Southern Illinoisan from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 4

1 SOUTHERN ILLINOISAM, FRIDAY, JULY 21, TS8T ntfalj Herrln Murphyjtrre Second In A Series: JFK's First Six Months Dave Felts' Column opinion Kennedy Foreign Policy More Flexible Than Eisenhower's be A PSYCHIATRIST might City Should Oj lerafe Own Garbage System and short-sighted venture on the at cost. No profit would be neces- city's part. The mistake need not sary for the city. The public be perpetuated and the grinder would pay for exactly what they should be sold. receive no more.

Not only is the grinder oper- Actually cost to the city would 4 CARBONDALE officials are on (he right track in seeking to improve the city's garbage and trash collection system. No one can deny the need for a more efficient method to dispose cf the city's refuse. Good health standards alone dictate a change. ation less efficient than a landfill, but it also places an unnecessary burden on the sewage treatment plant. As the city By JAMES RESTON (c) 1961 New York Times News Service Washington IN THE first six months cf th: Kennedy administration U.S.

foreign policy has remained basically the same as under President Eisenhower but has become more flexible and venturesome President Kennedy seems more willing than his predecessor to increase the range of American power, particularly in the field of conventional weapons, and to use that power in the skirmishes of the Cold War. He intervened indirectly in the invasion of Cuba. Ib was prepared to intervene directly in Laos until the failure of the Cuban adventure changed his mind. There is now much more analysis The issue is how an improved the treatment plant's ca system should work. Should the P2 ud not be taxed by cily contract with a private firm the need to process the city's garbage, too.

concerned if he knew how we feel about news stories reporting people being trapped in caves. If he questioned us closely he would learn that in our boyhood on the farm we sometimes crawled under the floor cf the old barn to gather eggs from unapproved nests made by nonconformist hens. On one occasion we got "stuck" while squirming between two logs and for some time we were alone in the dark and badly frightened. Thereafter boards were nailed over the apertures that had been used by the unregimented old biddies. Although we lived in the coal country, a little more than a mne from the Scranton mine tipple, we did not go down into a coal mine until a dozen years later, and then in line of duty as a Springfield newspaperman.

Then there was the death of Floyd Collins in 1923 after he was trapped in Sand Cave near Cave City, Ky. It was a major nows story of the year and the bal.ad written and widely sold and sung was a tragedy of another sort. Early in the 1040's our family stopped overnight, on a trip to the Great Smokies, in the neighborhood of Mammoth Cave and it seemed a good idea to show our young the great natural wonder which had been visited by some of the Marco Polos cf Marion and Lake Creek Township. We couldn't afford to betay our feelings about the under likely be less than to a private firm. The city, for instance, could take competitive bids for the equipment and for the gas and oil needed to keep the trucks running.

Some of the men needed already are on the public payroll. The council should certainly seek professional help and arrive at precise cost figures before taking any action to turn the business over to a private firm. Where could the city get the money? The people of Carbondale now are paying $16,000 annually in garbage tax and approximately another $12,000 from street department funds which go for trash pickups. Some $23,000, then, already is available to help meet operating expenses of a city-run collection system. Some additional money probably can be found through economies elsewhprp in th ritv hud- to handle refuse or should the city purchase the necessary wjuipment, add the needed men end do the job itself? These requirements should apply no matter who does the work.

First, collection of normal trash and garbage should be allowed only in enclosed trucks. The city ordinance now under consideration includes such a provision. The requirement would mean Once these requirements are met, the decision on whether the city or a private firm should do the work should be based on this consideration: Who can get the job done at the lowest cost to the people of Carbondale. After examing the figures, we feel that a properly run, nonprofit city operation is the best answer. Three private bidders offer to of the tactics of combatting Com munist guerilla tactics in such places as South Vietnam, xuid a bolder spirit of preparation to meet the much more serious danger of war in Germany.

