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PAGE 6A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falla, Oregon Thursday, November 7, 196J 'Fall Back To The House Rules Committee! I'll Cover You!' WILLIAM S. WHITE iMoon Race Is A Phony Hard It may not be true, as charged, that you can prove anything by statistics. But It is true that you can get good and confused by statistics. Take the matter of marriage and di vorce. In 1960 latest year of record 390,000 married couples in the United States were divorced. This was approximately one-fourth the ; number of marriages in the U.S. that year. So your first impulse unless you're a statistician is to assume that one of every four U.S. marriages ends in divorce. But the Marriage and Divorce Statistics Branch of the U. S. Public Health Service (how does health get into this?) shakes its head. A truer comparison, says USPHS, is to put the number of annual divorces up against the total number of married women 15 years old and older in this country. Do it this way and you find that only one U. S. marriage in every 109 ends in di vorce. , Now this is more like it. Maybe we Americans aren't so divorce-dizzy after all. One reads a lot of comments from col lege professors these days. Some of them can be taken with a great big grain of salt, too. Like the one that came out of London University the other day, when Dennis Ga bor, professor of applied electronic physics, said he isn't sure man won't die of the third great peril, the boredom of leisure. For the first time in history, he says, only a minority need to work to keep the rest in idle luxury and the majority are not prepared for a life of leisure. ' To this we say: BOSH. In capital let ters. A man can always find something con structive to do if he really wants to do so. : If he has the time, what's to prevent him, from taking a selling ;'ob (the business world WASHINGTON REPORTS . Nitze n KULTON lewis .in. WASHINGTON A wealthy .' disarmament buff who kicked '. in $4.5(10 to the I960 campaign of John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been named Secretary of the Navy. He Is Paul Nitze, an Invesl ment banker of New York and Washington and a former aido to President Truman. On Feb. 4, W60, Nitze mailed a check for $500 to tho Democratic Na tional Committee. On election eve, Nov. 2, lie had his wife, Phyllis, sent in another $1,000. Several days after Kennedy's election, Nitze took pen in hand and wroto his biggest check of the campaign. $3,000 for I h e Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson. '. For his troubles, nnd loyal 'service during the campaign. Nitze was named Assistant Sec retary of Defense for Interna tional Affairs, a post he held until recently. Ho was then named Secretary of tlie N a v y, replacing Fred Korth, who re signed under fire. Nitze's nomination will be hot ly challenged by at least one Senate Democrat. South Caro lina's Strom Thurmond. Senator Thurmond has carefully re searched Nitze's background and finds much he does n o I : like. On April 2H, lo. while work- ing as chief adviser on national . security policy for candidate ". Kennedy, Nitic dolivemi a I speech in Asilomar. Calif. There he urged abandonment by this country of the so-called Class A nuclear capability. He explained that a Class A capability included an elective first strike capability backed up by a second strike capability, excellent intelligence as to the location of the enemy forces and a program for rapid recu peration. He advocated "a series of uni lateral (disarmament l action designed to produce reciprocal ' action on the part of our allies - and also on the part of our cue ? mios." To this end Iw urged an end to the Strategic Air Command ; as It is today. These are his exact words: "That wo multi lateralize Die command of our retaliatory systems by making SAC a NATO Command and wo Problem To Figure But wait Is it accurate to compare one year's divorce crop with ALL surviving marriages over the years? Wouldn't it be fairer to match the total number of divorced men and women 15 years old and older with the total num ber of undivorced men and women in the same age group? Or would it? And even if we did do it that way, how about the fact that many of these ladies and gentlemen may have been married and-or divorced more than once? Confusing, isn't it? Regardless of statistical shenanigans, it's a sobering thought that in one year 390,000 once-happy marriages have gone down the drain. It is even more sobering to remember that more than 850,000 children have been left as innocent and confused and helpless victims of these broken homes. What of their future?' No matter how you figure it, it adds up to the fact that we ought to be doggoned careful when we wed and then do our darnedest to make it work. Leisure Time A Peril? is crying for salesmen!) starting a sideline business, building something and selling it? He has only to use a little imagination, a little ambition, and a bit of drive and stub bornness to create work. Work is really the easiest thing in the world to find. It's the money that comes from it that is hard to arrange, but if a man is willing to stick to it, whatever he is doing, the money will eventually come. And money doesn't seem to be the problem today with those who hold jobs and have leisure time. So why not use a few dollars to earn some more? What the world needs today as much as anything else is some good, old-fashion "git-up-and-git." And also fewer gibberish state ments like this one from college professors. Disarmament Buff Inform the United