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Show I IMJI 'inf iry H i 4 fljc Salt pilmnf ' r Son, Dont You Know This Is Open Range? The Public Forum By Our Readers Tuesday Morning, June 15, 1965 Page 14 Dont Misread Cue Editor, Tribune: Willard Peterson in the Forum of June 6 found my ideas of peace unrealistic. Is peace a mere religious abstraction, unsuTted to this wicked world? If the war habit and the kind of thinking which sustains it are ingrained parts of 'human nature, if they cannot yield to social change, there is little hope for peace. But suppose we regard the agonizing struggles of the past as more like an era of before the race was mature. Conditions were primi- Kremlin Just Cant Please Red China Communist Chinas latest attack on Soviet policies is basically an appeal ibr the overthrow of the present Kremlin leadership. .Before Nikita Khrushchev was- - deposed, the Chinese- used to picture n of international hinj as the communism. Now the Chinese say his successors (Leonid Brezhnev as Communist Party chief and Alexei Kosygin as premier) are even worse. While Khrushchev was a stupid blunderer, Radio Peking declared Brezhev and Kosygin are cunning and devious: They ar 'carrying out Krushchev revisionism without Khrushchev." Revisionism is one of the most despicable crimes in the Communist book. But arch-villai- For the Record, Anyway - The Senate Rules Committee again has voted to n'commend that the Senate require its members and employes to disclose major sources of outside income. Nothing much is expected to come from the recommendation, partly because the lawmaking branch of ihe government is more interested in policing the executive branch, not its own members, and partly because so 'much political flak has resulted from the Bobby Baker case, which was the cause celebre resulting in the recommendation. Baker, .it may be remembered, used his influential position as secretary to the Senate majority to further his personal fortune. Details ,of fhe recommendations will not be released g for two weeks but restrictions on are expected to be tough, paralleling those suggested a year ago, at the end of the first round of the Baker investigation. The recommendation made by the committee last year included the requirement that any senator or employe earning mor than $10,000 a year make annual reports of sizable outside income. This and all other disclosure proposals were previously beaten down. The Senate did adopt a proposal that a committee on ethics be set up to receive and investigate any complaints about the conduct of senators or other emploves that reflected unfavorably on the Senate. either Majority Leader Mansfield nor Minority Leader Dirksen has yet .appoint- ed anyone to the committee, even though" ten months have passed. The argument that action should await completion of the Baker investigation is not very con- vincing. The Senate leadership should show more interest in that bodys public image if not the propriety of members and employes. moon-lighffn- ? ' T , . I : Ollier Viewpoints Hoarders Cant Win Chicago Tribune: When a man died in Brooklyn the other day, he left an apartment cluttered wilh cartons, jars, and tin pails containing $13,000 in coins, most of them dimes and quarters. A brother said that the dead man had been laying them aside for years, hoping that they would gain in value. As it has turned out, very few of the coins are worth more than when he emptied his pockets of them; indeed, when you .consider inflation, they will buy less today than they would have bought then. If the $13,000 had been invested, on the other hand, it would have earned $300 or $600 a year in interest or probably more than that in the stock market, including capital appreciation. We can learn a lesson from this poor fellow's experience, even if he didn't. It is that a successful speculator does not waste time hoarding something which is so common and winch so many other people are hoarding at the same time. In the last 20 years alone, the mint has turned out nearly eight billion Roosevelt dimes, or enough so that every man, woman, and child in the country today could have 40 of them. Similarly, each of us could have 15 post-wa- r Washington quarters. Who, except a serious collector, wants more? As for a possible increase in the value of silver, a piece held for 10 years would have to bring nearly 50 cents to make up for the accumulated loss of income and the cost of melting. This means that the price of silver would have to rise from the present $1.29 an ounce to about $2.75. By the time this happens if it ever does the coin hoarder will probably find himself farther behipd the game than ever. i each side ,in the,. Soviet-Chineversy defines it differently. Contro- se Two Definitions rt means ' To the Soviets it splitting tnter- communism ational by refusing to acMoscow's leadership. To the knowledge Chinese it means preferring H peaceful coexistence" to the inevitability of war with the capitalists, a supposedly fundamental doctrine of Marxism-LeninisBut revisionism can mean anything either side might want it to mean at a given time. Doctrinal issues are used as camouflage in struggle between Moscow and Peking for power in both w;orld communr ism and world affairs. The Soviets speaking through Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, are again calling for an international Communist conference in an effort to force a showdown with the Chinese. And Peking is as sirongly opposed now as it was when Krushchev tried the same thing 18 mpnihs" ago, as is emphasized by ihe speed with whirh thp bitter broadcast followed ihe Pravda article. Moreover, in an