The changes since the Eisenhower administration, therefore, while primarily changes of em that the persons who now haul make collections and operate a refuse in open trucks would be landfill for about 50 cents a week forced to stop. Sanitary consid- for each of the city's approxi- erations make the decision, how- mately 3,100 household units. In ever difficult, necessary. Nothing addition, Carbondale's nearly phasis and degree, are neverthe Kennedy increased conventional armament like this reccillcss rifle less important, and include the i ii i im i 1 i- following: A marked willingness to risk vening in Cuba and Laos. Thert have been differences ovci th administration's tendency to sup- wouia preveni inese people irorn eBusiness estaDusnmeius wouia gej handling other hauling jobs, be charged at least $3 weekly.

T'he dty pay for the While limited, their business Based on these figures, a pri- needed equipment in installments would not necessarily be wiped vate firm would charge the pub- While not the wisest purchasing out. And the community at large lic approximately $143,000 a year method, it would be justified in larger budget deficits in order to Iport such African colonic as An this case. The public would save more to pay interest and carrying charges for two or three wage a world war, which it did not expect, but insufficient mobile ground troops and transportation to protect the independence of the revolutionary process now going on in the weak and underdeveloped countries. This same analysis of the nation's problem had been made under the Eisenhower administration. Proposals had repeatedl been made to strengthen the conventional forces but these had ground adventure, so bought tick years if it meant avoiding sup- ets for the four of us for the first plying a much higher figure in scheduled tour available.

It hap- wouia certainly Denent. to take care cf the city's gar- Eeccnd, a sanitary landfill op- bage and trash problems, eration should be required. The The firm in turn would have present ordinance makes it clear to pay an estimated $46,000 for that this would be the case if two compactor trucks and a bull- a private contractor handles the dozer to work at the landfill site, work. It should be made equally An additional $16,000 would go clear that if the city operates the for wages, figuring on four men system, it too would be required at $75 a week. Granting another to use a landfill which meets $20,000 for administrative and health department standards.

other costs, the approximate to- The arguments favoring the tal initial outlay a private firm landfill system are compelling. A would have to make is $32,000. landfill is relatively inexpensive. That's a gross profit of $61,000 eliminates unsightly, rat-infested in the first year. been rejected by President Eisenhower on the recommendation cf profits to a private collection firm over a much longer period of time.

The same argument applies to finding any additional operating money needed. Short-term anticipation warrants in this case would be preferable to long term, unnecessary costs to the public. We feel that the city surely can pened to be, alas, the "river trip," if we recall the billing, and it was real no-good, mostly water and mud and damp gloom. The other tour, we learned later, led through the majestic, clean forests and corridors of stalactites, stalagmites, crystal caverns and pastel colored formations that resembled or sn the provide stronger ground forces and transportation to carry them quickly to critical areas of the Cold War. Greater emphasis on attacking the weakness of the Communist policies in the under dewloped and neutral nations.

More confidence in the United Nations as an instrument for preserving peace and protecting the neutral nations from Communist subversion. Much more enthussiasm for economic planning with other nations, and for the capital development of the under developed countries. Not only a greater tolerance for neutral nations but more faith that genuine neutrality can be a powerful force against Communist expansion. Emphasis cn Testing Finally, more emphasis on his two secretaries of the treas ury. increase their economic aid to these countries, to strengthen their own conventional military forces, and to join with the U.S.

in an international effort to seal off the borders of any ountry threatened from the outside by Communist guerrillas. In the field of economh foreign policy, several significant moves have been made in these six months. This government is not only quietly urging the British to take the lead in joining and expanding the European Common Market, but is engaging more directly itself in international efforts to produce currency and even commodity stabilization. Often in the past, tne United States sent "observers'" to such meetings. Now it is working directly with the monetary committee of the O.E.C.D.

in Paris and is expected to join the coffee stabilization agreement now being discussed among the coffee-producing states of this hemij-phere. Another indication of this trend toward greater internati nal cooperation is that William McChes-ney Martin, chairman of the Fed Perhaps the most important de cision of the Kennedy adminis'xa tion in these six months 3s to open dumps, allows the collection After the first year, the gross profit figure would soar. The equipment would be bought and paid for. Income would climb at a much higher rate than costs do the needed trash and garbage guide book said cathedrals, tern- hauling job for less than $143,000 pies and fairy palaces, a year. So much for caves.

