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FAGC-M HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Thursday, November II. 16J WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Southern Theater Has Special Billing For 'PT-109' Words, Words, Words "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." That's an old proverb from somewhere, but it sums up the attitude of the Cuban refugees when they listen to promises of aid from President Kennedy. In his recent swing through Florida, President Kennedy commented that it would be a happy day if the Castro government was ousted. He also promised U.S. backing for any Latin American nation seeking aid to re sist a Communist takeover attempt. The President added, "If there is one principle that has run through the history of the hemisphere, it is our common deter mination to prevent the rule of foreign sys tems or nations in the Americas. We have ultimately won this battle against every great power of the past. We will continue to wage and win it." Strange words, indeed, when you slack them up against the actions of the same president. Once before he urged a Castro over throw and then abandoned the liberators on the beachhead and left them to Castro's vengeance. The same president had to humble this nation's pride later on and ran som the victims of his indecision from their prison hell-holes. Then, back he went to Miami where ho By MARQUIS GUILDS WASHINGTON With a Pres. idential year just ahead it Is a safe bet that the rallying cry. "Elect me becauso I can do More for the great slalo of ," is certain to resound across the land. The eager office-seeker will give the impression Uiat defense contracts, research contracta, projects large and small, are on the political auc tion block and lie and he alone can snare them. Defense spending takes todHy 10 per cent of the nation's gross national product. This means that whole communities and large payrolls depend on a con tinuous flow of dollars from .Washington. Any substantial re duction in this spending, wheth er by the economies that Secre tary of Defense Robert McNa mara Is trying so earnestly to bring about in the next budget or by a modest beginning at disarmament, means a r u d e adjustment. A program put forward re cently to help ease the adjust ment from a cold war economy to a future peacetime economy went almost unnoticed. Sen. George McGovem D., S.D.), joined by 10 others including Majority Whip Hubert Hum plucy, proposed a National Eco nomic Conversion Commission. The commission would be re sponsible for drafting a blue print for converting to peace time work and for drawing up schedules of possible private and public investment that would help to bridge the transi tion period. All plants in which 23 per cent of operation was in defense would bo required lo set up an operating conversion committee. In presenting his proposal to tlie Senate, McGovorn quoted in support of It from an emi nently respectable source, a sur vey of the Morgan Guaranty Bank: "With about one-tenth of gross national product devoted to military purposes year after year, there has developed a re luetance, both public and pri vate, toward cutUng back so sizable a sector of economic activity. Thus, tlie very fact that makes it important to pre pare for tlie possibility of a re duction In defense outlays that Is, the economy's heavy Involvement in defense could .also make H more difficult to achieve reduction." ' McGovern uttered a warning similar to that which has long been coming from business. The fact that roughly three fourths of the nation's scientific and engineering talent is in mil itary research and development of apace has caused a drastic decline in the modernization of civilian industries. The United Suites, which once led t ha world in machine tool produc tion, today tua slipped to fourth pledged the would return to a free Cuba. Fine words. Immediately afterwards, all attempts at retaliation against Castro were muzzled. Exiles who attempted to mount hit-and-run attacks against Cuba were not only threatened, they were imprisoned. Then came the missile crisis, and the actions of the President since that time in dicate that he guaranteed the safety of Castro from invasion in exchange for the recall of missiles by Russia. Words about the Monroe Doctrine from a president who has thus far refused to ac knowledge that there is such a thing, and who has done more than anyone else to per petuate the bloody tyranny of Castro and his ilk. President Kennedy has a remarkably singular record of speeches with beautiful phrases coupled with brave promises, but no action. It is not surprW . therefore, that the Cuban refugees look askance at the Presi dent as he again urges the overthrow of Castro. It will be a long, long time before any one will