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EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . Yugoslavia Offered Fifty Million Bucks PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Monday, August 26, 1963 At Bay Maybe What Price Life? Are you cnclincd to yawn when someone mentions safety? Are you getting a little fed up with all these plugs for seat belts and all these pleas for more common sense, caution and courtesy on the highway? Then your attention is respectfully direct ed to a booklet called "Accident Facts" an annual production of the National Safety Council. ; The 1963 edition is just off the press. It isn't intended to be a best seller. But even the most hardened horror story fans will find it a real thriller. For the figures it contains are enough to curdle the blood of anyone who has even a slight regard for human life and limb. Does it shock you to know that in 1962 in the civilized, humanitarian country of America, civilized Americans killed them selves and their victims at the incredible rate of 11 an hour, 265 a day, 97,000 a year purely by accident? Does it surprise you to learn that anoth er 9,800,000 Americans were injured? Are you concerned, Mr. Taxpayer, that this mass mayhem as needless as it was hor rible cost 15'a billion dollars? What do you think would have happened if a tornado, flood, famine or epidemic had taken this toll? Plenty. What do you think happened this time? The public gave out with a big fat yawn and said in effect, "How terrible! Why doesn't somebody do something about it?" A good question, except that too often it comes from the very person who should be providing the answer the private citizen, the man in the street. Who can best prevent an accident? The person who can cause one the driver, the pedestrian, the worker, the householder. How? By getting excited over the acci dent toll. By demanding legislative action that will reduce it. By using more and here it comes again by using more common sense, caution and courtesy behind the wheel. And we might well start with courtesy. Is it worth trying? Or is human life too cheap to bother with? The 'Civil Rights' Debate (The Christian Science Monitor) It is time to begin to rehabilitate a word that has taken a great deal of beating. The word is "discrimination." For it will take discrimination to discern what parts of Pres ident Kennedy's so-called civil rights progTam the United Slates is ready for and what parts it is not ready for. ; It is very true that the country in gen eral condemns what Attorney General Ken nedy calls "the moral outrage of racial dis crimination." But there are practical limits to what can and cannot be done about it in one session of Congress. They are limits of wisdom as well as of constitutional processes. Five of the seven sections of the proposed omnibus bill could be accepted readily by a great majority of citizens and probably of con gressmen. The most important section deals with the right to vote, which Robert Kennedy accurately says, "is in the long run the most fundamental right of all." Other acceptable sections would facilitate the carrying out of school desegregation, create a community relations service, extend the life of the .Commission on Civil Rights, and make permanent the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. The portion, however, on which the ad ministration now lays greatest emphasis is the portion newest to legislative discussion and most full of unexplored legal difficulties. This section, "Title II," deals not actually with civil rights but with regulation of private ly owned places of public accommodation hotels, restaurants, and the like. This regulation would be undertaken under the interstate commerce clause, which, it is true, has already been used as the basis for federal legislation on monopolies, mini mum wages and labor relations. The proposed bill would, in the Attorney General's words, apply to establishments "serving interstate, travelers or affecting interstate movement of goods." This would be a very broad definition. Some large motel chains might welcome the support of a law in desegregating their facili ties. But how to distinguish between these and what Senator Aiken calls the "Mrs. Mur phy's boardinghouses" or the "mom and pop" hamburger stands is not easy in law. It will take a lot of hard legislative drafting work as well as criteria which may be developed in the course of extended hearings. There is great value in bringing this sub ject to debate under the focus of national at tention. But it would be unfortunate if a deadlock on it should prevent enactment of the voting rights section or aid in the form of a community conciliation service. If a fed eral law on public accommodations is needed it will be more soundly