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Page 4, Taylor Daily Press, Monday, December 11, 1961
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New Perspective
With its freshly sharpened internal strife, its
relative lack of growth, and other problems, the
AFL-CIO seems to stand at some sort of crossroads.
Properly enough, a good deal of self-examina-
tion is going on among labor leaders and those
closely linked with them.
Some of this goes right to the heart of union
goals and methods, questioning the worth — for
the total work force — of such things as the stand-
ard drive for higher wages.
One spokesman, talking privately, sees as valid
the argument made by some specialists in labor
economics: that over a 60-year period United
States unions have given almost no visible life to
the proportion of total national income which
workers as a whole get.
;i One such economist, Prof. Lloyd Reynolds of
Yale, says the national income slice going to wage
and salary earners has remained quite stable over
a six-decade span, a period including some of the
greatest economic upheavals in our history.
There are no clear up-and-down trends, and
no sign exists of any link between union wage
drives and total worker income.
Economists do not even agree that the more
strongly unionized industries have had larger wage
increases over a long interval than have less high-
ly organized industries. The sharpness of the dis-
pute suggests union influence certainly has not been
strikingly large.
Whatever the extent of impact of unions on
wage levels in particular fields, the specialists tend
to feel it is registered mainly at the expense of the
unorganized workers.
The reasoning is easy to follow: since the piece
of income pie workers take as wages and salaries;
holds about even in the long range, particular
union gains simply redistribute income within the
labor force.
Labor leaders always have resisted this argu-
ment. Consequently it is interesting that some in
labor circles now are examining it privately.
Even if they should all one day grant it, that
does not mean they are prepared to admit any
impairment of the value of unions. They can point
to a wide array of other benefits and improvements
for which they claim credit.
Nevertheless, organized labor’s current dilem-
mas appear to be shaking up union leaders’ think-
ing. The time may come when they will listen to
the economists who tell them that the place to'
spend their energies is on greater productivity.
For it is to the spectacular advances in that
field that economists ascribe the doubling of real
wages that has occurred since the turn of the cen-
tury. •
..BARBS.
Illinois police arrested a man who had three
wives. He can be glad it happened before Christ-
mas.
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How do officials expect prisoners to do a long
stretch in some of the dinky cells provided?
* * *
These are the days when little kids are glad
to help with the dishes in the hope that Mom and
Dad will come clean on Christmas day.
Regardless of college costs education isn’t as
expensive in the long run as ignorance.
* * *
We’re all hoping to get ahead in 1962 and a
lot of folks will on the early morn of the first day.
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WASHINGTON — There has
been a run on crying towels at
the Pentagon for reservists who
want to get out of active duty.
Some have difficult, legitimate
cases. But the most anguished
cries have come from men who
missed the past two wars, then
signed up in the reserves or Na-
tional Guard to avoid the peace-
time draft.
Now that their numbers have
been called, they are howling
about “hardship.” More than 18,-
000 appeals ' for deferments and
postponements have swirled down
like autumn leaves upon the Pen-
tagon.
No “hardship case” has re-
ceived more political endorsement
than that of David Shuirman, 26-
year-old owner of radio station
KSFE in Needles, Calif.
Except for his training, he not
only has escaped active duty but
has been deferred from the draft
because of his reserve status.
Yet he carried his campaign,
first for a deferment, then for a
90-day postponement, all the way
from the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers to the White House.
On the Republican side, Califor-
nia Sen. Thomas Kuchel added
his political influence.
Two days after Shuirman was
ordered' to active duty, he tele-
phoned the Air Force reserve rec-
ords center and asked for a de-
ferment. He argued that his ra-
dio station, as part of the Conel-
rad system, was vital to defense.
He was politely told, however,
that he could be excused only for
death, illness, or injury.
A week later, he wrote a letter
to Secretary of the Air Force
Eugene Zuckert requesting a 90-
day postponement. This was turn-
ed down too, with a reminder
about his duty to his country.