Nations that NATO will turn over ultimate power of decision on the use of these systems to the General Assembly of the United Na tions." In a 1050 book, "Christian Responsibility on a Changing Planet," Nitze advocated sur render to the Chincso Commu nists of the offshore islands of (jftemny and Matsu. He urged a sweeping new policy toward Hod China: "The United States should lib eralize its policies with respect to travel of Chinese nationals In the U.S. and of U.S. citizens within Communist China. At the samo time, our policy should move in the direction of an ac ceptable solution of tho pinb lems of participation by I h e People's Republic of China in the counsels of the United Na tions and the establishment of diplomatic relations with that government by the United States." At another point in his 193!) book, Nitze wrote: "Wo must now declare our conviction that 'And Two Old Friends Are Waiting To See You ... A Mrs. Fred Korth And A Mr. Bobby Baker!' 1 we cannot support the concept of nuclear retaliation or pre ventative war."1 On these and other Nitzeisms, the new Secretary w ill be close ly questioned by Thurmond and his colleagues on the Sen ate Armed Forces Committee who must approve Nitze's ap pointment. Earlier this year, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire took tho Senate floor to praise the (.Madison) State Journal as a "vigorous and hard - hitting paper." Since that time, Proxmire has abruptly cancelled his sub scription. Could this have any thing to do with the Journal's disclosure that Proxmire had on his staff at $14,5 a year a full-time Wisconsin college stu dent? Or the Journal's editori al comment that a "replace ment is desperately needed in Washington for Senator Prox mire?" Tho Senator's not saying. He gave no reason for his cancellation. il iflfj IN WASHINGTON . By RALPH de TOLKDANO Little has been seen in the papers about countries dealing with Castro Cuba. That this trade continues , is a matter of record. That the Foreign A i d Appropriation Act of 1963 barred aid to countries which permit ted this trade by ships under their registry is also a matter of record. And thereby hangs a tail. As reported in this space in July. Rep. Melvin Laird of Wis consin, one of a group of ener getic and forward - looking Re publicans, charged that the Kennedy Administration was ignoring a provision in the aforementioned act which di rected the President to d c n y foreign aid to "any country which sells, furnishes, or per mits ships under its registry to carry items of economic assist ance to Cuba so long as it is governed by the Castro re gime." The Administration denied the charges. Mr. Laird called on the General Accounting Office of the United States to investi gate. He further charged that the Agency for International De velopment (AID) had recog nized in writing in a letter to the Comptroller General of the United States that it was act ing in violation of the law. The Comptroller General has handed down his ruling, though I have seen no mention of this in the public prints. Here is what Mr. Laird says about it: "The Comptroller General has ruled that the Executive is in violation of section 107(b) of the Foreign Aid Appropriation Act of 1963." This is the section quoted above. Representative Laird adds: "The Administration chose to ignore this provision in the law until the Comptroller General, at my request, instituted p r o,- feedings to determine whether il had been violated." And Mr. Laird notes: "After the inves tigation was begun, the Admin istration bent over backward to find nebulous loopholes It justi fy failure to act. ... My office has a list of free world ships that have engaged in the Cuban trade. . . . The list I have in my possession which covers the period from April 1903 through Oct. 9, 19t, shows that a large number of free world ships have transported cargoes from (Red) Bloc countries to Cuba." These ships come from a va Purely Personal Prejudices: The most prevalent defect in society is deafness most of us simply do not bear what peo ple are saying beneath the words they use; and tlw great creative artist is not one wtio is wiser or better than others, hut one with tlie keenest sense of hearing. The most potent enemy Is the former friend, for he knows hrrr all the soil spota are located, and can trlke Infallibly. It is not (lie harshness or tlie lenity of the law that makes a good state, but its certainty; it nutters not how severe the laws if their enforcement is ca pricious, arbitrary, ami unequal toward tlw powerful ami tlie weak. "Virtually" is one of the most diilionest words in the lan guage; we commonly use it when w hope to short-change tlw truth. Kennedy Violates Shipping Provision riety of countries, still getting aid. What is astonishing about this is that the President, sim ply by informing Congress that in his belief that continuation of such aid is in the "national in terest" and by stating his rea sons for that belief could have been in conformity with a law he himself signed. His failure to do so raises many questions. But this is question time in Washington. Representative Ol iver Bolton (R.