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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, October 13, 1963 'Hey, Guess What - People From China Have Been. Escaping To My Country' WILLIAM S. WHITE . jW - Vi i fddbuou (pans. Hard Look At Trade In - A new look at United States relations with Europe may be in the making. Its major elements are economic trade, tariffs, for eign investments and balance of payments. But back of these strictly business issues, is seen a need for reappraisal of political -and military ties. It looks toward a more equitable sharing of all free world defense costs, including foreign aid for the develop ing countries. This prospect is emphasized by the White Jlouse Conference on Export Expan sion, which drew over 200 top business lead ers to Washington. This conference concentrated on enlarg ing America's already favorable surplus of exports over imports. But this is seen as only one element in the much larger problem of bringing all U.S. international relations into better balance. .'.European business and political leaders have a much different view of this complicated world situation than do American leaders, says Dr. N. R. Danelian, president of Inter national Economic Policy Assn, This is a pri vate research organization servicing a num ber of American corporations in foreign trade and investment. ' "Even if the United States could solve its balance of payment deficit by increasing ex ports," says Danelian, "many Europeans feel the result would be depression for them. They believe that any increase in U.S. exports would make them lose business at home, or it would take away European export markets in third countries." An important factor in this situation is the ' growing desire led by President Charles de Gaulle of France to make Europe more self sufficient economically and militarily. The American plan for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization nuclear defense force under U.S. leadership is dead, says Danel ian, because Europe would not buy it and pay its share of the costs. Similarly, he reports that Europeans have no intention of reducing their existing tariffs against American automobiles and ag ricultural products In which U.S. exporters believe they have the best chance to increase trade with Europe. If this report is accurate, it docs not augur By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) Report ers who accompanied Vice Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird on their latest overseas junket to Europe were charged $U8 apiece. The price in cluded round - trip transporta tion, hotels and meals and was a real bargain in vacations. But when one reporter said his paper didn't eel the trip was worth the price, lie was told: "Better come along, or you might miss the boat in 19fi8." Arizona's Sen. Barry Goldwat er, a leading candidate for the 1964 Republican presidential nom ination, runs a major Phoenix de partment store on the side. Dem ocrats are now trying to make hay out of it. Bumper flickers seen on the streets of Phoenix read: "Back to the store in''M." Richard Aldrlch, New York Gov. Rockefeller's first cousin, was considerably helped by that fam ily tie in his successful hid for election as a New York City councilman-at-large. Recognizing the problem. Al drich's opponent, John Lamula, flooded the voters of New York with last-minute ads and post cards urging them to "Be MY Cousins" on election day. When the votes were counted, I-amula was 342 "cousins" short of victory. Responding tn Increasing pre dictions that Congress will be in session until Christmas, Sen. Karl Mundt, R-S.l)., just shakes his head and notes: "With all the New Front irr spending bills still pending, this rould provide Santa Clans with the toughest competition he's ever - had." . . When Philip M. Kaiser. S. : ambassador to the Republics of Senegal ana Mauritania, came horn to announce to his family several years ago that he hail been appointed assistant secre tary of labor, ha admlls he felt .rather proud of himself. At dinner that night. Kaiser's 6-year-old ion announced that j WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Could Be Left he was planning to be a doctor. A few minutes later, lie changed his mind and said he had de cided to become a linn tamer. Then, looking at his father crit ically, he asked his mother, "Why is it that some men, like daddy, don't bocomo anything?" Sen. Ken Keating, R-N.Y., overheard a conversation be tween wo young Indies on on elevator which he says "might very well be tho final feminine .word on tlic matter of automa tion In this modern age." "One of them said," Keating relates, " 'I know that some of these machines con lake tho place of three men. But .person nlly, I'd rather havo the three men.' " Sen. Gale McGce, P-Wyo., a "Ovtr Ltrt, MtJamt Kbit ut drop Ibt BERRY'S WORLD Order well for success