effort to win wide attention, Pekiming announced in advance that an portant document was to be released in a few hours. The Kremlin e Thp language of the conlost its has Ihrough novelty quarrel stant repitition of catchwords. Now the Chinese have gone further than usual, accusing the Kremlin of plotting with the United States for world domination and busily frying 1o bring about peace negotiations in Viet Nam. The first of the charges is absurd even as Communist ' propaganda. The second may simply mean that China fears the Soviet Union is gaining too much influence in southeast Asia, or may also mean that a peaceful settlement in Viet Nam is not likely for a long time. World communism remains badly split and" chances of reconciliation are apparently diminishing rapidly. But more than world communism could eventually be involved. China appears willing to fight on all fronts - not just the ideological. Bribe' for Safety? Congress may be faced with the decision whether the new automobiles will be safer for carrying lower price tags. Led by Senator Ribicoff the Senate Finance Committee has approved the excise tax cut bill with a provision making repeal of part of the auto excise depend upon the installation of certain safety equipment. Ribicoff believes his "safety package could be added by auto makers "for less than $100 but some industry spokesmen said the additional cost would be between $200 and $200 per car. If Ribicoff is correct, the tax bill amendment could mpan both lower prices and safer cars, but admittedly the manufacturers have more to say about the matter. The safety package is based on requirements of the General Services Administration for cars purchased for federal government use, including more safety glass, seat belt anchors, dual standard systems, braking bumper heights and gear shifts, electric windg shield wipers and washers, and tires rims, and surfaces, safety .) glare-reducin- so on. As voted by the Senate committee, the 10 per cent auto tax would be cut to 7 per cent the day after the President signs the bill. It would drop to 6 per cent Jan. 1, 1966, and to 5 per cent Jan. 1, 1968. Two additional cuts of 2 per cent each would be made Jan. 1, 1968, and Jan. 1, 1969, but only for those autos that meet safety standards to be set by the GSA. Cars failing to meet the standards would continue to be taxed at the 5 per cent rate. Giving the auto industry a tax incentive to promote car safety has merit. However, if Congress is convinced that GSA standards are sound it ought to consider a blanket requirement for the added safety. Short of this, GSA should make its requirements available to the public. Instant Experts congressmen arrived last week to find the country in the midst of another political crisis, the ninth in less than jvo years. All are members of the House Armed in South Viet Nam . outh in-S- Jack Wilsons - Potomac Fever & Luci Johnson dis.i WASHINGTON guised herself very effectively when she went ift that prom. Of course a few people did get. Auspicious when the Marine band showed up playing watusi music. It was a fine sunny day when the circus Bt. Louis Gee! Thanks for the lift! against man. There was an animal struggle merely to sur- Plot Services Committee, so it is presumed they are there to familiarize themselves with the war effort. However, the leader of the delegation refused to say what they would do. At any rate, they will be Viet Nam for five whole days, and in that time anyone ought to be able to qualify as an expert on anything. Bngellmrdt In tive. The individual fought blindly for selfish ends, man Soviet-Chines- Four American Visiting Cartoonist pre-histor- played in the Astrodome in Houston and everything went great until they fired the lady out of the cannon into center field. Vvy Joseph Alsop Dollar Fears Lay Behind Martin Talk have whether sterling can therefore, many WASHINGTON The famous speech of Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, ing recall- conditions the before great crash in 1929, has made a great stir, culminating in a presidential press conference. But as yet literally no one has remarked on the real thrust of Martin's remarks. The story of the speech begins, in fact, with another, earlier speech by Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler. warning against premature relaxation of the effort to correct the U.S. balance of payments. Martin wished to rt s Fowler, and of the Martin speech was, therefore, devoted to a stem and lucid discussion of the balance of payments problem. two-third- His Real Concern Martin is, of course, on the side of those who are more In tjje loss much too economy than by But the of steam. payments balance was his prime con- worried by overheating His real message, at the cli- max of thp speech, was in a single sentence: "We must avoid any impairment of the value and status of the dol- lar. Behind the Martin speech, in fact, and behind the earlier Fowler speech as well, there is an interesting, little understood pattern of mingled apprehension and, It will be best to begin since with the it was the main stimulus for both speeches. Works Very Well The voluntary contraption invented by President Johnson to control U.S. capital outflow to the rest of the( world has been working better than anyone had dared to hope. The U.S. Industrial companies reporting to Secretary of Commerce John Connor began by promising to reduce capital on industrial acoutflows counts by 1.3 billion dollars for the year 1965. In these companies regular reports to the Commerce Department, enough evidence has (now accumulated to give rather strong assurance that this gain in the balance of payments