'IT FOLLOWED ME HOME. CAN I KEEP No Limitations On Farm Subsidies WORLD TODAY How U.S. Got Into Viet War By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) A young man here tries to dodge the draft. Another there burns his draft card. Students demonstrate.
A Quaker burns himself to death at the Pentagon. All in protest against the American role in Viet Nam. Granted the protesters are sincere in their belief the American war against the Vietnamese communists is wrong. Grant THE TREND TOWARDS large-scale fanning which It making headway In many areas cf the agricultural economy will undoubtedly continue. There nothing In the Omnibui Farm Bill of 1965, recently passed by Congress, to reverse the trend that Is regarded by many, Including resident Johnson, with misgivings.
Efforts to limit government payments to small and medium sized farm opera tions. such as those that characterize Mid ed they are concerned lor mankind. mm ViMMMm m. Si west agriculture, were crushed in both houses of Congress during sessions on the bill. So American taxpayers will again be saddled with a burden that teems unnecessarily large to satisfy larger operatives who have frequently declared that they do not need help from Washington to stay in business.
The Department of Agriculture estl-matrx that the innrovpd tiro pram will mm it TODAY IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS Issues Shape Up For '66 Election By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON Just about a year from now there will be another election far more significant than any of the local contests decided this week. It will be national in scope so far as the House of Representatives is concerned, as candidates for every seat will have to go before the voters. While only one-third of the Senate members face next year an expiration of their six-year terms, several of the senators who are up for re-election come from some of the larger states. If the Democratic majority, which is in excess of two-thirds In both houses now, should be substantially diminished and the Republicans take control of either one or both houses, this would be regarded as a repudiation of the Johnson administration by the voters. Already the Issues are shaping up for next year's election.
The Congress, which adjourned a few weeks ago, dealt with some of the most important questions that have come before the national legislative body in all its history. Many laws were passed the full effects of which will not become clear to the voters until next year's congressional campaign. THE CENTRAL factor, however, on which, the judgment of the voters will turn is the economic condition of the country as a whole. Up to now unemployment has been referred to as minimal and prosperity has been the boast of the Democratic politicians. But the truth is that there are many signs of economic instability and social discontent.
For one thing, the big cities are in turmoil over racial questions as they, relate to alleged "imbalance" in the public schools. The merits of the civil-rights issue itself have been to a large extent brushed aside in the bitterness of feeling that has emerged over the handling of public-school enrollment. Federal intrusion, either through the withholding of public funds or the threat of control of the school systems, is producing antagonism to the Johnson administration among many voters who are normally Democratic. if tip '( AiMiv WrnMYj-1 it cost $4 billion during the 1966 crop year. If mau ttrnll wic niAfA Pvr0ttan 4 mm withdraw now would mean it had abandoned the South Vietnamese people to the mercies of the Viet Cong who have res se through terror, and to the mercy of Ho Chi Minh who has shown scant mercy to dissidents.
On top of all this, 'the United States has sought to end the fighting by asking Ho Chi Minh's government to negotiate a settlement. The request has been ignored. This may be his policy of containment in reverse. He may be banking on the hope that if he resists long enough, the United States may feel compelled to back out under the pressure of criticism outside and inside the United States. To Your Good Health Mi 7 im Kit -mm.
pi IT WW 111 mi past yean indicate increasing costs. Total payments to American farmers (part of the overall cost) increased from $257 mil lions in 1954 to $2,169 millions in 1964. Within ten years, these payments multiplied eightfold! Many members of Congress agree with Rep. Albert H. Quie, who recently wrote us that "I believe a limitation (on ments) Is warranted." Quie was unable to Include a payment limit in the House version of the bill.
QUIE SAYS that "opposition to limit, tion on payments stems from those who believe that this put a limitation on size and in America such a limitation should ym mm IP 11 mm I I rl mm ha i mm If; MM never be accepted. Another reason why limitations have been opposed is the great lobbying strength of the large operators. This is especially true in cotton." When this crop was being discussed in the Senate, no one disagreed with Senator Kuchel who declared that "cotton is a sick industry." Nor were excuses given for the lavish expenditure of public funds that has been part and parcel of the cotton price support plan. Rather the debate raged over whether 1 1 A 4 4L.1 I fn-lt THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Anyone Who Was Anybody Had His Wires Tapped uie uiu iwu-yiiue syium uiai seuaiur iau- madge said would cost the taxpayers million a year if continued or a one-price system favored by the textile mills (costing $800 million) should become the law. 1 Cotton is just one of the nation's farm But amidst the protests from a minority of the people, the professors and the students, the basics in Viet Nam are apt to be forgotten.