of the so-called "Kennedy round" of tariff reduction negotiations scheduled to begin next spring with "trade t7ar" Christian A. Hertcr as chief U.S. bar gainer. If the United States cannot increase its exports to Europe, perhaps the next best opportunity for reducing the American bal ance of payments deficit may be found in in creasing foreign investments. Their earnings could be brought back to this country as profits. Europeans, however, are afraid of the competition from American investments over seas and would like to curtail them. At the same time, Europeans oppose any curbs on their investments in the United States. They help the Europeans earn dol lars on which they can demand payment in gold. This is a constant threat to the American gold reserve and another major point of dif ference on economic policies of the two con tinents. The final and most troublesome differ ence is over foreign aid. The United States wants Europe to bear an increasing share of the aid program for developing countries as another means of reducing America's balance of payments deficit. The European justification for not doing more in this field is that the United Stales, , with the highest living standard in the world, can best afford to give foreign economic and military aid and should continue to do so as its duty. Europe spends less than 6 per cent of its gross national product for defense, com pared to the U.S. 11 per ccnl. Germany pays a share of the European NATO defense costs by buying considerable military equipment from the United Slates. The other NATO countries pay back nothing, but bask in the collective security of American nuclear protection. If the United States was to suggest that it would have to reduce its military aid out lays, a loud scream probably would be heard. But as a bargaining point in seeking a new ar rangement for more equitably sharing such costs, such a suggestion might be justified. . . . Behind former professor at the Univer sity of Wyoming, got a left-handed compliment in the following letter on his chances for reelection next fall: "I'm still convinced that you are the best history prof I've ever had and I'm looking for ward to seeing you back on t lie faculty at Laramie after next fall." A query on whether wandering camels are "natural hazards" nrN "casual obstacles" on an Afghan istan golf course has come inln Hie Slate Department (or a ruling on the State-U.S. Information Agency Recreation Association's Tenth Annual World-Wide Golf Tournament, It gets under way in the mid dle of September on more than 711 courses in the United States and 50 foreign countries. if your rfii r low, troxrtml By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Paul J. Corbin has been called many things in a stormy political career. Civil is not one of them. A protege of Robert Kennedy's, Corbin dispenses patronage in a vital post at the Democratic Na tional Committee. Modestly, he calls himself the "guy who sits at Bobby Kennedy's right hand." There have been reports for the last several weeks that Corbin, a key operative in the Wisconsin Democratic Party, had "spon sored" the nomination of Post master General John Gronouski. No one should know better than Corbin, reasoned my associate, Bill Schulz. A telephone call to Corbin didn't shed much light on the situation. "Drop dead, you creep," ad vised a voice on the phone. "And you can go to hell, loo," he said. My reporter never did get his answer from Corbin, a former aide to ex-Rep. Gerald Flynn. After Flynn received derogatory FBI re ports on Corbin's background, he "gave him the alternative of cither resigning or being fired," according to the Congressman. After leaving Flynn's employ, Corbin returned home to jump aboard the Kennedy for Presi dent bandwagon then en route to the Wisconsin Presidential pri mary. He helped direct Kennedy's smashing victory over Hubert Humphrey, then worked hard in the campaign against Nixon. When Kennedy won, Corbin came to Washington, over the an guished cries of many Wiscon sin Democrats, including Rep. Clement Zablocki. The Milwaukee Journal, a liberal newspaper, dug into Corbin's background and re vealed he had been closely associ ated with top-ranking mid-West Communists during the 1940s. The House UnAmerican Activi ties Committee opened a closed door investigation into Corbin's past. Called as a witness was Fred Bassetl Blair, who had been a Communist whcclhorse during the time t'orbin was associating Letters To The - Victim The past year has shown a sud den awakening of the general pub lic to items of local, state and national government importance. This column has been filled wilh comments, both pro and eon. on such things as taxes, law enforce ment, toning, hospitals and odii calion. We arc struggling with an over crowded condition in our schools and attempting to come up with tlie best possible answer because we are all' interested in improving our educational standards. Why then do we stand idly by and permit one of our outstanding educators to lie victimized by a sudden transfer under a cloud of doubt, half-truths and the unspok en accusation? 