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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon
Friday, September U, 1961
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
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Fitness
: ; The President's Council on Physical Fit
ness has issued another one of its pamphlets
intended to make you healthy. Its title: "Adult
Physical Fitness A Program for Men and
Women."
. Government Printing Office has pub
lished 250,000 copies of this 64-page pocket
booklet which shouldn't go very far among
180 million people. But you can get your copy
if you hurry by sending 35 cents to Super
intendent of Documents, Washington, D.C.,
Zip Code 20402.
No author's name appears on this latest
government guide to your life, but this is
the program that Coach C. B. "Bud" Wilkin
son of Oklahoma has been working on for a
couple of years as Consultant to the President
on Physical Fitness.
The only name that appears in the pam
phlet is President Kennedy's.
In an introductory message he says:
"Ours is not a regimented society where
men are forced to live their lives in the in
terest of the state . . . But if we are to re
tain freedonl, we must be willing to work for
those physical qualities upon which the cour
age and intelligence and skill of man so large
ly depend ... I urge each of you to follow
these recommendations . . . The government
cannot compel you to act, but freedom de
mands it."
In other words, this is something you can
and should do for your' country get healthy.
llalf of the booklet is for women, half
for men, with five levels of exercise for each.
It is lavishly illustrated with photos, instead
of the usual diagrams and sketches.
: The models are Gail Tirana of Wash
ington, in leotards and sweater, and Marine
Lance Corporal Hubert E. Henderson, In tights
and sweat shirt, going through all the contor
tions. : Both appear as though they must have been
disgustingly healthy even before they began
to exercise.
Henderson poses for one uncaptioned
photo showing him fully dressed, looking at
HOLMES
-By HOLMES ALEXANDER
WASHINGTON, D.C. - How
many remember a generation aRO
when John T. Flynn wrote "Coun
try Squire in the White House,"
a deflationary biography of Presi
dent Roosevelt? Or remember
Charles A. Beard's "President
Roosevelt and the Coming of War
in lull." a bill of indictment
which accused FDR of joining a
war to lick a domestic depres
sion? They were brave men,
Flynn and Beard, driven by con
science to smash what Uiey re- .
garded as tlie Images of a false
god-head, knowing that It meant
the sacrifice of their careers.
Flynn, having been a widcly-pub-Hilled
writer on serious subjects
In; die best publications, found
himself reduced to seeking Infe
rior publishers and doomed to hav
ing no audience except tlie Roose-wit-haters.
Beard, after having
been a beloved Jiguro and the
most prestigious historian of his
age, ended defiant but descried by
his peers, a speaker before small
audiences on the isolationist cir
cuit. Now, In Uic pre-season warm-up
for another presidential campaign,
we have two biographies of John '
K Kennedy. They are as unalike
a two books on the same subject
cjii be. Hugh Sidey, a Time cor
respondent who has covered Mr.
Kennedy (or five years, goes a
way toward disproving the adage
(hat no man can be a hero lo his
valet. What Sidcy does prove is
that the "valet," which Is to say
a person who clothes his master
in robes of glory, Is doing the
smart thing when he tells the
work) what a hero that master is.
Sidey's book, "John F. Kennedy,
President: A Rcporlcr'a Inside
Story," is not a full-throated pane
gyric, because tlie autlior Is care
ful not lo get himself laughed out
of town. But whenever he Is
forced to admit some rip or stain
in the royal raiment, lie is there
with nimble fingers to sew It up
or sponge it off.
For instance, tlie re Is the mat
ter of tlie millionaire President's
total Ignorance of everyday eco
nomics, let alone the complexities
of national monetary and fiscal
affairs. Sidey concedes these gaps
in hi Harvardman'i education,
fcut shout Mr. Kennedy after two
years in office, and after some
Council Keeps Busy
television. This doesn't look like exercise,
but it probably shows the correct posture for
sitting straight in a chair while watching tele
vision. This is; the kind of exercise people
won't do. He isn't eating, either.
Miss Tirana, fully dressed, poses for
another uncaptioned photo showing her in
front of a mirror, doctoring her eyebrows
with a lot of beauty preparations
This is also the kind of exercise that too
many gals can overdo. But the text explains
that you need have no fear of becoming un
attractively muscled if you take real exer-'
cise. ,
There are some other unorthodox gener
alizations which may surprise you.
A heart specialist is quoted as saying,
"The best insurance against coronary disease
is exercise lots of it."
You have 600 muscles. You may have
been able to count every one when tired. But
the booklet states chronic tiredness comes
from not taking enough exercise.
