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-PAGE A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday. Splembr II, 1961 EDSON IN WASHINGTON "Another Housing Problem Could Shoe-Pounding Era In UN Be Ending? The .- It has now become usual to deplore in sharp terms the all too customary youthful . disturbance which mar big holiday weekends at many of the nation's seaside and other re sorts. They are deplorable. But they are some thing else, too. They are a great big crash ing bore, not only to those who have to deal with them, but to many who hear of them. If some of our psychologists are right and this sort of behavior is designed to be at-fention-getting, its tiresomeness for others ought to be something of a blow to the unruly participants. ; Why is it a bore? - Because underlying this inexcusable con duct is the assumption that life in this coun try for some young people just isn't worth a thing unless it can somehow be juiced up with beer drinking, wild driving, rock-throwing general vandalism and riot. I We all know that America has come a long way from the captivating innocence that marked its earlier history. But can we really accept the idea that for some of us there is no shred of this left? '-. The answer ought to be "no," which is why these tales of youthful depredation are ' so wearying. What is the matter with enjoying a beach as a beach instead of as no more than a setting for a raucous brawl? Why can't trees in a park or wood be ap preciated for what they are, instead of hacked HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C. For those who can't understand why tho American Congress (that is, the American people) keeps resisting the proffered benefits of more welfarism, there comes a help ful hint from a national survey just made in Great Britain, inven tor of the democratic welfare state. . Out of this same study, con ducted by the Institute of Eco nomic Affairs in London, here also rises on explanation of why America's magnetic needle of popular approval keeps pointing at Barry Goldwatcr, who likes people but loathes welfarism. The British opinion pollsters asked a broad selection of citi zenscovering all ages, social classes and political sympa thieswhat they would do with a windfall of 1000 pounds. Blow It on a new automobile, a trip abroad, home Improvement? Or put it into education, health in surance, retirement savings? Astonishingly, a majority of Britons passed up the materialis tic" choices the car, the trip abroad and elected to buy do-it-yourself plans for educating their children and looking after them selves in sickness and old age. In question after question aimed at discovering whether Britons pre ferred state paternalism to pri vate thrift, they came out for the latter. PracUcally everybody who was polled believed In public cliar iy for the needy, but not public control over the welfare spending of the nation as a whole. "The picture that emerges," Aay the publishers hi a bland British understatement, "is dif ferent from the conventional as sumption of almost universal support for the welfare state." Considering that the United Kingdom has been under womb-to-tomb welfarism since the de feat of Churchill's government in 1945, this document, entitled "Choice in Welfare," promises to insert some domestic economic issues into next year's British election. Up till nuw that com ing contest has seemed to be con cerned with sex, scandal and in ternationalism. And considering that Senator Goldwatcr has been taking almost exactly the same positions which Uils British study now enforces, tlierc seems to be some hopo that both of the English-speaking races may get a chance at self-expression on wel farism. A reader who cares to take "Choice In Welfare" in one hand and Goldwater's book, "The Con science of a Conservative" In tht other, will have the exhilarating experience of seeing how a politi cal thinker, while rather under- Dull Delinquents at, cut down or otherwise marred as if they were somehow hostile objects? What is wrong with parties where young sters just have fun instead of trying to break up the place? Who says playgrounds have to become battlegrounds? Why should the baseball park, the football stadium, the swimming pool, ever be the scene of marauding misbehavior? Whatever became of just plain fun, as dis tinguished from "kicks?" We've all heard that youngsters' search for "kicks" reflects their quest for identity, for attention, for manhood or womanhood, for a way, too, to express feelings of hostility engendered by the complex age they live in. Grant all this. It still doesn't let the un ruly kids off the hook altogether. For the many who get beyond asphalt, brick and con crete, the marvelous world is still here to be taken at its worth. And you don't need a primer at hand to respond warmly to the sky, the sun, the wa ter, the trees, the sand and all the games and pleasures linked with them. Unless we are ready to concede that a good many kids are monstrous automatons incapable of feeling the stimulus of these things, then we have to say they have the eyes, the hearts and the minds to respond. Those who react instead of wrecking, corrupting and depreciating what they see ' about them are indeed incredible bores. They are still baffled by one of life's most easily fathomed secrets. ALEXANDER Welfare State educated by modern standards, has the wisdom of insight which wc just don't find in our over educated masters. Goldwatcr didn't possess, and apparently didn't need, those supporting sta tistics to reach the conclusions . which they validate. "Socialism . . " he wrote sev eral years ago, "subordinates all other considerations to a man's material well-being , . . (Social ists) arc, moreover, in a hurry. So that their characteristic ap proach is to harness the society's political and economic forces into a collective effort to compel 'Progress.' In tiiis approach, 