1 am speaking of Art Millard, who has been principal of Peter son School for 13 years and is now principal of the Chiioquln Elemen tary School. I mean no disre spect to tlie Chiloqum school, but I resent it being used as tlie Si berian salt mines of tlie County School Boiird. I realize that Mr. '.lillard's transfer is now a lost cause but this may help to clear his name ami help tlie next educa tor whose ticket to the mines is probably now being negotiated. The board has publicly said that this transfer was made in tlie best interests of the district and that no reduction in salary or demotion has been involved. This is the only public statement they have made but the following items are fads in which the public should be interested: 1. Art Millard has a farm in the Henley District. i. Paul Fairclo is chairman of the board and is a farmer in the 1 the uomj inert pear WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Left-Winger Doles Kennedy Patronage with party members. Blair was asked if Corbin had been a Com munist. His answer: "I shall have to refuse to answer that ques tion under the Fifth Amendment." Another witness called was Ken neth Born, who in 1943 had run for public office on the Commu nist ticket. He was asked if Cor bin, then a personal friend, had been a Communist. He took the Fifth Amendment. Another party member, Emil Costelio, also re fused to answer when asked if he knew Corbin to be a Commu nist. Corbin denied any Communist tics. He was contradicted by an old friend, Joseph C. Kennedy, who was admittedly a member of tile Communist Party in the early 1940s. He testified Corbin had been a member of the Young Commu nist League who sold subscriptions to the Daily Worker. Committee investigators learned that a Communist Party transfer card had been issued for Paul Corbin and his second wife, Ger trude Cox Corbin, when they moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco in 1948. Investigators discovered, too, that Corbin's par ty dues were paid for March, 1948. Mrs. Esther Wickstrom, secre tary of the Wisconsin Communist Party at that time, was called to testify. An uncooperative witness, she refused to answer many ques tions but said she had no knowl edge of Corbin's party member ship. Corbin swore under oath that all charges of Communist sympa thies were untrue. He continued in his job at tlie Democratic Nation al Committee, worked actively for (and contributed heavily to) Wis consin's Gaylord Nelson, success ful candidate last fall for the U.S. Senate. Little more was heard about Corbin until earlier this month, when reports were rife that he had engineered the selection of John Gronouski as Postmaster General. Henley District. 3. Fairclo expressed dissatisfac tion with Mr. Millard at a board meeting. 4. A small delegation of farmers from the Henley area appeared at the next meeting to discuss a "'personnel problem." 5. The board instructed Cliff Robinson, the county school super intendent, to prepare a report on Mr. Millard's conduct. Please note that (his action was not instigated hy the superintendent, who has charge of all tlie county schools. 6. Mr. Millard had expressed his opinion on tlie "One County Unit" proposal which was not the opin ion of the board or the most re cent opinion of the superintendent. 7. Robinson gave his report and was asked to what school Mr. Millard could lie transferred. 8. Mr. Millard was not informed of this action before the decision had been made. t The local Peterson School Committee was never consulted prior to the decision to transfer. to. The local school commilee and a large delegation of parents protested the transfer at a public meeting, 11. A motion was made by Louis Randall and seconded by Lawsun Kami is to reconsider this action. 12 . A secret ballot upheld the transfer by a vole of 3-2. 1.1, The other members of the board are Fairclo, Dick Jessup and B. M. Antle. 14. Various minor charges were implied throughout tlie action but these charges and Robinson's re port were never entered into the board's minutes. If the board's decision to trans fer Mr. Millard was based on Robinson's report on his conduct. Ilten It would seem that this is a By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON The country could one day face nothing less than a constitutional crisis in the incessant degrading now going on of Congress as an institution ex pressly charged by the Constitu tion to go its independent way. This curiously uninformed and almost hysterical attack upon Con gress has, of course, been going on for some years. Almost in variably it comes from left-wing so-called intellectuals and "politi cal