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FACE 4-1 HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Fall. Oregon Thursday, September 12, 1K3 1 dbbiiaL (paqiL Let's Let Cattlemen Alone The livestock men have so far been pret ty successful in keeping the government regu lation cudgel out of their business and as a result the beef industry has been held up as an example of what free enterprise can do if allowed to work over the years. ' So there is little wonder that the cattle raisers are concerned at the present threat of a change in federal policy. The United Stales Department of Agricul ture proposes to get into the game with a plan to pay subsidies to farmers who convert their crop lands to grazing fields as a stimulant to greater livestock production. Unless some thing like this is done, Administration spokes men say, there is likely to be a shortage of meat by 1970. Population, they argue',, will be overtaking and passing production by that time. But a dubious note comes from the heart of the ranching country. In the Alliance (Neb.) Times-Herald, Gene Kemper, editor, points out that production of any commodity follows the market. "If there is increasing demand," Mr. Kemper insists, "producers react according ly." "Of late, in fact," he goes on, "there has been an abundance of beef and at times prices have sagged to the point where many producers found themselves operating at a loss." It is pointed out that the government sub sidy program has been one of the most costly failures in the history of man. And here we might stop to point to two examples to justify this statement cotton and wheat supports. We have priced our cotton out of the world market, and have been forced to resort to export subsidies thus "putting our textile man ufacturers at a disadvantage, and we have piled up surpluses of wheat, producing a con dition which caused the farmers themselves to reject the government's compulsory sub sidy crop restriction program. No wonder the livestock men fear what . the government hand might do to them should it be thrust into their business. The American National Cattlemen's As sociation has called attention to another men ace in the government plan. "Cattlemen," it says, "do not object to free, vigorous competition or investment of risk capital, but they do strongly oppose cur rent administration proposals to use tax dol lars to subsidize newcomers into the already crowded beef cattle business." A free cattle industry has always pro vided us with plenty of beef at fair prices. What's wrong with a business that can do that? Milwaukee After 'Suede Shoe.' Boys The city of Milwaukee, like every metro politan area, to say nothing of every little hamlet, is plagued in the summer by the boys who are known in the building trades as the "suede shoes boys." These are the fly-by-night home Improvement salesmen who ring door bells and have their offices either under their hats, or in a brief case in the car at the curb. The Wisconsin city is considering a new ordinance to curb these fellows. It would re quire every phase of the home improvement business to obtain a special city certificate to operate legally. The story is the same over and over again. Elderly people "taken" by glib promis es and scare tactics about the roof falling in, or the furnace blowing up. This line is so "wern out as sales material that one would think it is known by now by everyone. But it isn't and thousands of dollars are thrown down the drain by property owners. Another way Milwaukee's proposed ordi nance would try to put a stop to some of this kind of selling would be to require the sales men to be fingerprinted and to wear identifi cation badges, which would be obtained at the city clerk's office. The badges would be1 is sued only after investigation by the police de partment. This may be the way to stop this shady way of selling, but we doubt it. The "suede shoes boys" will find a way. The best possible method is for the public to use some common sense. Don't sign any contract for repairs until after a thorough in vestigation of the company. Show the paper to a lawyer. It's better to spend a few dollars than to lose hundreds. Call the Better Busi ness Bureau. Do business with only estab lished companies who will stand back of their work. Consult the reputable building supply firms in a town. They know who is reliable in a city. And above all, don't slip up on a slick sales talk. 2siA HOLMES ALEXANDER . . . Scientists Dominate By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON. D.C.-The Eng lish novel, far more than Its American cognate, otten takes us into social history and philosophic discourse Illuminating the Truth ir. our Times as mere Journalism and even history can never do. The hooks of John Galsworthy and C. P. Snow, two English men of letters, demand the at tention of those readers who try to read each day's news against the dynamics of Western capital ism and industrialism. In a new biography of Gals worthy. "The Man of Principle." Dudley Barker shows how the author wrote a nine-novel work, carrying the I'orsyts family from the crest of Queen Victoria's Em pire to Uio trough of Britain's depression In the late littOs. Soanics Forsyte, the central char acter, begins by Inheriting a middle class fortune, which he sedulously increases through shrewd investment, nnd by work ing hardly at all. lie becomes such a "man of