EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Salary Increases For
Civil Servants Pend
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon
Friday, August 13, 1961
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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