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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Tuesday, September 3, 19fiJ EDSON IN WASHINGTON . "But Don't Forget, They Are Still Married!' Kennedy Rides Loser In Airline Route Contest It could be that Gen. Thomas S. Power, commander of our Strategic Air Force, is a badminton player. It could be that Sen. Barry Goldwater is a badminton player. It could be that Sen. Harry Jackson is a badminton player. ' Because badminton players of this coun try', as a man, are leery of Russian gamesman ship as demonstrated on film clips of the now famous game at Nikita Khrushchev's Black Sea palace in which the Chairman was re ported to have "defeated" Secretary of State Rusk. And the three named are outstanding critics of the proposed limited nuclear test ban treaty. There's a saying that you can "tell a man's character by the way he plays games." If that is true, the world might very well The plaintive wail of the person seeking change is heard across the land and it's a vocal sign of the times. Everyone Uncle Sam included is run ning short of change. Why this should be so when coins are fit for circulation for about a quarter-century has been spelled out by Miss Eva Adams, director of the Mint, before a House committee con sidering a bill which would authorize more buildings and equipment for the various mints. Some of the reasons: Our population is soaring, and there arc more pockets to fill with change. Coin-gobbling devices are growing in number and variety. As they do. demand for change in various combinations is growing. (Dallas Morning Nw) As any political spcechmaker will tell you, one of the keystones of the American way of life is Cake Like Mother Used to Make. It ranks somewhere between blueberry pie and the ole swimmin' hole. The picture of the kindly old lady . . . baking cakes is printed in full color across our national memory. : Unfortunately, the picture is fading fast. Prepared, packaged cake mixes have pretty well done away with it . . . HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER President Kennedy and his spokesmen tor the Nuclear Treaty have stressed that tlie USA and USSR, have a common interest in eliminating radioactive fallout from atmospheric tests, In re tarding Uie expansion of nuclear weapons and in working toward eventual disarmament in a peace ful world. These hopes summarize the so called political arguments for Uie Treaty. They express a belief that, sumehow, we must learn to; (hare the world with Itussia since neither Democracy nor Communism can slop the world and get off. They do not express will to destroy Russia, except as the last resort of 'lf-dclcnsc. The one wnrd that wraps up Uie Administration's motivation in seeking tlie Nuclear Treaty and otlnr agreements beyond the Treaty is coexistence. It is not a word Uiat Uie Pres ident is likely to use, for it car ries a connotation of surrender, and tlie President does not have surrender in mind. What he docs have in mind is a detente, a relaxation of tensions, between America and Russia. Far from being a new idea, it is one that dates hack at least as far as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administra tion. In Uiose days, as middle aged ersons will recall, there w as hope that we did have common interests with Russia. It was be lieved then, as It it now. that these interests could be exploited in the hope of a closer rela tionship which could occur through political evolution in both coun tries, , To define tins political evolu tion, let us turn back to a strange discussion that went on between President Roosevelt and Commu nist kadcr Earl Browdcr. They Badminton, Anyone? examine how Khrushchev plays badminton as a clue to how he plays international politics in matters such as the test ban. The films clearly show that badminton, Khrushchev style, is played with no net and no lines. Nikita merely stood in one place on a thick oriental carpet and insisted that Secre tary Rusk hit the bird back to him. He then proceeded to smash it to the rug and claim the point. Could be that General Power and Sena tors Goldwater and Jackson see something similar in the way the test ban treaty is set up. Isn't there something one-sided in the elimination of inspection which plays into Russian hands just as much as hitting the badminton bird to Khrushchev's forehand? Maybe that's what the cynics have in mind. Change For A Buck? While the machines don't destroy the coins, they do hoard them in their coin boxes, sometimes for many days, and thus keep change out of circulation. In places such as school cafeterias where there just isn't time lo make change, patrons are required to bring exact change, usually in odd amounts, and that means families store more change at home. Some eight million coin collectors put a dent in the small money supply. Cost of many items require use of a multiple number of small coins. Which leaves the situation right where it began: "Who has change for a buck?" Better Batter? Now the electronic wizards have worked out a way for taking the kindly old lady out of the picture too. Electronics magazine re ports that a digital computer is now being used at one bakery to direct the mixing, bak ing and shipping of cakes. Before long, there'll probably be one in every kitchen. The electronic brain may make a better batter, but it's going to be pretty hard to wring out any nostalgia for Cake Like IBM Used to Make. ALEXANDER . . . Beyond The Treaty? never met. But they conversed through a go-between, Miss Jose phine Truslow Adams, former ly a teacher at Swarthmore Col lege, and very active in Com munist party activities. Miss Adams was a friend of bolh Roos evelt and Browdcr, and served ns the carrier of both men's ideas. Frank S. Meyer, the auth or and former Communist, gave testimony six years ago, before the Senate Internal Security Sub. committee, in which he ex pressed very well the reasoning by which a non-surrender detente is sometimes considered a po litical possibility. Meyer said. ". . . Franklin Roosevelt was, I believe, from the ct nvcrsations I had with Miss Adams, convinced that tlie Soviet Union would move from its lack of civil liberties toward civil liberties, while tlie I'nited States moved from Us constitutional and fro enterprise situation to socialism, ami bolh would end at Uie same oint. . ." Here, I think, is a hit of back ground on tlie Nuclear Treaty which has not been much dis cussed and certainly Is not much understood Tlie Nuclear Treaty has been called a "first step." but to ward what ultimate destination" we will, of course, never have full disarmament between a closed society and nn open so ciety. Russia would become a partially open so ciety only by allowing inspec tion, and tiK'ie is no inspection clause in the Treaty, But II, in stead of two societies, one open and one closed, the two nations became something of a merged society, Uie need lor large arma ment, and for an arms race, would diminish to (lie vanishing point. Tlie thing to look lor in Amer ican politics is any symptom that America is moving away from what Meyer calls "a constitu tional and Iree enterprise situa tion" and moving toward social ism. If we detect the New Frontier's domestic policies tending in that direction, we can belter under stand the New Frontier's foreign policies, especially in the Nuclear Treaty. Holh policies lead to ward a detente which, 1 would suppose, many Americans will be lieve is even worse than war. Al manac R.v I'nited Press International Today is Tuesday, Sept 3, the 24h day of HW.1 with 119 to lol low. The moon is full. The morning star is Jupiter The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Those burn today are under the sign of Virgo. On this day in history: In 1783. the American Revolu tion ended officially with the sign ing of a peace treaty in Pans. In Kit. Uie Allies broke a tier man offensive at Verdun in World War 1. In 1M. Great Britain declared war on tiermany. In VX1, some 20.000 persons were killed in a Western Iranian earthquake. A thought lor tlie day: Ameri can aviauix Amelia Earhart said: "Courage Is the price that life exacts Irom granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release Irom little things." t IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH dc TOLEDANO 1 have been waiting to hear the great thunderers in the Senate, in the House, in the administra tion and among the pundit bri gade - to rise up in wrath against tlie recent stand .en by the Young Democratic organi sation of 13 Western slates. I really hoped that those who saw a radical rightist under every bed would go out hammer-and-tongs against Uie radical leftists as well. I wonder if those who de plored the V o u n g Republican meeting in San Francisco would be as vocal about the meeting of the Young Democrats in Berke ley. 1 needn't have bothered to wait, hope. or. wonder. There will be no hullabaloo about the Young Democratic per formance or its adherence to the left. Therefore, I will deplore. 1 believe that there is some thing seriously wrong when the National Democratic Committee, tlie White House, or the leader ship of the Democratic Parly By SYDNEY .1. HARRIS Visiting some new acquaint ances recently. I was impressed with their teen-ace son, who seemed to me one of the best mannered young persons 1 had met. 0 Thinking over this impression, it occurred to me that really good manners require a combination of two qualities diffidence and can dor. The young man was diffident about himself, but not reticent about his tastes and opinions. He was disarmingly frank, hut not of fensively opinionated, because he never spoke out of sell-esteem, but only out of self-expression. Most persons .suffer irom the fal lacy that good manners are mostly a matter of difthlence. of hiding one's true convictions under a blanket of Hihtc hypocrisy. But this is really a stibile kind of rudeness, a denying ot one's per sonality for the sake of others' approval. And this is why joung enple. on the whole, have such a huge contempt for polite grown-up so ciety, which seems lo them mere ly an organized conspiracy to keep the truth under cover. Now, good manners are funda mentally an appreciation of oth er people's personalities. A man who nrgues violently with ooop'e i as Chesterton once observed' is paying homage lo their intelli gence; but a man who mmilhs pohlc platitudes in society is ac tually insulting; he is not interest ed in the other vrson. but only in winning the other person's good opinion of him. A really well-mannered poisoi. by this strict definition, is ex tremely rare. 1 niyvll in co-i mon Willi most writers' err to much on (he side of candor, a : ! possess not enough natuial d.i't donee, which is a r ac tempers mental delect. Radical Young finds that it can lecture the John Birchers but feel no pain over the Western Young Democrats. The posiUons taken by these resolution-happy