property" that he treats his wile as one of his possessions. In a memorable scene, Soames forces his loath some altenUons upon Irene while she Is in love with another man. In a later book, the "man of property" continues in Hie pred atory role, and this time ' he chooses to risk the lilt of his second wife in hope of assur ing himself of an heir to his name and fortune. But as Galsworthy grew more thought fu'i and mature although the liberal critics called It less thoughtful and more callous he saw wealth in a different light. "Men of property" in his novels become the stabilizers of (lie so cial structure. They collect art, found charities, supply the re investment for Industry, face up to every national crisis and sus tain the Empire in its Indian summer days, which come with the bloodletting of World War I and the rise of Labour. Galsworthy became an admir er of wealth and success, but a sympathizer toward poverty and failure. In the later novels. Soames develops a tenderness toward his flighty daughter. Fleur. and he grows a soul of iron out of which theie sprouts a sense of pity, a love of beauty, a worldly wisdom about the ways of men and nations. The Letti:,t reviewers of his mature writings, and of his posthumous publica tions, never forgave Galsworthy tor not following the Liberal line much as they never forgave Churchill but "The Forsyte Saga," in its entirety and In its major parts, has survived all the debunking to stand as an artistic monument to and record of Brit ish capitalism in Us prime. C. P. Snow, in tltc biographical critique, "The World of C. P. Snow," by Robert Greacen, picks up the English story in lt33, the year of Galsworthy's death, but now it is a different tale. Pri vate wealth has ceased to mat ter, and knowledge scientilir know ledge is I lie touchstone of power. Snow alto writes a multi novel, unfinished saga, but his unit is not the family; It Is the scientific community. Neither wealth nor knowledge. It appears, turns men into gods; but these prized possessions lay a challenge upon the possessors facing them with an obligation In serve soci ety with wisdom and compas sion. The biographer writes: "To risk a generalization: the single theme that exercises Snow's mind in creative writing is ambition and the struggle for power among men." This struggle affects all of us very Intimately because, as Snow's fiction and non-fiction holh stress, our future is almost exclusively In tltc hands of the scientists. The statesmen dare not decide great matters without scientific advice. Neither the na tional defenses nor the nation's industry can function without sci entific administrators in the seals of power. The scientific frater nity, like the Forsytes, are called iimn to exert the English quali ties of (air play, common sense and fortitude of mind and soul. Each of these authors, the con servative Galsworthy and the left-of-ccntcr Snow, have written pan oramic novel-serials which ap proach the dimensions of an epic a literary composition in which tltc heroes enact the tale of a race or nation in this instance, ol Western Civilization. THEY SAY.. Is milady so Insensitive and such slave to fashion that site would knowingly be a party to the extermination of one ol na ture's most magnificent crea tures? Nations! Audubon Society, ap pealing to women la stop feuying leopard skin coats because the animal farri extinction. Can Play Them All!" WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK I Fotogs Forget Kennedy By WASHINGTON STAFF WASHINGTON (NE.V-A news photographer covering the While House asked Pierre Salinger, the President's press secretary, whether cameramen could take a picture of President Kennedy signing the emergency rail labor legislation. , "That ail depends," said Saling er. "On what?" asked the photographer. "On what time of day the bill comes down from Capitol Hill," replied Pierre. "If the Presi dent signs it in bed at 11 p.m., there won't be pictures." Actually, the President signed the bill at 6:14 p.m., just after I he March on Washington lead ers left his office. All the photog raphers were outside on the White House lawn taking pictures of the leaders and everybody for- STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: We respect Washington, we ad mire Jefferson, but we venerate Lincoln; the difference being that the first was a great American, the second a great mind, but the third a great human being. In the perspective of history, It is always the total personality that counts for the most. Young women who are un successful In finding husbands comfort themselves with the belief that their successful com petitors have employed some "scheme" to ensnare the male; In this way, they convert their defect of appeal Into the asset of "honesty." No phrase in politics is more dangerously inaccurate than "middle-of-the-road," which con stantly changes as the road winds left and right. Today's "middle-of-the-road" Republican, for instance, is almost a Social ist compared with his political ancestor a quarter-century ago. A man who has thoughtlessly taken up your time recognizes no obligation, as he would if he took your money yet the former debt can never he repaid. If we took the trouble to learn the jargon of philosophy, as we learn the jargon of an automo bile, we would soon find that much of what we consider "dif ficult" or "intellectual" reading is no harder than understanding, at