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EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Salary Increases For Civil Servants Pend PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon Friday, August 13, 1961 Higher Education ft Group Therapy The Answer? Among Ihe many unsolved mysteries in today's complex society is the strange change that takes place in individuals when they join a group or movement. ; As Individuals, most people are inclined to' be charitable, kindly and reasonable. They will risk their lives to save the life of a kitten oc a puppy. They will go all out to help a needy person or family they never heard of until they read a story in a newspaper. : But let them join a group any kind of a grout) and ney seem to change completely. Their viewpoint becomes narrow and re stricted. The self-interest of the group to which they belong becomes the only way of life. And any other group which happens to have conflicting views or aims is automatical ly regarded as a foe and must be dealt with accordingly. .". You doubt this? Read the dogmatic and arbitrary pronouncements of the representa tives of groups engaged in any type of organ isational squabble. Tune in to any television program on which such a person is being quizzed. Note the finality of the conclusions this embattled warrior has reached. Study his face and the grim determination it reflects. Ask Where Indebted, we are to Sen. John J. Wil liams (R.-Del) for telling us that the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare has approved a research grant of $46,731 for a study of the "regulation of development of the mouse egg." He also mentioned that approval has been HOLMES The By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON Although Con gress has paused to consider two measures of surpassing Import ance in domestic and internation al affairs, the Leviathan of Big Sialism still drags its monstrous length across Uic land. In one way, it is the old Biblical story about the Mess of Potlage vs. Human Birthright. In another way, It is the Impudent story of paternalistic Interference in other people's lives. In a third way, it is the imperialistic story of empire-building under the routine excuse thai Iho rulers know bet ter than some people. Here are some current episodes: Truth in Lending: For years Senator Douglas (D., 111.) has felt that installment buyers should not bo allowed to make their own mistakes, exercise their own judgments, but that they should be protected from loan sharks by the federal govern ment which the Founding Fath ers mainly intended to issue cur rency make treaties and pro vide for tho national defense. Tho Douglas bill would require all businesses which sell on the in stallment plan to provido Intri cate information to the customer, under peril of civil law suits and criminal punishment for failure to do so. The bill is a business-buster. It will add to tlie expense of book keeping and inhibit the old bally hoo of salesmanship. II could be called a Pax Federalia, imposing a truce on the old battle ( wits between customer and merchant. It would supersede laws and regulatory agencies in the states. It would establish another bu reaucratic garrison, with storm troopers, in either the Federal Reserve Board or Uie Federal Trade Commission. Which is worse: the abuse of a few gul lible customers by a few rascally merchants, or tlie radical rem edy of federal Intrusion? Surplus Stockpile of Kilowatts: On July 30 the Senate considered and passed its annual rivers and harbor bill, known everywhere as tlie Pork Barrel. One of the items had to do with tlie $52 million Burns Creek project on Snake River in Idaho. Tlie proj ect would alfect business in neighboring states. It would dam ace a thriving coal business, dump additional hydro-electric power on a community that al ready has surplus power, adding little by way of irrigation and flood control. The three Repub lican fccnators from tlie af fected regions of Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, one governor, one con gressman, tlie Wyoming Natural Resources Board and a good many economizers from oilier states tried to knock tlie Burns Creek project out of the bill. They were overwhelmed by the yourself how you would like to effect a com promise between this group leader and his counterpart on the other side. Then make yourself feel even more mel ancholy by remembering that the representa tive of the opposing group is very likely to be just as self-centered, just as stubborn, just as demanding and unreasonable as our first boy. You end up by asking yourself. "How can a nation hope to progress and flourish when so many of its people are dominated by self-interest, by narrow viewpoints, by fright ening disregard of the rights and welfare of any group but their own?" The problem is heightened by the fact that any real solution would seem to be spiri tual rather than material. Here is something you can't solve by feed ing facts into an electronic computer. It has to be solved in the hearts of human beings. For everybody's