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Today and Tomorrow by Walter lAppmann rrsA SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER 20 The Times, San Mateo, Calif. HPMStON Thursday, January 30, 1964 While no one can suppose dore Roosevelt, and the Paro that the polls measuring Presi chial Stand Patters, who were Automation Questions uent Jonnson's popularity pre tor William Howard Tart Only diet exactly what twice in the half century since that schism has the Republican party been returned to power. But both times it was after a great war, in the backwash of the excitements and the sacrifices, when the people were war weary and anarv at happen next November, they do say that as of now the Republican Party is in very bad shape indeed. When one remembers that a candidate who gets BO per cent of the votes on election day wins by a large landslide in the disappointing peace which me Electoral College, these 'onowea tne war. current figures rating Presi Neither in the 1920s under dent Johnson at 75 or even Harding, Coolidge.

and Hoov 80 per cent seem to say there er, nor in the 1950s under is some kind of convulsion Eisenhower did the Republican within the Republican Party. Party return to power with a For while President Johnson radically different policy Her will almost certainly not get bert Hoover, though he chose It takes time for economies on the production line to move through lower production costs to greater acceptance in the market place to increased demand, to new capita! expansion and new jobs. In this period the initial economies created by automation have removed from the ranks of the consumers persons who previously contributed to the activity of the economy. The question here is whether the transition period between cost reductions and economic expansion can be bridged with a sliririking contribution by the consumer sector. Automation is no longer merely an academic question.

Today, it commands much attention from specialists in industry, science and government. Too frequently, emotion blocks reason in discussing solutions to problems of this magnitude, but when a firm which sells $100 million worth of automation equipment a year sponsors a foundation to work on the problems created by its ne a Kepublican. was in tne votes ol all the people who are for him now, I believe Ever since the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, automation has been discussed, cursed and praised by contemporary man, depending upon its effect on him. In today's highly technical era, automation is the only way for a nation to remain competitive. Find a country where hand labor is still widely in vogue and you will find that it is slipping backward in the mainstream of economic progress.

But there is another side to the coin. Automation necessarily involves the replacement of men by machinery. What can those men do to gain new employment? There arc many answers to the question, and each one conjures an obvious evil which might do more damage, A reduced work week at higher pay is the glib solution offered by many union heads, but they cannot refute the charge that such a scheme would involve higher labor costs, resulting in doom for a number of marginal operators and possibly reduced employment by others. Let automation fall where it may, argue others, and the economies resulting therefrom will create new jobs. This argument is more valid, but a time lag is involved.

international affairs a Wil sonian Democrat. And Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he finally decided to be a Republican, had nevertheless made his career and acquired his views of policy under Roosevelt and Truman. the polls are telling an important story. It firms on tiie argument about me tooism amongRepub licans, as illustrated by Gald water and Rockefeller.

Senator Goldwater is saying that the Republican Party can The me tooism of the na Favorite Sons product, a solution to automation caused unemployment has obviously become everybody's business. And that is the best guarantee that i uuub uie voters cpuujicans is tne con a choice and not an echo." sequence of the historic fact His theory is that the Republi that in the split of 1912 the cans must differ radically from Parochial Stand Patters ousted the Democrats. the Progressive Nationalists Governor Rockefeller, on the f'rcm the control of the party other hand, not only agrees organization. This is still the with the main aims of the condition of the party. Democrats, but knows that a That is why in Congress the large majority of the people Republican Party based on agree with them, also.

So he Iocal organizations is predom is driven to take the position inantly parochial and stand that the Republican Party with Pat and why, when the na him as leader would achieve tional election comes along the common aims better than the candidate who expects to the Democrats can achieve win has no choice but some them. This is what Senator k'nd of me tooism. For when Goldwater calls me tooism, in the party split in 1912. it it will be found. Scouting's 54th Birthday Washington MerryGroRoend his mind a recipe for defea so that they will become good citizens.

