Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1963)
PAGE-8 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, October 7, 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Congress World's Greatest Deliberating Body The South Seeks A ! The Wallace- Barnett plan for slates of in dependent presidential electors, committed in advance to no specific candidate, probably will never get off the ground in 1964. But under some conditions, the South might plump for a man like Georgia's Sen. Richard Russell. It is acknowledged widely that Presi dent John F. Kennedy is in major political difficulty in the 11-state Old South and some border territory. Since in noncampaign years opponents tend to be more vocal than proponents, there ijpno way of being sure that Kennedy's un popularity is sufficient to deprive him of states lfce Georgia and North Carolina which Would be making a real wrench if they desert ed the Democratic ticket. The animosity toward the President con ceivably could have such breadth and depth, though there are many who doubt it. Assuming the defections might be se rious, one confronts next the unlikelihood of most southern states going for a Republican candidate of the complexion of New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. It is a Kennedy-Rockefeller race, in the view of some southern observers, that might well produce a separate Democratic-conservative movement in the South behind Russell or some other. Death In Another hunting season is upon the land. Millions of Americans will take to the woods this fall in quest of every form of game from cottontail rabbits to Canadian moose. All will go with high hopes of success and of return ing proudly home with filled bags. But, the American Medical Association tells us at least 200 of these hunters will not return under their own power. They'll be brought back dead the victims of hunting accidents involving guns. The rules of gun safety are fairly volum inous but they're also simple, founded on the hard rock of down-to-earth common sense. Here are some pf the basics; Know what you're firing at before you pull the -trigger which means be certain that rustle in the brush was made by a deer, and not another hunter. IN WASHINGTON . . . Mac's By RALPH lc rrOLEDANO Very hush-hush, Defense Sccre tary McNamara has asked his as sistants to mako up plnns (or a new and, 1 believe, dangerous method of procurement. There is much grumbling and head-shaking at the Pentagon over the projected move, but as one vet eren official put it, "In this ad ministration, you do as you're told." What Mr. McNamara hopes to put into effect is grandiosely called "counter-cyclical procure ment." What it means is chilling to the blood. The Pentagon, if Secretary McNamara has his way, will buy military hardware not as it is needed but as the economy calls for massive pump priming. In other words. If tliere is pros perity in the land, then military procurement will be drastically reduced no matter what the in tonational situation. If unemploy ment begins to rise, the Pentagon will rush through orders for new weapons or re-orders (or old ones. If-missiles are in short supply, the Pcnlngon w ill Ignore tho fact just so long as the nation's econ omy is on the rise. Thus, "counter-cyclical procure ment" or procurement that runs against tho economic cycle. Secretary McNamara' Penta gon Is being organized to employ this "counter-cyclical procure ment" as soon s possible on a regional level and in political (ash Ion. Tha Office of the Secretary of Defense Is highly elated over Its "Project 60" which divides the country into 15 regions. Each re gion is under a special procure ment officer Who reports directly to tha secretary, Ignoring re sponsible civilian and military of ficials. If the regional chief feels that tilings aren't going too well In his area, he is expected to let Mr. McNamara know so that de fense funds can be siphoned off into the district. Here, again, this Is a new wrinkle. In the past, the Pentagon was expected to favor to some degree depressed areas in allocating defense con tracts. But under Project 60, need (political or economic) rather than efficiency or low cost is the ma jor criterion. Under "counler-cyclical procure- The Hunting Never climb through or over a fence with out first unloading the gun. Never shoot at a flat, hard surface rico chets can wound and kill. Never look down the barrel of a gun to see if it's loaded. And keep the safety on until you're ready to shoot. Keep guns and ammunition away from children. Be absolutely sure guns carried into camp or home are unloaded. Keep them cased until your hunting area is reached. Remember that alcohol and guns can be a lethal mixture. In sum, treat a gun with the respect it deserves. Work on the principle that it's always loaded and ready to fire, even though you know it isn't. Then all the armies of hunters yourself included will come home under their own power. Dangerous ment" the nation's military pow er w ill decline when we are pros perous and rise when we arc hav ing economic I roubles. Or so it would seem. But since the lead time on weapons Is so great and adversely affected by