least roughly, how a trans mission or differential works in a car. Most incomprehension is laziness, not lack of sense. Why Is It that the people with the most wind generally have the worst memories, so that they can't tell five-minute anecdote without revising and amending It for a half-hour? Nothing is more annoying than the person who tries to remem ber the name of someone, w hen the name has no relevance to the story. The most important lesson for efficiency (and for peace of mind) was expressed by Josiah Quincy, when he said: "When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most dis agreeable first." The floundcrers and the (lubbers reverse this or der, and thus have no energy left (or tltc most disagreeable task at lite end. Nothing makes a liar out of a man (aster than being in debt. think, iai , , , If vsu M f,n HollywotJ liar, I d kan bai it maJt by newl" got to go inside to shoot the sign ing. Reggie Smith, who rollerskated . the 685 miles from Chicago to Washington in 11 days to par ticipate in the March for Equal Opportunities, probably got his biggest thrill when he w-as noti fied that a place had been saved for him on the Chicago delega tion's special 34-car train (or the trip home. President Asa Philip Randolph of the Negro American Labor Council was asked at a press con ference if he w-as satisfied with AFL-CIO President George Mca ny's stand on the March on Washington. "He did not endorse it and he did not oppose it," Randolph re plied. "He was just noncommittal ly noncommittal." When it was announced that 1.514 chartered buses had brought almost 70.000 marchers to Wash ington from all over the United States, the punch line was that Phil Randolph, as long-time head of the Sleeping Car Porters Un ion, had done more for the bus es than any railroader in history. A day or two before California's Gov. Edmund G. Pat Brown and his wife took off on their European tour this summer, Mrs. Brown was Matching a gay group dancing. Someone asked: "Mrs. Brow n, does P a t dance?" "Yes, he does." she answered, "but I'm afraid his dancing leaves something to be desired Frankly, I think lie zigs when he ought to zag." Every big brass in Washington makes a slip of the tongue now and tlien. So it was perfectly understandable when U.S. AID Administrator David E. Bell told a press conference: "Our trade relations with Ja pan are really very good. They buy from us a great deal more than we sell to them." Texas Republican Sen. John Tower stuck his head in the door at Sen. Barry Goldwatcr's quar ters the other day and announced: "We're thinking o( moving into offices right across the hall from you. If you have any objections, you'd better offer 'em now." Goldwater's helpers of course had none. Tower is one of the Arizonian's staunches! political al lies and his ardent backer (or the 1964 GOP presidential nom ination. To have Tower as a kind of back-up pilot across the hall from Gnldwater will save both men countless steps. Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert, answering questions about the controversial TFX fight er, now called the F ill, said that the contract with General Dynam ics was being "delinitized." Reporters guessed this would be the new-model Pentagonese word, replacing the obsolete "fi nalized." Rep. John Bell Williams. D Miss., new president of the Con gressional Flying Club, explains the honor by noting: "Undoubtedly I was elected be cause I was the only member absent at the meeting." Q NOTHING SPECIAL I don't know whether you've noticed or not but more and more people are walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk. Most of the time we shrug off such minor changes in the pat terns of life. But not this one. Those of you who haven't been too preoccupied with things like space rides, test ban treaties, war threats, tax cuts, tax refer rals and baseball pennant races, might have taken note of this change in our walking ways. I realize that we all duck for the marquees and store awnings when the sun is too hot, or rain threat enswhich means that many of us are on the wrong side of the sidewalk. But, lately, I've noticed more and more people just plain walking on the wrong side for no good reason. See for yourself the next time how ofton you have to move to the left to let others pass you on the right. Who are these left - footed oddballs? Why do they prefer to use the left-hand side of the sidewalk in a right-handed coun try? Why do they refuse to get over where they belong? Can this be part of an insidious leftist movement? The red-blooded American way to meet the wrong-sided pedestri an, of course, is to stand or1 walk your ground and bump him back to where he belongs. This is impractical for at least two reasons. One is that it would be impolite. The other is that the left-footed clown invariably is too big to handle and you might wind up being walked on. Think about it. Let me know when you have the answer. I think I have carried this sto ry before. But, somebody left it on my desk the other day, and (W. B. S.I it's worth repeating. A customer wrote to his newspaper editor thus: "Dear Editor: Thursday I lost a watch which I valued very highly. Friday, I placed an ad in your lost-and-found column and waited. Saturday. I went home and found the watch in the pock et of another suit. God bless your wonderful paper." I could retire nicely In my old age If I could sell my ex perience