sake, it's time we started solving it person by person, group by group. Sounds simple? Then, consider the other side do we want a nation in which everyone of us shares the same viewpoint? And, if we reach that zenith, will we have the same nation? Your Money grantad of $4,120 to promote a study of the "effects of frustration on a reflex response." Only a bureaucrat could explain the lat ter, but it's entirely possible it's caused by the New Frontier's expenditures so far as the frus tration part of it is concerned, and the reflex response, well, that could come annually along about April 15. ALEXANDER Trail Of Leviathan juggernaut of spenders who always oppose thrift and private enterprise on the theory that bu reaucracy knows best. More Parks for Playgrounds: Although the great need in Amer ica lis for people to go to work, the administration persists In nu merous schemes for recreation, oltcn to the detriment of existing businesses and residential areas. A while back, Interior Secretary Udall stepped out of a helicopter on the Kansas prairie where he planned to establish a 60.000-aere national park amid bluo.stcm pas tureland. An irate rancher, whom lidall thought was part of a wcl coming committee, told him, "You're trespassing get off." It was tho voice of private own ership. Nevertheless, against agitation By SYDNEY J. HARRIS When play producers have guessed wrong, and have put on a turkey that closes on Saturday night, they arc inordinately fond o( blaming the drama critics for "hurting the theater," because only one out of each four or five on Broadway succeeds in becoming a hit. Apparently no one has ever pointed out to them that this is a high percenUige of success in (lie arts. Thousands 'of books arc published each year, but only a handful make Uie best-seller lists. A book publisher is fortunate if one volume out of SO makes a great deal of money. And yet, consider how much easier it is for a book to be a success than for a play. Only one person, tho author, is funda mentally responsible for it. It it is well written and grasps tlie imagination of the public, it can sell hundreds of tlwiisamls of copies. With a play, a dozen things that can go wrong have little to do with the playwright's own con tribution. Tlie writing may origi nally have been good, but was cut and patclied during rehear sals, Tlie director may botch his job. Tlie actors may be miscast. Tlie advance publicity may be inadequate or inept. Tlie relatively narrow audience Uiat comprises Uie average Broadway first night may not lie hospitable to t h e Uieme or Die treatment. Tlie obstacles that a play needs to overcomo are tremendous ami varied. It is a huge collective ef fortespecially, as is tlie trend today, if it is a musical involving Goes by the ranching population, both Republican Kansas senators have backed the Prairie National Park project as have the Kan sas legislature and the governor. It is an example of .seizing the pottage and letting the birth right go. In tlie dunes area of Michigan, 18.000 persons signed petitions to keep Udall from bringing in a national park. But the Michigan senators. Democrat Phil Hart and Pat McNamarra, have a bill to take 77,000 acres for the federal government. All the arguments are weary. The pros and cons have been heard from the time tlie first monarch look forests and lands from the peasants, or tried to dic tate how the lands should be used. But every such action, how ever highly-iiitentioncd, subtracts from tlie total of human freedom. STRICTLY PERSONAL choruses, dancers, orchestrations, and elaborate scenic effects, with an investment often approaching a half-million dollars. One success out of four or five seems incredibly high to me, con sidering the innumerable possibil ities of failure. And when Uiird rate musicals, like a dozen I could mention, can run (or a sea son or more on Broadway, it bespeaks an immense tolerance a tolerance that is not extended to mediocre novels or poems or essays. Tlie public's almost pathetic de sire to be entertained, to get out of itself for an evening and es cape the anxieUcs of the day. oilers tho play producer a huge advantage over the book publish er: for many people look upon reading as a chore and the the ater as a lark. We could count on the fingers of Mordecai Brown the number of truly good plays that have failed because of critical attacks; when plays fail it is because, as Bernard Shaw observed, "t h e public would ratlier viy to see a naked body than a naked mind on the stage." Actors themselves are often contemptuous of the plays they apjie.ir in; they need employ ment, but Uicy do not deceive themselves about tlie quality of the productions they lend their talent to. Indeed, the real the atrical tragedy of our time is the super-abundance of actors and actresses wiUi genuine gifts wlio are forced to waste Uieir talents on plays they privately despise, before audiences wlw iiave little notion of tlie shoddy goods Uiat is being sold them. V IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO Until today, I had never held