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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon MonHav, November !5. IMS PAGE 5 A 'Contrariwise'" said Tweedledum. IN WASHINGTON . . . fcdihhkd (paqsi U.S. Memory Is Short j.i -v-., I U JJ r Li iff r x: ; J (i- i 7M i r vv II) I 'fc It is well established now that juvenile crime is not something on which the poor youngsters have a monopoly, for all the testimony on the links between crime and poverty. Many a middle-to-upper-class suburb has bad continuing cause for complaint on the behavior of a certain porportion of its youth ful residents. Vandalism, shoplifting, house breaking and other crimes are all too com mon among them. When an eastern suburb gained some news attention for a community project at tacking this problem, interested queries quickly poured into the (own from cities and suburbs in Georgia. Massachusetts, New Jer sey, Washington, California, Florida, Ken lucky, North Carolina, Ohio and West Vir ginia. The eastern experiment is an effort, of course, to give some kind of guidance and direction to the young people who, plainly, arc not getting enough of it. What strikes the. outsider is that here again, as so often before, the burden of criticism for the youngsters' failure falls upon the parents. No doubt parents are fed to the teeth with hearing about it, but up to now they have not been able to shuck off the blame, quietly tolerated. To quote a top official in the experi menting eastern suburb, his community's effort, somewhat successful so far, has been (Florida Times-Union) An archcological team from the Univer sity of Pennsylvania museum will begin searching sometime next year in the Jordon Valley 30 miles north of Jericho for the site of the lost Biblical city of Zarathan. Bible scholars know that Zarathan is near the place where the bronze doors of Solomon's great temple were cast. Students have always been interested in Solomon be cause of his reputed great wisdom. During his lifetime Solomon faced many problems, most of which he solved easily. Israel be came wealthy, a center of trade and culture. His alliances with Egypt, Tyre and other em pires established Solomon as a diplomat. Despite all of his works, time proved Solomon's wisdom was not as some would have you believe. His people lived in poverty generally and at his death the kingdom was divided. Though Solomon was a religious man, he compromised his faith and people for the sake of political popularity wilh the families of his wives. He allowed the free WASHINGTON CALLING . Im BakerCase Many-Sided By MARQUIS CHII.DS WASHINGTON The Robhy Baker ease is like a many colored kaleidoscope. As t h e pieces of the career o( this am bitious young operator came into focus they shed a lurid light on the ways and means of this capital. But while each episode in the hie and times of the former Senate majority secretary Gen erates a new headline a basic pattern is becoming evident. In the jargon of the sociologist Ba- ker was the agent for the in group within the Senate Demo cratic majority. He dispensed favors com mittee chairmanships, cam paign funds, tips on upcoming contracts to those who played the game. Understandably he earned the enmity of the Sen ators in the out group who lor one reason or another were not team players. In this crossfire the enmity was directed not so much at Baker as at his far more powerful principal. Lyndon Johnson as majority leader, elevated the young page Ikv to the influential oifice "i secretary lo the majority. II" helped carry out the system of rewards and punishments un der which Johnson so effective ly ruled the unwieldy collection of Democrats in the S e n a t c. When he loft to be Vice Presi dent he saw to it that Raker stayed in his post where he con tinued to exercise his extraor dmary powers Liberal lemwr.it deeply re sented the fact that Jnhn'on's successor. Sen. Mike Mansfield, was willing to have Baker as A .lohnson legate carry on as he'ore. They had never quite dared to speak openly again.-t Permissive' Trouble The big complaint, not new, is "permis siveness." Either through neglect or its op posite, overindulgence, parents in many cases manage to give youngsters the idea they can do just about anything they wish to amuse themselves. When this leads to transgressions of the law, disciplinary measures seldom follow. The idea instead is to hush up the matter to avoid unsavory publicity all around In this effort, foolish parents too nflen have the co operation of the police and even merchants and other victims of the youngsters' wrong cloinc. So long as parents, tlm police, the u hole community look upon juvenile transgres sions so henicnly, they will have them in ever increasing volume. What is tragically niisin in all these places is a proper sense of outrage at clear violations of law. at reprehensible conduct which ought not in any wav be condoned or "to restore the respectability of moral in dignalion." When such indienation is more or less universal in this society of ours at all eco nomic levels, we will have accomplished a great stride forward