future leaders of the Democratic Party give me a small case of the horrors. For at the Berkeley. Calif., con vention of these Western Young Democrats, stands were formally taken which indicate that ex treme leftism is still with us. The Young Democrats called for a resumption of diplomatic relations with Castro-Communist Cuba. This would mean the open betrayal of the Free Cuban fighters and a repudiation of ev ery promise made to them by President Kennedy. It would make the United States a laughing stock in Latin America. And it would open the floodgates to Cuban-trained Communist agents in the entire Hemisphere. The Young Democrats in Berke ley demanded that the United Slates withdraw its troops from South Vietnam. This would deliv er Southeast Asia to the Chinese Reds. It would make in vain the STRICTLY PERSONAL But it is wrong to make the mis take ot assuming that people w hi are polite are well mannered merely because they mask th.'ir true beliefs. 1-ack of candor, rcn. erally speaking, implies deep hos tilities and resentments bcnei'h the surface; and some of Uie be.-t-liked men I know are quietly con temptuous of those who like them most. Samuel Johnson, often accused of rudeness, was actually the most generous-spirited of men. a heated controversialist, he was passionately interested in purpl ing ideas, no matter who got knocked down in the process. In cluding himself. BERRY'S WORLD i o i i "Sow that ut'vt rtSurti U't timi lor 1'ugOiUt Demos deaths of Americans who have been fighting to stem the Kkl Vietcong tide. And it would hand Mao Tse-tung and Red China a great victory. Those bright Young Democrats also demanded a non-aggression pact between NATO and the Com munist empire although what they would have said of anyone who called for a non-aggression pact with Hitler and Mussolini could not be printed in a family newspaper. Naturally, they called for abo lition of the House Un-American Activities Committee. To youths of the Young Democratic ( Western-style' persuas.on. liquidating the HUAC would end poverty, cure cancer, and bring that pie down from the sky. To them, cussing out HUAC is an article of faith like not walking under stepladders, knocking wood, or preventing a black cat from crossing your path. Usually, calling for the end of HUAC is enough. But the Young Democrats would also repeal the Internal Security Act, thereby eli minating the Senate Internal Se curity subcommittee and the Sub versive Activities Control Board. There was no blast against the FBI, but you've got to leave some thing for next year. And, oh yes, just so as to keep the franchise, there was an at tack on Americans for Constitu tional Government. This organiza tion supports conservative legisla tors and publishes Congressional voting records. The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations supports liberal-left legislators and pub lishes voting records. The Young Democrats see nothing wrong in this. But AC.Vs actions, they shout, are a threat to civil rights. The sad part of this exercise is in its postlude. If conservative Republicans were to make an is sue of tliese Young Democratic resolutions, the administration and its journalistic allies would be up in arms. They would argue that the Young Democrats had a right to say what they pleased a right, oddly enough, not in voked when Young Republicans are being censured for being con servative. the itogrrt tif fallout, i to 'fALL-lS'l" By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON iNEA Sen. Edward M. I Teddy 1 can do more for Massachusetts' Kennedy doesn't seem to have things too well co-ordinated with his oldest brother, John, who has some kind of a job in the White House. On the same day that Senator Kennedy was making a big pitch to allow Northeast Airlines to con tinue its New York-to-Florida service and also get a big govern ment subsidy to improve its New England operations: President Kennedy made public a Civil Aeronautics Board report outlining a five - year schedule for reducing subsidies to airl'iies that couldn't pay their own way. And CAB also handed down its final decision to end North east's New York-to-Miami serv ice, effective Oct. 14. To give Senator Teddy credit where due, he made a big bi partisan try to save business for the New England line. In all, 24 New England sena tors and representatives from both parties signed an appeal to Civil Aeronautics Board to grant Northeast a $3.8 million annual subsidy. But what developed at a spe cial Senate Aviation Subcommittee hearing under its chairman, Mike A. S. Monroney, D-Okla., was that the other New England sen ators Aiken and Prouty of Ver mont, Cotton and Mclntyre of New Hampshire and Saltonstall of Mas sachusetts were most interested in getting more and better airline service for their suites. They made it clear that existing serv ice wasn't adequate. Senator Kennedy wont all mil, however, in his opposition lo fhe CAB decision and his appeal to keep Northeast operating t h e way it is now, with an additional suhsidy. There is a long tale of woe be hind this case. It goes back to ISljfi when CAB granted North east a five-year temporary cer tificate to operate the East Coast Florida route in competition with Eastern and National Airlines. This was in the Ei senhower administration when cx-Gnv. Sherman Adams of New WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON INEA In the light of reports that the United States and Hungary are negoti ating again