern obviously doesn't extend that far. Yet this is something that should be uppermost in his mind. As Representative John J. Rhodes of Arizona notes with more than a little iron in his voice, Mr. Freeman inaugurated his career in the Cabinet by increasing the support price on upland cotton. He was warned that this would mean a sharp drop in exports and in domestic sales. But he would pay no mind to the experts. The results: exports of upland cotton have dropped to less than four million bales a year, instead of the more comfortable" seven billion bales. Simultaneously, the amount of cotton used domesti cally declined, with synthetic fib ers taking over. In the foreign market, American cotton was priced too high to compete. The point of the increase in price supports was to reduce ac reages, and stocks held by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Fewer acres of cotton are being planted, but no matter how the Administration attempts to inter fere with economic laws, I h e CCC's holdings in cotton continue lo go up. Because American cotton pric es can't compete with foreign, three million bales were not sold. This not only hurt the domestic producer; it also hurt the rest of the country. Those bales of cot ton would have brought in al most half a billion dollars, there by helping to ease the critical balance of payments deficit. In creased foreign trade is the only w ay, except for abolishing foreign aid, to reduce that deficit and to begin restoring confidence in the dollar. ' Which leads to a simple ques tion: If Secretary Freeman and his New Frontier posse are really interested in the welfare of tlie farmer, wouldn't they do belter to look after such matters as the declining domestic and foreign markets for U.S. cotton than to weep copiously over the ficti tious passing of the family farm? The question answers itself. But then, so docs much political propa ganda. Almanac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Aug. 11, the 22:ird day of 1963 with 142 to fol low. The moon is approaching its last phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1W9. the first radio' S-O-S in history was sent by a disabled ship off Cape Hattcras, N.C. In 1919. Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist, died. In 19;i."i. Nazi storm troopers demonstrated against German Jews. In m, the Unite! States re covered its first payload from a space satellite. A thought for the day Abra ham Lincoln said: "Truth is gen erally lh best vindication against slander." By PETER EDSOV Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON ( NEA l-Twenty three top Eisenhower administra tion officials and supporters will go to work soon on a project to develop new Republican papers on foreign and domestic policies. These documents are intended to guide the GOP in the 1964 election and beyond, with such ' revisions as are necessary to keep them up-to-date. The group will function as the Critical Issues Council. Its spon sor is the Republican Citizens Committee, which was organized at a tent meeting on Ike's farm in June, 1962. General chairman of CIC will be Dr. Milton Eisenhower, tlie former President's brother and president of Johns Hopkins Uni versity. Organization of the coun cil was completed at an unan nounced meeting of 15 of its mem bers in Washington Aug. 1. ' The group will be organized into a half dozen or more task forces whose chairmen will be announced soon after Dr. Eisen hower's return from Europe. He is accompanying Ike on his trip to revisit the Normandy beachhead. This is in preparation for a 20th anniversary D-Day landing telecast on June 6. 1964. That will be five weeks before the GOP national convention is scheduled to open in San Francisco. Each critical issues task force will prepare one or more policy papers in the general fields of national defense, foreign affairs, science, economics, education, hu man relations and agriculture. One principal purpose will be to build up independent and con servative Democratic support for the Republicans. This effort will have no direct connection with either the present Republican leaders in Congress or the GOP National CommiUee. Don C. Frey, executive direc tor of the sponsoring Republican Citizens Committee, says it will maintain close liaison with both, WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Eggheads Drive For Liberal Trade Acts By FULTON LEWIS JR. A not-so-eurious collection of dollar-hungry businessmen and ultra-liberal intellectuals contin ue to press for violent changes in U.S. policy toward Red China. Both groups claim to be cheered by recent indications that the Administration wants a cul tural window in the Bamboo Cur tain. A miniscule group of Amer ican eggheads, longtime foes of Chiang Kai-shek, have formed the "Committee for a Review of Our China Policy." They boast of a letter from Presidential assistant McGcorge Bundy citing the need for a con stant review of our China Poli cy and deploring the fact that U.S. newsmen are barred from Red China. Now the influential trade publi cation, Pacific Shipper, cites re cent events to show the Adminis tration