1 believe they fight against Na ture , , . Only a philosophy that takes into account the essential differences between men . . . can By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: Pa tience does not mean, as so many people think, merely passive wait ing,' but is a creative act of hop ing for events and preparing one self to cope wiUi them when and if they happen. When tho husband too ardently desires boy children, and the wife wishes intensely lor girls, 1 al ways susiicct there is a latent re sentment against the other sex on both sides; the best marriages seem to be those in which each parent prefers children of the op posite gender. Until wo know more accurately how responsible society is for pro ducing criminals, our system of punishment will be based on ven geance rather than reform. Tlie human personality gives off a scent, like the bodies of some animals: the man who ex pects to be offended usually is: (lie man who Is afraid of being cheated almost always is. We generally react In compliance with the fears of others, which seem to invite our contempt or ill-feeling. Conservatives and liberals might not be such implacable enemies If they knew how des perately each needs the other the conservative to be taught a wider grasp of humanity, and the liberal to be given a deeper sense of reality. Falters claim to be in accord with Na ture." The matter of choice vs. com pulsion is the heart subject of this factual study and of the Gold watcr philosophy. Free enterprise allows people to go into the market and express a preference for schools and doctors, pensions and dentures, while socialism runs a monopoly and allows no preference. The theory that an Affluent Society must look after people because they are too flab by and indifferent to look alter themselves and their needy neigh bors comes a real cropper In the British survey. Goldwatcr, by the light of his own intuition, has been knock ing that theory around the head lor many years. STRICTLY PERSONAL There Is always a good excuse fur nut raising wages: In bad times, conditions don't warrant It: In good times, expenses are high and earnings must be reserved Inr the bad limes that are sure to Willow. If "all Uiings are relative," as most modern people glibly assert, how can we judge among them? for even two relative things need a third thing, which is not relative, to be compared to. The theory of relativity may apply to physics, but it wreaks terrible harm in ethics. The best and tersest explanation of the steady output of creative productions was given by Auer bach, when he wrote: "The little dissatisfaction which every artist Icels at the completion of a work lurms the germ of a new work." Grecian ladies, according to Homer, counted their age from their marriage, not their birth; which seems a much more sen sible treatment of this delicate subject. The myth that a strong army prevents war has carried more nations into war than any other il lusion of mankind; the only thing that prevents war is universal dis armament, which only the weak er nations favor. To paraphrase Hegel's remark about history all we learn from war is that we learn nothing from war. I f H C. Xr A sp J "A v "A K V-hv. v " V- WILLIAM S. WHITE By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON A good deal of junior-grade cynicism on the out side is almost totally confusing what is happening on the inside, and why, in the Senate's grave de bate looking toward ratification of the limited nuclear test-ban treaty- Academic-minded and bureaucratic-minded people who don't know the Senate, and commonly think of it as a large body of inevi tably small and ignorant "politi cians," are attributing all sorts of absurdly melodramatic motives to men in this debate. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Library I have been following the li brary situation in the paper. It seems if the new librarian were hired for the consolidation and Mrs. Cote fired that in all fairness Mrs. Nixon, city librari an, should bo fired too. Then there is some question as to the efficient functioning and interest of the board. Since there are members on the county board who are also on tlie city board, maybe in all fairness there should he a completely new, impartial board appointed to work with the new librarian in formulating pro cedure and policy for the con solidation. The board is appointed by the court, which probably wc should get all new, too, since, according to reports in the paper, instead of a three-man government it has apparently degenerated into a one-man dictatorship. Since when do wc tolerate this In a democratic country? II is time citizens checked into the situation and made some chang es. It has been from small be ginnings and people's compla cency that other countries lost their freedoms to dictatorships. G. D. Rutherford. 1124 Reclamation. Al manac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Sept. 19. the 262nd day of 1963 with .103 to follow. Tlie moon Is approaching first quarter. Tlie morning star is Jupiter. Tlie evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. ; On this day in history: In 1863, Union and Confederate soldiers met in the battle of Chickamauga, Ga. The rebels won the following day. In 1881, President James Gar field died in Elheron. N. J., from wounds inllicted by a disgruntled office-seeker on July 2. In I960, Soviet Premier Khrush chev received a cold reception when he arrived in tac United States to attend the United Na tions General Assembly. A thought for the day Presi dent James Garfield said: "This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for the secur ity of the future I would do everything." Enduring Double Standard The Republican Senate leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois, comes out for the pact. So they run about crying that he is "trying to take over the mantle" of the lale Sen. Arthur H. Vandcnberg