Many businessmen of today have I been scouts, and they doubtless will tes 1 tify that the training they received in Drew Pearson their troops has served them well. Many WASHINGTON Clint Anderson, the astute and abio veterans ol World War II know that what Democratic togs out of mothballs, and started angling for a job as chairman of the The Boy Scout organization is observing its 54th birthday anniversary. Those who can remember when the movement started can appreciate the marked advance that has characterized its record over the years. At the outset facilities were meager and the basic program much more limited than it is today. But from the start the objective was what it is now to teach boys to be useful to themselves and to the community, and to train them they learned as scouts was of value to senator New Mexico, has them in disr hnrcrin thrir ear of his Atomic Energy Commission.

oeiiawr Aenneciy, wise to McKinney's uuues. Johnson of Texas, tn pot tho nninitnHn Jt we take a close look at me tooism, we have to ask ourselves whether, in fact, the kind of radically different alternative exists which Senator Goldwater talks about No Republican Presidential candidate since the Roosevelt landslides of the 1930s has thought that there was such an alternative. Willkie, Dewey, Eisenhower and Nixon all practiced what Senator Goldwater calls me taoism. Why? Not because they did not wish to win. Not because tiiey did not wish to offer the voters a choice between themselves and the Democratic paid for such duties.

The Constitution, however explicitly states: "No person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office." Furthermore. Congress itself has decided in the past that a member cannot be both a Congressman and a general. A celebrated case is that of No. 1 political chameleon of down. Finally JFK yielded to the Southwest appointed to the McKinney's No.

1 political Atomic Energy Commission. backer, Senator Atderson, and He is Robert McKinney, pub offered McKinney the am'oas The nation has profited from the scout organization. The anniversary of the founding of this organization deserves to be observed. surrendered to the Democrats the initiative in the selection and formulation of issues in domestic and international affairs. By surrendering the initiative, the party organfcation surrendered the vital center of American politics to the Democrats.

Lyndon Johnson, who for 30 years has seen all this from the inside, is exploiting the fact that all the central positions have been surrendered to the Democrats. That is why the Democrats, who were the minority party in the Nineteenth Century, have become the majority party in this century. They now have the initiative as the Republicans had it when they were identified with great issues the Union, emancipation, the opening of the West and the recognition, with the building of the Panama Canal, of the corning role of America as a world power. JM.ira yi uus uiaesr. news saaorsftrp to Switzerland.

'The Swiss are a polite, long me lyesc, me aanta Fe New Mexican, who was a rootin' tootin1 Democrat when Truman made him assistant secretary of the interior, then became a rootin' tootin' Renub senator James H. Lane suffering people. They had just tolerated Eisenhower's hard boiled, inconsiderate columnist friend, Henry J. Taylor, as ap Kansas, Who took his seat July candidates. They practiced me by Leonard Lyons tooism because in 1861, A few weeks before nation STfJ f'TL Parently figured they could7, ambassador; and Kennedy was no wide election there choice.

BUDGET NOTE: A week Harvard has offered him tho iw. tr. a President Johnson and facilities, and he's marrying friend, expressed shock at the this, he was appointed a brigadier general in the volunteers, corresponding to the Reserves; whereupon the governor of Kansas declared his seat vacant, and the Senate tional Atomic Energy Commission, then came back to the Democratic fold when Kenne a giri irom uanmnage. way Miller portrayed her. fDAHTC The Democratic partv under Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Stevenson and Kennedy has pre empted and occupied all the central positions in national rer more.

They did. They heaved a big sigh of relief when McKinney resigned. With Johnson in the White House, McKinney is angling for the job he covets most appointment to the Atomic Energy Commission, and even '7 V.S 15 me auUlr's un dy made him ambassador ry, editor of the Kentucky derstandmg of her character," Switzerland. Judiciary Committee ruled By an interesting and not iwau iujieiicaii, is venemeni sattt strasberg, "if he felt what about Charles Finiey's plan to he says he felt about her, then In the opinion of the com and inteatonal Policy There mysterious turn of affairs, this tradition of national leadership move his Kansas City ball are no other national positions to be occupied. The fact that mittee the office of brigadier general under the United tually its chau manshlp.

His great ambition is to succeed States is incompatible with that 3 Deuig, his close friend. Admiral I of either House of Hrm, strated by the complete fail Admiral Lew Conaress. passed from Theodore Roosevelt, after his defeat in 1912, to his distant cousin arid disciple, Franklin Roosevelt, who happened to be a Democrat. Until the Republicans re ure of Senator Goldwater himself to produce any kind of coherent and defensible pro Though he has been all things to all political parties, McKinney has been faithful to at least one man Senator Anderson, Anderson, who has most of the press against him in New Mexico, got McKinney his job with Truman, later his job with Eisenhower, then his job with Kennedy, and now wants to reward McKinney's infidelity with a job from Johnson. When McKinney began angling for an appointment under Eisenhower, he gave or By accepting the office of brigadier general, the sitting member, Mr.

