HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falli. Oregon
Friday, August 16, 1963
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Cold Chicken War
Threatens Trade Act
Just Leave the Loot We're Above It All!"
PAGE A
Should we continue to make foreign aid
commitments which strengthen our enemies
;-that is, the communist bloc and add to
Iheir cold war strength? Charles Stevenson,
jvho writes on this subject in the August issue
of The Reader's Digest, thinks the answer
should be No a thought which, needless to
"say, is shared by many other observers and
commentators.
An effort is now underway in Congress
to substantially reduce foreign aid appropria
tions, though the President, the Secretary of
State and other top administration people still
say that the $4.5 billion asked for. amounts to
the irreducible sum if the program is to
achieve its goals. The chances are that this ef
fort will be partially, perhaps substantially,
Successful. However, as Mr. Stevenson sees it,
. . Simply reducing appropriations won't
:cure what's wrong with an aid organization
Which is in more trouble than ever after going
through ten different administrators, five ma
jor reorganizations and more than 100 billion
tax dollars." He quotes Eugene Black, former
president of the World Bank, as saying, "None
of our objectives has been achieved. Soviet
influence remains at high tide. Our dispensa
tions of money have won us neither gratitude
nor affection, but more often grumbling dis
satisfaction." And Chairman Passman, of the
House Appropriations Committee, holds that
"The trouble is that too much of our foreign
aid has deteriorated into a subsidy of commu
nist takeover."
Oddly enough, and despite the campaign
for vast present and future foreign aid appro
priations, the foreign aid program has an
enormous unexpended balance on the books
money previously appropriated which, ap
parently, the administrators couldn't find a
way to spend. Senator Byrd figures this
reached a total of well over $21 billion in
June of this year.
As for helping our enemies, Mr. Steven
By HOLMES ALEXANDER
Although the Nuclear Treaty of
ficially would ban nothing except
above-ground testing, the feeling
tuns on Capitol Hill that the Ad
ministration may extend the prin
ciple to ban all testing every
where. ; There are Senators who would
vote for the treaty if they felt
that it would positively give us
uninhibited experiments under
ground. Important work can be
carried out in caves on the whole
spectrum of tactical weapons
on medium-yield strategic weap
ons, on abstract applications of
anti missile missiles and on
the Neutron bomb.
Tru?, nothing can take the place
of environmental shots. To get an
anti-missile weapon we need to
See how two bodies in highspeed
(notion can be brought into ren
dezvous in space. The Neutron
bomb, although admirably suited
to underground testing, will re
main theoretical until exploded
above ground. Nevertheless, a
number of on-thc-fence Senators
would accept these limitations
if that were all. But this worri
some thought has been cautious
ly expressed:
"T!ic soft-headed Administra
tion advisers on weapons had
already persuaded the President
to curtail underground testing.
These disarmcrs argued that even
lliough underground explosions did
not poison the air we breathe they
, did poison the almospliere in the
'. degolinting councils. Since Ihcse
Councils will continue to sit and
to seek absolute nuclear disarm
; anient will we. in (act. proceed
with all-out testing under the
ground?"
Thit is one largely unspoken
and unresolved doubt about treaty
ratification. Another Is psycho
logical. All three of the Atomic
Age presidents have vowed to de
fend this country and lite Western
World with nuclear arms, if nec
essary. As late as last October,
Mr. Kennedy made this sufficient
ly clear to Khrushchev in (lie
Cuban confrontation. But does not
our eagerness to meet Khrush
chev's terms on a partial ban rep-
resent a weakening of our will
' to use the nuclear deterrent?
There is even talk that the Sino
Soviet quarrel, which seemingly
caused Khrushchev to offer his
terms to the Anglo-Saxons, is a gi
gantic hoax. Few Senators under
stand the dialectical deviations
which Mao and Khrushchev are
fussing about, but tliey rcmemlier
Aiding Our Enemies
son cites chapter and verse down a lengthy
list. He quotes from the report of a committee
appointed by President Kennedy, and chair
manned by .General Lucius Clay, to advise on
reforms. It said: "The United States should
not aid a foreign government in establishing
government-owned industries which compete
with existing private endeavors. We should
not extend aid which is inconsistent with our
beliefs, democratic tradition and knowledge of
economic organization and consequences."
This statement of principle has been
violated time and time again. Big commit
ments have been made to India for what Mr.
