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VAGK I A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamalh Falli. Oregon Wednesday, August !, 11 fctiiifiiaL fflatpi Shocking The cold war and nuclear bombs all to one side, most of us fortunate enough to live in America are possessed of an easy opti mism regarding the future of the world. We are the inheritors of Western man's devotion to progress and the optimistic out look which has been fostered by science. We know there is no problem that men cannot solve by the use of their reason. We know, as surely as we know anything, that the world is a better place than it was in any previous century or any previous gener ation. As far as one-half of the world Europe and America is concerned, it is a better place, even despite the great, resource-sapping wars of the 20th century. Yet consider this: O It is a fact that there are more hun gry people in the world today than at any time in history. It is a fact that every day not every week or every month, but every day 96,000 people die of starvation. This is equal to the population of Wilmington, Del. It is a fact that in modern-day India, every second death is a child under 10 years. As reported in CIBA Journal, in an issue devoted to the World Freedom from Hunger Campaign, between 300 and 500 million peo ple, for at least part of their lives, do not have enough to eat even in normal times. When floods and droughts and other disasters strike, the result is widespread famine, for there v no chance to build up local food re serves. In addition to this half billion human beings, there are another 1 to IVi billion who suffer from various forms of malnutrition. They die maybe younger, maybe older not from starvation but from diseases caused by tho lack of essential nutrients: pellagra, The United Stales derives no benefits from its membership in the International Labor Organization, but it will continue to pay 25 per cent of its expenses, even though its influence has been diluted, if the Senate For eign Relations Committee has its way. Only Sen. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio voted in the Foreign Relations Committee' to WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK . J Titles By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (N1SAI - Sen. LcvtyeR Saltonslall, R - Mass., walked into a New Senate. Office Building hearing room so well air-conditioned that it would liavo been possible to hang meat in it for cold storage. "I appreciate the New Eng land atmosphere ot this hearing." the senator observed in his open ing remarks, then added: "But it's moro like northern Maine than Hyannis Port, Mass." The government practice of giv ing important-sounding titles to ordinary Jobs has even filtered down to tho summer intern p r o gram for college students. This conversation between a Harvard junior and a ltailclilte sophomore was overheard: Boy: "What do you do?" Girl: "I'm a management an alyst for the Woltaro Depart ment." Boy: "When did they come up with a title like that?" Girl: "Only alter they assigned nie to opening the employes' sug gestion box. Before that I was just a clerk." "I hato to kick somebody when he's down," said Sen. Norris Cot ton of New Hampshire at the Senate Aviation subcommittee hearing concerning lines. "Perhaps." the senator added philosophically, "that's because I'm a Hepublican and a member . of the minority in this Senate." ' Later In the same liearing. It was suggested that what North cast Airlines needed was a sub sidy to give New England better air service. "The word 'subsidy' frightens me," remarked Sen. E. L. Bart- Truths About rickets, nutritional anemia, blindness from vitamin A deficiency. According to standards set by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, Europe, North America and Oceania have a supply of more than 3,000 calories per person per day about 20 per cent more than the basic 2,300 calories required for health. In the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, the supply is equal to needs 2,400 calories. In the Far East, calorie supplies ' are only 2,050, or 11 per cent beneath minimum requirements. Were the problem merely one of distribu tion and improving production, it would readily yield to man's skillful manipulation of his environment. But the world food problem is not static; it is a race. At present rates of population growth, there may be a doubling of population in Africa, a trebling in Latin America and a 2'A fold increase in the Far East and Middle East by the end of the century. World food supplies will have to be more than doubled just to maintain the same ievel of nutrition that cur rently allows 96,000 people to die of hunger every day. Launched in 1060 by the FAO, the Free dom from Hunger Campaign is attempting to win that race. Projects totaling $20 million have been initiated in many parts of the un derdeveloped world aimed at raising produc tion by the use of modern methods of culti vation, buying seeds, fertilizers and equip ment, training native experts in agriculture. This $20 million, all private, voluntary and nongovernmental, is about 1 2,500th of the amount spent annually by this country to buy the weapons that could end the popula tion problem in a way nobody wants. ' We Pay And Pay oppose an enlargement of the governing body of the ILO from 40 to 48, but not to decrease the U.S. financial assessment. Lausche point ed out that the United States has only 5.34 per cent representation in the agency's work ing force, but is continuing to pay a quarter of the