May 13, 1965 (20 pages)

reese. May 13, 1965.Nevada County Nugget. @ SETI DESL L NETL LER OTE DOPOD SSRI ESES SEE AE EE SMALL TOWN : SMALL WORLD iret: . aa een Vingh: . aa eet Fig: . aa ern Vint: Paar err Fitgtr . aa eel Vik Te aan . one whobuysacar has made a political decision. He has called for adequate roads for that car, and signalled his government to write into the statutes a strong road building force, and to subsidize private transport by providing public roads, Some of the most telling political decisions in California today are made by those who don't or won't decide. When we don't recognize our own responsibilities forthe total environment in almost every small or large action we take on the land; when we don't insist that our companies, our families or our state agencies assume total responsibility for the total public interest, by seeking appropriate assistance and advice; when we-are too frightened or lazy to admit the truth of what we know to be the truth--when we act in these ways we are playing politics and making decisions, unsound ones usually. If we are to convert our passive politics to a constructive, active politics, I suppose the first thing we might do is to admit that we are in politics up to here--in the home, in the office, in our relationship to government. When the Embarcardero Freeway in San Francisco was built somebody or a group of people in the Division of Highways and perhaps in the city came up with the original concept. But there must also have been someone in the planning group, someone in a position of responsibility, who could see why this elevated freeway would harm San Francisco, Perhaps he spoke up and attempted to bring about a drastic modification ofthe plans. Perhaps he didn't. In any case, we must conclude that he failed as a politican. 1 am not suggesting that he should have made such aruckus that he would have been discounted or perhaps eliminated asa poor team player. No, his tactic might well have been to praise the proposal while spreading within the department serious doubts about it, and presenting superior alternatives;—Quietly-he—. could have lined up the elements of power within his own organization to give him the support he needed. So too everybody. can find a way within his own sphere of activity and he can enlarge that sphere if need be. ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING WHERE WILL THE NEXT REVOLUTION BREAK OUT °° WASHINGTON. --Where the next war will break out must be President Johnson's chief concern in view of the precedent of Viet Nam and now the Dominican Republic. In the spring formbook are several conspicuous possibilities. Colombia is high on the Latin-American list. Reports have reached officials here of significant Communist and Castroite infiltration which could mean an uprising and a threat to stable government. The precedent is direct intervention by American forces, Thishascome about by such gradually phased stages in Southeast Asia, where nearly 40,000 Americans are now committed in Viet Nam, and so suddenly in the Caribbean with 15,000 Marines and paratroopers on the ground, that its significance is not yet understood. Theradical difference between the Johnson approach: and previous policy is that no peace-keeping international force has been interposed, The President in his Sunday night television statement described the effort toget the Organization of American States into place in Santo Domingo, But he was also saying, in BUT YOu'KE WRONG, WORM" + BIRD, Love You D ODD BODKINS . effect, that the situation became so critical with “Communist conspirators” taking over the rebellion that immediate action was imperative. He was, therefore, describing an accomplished fact. One consequence, as observers here are beginning to note with concern, is the advantage this can give toa handful of Castroite conspirators. If they succeed ,in touching off an uprising where government control is shaky they can count on American troops coming in. Without the moral sanction of the OAS or the United Nations this can be made to look like the oldfashioned “Send in the Marines” operation of another era. Aswe are seeing with the example of the Dominican Republic, the Latin Americans, including even our best friends, are deeply sensitive on this score, It may be thatthe reports from friendly LatinAmerican leaders that have reached high officials about the peril in Colombia and at two or three other points are greatly exaggerated, But it requires no imagination tosee what the impact in Latin American would be if the President determined that another Marine rescue force should go into Bogata to save American lives and upholda duly elected government, While discreetly supporting American policy the British in private get a certain wry satisfaction out of this country's dilemma. They remember 1956 and the thunders of American righteousness over the ' British -French-Israeli attempt to occupy Egypt to prevent President Gamal Abdel Nasser from nationalizing the Suez Canal and violating rights long held. That action brought a United Nations resolution calling off the attack with our then Ambassador to the U. N., Henry Cabot Lodge, leading the charge. At thesame time Lodge led the denunciation of the — Soviet Union for brutally suppressing the short-lived uprising in Hungary. Soviet tanks moved into Budapest as the U. N. stood helplessly by. This contributed to the decline of confidence in the U. N. Doubt and dissension have been increasingly the order of the day, The Johnson Administration, by standing so rigidly on the demand that the French and the Soviet Union follow the strict letter of Article 19 on payment of back peace-keeping assessments, is assigned part of the blame for the present near paralysis of the world organization, Unless one-sided intervention is to be the rule an urgent need is to straighten out the U. N, tangle and strengthen the Organization of American States, In his deeply moving interview on Face the Nation Juan Bosch, from his exile in Puerto Rico, in effect wrote off the OAS because in his view it had failed so conREALLY, BIRD © How 00 YOU me spicuously in the Dominican crisis, But surely there must be means and measures for making the organization more readily responsive and more responsible. The President named as American delegate tothe