But Shuirman didn’t give up;
he got the town’s leading citi-
zens to write to the Pentagon in
his behalf. Letters arrived from
the Needles Rotary Club, Needles
Liuns Club, and Local 383 of the
Locomotive Engineers. The Engi-
neers we re joined, too, by the
Locomotive Firemen and. Engine-
men, Local 237.
Finally, the political guns were
brought into action. Senator Ku-
chel fired a telegram, to the Air
Force about the importance of
station KSFE to the national de-
fense. The White House was al-
so alerted, reportedly by Califor-
nia Democrats.
Secretary of Defense McNama-
ra’s top assistant, Adam Yarmo-
linsky, v/as obliged' to review
Shuirman’s tile and report to the
White House.
The young radioman succeed-
ed in stirring up a lot of political
smoke. But last month he report-
ed for active duty with the 162nd
Fighter Squadron at Springfield,
Ohio-on schedule.
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN *
'Lefts* and 'Rights' Serve as
Guides to Middle-Roaders
BY PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—The vast majority of American
voters are now caught between two minority force’s on the
extreme left and right. On the right, a myriad of ultraconser-
vative groups like the John Birch Society. On the left, organi-
zations like Americans for Democratic Action. These are the
whipping boys.
IF THE GREAT UPRISING of conservative political thought
and action now manifest in many parts of the country follows
the historic pattern of the last 50 years, it may not have much
influence in the 1964 presidential elections.
For the 1962 congressional elections, the right-wing move-
ments, stronger in some localities than others, could swing more
marginal districts into the Republican column. The minority
party usually makes gains in midterm elections, anyway.
In presidential election years, however, the right-wing
movements never unite.
They never agree to back one candidate or one platform.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY SHOWED his instinctive political
smartness as well as bis idealism at his last press conference.
He defended the right of anyone to give money to an extremist
group so long as this is hot an attempt to evade taxation.
Only a few days before, in his Seattle and Los Angeles
speeches, the President had denounced extremist movements
that shut their eyes to the dangers of international communism
and try to deal with it blindly as a domestic evil.
To turn then and defend the right of anyone to give
money to such causes may seem inconsistent. But why not?
Any contributions to splinter groups take that much money
away from the GOP, which is already in bad enough straits.
REPUBLICAN SEN. BARRY GOLDWATER of Arizona has
given the most frequently heard rationalization of the right-
wing movements. He says that the danger to the United States
comes not from the John Birch Society or the Minutemen, but
from the 30-odd members of Americans for Democratic Action
who now hold high office in the Kennedy administration.
This list was compiled by Robert Hartman of the Los
Angeles Times. ADA headquarters admits all names on it
are of members.
It is now given wider circulation through Frank Kluckholn’s
new pocket book, “Listen, America,” which builds up the theory
that all U.S. troubles come from left-wing influences here at
home in the Kennedy administration.
But to maintain that this group runs the Kennedy adminis-
tration in some kind of a supersecret conspiracy may be an
oversimplification.
Joseph L. Rauh, one of ADA’s founders, maintains that the
Kennedy administration is not doing even 25 per cent of the
things ADA wants, not moving 25 per cent fast enough. One
word from ADA and the President does as he pleases. He was
never a member. They think him too conservative.
SINCE THE UNITED STATES has never been a country of
splinter parties, ADA, the John Birchers and the like seem to
have only one function in the American political picture. They
present the views of the extreme left and the extreme right.
Headlines and Footnotes
Biggest government competition
of the year was that of 140 ad-
vertising agencies to handle U.S.
tourist advertising abroad'. Most
of the top ad agencies of the
nation submitted ideas. The top
winner, as finally selected by
Secretary of Commerce Luther
Hodges, was Ogilvy, Benson &
Mather. They will handle the ad-
vertising campaign in England,
France and Germany. Significant-
il, David Ogilvy is British . .
