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PiG HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, September 10, 1963 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . Good Will Is Purpose Of Visit By Royalty Changing of the Guard SnS?S89!3 ... . l..izzrrrirrJH "' The human brain contains some 10 bil lion nerve cells, or neurons, that form inter connections whose number far surpasses all the stars of the universe. This is the source of the infinite complexity of individual be havior. . r Human civilization is something like that, being built up out of the complex intercon nections of the increasing millions of peo ple. 1; But there are no built-in, natural connec tions between people. They have to communi cate by "artificial" means. ; Obviously, no individual can talk person ally with everyone else. By means of radio and television, however, he can address an unlimited number at one time. Records and tapes add a time dimension to that ability. . But only the printed word allows others to absorb a man's thoughts at their leisure and only through print can a man project his thoughts into the future, either near or dis tant, and fasten upon the minds of others. ; Just as the brain receives a constant flood of information from the environment, so is human society being flooded with news, ideas, facts, developments and discoveries in the arts and sciences and every walk of life. Confused Prospect Of A ; If you ask about a tax cut in Washington, you get many answers. " The White House in a sanguine mood , predicted that a $10 billion cut will be enacted this year. The overall tax slash plan, presumably approved by the administration, was unveiled by the House Ways and Means Committee. Sen. Everett Dirkscn (R., 111.), minority leader, doubted there will be a cut this year because of the pressure of other business in the Senate, particularly the touchy matter of civil rights. His Democratic colleague on the finance committee, Sen. Gore, doubted there will be one this year or next. Rep. John W. Byrnes (R.-Wis.), a rank ing House minority member, said the Presi dent can get a tax bill in a hurry if he will agree to certain government economies. Byrnes restated a view that has been maintained by a great many critics ever since the tax cutting proposal was broached. "It would be fiscal folly," he told members of the American Bar Assn., "to embark on a program HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C. - Free speech In matters handled by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB Is pretty much what its politically-appointed members say it is. This statement is not a matter of opinion, but a solemn fact and a real hindrance to the civil liberty of self-expression. Both political parties have re cently had their whacks at de ciding wltere the freedom to speak starts and slops in Labor matters. .'. When General Eisenhower was President, his NLRB chairmen were Guy Farmer and Boyd Lee dom, Uie latter still an NLRB member. The Ike-men ruled (hat the free speech provision of the Taft-Hartley Act extended both to the conduct ot NLRBsuperviscd elections and to matters deter mining Unfair Labor Practices. An employer could communicate with the workers, in both these areas, as long as he did not hold out a threat or a promise of benefit. But when Mr. Kennedy became President, and Frank Mccul loch became chuirman of NLRB. the Free Speech provision was , held not to apply to the conduct of elections. The ruling said, In effect, that if an employer put out bad literature (even if it didn't threaten or promise any benefits!, he made it Impossible for tho workers to vote intelli gently. Hence, elections in which an employer exercised free speech could be set aside. How free. Is sieech when Re publicans Interpret Its protection one way, and Democrats Interpret it another? NLRB members are appointed to five-year terms, so that the personality and tlie poli tics of new members may be decisive In a matter that ought to be immutable. On Aug. 27, while Congress was rejecting President Kennedvs , plan to turn tlie railroad dis nnU over to another federal agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ILL), Uiura Mankind's Master Mind The result is a worsening log jam in the channels of information and a serious time lag before the majority of men can absorb and understand these changes. It is as if that part of an individual's brain which screens out all but essential in formation suddenly stopped working, allow ing sensations from every nerve end to flood the conscious mind. The effect would be chaotic and paralyz ing. The situation in the field of scientific publications is