again be willing to stake their lives on the promises of the present administra tion. What this country needs today is not words and more words, but positive, con structive action. WASHINGTON CALLING . Planning For Peace or fifth place, according to Mc Govem. Tlie concentration of research in tlie government sector means that tills country has Jagged be hind in new and improved prod ucts. In West Germany only five lo 10 per cent of a re search is in defense and tlie balance in private Industry. What this means in world competition in tlie sale of goods and services hardly needs to bo pointed out. Tlie relation to America's unfavorable balance of payments Is a direct one. As West Germany, Japan and Ita ly havo built up new plants, the United Slates Is left today with the unenviable distinction of operating the most outdated metal-working machinery of any major industrial power. The Wall Street Journal last summer conducted a survey re vealing tli at industrialists felt that high defense nnd space research salaries paid out of seemingly unlimited funds had priced them out of the market. Between li).r4 and l'.K'.l person nel working on government re search contracts rose 317 per cent to WO. 000. In this same period industry increased i t s privato research payroll only 30 per cent to KIO.OOO. As (ho demand for technical manpower grows, the supply dwindles. According to the Wall Street Journal survey, the demand for new engineers alone now runs close to BO.ooo a .war. But in the current cal 'Hollo Sen. Nciilierper? You Doing Next returning refugees that they endar year only about 33,700 will be graduated and this is down from 38,134 in 105!). The situation seems to bo nearly as acute in the physical sci ences, chemistry and physics. This is. of course, only one aspect of the cold war econo my where adjustments are vi tal if trouble is avoided. Me (Jovern minted out that in Die aircraft industry over 93 per cent of all employes arc work ing on warplancs. In shipbuild ing the figure is 60 per cent, in radio and communications equipment 38 per cent. Unless these industries arc to go on into an indefinite future, turn ing out more and more war machines lo be stockpiled, a basic adjustment will have to be faced up to. The Morgan Guaranty survey noted that very little thought has been given to tlie problem by industry. What McGovern is saying is that (lie intervention of both government and private industry working in cooperation is essential if free competitive industry is lo be able to cor rect the distortions of a cold war economy. A horrible example of how not lo succeed by hardly trying at all is in stockpiling. There because of the pressure of pri vate interests the government acquired mountains of materi al far beyond any foreseeable uc. To repeat Uiat on a far larger scale in armaments would be the height of folly. Miiuritii YTlint Are Suiiiiiiir?" By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON t.NEAi United Auto Workers President Walter Reuthcr, talking about the threat of automation to job security, talked to the Industri al Union convention in Wash ington about a new machine for the Kurd engine plant at Cleveland. He said it will re place a 1930 installation which turned out finished engine blocks in 14.6 minutes without being touched by human hands. "That old machine Is now as obsolete as a Model T," said Ileuthor. "It could respond to impulses in only three-tenths of one-millionth of a second. "But the new machine will be 1.000 times faster, it will respond to impulses in only three-tenths of one-billionth of a second. "If you kid yourselves that you understand that," said Itcuthcr, "You don't. But this illustration given nie will ex plain it a little: "If a man stood on the equa 'If Russia hadn't bought the wheat, we could have fed it to the chickens we can't sell to Euromart." By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON NEA From a religious point of view, one of tlie most interesting aspects of the change in governments in South Viet Nam is Uiat Catholic U.S. President Jolui F. Kennedy could do nothing to prevent, the assassination of Vietnamese Catholic President Ngo D i n h Diem. The American government tried hard to support Ule Diem government in its war on com munism. But Diem's sanctioned harassment of Vietnamese Bud dhists made tlie dow nfall of his regime inevitable. The revolt was led by Bud dhist General Duong Van Minn. And the new provisional presi dent named lo take over in Viet nam is a Buddhist civil servant, Nguyen Ngnc Tho. The incidental fact that all this happened in the same week that President Kennedy received the New York City Protestant Coun cil's IMS distinguished service award "for promoting human rights and democratic freedom indicates Uiat prejudice is under attack everywhere. Tolerance