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PAGE CA HERALD AND NEWS, Klamalh Falli, Oregon I Friday, October 18, 1963 America Provides Worldwide Welfare Assistance A : It took more than $90 million of taxpay I ers' money to buy 500 million pounds of salad ' otl-,'and that's a lot of lettuce. This little op eration of the Department of Agriculture in evolved about two dollars from every taxpayer, anjd Sen. Williams of Delaware would like us .'. to know that we were gypped. The idea was to support the prices of jsoy bean and cotton seed oil although the : market was strong, and soy oil was selling for 50 cents more than the support price at the time the purchases were made and the prices didn't seem to need any support. The Agricul ture Department' has a lot of your money, : however, and so it went ahead. : ; According to Sen. Williams, it bought most of the oil from two companies which the i Department's own Commodity Credit Corp. ha;d charged with fraud just a couple of years ado. These firms had been barred "from any " programs financed by CCC." The Senator calculates that the loss re- suiting was about $70 million of our money, because the oil was shipped in flimsy tin cans which buckled and broke when handled by dock workers here and abroad. Some of it WASHINGTON CALLING Can't . By MARQUIS CHILDS WILLIAMSBURG, Va.-In the brilliant Indian summer sun '; tourists from all over are streaming through this remark able reconstruction of the colo nial past. From the Governor's Palace down to the simplest tavern the ,' restoration has been done with 5 scholarly care and a generous I disregard or cost. The late J John D. Rockefeller Jr. and sub- sequently bis sons have put $73,- 500,000 into what Is a unique J museum and object lesson in j American history. And this is i capped by a Robert Trent Jones golf course, with the fairways bounded by the brilliant gold and red of the fall foliage. ' This week Marshal Tilo and his wife are arriving, part of the long procession of distinguished visitors who have come to Wil liamsburg. They will foe put up in the restored Allen Byrd houso . on Francis Street where Tito ;, will see what mid-18lh Century decor combined with late 20th ; Century plumbing can mean for '. the ease end pleasure of living. ; The house was purchased In ; 1770. a year after it was built, ; by William Byrd III. Byrd, a ; reckless gambler and a gay ; blade, went through two for ' tunes and lost the family plan- tatlon, Westovcr, before his death In 1770. So beautifully I aseptic and so piously kept is ; the restored house that It is ; doubtful if his ghost can find ! a refugo there. Tito, who has had a carcor full of adventuro and violence, would have found more In com ; mon with William III than with ' the present scion of the Byrds, - the senior Senator from Virgin al la, Harry Flood Byrd. The Sen- - ator's life has been a model of i prudence and he is wedded to fiscal responsibility in guardian ' ship of both the public and his ' private economy. C Williamsburg has many les ; sons lor the visitor. One is the ; way in which values steadily ; ri.le in affluent America. The ; value of the Rockefeller gilt ; has at least tripled in the 35 ' years since the restoration was ; begun. ; While that Is true of the solid ; stocks and bonds in the endow ; ment fund portfolio, a far giei I ; er rise has occurred ir. the valut. ; of (lie antique silver, the porcc- laius, tlie brocades that arc so J carefully fitted into each setting. Tiie boom in these prices Is one '. aspect of the fantastic market ; in art that seems to have no 1 end. ; In tlie parlor of the Governor's ; Palace are 10 Chelsea figurines ; or exotic birds done In delicate, gleaming colors. They were ac- - quired before tlie death of John D. Jr. for $40,000. Recently one similar figurine came on the market and brought $35,000. 2 The 10 are worth more than ; $250,000. So H goes with (lie splendid Georgian silver that has appre- dated 10 to 20 times in value as 1 has most of tlx furniture, a great J deal of it English, many of the J rarer pieces Early American. J An Interesting reflection of Eu- rope's prosperity ia Dial Ger- man and Italian buyers have come Into the antique market In , America and are now bidding up the prices. But w ith its grace and charm there i one quality that the res toration tor all its expert tie Lot Of Lettuce Worship The Past cannot convey. That Is the ex citement, the sense of adventure that pervaded tlie lives of the principals in the drama of in dependence. Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and the others had cast their lot with danger. They had set out to overthrow the existing order no matter what the cost to them. For the principals it had been a com fortable and a privileged order. Yet they put their beliefs, their faith in the ideal of freedom, above personal privilege. This is the difference that, far more than tlie 18th Century mode of life as it is skillfully represented here, sets that time EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . Cold War Changes, But Stays With Us By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA) - All the loose talk about United States foreign policy appease ment of Communist Russia needs to be taken with large grains of salt. Tho U.S. State Department has just concluded another of its semiannual briefings of several hundred newspnper, magazine, radio and television correspond ents from all over tlie country. It was well timed, for matters aro getting pretty confused and everything