We r3 We hope that the council will positively and finally immuns to show foresight, consideration all those advertising stickers on cf both trash and wet garbage In one pick-up and offers a method of reclaiming otherwise useless land. reverse this process. The President has said repeatedly in private that he did not want to be confronted with a choice between gola in the United Nations ather than Portugal, which controls that colony. Minor Bickering Britain, under Kennsdy, now has perhaps less ot a "spo-iri re lationship" with the U.S. than it did under President and this has led to some minor bickering.

And of course whole problem of how to meet the Communist threat to Berlin is still in the process cf considerable lively and at times acrimonious debate. The mood and process by which foreign and defense policy decisions are now made is different from the Eisenhower system. The White House stff under Eisenhower had little to do with foreign policy this was left almost entirely to Secretary of State Dulles for most of the time during the two Eisenhower administrations. Now the White House staff is actively engaged in foreign policy operations. The Department cf State weakened by personal and policy conflicts, by maladministration, and dispersed authority, has declined in influence, and there has been considerable controversy over the failure of the President and his principal aides using nuclear weapons or giving Commissioner Virgil Barringer as the city grows, adding new for the public's pocketbook and the bumpers of every other tour- customers.

has proposed that the city con up more territory to the Communists without a fight. He insisted on having a wider range of choice in dealing with his military and Following that first year, then, a private firm with a three to five year contract would be assured of a handsome profit a profit contributed by the people of Carbondale. ist car we meet on the highways as we ride to such aboveground attractions as Jefferson's Monti-cello, the Colorado National Monument, Michigan's lakes, Wisconsin's fishing cottages, and antiquities of New England and the sidewalks of New York. faith in its own ability to operate an efficient sanitary collection system. The ordinance under consideration should be amended to create a city operated, sanitary landfill collection system.

The private bids shouM be rejected as too high a price tinue to make separate, but more frequent, garbage and trash pickups. He would continue to use the garbage grinder. Separate pickups are an unnecessary inconvenience under a proper landfill system. The gar- political problems. Accordingly he insisted on both more missile pow specific nuclear testing and disarmament proposals, on the inter national settlement of disputes, and on self-determination all designed to try to regain the propaganda initiative from the Com The city, however, should be er and more conventional power.

Range cf Activities Coincidentally, the administra bage grinder represents a costly able to provide identical service for the people to pay. eral Reserve Board, is now much munists. tion has been engaged in a wide As the Kennedy administration range of activities to enlist saw the problem when it came to power, it was faced by the pos- er support from its allies in this sibility of small wars in Asia, world-wide battle to protect the Africa, and even Latin America under-developed nations and re- more active in the discussion cf monetary questions with the heads of the European central banks in Basle, Switzerland. These changes have not been made without some friccun within the new administration and within the alliance. There have been dif In some parts of Virginia, Democrats are so opposed to change they haven't voted for any roads since Daniel Boone built one leading into Democrats stand united over the Berlin question.

But the factions squabbling over the New York City elections reserve the right to be Another reason for failure cf the federal aid to education bill may be that some congressmen are just as happy that their constituents can'r read. a the inrrpncinflv mnfirW.f fnm. cover the leadership of ti na- tionalist revolutions now pro- munists attempted to expand into these areas. in foreign policy to explain their policies and problems to the na OF THIS Oh Ycj AND THAT: Perhaps we are growing older, but we cannot tell you the name of one song from the Broadway musical, "Camelot," that seems to have such snob appeal at the boxoffice. It is a play that "one must see." Usually we are familiar with the hit songs of such popular musicals, even though wc never see them on the stage until they tour the provinces.