Lane, virtually resigned his seat in the Senate, and it became vacant at the time." gram. we can understand what happened to her." TRAVEL NOTE: David Du binsky, head of the ILGWU, has to submit an expense slip whenever fie takes a trip on union business. Last Wednesday, during Ms drive from the airport into town, the chauffeur showed him a news photo taken the day before, in Washington. It showed Dubin sky with the smiling LBJ in the White House. cover the national leadership.

is Strauss. As a senator, Johnson did a good job of blocking Strauss as secretary of commerce. But Anderson, a key member of the Senate Finance Committee and a good influence on most Historically, the present which they might hare done plight of the Republican party but did not do under Presi This is exactly the position issues, gave Lyndon potentsup held by Senators Goldwater dates from the split in 1912 dent Eisenhower, they are not between the Progressive Na likely to have any alternative tionalists, who were for Theo to me tooism. CASPAIt W. WEINBERGER club into a new stadium in Louisville.

Barry protested: "Louisville needs a baseball stadium like Bobby Baker needs publicity." THEATER Joseph Schildkraut. who died last week, studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Stanislavsky, then visitinghere, attended the academy's graduation play, in which young Schildkraut plaved Ibsen's "Pillar of Society" "Oh, what a great actor, a great, great actor," said Stanislavsky. The young actor then learned Stanislavsky didn't mean him but his father, Rudolph Schildkraut. PLAY The spectacular Lincoln Center Reper port in pushing the tax bill, and Thurmond some friends studied the national budget submitted to liim for his release.

He noted one glaring omission: No funds had been requested for land reclamation projects. LBJ insisted that his first budget include a reclamation program. He canceled some item for space exploration, and substituted a reclamation item. FASHIONS: At Chez Ninon, the New York dress shop where Jacqueline Kennedy often chose her clothes, is a series of historic letters from her. One concerns her costume for the christening of her son alternative costumes, depending on whether the christening was to take place in the cathedral or in the White House.

Recently came another order a copy of the red dress she'd worn in the White House tour telecast. It had been one of JFK's favorites. Mrs. Kennedy now ordered it copied, in black. BOOK NOTE: Ted Sorensen, the White House counsel, will lease his post by March 1 to start writing his book about President Kennedy.

Sorensen will probably write the book in Cambridge, where the Reserve. i said ibiii'fcv utiri io nis editor, Josepli Lav; The new book. The Passion of the Hawks, quotes from a bo the No. 1 chameleon of the Southwest may achieve his ambition. ILLEGAL SENATORS President Johnson has on his "This moans 1 won't have Ior' to dltch the paper's pro to fill out an expense slip.

Democratic policy, omit criti celebrated debate in which one Fifth of "Work FYVrf of the great legal experts of UltC cal cartoons by Herblock, tone down criticism if Ike. and es desk: a book with enough pecially of Admiral Lewis munitin to blow the military Employed by Government This picture is proof that I took the trip." LOCAL NEWS: Antonio Ordonez is willing to emerge from retirement and fight bulls without killing any at the N. Y. World's Fair, if a site can be found and approval the House states: "The object of such a constitutional inhibition was not merely to remove members of Congress from tiie temptation of Executive favors, but it was designed to enforce the theoretical separation of the several departments lobby sky high if it tries lo kill his cutbacks of military spending. The book, "The Passion of the Hawks," by Tristram Coffin, reveals that two of Johnson's loudest critics on tory Theater became Arthur Miller's psychoanalytic couch, Some extremely interesting bulk of California's public em facts about government work pJoyees are concerned with ers and employment generally services, automation has thus California were uncovered lj by a Universitv of California ff little effect in reduckg study reported two weeks ago.

vast "wunt of government Nearly one million people in employment. Calif nrnia work for govern This leads to a ralhrr xtxr. given The recent ilm defense policies, Senators of government with its production of his frank award ceremony at which Al autobiographic play, "After MERRY GO ROUND bert Finney went unrecognized oauv uuiuwdier, Arizona and Strom Thurmond, D. Strauss, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. McKinney's political turnabout finally got too much for editor Lawior.