All sorts of pressure was brought
by individual congressmen for
other ad agencies, but a Britisher
was finally selected, partly be-
cause of the novelty of his ex-
hibits, partly because of his ex-
perience in handling the travel
campaign for Puerto Rico and
the British government. His ex-
hibits were photos of beautiful,
quiet scenes in the USA which
the average European never
heard about. . .Batten Barton,
Durstine & Osborn, the B B D
and O agency which FDR used to
rib, came in as second choice
and will handle U.S. advertising
in Italy. Secretary Hodges’ boys
picked B B D and O despite the
fact that they are. official ad
agents for the Republican Nation-
al 'Gomjmittee and contributed $5,
000 to elect Ike in 1956. . .Mrs.
Dolores Bridges, widow of the
late senator from New Hamp-
shire, is more conservative, less
tractable than was her pleasant,
popular, right-wing husband.
Gov. Wesley Powell of New Hamp-
shire was fit to be tied when his
chief newspaper ally, Bill Loeb
of the Manchester Union Leader,
came out for Mrs. Bridges to suc-
ceed her husband. Governor Pow-
ell had been eying Bridges’ va-
cancy for himself. Now it’s bad
for him if he does appoint Do-
lores; and bad for him if he
doesn’t.
Recommended Reading
Latin-American diplomats Who
are still loath to crack down on
Fidel Castro, despite hi$ embrac-
ing of Lenin and Marx, would
be interested in reading what
Marx and Engels had to say
about Latin America. In fact,
Fidel Castro might be interested
in reading it himself.
For Marx and' Engels, founders
of the Comunist Party, believed
that the United States should do
just the opposite of what Castro
now advocates. They wanted the
United States to take over the
countries, especially Mexico.
It was during the Mexican Am-
erican War which annexed Texas,
southern California, Arizona and
New Mexico to the United States
that Friedrich Engels wrote in
the “Deutsch-Brussels Zieitung”
on Jan. 23, 1848:
“With due satisfaction we have
also witnessed the defeat of Mex-
ico by the United States. This
also represents a step fctrward,
for when a country so entangled
in its own affairs, constantly torn
by civil war, and there is no
way out whatsoever for its de-
velopment; a country whose best
prospects would have been indus-
trial submission to England: when
this country is dragged by force
towards historical progress, we
have no recourse but to consider
it a step forward .
“In the interest of its own de-
velopment it is advisable that
Mexico be placed under United
States tutelage. The evolution oi
the whole western hemisphere
will lose nothing if the United
States, after taking possession of
California, takes charge of the
Pacific,”
This was not just a flash-in-
Ihe-pan opinion by one of the
founders of socialism. Dr, Gustav
BOOK READING continued
at a high level in November,
even though the month did
herald the beginning of the holi-
day season.
The November report of the
Taylor Public Library shows
that 2,040 bocks were checked
out. There were 30 new card
applicants. This represents 30
new readers, of course, and the
total now stands at 3,566 equi-
valent to about a third of the
population of our community.
The library bought 39 new
books during the month, upping
the total number of books in the
library to 12,520.
Two books were donated. I
don’t believe a month ever goes
by but what a few books aren’t
donated.
I THINK WE’VE all .read
versions of the “not raising
hogs” epistle. Maybe you have
not read this one that comes
from the Rev. Paul Powell,
new pastor of the First Baptist
Church.
I found this in my file and
thought you might enjoy it,”
the Rev. Powell said in a note.
It goes like this:
Dear Secretary of Agriculture:
My friend over in Terrebone
Parish received a $1,000 check
from the Government this year
for not raising hogs, so I am
going into the not-raising hogs
business next year.
What I want to know is, in
your opinion, what is the best
kind of farm not to raise hogs
on and the best kind of hogs
not to raise?”
I would prefer not to raise
razorbacks but if that is not a
good breed not to .raise, I will
just as gladly not raise berk-
shires or durocs.
The hardest part of this busi-
ness is going to be keeping
an inventory of how many hogs
I haven’t raised.
My friend Bordeau is very
joyful about the future of his
business. He has been raising
hogs for more than 20 years
and the best he ever made was
$400 until this year, when he
got $1,000 for not raising hogs.
If I can get $1,000 for not
raising 50 hogs then I will get
$2,000 for not raising 100 hogs,
I plan to operate on a small
scale at first, holding myself
down to not raising about 4,000
hogs, which means I will have
$80,000 coming from the gov-
ernment.