Such musicals as, for instance, "South Pacific," "The King and and "My Fair Lady." gress. The allies have been urged tion. to ferences of opinion about inter It had the nuclear power to Tunisian After DeGaulle, What Will Military Do? Chief efs Off Mew World Crisis Bifferly Spiff French Army Holds Key To Nation's Future giving sanctuary to the rebel gov- France granted independence ernment of Algeria. to Tunisia in 1956, leaving the So we can understand the quip Now he has provoked a crisis luestion the naval base to be from a random publicity release: over BizertP. it th Fronrh negoiiarea at a later, unspecmed No.

22 of a list of "101 Thin-s to I 1 11 i 1 1 By C. L. SULZBERGER (c) 19G1 New York Times News Service date. Undoubtedly, the French in years: "The army in France has 'army has been disciplined and could probably squash any new never been a political force. The! purged.

Its famous S.A.S. or Spe-uprising as effectively as he did larmy has never made a coup Services have been reorgan- the last. letat in France. Sometimes a mili-'ized. Three parachute regiments For not only does he remain a were resuming what may well be tended this date to be after the EVEN among those whose task is to anticipate international crisis and, if possible, head them iff, the action of Tunisian President Habib Bourgiba to forcibly drive the French out of the Bi-terte naval base must have come as something cf a surprise.

President Bourgiba is among the most moderate of statesmen, a rare pro-Western voice among Arab and African leaders. He Paris the showdown talks on Algerian settlement of the Algerian ques-independence. The armed clash tion. FOR SWAGGER, audacity and'tary man has made a coup d'etat including one from the Foreign Wee of strength; there is no mili- between Tunisians and Frenchmen cannot help but make it difficult for French President De Gaulle to do what he wants to do cut his losses in Algeria as Do When You're Bored" in the August Esquire is, "Make a Musical Comedy out of Comelot." On the same list, No. 66 is to "Think of a new name for Tuesday Weld." After dinner came old friends three generations of the family including a young Navy lieutenant recently returned from overseas service to visit with three generations of our own family, to catch up on what's going on and to view each others' newer colored slides, ours domestic and our friends, foreign.

Many handsome pictures of Japan, including not has carefully avoided an open quickly and as painlessly as pos- clash with France, even while sible. The acttion of President Bourgiba also leaves him somewhat at odds with the Algerians, since he has laid claim to a part of the potentially oil-rich Sahara region. The French are not reconciled to ceding this entire region even to an independent Algeria, much less Tunisia. Hie Bizeerte crisis apparently has been provoked as a means of asserting the Tunisian president's leadership of Arab North Africa. ardor.

the French army is thet not the army. Even Bona- have been dis as bry leader evident who could finest in the West. Parsians who'parte he made his coup. three air commandos not- command a serious mutiny with-watched it parade down the I made it himself because the coun-ed for panache. tout contest and seek to defy the Champs Elysees on Bastille Day try wanted a coup d'etat.

Three generals and five rc-government. Furthermore, the took pride in the reminder of! 'The arm is. of course. colonels are fugitives and i draftees commano splendid military traditions. Nev- for order and La Patrie.

It is to ouf Gaullist tied professional officers corps are erthelcss. fanfare, drum rattles 'always against weak govern- rime Ccnera1 are Pnj ff1 to De Gaulle. The mere fact and the quick stepping a h'ments. But that does not suffice, and cthcrs been relieved that many conscripts have tran-could not entirely obscure the fact for the army to wish to be their commands Under radios on which they heard that France's army is a bitterly state iress arrest are 119 offlccrs and ,14 the P'esidfnt ordeJ ihem lu dls: divided force whose future is an! By dving France strong gov-imfe' Alphonse-Piccre Jua the regard mutinous chieftains helped uncertain factor in this country's in has "ly fieId destroy last April's putsch. ernment ue uaune nas preemeaj indicates sympathy with' After De Gaulle? -a fn i.

