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I1LRALD AND NEWS, Klamath Kail!, Orrgon Friday, November 8, 1963 'Now We've Seen Everything' r WASHINGTON CALLING . ; ill Foreign Policy Dold rums PAGE-6A 174 The Parade Has Started Americans are a race of people that can get enthusiastic overnight. They got that way about foreign compact automobiles, stacked hair-dos, civil rights and pull tab can openers. A fad can sweep from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast almost over night. When an American gets the bug, he just doesn't seem to be able to do things with temperance. So it looks as if the parade of doing business with Russia with enthusiasm may be starting. Now that the U.S. has agreed . to sell wheat to them, there is already talk of selling them other grains such as rice, barley, corn etc. " Now Rep. David N. Henderson (0- N.C.) is suggesting selling surplus American to bacco to theni also. . Canada, he notes, is sending a tiafo mission to Russia la pi'swate fee sate eS tobacco. "We sliotdol do the same," he saw . The admmistoatisn is trying to ompbt size the wheal (tad as a -We-shot- sate, &(. thcixe- are already sSmc p-ei-'tiH-cHt qrcs- tions beingaskcd. For exnptc, if R b riwh. tp- sell it oire lime l-hctt is it net logical to sell it again ami again? And if wheal is sold", why -not oHier produats? 'BttMcr hits been- mentioned. And how afeettt tfaise ovon pro"duced chickens which set off the "ehitk en War" between theU.S. and Hie EHPapcaM Common Market? If Russia wohJ only feitoe up the sur.pkis dS biwls caused by tto; iir- Who Owes What To (Journal-of-onTve)a:e1 ; President Kennedy recently catted a ; tention to the fact that federal debt Wit) : risen much less than had state and nuinici- . - pal and other forms of debt, implying some ; thing good In this girth restriction. He had : all the statistics in his favor. A recent dis- sertalion by that justly celebrated econo mist, Dr. Marcus Nadlar, goes into it in a bit more detail. On the surface it looks pretty encouraging. From 1-940 to Hie one! of. 1902 the U.S. gross debt, publie and private, went from : $215 billion to $1,764.4 billion, yp 445 per cent. In fchaj. period federal debt resc5B5 : per eeivt, b.nA Hre t-ekd- hwhidttig foirtsid - ag'enclesvwsrts up to-$34T).3 billion ait the wul ' iof- i:9ti2 agairfst $08.4 bWien at the cml. pi l;950-.ai.uli$5'3:8 biilton-atlhe end or. 1W0. Delft f. start'e afid hwai gmicrimieit , jump-e'di from- $2M2, biilton to $80.4) AMm . -between 10S01 and-19(12 an', was onhy $20.2 . Biflitin.al Hie -crijcff. 194j). Private debt -of. aU kwids jumpt fiww J:v$217"3-.7 'billion 'in K)5JD to $w55i2 billion in :;iW2"-, up;.tom-$1'42:0. UiUion. -ift M4JJi SB)! :'W .this- .wa'si' obviously, in coporte del, : VlTiclV was- Htifr billjtin iju ijSrp; '&hMt By RALPH de TOLEDANO A free press, we ai con stontJy (old, In lite guardian of our freedoms. No one w ill quar rel with this axiom. Tlie ques tion usually is: What ronotj tules a free press and wtial can destroy H? To (lie first pari of the query, maay answer can Ate offered. But llw second part is subject lo a more precise re view. The tree press goes wlien Hie government becomes cither aO dispenser or an artiter of news. For ioto time, American edi tors and reporters have been troubled by a harp increase In management of the news by the Federal government. Where in the past (lie single criterion for the imposition of secrecy was the national security, it has now become (he political secur ity of whatever group of people may be in office. At present, contract negotiations involving Ihe Maritime Administration or (lie Justice Department are cov ered by the cloak of secrecy and the press has no way in which to determine whether or not the Executive Branch is playing hob with the taxpayer's money. But tlw United Stales seems creased tariffs of the Common Market would it not be sensible to sell them? As these questions are asked, and as talk continues, there appears a re-evaluation is ahead for the U.S. foreign policy. If the U.S. is going to do business with Moscow, what about Red China? If it is permissible to do business with one sect of Communists why jiot another? Uncle Sam is faced with the task of coming up with some sort of reasonable stand for telling other countries not to do business with Cuba. As things stand today, it is quite ap parent that Washington is going to have to lake a stand on whether to continue to raake sales or to make the flat statement to Ameri can business that the wheat deal was and is a eic-s4wf sate ad there will be noVhers. Sep. Iterniorsaji is just one of the first to s4art bwtiwg the drums for selling other p'adtts t Kwaaa. Ami as this parade starts, owe can mily stawt