slup-and-gn procurement the money neces sary to prime tho economic pump would be a long time going into the pipeline of production and larger sums would be needed. De signers of new weapons systems if this administration over gets around to such matters would never know whetlier or not their blueprints are ever to lie used. The chaos in procurement would be fantastic. Under Project 60, there would bo another dangerous factor. If regional economic needs are In be the guideline for procurement, who is lo say if political consider olions are supremo. Already this administration is penalizing stales which happen to be Republican, BERRY'S WORLD 1 "Cbarttt, bow rfo you expect us to meet lb Sovitl ebltengt in education if you tbink of tb library only at a plac to neck'' S avior Obvtiously, in these circumstances, a man of Russell's evident stature might com-. mand a high proportion of the South's sub stantial electoral vote. It would go well beyond anything Govs. Wallace of Alabama and Ross Barnett of Mississippi could muster for their limited "independent" effort. In the southern political bank, the latter two have little credit. But careful, thorough soundings by one veteran of the national political wars suggest that an independent southern movement would evaporate completely if Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona should be the 1964 Republican nominee. A check has been made with a consid erable number of key southern Democratic senators and some other leaders. Without ex ception they indicated that GOP nomination of Goldwater would have such appeal in their territory that voters would feel no need for another conservative, anti-Kennedy slate. Most of these leaders would not be likely to come out openly for Goldwater. But at the minimum many would refrain from endorsing and working for the President. The Solid South? Clearly this is now just a phrase for the pages of history. The region is in the greatest political flux it has known since Reconstruction days and bids fair to stay fluid for years to come. Season Move and tossing the juicy contracts to those presumed to be Democratic. Most frightening of all is the consequence of these new forms of procurement. The Pentagon is the nation's biggest customer, spending well over $53 billion a year. It it is to pick and choose tho time for making this or that weapon, guiding itself (however conscientiously! by its reading of economic signs, then it will in effect begin to control the econo my. Us experts, moreover, will have to keep a grip on a variety of raw material sources. This can only lead to a repressive ef fect on the free market which lo work at all will have to suc cumb to wage-price manipulation. All of this explains why civilian and military officials at the Penta gon look so worriedly at Secre tary McNamara. They do not know what he will do next or what area of the national life will fall into his grasp. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) It has taken Congress the full nine months-plus to give birth to its first two important decisions of the year on Uie test ban treaty in the Senate and the tax bill in the House. In this period Congress has That Far By MARQUIS CH1LDS WASHINGTON While she may be heaven's gift to television, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu's impend ing visit to the United States is regarded with something less than enthusiasm by officials respon sible for the foreign aid program. Word has come from the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, where work on the authorization of funds had progressed lo the mark-up stage, that the whole business must be put on ice until after Madame Nhu has her say. She is going on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Issues and An swers, Today and wherever a tele vision camera is trained on her dynamic personality. Madame Nhu has an impetuous way of expressing herself, as wit ness some of her recent comments about American officers and Bud dhist monks. She is too clever by half, which is one thing friend and foe alike agree on. And the real concern is that with each ap pearance she will put another stone in the way of foreign aid not only for her own country, South Vict Nam, but for the en tire program. Tho uproar in Saigon and the Madamc's explosive words are only part of the .bad luck that has (logged the program at the very time widespread disillusion was setting in. Two other events came along to make a triad of misfortune haunting officials who must work with Congress to get another year's appropriation. President Sukarno in Indonesia let loose his more wild-cyed fol lowers to burn the British Em bassy and seize Britisli properly. This Is another act in the long and dismal pattern of irrespon sible nationalism. Instead of get ting down to the hard and difficult tasks facing a new country Sukar no indulges his people in periodic outbursts of Indonesia first and damn the consequences. Taking on new and even more complicated problems, as in his insistence on forcing the Dutch out of New Guinea, t lie flamboy ant Sukarno distracts attention from past failures. In the outly ing islands fertile land is com paratively