of Michigan as a bipartisan for eign policy leader. Or, if not thdt, it is simply that the Kennedy White House has "taken Dirk sen into camp." A sophomoric skepticism here abouts, arising among commenta tors and others who take their line from the anti-Congress es tablishment in this country, has long been based upon the assump tion that Senators are invariably only "politicians." Diplomats and Slate Department advisers and any and all world-disarmers, of course, are invariably "states men." Thus, when Dirksen takes his stand for the treaty as when Senators like Richard Russell of Georgia and John Stcnnis of Mississippi take their stand against it there is instantly a mad search to find elaborate and pseudo-cynical cxplanaUons for very simple truths. Dirksen in fact supports the treaty for the same reason a large majority of its other Senate supporters do. Like them, he is worried about possible tricks by the Russians whose record to date in keep ing their international agreements is far from good. But. like them, he knows that a President of the United States has made this uea ty. Like Uicm, he knows Uiat a President is the final proper authority under the Constitution for the conduct of our foreign af fairs. Like them, he knows that in such matters there can be only one President at a time, be he Democrat or Republican, be he right or wrong. This, tlien. is the far from complicated explanation of why Republicans like Dirksen and Lcverctt Kaltonstall of Massa chusetts back this treaty. It is not that they are "afraid" not to do so. or that Uicy are scram bling for public kudos or some body's "mantle." All politicians. J dunno, bttht gardt of course, want to be reeloclcd. But very few Senate politicians, in things touching life or death for this country, are nearly so afraid of doing their duty, as they see it, as the anti-Congress establishment perpetually believes them to be. . Now, Senators like Russell and Slennis have also read the Con stitution. They, too, know all tlie things that the Dirksens and Sal tonstalls know. But in their case, it happens that their main legis lative responsibilities have long been in the field of military de fense. Thus, they are aware, in a peculiarly intimate way, of the profound misgivings about this treaty which actually run among the highest military officers. From where the Russells and Stennises sit, it carries more risk than opportunity, more possible peril Uian hope for peace. So they oppose it. They do not oppose it in some dark conservative coalition conspiracy against tlie President and tlie liberals. They do not op pose it because they don't like what Mr. Kennedy is doing in Uie South about civil rights. Good Senate politicians the Russells and the Stennises, and equally the Dirksens and tlie Sal lonstalls are abundantly tough in taking care of their political in terests, to a point. But they know where the cut-off is. They know the cut-off is that point where playing politics in the ordinary sense is not permissible because it is playing politics w ith national security and with ultimate duty. In a word, there are now and always have been two political worlds; and there is, politically, an enduring double standard. The rule of thumb among good politi ciansSenators, Presidents and even such lofty types as diplo mats, wherever these latter are able to understand politics at ail is this: Hit tlie opposiUon with every stick at hand on home is sues; but walk softly, and re member personal and national responsibility, when it conies to mortal issues involving this na tion abroad. isyt bt ccmpotri i'4w muilc!" Bv PETER EDSON WASHINGTON - (NEA) -First tests on how much Soviet Russia may have changed its tac tics if not its strategy for tlie cold war will be shown at Uie 18th United Nations General As sembly convening in New York Sept. 17. ' Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland, in charge of international organization affairs, sees a few straws in the winds of change, '- This may be an indication that the Kremlin finally has realized that the underdeveloped countries, the United States and the rest of the non-Communist world find much good in the U.N. and see a future for it in a world of peace. Up to a year ago, the Russians opposed everything about the United Nations. When former Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold was killed in a Congo plane crash, the Russians ex pressed condolences for the man, but had no good word for his of fice. Grumpily, they accepted U Thant as his successor. What tlie Russians really want ed was their "troika" principle of neutral, non-Communist and Com munist administration in the U.N. to be substituted for a one-man secretary generalship. They want ed three undersecretaries in con trol of every U.N. agency, giving the Communists veto power over all programs. When only a few non-Communist countries supported the Commu nist bloc on this reorganization plan, the Russians abandoned it. But they still opposed U.N. peace keeping efforts in the Congo and elsewhere, and they boycotted all such operations, financially. In recent monUis, however, the Russians have changed their tune. Russia's Chairman Nikita Khrush chev proposed that U Thant and the U.N. organization verify re moval of Russian missiles from Cuba. It was Cuba's Fidel Cas tro who blocked that. The Russians thanked U Thant for his services, however. And for the past year they have re frained from criticizing him. They invited him to Moscow for the test ban treaty signing. When the Yemen case came before the Security Council ear lier this year the Russians did not follow their previous standard operating practice of vetoing what was essentially another U.N. By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Trial bal loons, brightly colored pink and yellow, float gently overhead. Scat tered shots have failed to bring them down and there is little reason