needs straightening out. President Kennedy spoke off tho record. But Secretary of Slate Dean Rusk, Deputy Secre tary of Defense Roswcll Gllpnt ric, Undersecretaries of S t a t e Avercll Harriman and George Ball and half a dozen other top policy makers In State spoke and answered questions under a rule of no direct quotations or attribution. Tho substance of their state ments was released for use as coming from high government officials. So it was right from the horse's mouth. There was a certain amount of whitewashing the reported feud ing between U.S. government agencies in South Viet Nam. T'-.ero was some criticism of .he publicity being given Mme. Mm. There was some nonsense about the coups d'etat in Latin America not being as bad as the upes they used to have. But on the big Issue, the sum and subsli nee of the talks was that none of the officials thinks that Soviet Russia has reformed. Nobody thinks sale of wlieat to Russia and the satellites means the beginning of a new era of expanded trade. Nobody thinks the Russians are sung to pull out of East Germany. Nobody thinks dis armament. Communist country cooperation with the United Na tions or settlement of the Korea, Viet N;un, Laos and Cuba crisis is Just Bround the corner. It was emphasised that there is no "dctenle" general disen gagement or relaxation of cotd war tensions. Agreements are being sought with the Husslant on minor points, without making conces sions. The problem is to draw tin lino between Illusion and reality. leaked out and some of it turned rancid. When it arrived in places like Greece. Brazil and Korea, local officials were appalled. Some of them refused to let the stuff be un loaded. Others labeled it unfit for human consumption. Even the Koreans, who are hard up enough to eat most anything, couldn't eat up the millions of pounds we shipped to them. Huge stores of the oil sit around spoiling in Congo warehouses. It was the Department of Agriculture, it will be recalled, which recently was baffled by the disappearance of 24 million bushels of grains it shipped to Austria. This time it knows where the salad oil is, at least, but it must know that it has made a series of costly mis takes in buying and shipping it. Agriculture officials won't lose sleep over it, because you will pay for their mistakes. "This is a further example of what hap pens when an agency gets too much money. . ." says Sen. Williams. The budget for all Federal agencies is now over $100 billion a year, and the average family's tax bill is around $2,000. apart from ours. So much of to day's political effort is spent re sisting any and all change in tlie passionate defense of a system that, if one accepts this view, reached a state of perfection at the instant of its creation. This altitude would surely have amazed the men who fought for our freedoms. Tho American past, as this handsome stage set suggests, had the sweep of greatness. But to worship that past, to act on the assumption that all future political conduct was prescribed on tablets of stone, is to belie the eicn who made our revolu tion. The hot line for crisis com munications between Moscow and Washington is open and be ing tested every hour on the hour. Other possibilities for im proved communications w i t h the Russians include a civil air agreement for one or two flights a week between New York and Moscow. Opening of more consular offices in both the Unit ed States and Russia is being considered to facilitate travel. Both will require long techni cal talks before anything is signed. The possibility of new explo sions in Laos, Vict Nam, Cuba and other trouble spots is known to be real. There can be no re laxation of tensions with Russia under such conditions. A detente in Europe is out of tlie question because Soviet Rus sia has no Intention of abandon ing East Germany and permit ling its reunification with West Germany. Disarmament will be talked about sonic more in Geneva and an East -West nonaggression pact ' may lie further explored. But ' neither offers any real hope he cause the Russians will not IxM-niit arms inspection within their borders. While Soviet Russia's split with Hod China is regarded as the primary reason for the Rus sians' apparent eagerness to im prove relations with the West. American olficials realistically realuc that this feud between the two big Communist countries could reverse direction without warning. Full consideration Is given to the probability that if Red China and Russia should patch up their quarrel, it would mean had news for the U.S. and the rest of the world. For all these reasons, Ameri can policy makers seem deter mined not to relax on their for eign aid programs, on maintain, ing North Atlantic and oilier al liances, on keeping America's defenses strong and at the ready. As the situation was an. alyied in one summary: "We are on the froiil end of largo events. We do not know for sure what they will be. We do not know if they will be good or bad for us. But Ihey will not be boring." By Congressman James B. Lit California The foreign aid program started as the Marshall Plan to assist in rebuilding war - torn Europe, and it has proliferated over the past 15 years into a worldwide welfare assistance, paid for out of the American taxpayers, earnings. The total amount to date exceeds $100 bil lion and is responsible i'or one third of our national debt. We are giving aid to more than 100 countries, each of which is demanding more and more each year. Many of the countries receiving this aid are in far better