Now, another thing: these
hogs I will not raise will not
eat 100,000 bushels of corn. I
understand that you pay for
not raising com also. So will
you pay me anything for not
raising 100,000 bushels of corn
not to feed the hogs I am not
raising?
I want to get started as soon
as possible as this seems to
be a good time of the year for
not raising hogs.
One more thing: can I raise
10 or 12 hoes on the side white
I am in the not raising hogs
business—just enough to get a
few sides of bacon to eat?
HERE ARE SOME tips for
the sportsman:
Those little aluminum plates
that tv dinners come in make
fine throw-away camp plates,
but here’s another use. Sail
them for shotgun targets, they
throw easily. Or use them for
long-range rifle practice. Nailed
to a tree they show up well at
extreme ranges.
. . By Lin Mills*
Fox hunting time over much
of the country, now. Here’s a
thought for the hound boys.
When a fox goes to hole and
you can’t get him out, rustle
up a couple lengths of barbed
wire. (Not off a farmer’s
fence!) Attach it to the end of a
cut branch. Twist the wire deep
in (the hole. You’ve got a good
chance of tangling the foxes
fur and' yanking him out.
Here are three good tips for
the fishermen who are heading
for a warm shanty and a
frozen lake this month:
White beans! They’re inex-
pensive and your wife can pick
them up for you on her next
shopping trip. Scatter them on
the botton under your fishing
holes. They will reflect light
and make passing fish show up
easier.
Anti-Freeze! Yes, it will keep
holes from freezing if you keep
applying a few drops every
half hour or so. No miore frozen
lines. Put the anti-freeze in a
polyethelene bottle with dropper
spout and adjust rate to freez-
ing conditions. (Five or six^
drops every 20 minutes is a*
good starting rate.)
Throw - Away Rugs! Drape
them on the bottom of your
fishing shanty. They’ll muffle
feet and dropped-object noise.
Help retain heat.
What but an idea exchange
could come up with this one.
It’s so simple! If you need
hot water this time of year or
anytime (for thawing out bait
now, for example), just run
your outboard motor and col-
lect the hot water coming out
of the exhaust. Unlimited supply
as long as the gas holds out.
Why Grow Old
By Josephine Lowman
DO YOU?
Do you count to 10 before you
speak, and eat snails because you
are supposed to? I’m crazy! I
like snails. Forget about counting
to 10.
Meyer, in his biography on En-
gels, wrote:
“The United States of America
had just robbed the Mexicans of
the lately discovered' California
gold fields. This was quite un-
just—Engels admitted that. But
he approved of the annexation
because the ‘energetic yankees’
were better able than the ‘lazy
Mexicans’ to develop the latent
forces of production, and to open
the Pacific ocean to civilization.”
Marx and Engels were publish-
ing the “Communist Review” in
London during (he middle of the
last century. And in its Septem-
ber 1847 issue they wrote:
“North America — North Amer-
icans continue engaged in a war
with the Mexicans. It is to be
hoped' that they will grab the
greater part of Mexican territory
and that they will know how to
better utilize that country than
the Mexicans themselves have
done.”
Perhaps Fidel Castro should re-
read his Marx,
Do you get enough sleep?
Do you indulge in daily exer-
cise in addition to that which
your housework provides?
Do you adjust to new leisure
by adding new interests to your
life?
REAL FUN?
Do you have fun—real fun—
every day?
Do you go on roller coasters,
swim at dawn or by moonlight
at midnight, climb mountains,
wake up to watch the sunrise
in order to “belong?” — “belong-
ing” is even more hazardous than
“togetherness,”
Do you take a serious interest
in fine nutrition and apply it to
your menus every day?
Do you forget grudges and
slough off small irritations with-
out blowing your top?
Do you always politely let the
other fellow have the taxi when
you reach it at the same mo-
ment? |
LISTEN?
Do you listen for hours to oth-
ers without ever having the urge
to tell a joke or promote an opin-
in or idea of your own?