in coping with the ju venile crime that afflicts us. more heavily with each passing day. But if too many people continue not to care about juvenile crime but worry more about their status and their privileges, they will get the trouble they deserve. Every society does. Solomon's Wisdom practice of heathenish religions that sapped at the moral fiber of bis people. Because of this he gradually lost favor with God and man. Modern Americans find themselves in much the same position as Solomon. Our country is rich and strong; it stands high among the nations of the world, yet on every hand it is importuned to give up old ways in order to find favor with other na tions, races and creeds. It will require common men to have un common wisdom if this nation is to survive the terrible years ahead; more especially so, since we will be asked to be broadminded and ignore the beliefs and creeds that could sap our energies as a nation. Only the firm retention of the beliefs of our found ing fathers and a sure faith in God will save this nation from sliding down to destruction. Solomon's wisdom alone was not enough to save him; ours alone will not save us. Johnson. Now Sen. Paul Doug las and others in the out group are directing at Baker the ani mus they have felt toward the nverlorriship excercised fur so long by Johnson. This is the deep division within the Senate majority that (lie Baker affair has brought into the open. The in group, of which the late Sen. Koberl S. Kerr was probably the mot conspicuous member, had a close ailinity with powerful eco nomic interests. That was true particularly of oil, uranium and other interests in the South west. Take a smail example of how the system worked. The late Sen. Estes Kcfauvcr's anti-monopoly subcommittee was a source of concern to (he Senate establishment. Kefauver insist ed on K)king into the econom ics of "administered" prices in steel, bread, automobiles and cither matters touching the con sumer's pockctbook. The issue came to a head when Kefauver proposed to in vestigate drug prices in South America as fixed by United S'ates firms. This caused a lot of anguish among powerful fig ures in Washington who watch out (or the well - being of these firms. How to sidetrack or stop the investigation? Previously two Democrats considered "sound" had been named to the subcommittee. Sens. Edward V. Isms of Mis souri and Sam J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina. Long, a fresh man Senator with wide h.vini ss interests in his home state, had early shown he was a team player and had been put on the committee in August of 19M. He cast the deciding vote In refer the drug inquiry to the Foreign Relations Committee where it was vetoed. Kefauver has been replaced by Sen. Philip Hart of Michi gan, rated a liberal. The issue today is whether subpoenas shall be issued lo compel the testimony of drug manufactur ers. Long says he is opposed to this action. His may be the deciding vote against it a n d therefore against further inves tigation. This is not to say that im maculate virtue rests in t h e drug inquiry. A case can be made against it. although il should be noted that the New York Herald-Tribune in a note worthy piece of journalistic en terprise has shown how a drug cartel fixes prices. But it is nevertheless a significant in stance of how the establishment works lo suppress troublesome matters. The liberals have long felt that they were oulmanned and outgunned. They rally their forces now and then as in the van fight they conducted to prevent turning over all the Telstar facilities lo a privately ouncd corporation. And their frustration and rage came out in the reckless running battle they directed against the for eign aid hill. Anyone who thinks that in the forthcoming Baker investi gation live relationships between to Senate establishment and live business establishment will lie gone into knows little about this capital. For a simpler ae when the roards were as ele mental as rivers and harbors Mark Twain told the story in "The Gilded Age." Ours might be called the platinum or liie diamond-studded aje. Ar. W it 7 J V ; T'l :v w .ii 11,1 1 . l lri ' I i ft f 1' "V 1- L'J ' i Vff. 17 rv 'l . w , i I ' I- i . " tlltlM -T1 WASHINGTON REPORT By JTI.TON LEWIS .lit. WASHINGTON - Having ac cumulated a lot of federal food stamps, Kentucky bootleggers are using them to obtain sugar fur illegal moonshine. But Orville Freeman has big ger problems. Figures released by the Secretary of Agricul ture's own department reveal the utter failure of his much heralded approach to the na tion's farm problem. 1. Net farm income has slumped to $12.6 billion, down $2(10 million i in the last two years. 2. Prices paid by the farmer for his goods have reached an all-time high. The all-important parity ratio is down to 7! tlie lowest since 1939. .1. Farm debt has reached N8.R billion, another record high. 4. The country's farm popula tion has dwindled lo 14. H mil lion, the lowest figure in his tory. The number of farms has dropped to an historic low. 5. Imports of beef are serious ly threatening the position of do mestic cattlemen. Imports of boneless beef and veal, for in stance, have increased tenfold since HOT. ti. Secretary Freeman now oversees an annual budget of $8.5 billion, one that is 55 per cent higher than in HKiO. 7. He employs 116.000 civil servants, the largest number in history. He boasts one employe for every 31 farms. 