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The chronicle., 1963-12-16
Quirks In The News

PASADENA, Calf. CUPID - The first
man to sign a petition for a state lot
terry in California made headlines once
before in another type Of lottery.
Victor E. S~calora, SIS, now an East
Pasadena shoe repairman, had his name
drawn from a fishbowl beginning Selec-
tive Service in the United States in 1910.
OXNARD, Calf. CUPID - The city
council has rejected an ordinance that
would have made it a misdemeanor to
own a dog that "barks u~nreasonably."
Councilmen called it unavoidable and
discriminatory"
LONDON CUPID - Two automobile
Association patrolmen found themselves
ankle deep in beer when they called to
clean up 800 bottles of brew that were
broken when a beer truck turned over.
my socks are soaked in it," Patrol
man Leslie Haines said. "The wife will
never believe why"
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ever, on the basis Of what viii
please the maximum number of
governments, irrespective of
their fidelity to principle or
their concern for international
law, then the value Of the or
ganization itself in future years
will steadily diminish.
The whole question is today
being treated specifically in
America. Many thoughtful peo-
pie, for instance, have suggest
ed that the time may have
come to consider American with
drawal from the UN, only to
be aSsailed as not interested in
world peace. The argument is
advanced that the UN is really
a useful force for international
peace and only incidentally a
political tool Of the Kremlin.
The UN record in dealing with
internal questions, however, is
neither consistent nor courage
GUS. When India deliberately
took over the Portuguese ter
ritory of Goa, the United Ma
tons failed to protect Goa,
though the United States de-
nounced the takeover. Nor did
the UN insist on sending its
investigating committee into
Hungary to get the facts about
the Soviet military invasion of
that country and the imposition
of measures that suppressed the
free government in Budapest.
In brief, the UN has been of
no help in curbing Soviet colon.
ialism, and it has acquiesced in
the continued domination by the
Moscow government over the
captive peoples Of East Germ.
any, Hungary, Rumania, Po-
land, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia.
ESthonia, Lithuania and Lativia.
Certainly the "apartheid"
which the Soviet government
has established by its rule over
peoples of many nationalities
and races is far more a threat
to international peace than the
separation of millions of I'M
civilized tribesmen in one South
African country from residence
In areas where white men and
The chronicle., 1963-12-16
John Chamberlain
Let Sellers Beware

