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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath FalU. Oregon
Sunday, August 11, I9SJ
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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
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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.