OAS Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker, a diplomat of wide ex periences and ability who had served with distinction in a number of difficult posts, ischairman of the OAS Council. Under his quiet leadership it should be possible to help bring about a new dimension of order-keeping for the hemisphere. This would enlist American friends throughout the . hemisphere who are today most fearful of “occupation” by the colossus of the north, A ready reserve broadly representative of the democratic nations of Latin America could as a force in being step in where alien extremists trained outside the hemisphere sought to bring down orderly government, The hour is late and the precedent of one-sided in: tervention is open.to exploitation by America’s enemies everywhere. That is a propaganda handle that should be denied them, (Copyright 1965) ==-Marquis Childs STATE GIVEN CHANCE ON WATER POLLUTION Ifthe "WaterQuality Act of 1965," (S.4) is enacted intolaw in the form as ordered reported by the House Committee on Public Works, the state water pollution control agencies will have an opportunity to prove their abilities tocope with the problem of establishing water quality criteria applicable to interstate waters and portions thereof, W ater pollution control authorities in many states have objectedto proposals in S.4, H.R.3988, an d other similar bills to allow the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish water quality criteria, saying they could handle the situation themselves, And, at least 36 states have the authority to establish criteria. Acting on a theory to “give the states achanceto show what they will do," the House Public Works Committee is reporting language which provides that no state is to receive any funds in grants unless it files (within-90-days after enactment of the Act) a letter of intent with the Secretary that the state will establish water quality criteria to be applicable to interstate waters and portions thereof within the state prior to June 30, 1967, The Senate-passed version of S.4 authorizes the Secretary to prepare regulations setting forth standards of water quality, and sets up a procedure whereby all interested parties would be given the opportunity of commenting, The Secretary would promulgate the standards only if state and interstate agencies have not developed satisfactory standards. The House version of S.4 also sets up a new Federal Water Pollution Control Administration separate from the Public Health Service, but directs that the Surgeon General be consulted on aspects of water pollution which affect public health. It provides fordemonstration grants and research for the separation of storm and sanitary sewers. The construction grants ceiling was increased from $100 million to $150 million annually, with a new formula being established for allocation of the additional funds. The maximums for individual and joint project were doubled, Other sections allow the Federal Government to enter into cases of intrastate pollution ifthe interstate commerce of shellfish is injured, and give the Secretary limited subpoena authority. ~--Conservation News OW TOAST, WITH W BUTTERED = MUSHROOMS. a a

reese. May 13, 1965..Nevada County Nugget.. @ SETI DESL L NETL LER OTE DOPOD SSRI ESES SEE AE EE SMALL TOWN : SMALL WORLD iret: . aa een Vingh: . aa eet Fig: . aa ern Vint: Paar err Fitgtr . aa eel Vik Te aan . one whobuysacar has made a political decision. He has called for adequate roads for that car, and signalled his government to write into the statutes a strong road building force, and to subsidize private transport by providing public roads, Some of the most telling political decisions in California today are made by those who don't or won't decide. When we don't recognize our own responsibilities forthe total environment in almost every small or large action we take on the land; when we don't insist that our companies, our families or our state agencies assume total responsibility for the total public interest, by seeking appropriate assistance and advice; when we-are too frightened or lazy to admit the truth of what we know to be the truth--when we act in these ways we are playing politics and making decisions, unsound ones usually. If we are to convert our passive politics to a constructive, active politics, I suppose the first thing we might do is to admit that we are in politics up to here--in the home, in the office, in our relationship to government. When the Embarcardero Freeway in San Francisco was built somebody or a group of people in the Division of Highways and perhaps in the city came up with the original concept. But there must also have been someone in the planning group, someone in a position of responsibility, who could see why this elevated freeway would harm San Francisco, Perhaps he spoke up and attempted to bring about a drastic modification ofthe plans. Perhaps he didn't. In any case, we must conclude that he failed as a politican. 1 am not suggesting that he should have made such aruckus that he would have been discounted or perhaps eliminated asa poor team player. No, his tactic might well have been to praise the proposal while spreading within the department serious doubts about it, and presenting superior alternatives;—Quietly-he—. could have lined up the elements of power within his own organization to give him the support he needed. So too everybody. can find a way within his own sphere of activity and he can enlarge that sphere if need be. ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING WHERE WILL THE NEXT REVOLUTION BREAK OUT °° WASHINGTON. --Where the next war will break out must be President Johnson's chief concern in view of the precedent of Viet Nam and now the Dominican Republic. In the spring formbook are several conspicuous possibilities. Colombia is high on the Latin-American list. Reports have reached officials here of significant Communist and Castroite infiltration which could mean an uprising and a threat to stable government. The precedent is direct intervention by American forces, Thishascome about by such gradually phased stages in Southeast Asia, where nearly 40,000 Americans are now committed in Viet Nam, and so suddenly in the Caribbean with 15,000 Marines and paratroopers on the ground, that its significance is not yet understood. Theradical difference between the Johnson approach: and previous policy is that no peace-keeping international force has been interposed, The President in his Sunday night television statement described the effort toget the Organization of American States into place in Santo Domingo, But he was also saying, in BUT YOu'KE WRONG, WORM" + BIRD, Love You D ODD BODKINS .. effect, that the situation became so critical with “Communist conspirators” taking over the rebellion that immediate action was imperative. He was, therefore, describing an accomplished fact. One consequence, as observers here are beginning to note with concern, is the advantage this can give toa handful of Castroite conspirators. If they succeed ,in touching off an uprising where government control is shaky they can count on American troops coming in. Without the moral sanction of the OAS or the United Nations this can be made to look like the oldfashioned “Send in the Marines” operation of another era. Aswe are seeing with the example of the Dominican Republic, the Latin Americans, including even our best friends, are deeply sensitive on this score, It may be thatthe reports from friendly LatinAmerican leaders that have reached high officials about the peril in Colombia and at two or three other points are greatly exaggerated, But it requires no imagination tosee what the impact in Latin American would be if the President determined that another Marine rescue force should go into Bogata to save American lives and upholda duly elected government, While discreetly supporting American policy the British in private get a certain wry satisfaction out of this country's dilemma. They remember 1956 and the thunders of American righteousness over the

' British -French-Israeli attempt to occupy Egypt to prevent President Gamal Abdel Nasser from nationalizing the Suez Canal and violating rights long held. That action brought a United Nations resolution calling off the attack with our then Ambassador to the U. N., Henry Cabot Lodge, leading the charge. At thesame time Lodge led the denunciation of the — Soviet Union for brutally suppressing the short-lived uprising in Hungary. Soviet tanks moved into Budapest as the U. N. stood helplessly by. This contributed to the decline of confidence in the U. N. Doubt and dissension have been increasingly the order of the day, The Johnson Administration, by standing so rigidly on the demand that the French and the Soviet Union follow the strict letter of Article 19 on payment of back peace-keeping assessments, is assigned part of the blame for the present near paralysis of the world organization, Unless one-sided intervention is to be the rule an urgent need is to straighten out the U. N, tangle and strengthen the Organization of American States, In his deeply moving interview on Face the Nation Juan Bosch, from his exile in Puerto Rico, in effect wrote off the OAS because in his view it had failed so conREALLY, BIRD © How 00 YOU me spicuously in the Dominican crisis, But surely there must be means and measures for making the organization more readily responsive and more responsible. The President named as American delegate tothe OAS Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker, a diplomat of wide ex periences and ability who had served with distinction in a number of difficult posts, ischairman of the OAS Council. Under his quiet leadership it should be possible to help bring about a new dimension of order-keeping for the hemisphere. This would enlist American friends throughout the . hemisphere who are today most fearful of “occupation” by the colossus of the north, A ready reserve broadly representative of the democratic nations of Latin America could as a force in being step in where alien extremists trained outside the hemisphere sought to bring down orderly government, The hour is late and the precedent of one-sided in: tervention is open.to exploitation by America’s enemies everywhere. That is a propaganda handle that should be denied them, (Copyright 1965) ==-Marquis Childs STATE GIVEN CHANCE ON WATER POLLUTION Ifthe "WaterQuality Act of 1965," (S.4) is enacted intolaw in the form as ordered reported by the House Committee on Public Works, the state water pollution control agencies will have an opportunity to prove their abilities tocope with the problem of establishing water quality criteria applicable to interstate waters and portions thereof, W ater pollution control authorities in many states have objectedto proposals in S.4, H.R.3988, an d other similar bills to allow the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish water quality criteria, saying they could handle the situation themselves, And, at least 36 states have the authority to establish criteria. Acting on a theory to “give the states achanceto show what they will do," the House Public Works Committee is reporting language which provides that no state is to receive any funds in grants unless it files (within-90-days after enactment of the Act) a letter of intent with the Secretary that the state will establish water quality criteria to be applicable to interstate waters and portions thereof within the state prior to June 30, 1967, The Senate-passed version of S.4 authorizes the Secretary to prepare regulations setting forth standards of water quality, and sets up a procedure whereby all interested parties would be given the opportunity of commenting, The Secretary would promulgate the standards only if state and interstate agencies have not developed satisfactory standards. The House version of S.4 also sets up a new Federal Water Pollution Control Administration separate from the Public Health Service, but directs that the Surgeon General be consulted on aspects of water pollution which affect public health. It provides fordemonstration grants and research for the separation of storm and sanitary sewers. The construction grants ceiling was increased from $100 million to $150 million annually, with a new formula being established for allocation of the additional funds. The maximums for individual and joint project were doubled, Other sections allow the Federal Government to enter into cases of intrastate pollution ifthe interstate commerce of shellfish is injured, and give the Secretary limited subpoena authority. ~--Conservation News OW TOAST, WITH W BUTTERED = MUSHROOMS. a a