KhruShchev wants to lac
big orders in capitalist countries
for chemical manufacturing
equipment, but he warns Thai
no political conditions can be
attached to the sales. The So
Wet dictator's blunt words clear
ly indicate a vast contempt for
western worries about Commu-
mist : inspired violence that is
erupting all over the world.
Well, Mr.. Western Business
Man, what are you going to do
about it? If you were dealing
with a private party, would you
sell to a man who provides the
material for cunning down your
neighbors in cold blood? The
analogy between Khrushchev
and our hypothetical private
party is perfectly legitimate,
for the Soviets have supplied
Castro with the ships and the
arms that have been used to
stake the Communist FALN in
Venezuela to its career in local
political crime.
In a letter published on Oct
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women and their children hap
pen to live.
The UN today, unfortunately,
doesn't seem to be concerned
with the sovereign rights of ma
tons, as its charter requires.
Apparently the UN political
code means catering to the new
African governments, whose ma
tive and inexperienced leaders
may some day find the UN in
tervening in their own affairs,
too, just as. happened in tn
Congo. Perhaps at that time
American taxpayers will not be
willing to pick up the tab for
the expenses incurred in trying
to maintain order as they did
for the UN military operations
in the Congo, to which the So
Wet Union hasn't contributed a
single ruble.
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The Importance of history has
been stated many times. Not the
least of its values is that it teach
es. A case in point has been re-
counted by Life Lines, the WASH
ington patriotic publication. Deal
ing with an incident in the life
of John Adams before he became
the second President, it follows:
"To John Adams, it was indeed
q miracle that colonial indepen-
dence had been proclaimed at all.
Efforts leading to the adoption of
the Declaration had constituted
q trying ordeal, as any of those
who had been a part of the effort
well knew.
"Only a third of the colonists
had recognized British rule for the
tyranny that it was and had taken
steps to shed themselves of it. 1t
actually was a miracle; all the
conflicting streams of fear, ur-
rents of self interest, and cross
currents of doubt had been dam
med up and released at the proper
time in the proper direction.
"Now those burdens were be-
ing replaced by even heavier ones.
A man of intellect, Adams knew
to expect heavier loads. AS a stu
dent of history, he knew the stu
alton in America had its parallels
in the past. There would be even
more fear and selfishnesS; and
conversely, there would be our
age and dedication that would
well up suddenly to inspire all OF
them.
GAS Chairman of the Board OF
War, Adams realized that the rebel
force could win victory only if it
were well disciplined. History had
taught that lesson many times. All,
but there was such a lamentable
lack of discipline among those rag
tag rebel soldiers.
"How the officers fought among
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ober 81, 1868, in "The Wander.
er" of St. Paul, Minnesota, a
Catholic weekly, and recently
rediStributed by the New York
Conservative Party, Taylor Cald-
well, the author Of a dozen best.
selling novels, made the prop
hetic statement that President
Kennedy was in personal jeo-
pardy' because of Communist
encouragement of a world spirit
of violence. "TGe mere thought
of Mr.. Kennedy being assaSSi-
nated," she wrote, should
make all of us Shuoder, for the
repercusSionS in America would
be most terrible. . !" What
caused Miss Caldwell to S
her warning to the editor of
The Wanderer'' was the "'sense
of disaster near at hand" which
was being expressed in ''letters
from all over the world" from
her many novel-reading fans.
Lately" so she wrote, ''the let
ters are full Of disquiet. it
is as if free men everywhere
now feel a monster threat.
Human beings have instincts as
well as the lower animals, and
it is obvious, to me at least,
that human instinct is stirring
in fear everywhere"
And Of what does the "sup-
pressed chaos or ''open dang
er" which Miss Caldwell warned
against consist? In Venezuela
Communists seize an Ameri-
can colonel and hold him as a
The chronicle., 1963-12-16
From The Wall Street Journal)

From The Wall Street Journal)
sour American unity" said PreSl-
dent johnson, "does not depend on I'M
animity." And with so much talk about
unity these days, it is perhaps not too
soon to talk about what unity should
and should not mean in our nation.
A general sense of drawing together
after the shock Of violence; a special
feeling Of loyalty to the person Of the
new President; an eagerness to give
him a chance to get his Administration
organized; a temporary moratorium on
politicking all this is natural, under
standable and appropriate. 1t is the way
Americans usually respond in times OF
trouble.
Some officials and others, however,
would go much further. They seem to
think that in the name of unity the
people should somehow gloss over all
diversity of policies and politics; that
they should abandon discussion and de-
bate not only now but indefinitely.
In foreign policy this attitude appears
in new appeals for "bipartisaniSm. For
n example, former President Eisen-
hover had been suggesting a withdrawal
of most American troops from Europe;
now he is being urged to reverse him
self and, as it were, rededicate the
nation to existing European policy.
Actually, the question of how many
troops are needed in Europe is not a
simple partisan matter but rather a
complex question Of strategy, diplomacy
and economics. Bipartisanism in the
sense Of sweeping discussion under a
rug never has been an intelligent way
of resolving foreign-policy issues.
In domestic matters you hear the view
that Congress should promptly pass the
major legislation before it = tax cuts
and civil rights - as a memorial to
the late President and a demonstration
of unity behind the new President. The
new President himself suggested some
thing of the sort, though he wisely re-
Trained from trying to stampede Con-
gress.
The emotional content in proposals to
rush legislation is plainly high, since it
would mean throwing reason to the
winds. The tax bill involves major issues
of economic policy; the civilrights bill,
among other things, raises significant
Constitutional questions.
To disregard such considerations would
be no proper memorial, as we are
u President Kennedy would have
agreed, or suitable show of unity. 1t
would be unfair to the people because it
would be an abdication of Congressional
responsibility.
In the altered political outlook are SIM
liar indications of carrying unity too far.
1t is said, and for all anyone knows
it may prove correct, that the pros
poets for a sharp election conformation
have been reduced. Instead of the pos
sibility of a Democratic liberal pitted
against a Republican conservative, the
likelihood now is Democratic "modera-
ton against Republican moderation"
The implication is that this is to the good
The chronicle., 1963-12-16