Regular exercise, it says, can slow down
the physical deterioration that accompanies
aging. By delaying the aging process, proper
exercise prolongs your life.
Even Harvard is dragged into the act
as authority for the statement that "one-half
hour of exercise daily can keep off or take off
as much as 26 pounds a year."
In addition to the illustrated push-ups
and stretches and bends and tortures you in
flict on yourself in your own home, the book
says you can exercise while at work:
Don't ride elevators bound up stairs
two at a time.
Suck in your abdomen, hold taut a
few seconds.
- Instead of coffee breaks, take exercises.
If you lack privacy for this do, "iso
metrics." ,
. Isometrics, it says, is pulling or push
ing against an immovable object, such as a
wall, using various muscles to perform a se
ries of brier exercises, several times a day.
Gosh!
ALEXANDER . .
Double Image In
budget busting in the billions,
turning to high-class tutors. Sidcy
has Dr. Walter Heller, head of the
Council of Economic Advisers
right there with the patch-job:
"Walter Heller proudly pro
claimed Kennedy 'the best stu
dent 1 ever had.' "
As for the Bay of Pigs. Sidcy
swabs manfully to rub off the
stain with bombast, and seeks to
change the subject, as a well
trained valet should do. How did
Mr. Kennedy emerge as Comman
der in Chief of that disgrace?
"The valiant try which fails,"
says Sidcy. "but which is born of
heroic Intentions often wins from
Americans as much admiration as
does triumph. Apparently Amer
icans so regarded the Bay of
Pigs."
As if not sure of his handiwork,
tlie biograplier quickly points else
where, and bursts into poesy that
would shame a Banana Republic
laureate:
"Then," he writes, "on May 5th,
like a gentle, cooling rain in a
draught, came Alan B, Shepard.
While tlie whole world watched,
tlie slender astronaut rode a great,
bellowing Atlas missile into space
and back agHin."
NoUiing short of a gargle of
vinegar could rid the palate of
such goo as this, and Victor Las
ky's "J.F.K.: The Man and the
Myth" is a handy acid for that
Hirose. The talk cf the town is
tltat come timid financiers of the
book publishing world tried to
suppress this astringent biogra
phy for fear of White House re
prisals, and that White House op
eratives also tried a hand at
"book burning." Not believing ei
Uier rumor, but willing to be
6hown. 1 did a little loot work
nd discovered that (lie author's
contract carried die strange
clause that he would reply "No
comment" when asked If there
had been any aUempt to scuttle
his work. My own observation Is
that the Kennedys' reputation for
banditry in news management Is
such that Uiey are held guilty till
proved Innocent, but In Uiis case
it's (air to say that tlie proof is
still missing.
Just the same, tlie Kennedys
nave met In Victor Lesky one
very tough hombre, indeed. He
Just doesn't believe on word about
Books
the "myth" which is set forth in
the valet's story, and 1 can't find
that lie has a smidgen of respect
for the "man," either. John F.
Kennedy emerged from these 653
pages of remorseless dehunkery
as a feckless imposter who bull
dozed and bought his way into
power and sits like a spoiled
princeling playing mumblotypcg
with his scepter.
Tlie caricature is as overdrawn
as a Herblock cartoon of Barry
tioldwater, and it will infuriate
one set of partisans as much as
it will titivate their opposite num
bers. Lasky works out of New
York and relies mostly on pre
viously published materials, but
he makes the adverse commen
tary I including some skeptical ob
servations troin this column) roar
like a barrage.
The chief casualty of both these
biographies is JFK himself. The
valot dressed him too fancy, and
tlie detractor left him In tatters.
Too bad because JFK is a mun
for all that.
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Violence
In reading of the violence and
destruction by the young people
of our time, ore we putting the
blame where it belongs . . . how
many children are brought up to
respect their elders or have com
passion on animals and tlie less
iortunaH?
This was brought to mind tlie
other day when I tallied to two
youngsters who had been taken
on the archers' deer hunt. It
seemed both had hit a deer
but not killed It and they made
no effort whatsoever to try lo fol
low it nor did it bother them one
lota that tin deer was wounded
and may die a slow death ... all
Uiey thought of was that they had
lost an arrow . , , when are we
going to put stop to this sort of
thing?
Emma Burk.
P O. Box W2.
THE GLOBAL VIEW
By LEON DENNEN
Newspaper Enterprise Analyst
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NEA)
President Tito is expected to
stress the "realism" of an East
West nonaggression pact when
he meets with President Kennedy
during the fall session of the Unit
ed Nations.