in my hand a draft for $1 million. The innocent-looking piece of pa per was "taken" from a British Guiana bank that handled Uie Uansaction. The money came from the Castro Communist Na tional Bank of Havana. It was sent to Uie Guiana Import Ex port Corp. (Gimpex), a "front" that transferred it to the Commu nist - dominated government of British Guiana. The British government could have stopped Uiis transfer of funds, earmarked for indoctri nation, propaganda, arms, and the expenses of Red agents moving be tween Uie South American conti nent and Cuba. But the British did nothing. Both the Macmillan government and the shadow cabi net of the Labor Party would be much happier if they did not have to think about BrJtish Guiana at all. No matter what Uie cost to the Western Hemisphere,. Great Britain wants to be rid of the small country. "It's not our hem isphere," says the British Colon ial Office with the superior air which has lost it an empire. The United States, which is far more concerned, lakes a hardly more enlightened attitude. With tlie $1 million draft, there was also evidence of a $120,000 trans fer from Uie Soviet Ministry of Education to Freedom House, the Letters To Waterfowl Duck and goose hunters should contact their representative, Al Ullman, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. Fifteen - word telegram can be sent for 75 cents. Land in question is known as Klamath Straits unit. It contains "Firing Line" which extends 5's miles along California line on north boundary of refuge area of Lower Klamath Lake. S. 793 passed Senate unani mously July 15 in form desired by Department of Interior, con servationists and sportsmen. Bill's -v,pise is to y.'.ote con servation of wildlife resources of Pacific flyway in Tule Lake. Lower and Upper Klamath Na tional Wildlife Refuges. It declares policy of Congress to preserve intact necessary habi tat for migratory waterfowl and to prevent depredations of such birds on agricultural crops in Pa cific Coast states. Klamath Drainage District tried for many years to have these 6.36S acres homesteaded. As a compromise tliey now propose (hat this land be sold or ex changed. As an inducement they propose that hunting rights be reserved for the public. Senate turned tliem down so now they will try the House. Basic question is whether to preserve area primarily for con servation or to permit agricul tural purposes and management techniques to limit conservation purposes in certain respects. Sen ate resolved issue in (avor of conservation, primarily water fowl management purposes, be cause such a priority is in public interest for reasons of national and international resources of waterfowl and because mainte nance of assured safe habitat for these migratory fowl is in best interests of great majority of af fected agriculturists. Department of Interior in ref erence to Klamath I'tainge Dis Ulct's proposal stated; "We believe that these amend British Guiana Hiiink headquarters in Georgetown. B.C., of tlie People's Progressive Party. Yet Premier Cheddi Jagan, who heads that party and bows every hour on the hour to Moscow, has so far been treated with kindness by the same State Department middle echelon which argued so passionately for Fidel Castro. The striped pants boys, follow ing a pattern that is so consist ently wrong Uiat it raises eye brows, has refused to give any moral support to the anti-Communist middle-of-the-road opposition parties in British Guiana. They gave Miss Anne Jardim, one of the handful of opposition senators in British Guiana, the cold shoul der (which must have been diffi cult since she is an attracUve 26 years old' on the ground that it . would be improper to confer with someone not in the Jagan admin istration. That they conferred at great length with Harold Wilson, the leader of the British Labor opposition, seems not to have mat tered. After ail, he's not fighting the Communists or attempUng to keep them from establishing an other beachhead in Latin America. The Slate Department is also doing what conies naturally by pressing the British to stay in British Guiana but to suspend the Constitution and oust Jagan. Sena tor Jardim has warned that this would make a hero of the Red would-be dictator and destroy any The Editor ments are unnecessary, undesir able, and not in accordance with the purpose of S. 793. The Klam ath Straits unit is essential to the management of waterfowl within the Pacific flyway. We believe that provisions in patents reserving public hunting, public access, and prohibiting the erec tion of structures would be diffi cult, if not impossible, to ad minister properly." Sportsmen and conservationists tell Representative Al Ullman that you want Klamath Straits unit to remain in federal owner s h i p. If this public hunting grounds goes to private owner ship it will be lost forever with out any chance of replacement. Support S. 793 as passed by Sen ate. Paul H. W'ciland, 2431 E. Main. Medford. BERRY'S WORLD Probably n rf opportunity for a peaceful solution to the problems he poses. She calls instead for