formulated if given more than one congressional session. Maybe the administration is willing to have these sections separated before legisla tion reaches the floor of the Senate. It is to be hoped that this is true. Otherwise, insist ence on the public accommodations title of an omnibus bill might force a test on the wrong issue and get a wrong answer. HOLMES ALEXANDER Treaty-Makers Talk War By IIOLMKS ALEXANDER Newton's famous Law of rhys ics ro:ghly: for every action there is an equal reaction in Die opposite direction has begun to operate in committee discussion of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. There is now as much discus sion of war as Uiere is of peace: as much 6lress on armament as there Is disarmament. Tor example, when the third of the .Administration's first 'our witnesses Rusk, McNamara and Taylor warned against "euphoria" Senator Aiken sent an aide to fetch him a diction ary. The Webster definition is "A sense of well-beinR and buoy ancy." But before Aiken (who raised his hand like a schoolboy I could impart this information to the Foreign Iielations Commit tee, Senator Mansfield, a privalc lifc professor, had given his own definition: a let-down. Anyhow, the Secretary of Slate, the Secretary of Defense and tlie Chairman of Ihe Joint Chiefs of Staff have all come out against it. The Administration, although pushing the Treaty as a historic "first step" toward peace and dis armament, was hedging. It want ed the American people and Con gress to believe in the Treaty but not very much. There followed some swift and shifty prophecy of war. Mans, field pressed General Taylor to say that the Sino-Soviet rift would more probably widen than heal. The Montana progessor ranged back to the 161 h Century to fchow how Uie Czars had captured Chi nese territory. He ranged into the future, to show that China's pop ulation explosion could bring a norUiward (h ive to recapture the lost provinces in Asiatic Russia. Taylor agreed. But it appears that Administration witnesses will agree with anything to gain Con gressional approbation. When Mansfield finished with the wit ness, Aiken got Taylor to agree that the Red Chinese would be just as likely In move southward against neutralist India and some of our SEATO allies. Thus, within two minutes Red China had "at tacked" both her Communist part ner and Ihe Krec World. It was war all over Ihe map. an ironic side-result of a hearing on limited disarmament. Mean while the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, meeting simultan eously and secretly, unanimously adopted an ami-disarmament resolution offered by Senator Jack son. The Subcommittee called up on the Joint Chiefs to mako an official acknowledgement of "dis advantages and risks" in the treaty and to supplement their testimony by naming "specific . . , safeguards" that would: t. Assure the continuance of "comprehensive, aggressive" un derground test programs for new and refined nuclear weapons. 2. Assure the continuance of nu clear laboratory programs that would "attract and retain" the best scientific brains for weapons making. 3. Assure tlie readiness to re sume atmospheric testing on tlie clear assumption that Russia does not intend to abide by Uie Treaty for very long. 4. Improve the capability of delecting Russian cheating ami Chinese testing. All this, of course, :-!vws Sen ate skepticism both of the Kenne dy Administration and of Uie Rus sian partners in this pcace-scck-ing venture. There hasn't been so much warlike and distrustful dia logue since last summer when these same Russians began invad ing the Western Hemisphere and Ihis same Administration began denying thai it wasn't true. Al manac Ry t ailed Press International Today is Monday. Aug. 26. the 2.'!8lh day of I9ti3 with 127 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning star is Jupiter. Tlie evening stars arc Mais ami Saturn. On this day in history: In 188S. Tchaikowsky completed his Fifth Symphony. In l'.CO, Uie Utth Amendment giving women Die right to vote went into effect. In 1034. Adolf Hitler said he wanted peace with France and demanded the return of tlie Saar to Germany. In l!H8. Axis Sally i Mildred Elizabeth Gill.irs' was flown Ui the I'nitcd States to face charges of espionage and treason (or wartime broadcasts for Germany. A thought for the day: British novelist A I d o u s Huxley sa'd. "There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all tlie virtues arc of no avail." 