Neutralist diplomats see Yugo
slavia's chief emerging in a new
role of "independent" negotiator
as a result of his latest agree
ment with Premier Khrushchev.
Yugoslavia, though Commu
nist, remains officially independ
ent of the Soviet block of na
tions. Tito perhaps more than
any other neutralist appreciates
the great economic advantages of
"nonalignment." Practically every
industrial plant he showed Khru
shchev during the Soviet Pre
mier's recent swing through Yu
goslavia was built with the help
of Western, especially American,
funds.
Tito also expects a $25 million
grant and a $25 million loan in
U. S. counterpart funds, prom
ised recently by Secretary of Ag
riculture Orville Freeman, to help
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
It is pitifully easy, of course,
to laugh at crackpots and no
where more so than ir. a newspa
per office, which is besieged dai
ly by crackpots of every descrip
tion as well as by those defy
ing all description.
When we stop deriding, or de
spising, these obsessed creatures,
and try to analyze their motives.
I think we find the same basic
drive in all of them: the deep
desire to bring order out of chaos.
A crackpot is a person who is
looking for a guiding principle
ir. life. He wants to be able to
put his finger on one wheel in
the machinery of life, and say
"This is what makes everything
turn around."
He may think "the answer" is
to be found in the pyramids, or in
dietary habits, or In a n e w
kind of currency. Whatever it
may be, he thinks the world Is all
of a piece, and that he has found
tlie key to it.
It is commendable that he looks
for a guiding principle in lite:
most of us are too lazy or too
pleasure-and-profit-bcnt to spend
even a few moments thinking
about ultimate questions. In one
sense, we are not good enough
"r serious enough to become
crackpots.
"A fanatic," it has been said,
"is merely a person who serious
ly practices what we only
preach " Society, in one respect,
is indebted to its fanatics for
achieving what "reasonable" peo
ple never thought possible.
Where the crackpot goes wrong,
it seems to me. is in ailing to
recognize the diversity of tlie
world.
One of the wonders of God
is His infinite originality. The
universe Us scientists are only
now beginning to discover! is mil
a cold, mechanical operation, but
an organism of tremendous va
riety, When we get into I he
heart of an tom, we find that
Honor Bogus Alliance?
rebuild Skopje, destroyed by
earthquake. Counterpart funds are
Yugoslav currency earned by the
U.S. from sale of surplus farm
products.
The Yugoslav president, with
Khrushchev's agreement, is not
likely to forfeit massive U.S. eco
nomic aid by becoming a full
member of Uie Moscow-dominated
Warsaw Pact military alliance.
But U.N. diplomats now expect
Tito to become the diplomatic su
persalesman of Russia's brand of
peaceful eo-existenee and especial
ly of Khrushchev's nonaggression
pact.
A nonaggression pact between
the Warsaw alliance and NATO
remains the cornerstone of Mos
cow's current diplomatic offensive.
It thus will be Tito's first major
diplomatic assignment as .an "in
dependent" though a Communist
friendly to Moscow to sell Presi
dent Kennedy Uie supposed great
advantages to peace of an East
West nonaggression pact.
Why is Premier Khrushchev so
eager to sign such a pact with
the West? In the view of special
ists on Russia, the Soviet Premier
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
it has more freedom than scien
tists of tlie past ever imagined.
Fundamentally, the crackpot is
looking for a religion, being un
satisfied with the traditional
lomis.
Now, it is better to look for
a religion than to be unconcerned
about the questions It tries to
answer; but a religion cannot
he something smaller than man
and all the crackpot "solutions"
snbe only a fraction of man's
problems.
"In my Father's house are
many mansions" a certain book
tells us, as an enduring reminder
that diversity, and not uniformi
ty, makes for goodness. No
body has exclusive possession of
the art of living well otherwise,
the Potter would have seen to it
that all His pots were cracked
in the same way.
BERRY'S W0RLDf i;
"Sir, uauld ytu tbart yaur umbrtlU? . . . my new
Wt art getting filltd uitb Mix."
aims, among other things, to raise
the prestige of the Warsaw Pact
alliance by putting it on the
same level as NATO.
Khrushchev wants the two al
liances to appear as equal. He
will then be in a position lo tell
the West: "Each of us has its
own system of alliances. They
are equal. Let us, then, sacrifice
equally by dissolving our military
bonds in the interest of peace."
But. the fact is that the War
saw alliance was never more than
a front for putting the armies of
Moscow's East European satel
lites under Russian command.