8. More I ban $7 billion worth of surplus commodities are now stored in every corner of the land, and some foreign ones, as well. This figure is up by more than half a billion dollars in the secretary's tenure. Storage costs: $377 million a year. Why the utter failure of Free man's program? Congressman Charles B. Uneven, ranking lie publican on the House Agricul ture Committee, says the ad ministration program was "born in depression, matured in war and is now limping through old ace and senility." He says the secretary has re fused to develop any new plans to help solve the nation's farm Speaking of the woman's need for clothes, as I did in a re cent column, it occurs to me that, beyond Ihe reason I sug gested, iier desire (or many and varied articles of clothing may have a lot to do with her girl hood in our particular culture. In buying Christmas gifts r my sons and daughters, I have consistently been struck wilh the disparity between the toys made for boys and those made for girls. It is infinitely easier to find intriguing and different devices for boys than for girls. Almost anything for girls is related to the doll family or to some form of domesticity. There is a monotonous same ness about the kind of toys de signed or little gills as if they were merely miniature women, totally lacking in the need for novelty, excitement, and ingenuity displayed in the toys for little boys. At an early age. it seems to me, Ihe girl is made to feel obliquely, if not openly that her li!e is relatively closed and i it ntmscnhni, Iwr childhood a kind of bland preparation for wifehood and motherhood. H r hi others get the toys that make , noi-. move swiftly, and provide a satisfy ing release for the kin etic tensions of youth. I baen to believe that boys and gitls, while obviously dif fering in many psychological traits, at the same lime share a lomrrvn need for action. n"ise, Figures Show Failure Of Freeman Program problem. Freeman's wheat pro gram, rejected by farmers in all but five states, was first dreamed up 41) years ago, ac cording to Uneven. Still smarting from his June referendum defeat. Freeman has refused to consider any leg islation that might aid the farm ers and the taxpayers. There are more lhan 50 wheat hills now lying in the hnpier but Freeman has adamantly refused to give his approval lo any. "Technicians" by the boatload arc again arriving in Cuba, Iron Curtain gifts to Ihe Castro re gime. Whether they can pump new blood into the anemic Cu ban economy is doubtful. Experts at Ihe Washington based Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba report that Commu nist bloc technicians are inferior to their Cuban counterparts. According lo one recently-arrived exile. Cesar Hernandez, plans for virtually all civilian projects drawn up by the So viet technicians have lcen re jected by Cuban ofticials as "poorly designed and ill-adapted to our climate." The vast majority of Commu nist technicians, moreover, are military engineers engaged In construction of Soviet bases and fortifications. Much of the work on these projects is carried out by Soviet soldiers, many of whom wear Ihe olive green of Fidel Castro's militiamen. These soldiers recently com pleted a military complex in Yaguajay. Las Villas province, in which 1(1 miles of now roads link a series of lop-secret un derground caves. Not a single first- or even second-class road was built in civilian areas. The nnn-mililary technicians are usually ignorant of precision instruments long considered standard by Cuban engineers. Refugee Hernandez, an engi neer, reports that the Soviet technicians were fascinated by a pumping device brought to Cuba from the U.S. more than 30 years ago. They claimed nev er to have seen such a modern gadget, and constructed models of it for shipment to Ihe USSR. STRICTLY PERSONAL. Ily SYDNEY J. HARRIS and the cflective discharge of aggressive tendencies. A girl may not be as overtly "wild" as a boy, but biologically and ncurologically she needs lo work out and work off hor ac cumulated tensions. Such working nut is not con sidered quite proper (or a little girl, although I cannot imagine why not. As a result, she is giv en quiet, gracious, decorative gilts which act as sedatives rather than as stimulants. Ami while these may seem lo please her. I suspect lliey build up a large reservoir of resent ment, and a deep sense of l-j-rivation. The way the girl "runs wild" when she grows into woman hood is through the socially ac ceptable channel of "b u y I n g sprees." She purchases cl'ithes she drcs nit need, ami niay not ever wear, and is always on the lookout for (lie kind of novelty, exirtement and ingenuity she missed as a little girl. The ex tensive, and sometimes flam boyant, wardrobe is a compen sation for tlie lacks