9S IN WASHINGTON ixon Rides Again? By RALPH dc TOLEDANO At every turn here in Wash ington a reasonably alert report er hears the question: "What's Dick Nixon up to'.'" So far, there are no definitive answers. But there are enough signs to suggest that the former vice president has talked himself out of his pledge to Pat. his wife, that he would henceforward slay out of politics. It takes very little political savvy to figure out that if a dead lock develops at the convention in San Francisco, come 1(1114, Mr. Nixon will be perhaps the only choice left for the Republican Par t y. The professionals have been scrutinizing Gov. George Romncy of Michigan and Gov. William Scranton of Pennsyl vaniaand they have arrived at a modified "thumbs down" con clusion. This leaves Richard Nixon. He would be acceptable to the East ern liberal wing of the GOP whose kingmakers chose him in I960. Ho would not antagonize many of tlie Midwest conserva tives and might even be palatable to a substantial number of South ern delegates. After all. he car ried some states of the Old Con federacy with pluralities higher than those of Dwight D. Eisen hower. If neither Sen. Barry G o 1 d w a t e r nur Gov. Nelson Rockefeller can make it, why not Mr. Nixon? As one veteran professional said to me, "Well, why not? Dick came w ithin 112.0(10 votes of making it last time. He's slill got friends and supporters around the country. Sure, he and some of those closest to him in the last few years have antagonized a lot of important people. But the average county chairman doesn't know this. Most Republican work ers don't know about the people he fast-brushed in 1'JtiO and 1962. With proper management and proper coaching, we could make it for Dick." A month ago. this man would have hooted at the idea of a Nixon ticket in 1904. Something has happened. Far more solid evidence can be found in the actions of the Cali fornia Republican delegation to the Congress. Out of the blue, it STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The man on the beach was talk ing to his teen-age son about "rea son," and the need to follow the rule of reason in one's life. I could not help overhearing what he said: it was clear, simple, logical and true as far as it went. But it did not go far enough. As he spoke, I recollected a love ly line from one of Santayana's books, in which the philosopher said: "Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irra I ional impulses." This is precisely what the fath er left out: "harmony among ir rational impulses." The man was trying to be more reasonable than a human being can he and thai road leads only lo tyranny i wit ness the French Revolution' or in dividual breakdown (an insane person is the most relentlessly reasonable of all. once you accept his first premise1. What is most valuable among Freud's discoveries and ultimate ly much more so than the cur rent overemphasis on sexuality is his exposure to tlie light of our irrational impulses, of Ihe blind and sometimes demonic forces that compel us lo repeat our child hood patterns of relating to others and to ourselves. Reason is not. as the ancients thought, the power to think logical ly, while rigorously expelling all mind. Rather, it is tlie rare abil ity to accept and understand such irrational feelings, and to make them work in harmony with one another, instead of in conflict. Tins is the task of the mature human ego to deal out even-handed justice both to tlie dictates of reality and to the infantile needs that persists within us. And the dangerous paradox of "reasonable ness" is that, inevitably, it leads lo severe repression ol our in stinctual needs and makes us wild ly irrational in our doleiisc of "reason." Parents of this type most of ten (ail to understand Ihcir chil dren, because the parents have "grown up" mi only one direc tion. They are responsible, pru dent, rational, in terms ot the so cial roles they play but they have, at the same time, not grow n up enough to reach a harmony among their irrational impulses. They push back and deny such impulses (except when they drink) and therefore resent them in their children. To know that one is incomplete, imperfect, irrational, at times dominated by childishly wicked wislies. is to be truly rational. To pretend otherw ise is the height of folly. It is no accident that the greatest tragedies of history have been committed by men who (ol lowed an utterly "reasonable" goal, which led tliem to the blood iest depths of lanaticism. Denying the child within us is the surest path to monsterism. has begun lo maneuver to pre vent the state's convention dele gation from being committed to cither Governor Rockefeller or Senator Goldwater. The plan, which will require careful in-fighting back home if it is to succeed, calls for a convention delegation w h i c h, completely "uncom mitted," will be in the hands of California Republicans still firm ly loyal to Richard Nixon. If the Nixon forces can sew up delegation and reportedly they have the former vice president's permission to try, just so long as they don't involve him then it will be a step