kwk and woiMfor down wbk-h reaad llw.Adawwistiia'tisiai is going to trao). . . The pKi jsie howl vetiyan dawn the way, who received his wound in the Pacific at the hamfc f Ikp Japane.w, can't-help but remember tlie clays whn vre sold scrap tec4-t8 Japan (mw Ib Woj'W War H. Rcttuwihei'Mtg thwse cbirs, k's ftt& Wy sayiig t fcrtow Aftowica.; pta dun't h-'t wrildflQvijoaii gjert thw b(W of ca&mi MBioM m and wily $8? hUlion ui 190. Attempts to minimize the rise in tins fectond debt usually stress the 42 per cowt increase in population since 1948 and thc 4?52 iw cent rise in grass national pJ'ockict, which was up 208 per cent on a per capita basis. The richer a na4ien and faster its GNP rises, the better it can support deM. All thisjs titkwg barbiturates to lull omcmoV to sleep. Most fedorai cxpemiitiu-e is fo wars and similar purposes, largely unpro ductive. It goefi.up from year to year for g , variety af reascins, aJ live nvniiitins cot of payiug interest oh tho (Mil is oau rea son why we. have te pay so mwfa hi tiiwos i'wjd why lax reduction ehikps its feet. Naw as to the deM of state ;nnl local fiavwmHcnts. With inadequate ywdds vvaa real estiJe t;vxes, they have biiilt p t;it rcveHHC from other tax sswees and so f;4" have been duwg pretty wcl. But they wc " lottk-wg mure and more te tlftj federal rw enwHent to IkhI litem ovi, wlrich tho federal government is mwifully tryUig to d. Xl' wliUe ad local gifveumueHt tii'W is still lwasnwitHy prethtctivc and wifc. Th iiM ot-atcs iuid mwuciiKiltties is pMi;iMy, a&. wu'c pvtMluctiAic tbiRi k fcftwd dvM,. Efficient Oppressiaii to be moving rapidly aliead into an era in which the dissemi nation of news hegomo a gov ernment prerogative. The gov ernment has always been a prime source of neSs. but it has stayed strictly away from processing rliat news directly lo (he nation's news-papers and 0 magazines. Tlie process began in tlie Ag riculture Department under Sec retary Orvillc Freeman. It wns Mr. Freeman's fond hope that lie be enabled lo set p a I'SDA ' wire service which would feed news on farm activities lo Ihe nation. Why tlie federal government should go to tlie tremendous ex pense involved in creating a news service of this kind was never explained lo tlie (.ublic. Presumably, .Mr. Freeman be lieves that Hie U.S. press is not properly informed ot tlie prac tices of government ofticials. Too many people, moreover, ac cept tlie anti-Freeman image that crops up in (lie risily pres. In any case, die Freeman idea seems lo bav impressed tlie President and his adv isers. At his behest. Ihe heads ol Cabinet-rank departments and Whom tlie agency chiefs havebecn tejjd to whip up an idea for a unified Federal agency to be called the National gpmmunica ftiHis System. According to memoranda being circulated the Federal establishment, the XCS wiH be developed "by linking togctlicr. improving and f-jxtcmliitg on an evolutionary basis, the communications facil ities of Ihe various Federal agencies." 0 Tlie National Communications System will not atlemt lo sell its services to newsiaiiers. It vuH pour into newsrooms a con stant fktod ot "information" touting tlie works of the Admin istration in mer. Since it will lie a government project, cost accounting will not tie a (actor in Us operations. The main victim uill be the tax paver. It is hard to Ulicve tli.it the boilerplote Iwuig turnul out by government agencin, wlien dig iiik1 by a NCX slug, will not gradually filter into (lie pages of our free pi-ess. Result: Tlie Federal government will be in a position lo reach millions of citizens who will unsiispectinsiv believe that Ihey are rrjduig objective news. i ,. .. 1 EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . By PETER EDSON Vnhinsl"n Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NKA' From an organizational stani'n'. Die Goldwater tor Piysident campaifins ollkial and unoffi cial are now so far out in front .is to leave the machines of all other GOP hopefuls tiijd lo the .post. o Eighteen slate campaiuro chairmen already have been an nounced by the National Draft Goldwater Committee. This is the wi9k of Peter F. O'Dunnell Jr. of Dallas, Repub ciji state chairman for Tex as who organized the N!)GC W"t sprR without asking Sen idior (iolhi uter's pci msion. There is nu connect itjn be I . ?o the semSor's office on o Capitol Hill mi the O'Donncll bwariBi'siiwo miles west at HH5 Couneoticirt Avenu B u t O'punicll has truvrk-d consliHit ly the last siNnonths lo set up 0 a 0,'ifiocBil orsmizatrxi ready for the senator to t;J ovPr when he waats it. Instead of picking right-wing 0 extremists who would make the most noise fo Goldwater, O'Uoraiell decided to pick st:de chajmnen for hfe mnp organi . Zitiion vjh have bad consider able experinne in regular Re puldicao pai ty oi'gaw.atjon and fund raiswg camoawon. So tlK'y :ve all prw. Aooott tboa smjovai'ed so f;0 are: 0 AlHi);Bi .hfan K. Greiner, rhairmnn of stuc GOP or giniizidion uUch Iiok already deiRned it's fcr GiWKaler. Georgia losft t.. TriKilc, O Savannah sjah" sen K nr. whose organK;ai h:i Je;J raisd a $:!8.O0t c;mnftw(f) fioid. ldiAo-Iames D. HVCIary. Boise bxsmess ewmlivc. llloims-,WM F.onrflikc. Chi rneo insurjuioc man. Indxma Ijv&te Dov,i. for mer YnttD Kepdtdv.';m head. KitAxK Williitn 1'horlon, o VicMa (itoiW- relatioos man, fw)r awwt.nil. to I he Isle Sen. Anjtow F. bK-brtDppprl. 