will indeed be made. Meanwhile, the banks engaged in overseas lending? who report to a Federal Reserve Board committee headed by Gov. J. L. Robertson, look like they are achieving an even bigger, balance of payments gain than the industrial companies. Reaches $3 Billion The gain for reduced overseas lending, in fact, appears sure to exceed 1,5 billion dollars, and it may quite possibly reach 1.8 billion dollars. If the latter figure is used, the sum of the banking effort ancTthe industrial effort adds up to the amount of the U.S. payments deficit for 1964, Vhich was just above 3 billion. In the business community, i be sucdefended without cessfully heavy costs. If there is a sterling crisis, moreover, a large share of those costs will show up in the dollar balance. persons tended to regard the problem as solved, and some have already begun to talk about early relaxation of the voluntary movecontrols on capital ments. But the problem is by no means sohed because the succci-- s of the British effort to defend the pound sterling is still in doubt. The trouble here is the unsatisfactory way that the British trade balance has thus far, to the responded, British government's fairly drastic efforts to improve it. Deficit Quiet Liquidation The British arp now quietly liquidating their 1.25 billion dollars of stocks and bonds in private American companies a government asset left ever from the second world war. They also have a 250 million dollars drawable credit at the Export-Impor- t Bank. If there is a sterling crisis, these dollar holdings will surely be used to defend the pound. Taking No Chances Increases a fair showing in March, in fact, the deficit in the British trade balance actually increased in April, reaching 81 million dollars for that month. This caused another brief run on sterling. . Tfie question dearly arises, therefore, whether the British can get through September After There is eery hope that ways of avoiding another ster- ling crisis will be found, when Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan comes to Washington to talk with Secretary' Fowler at the end of the month. But the responsible U.S. officials are taking no chances, and they will be satisfied with nothing less than a real cure of the problem of the dollar balance. and October without one of the early autumn sterling - crises that have recurred so often in the last 20 years. There is no doubt at all about the Labor government's grim determination to defend Sterling, hut there is considerable doubt Senator From Sandpit cern. t A MAoCklK is in but Notes on Cuff Department A sailor limped into a naval hospital to have his foot and was asked to wait for the results. Some time later an orderly appeared and handed him a large pill. The sailor hobbled over to get a glass of water, swallowed the pill, and sat down to wait. ' Later the orderly reappeared carrying a bucket of water. "Okay," he said, "let's drop the pill in this bucket and soak the foot. accord, he does not assume that the rest of the world is wrong or inferior. He does not make the common error with of "'confusing education .The , world is intelligence. filled with good brains that have missocj "the opportunity of training. Initiative cannot be taught; creative abilities cannot be lectured into a head; a sepse of duty, of honor, of humor and of leadership is usually an inheritence. The good citizen forms ' no definite opinion on any subject until he is qualified by the possession of information sufficient to reach an unbiased conclusion. He knows that a great majority of the genus homo is inarticulate, and that it is always the noisy minorities we hear from. That the often repeated assertion that the voice of the people is the is pernicious voice of God hokum handed down to us from antiquity, and what you hear from the mob is merely an echo of what has born fed to it in predigested form by some good, bad or indifferent leader. The good citizen is aware that those who do not stampede with the herd, or run with some political machine, or wear the brand of some crackpot reform group, are commonly viewed with suspi An American tourist in a cafe in Paris ordered Poulet a la Ferrari. It turned out to be a chicken that had been run over by a sports car. ' Editor, Tribune: Regardless trend of domestic legislation over the past three decades, the foundation of economic in the United Stales remains the free enterprise system. Basic to this concept of exchange is the right of an individual to conpolicy tract. It is this right and, in essence, the whole free enterprise system that would be placed in jeopardy if the portion of the Law which permits states to enact righ legislation (Section 14b) were repealed. The argument, in my opinion. is not between organized and unorganized labor. It is between men and women who know that they should be able to work where they want to; limited only by their capability and the availability of jobs; and those who would abandon the individual in favor of the Taft-Hartle- y collective. Right-to-Wor- k t i j Forum Rules To be published, letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers full signature and address. Karnes must be printed on political letters bnt may be withheld for compelling reasons on others. Preference is given to letters printed with writers' names. Letters most be under S5d words and are subject to further condensation when space limits require it. r 'i many areas of society that it becomes insignificant. Each-o- l us has in some way reaped the fruits of someone elses labors whether we realize it or not. Consider the hunter who benefits from private conservation and wildlife groups; or