financial condition than is the United States. In fact, the United States Treasury is borrowing money from many of these countries. There is a total lack of ex penditure control on most of the projects. It is true that a portion of the money is for military assistance, which may possibly add to the military security of the free world, but the countries which are receiving military as sistance are not carrying their equitable share to support the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion military establishment. And they will not pay it as long as Uncle Sam foots the bill. A great deal of money has been used to finance factories and equipment in communist- "Now listen, Nihita, we don't want any of this wheat to go to China or Cuba . . . they're Commies ya' know." By SYDNEY .1. HARRIS Watching the play, "A Man For All Seasons," not long ago. I was sadly reminded of that baffling mechanism in tlie hu man mind that makes it easy to approve and admire goodness in the past, while refusing to exercise it in the present. As you may know, "A Man For All Seasons" deals with the life and death of Sir Thom as More, the English lawyer, statesman, author and scholar in the reign of King Henry VIII. ' A devout churchman. More was beheaded by his monarch by refusing to give assent to Hen ry's break with tlie Roman church. Nearly everyone else around him bishops and lords as well as intellectual leaders capitu lated to Henry's decree, wheth er or not they agreed with it. More, who deeply knew that a man is nothing but what he be lieves and acts upon, wanted to be neither a hero nor a mar tyrand became both. Hardly anyone today would disagree tlKit More did the right and noble thing. He is an admirable ligure. to Protestants as well as to Catholics, to those who deny God as well as to those who affirm Him. Tlie high estimate of his person cuts across all lines of faith and un faith. Yet the tribute we pay to such a man is largely historical; it bears little relevance to the modern condition. For if a man We're Beginning To Burn Up u.s,pRisy VCOS-lJVr JERKY dominated countries. Some of these manufactured products come back to the United States, but many of them go into Rus sia, which is in short supply of these goods, and cannot buy them directly from the United States. So we find ourselves do ing by indirection what we can not do, under the law, directly. Khrushchev and Tito had a real laugh recently when Tito showed Khrushchev through a large chemical plant in commu nist Yugoslavia, built with the American taxpayers' dollars. Of course, they were not laughing at each other; they were laugh ing at the stupidity of Uncle Sam. Foreign aid has not stopped the advancement of communism in any country in the world. We have spent nearly $3 bil lion in Brazil, and Brazil is more communist today than it was five years ago. We have spent more than $2 billion in South Vietnam, and it is rapidly going communist. Worse than this, we have ex pended the lives of American boys who are fighting a losing battle there, just as they did in Korea. Hundreds of millions, of Amer ican dollars went into Laos, and that country is now firmly un der communist control. Hundreds of millions of dol- STRICTLY PERSONAL. like More were to rise today, and to take the same position against the current of the state and society, those same persons who admire More would con demn his latter-day emulator. Not only that. Nearly all of us would behave in such a situ ation like the friends and asso ciates of More, not like the man himself. We would rationalize, we would be "practical" and "realistic," we would trim our sails and perjure our convic tions. And, in order to make our selves feel better about our wholesale abdication of con science, we would be forced to call the modern More a "crank." or a "nut,", or a "vis ionary." We would not apotheo size him as a martyr; rather, in the denigrating jargon of modern psychology, we would accuse him of having a "mar tyr complex." Goodness cannot be lived with at too close range; it makes us feel uncomfortable; it shows us the moral yardstick by which we should measure ourselves, and, as Alcibiades said in listen ing to Socrates, it makes us want to run away and hide from ourselves, or else strike down I he man who utters tliese prick ly truths. It is easy to admire More from a distance of 400 years. Admiration is the counterfeit coin we pay to be relieved of the obligation of imitating him. DOYLE, PHILADELPHIA, DAILY NEWS lars appropriated in foreign aid have been literally lost, and the accountants cannot even trace where the money went. Communist Yugoslavia is sub sidizing any Hollywood motion picture that is made in Yugo slavia. That subsidy runs to as high as 89 per cent of the cost of the production. Two American pictures have just been com pleted in Yugoslavia, and are now being shown in this country as American films. Of course, the American actors working in that country are exempt from . paying income taxes. One actor has just gone to Yugoslavia to produce another motion picture. While our foreign aid dollar might not be traceable to these projects, the money that we do give Yugoslavia releases other money to entice American busi ness away from home. The American public is final ly getting fed up with this global stupidity, and the people have made their feelings known to the members of Congress. The compilation of returned questionnaires, received from constituents throughout t h e whole United States, indicates that a drastic cut in foreign aid is wanted by at least 80 per cent of tlie public, and at least 50 per cent want the program elim inated. Responding to this pub lic demand, the Administration's IN WASHINGTON . . New By RALPH dc TOLEDANO CONCORD, N.H.