may be in the march through out tlie world, more than is rea lized. Much emphasis has been placed in the West on the role the Buddhists played in the Viet namese revolt. This has been presented as a new political phenomenon and as a revolution in religious thought. Buddhists have traditionally been represented as docile, un worldly people, interested pri marily in their prayers and with no interest in politics or govern ment. Buddhist scholars point out. however, that (his is not true Buddhists have been politically conscious for centuries. Actually, all Uiat is new about a supposed Buddhist political renaissance today is Uiat the West is just waking up to a reality 400 years older than Christianity. Historically, there have been Buddhist d nasties from time to (ime throughout Asia. Tra ditionally, tlie Buddlut lamas and monks have been tlie ad visers of kuigs ami ministers. There are Buddhist treatises on how kings should rule, how tor and took one step every three-tenths of one-billionth of a second, he would be able to walk around the world in less than one second." One Southern theater owner saw a chance to promote t h e moie "PT-109" and at the same time get in a couple of licks at a President unpopular lor his civil rights views. The marquee read: 'PT-109. SEE HOW THE JAPS ALMOST GOT KENNE DY!" When new Postmaster Gener al John A. Gronouski went out to Santa Claus, Ind., to dedicate this year's Christmas stamp, he was introduced to s e n i o r lloosicr Sen. Vance Hartkc. In the presentation, however, llartke got confused over the PMG's name and pronounced it "Gronsky." Responding lo the intrnduc t i o n, Gronouski said, "My mother will forgive you the er ror because she is Irish. ' Her EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . .Power Of Buddhists More Than Realized they should influence the peo ple with whom the monks had direct and daily contact. Having this contact, they were able to advise the kings on whether their rule had popular support and when the kings' decrees did not find favor with the people. The idea of complete separa tion of church and state, which is a western idea, was never practiced by the Buddhists. They are described as having been in politics for centuries. The 2.500th anniversary of tlie birth of Gautama, or Buddha, in (he Himalayas was observed in 1956 and 1957. The celebrations were paid for with government funds throughout South and East Asia, so close was Uic relation between church ami state. And foreign diplomats were invited lo ollicial, formal anniversary Inactions. Confucius, born in China 12 years after Buddha, is the oilier great figure in Oriental religious history. His followers and adher ents rivaled Uie Buddhists throughout Chinese history for 2.000 years as the counselors of cmerors. They were not rival political parties in the modern sense, but they were forerun, ners and set the patterns of po litical thought. This brief background may liclp explain why the Vietnam ese Buddhists protested when tiieir flag was banned, why they boycotted the elections when tliey wore subjected to political persecution by tlie Diem re gime. Buddhism is today the domi nant religion of 20 countries in SouUi and East Asia from Ko rea to India, from Ceylon to In donesia and hack to Japan. Tlie population of this vast area is over 1.7 billion, including lied China. How many of them are prac ticing Buddhists, no one knows. Tcrh.ips 500 million as a mini mum, a billion as a maximum. The significance of this may be indicated by the State De partment's recent appointment of an officer in charge of Bud dhist affairs. He is Dr. Richard Hard, a young Foreign Service otiicer. an author of a book on Buddhism who has had duty in many of the Buddhist countries. His fascinating job is to watch and advise en developments in the Buddhist world. name was Mary Riley. 1 But my father would never forgive you. He was Polish." AFL-CIO's Committee on Po litical Education (COPEi picked up this item of incident al intelligence in Missouri: "State Representative Peter J. ftabbitt plans to file today for the Democratic nomination for state senator . . . ". . . He lives at 7720 Suf folk Avenue, Shrewsbury, is married and has 10 children." Sen. Ken Keating. R-N.Y., who probably turns down 50 in vitations to speak every week, confesses Uiat he got one the other day which he declined less than regrelfully. It requested his presence at a tea to be held at Uie Village cemetery in upstate New York. Said KcaUng: Letters To The Editor Ch I U emica se Attended weed control meet ing in Klamath Falls the other day. The meeting was a farce so far as the facts are con cerned. There were experts and spe cialists from Oregon State Uni versity, Oregon State Highway Department, the Public Utilities, that is PPL and Portland