approaching that state. That is why some say we must begin to develop a "world brain" a system to co ordinate, screen and contain the world's grow ing knowledge. The idea of a world brain was originated by H. G. Wells back in 1937 and was revived recently by Watson Davis, editor of Science Service, in testimony before a House sub committee. Like so many other Wellsian ideas, the world brain was ahead of its time. But recent advances in computers, microfilm techniques and the transmission of information have made a world brain entirely feasible. As Davis said, we already have the know how; all we need is the "Iet's-do." which will reduce our revenues when spend ing is presently outracing those revenues." The President pledged himself to hold the line on expenditures when he asked for in come tax reduction. But he has found nu merous special occasions for appropriations. The House has sturdily reduced the Presiden tial requests for appropriations and authoriza tions, whereupon he has turned to the Senate and urged that the full amounts be restored. Lacking any assurances of administration retrenchment congressmen have been discour aged by arithmetic. Byrnes said a tax bill with about $8 billion in reductions to be spread over two years will probably be re ported out of the House Ways and Means Committee. But his talk at the bar meeting may be taken as a warning that the bill faces hard going on the floor. ' . This will be too bad. The tax reduction proposal was one of the administration's hap pier inspirations. If it fails, the President cannot fairly blame the Congress, for he has not shown much inclination to keep his part of the bargain. ALEXANDER Where Do Disputes Go? Phil Landrum (D., Ga.) proposed taking Unfair Labor Practices out of tlie Jurisdiction of NLRB and lodging them in the federal courts. As a man usually on manage ment's side. Landrum felt that tlie NLRB was too biased toward Labor. Significantly, the Railroad Brotherhoods objected to the ICC's handling their dispute for a similar reason. They felt that ICC was loo biased toward man agement. So, tlie ralhcr complicated matter boils down to a rather simple residue. Should federal agencies decide questions ot a quasi-Judicial nature? Should nut these questions go into the fed eral courts? .... -s -1 M ' i i- im. a i " r ii i -vr MM "Wbtrt'i you gtl thai twtahhlrt ultb tb ntmi of ibt niool on it?" Tax Cut An alternate solution to that of dumping all these Labor disputes into tlie regular courts, it seems to me, might be to set up a siiecial Labor Court. There is plenty of precedent. We already have several so-called "legisla tive" courts, those established by statute rather than by the Constitution. We have the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Ap peals, the U.S. Court of Claims, tlie U.S. Customs Court, tlie U.S. Court of Military Apiieals and the Tax Court of the United States. Why not. then, a Labor Court to take the Hlitieally.chargcd Labor disputes entirely away from the federal agencies, which have little competence and much prejudice? II (- ,3 JMr m v. -- f i . m IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO The Washington press corps, a long suffering group, gravitates toward tlie centers of power. When an Administration as muscle - conscious as President Kennedy's abuses that power, the press tends to bite its lip and bow. And this is what has hap pened over the uses of publicity by the White House. More than any otlier President in our his tory, Mr. Kennedy has manipu lated the Fourth Estate by play ing favorites.; Unfortunately for the American press, tlie favorite of this Ad ministration is television. Mr. Kennedy, through his Press Sec retary Pierre Salinger, has re peatedly given tlie newspaper cor respondents a boot in the seat of the pants and bestowed his fa vors on tlie electronic reporters. How does a public figure do this? Obviously, at his news con ferences both press and radio-TV By SYDNEY J. HARRIS This pot-bellied, middle-aged, oncca-week athlete tripped on tlie tennis court last Sunday, trying to retrieve a ball your younger sister could have got while eating an ice cream cone with the other hand, and pulled a muscle in his calf. Tlie next day, heroically hob bling to the office with a cane. I learned exactly what to do with an ailment of this sort. So far as I can make out. there are 10 infallible rules to follow. Tliese arc: 1. Stay off the leg as much as possible. 2. Keep walking tlie exercise will bring it back into shape. 3. Apply cold packs. 4. Apply hot pucks. 5. Apply cold packs and hot packs alternately. 