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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.
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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.
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