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Interpretive Report (Uta 3oumal-Nmus High Officials Admit Johnson Economics Failure NYACK. N. SATURDAY. AUGUST 13, 1966 mentioned in the U. S.

Constitution. What is mentioned in the Constitution is the responsibility of Congress to regulate interstate commerce for the common welfare. Even so the so-called right to strike can be protected and the processes of collective bargain- lective bargaining sy stem work in the public interest without there having to be a national crisis threatening commerce. This means, putting it bluntly and too simply, restraints on the right to strike as it is now understood by labor. The right to strike is no divine right and not deal with strikes which threaten irreparable harm to the national interest BIG PROBLEM STAYS Such legislation, if it ever were proposed, would meet only part of the problem.

By far the larger problem is to make the col ing can be honored while the public interest is also preserved. This would require new legislation. Labor's protection from the antitrust laws needs to be recon. sidered. Greater use of fact-finding and mediation boards, the power of injunction, and perhaps final reliance on compulsory arbitration of those industry-wide strikes clearly against the pub lie interest will have to be -considered.

Ahead lie threatened strikes In the electrical equipment and telephone industries. Another au-industry strike could come in 1957. The worst specter of all is a possible trucking industry strike. Firemen, nurses, teachers are striking. PUBLIC VULNERABLE After many years of labor turmoil surely this country has ar- rived at the point where it canV be recognized that the public has a vital interest which Is not being protected by the media-' tion system and limited cooling-off period provided in existing law.

It is too much to hope that FLEXIBILITY ADVISED His advisers now are talking about some kind of flexible system for judging wage increases keyed to each industry on the basis of its increased producth ty but this holds little more promise than the system that failed. If the President is to face the problem squarely he will have to think of it largely in terms of the cost of labor which is the major factor in determining prices and profits. When he thinks in those terms he will have to ask himself if labor exercises too much economic and political power. If it does and the evidence is strongly in favor of that conclusion then the President will have to conclude that he must seek a general revision of the labor laws. The purpose of that revision can only be to give greater weight to the public in terest in the maintenance of stable relationships between management and labor to prevent collective bargaining from meaning collective paralyzation.

If the problem is to be met, the President will have to go far beyond his promise in his State of-the-Union message la January 1966. Speaking then against the background of the New York subway strike, the President said he would seek legislation to By RICHARD WILSOX WASHINGTON' By admission of the highest officials of the Johnson administration the President's economic policy has failed in its major objectives. It cannot maintain stable growth within the accepted guidelines on wages and prices. It cannot maintain stable labor-management relationships without crippling strikes. It cannot, and has not, stopped inflation, and the rise In the cost of living.

Johnson's economic policy is due for a complete overhaul as it affects taxation, strikes, prices, wages, interest rates-all these vital matters which so greatly concern the individual in his daily life. The breakthrough on prices by the steel manufacturers and on wages by the airline mechanics serves only to focus attention on the bigger problem. That problem is how to maintain over-all economic stability and the major factor is the cost of labor. How Johnson will work out of the failure of the guideline policy is hard to see unless he is finally driven to statutory wage and price control But he does not want that and Congress probably would not adopt it any. way.

Editorially Speaking Still That Apathy A great public problem has always been and still is getting people to pay attention to the plans and programs that are so much their own business. Hearings are called and discussion meetings set up and, time after time, there are more officials present than interested audience. However, if it is assumed that the silence indicated by lack of interest at a public meeting gives consent and favorable action is taken cn the matter, the roof is raised in protest in the event the public disapproves when it's too late. Another result of apathy in public hearings is uninformed voting if the matter is one for subsequent referendum: On school budgets, for example, that run into multiple millions, there will be the equivalent of a corporal's guard at a discussion meeting but lip to two or three thousand votes at the annual election. All those votes can't be informed, whether affirmative or negative.

And then come the invariable grumbles over tax bills later on. Currently, we believe reapportionment for representatives on the Board of Supervisors is a matter of great public interest since it affects every, resident of the county directly. At the hearings and discussion meetings, though, attendance by the public has been negligible. One can't help but wonder whether, a day or two before the election, there won't be p. "why weren't we told about this?" roar of protest They were told, but they didn't listen.

Zoning revisions are notorious for the lack of immediate attention the public accords them. Hearings are called in every locality in a township. A meager crowd greets officials who would like to learn public reaction and a few questions bothering or pleasing a few people are answered. Then, on the eve of adoption, the storm breaks with protests of precipitancy and poor preparation. Tisn't so, but those who protest won't believe it.

