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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.