There have been two things
missing from the 1868 business
upswing which set this advance
apart from all the previous up
turns of the past quarter-century.
For this is the first strong
sustained expansion which has
not been fueled by a vastly in
creased outpouring Of federal
government funds to put fac
tories to work for profit and to
make jobs for our growing lab
or force.
During World War II and the
Korean conflict, both were en-
or1mous forces In the o m S.
Beneath the official surface of
emergency price controls, pric-
es were unofficially skyrocket-
ing, and the instant the ceilings
were lifted prices exploded on
the upside. During the wars fed
eral government spending soar
ed to convert peacetime factor
les, build war plants, buy bill
lions Of dollars worth Of goods
and services, pay millions of
paychecks.
Also through each Of the three
previous post-World War II up
turns, prices rose perceptibly-
although the pace Of rise began
slackening in the late 195OS.
Each time, too, federal govern
ment spending was boosted de-
liberately and substantially to
spur the recovery.
But not in 1865 upturn. This
time it has been different.
(1) Prices Of industrial raw
materials have been firming a
bit recently, but only to a heal
thy degree, and these prices
remain far below their early
postwar peaks. Wholesale prices
have hardly moved In five years.
At the start of 1868 the index
of wholesale prices was 1905
(1957-59 equals 1907. AT the lat
est reporting date the index was
still at 1905. AS for the con-
sumner price index it'll end 1868
around / to III per cent above
a year ago, and most of the
years rise will have been due
to continuing increases in serv.
ice costs.
You have to stretch your
imagination to an unwarranted
degree to call this initiation.
81 The federal budget for
the 1864 fiscal year = to end
July l - is now estimated at
1913 billion, a hefty $50 billion
above the actual budget in the
1868 year, and obviously neither
a decline nor even a leveling
in spending. There hasn't been
a surplus in the U. 8. budget
for years so the government has
not been taking more money out
Of the economy in taxes than
it has been putting in via spend
The chronicle., 1963-12-16
Sylvia Porter
2 Items Missing In '63

ing, and thus II has not been
a deflationary force. But the
percentage rise in l964's spend
ing over 1855 Is a minor " per
cent. In contrast, in the Eiser-
hover years between 1858 and
1859 spending increased by SO
billion or an astounding l2h per
cent!
The profoundly important fact
is that this years upswing has
been primarily due to actions
initiated by private businessmen
and us.
We, Americas consumers,
have boosted our spending to
record-breaking levels m o
after month in response to the
constant rise in our personal in
comes and the easy availability
Of credit. Americas business
men have hiked their spending
on new plants and equipment to
record-breaking levels month af.
ter month in response to h Q
steady rise in their profits. the
tax incentives they received in
1862 and increasing consumer
demands for their goods and
services.
AS it was in 1868, so we are
trying to make it more so III
1864. We are counting on tax
cuts, not bigger government
spending, to spur our economy.
The two things that were mis-.
sing from our economy In 1863
testify to the basic strength Of
the private sector Of the U. S.
economy. 1t has been a much
more remarkable performance
than even most optimists real
lie.
The chronicle., 1963-12-16
David Lawrence .
David Lawrence !.
Joknson's Opportunity In UN