cost, while other countries' assessments have been reduced. Are Symbolic lett, D-Alaska, with a shudder. "I want you to understand." replied Sen. Norris Cotton, It N.H., "that we Republicans are absolutely opposed to subsidies unless they're for our own stale or area." Washington has always been famous for its alphabet - soup ugencies, but now the Pentagon inhabitants are writing poetry with ollicc symbols. If you don't know or can't guess what the initials stand for, in the verses below, sec translation and code ot the end. O-SAY-CANL'-C As I was a' walking by ODC, . I met a young lady from OOP. She said she was heading for Itl)C To gel a sign-off for PMP. I said. "Young lady, it's SOP "To first get approval from XDC, "Provided it's legal with JAG, "And there are no objections from CVC." "You forget," said she. "the HOI "To meet requirements from 1S1, "And never to bypass the SI'O "Without prior approval o( OMO." I checked her advice with FGC, Who sent me straight to est;. W ho gave me a phvsical and said. "KYI, "If you keep this up. you're going PSY!" CODE ODC Sccial assistant, oper ations. OOP Directorate of operations. HDC Research and technology. PMP Military personnel SOP Standard oiorating proce dure. XDC Plans and programs. Hunger . . JAG Judge advocate general. CVC-Vicc chief of staff. HOI Headquarters oflice in struction. LSI Investigations, inspector general. SI'O System project olfice. OMO Manpower. FGC General counsel. CSG Surgeon general. KYI For vour information. PSY Nutty. Al manac By I nltiil Press International Today is Wednesday, Aug. 28, tile 240th day of liifii with 123 to follow. The moon is approaching full phase. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Mais and Saturn. German cl aiult dramatist Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was born on this date in 1749. On this day in history: In IIU3. the British Parliament banned slavery throughout the empire. In 1917, ten suffragettes who picketed the While House were arrested for disturbing the peace. In r.122. a Now York realty company paid $100 to sxinsor the first radio commercial. In l!MI. Japan sent a note to President Roosevelt saving Ja pan was interested in pursuing peace. A thought for the day: Adolf Hitler said, "Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eter nal peace." tilt I'm Never IN WASHINGTON fSM By RALPH dc TOLEUANO Several weeks ago the news papers reported that Hector Hill, one of the 59 American students who defied the U.S. government to travel to Castroland. had drowned accidentally in the Mo tel Versailles swimming pool in Santiago de Cuba. The report had been picked up by the press from a Cuban broad cast. The young Negro, it was said, had suffered an unspecified kind of attack brought on by the very cold water of the pool. No one paid very much attention to the drowning. Tragic though they may be. accidents happen. That the victim was part of a group making trouble for his own country took some of the edge off (he feeling we all feel when a young person is killed." But the Cuban exiles were not so ready to accept the Cuban account of Hector Hill's "drown By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Nobody is really quite sure how he feels lor how he looks' until somebody tells him. We are the most impressionable people on God's green earth, and a kind word can set us up for a week. This verdant thought occurred to me the other day, when I took a medical examination for some additional life insurance. The doctor not only found nothing wrong with me, hut appended al the bottom of his report: "healthy and vigorous in general appear ance." Kor a few days More thai. I had twen feeling wretched somewhat diz.y and hcadachcy. with an ominous twinge in my hack muscles, which I attributed to too much tennis and not enough sleep over the weekend. At least, 1 hoped it wasn't some rare tropical disease. I had also begun In brood si lently about the possibility oi lung cancer, induced by smoking two cigarettes at a time whenever feasible, so that my tongue and throat (ell like the inside ot a railroad engineer's glove. But when the doctor wrote "healthy and vigorous." I promptly look my tirst deep breath in days, skipcd briskly around the room, and began tele phoning lo work up a fasl doubles match with perhaps an all night session to follow. Tile contrary happens just as easily. You arc feeling perlectly fine, an old friend walks up and observes. "You're looking soil of peaked." and all your vigor runs out at your heels. One remark of that kind and. middle-aged men hai-c been known lo hie them selves olf to the Mayo Clinic, last testament in hand. "You're looking thinner," some one will say. and you bo;in to I ret about malignant email, ition. Or. i( uhi tend toward corpu lence, an innocent "Haven't uhi put on some weight latch'" can make you (eel as if ou are con spicuously ballooning up hour by hour. Kven Ihe amateur student of leminuie psychology knows that a woman can be made to Icol prettier simply by telling her how- Too Busy to See Cur Atrocities Ignored ing." One statement they knew to be false, and this cast doubt on the rest of the story. Swim ming pools arc never cold in San tiago, much less in mid-summer. In fact, the water tends to be much too warm. A very quiet investigation was begun at the instigation of Carlos Todd, head of the reliable Cuban Ir.lormation Service. No public mention was made of these efforts to determine the facts of Hill's death. Yet the Cuban government suddenly announced that Hill's drowning had been accidental and