the homeowner who benefits from voluntary taxpayers associations; or the parent whose child plays safely in a s playground built by the or Lions club. Each and every citizpn of . the United States has a stake in this issue because it affects his constitutional guarantee of the opportunity to seek economic justice .as a free man. GEORGE LANPHERE Jay-cee- Cant Find Work. Editor, Tribune: Why write letters complaining about our and their parents? youth Some parents are too busy working to pay much attention to youth. Some youth cannof find work. I know. I have two boys. There is lots of work around but nobody seems to be hiring. Can my boys finish school if my husband and I cant find work? Work seems to be all around us. We want to work the year around so we can take root and stick to something. Why drag people down? Why not help lift them up? If we did they would respond to our kindness and prove that they too. want to feel But if they can't find work a lot of people lose well-roote- t. H. E. Elko, Nevada Rad Road Stretch I would like to bring to your attention the hazardous road conditions existing on Second West between the 900 and the 2100 blocks in Salt Lake City. Some of the greater part of industrial trucking is located in this vicinity. These trucks cast in the neighborhood of $25,000 per unit and are being practically mutilated. This is cutting profits for the trucking business and burdening the drivers who must operate there. With the trucking industry being one of the largest industries in this arpa and certainly carrying the major portion of the gasoline taxes for the entire state, they should be considered. JAMES JUNK Editor, Tribune: Silver Coins Editor, tribune: I believe I speak on behalf of others in in protesting this nktion against having our silver coins corrupted. Lets keep the silver coins rolling. The politicians have given away our gold, good armaments and all kinds of help to all nations from the resources of the American people. It is time to stop, think and reconsider this act of nonsense. Something has to be done to keep pure and uncorrupted, as the symbol of this nation's meaning: the silver lining. If the other nations are able to eat the gold let them do so but let the people of this nation keep the pure silver as a token of what this help meant to Americans. ROALD UPWALL Civil Service commissioner reports that a young lady applying for a government job wrote on the questionnaire under veterans preference: Sailors. The Editor, Tribune: Recent testimony before the Senate Finance Committee by a representative of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare-using their own figures disclosed: Present beneficiaries now on the rolls will receive in benefits 90 per cent more than they and their employers contributed to the program through taxes. Within 10 years the beneficiaries wall have contributed only about 25 per cent of what they will receive in cash payments. By 1969, using HEWs own figures, the hospital-medica- l costs of people more than 65 years of age will be $7.2 billion of which the medicare bill will pay $3.4 billion, or less than half. The $3 4 billion cost of ilte measure within a few years was the first such public estimate by HEW. It also marked an admission that the bill would cover less than half of the elderly person's health care costs. J. R. KIRCHER, M D. Burley, Idaho of the cion, and subjected to petty persecution. And that there is danger in being different. those Medicare Figures We're All Involved By Ham Park Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, complaining of the present, and trembling for the future. Rivarol The Good Citizen The good citizen is often a He exercises his right to choose his asso-- c i a t e s from with w h 0s e idbas and ideals he vive. But there was some progress, slow, clostly. New conditions produced change. We have come far in social evolution. Shall we nostalgically cling to the primitive ideas and customs of the childhood of the race? Or shall we look at the reality of today? If so, will we not conclude that it is no longer necessary to kill our neighbors in order to have food and shelter? The race is bound together in world community'. There are no strangers. All are people whose fate is tied together. Must we not recognize that a divided race with hostile parts fighting each other cannot survive the nuclear age? Let us not misread our cue. History is being made in every thought and act of every aticulate human being. There is a fundamental change taking place. Habits which lead to war are going to yield to those which build peace. The alternative is too horrible to consider. s JESSIE GREENHALGH legislation does not doom the union,. If the union can offer the worker sufficient benefits to influence him to join voluntarily. With respect to the argument that many benefit and few .exert effort without comunion membership; pulsory this condition exists in so Interpolations By Interlandi Look at you! shouted the at a indignantly bunch of recruits idling outside the PX. ""VYour ties are crooked! Your hair isnt combed! Your shoes are not shined! Suppose some country suddenly declared war? Memorial Day sergeant The blossoms wilting in the - sun Were silent testament' That flowering is an episode, Fallen petals the event. - Their wistful scent and color. ing Enshrined a borderland Where hand of flesh was reaching' out - Tojouch a phantom hand. The memories capitulate, No futile tears were shed. Memorial was for all of us In that vast flower bed. 'I Louis W. Larsen. Hes disoriented just thinking about spate and the prob ability that intelligent life is not unique to qur planet, f |