over resumption of normal diplomatic relations, this story from behind the Iron Cur tain is timely: An important foreign dignitary visited Hungary because he had read in the Communist press that living conditions were so good a person could get anything he wanted. When it came time to order dinner at Budapest's biggest ho tel, the visitor ordered: "Ele phant stew, please." The head waiter said the ele phant stew would be served short ly. A few minutes later, how ever, the chef beckoned the head waiter In the kitchen. "What's the matter?" asked the waiter. "For heaven's sake, don't tell me there was :io ele phant to be had." The chef shook his head. "Oh, we got the elephant from the zoo. But there just aren't any on ions!" Republican Sen. Ken Keating got a highly critical and uncom plimentary letter from a female New York constituent. Tlie parting shot came in the PS., when she noted: "Rome had senators, too. That's why it declined." If Congress decides to investi gate federal research spending, here are some of the projects that would he uncovered: -$80,700 to study dolphin "talk" in order to try to set up communication between these sea mammals and humans. $1.2 million to study tlie "at fectional relationship" of an in fant monkey to its mother. S2ti.5K5 for studies of silent thinking. $"i.775 for a study of stereo tactic atlas of the beagle brain. $2n.0!i2 for studies of disease in a giant snail. How to decorate tlie long cor ridors in government oilice build ings to make them seem less for bidding is always a problem. Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodces has tried to solve this . common problem in the corridor of his block-long building, where he has his olfice. He got hold of a set of color reproductions of masterpieces in the Mellon Art Hampshire was a big man in the White House. The play at the time was that it" Northeast could get this Flori da route, it would operate at a profit and wouldn't need the $1.8 million subsidy it had been get ting for New England service. Things didn't work out that way. Florida traffic didn't in crease as rapidly as CAB ex acted. The result was that all three airlines began to lose money. CAB's decision against making Northeast's Florida certification permanent was based on find ings that the two other companies could give the required Florida service and operate at a profit while Northeast operated in New England as a subsidized carrier giving local service. Northeast's reply in substance is that if it can't keep tlie east coast service it may have to fold completely, ending New England service and discharging 2.000 em ployes. But Eastern and National have offered to hire all of Northeast's personnel not needed lor N e w England service. And Mohawk and Allegheny airlines might be in terested in expanding their op erations from New York State into New England. The situation is complicated by Howard Hughes's purchase of Northeast control. Sen. Howard W. Cannon, D-Nev., suggested that maybe Hughes ought to be subpoenaed by the Senate avia tion subcommittee but Monroney ducked that. This is. after all, a ticklish business, with national as well as New England interest. CAB is a regulatory body with quasi-Judical powers. Its findings can be appealed to the courts and the Northeast case may get lo the Supreme Court. But Con gress has no authority to chal lenge or investigate CAB deci sions, as Monroney pointed out. If findings of government regu latory agencies can be opened up to Congressional pressure even in directly, as Senator Kennedy has attempted to do by trying to make the issue one of saving a New England industry, the au thority of all government boards and commissions might be destroyed. What's Elephant Stew Without The Onions? Gallery, had them neatly framed and hung on the pale green walls of the long, narrow, low-arched hall. It still looks like a long, narrow, low-arched hall. Running across an announce ment that the Civil Service Board of Examiners was hoiding a test to (ill blacksmith jobs at the Tcx arkana Red River Army Depot, Democratic Congressman Joe Pool of Texas concluded, "There's no poetry in the Civil Service." The poet Iingfellow, observed Pool, wrote the specifications for hAs job in these lines, memorized by every school child: "The smith, a mightv man is he. With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands." In contrast. Pool jointed nut that the uninspired Civil Service notified applicants that they must "be able to perform efficiently the duties of the position, must have good distant vision in one eye. the ability to read without strain printed material Uie size of typewritten characters and the ability to hear tne conversational Qoicc." Trying lo put this ir.to poetry, it comes out like this: The smith, a one-eved man is he Rut he can read and lie can write And he can work efficiently, If you speak in a conversa tional voice. Standard oerating procedure for the Pentagon is to go all-out in publicizing some new weapon program, then cancel it. So as the TFX 'Tactical Fighter Ex perimental ' contract hearings drag on before .Senate investi gators, the gag line around the Pentagon is: "This year we're telling why the TFX is good Next year we ll be telling people why we don't nr-d it." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 9-What Is turtle grass? A It is a true grass found in tropical waters. It shelters ani mal life such as the starfish, voung octopi and even sea lur-ties.