that rumors to the contrary were simply he work of anti-Castro "elements" in Havana. iThe Cu ban underground thought it rath er unusual that denials of charges never made should have emanat ed from the Castro-Communist government. ) This is the story, as pieced STRICTLY PERSONAL nice she looks" w hen she comes down dressed for the evening. She may have taken four aspirins and looked like a sack of antlers lo herself in the mirror, but a gallant insincerity turns her Into a bloom ing beauty. ' And athletes placed under mild hypnosis which is simply a clinical form of suggestion have lifted weights and jumped 111111103 far beyond their normal capacities. College students, in similar experiments, when told they were "weak" behaved weak ly, and when told they w ere "strong" out-perlormed all their customary levels. The worst people dema gogues and confidence men know Ihe tremendous impressionability of humans, and exploit it to the fullest ; but tile best people lovers and parents have bare ly learned how lo use it. On e compliment, as the old Chinese sage never said, is worth a thou sand criticisms. BERRY'S WORLD "1 jnrJJ It aU started i, of our little in an Old Friend !" together from Cuban underground and exile sources: When Hector Hill arrived in Cuba with the "student delega tion," he had a list of people to see. He wanted to learn for him self about conditions on the island, and not to take it all on faith from Cuban propagandists. When he began visiting people, he was told that he had better stop. W hen he insisted, he was w arned that it could be very dangerous. He continued lo -see and talk to Cubans. One night, a goon squad broke into his room at the Motel Ver sailles, seized him, and held his head under water until ho was dead. Then his body was tossed into the swimming pool. As any reader of detective stor ies knows, an autopsy would have shown exactly how Hector Hill d'ed. If tap water was in his lungs, then it was murder. If chlorinated water was (ound, then al least the death occurred in the pool. But the Castro-Communist authorities are not going to permit an autopsy. The death of Hector Hill is but one example of the horrors ol Fidel Castro's Cuba. There are ethers of similar brutality and Ihey involve the Soviet troops on Ihe island. Recently pr. Emilio Nunez Por tuondo, former chairman of the United Nations Security Council, sent a telegram to President Ken nedy. Said the highly respected diplomat: "Since your Excellency has de clared on numerous occasions lhat your Administration would not tolerate that the Cuban people he treated by the Russians as they heated the Hungarians, 1 must assume the responsibility of noti fying you that in the caves of Hie Mercedes estate, Matanzas Province, 200 Cubans who had sought refuge there, including women and children, were mur dered with lethal gas. The Cuban militia were ordered lo do so by Russian officers." Dr. Nunez Portuondo pleaded with the President to take action 'f only to denounce before the world what Nikita Khrushchev had wrought ill the Americas. But so tar, there has been silence from the While House. hfH mnj.e mr treasurer i estment club . ." EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Democrat Political Activity Curtailed By PETER EPSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. W ASHINGTON INEAi - Demo cratic )xilitical activity in Wash ington is now so dead that Sam Brightinan, the Democratic Nation al Committee's veteran director of public relations, has been able to take his family on vacation for the first time in five years. The Republicans are doing all the politicking with their Rocke-feller-Goldwater feud, favorite son boomlets. right-wing revolts and lambasting of the Kennedy ad ministration. The feeling around Democratic National Committee headquarters is to relax and enjoy it. believ ing that it's too early to start Uiking 19fi4 politics too seriously. Any feeling of insecurity that individual Democratic congres' sional candidates fo.- reelection may have at home does not seem to be reflected in Ihe national outlook. One factor seems lo lie that the Democrats are loo sure of themselves, too fat and contented, too prosperous. For the first time in years, the party is operating in the black, though they play it poor-mouth as they try to raise more. A report by Herbert E. Alex ander, director of the Citizens Re search Foundation of Princeton, credits President Kennedy with having raised $9,970,011(1 for the parly since his election. When Richard Maguire, the Democrats' national treasurer, made his "financial report" to Ihe National Committee last June, he didn't cite a single dollar fig ure. No news meaning that the 19K0 deficit was wiped nut was good news. Next meeting has been tenta tively scheduled for September or October. If Congress hasn't adjourned by then, there won't be much national Democratic political activity before next year. "The President stirs up the ex citement for us." says Stephen P. Smith, the President's brother-in-law, who recently took a job in Democratic National Committee headquarters. WASHINGTON By Fl'LTOX LEWIS JR. The Kennedy Administration finished up fiscal 1963 less than two months ago with more than $37 billion in appropriated funds not yet spent. The. figure, largest in history, was revealed earlier this month by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Funds that are not only unspent, but not yet ear marked for specific use. total $40.5 billion, the committee found. L'nexjiended foreign aid monies were placed at $s,9 billion. Com bined with