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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.