0 JSane CrU "X. .lolly, Water vTib? BHatdr. ndiiv Crfichton D. llol (6, t. CW hotel man. an oi'wwsd MTOfacr of Gov. Rom o's Oticos CoouQittee. Wtomfsohi Williano G. Me F;fti)':i. wiA:iwlis executive. !$npaijDi Virt A. Yerpe-Q O .V., rhaimiioi of the slate GOP ooajj'id committee to the Soulh ero Republican Chairmen's As sociation. Mis.Oiuri Jerry Harkins Jr., K.C. state legislator. e Montan;0- Jerome Anderson, 0 Bdlings state legislator. New Mexico Robert J. Leon- "Mrs. KfHKtJy think t thai your Acropolis is Jtriing . , . and it might b fun to Ttstort it sometime." im i ll Goldwater Forces Await Announcement ard, Roswell state legislator. Oklahoma Denzil Garrison, Bartlesville state senator. South Carolina J. Drake Edens Jr., chairman of the state GOP organization, which has also declared lor Goldwa ter. Washington Luke Williams Jr., Spokane councilman. West Virginia Stuart F. Bloch, active in slate GOP. Wisconsin Wayne J. Hood, La Crosse, former state GOP chairman and National Com mittee executive director. While all this activity has been gting on at the grass roots. Senator Goldwater has been building up a Washington Headquarters staff, just as any good candidate should. Denison Kilchel, who is offi cially Goldwatcr's campaign manager for reelection to the U.S. Senate, has given up his business in Phoeno; and opened an office in Washington, near the Capitol. The Arizona senator has al ways been his own one - man brSn trust, taking advice from no one. But he is now relying more on a staff of professors being recruited by former Eis enhower administration lawyer, Edward A. McCabe, who has the title of research director. The stable includes such well known names as Chicago econo mist Milton Friedman, Stanford political scientist Stephen Pos sony. and even a Harvard man, GottfriedOHabcrler. The senator has taken on an other speech writer. Bill Flythe, in addition to Tony Smith, his press secretary. Q A politician doesn't buil6 up a staff of his own like this, or allonrjpne to be built for him, ifQ there's any chance he will an nounce he won't be a candidate. Aim anac Ity I'nitrdQ'ress International TodavPis Friday, Nov, 8, the .112th day of 1963 with 53 to f'ovv. the moon u at last quarter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1!. the famed Parisian art museum, the Louvre, was opened to the public. In 18S9. Montana was admit ted as the 41st state in the Cnion. In 1M2. some 400,000 Allied Iroops invaded North Africa. In 1961. 77 pei-sons were tailed in a crash of an Imperial Air lines Constellation near the Richmond. Va., airport. By .MARQLIS CHILDS WASHINGTON Twelve months from this date the na tion will have come through, if advance indications mean any thing, one of the bitterest Pres idential campaigns in our his tory. For all practical purposes during this interval any initia tive in foreign policy is ruled out. The best that can be hoped for is a kind of "still pond, no more moving." with no violent irruption on tlie foreign scene. This may be too much to ask of a world in revolutionary tur moil and particularly since the Presidential exercise gets I stretched out for a longer and longer time. Just as four years ago Sen. John F. Kennedy had already been campaigning for months, so today Sen. Barry Goldwater is almost ceaseless ly on the move and his office in the old Senate Office Build ing resembles the strategy head quarters that was the Kennedy office in 1939. The pious declaration of an other era was that "politics slops at the water's edge." There is hardly a pretense ot that today. The wheat deal, the nuclear test ban, Vict Nam, Cuba, charges and counter charges already reverberate over these trouble areas. Any neutral ground, on which na tional interest might be expect ed to prevail over partisanship, threatens to shrink to zero. In the principal spots where Political volcanoes smoulder un der the surface what are the chances of simply holding the line? What serves the Ameri can interest a wailing period may also serve tlie Soviet in terest. Premier Khrushchev is o WILLIAM -wsj : o JS&Pay Raise Js