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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."