for what It has cost One of the local clothing stores ran an ad the other day pointing out that leather elbow patches are "in" for this fall's men's fashions. Now, if they'll declare frayed cuffs and torn pockets fashionable, I'll be right back in style. , It is said that an eel swim ming in oil is the slickest thing. But a good many guys will tell you the seat on the water wagon is slicker. Nice to see that the city Is doing something about Pacilic Terrace below Esplanade and Melrose. And I hope they don't stop with just one block of im provement. And while I'm at it. I believe the City Council is 100 per cent right in its efforts to rid the city of undesirable and untenable buildings through condemnation procedures. I wouldn't want to see the program get out of hand, but so far, every indication is that the city officials are han dling the task with prudence and every consideration for the prop erty owner. Some people sim ply have to be forced to assume their citizen responsibilities. An executive is a fellow who knows nothing except how to select the right man for the right job. WASHINGTON REPORT . Republicans Hope To Elect In Mississippi By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Their fingers crossed, Mississippi Republicans believe they have a fighting chance to elect their first gover nor since Reconstruction. He is Rubel Phillips, an articu late young lawyer who hopes to capitalize on Democratic squab bling to win the big prize this November. On paper, GOP chances look almost minimal. Republicans have but one mem ber of the State Legislature. Not even Dwight Eisenhower could capture the Magnolia State in his presidential campaigns. Figures from the Democratic primary run-off of a week ago, however, give Phillips cheer. In that race, voters chose Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson over former Gov. J. P. Coleman as their guberna torial nominee. Biggest reason for Coleman's de feat: He supported John Kennedy in I960. Republicans feel it will lie impossible for Johnson, a mem ber of Kennedy's party, to attack Phillips on the Kennedy issue. Phillips is a Goldwater Repub lican. His advisers are confident the Arizona senator will enter the slate to aid the GOP ticket, which will include candidates for local school boards as well as the gov ernorship and for county com missions as well as the post of lieutenant governor. Phillips can be expected to make overtures for support to Coleman and Charles Sullivan, the latter a some-time Democrat and staunch conservative who ran a strong third against Johnson and Cole man in the first Democratic primary. Sullivan supported Coleman in the run-off and the odds are good that he will throw his con siderable weight behind Phillips. Coleman (who received 193.000 run-off votes) is another matter. A lifelong Democrat, he has yet to publicly back any Republican. While he may not support Phil lips, one thing is certain: Cole man will do precious little to aid Johnson. Another Democrat who may be reluctant to support Johnson is Son. John Stennis, nationally prominent chairman of the Sen ale Preparedness Subcommittee. It is no secret that Johnson hopes to unseat Stennis. an old factional foe. In the Democratic Senatorial primary next year. Johnson's probable candidate, lame-duck Gov. Ross Barnett. I. Lee Potter, director of the National GOP's Operation Dixie, expects Phillips to run an unusual ly strong race. He said: "Our candidate Is young. He is attractive and he is well-spoken. What's more, he is a died-in-lhe-wool conservative. "Republicans never enter cam paigns in Uie South as favorites. Few gave John Tower a China man's chance to win election to the U.S. Senate from Texas. He did. "In the past year we have won significant victories across the South, in Georgia, in North Caro lina, in Texas, in Alabama. With Mississippi, we have an excellent chance to spring the biggest upset of them all." Oklahoma Republicans are talk ing up Bud Wilkinson, one of the nation's best football coaches, as their Senatorial candidate next year. Wilkinson has led the University of Oklahoma's team to a spar kling record. He serves now as director of the President's Youth Fitness program. Wilkinson, tall and handsome, has never run for of(ice. Close friends describe him as a Gold water Republican. Oklahoma voters last year elect ed a Republican, Harry Bellmon, as their governor. Senatorial candidates have in the past made strong races. The Democratic incumbent who must run next fall is former Gov. J. Howard Edmondson, who appointed himself to the seat held by the late Sen. Bob Kerr. Edmondson is certain to face primary opposition. The GOP hopes to put up a united front in its campaign. Al manac By United Press International Today Is Thursday. Sept. 12, the 255th day of 1963 with 110 to follow. The moon is approaching new phase. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Saturn, Mars and Jupiter. On this day in history: In 1609. explorer Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River. In 11114. American forces suc cessfully defended Baltimore , against the British in the War of 1812. In 1945. Gen. Douglas MacAr thur ordered the secret terrorist Black Dragon Society dissolved in Japan and arrested many of its leaders. A thousht for the day Na poleon Bonaparte, the French militarist, said: "Unite for the public safety, if you would re main an Independent nation."