scientists" who seem not to have the faintest notion that that thing up on Capitol Hill was delib erately set up to be no Presi dent's stooge but every Presi dent's check rein. Still, none of the past howling from these quarters has been re motely comparable to its present shrill volume. Members of Con gress from either party who dare go onto some television panels must be prepared actually to apol ogize for the (act that Congress is performing its constitutional func tion. They must actively defend the gall of the place in refusing to abdicate its sworn duties by giv ing automatic and instant as sent to whatever is asked of it by the Administration. Careful in-, quiry into this or that bill or pro posal, which is the root reason for Congress' very being, is pre sented by eager critics as blind and irresponsible "obstruction ism." Final and outright Con gressional refusal of this or that program is described as hardly short of treason to "the people's welfare." Sometimes, indeed, the attitude of the interrogator suggests that a member of Congress is in the dock on a criminal charge: Ex plain at once as soon as you have quit hitting your grandmother with that spade what ugly motive has caused Congress not to do such and such. Is it true that Congress is full of louts and conspirators against the good life? Pundits and professors fill the egghead magazines, and don't Al manac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 1963 with 79 to fol low. Tlie moon is approaching its new phase. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1775, the Continental Con gress ordered construction of a naval fleet, thus originating the U. S. Navy. In 1792, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the president's house the first public building to be built in Washington. In 1937, Nazi Germany prom ised Great Britain and France that she would not violate Bel gian neutrality in case of a Euro pean war. In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, her former Axis part ner. A thought for the day The Spanish author, Cervanjes, said: "Can we ever have too much of a good thing?" Editor disciplinary action. If this is true and Mr. Millard is such a prob lem, why transfer these problems to Chiloquin? Mr. Kandra staled in a board meeting that thus action could have an adverse effect on the dis trict and I believe that he is a w ise man. Someone has to stand behind our teachers to protect them from petty charges. If the county superintendent and board cannot handle this assignment then the public must take the prop-' er action to remedy this situa tion. Lyle C. Smith, 4794 Onyx Drive. Thin Tlie arguments in the letter of Name Withheld of Sept. 26 are pretty thin. Does this person think an act must "hurt' real bad be fore you do something about it? The cost of a few apples stolen by a youngster is a small hurt to an owner, but if parents don't want a delinquent they teach him it is wrong. A gallon of gas sw iped from an aulo, or a necklace lift ed from the five and ten cent store is no big hurt, but it is wrong. This principle should not be forgotten by Mr. Name With held. He said, "zoning laws and condemnation of buildings Isn't making such a hardship on us that we are hurling." This seems to me nie to say, "at this time and not on him." Wrong is wrong, whether H hurts a lot or a little. And I think he should think over again some of the other things he said. Men should not compare evil and get "happy" he cause they have less of it than others. H. C. Head. 2.!0 Erie. Congress Under Attack wholly neglect the daily press, with automatic assumptions that Congress is invariably wrong or stupid, or perhaps actually evil, in any contest with a President so long as he is a "liberal" Presi dent. It is only fair to say, paren thetically, that the present Presi dent, John F. Kennedy, far from welcomes such juvenile "support." He has read the Constitution and is satisfied with it the way it is. The most exasperating thing of all, perhaps, is that this nonsense comes, with rare exceptions, from people whose actual knowledge of a single reality in Congress is as patently and absurdly limited as, say, my knowledge of nuclear phy sics. A whole new meaning for words and a whole new system of un Ihink would be required to grasp their approach to public af fairs. When, say, a Senator votes Ms convictions and proper state in. terests, after prolonged study of the right thing to do, he is a matchless hero if he goes with the Administration and a knucklehead ed cretin if he goes the other way. The more time and care he puts into his decisions, the more intol 'I'll Trade Ya Headaches Any Time' BRUCE SHANKS, BUFFALO EVENING NEWS EPSON IN WASHINSTON . . . Republican Strategy Baffles Democrats By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA I Re publican strategy in opposing President Kennedy's tax bill has administration