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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