6. Apply only moist heat stay away from a heating pad. 7. Sleep all night w ith a heating pad on the leg. 8. Bandage it tightly to support the muscle. 9. Don't bandage it. or you'll slop the circulation and let. ml recovery. 10. See a doctor, a chiropractor, a physiotherapist, a Swedish mas seur, a baseball trainer and a l.nlli healer. It's surprising that nobody rec ommended a tree surgeon for tlie injured limh. With this one singu lar exception, I have been sub jected to the most unremitting barrage of seK-coitdilont advice that the mind of man could con ceive. 01 tlie 2S persons who. in tlie s(ice of an hour or two. came up solicitously to inquire about lite origin of my limp, not one confessed complete ignorance about its therapy jmd cure. Everybody hod had the same thing or something very nearly like it, or a brother who was similarly wounded in sportive ac tion, or a family doctor who was wonderful "at ihat sort of tiling " Kennedy Plays correspondents have an opportu nity to ask questions. iThat the men recognized by the President are almost always those predic tably; pro-Administration and not likely to invade embarrassing ter ritory is another matter.) But if a President wishes to favor one of tlie media over another, he can do so by use of the "exclu sive" interview. An exclusive interview is a feather in the cap of the corres pondent who gets it. It gives him status and it brings in money fof his organization. Other cor respondents are, in effect, forced to report what the President said even to a rival news-gathering body. Traditionally, howev er, Presidents have been mighty sparing of the use they have made of the exclusive interview. It will be recalled that there was a tremendous outcry when President Truman gave the highly-respected Arthur Krock of the New York Times an exclusive. STRICTLY PERSONAL 1 am convinced that every man believes he can do three tilings superbly well: Run the country better than the President, edit a newspaper better than the editors, and dispense medical ad vice better than the doctors. Of course, t h e doctors them selves sometimes pretend omnis cience when they ore ignorant. You may have heard of the lady who went to a doctor with a nasty bruise on her thigh. He prescribed hot packs. She tried them (or a day, and nothing happened. Finally, her maid suggested cold packs two applications, and the bruise was gone. She called the doctor and told him the story. "That's odd," lie murmured. "My maid told me hut packs." Al manac Ky United Press International Todav is Tuesday, Sept. HI. tlie 253rd day of liKU with 112 to follow. The moon is in its last quarter. The morning star is Jupiter. Tlie evening stars are Saturn, Mars and Jupiter. On this day in history: In 1813 tlie lirst defeat of an English Squadron in the War of 1812 took place when U.S. Capt. Oliver H. Perry defeated the Brit ish in the Battle of Lake Erie. In 184fi. Elias Howe received a patent for the sewing machine. In 18S8. Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by an anarchist. In 1944. the first American shells to land on German sod were fired by the United States 1st Army. A thought for the day Thomas Jelferson, the American states man, said: "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at tlie same lime." Favorites Tlie press argued that this was favoring one newspaper at the expense of the others. Now there is a grcad deal of irate muttering among Washing ton correspondents because Pres ident Kennedy has given the Col umbia Broadcasting System an exclusive interview, seen on the TV screens this past week, and will do the same for the Nation al Broadcasting Company next week. The American Broadcast ing Company will ask for its share. But what of the newspapermen who also cover Washington, pay taxes, deal in the news, and make their living writing about the President? Mr. Kennedy does not belong to CBS. NBC, or ABC. He is the President of the American people and the American press. Ho has no right to use his of fice to aggrandize a news medi um he believes will help him most. His views belong to the entire press corps or to no part of it. Yet this is not the first time that Mr. Kennedy has played favorites. Among those who cov er his activities, he has selective ly fed tlie kind of exclusive news which is a reporter's bread and butter. During his slay at Palm Beach last year, he called in a group of correspondents and "briefed" them at length. Other correspond dents, who had won the antag onism of the White House or whose newspapers were not quite so important in the view of Mr. Salinger, were excluded. On another occasion, the Pres ident put on video tape a long interview with correspondents from the three major networks. Then he gave the