When the Warsaw Treaty was
first signed by the Russians and
their East European satellites, in
cluding Communist East Ger
many, in 1955, Khrushchev de
scribed it as a counterpart to the
Free World's North Atlantic alli
ance. But the Warsaw alliance
never approached even remotely
NATO's international significance.
Moscow did not succeed in per
suading a single independent Eu
ropean nation to sign Uie Warsaw
Treaty.
However, the Soviet premier ob
viously hopes to isolate West Ger
many and eventually destroy i
NATO by dangling (he dissolution
of the Warsaw Pact alliance as
bait at the diplomatic bargaining
table.
A nonaggression pact would also
give Russia's colonial empire,
reaching to the river Elbe, recog
nition by the West. It would be
used by the Reds to convince tlie
Poles, Czechs. East Germans,
Hungarians. Romanians and Bul
garians that the Free World con
siders them in the Russian orbit
and is no longer interested in their
freedom,
this at a historic moment when
the Red empire is cracking due
to the bitter quarrel between
Khrushchev and Red China's Mao
Tse-tung.
It is considered highly unlikely
even by neutralist diplomats in
the UN that Tito, for all his pro
fessed independence, will per
suade President Kennedy to fall
into Khrushchev's trap. But some
members of tlie Kennedy adminis
tration are apparently convinced
that a nonaggression pact of the
type favored by Khrushchev and
his newfound ally Tito would be
a logical implementation of tlie
nuclear test ban agreement.
By PETER EDSOV
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON 'NEA' This is
going to be a piece about fall
tourism and the beauties of na
ture in autumn.
President Kennedy is going to
travel through Pennsylvania and
nine western states Sept. 25-29.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New
York is visiting five states in ear
ly September prior to a swing
through Europe Sept. 24-30. Mrs.
Rockefeller 11 is going with him.
Sen. Barry Goldwater so far has
accepted invitations to deliver lec
tures in 10 states and there may
be more later.
Any evil thoughts that there are
political implications to all this
should be promptly scrubbed from
the mind. Because these three
tourists say they are nonpolitical
tours. The remote fact that there
is a presidential election in 1954 is
said to be purely coincidental. Sep
tember and October are simply
the perfect months for vaca
tioning. Flying weather is perfect most
days, before the fogs of Novem
ber and the snows of December
set in. And there's a nip in the
air that makes every patriotic
public official want to get out and
inspect the crops after the fall
harvest. That's all there is to it,
gentle readers.
Why, President Kennedy him
self says he is just going, out to
check up on conservation and
reclamation and the recreational
facilities behind power dams and
government-made lakes.
The White House announcement
said the President would inspect
national parks, seashores, wil
derness areas. So you can see this
is just a nature lover's holiday.
Anything to get out of Washington
for a breath of fresh air.
Anyone who thinks that what
the President would really like to
conserve and reclaim are six
western states he lost in 1960
North Dakota with four electoral
votes, Montana tour, Wyoming
three, Utah four, Oregon six and
California 22 is a meany.
Goldwater isn't even a presi
dential candidate yet, according
to him. The Draft Goldwater'head-
WASHINGTON
Robeson Believed
Victim Of Kidnap '
By Fl'LTON LEWIS JR.
WASHINGTON Reports from
London indicate that Paul Robe
son, prominent American leftist,
may have been spirited behind
the Iron Curtain.
For more than a year now,
there have been authoritative re
portsin the French press and
elsewhere that Robeson was rea
dy to denounce the Communist
Parly.
-It was only a few months ago
that the Negro singer's wite shot
oft angry letters to this country's
Worker and National Guardian,
denying the reports. The letters
were postmarked London where
Rubeson, who had criticized his
American homeland, was receiv
ing treatment for "nervous disor
ders." Observers found : it signi
ficant that Robeson's wife, not the
fabled singer, had signed the let
ters. Robeson left London under cir
cumstances that can only be de
scribed as "mysterious." He was
bustled aboard an Ilyushin jet tor
a non-stop flight to East Ger
many. The Daily Telegraph's Da
vid Floyd wrote:
"Paul Robeson's 'protectors' de
cided to smuggle him out of Brit
ain and behind the Iron Curtain.
It was becoming increasingly dif
ficult for them to deny he had
changed his opinions on commu
nism, but nevertheless he could
not be exposed to the qucstionins
of newsmen. The only way out?
Put Robeson completely out of the
reach of the free press."
One of those aboard the Polish
plane that carried Robeson to
the workers' oaradise that is East
Germany was John Osman. a
long-time British newshnund. He
wrote subsequently:
"Robeson sat in flight like an
effigy in his seat next to the
plane window. In flicht. I intro
duced myself to Mr. Robeson, w ho
smiled charmingly and seemed
about to talk to me. Angrily, his
wite. who told me that she knew
Judo and would happily use it to
keep people away from her 'com
pletely exhausted' husband, de
manded I leave Paul and return
to my own seat, Paul ... sal
silently as his wife gave orders."