ha lhS f'-this Infractious proup. I Nevertheless, France's security President De Gaulle has told me -but not for lack of trying. Since, Rumors lervices have unable to track in various conversations over the this spring's abortive putsch, the' 1ntA funf anJdouT1 the main nlotters. The 'You Too Can Leap Forward To A Different Life' To assert leadership in the lexi only shrines and harbors and con of that region almost always artistic gardens, but Geishas Bone In The Soviet Throat other uprising is being planned for plotters are greatly influenced by late July or August. The Secret; the techniques (as distinct from Army Organization, or O.A.S., a 'ideology) of Mao Tse-tung whose means to take an extreme view- Atlantic Monthly Press an-point.

Mr. Bourgiba has not been nounces with some pride a new an extremist. biography of Francis Bacon by The Western powers must take Catherine Drinker Bowen to be every effort to end French-Tu- published in 1963. Miss Bowen is nisian hostilities before the Break a distinguished bioermnhrr. lw 1 between the two countries becomes irreparable.

Almost certainly the price will be termination of the French lease on the naval base. President De Gaulle has said he is willing to negotiate this, but not under threat conspiratorial group, asks Euro-1 methods they studied during the peans in Algeria not to go away Indochina war. And they are try-on holiday but to be ready for a ing to Improve on his clandestine sudden "mobilization." tactics. O.A.S., whose slogan is "French! De Gaulle appears confident he Algeria or Death," issues pronun-jhas shattered the network cf ciamentos signed by Generals He has even begun lan and Jouhaud, two of the four to draw troops from Algeria to leaders in the unsuccessful April build up NATO strength for a Ber-coup. Both men, under death sen- lin crisis.

tence, are hiding in Algeria. They By sheer force of personality De are supported by two of France's Gaulle has publicly proven his be- earlier works including: "Yankee From Olympus" (Oliver Wendell Holmes), "John Adams and the American Revolution," "The Lion and the Throne" (Sir Edward Coke), "Beloved Friend" (Tchaikowsky) and "Free Artist" (Anton Rubenstein). Canada's greatest novelist Ma-10 de la Roche, died last week in Toronto at 82. The 16 noveis in the great "Whiteoaks cf Jalna" series sold two million copies in hard covers. If the rovaltv or actual use of arms.

The United States has another fs lV If i i -v ill, i mi. 1 1 interest in the Bizerte crisis. best-known officers, Colonels that France's army is not a ard and Gardes, who recently con- political force. But how about af-suited secretly with a Moslem De Gaulle? If the Algerian can- Frnce's possession of a naval base on the soil of an unwilling host almost exactly parallels our own relationship with Cuba over onel, Si Cherif, commander of a cer has not been fully healed and 1 IN i i French army Moslem unit. Mos- the professional officers reinte-lem troops serving France recog-j grated into the nation's normal so- copy, not years of uie uuamanamo Dase, wmcn tne was oniy zo cents a United States should have found unusual in the early "Jalna," well, figure it out for nize the future for them is dimjeial structure by the time De in an independent Algeria.

Gaulle leaves office, yesterday's There is no way of knowing the; problem will revive tomorrow. i answers to two vital In the end the Fifth Republic first is, how extensive and be judged by its success in ac- a formula to quit gracefully a long time ago. Policy-makers of the Kennedy administration will certainly have in mind as they watch developments in Tunisia the likelihood that one of the most interested world spectators is Cuba' Fidel Castro. yourself. The Heiress to the Felts Millions reports she has been unable to find in Doctor Spock's great work any information cn when a small baby may be taken for a turn-about in Lake Michigan aboard a new sailbar portant is the O.A.S.? The sec- complishing this task, in proving ond isdoes it really plan another to future Bastille Day spectators coup and hen? Since the great that the army parading befori mass of metropolitan Frenchmen! them is their servant, not an as- iback De Gaulle's Algerian policy, pirinz rr4.