Stevenson terms "socialistic experimenta
tions." Other commitments go to Yugoslavia,
which generally is found in the anti-Western,
pro-Communist camp on major matters of pol
icy. So it is with Poland which has sent aid,
made possible by our aid, to Castro's Cuba
and North Vietnam. The Polish shipments to
the latter reportedly have included arms. So
it goes with Brazil, the United Arab Republic.
Ceylon, and a long list of other countries. One
way or another, by direction or indirection,
the communist world is steadily strengthened.
What is the solution? Mr. Stevenson
praises the suggestion of Chairman Champion
of New York's Chase Manhattan Bank, who
would have us join with other friendly nations
in establishing an independent banking-type
organization to administer aid, staffed with
professionals from the banking and private
enterprise world. He concludes: "The means
for getting such an operation under way
already exists within the Organization for Ec
onomic Cooperation and Development, in
which most Western nations and Japan par
ticipate. All that's needed is for Congress not
to be content with cutting aid appropriations,
but to order a phase-out of our current aid op
erations and establish a special joint Congres
sional committee which can at last start work
ing toward a new order."
HOLMES ALEXANDER . .
Russians Buying
that the Russians are very adept
at "buying time." They bought it
by signing a non-aggression pact
with Hitler. They bought it by
pretending to go along with the
nuclear moratorium which they
ended in September 1961. Earl
Voss points out in his excellent
book "Nuclear Ambush" that the
Japanese used time-buying tactics
against us by dispatching "nego
tiators" to Washington in l'.Ml
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
The most devastating critique
that can be made against ex
tremist movements is a very
simple and yet deadly one: with
out exception, they lack a sense
of humor.
Whatever the political, ec
onomic, or intellectual flaws in
such doctrines as communism
and fascism, the really telling
charge against them is a kind
of ferocious solemnity that is at
bottom alien to the human spirit.
No humor, no satire, no non
sense, can flourish in a coun
try, or in a movement, that
views life in black-and-white only.
A few weeks ago, for instance,
the official Communist Party
newspaper in Italy attacked (ho
American comic strip. "Peanuts."
for its depiction of characters
ranging Irom tlie "suicidal" to
tltc "stupid." One of the cartoon
characters was even stigmatized
as a "fascist."
And, of course, in Nazi Ger
many and Fascist Italy, no real
humor was ever permitted. For
genuine humor is the eternal ene
my o.' all pomposity, all official
dom, all fanaticism, all the po
litical creeds and doctrines and
dogmas that strive to become,
In one way or another, state re
ligions. We all know that artistic ex
pression dries up in a totalitarian
country; writers and Winters and
musicians, who are by nature
rebe's, cannot produce in response
to official decrees. What is even
more significant, however, is that
I he sense of humor atrophies in
such an environment: people are
afraid to be funny.
TIlis is a worse enslavement
Time
?
while synchronizing their strike
at Pearl Harbor and throughout
the West Pacific.
It is not too much to say that
a number of soul-searching Sena
tors are hoping that the scicntiric
military witnesses before the
Armed Services Committee will
give them technical reasons for
opposing the treaty reasons
that will allow intuitive suspicions
and misgivings to go unspoken.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
than the economic injustices that
Marx inveighed against. The
slavery of the intellect, of the
spontaneous emotions, is more
killing than any of the capitalis
tic excesses of tile 19th century.
It is one of tlie wry paradoxes
of Marxism that it made men
"free" for more dullness and
drnbness and conformity than they
had ever known before.
The most effective way to com
bat the extremists is with humor
and satire and parody: and a
democratic nation that begins to
limit and censor its satirists has
already fallen under tlie corrupt
ing blight of totalitarian attitudes.
Mock'ng self-criticism in a nation
is a sign of health, not of sick
ness; tlie hand that salutes the
flag must also be free to thumb
its nose at those who wave the
flag lor venal or hypocritical rea
sons. Freedom of speech must include
the freedom to speak imperii
nonilv, or it means nothing; it
must include the freedom to laugh
at, tlie freedom to deflate the
important, deride the orthodox,
and dissect tlie "received wisdom"
of the people. Otherwise, we lose
the capacity, and the will, lo cor
rect our national stance when it
slumps or sways.
Tlie best method of testing the
stien;'.th of a doctrine is hy sub
jecting it to humor and Irony
and burlesque. The extremist
movements invariably fail this
test, for they are based on a
grimly unyielding view of man's
nature. Exposed to shafts of com
edy, these doctrines turn nasty,
brutish and violent. Which, of
course, they always were in tlie
beginning.