toward creating the atmosphere and the statistical base for a deadlock. There is one major miscalculation to the plan: New Hampshire. It was there Lliat Mr. Nixon w as able to crush the movement of Republican liberals to dump him in 1956. The write-in vote for him was so great that even the most doctrinaire could not ignore it. New Hampshire will be the first primary battleground in 1964. All signs today point to a real Goldwater victory. But even if Governor Rockefeller should take the state, the effect will be roughly tlie same in California. There will be a front runner, - w hoever he may be, tested at the polls. No California voter will be able to ignore that simple fact. The question therefore arises: Will Dick Nixon be able to mar shal enough strength in what was once his home slate to fore close the chances of the New Hampshire winner? Even to home staters. Califor nia politics can be pretty baff ling. And Mr. Nixon has been known to pull more than one rab bit out of his battered electoral hat. Therefore, no one will make any flat predictions. But both sig nificant and interesting are tlie first Iwitchings of the Nixon phoe nix which may yet rise up Irom its own ashes. Having known Dick Nixon well and long. 1 have net the slightest doubt Uiat he would like to hit tlie comeback trail. He is a politi cal man who is lost when he is out of the battle. In what will un doubtedly be the zanicst election year in decades, his activities w ill add one more note of interest lor press and public. BERRY'S WORLD By PETER EDSOX Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (N'E.M - The crowning event of Agriculture Sec retary Orville L. Freeman's trip to Europe, just concluded, was not his presentation of an Indian peace pipe to Khrushchev, who doesn't smoke. It was, unquestionably. Free man's offer to Yugoslavia's Pres ident Tito of $50 million in Unit ed Slates aid for earthquake re lief in Skopje. It isn't olten that even a cabinet member gets to gie away $50 mil lion all in a bunch. But this was such a routine operation for our government that it got only brief mention. The money wasn't in good Amer ican dollars. It was in Yugoslav dinars, worth 750 to the dollar w ith few takers. The U.S. govern ment owned these particular din ars, however. It had banked them in Yugoslavia, but didn't know what to do with them. The play was that the United Stales had "sold" Yugoslavia U.S. w heat and other agricultural prod ucts for dinars. These surplus crops had originally cosl the U.S. government and the taxpayers real hard money as part of the price support program. The U.S. government simply ex changed the surplus foodstuffs for surplus dinars, which could be banked w ithout storage costs. Now it oilers to turn over about half of its surplus dinars for earth quake relief. Marshal Tito accepted the gift as soon as it was offered and sent thanks to President Kennedy and the American people by Sec retary Freeman. Half of the $50 million is a gift, halt a long term loan, the condi tions of which have not yet been worked out. There is no question the aid is needed. Half of Skopje's 170.000 population was left homeless, the dead may number 2.000. the in jured many more. Just after the earthquake hit Skopje July 20. President Ken nedy instructed Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara lo have American military forces in Eu rope give what assislance they could. A U.S. Army evacuation field hospital with staff of 200 doc tors and medical corpsmen waj I town in. On Aug. 5 Frank M. Coffin, deputy administrator of the Agen cy For International Development, called a conference of seven top assistants in his State Department office to review what had been done and to see what additional aid might be needed. Herbert Waters, AID assistant for material resources, reported on the food, government excess properly and voluntary private re lief agency assistance that was available. Red Cross, for instance, had immediately cabled $10,000 to Yu goslav Rod Cross for emergency aid. It also had donated 20 tons of relief, flown in by Air Force transports. The supplies included 6,001) blan kets, clothing, $57,000 worth of medicine and $30,000 worth of peni cillin, donated by a pharmaceu- tical house that wanted no public ity. By Aug. 7, Coffin was able U) report that 3.000 tons of food, 7.400 blankets. 