The Robcsons, who traveled to
East Berlin with a top-ranking
Polish diplomat, were met at the
Schocnfield Airport by officials of
the East German regime. Soon
afterward official reports ap
peared denying Robeson had been
kidnaped. He would receive "med
ical treatment" in East German
hospitals, the Communist reports
said. .
The House I'nAmerican Activi
quarters in Washington says it is
doing nothing to promote his tour
or get out the crowds. They still
aren't speaking to each other. Na
ture lover Goldwater is just go
ing to inspect the grass roots.
Two of his appearances will be
before Republican women who
are great gardeners in Chicago
Sept. 11 and San Diego Oct. 3.
Four of his appearances will be
just to help the Republicans
raise funds in Pennsylvania
Gov. William W. Scranton, a po
tential rival, invited him Okla
homa, New Jersey and Massachu
setts. Goldwater will visit JFK's
home town of Boston Oct. 16 to
show how much he loves him.
In New York, Goldwater will be
fall guy Sept. 17 at a Buffalo
Circus Saints and Sinners affair,
which is just for fun. In New
York City he will attend a Fi
nancial World dinner Oct. 31,
which is strictly business. And he
wouldn't think of trying to take
delegates away from Gov. Rocke
feller. Or .would he?
Goldwater and Rockefeller will
both speak at the Western Repub
lican Rally in Eugene, Ore., Oct.
12. They will speak at different
times in different halls so nobody
will get the crass idea of com
paring the two men or their views.
Also, Gov. Mark Hatfield is a
GOP presidential nominee possi
bility and neither Rockefeller nor
Goldwater want to undercut Ore
gon's own favorite son. Or would
they?
Rockefeller's real interest is
said to be the Republican gover
nors' conference in Denver Sept.
14. His other dates are Oregon,
111.. Sept. 7: Huntington, W. Va.,
Sept. 21, and Roanoke, Va., the
next day.
Of course, there might be some
real political significance to
Rockefeller's European trip. Vice
President Lyndon Johnson is in
Europe now, preparing the ground
for his possible candidacy for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion in 1908. Rocky can't afford
to let Lyndon get ahead of him
tliere. as tlie two might be rival
candidates five years from now.
But as for 1904 perish the naugh
ty thought.
REPORT
ties Committee will hear testi
mony this week from at least
ten youngsters who defied State
Department bans on travel to
Cuba. Several of those who or
ganized the jaunt are known Com
munists, according to President
Kennedy. Others will be unavail
able for HUAC testimony. Two
women stayed behind to have ba
bies, their delivery free of charge,
thanks to Fidel Castro's system of
Medicare.
Several of the travelers are
waiting behind in Madrid. Spain.
One of these, John Glenn, is a
3-i-year-nId lawyer froro Blooming
ton. lnd. He told Spanish report
ers all was rosy in Castro Cuba.
Many Communists, be said,
wished to side with Mao instead
of Khrushchev in the ideological
battle racing between the Com
munist giants. "Cuba's heart is in
Poking, but its stomach is in Mos
cow," Glenn explained.
As Chairman of the House Wavs
and Means Committee. Rep. Wil
bur Mills has been a major stum
bling block to enactment of many
New Frontier programs.
The dnughtv little Democrat has
lorned thumbs down on Medicare.
He has altered considerably the
President's tax legislation. Now
President Kennedy is reported to
have solved, the Mills problem:
anooint him to the Supreme Court.
The report, widely circulated in
Mills' home state of Arkansas,
has not gone over well. The
reaction of the Arkansas Demo
crat. a Little Rmk newspaper!
ir. typical: "The appointment of
t rncressman Mills to the Supreme
Court under tlie present circum
fiances would set a new prece
dent for low, cynical and calculat
ing political connivance."
Al
manac
Rv I nltrd Press International
Todav is Friday, Sept. 13. tlie
2slh day of 19S.1 with 109 to fol
low. The moon is approaching new
pha-e.
The morning star is Jupiter.
The evening stars are Saturn,
Mars and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1759, the British defeated the
French in the French and Indian
War on the plains of Abraham
overlooking the city of Quebec.
In 1788, congress authorized tlie
first national election
In 1943. Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek w as elected president of
the Chinese National Government.
In 1954, Maine elected its first
democratic governor in 20 years.
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