a referen dum that would change the pres ent unfair election system. In tlie last election, Cheddi Jagan's par ty polled only 42 per cent of the vote, whereas the two opposition parties together amassed 58 per cent. Yet Jagan's party holds all but a tiny handful of seats in the national legislature. In a ref erendum on changing this unjust and inequitable system, Jagan would be decisively defeated. The situation in British Guiana is "desperate," says Senator Jar dim. Because of tile threat of a Communist takeover, Uie middle class which represents the skilled technicians, the civil servants, and the professionals, and those who have the know-how to keep the country going is leaving as fast as it can. Already five thousand of them, in a population of 600,000, have departed. Unless steps are taken to block the subversive plans of the Jagan regime and its Com munist supporters, another 50.000 will leave. The chaos that has marked the departure of Euro peans from Algeria will be repeat ed in Guiana and Uie Commu nists will profit furUier. At present, a steady stream of Castro-trained agents moves from Havana to British Guiana a ma jor way station and men into Lat in America. Air strips have been reactivated, and Uic Jagan gov ernment is planning to take over air lines staffing them with its own people. (Twenty Cuban fliers have already surveyed the coun uy.) Propaganda printed in Georgetown is shipped on Soviet freighters to Cuba and then smug gled into the islands of Uie West Indian Federation and Jamaica. The opposition needs help. The support of the American people is important. Money to finance Uie campaign against Jagan is vital. There are only a few months left if that long Miss Jardim says. The Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba (Albee Building. Washing ton. D.C), which includes Admiral Arleigh Burke and nuclear scien tist Edward Teller, is sponsoring Miss Jardim in this country. Since the State Department and the White House won't help, it's now up to those citizens who don't be lieve that the answer to all the world's problems will be found when the test ban treaty is signed. of Stntivr tyrFt idtati" By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA) - Presi dent Kennedy is handing Congress its hottest potato of tlie year in an advisory panel report recom mending salary increases of more than J22 million a year for the top 1,640 civilian officials in tlie federal government. This adjustment would grant pay raises of up to 50 per cent for members of Congress, the ju diciary and executive department brass. Pension increases would add another $1 million. There are definite political com plications to any action now on the report of tlie 10-member panel headed by Clarence B. Randall, former board chairman of Inland Steel. Members of the panel include Gen. Omar Bradley, former De fense Secretary Robert Lovett, former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion B. Fol som and retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed. They recom mend that the proposed salary in creases go into effect Jan. 1. If the raises arc not approved this year, it will be almost im possible to get them passed in 1964. For few Congressmen would have the gall to vole themselves a $1,000' a month pay raise in an election year. Here are highlights of the Ran dall recommendations, with pres ent and proposed salaries: Vice President, House speaker, $35,000, $60,000; chief justice, Su preme Court, $35,500, $60,000: as sociate justices. Supreme Court, $35,000, $60,000; cabinet level sec retaries, $25,000, $50,000; ambas sadors, class 1 missions, $27,500. $50,000; career ambasadors and ministers, $20,000, $35 - $45,000; courts of appeals judges, $25,500, $45,000; undersecrearies, top agency heads, $22,500, $45,000; commission, chairman, smaller agencies, $20,000; $40,000; asst. secretaries, commission members, $20,000, $35,000; members of Con gress, $22,500, $35,000; district, tax and customs judges, $22,500, $35, 000: chiefs of major bureaus, $19,500, $33,000; smaller agency heads and deputies, $19,000, $30,-000. WASHINGTON ) Young ten By FULTON LEWIS JR. Carl Shipley heads up the non existent Republican organization in Washington, D.C. whose resi dents next year will cast their ballots for the first time in a Pres idential election. Charged with directing the GOP electoral effort, Shipley has thus far managed to find precinct cap tains in less than one-third of the city's precincts. Nevertheless, Shipley a fortnight ago fired one of his hardest-working precinct captains, number 9er's Donald "Buz" Lukens. The reason: Lu kens, recently elected chairman of tlie National Young Republi can Federation, is .an avowed conservative who has publicly ex pressed his support of Barry Gold water for President. Shipley first told the press that Lukens was too busy to run his precinct. He then admitted that Lukens got the axe for his ad vocacy of conservative views. It is not the first reprisal di rected against the YR chairman. It is no secret that liberal Re publicans have sought to have