-Ohio) has asked from the floor of Congress if there was any impropriety or conflict of interest when Under Secretary of Commerce Frank lin D. Roosevelt accepted the hospitality of a yachting trip from shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Mr. Onassis, at the present, is having difficulties with the Maritime Administration over failure to meet certain mort gage payments on ships he is constructing. The Maritime Commission is under the juris diction of the Commerce De partment. Those with long memories wonder just how discreet Mr. Roosevelt was in letting him self be in the social debt of Aristotle Onassis. In the past. Mr. Onassis was penalized $7 million by a New York Federal court for certain misrepresenta tions he made to the Federal government in purchasing sur plus ships. On the "Caesar's wife" theory, this alone should have cautioned Mr. Roosevelt to vacation on some other yi?ht. But there is even more to the story. In the days before the Kennedy embargo of Cuba and the passage of the Foreign Aid Appropriation Act, the Interior Department attempted to set up a voluntary system whereby tankers would refuse to trans port oil to Cuba. The shipping companies agreed to cooperate with the United States. There were two notable exceptions: Aristotle Onassis and Steve Ni archos, his brother-in-lw. If the President is as t h e Comptroller General has ruled ignoring his own law, then Under Secretary of Commerce .Jtooscvelt must be charged with a violation of taste and of a lack of the instinct for self-preservation. He has yet to learn that in government the appear ance is often more important than the act. STRICTLY PERSONAL A child must be allowed to hate its parents from time to time without being made to feel criminally guilty about such feelings; indeed, only if a child is permitted to vent its hostilities against parents (with in reasonable limits, of course' can tlie child give love freely. Never to talk about one self h Ihe ultimate In arro gance masquerading as dif donee. Young people who resent tlie social order should, before they assert their autonomy, keep in nund the shrewd observation ol Chamfort: "Wlicn we cast off tlie yoke of public opinion, it is seldom to rife above il. but almost always to fall below." Dare one say it above a whis per wiihout being labelled as hopcless.lv provincial? thai it is b a r f 1 y possible that Pans, despite its numerous attrac tions, is the most overrated city in the work!? Til most lacerating and in WASHINGTON One of the most successful of all Soviet propaganda strokes has been Nikita Khrushchev's theatrical withdrawal from "the race to the moon." The American space program is, in consequence, in grave trouble. In Congress and among the people many of whom Khrush chev is plainly fooling most of the time in this matter there is a clearly diminished interest in pushing that program, even though never has so vast and so potentially rewarding an enter prise been open to mankind. But would it not cost many bil lions? Of course, it would; but so did the development of the airplane, of atomic energy, of radio and television. Khrushchev's reasons for his alleged retirement are endless ly debated. But not often has there been a more irrelevent debate, as has been painted out by one of the most trustworthy experts in this field, Rep. Olin E. Teague of Texas. For it does not really matter why Khrushchev has done what ap parently he has done. And, par enthetically, if he really has done it, it probably is in sim ple acceptance of the basic fact the Russian economy is vastly inferior to that of the United States. What is truly and desperately important is the danger that we are about to be talked out of that maximum American effort which is the most vital need of the 20th Century and perhaps even of the century to come. To begin with, the nation EDSON By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA -America is still the melting pot. Anybody can come here bad, indifferent or good speak a piece of his mind, get an audience, get away with it. This has been proved again by the American visits of Pres ident Josip Broz Tito of Yugo slavia. Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu of Viet Nam and now President Victor Paz Estenssoro of Bo livia. Tito and Mme. Nhu have made enemies in the United .States. Both were therefore picketed on their Washington visits and inhospitable things Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 13 with 54 to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sighted the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Co lumbia River. In 1874, Harper's Weekly ran the first cartoon depicting an elephant as the symbol of the Republican parly. In 1917, the Bolsheviks over threw the Russian provisional government of Alexander Ker ensky and Nikolai Lenin as sumed power. effectual passion is the jealousy that continues after love has fled; for it would deny to oth ers what it is no longer de sirous of possessing H.-elf. No cwpU in history are so obsc:;e or difficult of interpre tation as those that are taking place right now ; for the nose that is pressed up against the painting can see nothing b u t sireaks of oil. wiihout purpo.