to doubt recurring reports that Kennedy Administration will shortly resume full diplomatic re lations with Comrade Janos Ka dar's Hungarian government. The first balloon was sent aloft in May, 1962, launched by t h ! London Economist. An account in that journal reported a U.S. Hungarian deal as being in t h e works in which this country would recognize Hungary, drop its oppo sition to tlie seating of the Hun garian UN delegation, and make sure the "Hungarian question" was left off the UN agenda. Predictably, the report was de nied by State Department sourc es. In December, 1962 and Febru ary, 1963, seven U.S. Senators four Democrats and three Re publicans wrote lo Secretary of State Dean Rusk pleading that there be no change in U.S. poli cy toward Hungary. They were, reports Sen. Tom Dodd, assured "There had been no change in our policy." Yet there had been. U.S. dip lomats were instructed to mingle socially with Hungarian envoys at the UN. Vice President Lyndon Johnson laid out the red carpet at his Texas ranch for Hungary's UN Ambassador. Acting on orders from Washington. Adlai Stevenson approved a plan in which Austra lia's Sir Leslie Munro, a steel hard anti-Communist, was sacked as Special UN Representative on Hungary. In May. the State Department sent up to Capitol Hill a top secret Memorandum entitled "Re port on the Changing Situation in Hungary" in which it was claimed that the Kadar regime no loncer operated a Stalinist police state. Tlie report was ridiculed by Hungarian exiles whose pipe lines into Hungary remain in working order. One month later, in June of this year. Ambassador Stevenson laid down a new U.S. policy: Wc would not oppose seating the Hun garian dclejation. Again letters from anxious Con cmxmen reached Foggy Bot gi. On June 18, Assistant Sec peace-keeping operation. Change of policy may not have been Uie deciding factor in this case, though. Maybe it was just that the U.N. mission to Yemen was financed by Uie United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia. It didn't cost the Russians a ruble. In the more recent Security Council consideration of South Af rica apartheid . policies, it was noteworthy that the Russians re frained from their usual practice of beating the United Slates over the head for its racial problems. Such an attack had been anti cipated. Text for a speech had been prepared to answer the Rus sians if they should raise the is sue. It never had to be delivered. Chief Soviet delegate Nikolai T. Fedorenko didn't mention the United States even once during debate on charges of other Afri can nations against South Africa. One reason for this may have been that the Russians did not want to antagonize the United States while Uie nuclear test ban treaty was before the Senate for ratification. A more valid expla nation given is that the Russians themselves are now concerned about the world-wide nature of the racial issue. This had been stirred up by the Chinese Communists. In their dis pute with the Russians, the Red Chinese have tried to propagan dize the idea that they are colored people, too, and that the future struggle Tor world domina tion will be the colored races against the whites including the Russians. Washington officials who keep a close watch on United NaUons affairs are not deceiving them selves that these warm Russian gestures of friendship indicate a thaw in the cold war. Tlie big iceberg of Communist opposition is sUll there. It prob ably will show through the fog when the $96.6 million U.N. budg- ' ct for 11164 is presented to the General Assembly for approval. The special session last spring arranged for financing U.N. op erations only through Dec. 31, 1963. The $200 million in arrearages and the possible suspension of vot ing rights for some members presages a long and bitter battle. Also, the old controversies are still on the agenda Laos, Cuba, the Congo, Korea. WASHINGTON REPORT . . Hungarian Policy Undergoing Change retary of State Frederick Dut ton assured legislators there would be no further changes in U.S. policy. "The Department," he wrote, "has no plans to send a Minister to Budapest at this time." Within a month the situation had changed. No longer was it denied we would send a Minister to Budapest. Dutton referred to Kadar's sweeping amnesty (termed a fraud by exile lead ers'. He said this country must "utilize all opportunities for main taining and broadening U.S. con tacts with the Hungarians." Shortly thereafter, on Aug. 9, the New York Times reported from Washington that "normal tics" between Washington and Budapest were about to be insti tuted. A similar story, obviously leaked from the same source, ap peared in the Washington Star the same day. Radio Budapest broadcast lo the world: Undersecretary of suite Averell Harrimait has met three times with Communist boss Kadar on resuming normal rela tions. I-ate last month, the country's exiled leaders met in Washington and implored Washington to drop all plans for "normalization" of U.S.-Hungarian relations. They said: "Wc believe the Hungarian people oppose any such action by the U.S. Government. Should normal diplomatic relations with Hungary be restored, 100 million people still in Communist captiv ity m Europe will feel that the United States has violated its self-proclaimed devotion to the principle of self-determination. "It will be interpreted that sliecr expediency and not dedication to principles determines the policies of the United States. It will stand as an indication that the status quo in East Europe has been recognized by the United States and the Western Powers. It will demoralize the captive peoples and thus weaken an essential de terrent to aggressiveness In Eu rope." The Slate Department issued a collective yawn. Similar words from Senators Uuschc, Dodd, Keating, Mundt, Scott, Dominick, and McCarthy had been heard before. The striped pants boyi couldn't care less.
