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PA.GE-U HERALD First'Moon Sober second thoughts on President Ken nedy's proposal for a joint U.S.-Soviet moon venture suggest that the immediate fruits, if any, are likely to be limited to the diplomatic field. It may be, in other words, a way of meas uring the intentions and attitudes of the two great powers at a time when, for reasons not wholly clear, certain halting steps are being tried toward a thaw in the cold war. We now know what we did not know when the President included this prosopal in his United Nations speech: a Russian scien tist broached the idea of a joint moon trip . in a September talk with NASA's deputy ad ministrator Hugh Drydcn. The President later communicated with Soviet Premier Khrushchev to learn whether the scientist was speaking for the Kremlin. Kennedy's decision to include this matter in the speech evidently was a last-minute choice. That he did so surely is convincing sign of our earnestness in the search for means of easing East-West tensions. Moscow can hardly be unimpressed. Viewed practically, however, the moon proposal is at this moment a much more du bious proposition. Space specialists studying the notion since the President put it forward make a number of points. They think it would slow down rather than speed up the great rocket leap to the moon. Our space officials and engineers op erating just within the limits set by our own space technology often argue for months and even years over various vital technical IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH do TOLEDANO Harold Wilson, the prime min ister of Britain's "shadow cab inet," has already received the blessing of tho Kennedy Adminis tration. To hear New Frontier Ideologues talk, he is the greatest BTltish Invention since the Spit fire. And It has been made known by the While House circle that it likes Mr. Wilson and admires his brilliance. Brilliant lie is. hut llicre aro aspects to his character and to his program which, it might be assumed, would give our leaders a certain amount of concern. Barring a tremendous reversal of public opinion in Great Bri tain, Mr. Wilson and his Labor Parly will take over tho govern ment at the next election. And with them comes a new foreign policy that will make Franco's Charles do Gaulle look llko an American stooge. For what Mr. Wilson is quietly working for is a "grand coalition" of socialist governments which will edge the United States out of Eurue and set up a neutralist counter force to the so-called Western al liance. The British Labor Party is counting on a victory by the So cialist Mayor of Reran, Willy Brandt, who is off and running for Chancellor Adenauer's job. Few are certain of Ilcrr Brandt's electoral future now that tho Christian Democrats have begun to show sudden new energy. But Mr. Wilson believes that an Anglo German bloc can pin tlie tail on Uncle Sam's donkey. As of Uiis writing, bo has not yet gotten Mayor Brandt's as sent to see eye to eye with the Labor Party's open support for tlie dcmiliUirizatlon of Cen tral Europe. Being somewhat closer to the Communists than Mr. Wilson's Cloud Nine, they are more practical. Although you will never read this in State Department band outs, "shadow primo minister" Wilson is disposed to pull his country out of tlie NATO alliance and to come to a bilateral agree ment with the Soviet Union on such matters as atomic control tlho British socialists lend to a policy of unilateral disarmament dis guised as a step toward tho "relaxation of tensions.") Mr. Wilson argues that by maintaining Iti nuclear force, Great Britain has loft its Independence one of those tany twists of logic which these days pass for statesmanship. AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. ' Stage Is Greater Trust alternatives. The general feeling is that to weave together American and Soviet tech niques might take far longer. They do not say such technical co-operation would be impossible, only that it would be extremely difficult and require a maxi mum amount of mutual good will. All the problems involved would be more complicated rather than less. As small examples, there are the lan guage barrier and the fact we and the Russians do not use the same system of measure ment. Our specialists move from this a far bigger obstacle. Much space technology re mains secret military information, since it is obviously impossible to separate many of the technical factors involved in space flight. The question therefore arises how we can expect to achieve without first lowering major military barriers through some plan of disarm ament. That presumes a level of U.S -Soviet collaboration and an casing of the crisis mood which goes far beyond the limited test ban treaty undertaken as a shaky first step. The fact that the President made the proposal for a joint moon trip may help to increase mutual trust and confidence be tween two great powers caught for long years in dangerous conflict around the globe. Yet, ironically, the proposal's practical worth may depend on our first attaining a much greater level of