What are the realities? For all of this century up to 1954, and for much of the 19th, the French held the Vietnamese people in colonial thralldom. They had the better part of a century to prepare the Vietnamese for freedom and independence but didn't. WHEN THE Vietnamese rose up against their master, people of all persuasions joined the forces of Communist Ho Chi Minn to crush the French, which they did. The French withdrew. In the settlement Viet Nam was split in half, the north going to the Communists, the south free.
The United States promised to help the south to progress in freedom, and it did, at first economically and with weapons. The North Vietnamese protested when the south wouldn't agree to nationwide elections to choose one government for all. They would hardly have been free elections, certainly not in the Red-run Then the Viet Cong, the agents of Ho Chi Minh, began their war to force the south to submit: Guerrilla war, assassinations, terror. Bit by bit the United States helped the south resist until, when the south was near collapse, this country got directly involved. WHAT IS the Interest of this country in Viet Nam? Basically it has two interests, one selfish, one unselfish.
In the West's deadly struggle with communism, worldwide, no one is suggesting that the Soviet Union, no matter how docile it seems at the momentt, is abandoning its hope of a Communist world eventually. It's just marking -time now. But Red China, the most populated and powerful nation in Asia, isn't docile. It is aggressive, seeking Communist takeovers not only in Africa and everywhere. It spits on the Soviet Union as a Communist mollycoddle for its docility.
Unless the Red push in South Viet Nam is stopped and it certainly would not be if the United States with- drew entirely all Asia will go Communist under the dominion of China. If the other nations of Asia, particularly the small ones, saw a U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, after promising to help it survive, there would be no hope left for any Asian that communism could be resisted or stopped. THEREFORE, it is to the vital interest of the United States to try to stop the advance. But there is another reason here, too: The so-called philosophy of containment.
If the Red advance is stopped long enough, the Communist crusade may lose some of its zeal through -change in leadership, internal dissensions or problems, or other pressures. This is what happened in the Soviet Union, to some extent, and among the Communist nations of Western Europe, where, for instance, Yugoslavia broke out of the Soviet stranglehold on its satellites. Containment paid off in Europe. This is the unselfish reason for the American presence in Viet Nam: To help this backward country, left poor and ignorant by the French, to move into the 20th century and, if it can survive long enough, to work out a prosperous economy, a stable government, and retain freedom. THIS HAS been American policy elsewhere, too.
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headaches. But the whole program involving complex procedures originally designed to give farmers a decent share in the national prosperity has been diverted, as in cotton, to other ends. And figures supplied by the government clearly show that the assistance provided the average farmer has not come close to equalling the increasing cost of this assistance. During the Senate debate, Senator Williams called attention to President Johnson's message suggesting "a major effort to find new approaches to reduce the heavy cost of our farm program and to direct more of our effort to the small farmer who needs help the most." He, with Senators Brewster and Robertson, led a futile fight to limit government payments to Insure that the money goes to small farmers and not big commercial enterprises. SEN.
BREWSTER declared that our IN YEARS GONE BY Ten Years Ago 1955 Robert Foreman, Winona, was elected vice president of the Hiawatha Valley Ad Club at Rochester succeeding James Faber, who was named president. City Council President William P. Theurer, Aid. Howard Baumann and Chief of Police A. J.
Bingold have been appointed to study committees of the League of Minnesota Municipalities. Twenty-Five Years Ago 1940 The first killing frost of the season and the first below freezing temperature this fall were experienced here when the mercury dropped to 26. Nearly 10,000 of Winona's 12,000 registered voters cast ballots in the election, establishing a new all-time high voting mark for the-city. Fifty Years Ago 1915 A. G.