same material to the .newspapermen, but on a non - attribution basis. They wrote tlieir stories, citing "high Administration sources" then switched on their TV and heard the President saying the same things to all the nation. Normally, there would be a real hullabaloo over this favori tism of the White House. But the men w ho cover this Adminis tration have, for the most part, learned caution. If they object too vocally to the practices and innovations of Kennedy. Salinger k Co., then they can find them selves transferred from the White House to the dog house. It takes courage to buck tlie President of the United States. There would be only one way to impress on the White House that it is improper and unfair for the President to use his of fice to bring profit to his jour nalistic friends. If the White House Correspondents Associa tion, to which 1 pay dues, were to protest strenuously and vol ublyand if this got nowhere then it could instruct i!s members to boycott Mr. Kennedy's press conferences. This sounds quixntx, impossi ble, and self-defeating. It need not be. The moment Mr. Kenne dy became aware of the anger among correspondents and weighed the effect of his "image" he would capitulate. That is the one certain thing about this Administration. CBS, NBC, and ABC may mean a great deal to the image-makers, hut without the printed word tlie White House would be lost. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl - On their way to a ceremonial visit with President Kennedy, King Mohammed Zahir of Afghanistan and his Queen Homaira stopped over at William end Mary Col lege in Williamsburg, Va., to visit some of tlie" more than 200 Af ghan students now attending col leges all over the United States. This emphasis on education is a big thing in United States aid to Afghanistan, and tlie Afghans like it. The U.S. educational mission in Afghanistan is run by a consor tium of American universities by Columbia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They operate the little - known Education Specialists, Inc., which has a contract with U.S. Agency for International Devel opment (AID) for teacher train ing and advisory services at the University of Kabul. University of Wyoming is su pervising Afghan vocational edu cation in agriculture. Purdue is teaching animal husbandry, in which King Zahir is especially interested. The U.S. Peace Corps has 35 teachers in Afghanistan, includ ing 24 in the high schools, three nurses, an auto mechanic and seven printers. And the U.S. Bureau of Rec lamation has a team of experts teaching new settlers how to use irrigation on former desert lands in the $100 million Hellmand Val ley Authority project, 40 per cent financed by U.S. loans. Roads and airports are the big tilings dollarwise in America's aid to Afghanistan, which has totaled $253 million since 1051. But there is no military aid, which makes it unique. This is less than half of Rus sia's $600 million in aid to Af ghanistan, including $100 million in military aid. U.S. policy is to understand that the Afghans can't be completely independent be cause of Russia's proximity and power. Russia apparently wants Af ghanistan as a showcase, like Finland, to prove that its neigh bors can co-exist without com munism. But tlie Afghans have always been suspicious of the By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON - Far West Young Democrats are "firmly in tlie grasp of a highly vocal group of emotional radi cals, peace-at-any pricers, and other assorted lunatic leftists." The words are not those of Rob ert Welch. They are those of Charles Wilson, a freshman Dem ocrat, who represents California's 31st Congressional District. Representative Wilson, a one lime Young Democrat himself, calls the recent conference of Far West Young Democrats who met in 'Berkeley, Calif., a "disgrace to the honorable name of the Democratic Party." Delegates from 13 Western States there urged diplomatic re lations with Fidel Castro: with drawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam: and a non - aggression pact with the puppet stales of Eastern Europe. The Los Angeles Congressman brushes aside the soothing words of Allen Howe, national chairman of the Young Democrats. Howe said he did not agree with tlie resolutions passed at Berkeley, but added: "The Young Democrats allow even welcome dissent." Howe, says Representative Wil son, has confused liberty with li cense. "I think l lie also con fuses political freedom with an archy." Huwc's claim that the Berkeley meeting was an "isolated in stance" is reluted by Represen tative Wilson. "Those resolutions are typical of many that have been spewed forth in recent