WASHINGTON President
Johnson has a significant OPP
portunity raise the moral tone
Of the United Nations W h e
he addresses it on Tuesday in
New York. For the UN has de-
Perforated into a political ma
chine largely directed by Mos
COW with the aid Of the so
called Afro-ASian bloc.
Instead of functioning as an
organization dedicated to the
political independence and self
determination Of member states,
the UN now actually passes res
olutions interfering with the in
ternal affairs Of certain non
communist countries but refuses
to apply equal treatment to gov
ernments which keep their peo-
pies enslaved as the right Of
self : determination is denied
them.
The latest example of the po-
litical chicanery practiced by
the UN came at a time, when
the peoples of the free world
were absorbed in studying the
news Of a change in the preSi-
dency of the United States and
the aftereffects. It perhaps is
not yet realized that the UN
Security Council unanimously
passed a few days ago a reso-
luton calling on its members
to impose an embargo on the
Republic Of South Africa just
because that country's r a
policies are considered improp-
er. Implicit in the resolution are
threats Of even stronger action
if South Africa fails to conform
its internal policies to the UN's
demands.
The UN charter permits res
Olutions to embargo arms ship.
ments when there is a threat
to international peace, but it
can hardly be persuasively con-
tended that the internal district
ing Of Negroes and whites in
separate residential areas - OBJ
jectionable as it may be to
many people 80 is by any
stretch Of the imagination or by
any rule of international law a
threat to world peace.
The role the United States
took in this strange episode
including a vote for the resolu-
ton - is defended here in the
State Department as one of de-
sirable expediency. 1t is con-
coded that the UN is acting in
a one-sided manner, but the
point is made that the United
States did succeed in its effort
to keep the arms-embargo reso-
luton voluntary rather than
mandatory and did succeed in
preventing an oil embargo from
being imposed also.
A rule of expediency is char
acteristic Of political behavior,
though it is often immoral. The
United States in the past has
proclaimed some basic princip-
les in giving it's support to the
charter of the United Nations.
But, unfortunately, principles
now have been swept aside, and
the faction in the UN which has
gained by such tactics is the
one that is closest to Moscow.
Indeed, the whole plan for inn
posing an arms embargo was
undoubtedly engineered by the
Kremlin as a means Of lining
up allies for the Soviet Union
among the African nations. If
the UN is to be operated, how
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hostage while they 60 about
blowing up shops and distribut-
ing tacks in the streets to keep
voters from driving to the polls.
In Bolivia, Communicated tin
miners grab four American citi.
zenS as pawnS in a struggle
with President Victor Pas ES-
tenssoro. In Laos, a supposedly
neutralized country, guns and
ammunition move from Red
China over jungle trails to sup
port Communists in South
Vietnam. There is no peace
wherever Communism stirs.
The spirit Of violence is not
limited to the Communists, Of
course. Just dipping into a
single newspaper l read that
the young son of Frank Sinatra
had been kidnapped in Nevada,
that a Cuban has been seized
In New York for threatening
to kill Lyndon Johnson, that a
girl student at the Yale Divini
ty School has been beaten in an
attempted rape, that vandals
have toppled thirty gravestones
In Milford, Conn, that an EpiS-
copal Church vestryman has
been charged with numbering a
17-year-old girl, that a 'teen-age
boy has shot his sleeping father
with a shotgun blast, that a
Negroes house has been fired on
in Georgia. Violence Of this sort
is always with us, but it does
seem that it has been com.
pounded in recent months.
The point is that human be-
ings seem to be growing more
and more hardened to violence.
And, being hardened to it, they
may have fewer qualms about
permitting chemical equipment
to 60 to Khrushchev without
forcing him to call off the worst
of the worlds violence as the
pre-condition for a deal.
Well, why shouldn't the gov
ernmentS of the West impose a
political condition on the sale
Of chemical equipment to the
Soviet dictator'S government?
Khrushchev is obviously unable
to control Mao Tse-tung, but he
could dry up the Castroite vio-
lence in Latin America within
a month by disowning Fidel
Castro and depriving him OF
arms for transshipment to Ven
ezuela and British Guiana. He
could impose a dignified con-
Stitutionalism on Communists
wherever they are under his
control. He could stop all those
murders at the Berlin Wall with
a mere word to his East Germ
an StoogeS.
The only political condition
we want is peace, real peace.
Is there anything SO nefaricuS
about that? Stain might have
thought so, Nikita, but you are
supposed to be repudiating him.
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TodoY's Scripture

For those who live according to the
flesh set their minds on the things Of
the flesh, but those who live according
to the Spirit set their minds on the
things Of the Spirit. = Romans 8:5.
The chronicle., 1963-12-16
Too Lute