Democrats b a f flcd. What they say the GOP position boils down to in final analysis is a belief that opposition to any thing tlie President proposes is good polities if it. will help em barrass him and defeat him in 1964 regardless of what it docs in the meantime. Republican congressional lead ers don't admit anything as crude as that for a minute. "We're for tax cuts." says House minority leader Charles A. Ha I leek of Indiana. "But." he hastens to add, "we find Mr. Kennedy's economic the ories mystifying." For evidence, Halleck poinls to six Kennedy votes as a con gressman against tax cuts after spending had been reduced, "though," Halleck points out, "he favors a tax cut when spending has been skyrocketing." The showdown on this big is sue is now scheduled for Sept. 24 - 2") when the administration tax bill comes to the House floor for vole under a rule of eight hours debate. Only one amendment will be permitted. The House Republican leadership has decided to make this a motion to recommit the bill to the Ways and Means Com mittee, with instructions to make tlie tax cuts ellective only if the lederal government reduces ex penses enough to balance o f I spending with the tax cut in force for this year and next. Republican justification for ttiis position seems to he based on polls taken by 39 GOP congress men in 21 states. In answer to the question: "Do you favor tax cuts without spending cuts?" an average of KS per cent said "No." The ranee was from 51 per cent of those polled in Rep. John V. Lindsey's district in New York City to 93.7 per cent in Rep. Ed Foreman's district in west Texas. This is a pretty thin sample on m vita! an issue. Sept. j Harris poll, conducted on a more scien tific basis, showed only 41 per cent favoreu J tax rut delay un til the budget is balanced. "with erably wrong they are for the screamers take a very dim view of "time-wasting debate." The higher his earned respect from among the most informed of all critics, his colleagues, the less re spect he gjts from the reform ersunless, of course, his record is agreeable to their notions of the moment. And this is in fact a pointless " "unless." For, as might ration ally be expected, no member becomes a great man of Congress by spending all his time denying the proper independence of his own place in order to run after some President as a docile stooge. At bottom, this business is an attack on no less a thing than representative government. This is so because Congress is the only part of the government which is literally and precisely represen- I talive in structure and character. What the screamers, there fore, are really reaching for, whether they know it or not, is a kind of People's Republic where public policy would be exclusively in the hands of a President who, though democratically and law fully elected, would thereafter be under no real check at all. .16 percent saying don't delay a tax cut. GOP opposition to the Kennedy tax program takes other angles Which formerly would have been consfdered most un-Repub!ican. The Ways and Means minority report criticizes the bill because "it would result in a $4.4 billion windfall to big business over the next 10 years." And Rep. John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin, chairman of the GOP Policy Committee, criticizes the 2.000-member "Business Commit tee for Tax Reduction" which met in Washington recently for its "retreat from fiscal responsi bility." When Republicans criticize big business and Democrats offer them tax cuts which they want, things are all mixed up. It must be remembered, of course, that some Democrats also oppose the Kennedy tax cut bill. Judge Howard W. Smith of Vir ginia, chairman of t h e Houss Rules Committee, has openly crit icized the bill and is known to have conferred with other Demo crats of like mind. Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee which will handle the tax bill after t h e House is finished with it, is do ing nothing to speed passage. The number of Democrats join ing Republicans to vote against the administration tax bill or vote to recommit it for budget-cutting amendments will determine its fate. House majority leader Carl Al bert of Oklahoma is confident that the tax hill will be passed. Other Democrats call the Byrnes re commital motion another gimmick to try to defeat the bill. It this try for the bill doesn't work, the administration will try something else. Kennedy's tax broadcast to tlie nation is only the first move in a concerted drive (or passage this year. There is still plenty of talk in tlie Senate that no tax bill' can be passed this year because of tlie press of other legislation civil rights, debt limit increase, foreign aid and all the other ap propriation bills still to be han dled. The question is, who will the defeat of a lax cut bUI hurt worse in the 1964 elections-the Democrats or the Republicans.