she loll, plus a retaliation against the male for having enorfl a more stimulating "toylnxxf," All this may tie nonsense, of course; I set it forth with Itie utmost diffidence. But I have vet to hear a more plausible ex planation of woman's notorious irrationality in the buying, and discarding, of so many gar ments srifl dfcsn't really like and hardly ever weats. Hy RALPH de TOI.KI1ANO The United States will prob ably go down in history as the nation with the shortest nvem ory in the world. Acting in the phoney "spirit of Moscow" Ihe dnvelike atmosphere which was to have followed tlie lest ban treaty the State Depart ment has been quietly negotiat ing a "convention" with tlie So viet Union which would have re nened Russian consulates in this country. What the U S. would gain by any such moves remains a mys tery but this is standard oper ating procedure where the State Department is concerned. Our diplomats, for some arcane rea son, seem to go out of their way to find senseless and often dangerous ways to deal with the Communists. The arrest of Professor Fred erick C. Barghoorn for "espion page" seems to have put a crimp in the Stale Department's plans for inviting the Soviets to extend their foothold ill the United Stales. But it can be safely predicted that the men who make up the department's middle echelon will find a way lo push through their conven tion. The government agency most adversely affected will, of course, be the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI is en trusted with the job of keeping an eye on ambulant officials of the U S S R, and the captive na tions. The bureau is already grievously overworked as it keeps up with a multitude of new activities thrust upon it hy Attorney General Bobby Kenne dy. The civil rights investiga tions are enough lo keep a small army busy. But the FBI's most critical activity has always been the de fense of Ihe nalion's internal se curity. There are at present some 5.000 Soviet agents in the United Stales. The opening of consulates by Ihe Kremlin will send that number sharply zoom ing. And every new consular employe will be a responsibility of the FBI. When it is recalled that il takes eight men lo con duct the surveillance of a single individual, the weight of Uie new responsibility becomes ap parent. Here is where the nation's short memory comes in. When the Soviets had consulates in this country, the personnel and Ihe facilities were used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVDI and Red army intelli gence for espionage pur)oses. Each consulate was a nest of spies. During World War II, OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Double Standard (Eugene Register Guard) Again we see the example of a double standard of ethics in public life one standard ( n r congressmen and their friends, another for other officials. Con gressmen are under fire now because a group of 10 congress men, eight congressional wives, two .senators' wives, seven staff members and Ihe hcadwaitcr in the House dining room look a big jiuiket lo Europe. Most of Ihe criticism is focused on Ihe -olo of Ernest Pctinaud, the waiter. Why did lie go? He went, says Rep. Wayne Hays of Ohio, because ho acted as a messenger (or (he group. Maybe he did. In any case, his participation in the trip is a mere deUiil. Nor is it germane lo keep pointing out that lie is a Negro. He told reporters in Par is (hat the only objection to his being along was that he is a Negro. Mr. Hays said one of the leasons be i-Ihis Ihe waiter for the trip is that he is a Ne gro. The main issue is Ihe role of tlie congressmen themselves. They say tliey were limited to only $30 a day spending money, plus their $22 a-day hotel rooms. Others, however, charge that they had unlimited access lo the seemingly unlimited reservoir of money in the so-callH "coun terpart funds" pool that con gressmen like so well. In theory, the congressmen were in Paris lo attend a NATO pai I lament arians' conference. However, oIImts on the spot say low bothered to attend more lhan one meeting. Nonetheless, a full crew of U S. soldiers stood by to man a fleet of cais for llieir olficial business mostly .hopping and nightclub bing. They maintained a 21-hour bar stocked with tax-free booze. I n their return to Washing Ion, they were met by a llcjt of 20 Air Force station wagons. Ouestion: Suppose a State De partment party had lived it up like that. What would Congress I saying right now? these Soviet agents ranged the country acting as couriers and paymasters (or a number of highly successful spy apparatus es. It is enough In go back to tlie atomic espionage cases to find the documentation (or this. In San Francisco, two Soviet vice consuls Peter lvanov and Greg ory Klwifets were recruiters, go-betweens, couriers, and lead ers in the assault on the atom ic energy installations at the University of California. In New York, Vice Consul Pavel Mikhai lov worked closely with spymas ter Arthur A I e x a n d r o v ich Adams who was busy plunder ing the nuclear laboratories at Columbia and the University of Chicago. Almost every discovered