Letters To The
One-Sided
We have been reading consider
ably, pro and con. regarding re
ligious teachings in our public
schools. Prayer is now unconsti
tutional, any mention of religion
is offensive, it isn't proper for
the baccalaureate services to be
held in a church or Jor a minister
to offer prayer at the beginning
or the end of the service.
Intelligent people are object
ing to these things because they
say they are unconstitutional cr
that they have become personal
ly offensive to them, and they
object to their children being
taught anything that might per
tain to God.
I've often wondered why this
controversy has been so one-sided.
I, as a Christian parent, will
certainly object to my child, when
he becomes of school age, being
taught by an atheist or a Com
munist, which I believe I'm
very safe in saying that we have
in some of our classrooms today.
There are teachers in the schools
today who ridicule the Bible and
all its teachings, laugh to scorn
any child who goes to church, and
literally make a public example of
any child who will stick up for
what he or she believes is right,
rcligionwisc. Every day our chil
dren are being told that the Bible
is notning but a fairy tale or just
a silly old Greek fable; every day
they are looked down on because
they profess a Christian experi
ence; every day tliey are told
they came Irom a fish or an ape
and that Khrushchev is doing, or
has done, as much for the world
as Christ ever did. Many boys
and girls have entered high
school or college with a strong
faith in God and good decent
principles and through atheistic
and Communistic teaching have
come out of school with no faith
at all.
They say that Christianity
should only be taught in t h e
home. I agree, but why can't
those other views be taught in
tlie home as well? Why do we
have to be so one-sided about
all this? It seems that every
thing decent lias become uncon
stitutional and everything rotten
is being praised to the sky.
I believe that we, as Chris
tian parents, have as much to be
concerned about as anyone else as
to wr.at is being taught in the
classrooms. Why are just the
views of the non-religious people
recognized? Who are they, that
they have become tltc voice of
the people? Doesn't anyone else
count? Don't we have a right to
object about tilings that otfend
us? Or has it become unconstitu
tional lo be a Christum?
If the religious views cannot
be brought up or talked about in
the classroom, why 1 ask. do our
children have to sit and take it
while in. this other rot is being
tau;;ht? So, why not clear the
classrooms entirely and just go
hack to Rcodin', 'Ritin' and
'liithmctic.
A belief in Communism or being
an atheist will certainly do more
harm to mankind Hum a mere,
simple yet sincere belief in God.
You can be sure of one fact: No
Christian will ever advocate tlie
overthrow of tlie I'niled Slates
government, or will ever have
anything to do with any move
ment that is in any way sub
versive. No atheist can make this
statement and remain truthful.
The Bible says Uwt only a
fool saith in his heart, there is
no God.
Rev. Hale Loving.
Forest Grove.
Grateful
On Tuesday, Aug. 6, about 5:30
p.m. I had a flat tire on the
Lake of the Woods highway. A
man in a red pickup truck stopped
to help me and would not take
payment for his kind deed.
I'm sorry I didn't get his
name. Perhaps he'll see this let
ter and know again how much I
appreciated his courteous assist
ance. My visitors from New York
State were impressed by his
thoughtlulness, and I was too.
Carolyn Alotrico
Good Show
I wish to commend the won
derful people who represented
the cast of the Water Sports Fes
tival. It was truly wonderful! We all
enjoyed it immensely, and now
shall look forward to next year's
show.
The beautiful and graceful girls
and the handsome young men
and the lovely music were much
appreciated by the crowd.
Many thanks to the grand Red
Cross group we ically liked
your colorful and exciting show.
Mrs. Lonia Groves,
1434 Lakeview Street.
No Questions
We hope the person or persons
who took the horseshoes from
Wiard Park will return them to
the children's playground as they
were given to the children. Some
were also taken two years ago
and never returned. It look us
two years to collect the 14 shoes
and now there are none left.
Maybe, who took them forgot
to return them, or maybe they
plan a horseshoe party.
Just bring them back, anytime
and no questions will be asked.
Please.
Harry L. Wiard,
Wiard Park Caretaker.
Not Alone
I am deeply disturbed by t h e
slate of our nation today.