trust and confidence than now exists. Whether that can be managed is really the central question. Britain's Socialist Tlie socialism that Mr. Wilson triumphantly sees as "sweeping Europe" will crcato a new cli mate of hostility to tlie United States. By insisting on the rec ognition of the Communist regime in East Germany, it will cause strife among the NATO powers. And it will bestow upon those nations swept away by his tide the kind of economic "solutions" to problems that almost bank rupted the British in the postwar years. That Mr. Wilson, like much of the British Labor leadership since the deatli of "shadow prime min ister" Hugh Gaitskell, is pretty starchy about Americans can hardly be considered a secret in ollicial Washington. That the .Stale Department knows where he stands on issues affecting our se curity is also fact. Yet by beam ing at his every word, tlie ad ministration seems, to be offering Its support I and undercut ting Prime Minister Mncmillaiu In highly dubious fashion. Tho Slate Department also knows that Mr. Wilson frowns on the Western allianco as a con solidation of military power against tlie Soviet colossus. This, BERRY'S WORLD m wjv i v "I would likt it promote a tout to the Lot Agtht grant t , , ," Thursday, October 10, 1963 Heirs to the fussy Laborites, is a re actionary attitude. The sole value of the alliance, they and Mr. Wilson believe, is as a debating society which can arrive at "un derstandings" with the Soviets. What the ambitious and ironic Harold Wilson will do to Bri tain's economy is anotiicr ques tion. Ho is already talking of ushering in tlie age of automa tion by a vast "planning" pro gram which will "create ten mil lion new jobs" in the next years. II he means an expansion of the bureaucracy, ho may succeed. But no government has yet been able to spur the growth of the economy by "creating" jobs. Em ployment rises for a complex of factors, but government spend ing, as we are finding nut, is the costliest method and the one least likely to succeed. Great Britain's economy is Great Britain's problem, not ours. But Great Britain's foreign policy directly altccls tlie United Slates. The spread of socialist gov ernments, led by a hostile Bri tain, means only trouble lor the U.S. and it can be tlie signal to tlie Soviets to put aside their jolly "peaceful co existence" for a new version of Stalin's adventurism. "Tel1, We're Not Fanatics About Saving Money" WILLIAM S.WHITE. WASHINGTON Another Oc tober finds an immense change in the American mood from Uiat October of a year ago when we stood at the brink of nuclear war over Cuba. Determination and sensible fear sensibly suppressed; but determination above all these were in the American mind. Tlie new October has arrived with anxiety largely gone and a new and understandable, but also largely unsupported, hope and op timism hanging over most of the nation. We were right a year ago to stand fast as a country in set tled resolve to meet unavoid able peril in the spirit of men prepared to die rather than sur render, even though happily the dice of history turned our way instead of against us. But we are wrong now, as it seems to me, in having rushed over, in a single twelvemonth, from the thick but notably rational gloom of October, 19BB, to tin vary near ly Irrational, besl-of-all-possible-worlds attitude prevalent in Oc tober, 19(13. The partial nuclear test ban with the Soviet Union, though a defensible enterprise and though just possibly some herald of a true casing in the cold war, has not yet cither onded that war or given any assurance whatever of the identity of Its eventual win ner. From much thai is happening now, however, one might suppose that if the worst was not already past, then a good hit of the worst was in sight of being over. So we talk happily u wheat sales to the Russians an appeal ing notion no less to hard-line conservatives than to soft-line lib erals, for conservation are trad ers and trade is an honorable un derpinning of the very capitalist system itself. We talk of cutting back on our multibillion-dollar space program and this is good to hear by both sets for different reasons. Tlie conservatives naturally would like to save the money. The liberals have long been re sentful ut those billions being set aside for the moon when It all might he spent on dozens ol earthly welfnrlat schemes hatched or in incubation. Hut wheat doals with the Rus sians, no matter how momentar ily helpful to our form supplies undeniably strengthen Ilia Rus sians where they are weak. Have wo waited for IT vears for tins weak spot in r .' ' tn dash in now to fill it ar .annul, ap parently, demanding anyliiing in return save the price of tlie wheat itself.' And should we really reduce the space appropriation aven though it Is quite true that the Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Oct. 10, the 2Alrd day of 1IM1 with M to in. low. Tlie moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Those born today include ac tress Helen Hayes, in won. On this day in history: In IM5, the U. S. Naval Acad, emy was formally opened at Fort