empty in marked con trast to the dense crowding in Java. Yet little if any progress has been made in resettling farm families. An air force equipped with jet planes by the Russians is exhibit "A" in the nationalist display Sukarno puts on. Foreign aid was designed lo help newly developing countries pet on with tlie hard tasks (or which I hey are so ill equipped, and there have been gains in In donesia. Inflation has been damped down But measured against the country's rich resourc es it is far too little, and patience is rapidly running out. Tlie third in the miserable triad was. of course, the tragedy of the Dominican Republic and the over throw of Juan Bosch. This heart breaking reversal came as it had begun to appear that tlie Do minican Republic under Bosch's leadership was demonstrating the success of representative govern . ment working in close harmonv l3i been able to give fewer than 100 of President Kennedy's 250 legis lative recommendations any con sideration at all. Two-thirds of the administration program hasn't even been taken up in commit tee for hearings. In addition, more than 8,500 bills have been introduced in the House and more than 2,100 in the Senate. Of these 11,000 measures And No Farther' EDMUND VALTMAN, HARTFORD TIMES WASHINGTON CALLING . . Setbacks Abound In Foreign Aid. Program with tlie big neighbor to the north. The same gangster-like military who were the agents of the Tru jillo dictatorship seem to have tak en over again. These faceless men are making the proper anti-Communist sounds, hoping for the belated blessing of Washington. If they get away with their piracy no government in Lat in America can feel secure. That is the dilemma for American policy-makers. As though the real troubles were not enough rumor has furnished others. American aid is supposed to have provided Emperor Haile Selassie, of Ethiopia, a current visitor in Washington, with a yacht with his private quarters lined with solid gold. The fact is that $3,000,000 went to convert a mothballcd seaplane tender as a flagship for Ethiopia's coastal force and as commander-in-chief tho Emperor has quarters papered with gold wall-paper at $1.25 a roll. President Kennedy's associates say he now realizes that he made the initial mistake when he named a committee of conservative busi nessmen to expertise tlie foreign aid program. The theory was that they were to be educated on the need for Ihe program and their weight would persuade Congress. But General Lucius Clay took over and the end result was a chilly report which forced a cut of near ly a half-billion dollars in the President's original estimate of $4.0 billion. So matters have gone from bad In worse as Congress delays. And waiting in the wings is 'Rep. Otto Passman who, along about mid November when appropriations arc finally considered, will come rushing out with both guns firing on his favorite target. It Is in this slate of suspended animation that aid administrator David Bell and his deputies are trying to buoy up their hopes and some how keep the show going. Al manac Ry United Press International Today is Monday. Oct. 7, the 280th day of 13 with 83 to fol low. Tlie moon is approaching ils last quarter. The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Those born today include Amer ican poet James Whitcomb Rilev, in 18-tn. On this day in history: In 1777, American revolutionary forces led by Gen. Horatio Gates defeated the British in the second battle of Saratoga. N. Y. In l0, at least 31 persons were killed or missing when typhoon Kit hit tlie Philippines. In 1981, 37 persons were killed when a BriUsh Derby Aviation DC 3 crashed in the French P renees. A tliought for the day James Whitcomb Riley said: "The ripest peach is highest on tlie tree." originating with congressmen, fewer than 100 one per cent of the total have been enacted into law. Only five new laws passed this year are considered of major im portance. These facts and figures empha size the need for reorganization of Congress better than all the words in the 17,000 pages of Con gressional Record proceedings. Congress isn't exactly on strike against the rest of the govern ment. Both Senate and House are working longer and harder this year than in any Congress since World War II. But the end result is a slow down and an inability to make decisions that is more crippling than a strike. What Congress really needs is the same kind of action it took in tlie railroad labor crisis lo prevent a strike. If Congress can't modernize its own work rules to eliminate leg islative featherbedding, it should turn the job over to arbitrators empowered to bring in a binding decision. But the chances for any such action this year are slim. Under bipartisan sponsorship of Senators Joe Clark, D-Pa., Clif ford Case, R-N.J., and 30 others, the Senate Rules Committee has finally cleared a reslution to set up a Joint Committee on the Or ganization of Congress. Similar resolutions have been introduced in the House by Reps. John V. Lindsay, R-N.Y., Henry Reuss, D-Wis. But nobody outside of Congress is pushing this project. And what it needs more than anything else is a public lobby to demand re form. It has even