Cannibal Prince crushing I'M: Am /
late for dinner?
Cannibal King: Yes, everybody's eaten.
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GIpeInA ATOMS.
Evening star., 1963-01-21

later on Monday, after the in
vasion was under way. 1t did
not accomplish much"
Mr.. Kennedy confirmed that
the invading force appealed to
United States warships stu
ated near the Bay of Pigs for
help when they were pinned
down on the beach. Mr.. Ken
nedy declined comment on
whether the appeals we're re-
layed to the President.
The decision was made that
there would be no change in
the ground rules" Mr.. Kennedy
said. There had been a firm
understanding always, accept
ed by everyone, that there
would be no United States
forces in the invasion under
any condition. We stayed with
that"
Mr.. Kennedy was asked in
the U. S. News g. World Re-
port interview why American
forces we're there if they were
not used.
THE plan," he said, was
that, If the invasion ships
starting from Central America
we're sighted by a Cuban plane,
or in some fashion the Com
munists learned about the in
vasion. they were going to turn
around. Our forces had per-
mission to protect them from
attack as they returned"
Evening star., 1963-01-21
STORY DISPUTED
BY GOLDWATER

Senator Goldwater, Republic
can of Arizona, today chal-
llenged Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy's statement that no
United States air cover was
planned or promised for the
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
in April of 1861.
Il myself talked with Presi-
dent Kennedy at his request
only a few days following the
abortive invasion attempt" +"
said Senator Goldwater. And
i certainly got the impression
then that an air cover had been
part Of the original invasion
plans.
II am sure the entire Ameri-
can public has understood that
the air cover was definitely in
the invasion plans until the
President was persuaded - by
some still-unidentified advisers
Ito cancel it. At the time Of
Evening star., 1963-01-21

the invasion, stories printed in
almost all American news
papers told of United States
planes actually being in the
air, ready for use, If the COM
mand should come. There we're
reports of an aircraft carrier
standing off the invasion coast
at the time of the landing.
II suggest it is proper to in
Iquire into this latest example
of news management by the
New Frontier. Has this practice
| of the administration now been
extended to the rewriting of
history in an image acceptable
to the men presently in charge
Of the national Government?
IF there was never any plan
to provide air cover for the
Bay Of Pigs invasion, why was
this never brought to light be-
fore? Why did every Cuban
exile leader with whom l spoke
tell me that the United States
had definitely promised to give
such help? Why has the Gov
ernment permitted the Ameri-
can people to labor for 81
months under the wrong i'm
pression?"
Evening star., 1963-01-21

had been planned for the in
vaders - antiquated, World War
II B-26 bombers piloted by
refugees.
I'VE underestimated what a
T-33 carrying rockets could
do" Mr.. Kennedy was quoted
as saying. "They caused us a
great deal Of trouble"
Other Problems a Factor
When asked why the United
States stood firm on its de-
cision not TO use American
forces in the invasion, Mr..
Kennedy replied;
IF it was just the Cuban
problem alone there would have
been no difficulty. We would
have ended it right there. But
the Berlin issue was in a criti-
cal stage at the time. And
there we're difficulties in Wet
Nam and Laos, among other
places We just could not COM
NIT our forces in Cuba. Even
in retrospect, I think this was
the wise decision"
Mr.. Kennedy said the invad-
ers got all the air cover the
plan called for" But Mr.. Ken
nedy said, the second of two
planned advance raids by B.
26s intended to knock out Mr..
Castro's air force on the ground
was postponed.
The first raid, on Saturday,
April is, 1861, was not very
successful" he said. Mr.. Kras-
low quoted Mr.. Kennedy as say
ing the President received one
call informing him that the
first raid was causing us seri-
Gus problems at the U. N. and
elsewhere" Mr.. Kraslow said
the Attorney General would not
identify the caller, but said it
was not United Nations AM
bassador Adlai Stevenson.
POstpOnement Suggested
Mr.. Kraslow reported the At
torney General gave this ac-
count of the raids:
1T was suggested that the
second raid be postponed. That
raid was to take place early
Monday morning (April II -
the day of the invasionD. The
President said that If those
who had the responsibility for
the plan had strong objections
to postponing the raid, they
should let him know. No strong
objections we're registered.
THE raid actually was made