-Ncw Hamp shire is a small state, and how it votes has but a small effect on a national election. Its dele gates at national conventions, can hardly impose their views on either party. But New Hamp. shire, because it is tlie first state to hold its Presidential preference primary, is watched by the politicians. Next March, how New Hampshire goes in the Republican Sweepstakes will be come the subject of many and varied interpretations. Oddly enough, tlie resulfof tlie primary will be meaningless un less peace can be restored in the Republican Party. At present, Senator Barry Goldwater is the heads-on favorite of political leaders and GOP voters. Even labor finds little to quarrel about with him except for his views on right-to-work laws. But what would happen in a primary is a complex question involving matters hardly related to how New Hampshire Republicans feel about Mr. Goldwater or Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The Republican Party is split several different ways, and few of them have anything to do with ideology. Former Governor Wesley Powell, whose break with his fellow Republicans led to tlie election of a Democratic governor in 1962, is still seeth ing. His followers, I am assured, are still ready to follow him right into tlie water and over their heads. This fanatical sub servience could be employed against Mr. Goldwater or Mr. Rockefeller depending on Mr. Powell and as of this writing, he seems to be ag'in both of them. Another faction led by Mrs. Doloris Bridges, widow of the late Senator Styles Bridges lonce the top man in New Hampshire politics), was able to torpedo the senatorial chances of Representative Perkins Bass in 1962 and this has not been forgotten. Somewhere along the line, there are rank-and-file Re publicans who are for (or against! this or that candidate as the GOP's 1964 Presidential nominee, but they seem lost in the shuffle. Senator Norris Cot ton's surprise endorsement of Mr. Goldwater is an important factor and may be crucial. To complicate matters even further, former Vice President Richard Nixon still seems high ly regarded by New Hampshire voters. In spite of his 1960 Presi dential defeat and his California gubernatorial fiasco in 1962, these Republicans though still tentative in their support con tinue to feel that he would make a good candidate. Tlie bitterness felt by higher echelon Republi cans i in New York, Washington, and elsewhere) over the cavalier treatment they received from the candidate himself) has not spread to this beautiful moun tain state. ' Tlie fragmentation of tlie New Hampshire GOP makes organi zation for both Senator Gold water and Governor Rockefeller mighty difficult. Campaigns are organized by political leaders, but if cither potential nominee selects someone from any of the feuding camps, tlie others will sulk in their tents. Governor Rockefeller's ad vance men have been sounding out important individuals and getting a few assurances of sup port in March. But they hae not chosen a campaign manager for the reasons noted above. Despite the popular favor of Mr. Goldwater, his supporters original request for $4.9 billion was reduced to $3.5 billion and may be reduced another $500 million by tlie Appropriations Committee. The Administration hopes to have tlie cuts restored in the Senate. The foreign aid program is greatly responsible for our dev astating balance of payments problem, now running at t h e rate of $5 billion a year, and for the loss of our gold reserve, which is at a precariously low point and can be completely dis sipated any time that the for eign countries demand payment in gold for their claims which now exceed our total gold sup ply by $7 billion. Under the law, $12 billion of gold is required to back the out standing currency. This leaves only $3 billion to meet our for eign gold commitments of $22 billion. There is no hope of getting a tax reduction as long as the federal government insists on spending $9 or $10 billion a year in excess of revenues. We who are demanding fiscal responsibility and are warning the public of what will happen, are called reactionary and puritanical by the lethal left wing. Even a professor of polit ical science from a university in California stated that we had Hampshire have yet to attempt to organize. But this they must do. For if both sides stay out of the battle, a political vacuum will be cre ated. And, obviously, only Rich ard Nixon can be sucked into it. How this dilemma will be solved should make an interesting story. But it is of no help today to those who are ready to begin the drum-beating in the Granite State. Who will be the beneficiary of this impasse? With Barry Gold water so far ahead of Nelson Rockefeller, the presumption would be that the front-runner would derive the greater benefit. But politics does not always rest on logic. Where the Goldwater forces are ahead is in the man himself. He is liked in New Hampshire and so is his pro gram. Even a random check indi WASHINGTON REPORT . . ' Taxpayers Will Pay For Kennedy Junket By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON - All the bills are not yet in, but one thing is certain: The beleaguered tax payer got socked and socked hard for the President's cross country jaunt of last month. On Sept. 26, for instance, the President addressed