Gen eral Electric and an expert from the chemical industry. The meeting started with a few quips and a light laughter rippled through Uie crowd. The emphasis was stressed on the good that comes from use of chemicals, the money and time saved by use of chem icals, and nothing said about when these chemicals are used repeatedly for a period of time, the chemical is bound to seep into waterways and our drink ing water. If the chemical kills weeds and life after spraying what will the water do to people. We know that this seepage kills fish and water birds. The proof is Clear Lake and Salten Sea, California, where weedi cide and pesticide killed tons of fish. And we also had some fish kill in ost River by weedicide used in ditches to kill moss and other weeds. The experts disagree with (he above. However, the proof is these and anyone could check for himself. Paul R. Oshanic, P.O. Box 541. Appreciation The individuals whose names appear below are among the great majority of the citizenry of our state who feels a great sense of gratitude toward J. WASHINGTON REPORTS By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Not since Adolf IliUer has a more vio lent hatemonger appeared upon the world scene than Egypt's hawk-nosed Gamal Abdcl Nas ser. The powerful voice of Nas ser's Radio Cairo, beamed throughout Africa and the Mid dle East, has fomented revolu tion and civil war. It operates in part with U.S. funds. American dollars, dished out hy the Agency for International Development, are currently used by Nasser to "establish and operate a Telecommunica tions Research ami Training In stitute " To date more than a million dollars have been fun neled into this particular pro pram, labeled by Washington, No. 2ti3-G-22-AA. Skilled propagandists use the facilities of Radio Cairo to keep the Middle Eastern cauldron boiling. Tlie following excerpts from a recent broadcast urge the revolutionary overthrow of ami - Communist leaders in neighboring states: "Free officers, soldiers, stu dents and Arab brothers in Sau di Arabia and Jordan, how long are you going to tolerate Saiid and Hussein? The time has come lor the army and the peoole to purse the Arab land of the imperialist vestiges the lackeys who have sold their honor and dignity and who co operate with the archenemies of the Arabs the English, the Americans, the Jews." Other broadcasts throughout the Middle East attack the "capitalist dogs of the United Stales and Great Britain." They call for Hitler-like exter mination of the Israelis: "In my time I've spoken' to audiences Uiat were less man responsive. But at least they were breathing. This is going just a step too far to get a cap tive audience!" It isn't generally admitted, but this year's United Nations session in New York has been just as slow, and lethargic as the 88th Congress in Washing ton. AlUiough congressmen are inclined to fret and blame each oUier for lack of legislative re sults, State Department brass isn't worrying too much about U.N. inactivity. "In Uie past, representatives have gone off to the U.N. like knights on white chargers, rea dy to solve all the world s prob lems in a few days," one State Department official notes. Francyl Howard. As you know, it was the result of Howard's eiforts that made it possible for us and some 450,000 other elec tors to express our views upon the recently enacted and impro vident tax statute which was repudiated in the reeen( elec tion. Howard, as you know, has de voted a great deal of time to this project and has incurred considerable expense. We feel, as we are sure you do, that he should not be required to sus tain the entire financial burden which this project entailed. We also think that a personal letter of appreciation to Howard would be treasured by him during his declining years. If you are able to make an enclosure with this letter we are sure that, too, would be appreciated. This is just a friendly remind er that Howard, like ourselves, is human and deserves recogni tion for what he has accom plished. His address is 124 Fer ry Street, Albany, Ore. Wiley W. Smith, E. C. Jlalo, L. P. Holloran, A. P. "Jack" Roark, K. C. Tanner, Portland, Ore. In Memory A very good attendance of World War I Barracks 925 and Ladies Auxiliary was noted at the Veterans Day Memorial Service. We remember that first Armi stice Day signaling the end of war on Ulis earth and that dream is still in our hearts. Wreaths were placed at the shaft hy Past Commander Les ter Wishard and President Erma Miller. Afterward 22 veterans, wives and guests had lunch in King- Nasser Is Hatemonger "Tlie situation is serious. Our Arab people art irrevocably de termined to wipe away Uie dis grace of fsrael and to purge the Holy Land of the remnants of Zionism, which Is hostile to the Arabs and humanity." A grand total of $1.3 billion in U.S. aid has been given to Egypt under the spurious doc trine that Nasser, a self-proclaimed National Socialist, can be won to our side. Much of this aid has been in the form of surplus food and fibre, shipped under the so called Food for Peace Pro gram. Alaska Sen. Ernest Gruening. a Democrat, explains the significance of this assist ance: "We 'sell' Colonel Nasser sur plus food and fibre for Egyp tian pounds which are used for the development of Egypt and its people. The Soviet Union turns around and sells Nasser arms for which it receives Egyptian goods for its own peo ple." Angered by Nasser's violent ly expansionist policies, t h e Senate voted 65-13 last week to deny U.S. foreign aid to any country engaging in aggression against another. It was aimed specifically at Egypt. Whether Nasser will continue to receive U.S. aid is not known, as tlie President has li nal authority to determine if Nasser is peace-loving or not. Senators Gruening and Morse, who led tlie attack on Nasser, point out that Egypt has com mitted iS.OOO troops plus Soviet jet fighters to its war in Ye men. Tlie cost since September 12: an estimated $200 million, a dguie equal to U S. foreign aid during that period. "Now, when a diplomat says, 'This is the dullest session since 1957.' it just means he h a s acquired a little maturity." Former President Eisenhow er's new article. "An Epidem ic of Friendship." on tlie Peo-ple-to-Pcople movement was ceremoniously unveiled by Gen. Alfred M. GruenUier, retiring president of American Red Cross and a trustee of People-tu-People. Gruenther, who wrote the in ticle in the November issue of Reader's Digest, noted: "I thought that 1 was going to be the main attracUon of the ceremony today. After all, my article and picture are on Uie inside cover of the magazine. But now I find that I'm just here to plug a fellow whose ar ticle is on Page 1H8." falls Restaurant. It was enjoyed so much that we plan to make it an annual affair. Mrs. II. H. Gillette. Cat Cemetery The Cemetery of the Cats at Sakkaret, Egypt, contained many mummies of both cats and of ibis. The ibis is shown on Egyptian monuments as Thout. This God has man's clothing, including a lion's tail at his coattail as a symbol of Might. His left hand holds a tablet. On this he writes. His head is not human, but of an ibis, even to its bill curved like a curlew's. After a young bird student has learned to identify his common birds, he will commence to no tice the wonders of bird anato my. One of these is bill adap tion. The sparrow and finch . tribe has the stubby seed crush er. The spoonbill's very name suggests an evolution toward food getting as that organ moves, like a scythe in yester year's harvest, systematically to gain shrimps and other nutrition in tlie muddy waters of Ever glades National Park's "keyes." Note also the woodpecker's ef ficient chisel as he makes a hole in a dead snag in which he next will stuff an acorn against future hunger. The peli can has a fishnet at its lower beak. The comorant has a fish hook at the end of its upper bill. The fisheating mergansers have a sawlike bill to hold slippery scaled prey. Other ducks have a specialized bill for food getting in pond mud. The hummingbird's needle is evolved for flowers. The eagles lor its predator food gathering. It's fun to study bird bills. C. M. Goethe, Sacramento, Calif. Nasser's army is one of the world's largest, although his soldiers are among the world's worst. A Cairo report earlier this year revealed that Nas ser now boasts of guided mis siles capable of blasting tiny Israel off the map. Tlie mis siles are said to have been de veloped by former Nazi Scien tists. On Sept. 3, Uie U.N. Securi ty Council considered a resolu tion sponsored by Uie U n i t e d States and the United Kingdom condemning the "wanton mur der" of two Israeli farmers within Israeli borders by Nas ser agents two weeks earlier. The resolution, sponsored by the U.S.. Great Britain. France. Nationalist China, Brazil, t h e Philippines. Norway, and Gha na, was vetoed by the Soviet Union. It was the Uiird time since 1954 the Soviets had ve toed a resolution opposed by the Arab nations. Note: Tlie U.S. Ambassador lo Egypt, John S. Badeau. is considered unduly biased in Nasser's favor. Senator Gruen ing has publicly demanded he be recalled, saying he is "more Egypt's ambassador to (lie United States than tlie re verse." When Gruening visited with Badeau in Cairo earlier Has year, the ambassador begged him not to advocate an end to Egypt's foreign aid. Unless American wheat continued to flow to Cairo. Badeau said, Nasser would turn to the Soviet U n i o n for his grain. Says Gruenine: "Tlie recent requests of the USSR for grain from Canada and the United States show how clearly fallacious these arguments are."