He resigned. Said Lawior: "As McKinney left for Vienna to take his new job, he told me: 'My primary interest is in seeing tiie montly balance DEMOCRATS But a few days after Kennedy was elected, McKinney hung his Republican clothes back in the closet, took his HAE BOYLE The Jordan Committee the Fall." It's a sort of "Who's Afraid of Marilyn Monroe?" Lee Strasberg, who was Miss ooum uarouna, are servuie vesfFonfmer wv, mont anrf was the International Film Award and not the Foreign Press Association Congress illegally. Hill is startled and embar 000 members of the armed counsel deep cuts in the size forces serve in California. This Both GoWwater and Thnr mond are major generals in the Reserves, carrying out military duties and being rassed by messages from a number of ladies who wish to confess their love affairs with senators. Yesterday nuHomons ol government, its cost, and particularly the number of government workers, should have alternate plans for employment of substantial numbers of civil servants removed from the public payrolls, or a major dislocation would be felt in the state's economy.

In short, government has be huge total of government employees totals about 20 per cent of our total work force and clearly demonstrates that government employment is a major factor in the economy of the state. Of the million public employees, only about 25 per cent MR. Where the Mummy Lives woric tor tne tederal govern come so vast that we could and a drink. Tracy insisted on ment. Department of Defense cause major unemployment if waiting outside I went uivuiiui employes maite un mere were anv Kiirresirfiit "Well, yes.

they do have a department of Egyptology there." "That's the place, replied my daughter. "That's where through the American wing. half of these, and the Post fort to reduce "drastically any When I emerged, she steered Office Department and Veter rnaior eovernmi.Tifc.1 me back to the Egyptian area. ans Administration account for ments. Thus far neither an ef the mummy This time she pawed me sue We walked uo the ursnri cessfully to a glass case con fort nor success in this direction seems likely.

The University of California aiitjui auuiuonai reaerai workers. The remaining 700.000 public employees work for the state staircase of the Metronolitan the remnants of a fel Museum of Art survey concludes that while government employment will ana local government, and of From the Files of The Times January 30 1934 The last acre the onetime famous Buri Buri raticho which extended from Burlin game to the San Francisco Presidio and from the ocean to the bay, makes up an estate on file at Redwood City. The rancho was a Spanish grant to the famous Valencia family, for whom Valencia Street in San Francisco was named. 1944 Two armed bandits held up the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, taking $170 while a dozen service men lay asleep in the lobby not more than 12 feet awav. 1954 A recommendation that 13 cities in San Mateo County join to establish a technical planning clinic to correlate planning within the cities was made by James E.

Fitzgerald, president of the San Mateo County Development Association. low wrapped in Thebes a long time ago. To an outsider he had an air of decrepitude, "That's a mummy in there." said my daughter learnedly. these nearly half, or 331,000 continue to grow, its rate of are in education. State and increase will be slowed pri county hospitals, highways, po marily because the great 'wave NEW YORK As culture must to all mankind, it has come to our family.

"You never take me to a museum," remarked cur 10 year old daughter, Tracy Ann, whose usual enthusiasms are ice skating and trying to un wire the teeth we pay her orthodontist to wire. "Well, well," 1 said, stung to the backbone of parental pride. "What museum would you like to see? The Guggenheim?" "Is that the one where you go up in an elevator and then unwind and unwind and unwind as you go downstairs?" "Maybe." thanks." "Well, how would you like to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art?" "Is that where the mummy lives?" iou Know now long he has 1 te departments ana puDiiciy ot ctuldren born in me early been there? He was put in owned utilities are the next postwar years hasnow readied Uiere before Jesus Christ was biggest categories. high schoT and bom and her face wore a Our various mvpmm. tJ nJ7 lly i i imii icwer look of complete ferninine triumph "he never has got "I think the mummies are this way," said Tracy confidently.

We went by an array of stone emptinesses, dilapidated cat goddesses and leer irg amputees of lost splendor. Then we got lost ourselves and wandered into the armor area where knights in steel bestrode horses also metal bordered, Tracy enjoyed this form of humanitarianism. "Did cats wear armor too then so dogs couldn't bite them?" sue joked. We went down and hit the enack place for a iandwich jyc au jtugc soma aujooi reacflers win be needed categories that half the civil in the coming years and it is engineers in California are gov hoped, financial demands on ernmenl. employees, a.sareone many school districts will hp third of dietitians, a Quarter eased.

"What do you think of that. of all the nurses, one sixth of all the doctors. However, it is quite that public employment I thought it was a good time to go home. The way I figure culture, you can only take so much of it at a time in our family. because most of the work will ers affected by automation are able futura to be a verrhie in production, whereas the part ol our total work Lrmi.