been suggested that President Kennedy could well show a little more interest in this project, since he has been the principal victim of congres sional leUiargy. While the President keeps up a front of not wanting to interfere with Congressional procedures, he certainly interfered on reor ganization of the House Rules Committee. Assuming that the Clark-Case LETTERS TO THE ' EDITOR Denial In view of District Attorney Crabtree's Antigambling Drive I would like to relate a couple of facts that have influenced our American society and are similar lo Mr. Crabtree's Drive. France has a very slight prob lem with youth and alcoholism in comparison to that of the United States. This is because the French youth is brought up with alcohol and it is nothing new to him, while in the United Staes it is security or a symbol of manhood to the youth. Someone is denied something, so they go out and get it and sometimes it causes trou ble where as when they have ac cess to it, it causes no trouble. "The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended to force the American colonists to buy their sugar and molasses from the British West Indies. Supplies purchased from the French, Dutch, or Spanish is lands could be imported into the colonics only after the payment of a very high duty. Since tlie Brit ish West Indies could supply only about one eighth of the molasses needed by the colonists, the act almost compelled colonial mer chants to evade the law. "But for a long time Great Britain did not seriously attempt to enforce the Molasses Aot. In stead, the British government fol lowed a policy the statesmen re ferred to as salutary neglect. Tho government was content, as one British statesman put it, 'to let sleeping dogs lie.' "In 1763, however, the British government needed money to pay ils war debt. One way to secure tliis money was to adopt a new mercantile policy. When Ihe Brit ish government began, after 1763, to develop this new policy, it ran head on into real trouble. The conflict did not end until the thir teen colonics declared and won their independence from Great Britain." (Rise of the American Nation, Todd and Curtis.) This goes to show Cut when a group's income is cut otf, it only leads lo rebellion. Mr. Crabtree probably be lieves his reasons (or tins Anti gambling Drive to be sound, and I may bo wrong in criticizing it, hut I believe denying lodges, churches, clubs, and schools some of tlie milder forms of gambling that they participate in is going to cause trouble, especially when it is a major source of income. Will our community-building or ganizations be able to build good citizens of our youth in (ace of Uie eminent trouble to be caused by this farce? Name Withheld. resolution can be sieved through the crowded congressional "col ander" this late in the year, the Joint Committee would be auth orized to make recommendations to improve organization, simplify operations and attain better rela tions with other branches of gov ernment. Three other resolutions ap proved by the Rules Committee would permit study of specific re forms: Set aside four hours of each session for debate pertinent to legislation under consideration and nothing else. Allow committees to meet . without obtaining special permis sion while only routine business is being considered. Authorize Congress to handle matters pertaining to the budget more efficiently and expeditiously- But reform of Senate and By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The high incidence of troubled youth in our time of which ju venile delinquency is only one as pectis caused by many com bining factors, and it would be foolish to isolate one factor for special blame. Yet it seems to me that, if society is a seamless garment (as I believe), the problem of the young is related lo the problem of the old. In our society, in our time, both the young and tlie old are detached from the core of family life. This pattern is distinctively new in tlie 20th century. We live in the age of the "atomized family" father, mother, and children re volving around the axis of a com mon income. The old-style "clan family" has all but been abol ished, except in parts of Europe or in some rural communities. I was the last of my family lo have been born in a house that contained not only parents, but grandparents and uncles and aunts as well. I was born in a "three-generation" house, but my children were not, nor will their children be. Each family constel lation of parents and children is now its own separate galaxy. As a result, there is isolation at both ends. The old people live alone, or in dreary nursing homes (except for the few who can af ford otherwise); while the chil By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON For $20,000 a year, you'd think Ed Guthman could mind the store. As Bobby Kennedy's number one press agent, Guthman should be available to members of the press at least from 9 to 5. There were several days last week, how ever, when Guthman was no where to be found. Not that several score newsmen didn't try. The story begins Aug. 30, when Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan sentenced James Landis to 30 days in