It does no good to lament the apathy. That's the way the public is constituted and that's the way it Only when there is a personal ax to be ground does interest stir, even to the point of attracting uninformed support to its side. We have no cure for apathy but we will continue in the effort to attract people to discussion meetings which they should attend for their own benefit We do get the occasional feeling, too, that if Jt weren't for newspaper reports the day following the discussion the public would never find out what is going on in their own front yards. Our Readers Write Congress would in an election year move from the emergency airline strike legislation to a broader revision of the collec- tive bargaining process. But next year the problem is likely 4a kA wtvnA ama TiQn tVno vonr ty retrieve the 1966 failure el his economic policy by.

ing legislation to protect the' public from the damaging effect of strikes. Weekend Almanac; By United Press International Today is Saturday, Aug. the 225th dav of 1966 with 140 to follow. The moon is between its last quarter and new phase. The morning stars are Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.

There are no evening stars. Pioneer American- "REACH!" and was to know then what to him were the finest hours of his magnificent career. Armed to the eyeballs in the face of all the solemn conventions forbidding corre-, FAST LIFE By HARRY KARNS The trouble with being on the ethics committee is that you have to be careful not to arrive at hearings in one of those expensive cars leased at a discount from a Detroit corporation. Did it ever occur to them that if the militant advocates of "black power" were white they'd probably join the Ku Klux Klan? An architect warns that the attic of the Capitol is so full of old files that it could collapse. However, this is not the first time the roof has threatened to cave in on Congress.

A British fruit and vegetable show tries to organize a beauty contest, but nobody enters. What girl wants to be known as Miss Cabbage of 1966? Desperation is a man in the shoe department the ladies' shoe department Ivy Shoulder Patch Won Own Accolades in Long History stone was Dorn on mis day in 1818. On this day in history: In 1897, "Under the Gaslight," one of the American theater's most successful melodramas, opened In New" "York City. i Purpose Editor, Jourhal-News: In regard to the letter published Aug. 9, 1 feel obliged to inform one of America's war vets that he is under a misapprehension as to the aims of the Women Strike for Peace's recognition of Hiroshima Day.

The leafletting program wa3 neither a denunciation nor a celebration of U. S. actions, nor was it related to Japanese aggression and atrocities. Indeed, all the Infamy of W.W. II should be remembered; and for Hiroshima a significant relevance is attached as a reminder to those whose memories are weak that such a tragic event did happen and is still posing a threat of recurrence to those who engage in taristic activities.

As for current history, it is all too simple to find "it is necessary to and one who remembers history will find that statement has a familiar ring. Mr. W. w. I Vet mentioned Hitler's death camps.

Well, just remember that the extermination of the Jewish people could not have been carried out so well without the willing help of the German people. Remember Eichman's words that he "was just following orders." It is the easy way out to Faces and Places Taxpayer Stake spondents de guerre to carry and accompanied by a small, heavily armed detachment of ragged French: men in GI suits whom we called Hemingway's Guerrillas', Ernest Hemingway adopted the Fourth in Normandy and never willingly left her side. HE USED TO COME to the First Army press billet in Spa in Belgium, to which many of us from many fronts would sometimes retreat of an evening after filing our day's, copy, to salute the name and fame of the Fourth Division. He would appeal to us, even entreat us, to leave the Big Red One and come over to his personal sector to see a "real division in action. He became Ivy's wildly devoted volunteer press agent, and the more the rest of us would belitfe ivy's claims, the more earnestly would Ernest press them upon.

us. We never allowed him quite to convince us, then not even when in his cups he would declare himself to be "only the rich man's Ernie Pyle" this in an effort to win by the self-deprecating soft sell the game he could not win by bellowing in his honest rage. But, of course, he really won us all to the side of the Fourth, emotionally if not physically. To have earned the love and respect of Ernest Hemingway is not, indeed, the very least of Ivy's accomplishments through all the years. Three Minutes Rhyme and Reason For Wine Tasting of Leaflets 'leave the war to the President and his whose peace seeking records are very unimpressive.