case of espionage has involved Sovi et nationals using their consul ales as a cover for their under cover activities. In (act, every Soviet agency or group in Ihe In Congress Process ' n.v PETER EPSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON INEA) Ev ery new day's news out of Washington piles up more evi dence on tlie need for complete congressional reorganization. This isn't anything to delay till next year. II is perhaps unfair to 117 to make judgments fill all sides of every case arc heard. But when congressmen of the standing of Hep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohin, and Rep. John W. Byrnes, R Wis., become involved in cases of unethical conduct and conflict of interest, idols are shattered. The charge that Byrnes in vested in a mortgage insurance company after being instrumen tal in getting it a beneficial tax ruling from Internal Bevenuc Service may Impair this blue ribbon congressman's standing as his state's favorite son presi dential candidate. The fact tlvat the now-dismissed .Senate majority clerk Robert G. (Bobby) Baker was also a stockholder in this com pany rubs off on the standing of Byrnes--Hoiise GOP Policy Committee chairman and rank ing Ways and (Means Commit tee member even though I hero is no direct association. Con gressmen can't he counsel for constituents. Hays explains that he had lo take a tri-lingual House restau rant waiter to a North Atlantic Treaty Parliamentarians' con ference because no other staff assistant was available. Ac cepting this at face value. It is still a pretty damning indict ment of the poor quality of House committee professional staffing. Tlie questionable part of this junket, however, was not so much the hard-working waiter translator but the w ives of the seven o( the nine congressmen delegates. What were they do ing on (his government trans port plane flight? Speaking of bad staffing, this was what got tlie House Judi ciary Committee hi Us jam over writing the civil rights bill, now tied up in Rules Committee. Disregarding Department of Justice recommendations on what constituted a workable bill, the House Judiciary Committee "I Declare, I Don't Know Wlirre-All The Lad Picked Up Such Habits" United States, from the Embas sy and tlie United Nations dele gation to visiting groups o( sci entists, has served an espionage purpose. In return for allowing the re opening of these Typhoid Mary consulates, our own consulates in tlie Soviet Union will also be o)cned presumably giving the Kremlin a wider field from which to choose frame-up vic tim. What consular work has lo lie done has been adequately handled without a consular stall. The only excuso (or tins semi secret series o( negotiations must be that tlie Administration plans stepped up trade with the Soviet Union and an end to the necessary obstacles we have from time to time put in the way of any business in strategic or semi - stratogjc goods. This alone could justify tlie reopening of our consulates. If this is true, the American public should be informed. EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . Reorganizing Needed in executive sessions came np wilh a completely unenforceable bill. If there had been better staff work, this snarl would not have developed. The now highly involved Bob- , by Baker case gives the Sen ate an excuse to wander oft on anotlier lengthy investigation ex cursion. The net effect is to dis tract public attention from more important pending business. This is a favorite congression al detour. Billie Sol Esteswe member? involved in govern ment surplus storage and acre age allotment scandals 20 months ago, is finally called to Washington (or an appearance before the Senate (Permanent Investigating subcommittee. This is long after the courts have passed sentence on fraud charges gainst him. He is now free on bail, pending appeal. What good can come of tlie Sen ale probe? Also, the investigating com mittee headed by Sen. John L. McClcllan, D-Ark., is taking yet another swing at the TFX (Tac tical Fighter, Experimental) contract and former Navy Sec retary Fred Korlh's role in its award to a Texas plant. As long as tliese probes go on, tlie appearance is given that Congress is working hard. It is but not on legislation. Of 13 appropriation bills to fi nance the government during the fiscal year which began last July 1, only six have been passed. This Is bad manage ment by any book. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn , has withdrawn his stmging criti cism o( Senate leadership in both parties and apologized for his outburst. But there was much truth in what he said, as the record of liiis Congress proves. The real mystery is how much longer tlie public will put up w ith this kind of legislative dilly dallying. The ony recourse sug gested so far is complete con gressional reorganization. If not that, let tlie voters cast their ballots in MM against anyone now holding public office. The theory is that with a thorough housecleaning and a brand new bunch in Washington after January 15, something miglit get done that would be in keeping w ilh Die limes.
