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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
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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.