Schelhouse has moved to Winona from St. Paul and accepted a position as pressman with the Leicht press. Good progress is being made by the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. in laying its conduits on East 3rd Street. Seventy-Five Years Ago 1890 The plaster models similar to those to be used in the interior of the government building were received from Chicago.
One Hundred Years Ago 1865 A former townsman, George W. Payne, who has been doing business in Rochester for the past two years, has returned to Winona where he will carry on the sale of agricultural implements on an extensive scale. during the ten years an eight percent gain. The average Wisconsin farmer's income rose from $2,721 to $3,053, a 12 percent Increase. But Iowa farmers were actually worse off.
The realized net Income of the average Iowa farm declined from $4,558 to $4,305. The spotty results of the farm program seem to justify the epithet of "hprrendous hodgepodge" given it in a recent Time article. Bringing the program back into proper perspective with emphasis on preserving the family farm and protecting the rural economy from exploitation, however, is a big job. PRODIGIOUS EFFORTS to bring this about will be required of those who have sought to shape the program in this direction men like Representatives Quie and Paul Findley of Illinois, and supporters of the Brewster amendment in the Senate, including among them Wisconsin Senators Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson. For the opposition Is large, well-organized, and amp- ly financed.
By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Revelation that Mrs. Roosevelt's phone was tapped during the war by army intelligence will not surprise those familiar with the eavesdroppin; activities of the Army, Navy and every other intelligence agency at that time except the FBI. Inside reason why Mrs. Roosevelt's wires were tapped was because she insisted on maintaining contacts with liberal friends and labor leaders. By no stretch of the imagination could they be considered either Nazis or Communists.
But in the opinion of those operating the intelligence agencies, they were suspect anyway. During World War II, naval- intelligence once stationed two cars of agents outside my house. I have forgotten why. When Cong. James McGranery of Philadelphia, later attorney general, heard about it from one of my neighbors, he phoned Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
Neither Knox nor I knew about the Navy's spying, and he promptly had the agents removed. If Sen. Ed Long, chairman of the Senate Committee Investigation Eavesdropping, is worried about current internal revenue wiretapping, he should review what happened during the war. THE OSS. predecessor of CIA, tapped wires at the drop of a telephone.
Army and Navy i 1 1 i nee couldn't sleep at night unless they had half a hundred rooms wired for sound. Donald Nelson, head of the War Protection Board, once got a recording of a military session at which the brass hats planned to take over U. S. industrial production. Don used the recordings to show President Roosevelt what Gen.
B. B. Somervell and the military were up to and FDR put them in their place. Even good old Harold Ick-es once bugged the room of his associate of the public works board, Chip Robert, when Chip and Man-in Mc-Intyre were entertaining ladies in an Atlantic Hotel. J.
Edgar Hoover's FBI did very little wiretapping in those days; only when au thorized by a federal court or the attorney general. But every other intelligence agency had a field day. Today, wiretapping has become much easier, due to electronic refinements. It's now possible to listen in on 1 ne conversations without putting an actual tap on the wire. And it's reported that a TV camera will soon be available by which detectives or law enforcement officers, or suspicious husbands, can peer into private rooms.
IN RECENT years, also, there's been quite a rash of electronic eavesdropping by rival business firms. This column once revealed the charge by Hazel Bishop that her chief competitor, Rev-Ion, had wiretapped conversations regarding the TV show, "$64,000 Question" which prompted Revlon to snatch the show away from Hazel Bishop. In the Senate investigation over Internal Revenue wiretapping. Commissioner Sheldon Cohen deserves credit for issuing a strong circular instruction to all personnel June 19 that there was to be no illegal wiretapping even on underworld suspects. They, too, have their constitutional rights.
Though Commissioner Cohen admitted to Sen. Long that his agents had engaged in some illegal use of electronic devices, it should also be noted that some of these gadgets can be used quite legally. For instance, when tax agents raid a gambling cas- -ino to collect Uncle Sam's share of the take, miniature transmitters are planted in front and in the rear of the Casino in order to alert police if the operators try to crash out. This is not illegal. Tax agents also explain that it was not illegal to use two-way mirrors in about 20 revenue offices.