Lukens fired from his post as minority clerk on the House Rules Committee. Congressman Clar ence Brown, Uie committee's rank ing GOP member, has served no tice that Lukens can have the post as long as he wants. Lukens has plunged actively in to his new job. The former Air Force captain (now an officer in Barry Goldwater's Reserve unit) has mapped a comprehensive pro gram to double YR membership, presently hovering around the 600.000 mark. (In two years as chairman of tlie District of Co lumbia Y'oung Republicans, Lu kens increased membership from 350 to 1.400.1 The new YR chairman feels the South has been long neglected by party leaders. Scheduled arc two strategy sessions, the first in Mississippi, for souUiern YR leaders. It is Luken s view that Y'oung Republicans can help the GOP nominee especially if it is Goldwatcr sweep the South in 1964. Also planned is a National Train ing School for 750 Young Repub licans in Washington, next Feb ruary. YRs from across tlie coun try will assemble to help party leaders draw up plans for tlie Presidential campaign. Says Lu kens: "Young Republicans can be invaluable in the precinct work Uiat is the brick-andmortar foun dation of any successful political campaign." All too often. Lifcens feels, this is the area where Republican V Congress is so far behind in its work that the President is said to be unsure he wants to recom mend these raises. Nevertheless, it is expected some bills to raise salaries will be introduced soon. The adminis tration may wait to see what these bills look like and what tlie reac tion from the country will be be fore pulling together its own pro posals. The general expectation is that Congress will not accept these recommendations in nil. One sug gestion is that the $50,000 for cabi net members w ill be cut to $40,000. Lower grades would then be cut down proportionately to about $26. 500. This would lead into the career civil service pay scales, where top salaries are now $25,500, grad ing down to $17,000 for class 9. Since salaries of these high civil servants were increased by the Federal Pay Act of 1962, with a second stage raise due next Jan. 1, it is believed unlikely there w ill be immediate pressure for fur ther raises at these levels. While Congress now has before it legislation to raise military pay scales at a cost of $1.2 billion a year, the salaries of top civilian government official have not in creased since 1956. In proposing that their pay be increased now, the Randall panel is seeking better, comparability, though not equality, with top sal aries in private industry. It is hoped that four principal benefits will result: The government will stop losing its top career and non-career exec utives to private industry. Salary equality of congressmen and assistant secretaries in Uie executive departments will be re stored. This should enable the executive branch to recruit more officials from the members of Con gress who now take a pay cut to switch. The government will have more luck in recruiting top quality brains from the foundations and the universities. The federal government can bet ter compete with salary scales of the more advanced state governments. REPORT . Republicans Get New Leadership campaigns have fallen down. "The Democrats have thousands of paid COPE workers," he says, "we must utilize our Young Repub licans." Up Luken s sleeve is a novel gimmick that will raise much needed funds for the 1964 cam paign. In the past, Y R activiUes have been a chain on Uie naUonal GOP treasury. If he can over come a few legal obstacles, Lu kens hopes to raise money for the YRs and Uie GOP Congres sional Campaign Committee by raffling off the bullet-proof, bubble-top car of former President Eisenhower, together with all expense paid tickets to the GOP national convention next year. Professional fund-raisers have told Lukens he can raise more than a million dollars with the raffle. Georgia's Richard Russell, Sen ate leader of the Dixie Demo crats, surprised many the other day when he predicted a Presi dential sweep of his state by Barry Goldwater. Georgia has long been regard ed as the most solid of all the states in the Solid South. Rus sell, who keeps his car close to Uie grass roots, was cogni zant of the fact Uiat the execu tive committee of Uie Burke County (Ga.) DcmocraUc Party had urged Americans "regard less of party" to support Gold water for President. "We view with much alarm and concern the tendency of our present national administration to ward a welfare and police state with all power centered in Wash ington." tlie 17 Democratic Com mitteemen said. Al manac By tniled Press International Today is Friday, Aug. 23. the 235th day of 1963 with 130 to fol low. The moon is approaching its lirst phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1630, for the first time In America, legislation controlling labor was passed in the Massa chusetts Bay colony. In 1924. Mrs. "Ma" Ferguson became Democratic nominee (or governor of Texas. In 1926. hundreds of thousands of women mourned tlie death of Rudolph Yalsntinp. V V h