Increased racial tensions, fiscal
irrcsponsbility. a Communist
Cuba, loss of states' rights
these are the accomplishments of
the liberal New Frontier. I am
sick of this kind of "progress,"
but we will get more of the
same by continuing to vote (or
liberal candidates forced on us
hy our Democratic party and the
liberal minority of the Republi
can party. We must have a con
servative in the White House in
IBM. or face national chaos and
confusion.
The Democratic party is so
thoroughly indoctrinated in liber
alism that wo must depend on
the conservative majority of the
Republican party to provide us
with an honest choice of candi
datesnot a liberal versus a lib
eral, but a conservative versus
a liberal. 1 see Barry Goldwater
as the one man who can fight
the New Frontier and win! Ap
parently I am not alone in this
belief. I understand that over 60,
P0O petitions are being circulated
hy "Citizens for Goldwater." Val
ley Forge. Pa., urging the Re
publican convention to nominate
the Senator for President. This
group also provides all kinds of
material and helps for organiz
ing local Goldwater groups. I
have already sent in my own re
quest, and it occurred to me that
many of your readers might wish
to do so, too.
Myconscience simply will not
let me sit by and watch my
r
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Editor
beloved country being torn to
shreds by men who have tried to
make a dirty word of patriotism
and attempted to reduce t h e
meaning of our Constitution to
an absolute nothing.
I declare myself here and now
as a Southern Democrat for Sen.
Barry Goldwater, and I intend
to see him through to victory!
Mrs. M. G. Price
Petitions
Some deal this rushing through
by the legislature, the $48 million
income tax increase. Wonder if
most people realize what this will
mean to them, if the legislature
has its way as well as some
well known lobbyists of Salem?
What are the times coming to
when deals like this are rushed
through so the people can't per
form their rights to vote?
Do the legislators feel we
aren't intelligent enough lo vole
on tax issues? I'd like them
and the world to know I can still
make my X and vote.
Also. Mr. Editor, I'm sending
for some of Mr. Howard's pe
titions to help get this on the
ballot. As time is short, anyone
wishing to sign them may do
so at 2804 South Sixth Street.
Mrs. B. J. Squires,
21104 South Sixth Street.
Help
The Sanctuary, a refuge f o r
homeless dogs on an old hill
farm, comes again with asking
hand. I, who am the staff, take
new courage as summer comes
over the land. First, I would
thank all who have helped in the
years just past. I would like you
to know how responsible I feel
in the use of the things you have
sent and how much comfort they
have given.
We need food (of any sort I,
old blankets (or pieces, old
sheets and towels. Just about any
thing can find a place here and
will be used with care and ap
preciation. Cold noses and warm hearts
remember!
Louise Wood,
The Sanctuary,
Route 2. Wilbur Road,
Martinsville, Ind., 46151.
BERRY'S WORLD
"Kow may u t show y
with the
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
WASHLNGTON (NEA) - Ten
months after passage of the
Trade Expansion Act that was
supposed to make the American
export business boom, U.S. nego
tiations with the European Com
mon Market on tariff reductions
are in a bad way.
Negotiation of an East - West
nonaggression pact with Russia is
beginning to look simple by com
parison with getting the Euro
pean countries to reduce their
tariffs on frozen poultry imports
from the United States.
Three principal causes are giv
en for this cold chicken war.
First is the Common Market's
refusal to admit Britain as a
member.
The second factor is that the
six countries in the European
Economic Community EEC
have never given Common Mar
ket authorities full power to ne
gotiate for all of them. This gives
every member a veto power over
tariff reductions.
Finally, the European govern
ments want to retain tlie Europe
an poultry market for their own
small farmers, barring competi
tion from American poultrymen.
All this was supposed to be
worked out by early August. But
France and West Germany in
particular refused to allow tariff
cuts on American poultry im
ports. This means that the issue
will have to go before General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATT negotiations. They are
scheduled to open in Geneva in
September.
Also scheduled for September
is President Kennedy's submis
sion to the U.S. Tariff Commis
sion of the long list of articles on
which this country will propose
across-the-board tariff reductions
of up to 50 per cent, under the
new trade law.
WASHINGTON
Attack
Wholly
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Natives of Kenya and Tangan
yika, Guinea and Ghana, huddled
around their radios not so long
ago to get the lowdown on pol
itics in far-off America. This, in
effect, is what they heard:
Sen. Thomas Dndd, a mem
ber of the Democratic Party from
Connecticut, is a leader of the
extreme right reactionary wing of
the American political spectrum.