By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON A bipartisan Congressional committee has at last had the courage to recom- , mend a bill for an increase in the salaries of members of the Senate and House from $22,500 to $32,500 a year. It is not an adequate raise; the minimum should be $50,000 a year, which would be, per haps, a tenth of the annual lake of one of the junior glam or girls of Hollywood. But, perhaps understandably, every thing being considered, not quite enough guts is to be found in any Congressional committee i propose what real.? ought to be done. For eveno'he suggestion for this very modest increase in the pay of the men who collective ly hold the liQ and honor of this nation On their hands is meeting a howling chorus of complain? from two sets of clit ics, o One set is made up of econo mizers whose horizons are so punched and small that they" honestly believe a member of Congress shoJd be content with less pay than can he readily earned by a good whole sale c'lesman in, say, cosmet ics or beer. Of this set, no more will be said in this col umn, for their opiQ'sQion is in O good faith, however wrong it may be. But the second set of critics is made up of people who know perfectly well that in today's world and at today's cost of liv One of tlie big and important words of the last decade is "communication." It is consid ered to be a wholly coed thing: the more the better. If we could but commiuucale with one another more effectively, many of our problems would tie Milled, our conflicts eased. It may cem strange for a writer to minimize the influ ence of "communication." but I think most of us are suffer ing from a gross llkSion. What Ihe world lacks is not commu nication there is enough, and perhaps too Mich, of (his but dialog. Dialog consists of a speaker and a receiver, who keep niter dunging these roles. Commu nication, as such, is too often a speaker w ho only speaks and a receiver who only receives. But this is not a living transaction, it is a mechanics! (lung, and has iittie human vuiuc. As Ortega wrv'.y remarks in one of his books, "The Klea wrestling with Red China and with an internal economic cri sis of serious dimensions. As Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the assembled Amer ican ambassadors in Bonn this week, there is no real relaxa tion of tensions no detente. W hat we have is simply a hunt ing license to try to find a de tente. Despite reports to the contrary, approval of a Moscow-New York plane line may still be worked out. And the deal to open consulates in both conuntries is also in slow-motion progress. ' But these are minor steps and nothing else is expected. A non aggression pact was never se riously contemplated despite the cries of alarm of some who set it up as a whipping boy. Un less Khrushchev decides in his own interest lo stir up a crisis in Berlin perhaps the likeli hood is for more of the pres ent pause. As to Cuba, the best informa tion is that the Administration contemplates no drastic move. Except for noises from Red China the Communist bloc seems to be pulling back from support of Fidel Castro. The economic deterioration within Cuba is more rapid and an in ternal explosion cannot be ruled out. The same terms apply more or less to Vict Nam. The Mc-Namara-Taylor mission put off the beginning of victory until early 1905 even though some American troops might be re moved earlier. The prayerful hope here is that the coup against the Diem regime will provide a stable government with much wider popular sup- o port. S. WHITE . . Justified ing it is a isurd to maintain so penny - pi.r:hing an economic ceiling on men chosen to write the laws of this country. These fellows, in short, are not really concerned with saving tax mon ey. Instead, they are tirelessly concerned with cutting down Congress, as an institution and as the sole truly representative forum left in this nation, by ev ery means that comes to hand. These are the two-bit cynics who dionand "reforms" which would in fact slowly destroy Congress and finally elevate the bureaucrats as our undisputed masters. These are the ones who cry up every real or al leged "scandal" involving Con gress, without waiting lo hear a word of Ihe evidence and with pitiless disregard of the old fashioned notion that even elect ed politicians arc entitled to the presumption of innocence tuil proved guilty. o These are the professional moralizers about the supposed poor morals of Congress and the professional finger-pointers at somebody else's human weakness These are the sclf ligltyous prigs whose compas sion for themselves especially when it comcto .taking care to see that their own incomes are always more than merely ade quateis s. all-consuming that they have