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
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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.
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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.