Severn. Annapolis. In WIS, President Woodrow Wil son pressed a button in Washing ton which caused the last remain ing ohMruclion in the Panama Canal to be blown up. A llwught (or tlie day The English novelist, Jane Austen. nd: "Those who do net com plain are never pitied." No Time For Cutting Back National Spirit President has renewed sugges tions that we might cooperate in space research with the Soviet Un ion? Surely not, if we remain aware of the towering central fact that the power which in the future is first in space will also be first in this world we live in. What the President said, at, any rate, never meant we should lessen our own exertions. It only re stated old American policy in of fering certain cooperative ven tures to the Soviet Union, as we have offered so many others, if, as and when tlie Soviet Union might really like to cooperate. We still intend to be the first In space, as Vice President Lyndon Johnson has just pointed out in behalf of the administra tion. Nothing will change that, un less Congress and the country insist upon heedlessly withhold ing the means to do it. And a little cooperation from tlie Russians In the unlikely event It was given would do no harm to our cen tral purposes. But oven greater than the need for a wise, calm-minded ap proach to all these specific ques ' Hons Is the need for a national spirit which rejects any notion that the game has about been won. Some say wo need hs well tn slum the opposite notion that no concessions whatever should be made In the cold war. To this tho proper answer is "yes hut." It is "yes" wherever such a eon. rossion Is clearly matched by Sovlot concession and wherever refusal would be mere hysterical redox. H is "no" wherever concessions are made simply on same vague notion that we could Ilius, In some ilfy way, improve the International atmosphare. By SVDNKY J. II A R It 1H Purely Personal Prejudices: It's a puulhig 'and fascinating correlation, but has anyone no ticed lhal n't the Insensitive peo ple who always drop in lor a visit at (lie must Inopporluno times, who are the most sensitive about being slighted or troalcd w ith less than regal hojpllallly at such times? Every rhllil knows lhal nnl waters become poisonous, but we fall In apply th same consequences to stagnant minds; unlets tin mind Is permitted to circulate freely and Is contin ually renewed from fresh amirrei, II becomes nut mere ly dull hut positively tnsir. Imposture (ails when it most succeeds: the man who has fooled absolutely everybody must he t lie most lonesome and wretched crea ture on earth; (or the true self must he shared In order to ex perience any joy. Grave and prudent deliberations about marriage generally don't tare any boiler than hasty deci sions; as Samuel Rogers re marked a long time ago: "It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning that it was someone else." What It Is totally Impossible to know (ram even the most Intense readings In history Is whether people In remoter age were as happy as we, happi. or less so: all such statements are guesswork. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Late? I couldn't resist a smile last night when I read a front page spread in your paper about Dis trict Attorney pale Crabtree's warning that his office would "prosecute gambling whenever and wherever it may be found." Why warn them? Anti-gambling laws were in ef fect the day Mr. Crabtree took his office to prosecute all viola tions against the Slate of Oregon. Is he telling us now that he has violated this oath for the past few year regarding gambling? Anyone who is interested must know that card games, punch boards, and so forth have flour ished in this town for the past months and years, and surely the District Attorney is not so naive that he was not aware of this situ ation. Why this sudden good ex ample to our youtti? Upstate, I have heard many times that in Klamath Falls tlie law will be on your neck for a bad check, speeding, or over park ing, but this is the place to commit your crimes of violence. Why worry about a cake walk when the major crimes aren't too vigorously prosecuted? Organized gambling is a vicious thing and it brings hardships to many homes. Violators should be severely punished. However, harmless fun night games that most schools, clubs, and churches plan for char ity won't breed any Al Capones. When money was being raised for the new hospital last year, some of it was raised by so-called lotteries. If Mr. Crab tree was so all-fired righteous, why did he allow that? Why now all of a sudden? Ben Dcttzcl Concerned All this lovey-dovey over com munism that I hear lately from Washington is beginning to scare me. While Dictator Khrushchev I not Premier Khrushchev as used in Washington ) talks about peaceful co-existence, I hear that the word has been changed to peace ful co-operatioii. Many people seem to forget that the Sino-Soviet split was only on how they would further spread their ideology over the world (U.S. included) whether It be by the atomic bomb or by Khrushchev's cancerous growth that spreads its tentacles into everything that free dom stands for. The ultimate re sult is the same. Now 1 hear that wo are going to ship wheat to them. Dictator Khrushchev put all of his men and money into atomic bombs and space achievements to make a big spectacular propaganda show for the world to see. But his do mestic achievements seem to be falling behind. Now I suppose that good old Uncle Sam will pitch in and help him out. Dictator Khru shchev says that he'll even pay for it. That's a switch! 