-e. pattern or plan. If we can understand Ihe alcoholic as a "sufferer" ra ther than as a sensualist, only then can we krnrratr enough sympathy to help Mm rwpe with the problem: Dr. .lohnson grasped the point ton centuries ago, when he commrnlrd: "He who makes a beast of himself get (id of the pain ot being a man." Our w Kksprcad belief that curvaceous and beautiful film stars are "love-goddesses" in part of our national delusion of confusing the package with the product. which becomes first in space will undoubtedly become first on the earth we inhabit, prob ably in position to begin to con trol the weather and possibly even to begin to dominate some part of the infinity which has thus far lain beyond man's un derstanding. And, to proceed with the ob vious, the cfiort to reach the moon as only the current symbol of man's search into these outer mysteries is al ready showering out collateral benefits in science which are in themselves beyond price. Grand and seemingly gran diose schemes of this kind, though easy to attack with the jeering slogans of unlettered cynicism, almost invariably produce returns which a f e w years later we learn we could not have lived without. Often, these returns are wholly unex pected. For a relatively small exam ple: The assigned mission of the U.S. 8th Air Force in Eng land in the second World War was to destroy German indus try with daylight bombing raids. A part of this job was done; but a far more immediately vi tal and quite unplanned thing was done, too. This was the vir tual destruction of the counter attacking German fighter a i r force a bonus that may well have saved our D-Day invasion from disaster. Khrushchev's claim that he is getting out of the moon contest has reduced the drama of the thing which too many people in any event had seen as a kind IN WASHINGTON r eks Self Support were said about them. But this is a country of full freedom of speech both ways. Tito got invited to the White House. He was restrained, po lite, grateful. Mme. Nhu who didn't get invited to the White House was voluble, charming, contradictory, hon est in some of her criticisms of America, unjust in others. But for the fact that Mme. Nhu's husband in Vict Nam was taking actions against the Buddhists which belied his wife's honeyed words in Amer ica, she might have been invit ed to the White House, too. This could have been in tlie spirit of mutual apology and forgiveness, to get on w ith win ning the w ar. That is what's really import antfighting the Communists not indulging in personalities and mud slinging. So with these unpleasant in cidents out of the way, there is a change in pattern with the official White House visit of Paz, who brings only friend ship, good news and a more ho)efti! outlook on Commie fighting. Dr. Paz is an egghead pro fessor of economics, a lawyer, and founder of the National Revolutionary Movement of Bo livia in 1941. He was exiled from his country from 1946 to 1952, wlien he returned to be come its president after a real political, social and economic revolution that overthrew the old feudal autocracy in the poorhouse of the .Andes. Paz ruled four years without a Congress, and by decree na tionalized the tin mines, gave suffrage to a population of 4 million two-thirds illiterate and three-fourths Indian instituted land reform, diversified the economy. He encouraged organization of labor unions. At first t.!.i-y were dominated bv Commu BERRY'S WORLD jmw) if JO" tt promu, t0 ,lop talking abgut " P imoking." of high-school foot race. But, more damagingly, it has great ly assisted the old coalition against the moon attempt. One of the strangest coalitions we have ever known, it is made up of some conservatives whose proper desire to save money is sadly misplaced here and some liberals who can rarely lift their minds above wclfarist plans for spending every dollar at hand "right here on earth," to use their happily demagogic phrase. Nothing will change the minds of these liberals. The conservatives, however, ought to ponder what they arc; about here. For apart from the al m o s t indescribable strategic and scientific significance of this program, there is the bot tom fact that it is already near ly indispensable to the Ameri can economy and may later be come indispensable in the ab- solute sense. Automation, when fully launched, w ill create huge pools of uncmployables. Politically, these must and will be cared lor, under any foreseeable re gime, Republican or Democrat ic. Is it not better to spend the money for space than to speed the day when all tliis money and more will have to be thrown about for the most gigantic and also permanent leaf-raking schemes in the world's his tory? The space program is the pre cise opposite of economic crack potism. It is sensible conserva tism's greatest future weapon against just such crackpotism. nists, and there is still a Com munist leadership in some of the unions. But Communist membership has dwindled, and tlie claim is now made that Castro efforts to infiltrate tlie labor movement have failed. For the Bolivian economy, after 10 years, is be ginning to grow. The army of 10,000 men has been put to work a third of the lime as a kind of Corps of En gineers or Peace Corps. They help tlie eampesinos the coun try people with tlie digging of wells and building schools and access roads into the jungles. The Indians who have lived in the 10,000 to 15,000-foot An dean highlands arc beginning to come down into the valleys to become farmers and ranchers. Bolivia hopes to be self-sufficient in food in the foreseeable future. With co-operation from West Germany, the Inter-American Bank and the Alliance for Pro gress, a consortium has been formed to help finance this de velopment. The alliance doesn't like talk about "showcase" countries that demonstrate how American aid can help under developed countries. But Boliv ia today is said to come as close to that designation as any other. It is not over the mountain vet. But it is one Latin Ameri can country which does not seem to be in great danger of a take-over by either the Com munists or a military junta. After his first term as presi dent. Dr. Paz was out of office for four years. He was elected again in 10. Tlie story he tells k the Unit ed States now is considered good news from an area where most of the news lately has N-'ti bad. And it takes away the bad u?te left by Tito and Mme. Nhu. Elf