He is spiritual heir to the late
Sen. Joe McCarthy, whose great
capacity for untruths destroyed
many hundreds of careers and
drove many people to suicide.
Before his downfall, in 1954,
McCarthy charged his own Pres
ident, Dwight Eisenhower, with
treason. Picking up McCarthy's
mantle, Senator Dodd has dis
tinguished himself by attacking
everything progressive in Ameri
can life. Having killed off all
progressive Americans, Senator
Dodd has turned his fire on pro
gressive Africans, namely Kwame
Nkrumah, President of Ghana.
The above account was sent into
every corner of Africa by the
powerful transmitters of Nkru
niah's Radio Accra. The self-deified
President-for-life. who last
year received $130 million in U.S.
foreign aid. is angry because
Dodd, vice chairman ol the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee,
released a report in which he
called Nkrumah a dedicated Com
munist. The frenzied attack of Radio
Accra differs in tone from an at
tack by The New York Times. A
Times editorial read:
"The irresponsibility of the
ou some sincere sacks It go
sincere tie.'-
The Tariff Commission is given
six months in which to advise
tlie President on economic effects
of these cuts.
During this same period, a
U.S. Trade Information Committee
of seven government department
representatives will hold hearings
on the proposed cuts. Here any
American business firm may file
objections to any proposed
changes in tariff rates.
Actual negotiation of these
changes with the Common Mar
ket countries is now set for May
4, 1964. Most of the difficulty
is expected in negotiating tariffs
on agricultural products.
U.S. industrial goods Uade with
the six Common Market countries
balanced roughly at $3.5 billion
each way in 1962. But last year
the U.S. exported $1.2 billion in
agricultural products to the Com
mon Market countries and im
ported only $250 million worth
from them. This gave the U.S. a
favorable trade balance of nearly
$1 billion it wants to keep.
American poultry exports of $20
million U.S. value and $50 mil
lion at European wholesale lev
els in 1962 is a relatively small
item, but it causes the most trou
ble. Over 90 per cent of these ex
ports went to Germany, where
tariffs have been raised from
four lo 16 cents a pound since
1958. The rate is now 10 cents
a pound on value of the poultry
itself, plus six cents feed grain
differential.
European refusal to lower such
tariffs may be the beginning of a
trade war. This is the British re
action to U.S. trade czar Chris
tian A. Herter's announcement of
hearings to open Sept. 4 on retal
iatory increases of U.S. tariffs.
If retaliatory increases are put
into effect on both sides of the
Atlantic, tlie whole purpose of
the Trade Expansion Act will be
defeated.
REPORT . . .
On Senator
Unwarranted
statement is obvious from tha
fact that even Senator Dodd only
claims to have talked to one man
who is a respected Ghanian op
position leader in exile, Dr.
Kofi Busia."
First of all, Senator Dodd did
not "talk" to Dr. Busia. The
Senate Internal Security Subcom
mittee heard Dr. Busia's sworn
testimony. Its investigators un
covered more than 100 documents
indicating Nkrumah's Communist
ties.
Among them: reports of British
commissions of inquiry, detailing
Nkrumah's early Communist ac
tivities: and a top-secret report
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of West Afri
ca identifying Nkrumah as a Com
munist. Also included in Dodd's report
were Nkrumah's own writings
in which he revealed his philoso
phy as one of Marxism-Leninism.
Included were detailed accounts of
the subversive activities of Com
munist agents working out of
Ghana.
"t share the belief of The
New York Times," Senator Dodd
wrote the paper, "that grave
harm can be done hy reckless or
exaggerated charges against for
eign governments or their lead
ers. I believe that my own rec
ord will show that 1 have not
made any indiscriminate charges
of communism againsl heads of
foreign governments."
Al
manac
By Initcd Press International
Today is Friday. Aug. 16. the
223th day of 1963 with 137 to
follow.
Tlie moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars
and Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 1 ol, the federal government
prohibited union states from trad
ing with the confederacy.
In 1896, gold was discovered in
tlie Klondike.
In 1923, the Carnegie Sleel Cor
poration established the eight
hour work day.
In 1943. Winston Churchill said
that tlie atomic bomb had saved
the lives ol 1.25O.OO0 British and
American soldiers.
A thought for the day play
wrignt Hennk Ibsen said: "Tlie
spirit of truth and the spirit of
freedom - they are the pillars
of societv."