prison. Landis, a former Presidential adviser, had neglect ed to file an income lax return for several years. Soon afterward, rumors began to circulate: Landis would com ' plete his prison term without ever seeing tlie inside of a prison cell. Landis, it was said, was holed up in high-priced room in a posh New York hospital. Darkness Pa vilion, receiving credit for his jail sentence. Spokesmen at the pavilion would say nothing except that "our in structions from tlie Justice De portment arc to refer all calls concerning Mr. Landis to either Edwin Guthman or Jack Rosen thal of the Justice Department public inlormation office." Guthman was "out" and would not be back for several days. No, his office had no idea where he might be leached. Rosenthal, too, was unavailable for comment. A secretary told one newsman: "It has taken five days to reach Mr. Rosenthal. That's how very busy this oMiec W hen located by this office. Ros enthal admitted Landis was in the hospital, in a J48-a-day room, guarded by two male nurses at all times. But, Rosenthal ex plained. Landis pays part of the S-W out of his own pocket. Rosenthal insisted the Landis case was not tlie first time a con vict had served out his sentence w itliout even entering a prison hos pital. When pressed, however, he said he could not remember anotlier case. House rules which are respons ible for many of the delaying tactics used by congressmen op posed to a pending measura during floor debate would again be excluded from consideration by the new Joint Committee. Senator Clark and others are of the opinion that no real streamlining of Congress can be effected until its antiquated work rules are brought up to date. ' Senator Case is spokesman for another group which believes the power of committee chairmen must be curbed. Any action Congress might take on reforms approved by the Sen ate Rules or House Administra tion committees could not be made effective before Jan. 1, latio. That means the 1964 session will have to plod along under existing traditions which encour age inaction. ' STRICTLY PERSONAL. dren grow up lacking that wider contact with the adult world that was formerly provided by clan living. Whatever disadvantages may have inhered in the old system, I think that its breakdown has a significant relation to the wide spread discontent among young people and the increasing sense of forsakenness by old people. Any feeling of continuity through the generations is lacking. It is this continuity, this sym pathy, that we still find (although diminishing) when we visit a coun try like Italy, where the genera tions intermingle freely within the same house and neighborhood. But. America is predominantly the country of the young middle-aged: tlie children have their own world, and the old people are pushed into limbo as speedily and as decently as possible. In the history of mankind, the truncated parent-and-child family is a social novelty and psycholog ical burden. Discipline is harder, recreation becomes structured and external to family living, indif ferent sitters lake the place of grandparents or uncles and aunts: in short, the home turns into a launching-pad and is no longer seen as a refuge. I have a strong conviction that we will not solve the "problem of tlie young" until we attack the "problem of the old" at the same time. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Landis 'Serving' Term In New York Hospital Congressional opposition contin ues to mount over Marshal Tito's upcoming slate visit. South Caro lina Democrat Strom Thurmond told Senate colleagues that Yugo slavia's Tito is one of the wiliest and most dedicated Communist operatives in the world. The invi tation, he said, should be rescind ed. Oiiio's Frank Lausche. maverick Democrat, stood on the Senate floor to quote from Tito's chief aides lo tlie effect that their loyal lies lie only with Mother Russia. New York Congressman Frank Becker, a Republican, has intro duced a bill that would deny the use of federal funds for any ex penses incurred by Tito on this trip. Likelihood for passage is slim, however, as tiie Democratic leadership is almobt certain to have the measure bottled up. , Support of Tito's visit by Speak er John McCormack is a 180-de-grce turnabout for Uie Massachu setts Democrat. During the Eisen hower Administration, as Major ity Leader, McCormack led a suc cessful House revolt that persuad ed Ike to cancel plans for a Tito visit. All during the Senate debate on ratification of the parlial nu clear test ban, administration leaders insisted that U.S. accept ance of the same treaty as East Germany did not mean tacit recog nition of Uiat state by this coun try. Tlien one day, State Department press agents slipped up. Under secretary of State W. Averell Har riman called in tlie photogra piiers for a special celebration. A representative of Malagasy i Mad agascar) was scheduled to make his naUon tlie 100th country to sign the pact. Hours later, the department rea lized that East Germany and Out er Mongolia (Communist puppet states we do not recognize had been numbered among Uie first 90. They quickly announced that tlie Malagasy Republic was the 98th nation to sign.