is moving toward a more "realistic" policy. The publica tion is jubilant in saying: "The political facade that stands in the way of trade and all formal relations with Red China a formidable looking pile made out of papier-mache at last shows signs of crumbling. The publication cites "an ap parently reliable report" that Slate Department officials have "no objections" lo a Pacific Coast Iradc-promotion group conferring with the Red Chinese on grain and other commercial matters. Also: "The National Security Council is said to have spoken up for cultural and commercial contacts with Communist China. Conse quently, West Coast interests are planning on meeting in Hong Kong next November with Chi nese spokesmen." The publication, which claims to speak for West Coast ship pers, wants trade, cultural ex- change and normal diplomatic relations with Mao. Also, a "rational policy in the Orient, for mulated without benefit of anti Communist hysteria or political expediency." Sen. Milward Simpson. Wyo ming Republican, is blunt. Tlie Administration, he says, is violat ing the law. He cites federal statute alter federal statute lo show it is illegal (or Administra tion employes lo lobiiy for pass age of favored legislation. Title la. Section 1913, of the Federal Code makes it a crime punishable by one year in jail and a $500 fine to use federal monies to pay for "any adver tisement, telegram, telephone call, letter or primed matter" hut the principal emphasis will be to make this strictly a private citizens' activity. In this respect it w ill be com pletely unlike the 1960 Republi can Committee on Program and Progress which operated under the chairmanship of Charles H. -Percy of Chicago and which pre pared a pocket book of 12 pa pers titled "Decisions for a Bet ter America." It had some impact on draft ing the 1960 Republican plat form. But the major decisions on that were really made in the fa mous preconvention meetings be tween Vice President Richard M. Nixon and New York Gov. Nel son Rockefeller. Neither of these officials, nor any of the other 13 GOP presi dential possibilities now crowd ing the political horizon, will have anything to say about the Critical Issues Council papers. Anyone having any bright ideas to contribute to this Republican brains trust is asked to com municate with Dr. Millon S. Eisenhower, Critical Issues Coun cil, 1625 K St., N.W., Washing ton, D.C., 20006. His group includes five former cabinet members. They are Rob ert N. Anderson, Marion S. Fol som, Thomas S. Gates, Ovcta Culp Hobby and James P. Mitch ell. For military experts he has Adm. Arleigh A. Burke and Gen. Lauris Norstad. His ex-members of Congress are Clare Boothe Luce and Dr. Walter Judd. Eight former Eisenhower ad ministration officials serving on CIC are Elliott V. Bell, Dr. Ar thur F. Burns. Albert L. Cole, Dr. T. Keith Glennan, Mrs. Os wald B. Lord, Dr. Don Paarl berg, Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier and Adm. Lewis L. Strauss. Republican Citizens directors seAving with them will include Dr. Dean Malott. C. Wrede Pe tersmeyer, Samuel R. Pierce Jr.. Charles S. Rhyne and Dr. Walter N. Thayer. that might influence a Congress man on legislation. Nevertheless, Anthony Cele brezze, secretary of Health. Edu cation and Welfare, sent a 520 word telegram to every member of the House of Representatives, asking support for the Adminis tration's Federal Aid to Educa tion bill. Cost to the taxpayers: $3,562. Senator Simpson cites Public Law 87-844, section 701, that pro hibits the use of federal funds for the salaries of Administration lobbyists. He then points to Mrs. William B. Akin, a lobbyist for the Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare. Her official title is Congressional Liaison Of ficer, hut she scl that record straight in an interview with a Chicago newspaper not so long ago. "I'm really just a lobby ist." she said. Some of the most flagrant of fenders of the law, says Senator Simpson, are officials of the Ag riculture Department. They used federal funds to lobby for pass age of the Administration's wheat plan in Ihe May referendum. One oi Simpson's constituents, who is not now and never has been a wheat farmer, received four sep arate appeals from the Agricul ture Department advising of the necessity for a "yes" vote. Faceless bureaucrats in Ihe Agency for International Develop ment, the fancy-titled foreign aid administration, not so long ago shipped crates of Metrccal to dieting Far East natives. And now several million pounds of salad dressing are wait ing to lie sent lo gourmets of the Arab world. More than 2,350.000 pounds of soybean salad dressm? will be shipped lo Ubanon, Ihe United Arab Republic, and Jor dan late this month. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What are pistol or snapping shrimps? A Small shrimps that have a very large pistol claw equipped with a snapping device which is most efficient as a defensive or offensive weapon. Q Whal determines Ihe pilch of Ihe human voice? A The size of tlie larynx. Women's voices are usually Pitched higher than men be cause their vocal cords ait shorter.