Furthermore, there was good reason for it namely, to protect witnesses asked to identify dangerous criminals. ATTORNEY General KaU-enbach recently testified that the Justice Department had "lost" 25 informants on underworld leaders, later found drowned wearing ce ment boots. So the two-way mirrors were used to spot unsuspected gangsters. Out of 900 Internal Revenue offices, 26 were bugged, tax agents explain, and these were in intelligence areas where people were suspected of fraud. Bugging rooms and using two-way mirrors is not illegal.
Nevertheless, following Sen. Long's investigation, all have been removed. Sen. Bobby Kennedy, who as attorney general led a vigorous crime cleanup, has denied that he authorized the use of wiretaps or elec- tronic devices, as outlined in an Internal Revenue memo recently published in this column. "I never knew of, let alone approved or instructed, the use of the kind of equipment as being used by Internal Revenue," Kennedy said.
"I think that, although mistakes were made, Internal Revenue has made a major contribution to the fight against organized crime, for which all of us should be grateful." Note: Rep. Carlton Sickles, believes the police should get as up-to-date as James Bond; should start using modern technology in fighting crime. The congressman doesn't want them to engage in illegal wiretapping, but does that American police haven't caught up with the techniques of "Agent 007." MUSIC WENT WILD HOOTON PAGNELL, England ifl A jumbled rendering of "Abide with Me," "Home Sweet Home" and "Hark, Hark the Lark" sounded for miles over the Yorkshire countryside when the musical clock at All Saints, Hooton Pagnell, broke down recently. It will cost 270 pounds ($432) to repair. SHERWOOD BISHOP LONDON Venerable Kenneth G.
Thompson, Arch-deacon of Newark, has been appointed the Church England's first Bishop of Sherwood, thus filling a new suffragan see created in the diocese of Southwell. He is 56 and served in World War II as a naval chaplain aboard HMS Rodney. support programs are "benefiting large farmers at the taxpayers' expense while the small family farmer is being tossed the remaining crumbs." His amendment to prevent any producer from receiving more than $10,000 annually "from our overburdened taxpayers" as well as amendments raising that figure to $25,000, and again to $50,000 were defeated. Brewster noted that a large part of the costs involved are in price support loans. He quoted USDA figures to show that "of the $56.3 billion in price supports extended by the Commodity Credit Corp.
since 1933, loans accounted for $42 billion or 74 percent. Of these loans, only $14.3 billion, or 34 percent were repaid by the borrowers." In other words the government took a loss on three-quarters of them. In some fields, loans do go almost exclusively to small and medium size farmers. There are glaring exceptions. Of 1964 loans on soybeans amounting to $79 million, 53 out of 17,260 loans accounted for $18 million, or well over a quarter of the total.
Generally loan programs appear to encourage the development of big-scale farming, especially in some parts of the land. Of 1964 price support loans of $25,000 and more made on barley, beans, oats, soybeans, rice, wheat, and grain sorghums, 520 of the 1.123 total went to Texans, 120 to Washington state farmers, and 79 to Arizona operators. Only four of these larger loans went to Minnesotans and only one to a Wisconsin fanning operation. THAT THE PRESENT program works unevenly in aiding farmers is shown clearly by a recent USDA bulletin. Data from this source indicates that the "realized net income" of American farmers increased from an average of $2,657 (years 1952-54) to one of $3,542 (years 1962-64) a gain of a third.
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Press Supt. Engraving Supt. William H. English Gordon Holti Comptroller SundayEditor MEMBEI OF THS ASSOCIATES PRESS THE WIZARD OF ID By Parker and Hart Til VVl THE AS IO.DNT AUZE1 CLOD HE'S WFTAlM IftkU Af -TROUBADOUR A ll W. I HS STRUMMED OF THE MUSICIANS' Bill Merrill's START YOUR DAY with "Something to Live By" 6:45 Each Morning on Mississippi was up by 104 percent; in Georgia, 96 percent; in North Dakota, 89 percent, in Kansas, 34 percent In spite of the fact that government payments in Minnesota in 1964 were 13 times the 1954 total, nine times in Wisconsin, and 23 times in Iowa, farmers in this area were helped to a far smaller degree.
IN MINNESOTA, realized net income increased from $2,899 to $3,135 per farm The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news prated in this newspaper as well as all A P. news dispatches. Friday, Net ember (, iM.