Then we can forget that our Intervention is illegal, immoral, and a violation of the Geneva Agreement. Someday when history judges our nation we will also be able to say "we were just following Barbara Riso 72 South Gate Drive, Spring Valley. PRAYER -As we mark the anniversary of V-J Day tomorrow, that memorable time when World War came to a close, we offer a prayer of fervent thanks, dear Father in Heaven, that You have called our Nation to a place of high trust and responsibility throughout the world. From the lips of millions, here and overseas, fall humble thanks for the ways in which You have blessed and guided the nations of good wil, inspiring the minds and hearts of vast throngs to truth and justice and freedom, holding aloft the torches of decency and liberty even when it is necessary to fight and die to protect our heritage. so to speak, think about Which is surely, so to speak, food for thought And, speaking of food with your wine, Grieg suggested that, with your Thanksgiving turkey this year, you should try Chatea-uneuf du Pape.

"This Rhone Valley red," he said, "needs full maturing and should be in the bottle at least six or seven years. But it has flavor and is live-ly and vivacious. It will make your turkey behave." IF IT DOESN'T, we suggest sending the bird to bed without any dinner. In any case, Grieg finally told us how to taste wines a procedure which he calls "the Four S's." These are, he explained, "see, sniff, sip, swallow." First, he declared, you must see the wine. "You need glas-ses," he said, "that hold about eight ounces.

Fill each about half full. Hold the glass to the light so that your eyes can appreciate the If they can't, either you need new glasses, or the wine does. Anyway, next sniff the wine. "Swirl the wine around," he says, "in your glass a few times, so that Its aroma clings to the sides." Then, "lift the glass to your nostrils and sniff slowly and deeply." Third," sip your wine. "Let your tongue," he says, "press the wine against your palate, roll it around, and you will be astonished at the lovely and unexpected flavors that fill your mouth." And, if there is company present, you'll also be astonished, we'll bet, at some pretty unexpected things some of the other guests will say about you.

One of the aspects of the airlines strike which has largely been submerged while the carriers and their mechanics have been deadlocked over how to split the lines' profits is the stake that the American taxpayer has in the matter. Congress dilly-dallies, the President temporizes, labor warns of the political peril inherent in any legislation which would blunt its strike weapon, the airlines continue adamant innocent employes undergo payless hardships, and travelers and businesses affected by the stoppage moan.1 But the fact that the airlines exist as a major enterprise only because government subsidy is largely overlooked. It is not often that we find ourselves in even the most remote agreement with Oregon Senator Wayne Morse, but we are beholden to him for a reminder that we all have a substantial tax investment in the development and continuation of the airlines. I Sen. Morse was chairman of the President's Emergency Board which recommended a pay increase for the machinists.

Under the board's rejected proposal, wages would have been raised by $3.52 to $4 over 42 months. In commenting on this, Sen. Morse said: "Profits are taken into account in deciding what wages ought to be. But one does not take the position that a union that demands an exorbitant increase should get it be-. cause the carriers could pay it in a regulated industry in which a public interest ought to be protected." Part of that protection was the prospect for reduced fares under Civil Aeronautics Board order as the result of the recent profit jump a possibility which now seems doomed, since the profits appear more likely to be shared with the machinists than with the purchasers of airlines tickets.

The Federal Aviation Agency spends about $560 million a year in behalf of air transit, primarily in the operation and maintenance of a national traffic control system; CAB, which sets rates and routes, provides direct subsidies' of over $72" million a year within its area of jurisdiction. If none of the other pressures for firm action can sway the Congress to make a strike-ending decision, this public investment should persuade It to act By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON. The great old fighting outfits of a gallant and sacrificial past are gath- ering one by one in Viet And the faroff wind that again stirs their battle flags is ac companied by the breath of memories blowing in across the years from Normady and beyond. The latest of our crack divisions to land elements in South Viet Nam is the Fourth Division.

Its ivy-leaf shoulder patch now makes rendezvous along the forward line with the Big Red One Cash of the First Division. Twenty-two years ago the habitually glamorous First stormed ashore on frightful Omaha Beach in France while its far less-storied comrade division, the Fourth, was plodding stolidly forward upon Utah Beach, the second of the major American lodgments of D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Big Red One always had the dash and always tended to be first in more than name first in advances, first in enemy destroyed, and first, too, in casualties. Ivy was a country cousin to the assault war correspondents of those days. For the Big Red One had what we now call the shinier and through the fortunes of war it usually held as well both the most critical and most newsworthy of salients and of tasks.