years at meetings of the Cali fornia Young Democrats." Nor are those in the Golden State the only YDs who have staked out tracts on tlie lunatic fringe. Recently YDs here passed a resolution calling for the Dis trict of Columbia to be placed under United Nations control. "If this is meant to be a joke it is in pathetically poor taste." concludes Representative Wilson, "and if it is meant to be se rious 1 shuckler to think what else they may advocate." Representative Wilson demands a top-to-bottom housccleaning of the Young Democrats. President Howe should not accuse I h e Young Republicans of right-wing extremism, the Congressman says. "I suggest to Mr. Howe that he refrain from pointing the lin- ) Russians and tlie United States offers them an alternative. Since there are no outstanding differences between Afghanistan and the United States, this first visit of the rulers is strictly a good will tour. They will visit Geneial Eisen hower at his Gettysburg farm. Governor Rockefeller and U Thant at the United Nations in New York. They also will see Cape Ca naveral, Fort Bragg, University of Wyoming, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Purdue University at Lafayette, Ind., departing from there for home by the way of Beirut, Lebanon. The only incident to mar prep arations for this grand tour was a flarcup over James Michener's latest novel, "Caravan," which is set in Afghanistan. Michener spent two months in Kabul in 1955 to get material for what is not one of his best works. There are some beautiful de scriptive passages on Afghanis tan's rugged mountain and des ert country. But his plot involves a U.S. paval attache in what has always been a completely land locked country and an American girl who marries an Afghan no mad tribal chief, for kicks. What the Afghans don't like about "Caravan" are a couple of incidents about an unfaithful wife stoned to death by her tribe and a murderer turned over to the victim's family for vengeance. Modern Afghanistan wants the world to forget those primitive ways and is sore at Michener. King Zahir, who was educated in France, is descended from a family that has ruled Afghanis tan as an hereditary monarchy almost continuously since 1747. His government has operated un der a constitution since 1931. It is now being revised and modern ized. ' The king recently removed most of the members of his fam ily from high of I ice. For the first time, a commoner, Dr. Mo hammad Yusuf. is prime minis ter. He is a German-trained phys icist. As further evidence of Afghan istan's new interest in higher ed ucation, the king's new ambas sador to Washington, Dr. Abdul Majid, is a University of Cali fornia biologist. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Young Democrats Are In Leftist Control ger of scorn at the Young Re publicans until such a time as his own house is in order. The old expression people in glass houses should not throw stones is entirely appropriate." Congressman Adam Clayton Powell avoids New York like a plague these days as subpoena servers arc waiting to slap him with an order to appear in New York Criminal Court. It is charged he has made no effort to pay Mrs. Matilda James the $211,000 he owes for libeling her. The ever-suave Congressman will depart soon for tlie Arab sheikdom of Kuwait. Powell, who recently delivered a House speech extolling tlie oil-rich Middle East ern state, will travel first class, all expenses picked up by the Kuwait Government. Powell has been told he can take along fellow Congressmen. None has given any indication he will go. The trip's ostensible pur pose is to advise the Kuwaitis on modernization of tlieir education al system. Still another voice has been raised in opposition to tlie par tial nuclear test ban now under Senate study. Big Bill Knowland, former Sen ate Minority Leader, revealed a fortnight ago he was opposed to ratification. "Soviet Russia has never kept its treaty obligations." he says. "Look at what happened to treaties the Soviets made with Hungary, Estonia. Rumania, Po land. Czechoslovakia, the Repub lic of China, and Bulgaria. And tlie Russians violated tlie United Nations Charter during the Kore an War and again during the Hungarian revolt." Knowland points out that U.S. negotiators first insisted on a fool-proof pact. At Geneva, he says, "we started out with de mands (or 100 on-site inspections, and now we end up with no in spections at all." OUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Where was Basin Street? A In the French Quarter of New Orleans where a special tO of musical composition was first experimented with and now is looked upon by some as the birthplace of jazz. (