1 wish that all of you would turn to radio station KLAD at 6 p.m. for a few evenings and lis ten to some documented facts that are aired. Just another person who hates to see our freedom slip slowly away. Charles F. Bridges, Sfill Alva Avenue. STRICTLY PERSONAL Speaking of history, it is an ar rogant mistake lo assume that our age can be understood by us if past ages are not just as an , adult cannot be fathomed without penetrating into his childhood: or, as Ortega so felicitously put it: "The song of history can only be sung as a whole." Taken all in all. if a man is dull he is considered "decent," even though he merely lacks the courage of his fantasies. The greatest danger to society does not come (rom demagogues who lie to others, but from fanat ics who lie lo themselves: thus, self-deception is the most serious of human flaws, and all genuine social reform must begin with in dividual insight, or it becomes cor rupted and ineffectual, i If Hitler, for instance, had been simply a politician, and not a psycho path who believed hit delusions, the Getrnan people could not have been enticed into such mass folly masquerading as "reform."' The principal difference be tween the wise man and the toot and perhaps the only real difference is that the former learns (rom the mistakes of oth ers, while the latter lrarn. slowly and painfully, only from his own mistakes. If at all. It is much easier In hold to a negative than to a positive posi tion; for every one person who knows what he stands for. a hun dred know only what they are against and can orient tliem selves only in opposition to something. EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Nothing Consistent About U.S. Policies By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON I.N'EAI - If you're a little fuzzy on just w hat U.S. foreign and domestic policies are at the moment, don't let it worry you and wait a minute. All programs are subject to change without notice and you may have to unlearn everything new you learn, substituting for it something newer. This has happened half a dozen times on big issues in the last fortnight. As Al Smith said, ."Let's ' look at the record": 1. As of mid-September, you could write-it in boxcar letters that the United States was com mitted to getting a man on the moon before the Russians and never mind the cost. Then the President spoke at the United Nations and surprised ev eryone in his administration by saying that the United States and Russia should co-operate in space to save money. 2. Until recently, it was Amer ican policy to have no trade with Communist countries except Yu goslavia and Poland if it would do them any good. But today deals are cooking to sell surplus wheat not only to Russia but also to the satellites and maybe even Red China. Even Congress seems to be going along on this. 3. Since the test ban treaty was signed, there has been a move on in Washington to cut down U.S. forces in Europe because Russia was being so friendly they wouldn't be needed. West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder made a hurry up visit to Washington, however, and then it was announced in Bonn that the U.S. would not cut European forces. 4. All summer long, the Ken nedy administration has insisted it wanted both a tax cut bill and a civil rights bill enacted this year. But alter the last White House conference with congressional leaders, they announced that civil rights should come first and that WASHINGTON REPORT . , , Book Lashes Change In Kennedy Attitude By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON If man is by nature a political animal, as Aristotle once observed, then John Fitzgerald Kennedy must be King of the Jungle. This is the central theme of a wildly controversial new book, among the nation's best sellers, which could well exert a signifi cant influence on the outcome of the 1964 Presidential election. "JFK: The Man and the Myth" is a critical portrait of our Presi dent, the work of veteran news man Victor Lasky. Jtepublican strategists arc so optimistic that they think Lasky's book will have as great an effect on the voting populace as did Harriet Beecher Slowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." That book turned millions of Northerners against slavery and. historians say. may have helped touch olf the Civil War. But GOP National Chairman Bill Miller is probably right when he says the Lasky book may well deal a major blow to the Kennedy chances for re-election. More than 100.000 copies have been sold so far and Lasky's pub lisher, the Macmillan Company, expects to peddle more than a quarter million by