Do you always maintain, your
perfect weight, without a wobble,
Washington notebook
Udall Builds a Fire
To Warm Up Newsmen
BY THE WASHINGTON STAFF
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Do you indulge in daily exer-
cise in addition to that which
your housework provides? This
stretch is good for the back
and legs.
and carry yourself -beautifully on
all occasions?
Are you always perfectly groom-
ed?
If you do all of these things,
you are a better woman than I!
Let’s all try, though.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1961)
WASHINGTON — (NEA) —
Interior Secretary Stewart L.
Udall, who probably has had
the worst public relations of
any cabinet member in the
New Frontier, is apparently
trying to butter up the press.
At his latest news confer-
ence, the secretary ushered
newsmen into his large private
office instead of the usual cold
conference room on the floor
below. There were logs crack-
ling in the fireplace, which no
on&, could remember seeing
before.
To top it all off, Udall served
coffee and cookies.
SECRETARY OF Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman relates that
when he was a student at Uni-
versity of Minnesota, he once
had a professor who gave him
a grade of “C” in a course.
The secretary thought his
grade should have been higher.
He went around to complain
and asked that he be shown
his final examination paper to
prove he had a good mark.
The professor refused. “Any-
body stupid enough to play
football,” said the teacher,
“can’t get higher than a ‘C’ in
my classes.”
REP. CHARLES E. Bennett,
D-Fla., tells one on himself.
While .visiting a friend, he in-
advertently locked his car with
the keys inside. A small group
of curious spectators gathered
to watch the show.
All but one of the onlookers
offered suggestions: break the
vent window, pry the lock with
a screwdriver, call a locksmith
and so on. The sole exception
was an old gent who sat smil-
’ig on a nearby bench.
Bennett simply picked up a
coathanger from his friend’s
house and slipped it over the
top the window. Hooking the
door handle, he had the car
unlocked in a jiffy.
Slightly curious, however, he
asked the old gent why lfe had
remained silent.
“Well, son, I seen the Con-
gress sign on the back of your
car,” came the answer. “Know-
ing you was a politician, I fig-
ured you could get into any-
thing.”
ADDRESSING A pro-foreign
aid group, former Wall Street
lawyer Fowler Hamilton—now
head of the new agency for
International Developmen t—
was ticking off a breakdown of
aid expenditures. At one point
he said:
“And for that category, one
million, three hundred—excuse
me, I mean one BILLION. I
still have these small Wall
Street dimensions in my mind
when I speak of money.”
WASHINGTON HIGH society
residential areas aren’t so hard
to crack after all, to hear Post-
master General J. Edward Day
tell it.
When his family moved to
Washington last winter, Day
purchased a house in the
suburbs from Clay Blair, a for-
mer Washington writer with
Time and now with Saturday
Evening Post in Philadelphia.
The house was in a subdivision
started 30 years ago by a real
estate developer named Ken-
nedy.
Concludes Day: “So now, as
newcomers to Washington, we
find ourselves living in Blair
House just a block from Ken-
nedy Drive.”
10 and20
Years Ago
10 YEARS AGO
Olin Culberson to address joint
study club tea.
New charges of blackmail
against communists.
Six accidents in four days break
four-year record here.
Prices remain mixture ol
grains, losses on market.
Fred Seaton appointed to U.S.
Senate.
Mid-winder voluntary cleanup
campaign is urged for Taylor.
20 YEARS AGO
Fear is felt for Taylor and Wil-
liamson county boys in war zone.
Community will join in song
fest Wednesday.
Reclassification of registrants
may be necessary, local selec-
tive officials declare.
New York City clears streets
as second air alarm is sounded
today.
Thrall Homemakers have buf-
fet supper.
China relief to start in Taylor
soon.
The PRAYER
For Today From
The UPPER ROOM
And they that heard it won-
dered at those things which
are told them by the shep-
herds. (Luke 2:18. )
PRAYER: O eternal God, for-
give us for thinking Thou wert
nearer to those who lived in
Jesus’s day than Thou art to-
day. Help us to develop spiri-g
tual sensitivity for listening
and heeding. For Jesus’ sake
and in His name we pray.
Amen.
Buy in Taylor and build your
own home town.
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