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.