voters at Richland, Wash. Before John Kennedy touched down, howev er, While House advance men had turned Richland (population 23,6481 into an ultra - modern communications center. Twenty-three special phones with direct lines from Richland to the nation's capital were in stalled. Four heliports were hur riedly built for the Presidential party's helicopters. Special bleachers were set up to accom modate the crowd. Cost to the taxpayers for the Richland speech: $600,000. That little talk boiled down to a campaign hard-sell for Sena tor Henry Jackson and Governor Albert Rossellini, Democrats up (or re-election next year. The story was similar at ev ery :op on the President's "non-political" tour. At Chey enne, Wyo., Kennedy junked his prepared text and launched into an all-out plea for Democrat Gale McGcc, who faces almost insurmountable obstacles in his race for Senate re-election. In Montana, the President again abandoned his text, this time to plug Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, also up for re election next year. He laid it on thick for Stewart Udall and Or ville Freeman, the public's least favorite Cabinet members. In Laramie, Wyo., Kennedy boasted of Federal funds tun neled into McGee's home state. In Tacoma, Wash., he told of plans to rejuvenate a military base, promising the local econ omy a shot In the arm. In Salt Lake City, the President lashed into the foreign policy sugges tions of Sen. Barry Goldwater. his almost certain GOP oppon ent next year. What did the President ac complish? Precious little, ac cording to newsmen on the trip. Marianne Means, White House correspondent for the Hearst Headline Sen-ice, has king been considered one of the President's favorites. In her humble opinion "a latent tendency toward in fantile regression ... a fear of insecurity, experience stress, and this reduces adults to child like behavior." It is obvious that this profes sor has never had the experi ence of having to meet a pay roll every week, and that he knows nothing of the "experi ence stress" of watching years of saving and work wiped out in a short time. If he wants to march without fear into the experience of spi raling inflation, such as oc curred in Germany after the first World War, and finds some kind of intellectual thrill in seeing his retirement, life insur ance, and other provisions for old-age security washed down the drain, a policy to devaluate the dollar will suit him perfect- Increased borrowing is a pre lude to an increased cost of liv- ing, and it is my belief that the government would rather de valuate the dollar than to prac tice fiscal responsibility. Devaluation, which may take place within the next two years, will lead to an inflationary spi ral. This, in turn, will reduce the value of your life insurance, your savings, your Social Secur ity, and all other fixed incomes. It should never be permitted to happen. Confusion cates that the Kennedy civil rights position is highly unpop ular here and Mr. Rockefeller's stand is not liked any more than . the President's. New Hampshire politicians, who might be in duced to jump on the Rockefel ler bandwagon, are not certain that he will try to go the dis tance. They still remember his on-again-off-again performance of 1959-60. The people are a wee bit suspicious of the Rockefeller prodigality. Given to frugality, and to what Mr. Kennedy's eco nomic advisers disdainfully call the "Puritan ethic," they don't want more of the same. But as any responsible politi cian will tell you, it's a long time to March. Much can hap pen before then a statement that the prudent paste in their hats. the whole trip may well have been a bomb. The New York Times' Tom Wicker was even more blunt: "Seldom in the nearly three years of office had the Presi dent's performance been so lack luster, his attention so obviously elsewhere, lis prose so perfunc tory and entangled, his usual clectionary fire so lacking. "Before a packed house of 10, 0O0 or so in Duluth, Minn. . . . Mr. Kennedy bumbled and di gressed through a partisan re statement of his administration's domestic program; not once did the crowd interrupt with ap plause." Author James Baldwin, whose books dot the best seller lists, drew hundreds to a New York benefit the other night, all pro ceeds going to sometliing called the Committee to Aid Southern Lawyers, described as a civil rights organization. The group is something more than that. It is the creation of the National Lawyers Guild. In 1930 the House UnAmerican Ac tivities Committee said: "The National Lawyers Guild is the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party . , ." It was not the first time Bald win, who is not a Communist, has lent his name to question able causes. Baldwin has contri buted to a volume called "A Quarter Century of UnAmeri cana," an attack upon the House UnAmerican Activities Commit tee. The book is published by Carl Aldo Marzani and Alexan der Munsell. Marzani was con victed in Federal Court of per jury when he denied Communist activity. Munsell's record Is on file in Washington. Baldwin sponsored the Fair Play fur Cuba Committee, a group later shown to be Castro financed and pro-Communist-op-eratcd. He worked for the free dom of Carl Bradcn, an identi fied Communist who served time in federal prison for contempt of Congress. With other liberals. Baldwin called for amnesty for Junius Scales, convicted under the Smith Act. Scales, who claims to have quit the party, has re fused to cooperate "with the FBI. He was freed by President Kennedy.