the $4 billion plus now asked by the Administration, the total available for such aid in the coming year may reach $11 billion. Republicans claim this is evidence that David Bell, for eign aid director, has "consistent ly overestimated funds needed for his program." As of June 30. the Department of Agriculture had $11 billion on band, of which $1.4 billion was unobligated and unreserved. The Delense Department had $30.8 billion, of which SK.R billion was lagged lor nothing in particular. The total of SK7.1 billion in unspent funds compares with S!W8 billon that President Kennedy a-kod Congress last January to appropriate for Government spending in fiscal 14. Actors Marlon Brando and Charlton 1 lesion will help lead the March on Washington today. At least one Negro leader is skeptical of their "eommitmon to the fight for civil rights. Up k (-t!eh !Vteron prcsi- dent of the Hollywood Race Re lotions Bureau. He claims both Brando and llcston refused to ht- cooperate with the HRRB t ie-piib! icized organisation -.inrks ninellv In ni:sh tM t h a t gro em- ploymeut in tiie film capital utal. attacks reieiMin nas cruicien an hv llip Nations! Asnri.llinn the Advancement of Colored Poo p.e on Hoilvwoed producer NAACP." lie told the Los . Tiie Aug Hcrald-Examincr recently, iicvcs that Hollywood still be- pnr- trays the Nemo siereotvivd role " menial, -aid. Ne- Acutally. Peterson s, grocs had excellent roles ilepict- mg tho Negro its he is todav 80 television and motion picture l':ilui'tions last Near. K;cliteen c.n s itiin. Petet nn relates, tiie NAACP attacked llol huond (or portraying the Nero a.- an "I'nclc Tom " Al that lime. Peterson s.iys. Negro employment mi ih., dim imiu-trv was al an .1-timo high. Alter that, use of Ncgn-cs in H-'liswiHKl prodiu turns !ti Asked if he is a k.nd of spe cial assistant to National Commit tee Chairman John M. Bailey, Smith replies, "That's as good a title as any." Smith travels a lot, as does Bailey. They see state chairmen, committeemen and local bosses. A large part of the effort now is on registration drives, lining uj- voters for this fall's municipal and loci elections political weather vanes for I9H. The concentration is on a doz en states. These include seven of the nine bigger states which Kennedy lost ti, Nixon in lSfiO California, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ken tucky and Tennessee, with a total of 112 electoral votes. The Demo crats are also after the six larg er slates which Kennedy carried New York, Pennsylvania, Illi nois. Texas. New Jersey and Michigan, with 160 more electoral votes. There are some bad Democrat ic situations in key states, where old party leaders hang onto pow er which lets them live well. And there are always disputes between party factions. There is no Democratic organ izing drive to hold the South such as the Republicans are conduct ing lo win it. The Kennedy administration is committed to its civil rights pro gram, and to vigorous enforce ment as Ihe best political policy for the long run. There is no "purge" of conserv ative southern Democrats such as was rumored in the making some months ago. But the end result may be the same. Neither is there any special eftort to answer critics of the Pi esidenl's program. Bailey puts out a statement now and then in reply to some blast from Republican leaders. But there is no Democratic National Committee public relations cam paign other than through "The Democrat." a bi-weekly tabloid. "It's going to be pretty quiet around here until next year," ad mits Smith, who is a behind-the-scenes worker. REPORT Funds Accumulate In Washington Bureaus sharply. "Producers who had mi nor ordinary roles would knock them out localise they were afraid of possible pressure from the NAACP" said Peterson. "What is needed is a liaison bureau, such as ours, to work with the indus try instead of pressuring it." Washington police anticipated possible trouble today. Not just at Lincoln Memorial, where more than 100,000 citizens will gather lo denounce segregation. Virtually the entire District of ; Columbia police force will be on hand there to keep order. Police are fearful that criminals will have a field day throughout the rest of the District. Hundreds of Air Force National Guardsmen will be deputized as members of the DC Police Force that day. They will accompany the comparatively few policemen not at the demonstration on their tours of duty throughout Ihe Dis trict. They will carry billy clubs but no lirearms. Morris "Little M" I'dail, young er brother of Interior Secretary .Stewart I'dall, shocked Arizona labor leaders recently. I'dall. who moved into his big h: other's House seat two years iyo. addressed a state - wide meeting of Arizona labor leaders in Tucson . He heard John Evans, secretary-treasurer of the state AFL ClO. plead (or candidates who would back repeal of Section 141) of the Taft-Hartley Act. which permits right-to-work laws. I'dall. whose COPE voting rec ord is ta kt cent pro-labor, was blunt: "I don't think such a can didate would ever reach Washing ton to cast the vote." He reminded those present that Arizona citizens had voted solid ly to enact the law 16 years ago and had subsequently turned down tuo attempts to reieal II. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q How did the exprrvion "Main line" enme In Indicate upper MK-irty in Philadelphia, or later ll surlmrhs? A It was domed from refer ence to the mam or most im Iiortan! !,ne of the Pennsylvania '!'".lr?'.'l anl ls equivalent' to the y F V s of Virginia or to lie Rack Bay nf R(i,ton