Too, to descend from the plane of high remembrance to the most humble of realities, the First always had the best mess in all Normady and also the most reliable supply of Calvados brandy, if it come to that. BUT THE FOURTH had those who loved her all the same, as a man once said of Dartmouth amongst the proud and haughty scoffers of Yale and Harvard. And the fourth did her full share of both the winning and the dying in those long ago weeks when the beachheads were a lot thinner than they should have been and the Germans were a lot tougher than, say, the Air Force ever really knew. Ivy never got the notice over there that the Big Red One casually and somehow inevitably commanded, with her flair for attracting press friends and her incomparable professional skill and elan at the hard business of war. But, to repeat, Ivy, too, had those who loved her among the writers of war, and as a kind of compensation for the shortage of quantity among her followers, she had the very elite In quality.

One of her correspondents was a pretty well-known writing man called Ernest Hemingway, who was to find the Second World War to be his last nawness sei ftviauon 1 -1 -Anrstin Vrtu 14 hours and 25 minutes- announced a pending reduction in its armed 'iJ in -Labi, xne. A thought for the day Scottish historian Thomas Car- jyie sum: iu every man 8 writer must lie recorded." Tomorrow is Aug. 14, the 226th day of 1966, with 139 to The moon is between Its last quarter and new phase. ine mnrnino stars ara Mars Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. vic me iivj veiling auua.

American naturalist irnest Seton, artist and author, was" born on this day in .1860, On this day in history: In 1900, some 2,000 U.S. T3n1iHM a. i 4. cnuig, wwtu euueu UIBi- Boxer In 1929, the dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" left Germany with 20 Dasseneers aboard fnr a rnnnri. U1C VYU11I1 LI 1 11.

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If there's one kind of expert who irritates us more than another kind of expert well, never mind. Mr. Grieg is, of all things, an English wine expert. He holds, however, the titles Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mer-ite Agricole, Comrnendeur du Commanderie de Bordeaux and Membre de la Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. "Right now," Peter said, "PouQly-Fuisse, a white Burgundy, is fashionable in nov- els.

The writers are serving it with everything, including a rack of lamb. They ought to watch out." Watch out? Whew! They ought to watch more than that. They're doomed, those boys or my name isn't Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mer-ite Alcohol Amory. GRIEG was asked what was the difference between Burgundies and Bordeaux? "As a rule," he said, "Red Burgundies have more bouquet than the Bordeaux. This is because the Pi not grape from which Burgundy is made is more assertive than Cabernet, the great grape of Bordeaux." Well, surely, you knew that.

Doesn't esrybody? Anyway, Pete went right on. "Burgundy makes an immediate appeal to the palate," he said, "whereas there is an aloofness, almost an intellectual air, about Bordeaux. To appreciate a real Bordeaux fully when drinking one must, The world has two sorts of people those who do things, and those who wish they'd been done better. Social Security Q. II I am out of the United States and have to go to a hospital, will my hospital Insurance pay anything" toward the cost of my care? A.

No. The hospital insurance program pays only for hospital and medical services furnished in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa. Q. If I have a number of small medical bills, should I wait until they go over the $50 deductible to put in a claim for medical insurance? A. No poyment can be made until the $50 deductible is met.

Reader's questions may be sent to any one of the five district offices in the area: 200 Mamaroneck White Plains; 70 Church New RocheUe; 45 S. Broadway, Yonkers; 33 Academy Poughkeepsie and 50 N. Madison Spring Valley. By The Rev. JAMES KELLER Leaders in any organization seldom rise much above the level of those who choose them.

Point out to individuals with the capacity and motivation what great good they can do by serving in positions of leadership. Insist on the secret ballot in all elections of important offi-" cers. Find out beforehand their Do they repre-. sent the best thinking of the they move ahead prudently or rest on their oars? Can they get along with people? Do they have vision and Initiative? Will they train new persons to understudy them? Are they persons of moral character? Pray to God for guidance to know who will be the best qualified. Act on the basis of such qualifications, not personal loyalty or selfish advantage.

Stand by them once they are elected. IF YOU DONT HUNK we need rain, get yourself a job as a sidewalk superintendent when a bulldozer or backhoe is digging a foundation hole. Down five or six or eight feet, the ground is as dry as powder and as hard as concrete, sure evidence what seemed like plenty of rain in late spring was little more than a drop in a big bucket 'We need steady rains for days at a time over many months to get sufficient moisture well down Into the ground..