no time for compas sion (0; others. To starve out Congress to keep in constant economic anx iety members whose record fur high public service is an STRICTLY PERSONAL that O means of -speech we can arrive at understanding is an age-old misconception, and it makes us talk and listen in such good faith that often we understand far less tlian if we kefo silent and attempted sim ply to guess one another's thoughts." When we read the best writ ers, we feel that they are con ducting a dialog with us. not merely "communicating" their ideas as an orator or a politi cian may do. Ttbest writers touch us our inmost pails, provoke a reaction (whether of agreement or disagreement, it does not matter" and we find ourselves not only answering thorn but also talking with our selves, as if one part of our per sonality were opi'img itself to tlie other Abstract subjects, factual statements, can be communicat ed; but tlie closer we get to the human level, the more ba sic we become, the more arises liie need for genuine dialog be So with a little bit of luck the roof may not fall in. But this appraisal omits one point at which the showdown is al ready set lor a date certain. The Kennedy round of tariff negotiations next spring in Ge neva will put the gravest strain on tlie Western alliance at a time when the taste of the chicken mess is still bitter. Rusk found the Europeans deeply resentful over what they considered undue pressure to reduce the tariff on American chickens. The new German chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, told Rusk that he would have to give full support to German ag riculture in the Kennedy round. Erhard, who will have the back ing of the French, is coming here to meet with the President. This will be another chancev at least to look at the time bomb and see if perhaps it can be de-fused. It is impossible to imagine a President in a Pres idential year not defending to the bitterest end American ag ricultural exports. In Bonn Rusk held a back ground briefing with German correspondents. The German press was off running like friphiened hares over the re port that American troop com. mitments in Germany would be e cut back, thus reflecting quiver ing German insecurity Rusk toldothem: "You sciSn always willing to ascribe the lowest motives to us. We cannot live this way." As the angry noises of a Pres. idential campaign can beieard even now in the background, his words ha?o a broader appli cation. If each partisan charge is taken for fact toe next 12 monthsan he disastrous. unarguable part of current his torywould well suit the book of this set of critics. And cur rent Congressional pay literally means near-poverty for all save lly members of independent wealth or separate income. When a man must maintain not one but two homes; when he must contribute beyoed his real means to every chflrOy 0 "because it is e x p e c t e d of him': when he must educate his children and run cxpensiva campaigns for re-election this man is ii ccotomic victim in an aflluent society. "Well," it is said, "if they don't like the pay they can al ways qui'e Nobody made theo. go to Congress." And also it ise said: "Lots of those fellows in Congress aren't worlo what Ihey are getting already." But this sort of infantile log icis a poor excuse for unfair ness. It is an rafairncss. more over, that is dangerous for the country itself. For to follow such logic to the end would mean to close the doors of Con gress to all but the wealfiiy or Ihe trickv ones who know how to become wealthy in very un pleasant ways. To put Congressional pay at the level where men there could '' go abouo their high jobs free of 0 financial fear aijd IreS of fi nancial temptation, for they are human, too would lie the best and soundest ihOestment the people, of the United Stales 0 could make, even if itcost dou ble o triple what the present proposal would cost. tween persons, in which the tone, the gesture ias it were', and the unvoiced nuances ot feP.ng are as important as tlie words and phrases tliemselves. "I believe, therefore." Orte ga goes on to say. "that the measure of a book is the auth or's altfily to imagine his read er iicretely and to cany 01 a kind of hidden dialog with him. in which the reader per ceives from between tlie lines the touch as of an cytoplasmic hand that feels him. caresso him. or deals him an occajkm Q al gentlemanlbl(iw." O Communication that is ad dressed to everyone and lo no one is either triviai or prcten tiftis; it is spoken ir.oa void, tn a faceless audience; and sine it does not impel us to resonate with response, it fails to cre ate any real relationship while true dialog i so rare these davs1 has for its hi and L.ial end tlie forming of a riglit rclalrn-ship.