1,400 sleeping bags and 295 12-man tents were on the way. The Army also sent in a water engineer, Charles Potts, to super vise purification of drinking wa ter for prevention of epidemics. Coffin then made a tentative de cision to make the $50 million in U.S. surplus dinars available for reconstruction in a city where 85 per cent of the homes were de stroyed. Two housing experts, Edgar P. Zimmerman of Red Cross and Richard Knight of AID were sent to survey the damage. The $50 million offer was re ferred to an interdcparlmental committee from State Treasury, Agriculture, Bureau of the Budg et and Food For Peace office in tlie While House. The proposal also was trans mitted to tlie chairmen of House and Senate committees on Foreign Affairs and Agriculture for their information, because Congress has been cold and critical of more aid for Yugoslavia. When approval had been ob tained from all agencies con cerned, the decision was made to have Secretary Freeman trans mit the offer, since he already was in Yugoslavia and since Am bassador George F. Keniian had resigned his jiost. WASHINGTON REPORT . . British Guiana Gets Aid From Commies "At a stockboUer in your motor company, 1 would like to know more about tbii rumored Auitiu-Ford mergerV By FULTON LEWIS JR. It was almost two years ago that John Kennedy received an urgent letter from an old family friend. Paul D. Rust, a lifelong Demo crat and confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had just re lumed from six weeks in British Guiana, a Utah-sized colony on tlie northeast coast of South America. He warned tlie President that Cheddi Jagaii. who two months earlier had been elected prime minister, was a dedicated Com munist out lo establish for the Kremlin its first South American beachhead. Six weeks later, Mr. Rust re ceived an answer, not from the President, who was busy, but Irom Arthur Schlesinger Jr., White House assistant. He ac knowledged that "British Guiana presents difficult problems." He informed Mr. Rust that Ja gan. in a While House chat with the President, had "reiterated his determination to uphold the po litical freedoms and defend the parliamentary democracy which is his country's fundamental her itage." Schlesinger spelled out a lour-point program of foreign aid for .lagan. A While House task force was sent to British Guiana, headed by a West Virginia newsman who had no experience ill the field. The group spent months in .la gan's land and came back with a lop-secret rexrt that gathers dust in White House tiles. It has never been released. For political reasons '.lagan had subsequently admitted his Communist loyalties President Kennedy cancelled foreign aid for British Guiana. But nothing at all was done to aid .lagan's local ami-Communist opposition. A pretty, dark-haired native o.' British Guiana arrived in Wash ington tlie other day. Bringing wnh her some significant docu ments. Anne Jaidim is a mem ber of .lagan's Senalc. She went to the Stale Department w 1 1 h documentary evidence that Sonet Kinds are flowing mlo .lagan's regime by way of Cuba. Utlkials there gae Senator .I.ii dim a pohte brushoff on the grounds she was a member of the .lagan opposition. l-.iler that day. Senator Jaidim appeared at a press coherence sponsored by tlie Citizens Com niittee lor a Free Cuba. She ol Icred reporters photostatic copies of a bank draft of $1,000,000 drawn on tlie Banco Nacional de Cuba, made payable to the Jagan front. Also displayed were three bank drafts payable to Jagan's Peo ple's Progressive Party and drawn on Barclay's Bank, a Brit ish institution. They were made out by the Ministry ot Education in Moscow and totaled $127,958. One of the most interesting doc uments presented by Senator Jar dim was a letter written to Er nesto "Che" Guevara and signed by one of Jagan's aides. It reads in part: "Presently the progressive Socialist Government of Guiana is under strong attack by domestic reactionaries who are largely financed by United States and British imperalists." Tlie letter informed Guevara that Jagan was working to "at-" lain peaceful transition to Social ism." To that end. it said, Jagan had set up a special school oul sidc Georgetown, the capital, "for training and indoctrinating the rural youth along progressive lines." "Most important of all." wrote Jagan's aide. "I need a man here to establish and main lam close communication between this movement and Cuba." Reports from British Guiana indicate Jagan has built 80 air strips from which small planes (ly supplies to Communist gueril las in Venezuela and Brazil. In July, Fidel Castro dis patched to Jagan an "air and traffic control mission" consist ing of la pilots and radio me chanics. They disappeared into the interior where they have been hard at work building additional landing fields. THEY SAY... You've got to stav busv and stay abreast of tlie times. Times moe ahead. There's nothing to be g a i n e d sitting back remi niscing. Rep. Carl Vinson. D-Ga., In his 30th year as a congress, man. Pakistan is completely satisfied lii.it China has no sinister de signs in tins region and is. in (act, eager to solve all her problems with hvr neighbors peacefully. Sunday Morning News nf Ka rachi, Pakistan. 7' 'F . Tl K