November, l!lii4. In his meticulously documented, HM-page opus, Lasky probes the political mind of a President who hires crowd psychologists to ana lyze the screams of teen-age girls at Kennedy rallies, of a President who as a Representative told a Harvard audience in 1950 that he: a. could see no reason why we were fighting in Korea; b. thought sooner or later we would "have to get all these for eigners off our backs"; c. supported the McCarran Act and thought not enough had been done about Communists in govern ment; d. respected Joe McCarthy and thought he "knew Joe pretty well, and ha may have something"; e. had no great respect (or Dean Achesnn or Indeed any member of the Truman Adminis tration: f. was personally happy that Richard Nixon had defeated Helen Gahagan Douglas for U.S. Sena tor in California in 1950. Lasky tells of the Kennedy flip flop, a guaranteed vote-winning maneuver. In 19H0, Richard Nixon was described by John Kennedy as a hatchet man, taking the "low road" in his campaign for the presidency. Ten years earlier, Kennedy had personally deliv ered a campaign check for $1,000 to Nixon's office. Tlie story, orig inally uncovered by Robert W. Richards, ace Washington corres pondent for the San Diego Union, if Congress couldn't pass a tax cut this year, it would have a run ning start on next year. A few hours later this was changed to read that the adminis tration still wanted both this year. 5. Ever since the 1960 cam paign, Kennedy has maintained that he was opposed to the AFL CIO plan for a 30-hour work week lo increase employment. Resting at Palm Springs after a strenuous, overtime non-political work week campaigning for re election, the President announced, "We're going to find the work week reduced." 6. On foreign aid, the policy of cracking down on friendly coun tries that become unfriendly is now so confused you can't make heads or tails of it. Take these cases: Indonesia gets in a row wilh Britain and the new Federation of Malaysia. The U.S. cuts off fur ther aid to Indonesia. This fits the pattern of announced policy. When President Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet Nam or more spe cifically his brother and sister-in-law began to upset U.S. policies in Southeast Asia and make dirty cracks about American second lieutenants, congressmen demand ed that aid be suspended. But it wasn't. When Dominican Republic generals gave a heave-ho to Juan Bosch the first democratically elected president to be supported by the U.S. since 1924 aid was promptly cut off and American ambassador John Bartlo Martin . was called home. But now the Dominican military junta has issued a strong state ment in support of U.S. opposition to Fidel Castro's Cuba. So the betting is about even that the new provisional government will soon be back on the dole, if a pro posed Senate investigation doesn't stop it. These are only a few of many examples. The whole situation adds up to irrevocable, iron-clad policy with a built-in, two-way stretch to give it flexibility. has never been denied by Ken nedy. In 19U3, foes of foreign aid are attacked as shortsighted, ir responsible politicians of the par tisan right. Reporting on a Far East "inspection trip" in 1950, Rep. Kennedy ripped into the principle of foreign aid, saying: "The vision of a bottle of milk for every Hottentot is a nice one, but it is not only beyond our grasp, it is beyond our reach." In 10, a review of Richard Rovcrc's biography of Joe Mc Carthy appeared in the Washing ton Post. Author: John Kennedy, who ripped McCarthy as a wea therman responsible for an omi nous climate of fear throughout the country. He was not so out spoken when McCarthy's popular ity was high, particularly in Cath olic Massachusetts. A campaign contribution from father Joe Kennedy to Senator Joe McCarthy was meant to keep McCarthy from endorsing Kenne dy's opponent in the 105a Senator ial race, Republican Henry Ca ot Lodge. Kennedy wrapped himself in McCarthy's cloak hy stating: "This is the tragic story of China, whose freedom we once sought to preserve. What our slrong men have saved, our diplomats and our President have frittered away." He lashed out at "the Latti mores .and Fairbanks" for lusing China. He and McCarthy were mure than colleagues. The Wis consin solon spent long times in the company of Kennedy and his father in Florida, Massachusetts, and Washington. W hen vote on the censure of Mc-' Carthy came, Kennedy was in the hospital. Even alter he returned to tlie Scnale, Kennedy refused to say how he would hava voted. There are other Issues on which Kennedy has taken every possible position;, rural electrification, TVA, eronomy In government, federal aid to church schools, gov ernmental encroachments on en terprise, the B-70 bomber. Cuba and the Cuban exiles, Laos and summit conferences, to mention a few. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q-Whea was the U.S. Military Academy opened al Writ point? A-July 4, 102. Q-ln what honk of the Bible Is there reference to a man's name adding up to the number Ms? A-This is found in the 13th chapter of the Book of Revelation.
