Oneonta Star, The (Newspaper) - December 2, 1964, Oneonta, New York Star Editorials Aged Health Plan Sure of Enaction ONE OF THE FIRST EFFORTS of the next Con- gress will be another assault on some sort of old age dical insurance with medicare most likely to emerge as the national system We need an old age health plan And we need one that is contributory during the working lifetime of the person being protected A large share of the gross costs of welfare is for the aged who would not or could not plan for physical and financial misfortune As it is handled today the fare costs born mainly by the states come right off the top of the tax dollar along with education A contributory medical insurance plan builds fund through those who can afford it for those who will it later The medicare proposal to tie the system to social security is not a satisfactory answer to some private in- surance companies some medical men and some ordinary who have plans to cover their own old age It is not essential that the tie be made but it remains logical that deductions be mandatory as in social security and it can be further argued that the social security system is already in operation To start a new agency based on some sort of optional choice of insurances would mean further duplication of services more federal employes and red tape more cost to taxpayers more work in private counting departments It is almost certain that after more than half a de- cade of debate something will be done federally to cover the major costs of illness for the old folks in a way that wage earners of today will share Our hope is that the needs to compromise will not get the so tangled that it is clumsy and costly to operate Conservatives In Business Sartre Has no Shelf for Prize Individual Holds the Power Ignores the Glory EDITOR'S NOTE Dr liam Barrett professor of at New York ty is an author editor literary reviewer and expert on the possessor and victim of an unpredictable freedom Yet this radical individualist has also preached the need for social action has more often That philosophy is called ex- and Sartre has been celebrated as its pope philosophers In an than not been associated with cle written for The Associated the Communists in their Press Dr Barrett looks behind cal programs while remaining Jean-Paul Sartre's recent an intellectual antagonist on al of the Nobel Prize for ture and evaluates the meaning of Sartre's beliefs in the modem world By WILLIAM BARRETT Written for The Associated Press Jean-Paul Sartre's refusal of the 1964 Nobel Prize for ture did not come as a violent surprise to those familiar with Sartre did not create this new style of thought but borrowed copiously from the work of pre- vious German philosophers His two principal influences philosophical and he were the German philosophers has even declared that the pose of literature is to change the world so that the common lot of mankind In the future would be brighter A man of many parts elist dramatist and he would seem thus to be a man of many paradoxes too Yet no writer of our time has struggled more stubbornly From Heidegger ho learned tics and paths The thing stands that man stands alone before before us all at once but the prospect of his own death man existence is forever and thai human existence is one aspiring beyond of care and anxiety whose best efforts always run the risk of coming to nothing Though a borrower Sartre to transform what he had borrowed into a system Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger major pioneers of a new philosophy From Husserl Casting aside the as Sartre learned that the sumptions of materia ism and must cast aside empty ab- looking at man as he Sartre and preconceived laid down as the first tno past Or dream of a world far at lion of his philosophy that you nc that will be very cannot understand a human being as a mere object or thing An object a rock for example Man is the restless animal For Sartre this restlessness Is inherent in the very fact of man consciousness itself The mind is an instrument by means that is original and bears the Of which we think of things be- marks of his own personal yond the limits of our own skin anticipate tomorrow or recall yesterday or even reconstruct looking at man as he is Sartre civilizations a thousand years in in order to look things as they really are Sartre has carried this emphasis even into his novels where he at- Sartre has often to weave all these apparent into one coherent spoken of the individual alone and unjustified at once tacks the empty ideas and rigid is solid inert self-contained formulae by which certain Man on the contrary is never but pie distort or hide from the real meaning of their experience self-contained but always reaching out for new By John Chamberlain The other night I sat in with an earnest group of men representatives of a big national corporation with many branch plants and some cal pros who represented at least a couple of shades of the losing cause on November 3 The businessmen were They were conservatives first and Republicans second and not one of them regarded himself as an extremist They wanted to know what they could do to advance their philosophy preferably through Republican Party So they grilled the pros and some of the answers they got were dis- concerting One of the pros who had been for Goldwater on a fied basis he thought the speech at San cisco should have held out an olive branch for the gave the businessmen a sharp rundown on the ference between Democratic and Republican problems of The Democrats he said de- pend on organized labor for continuous help and they can get the support they need from workers who go on living in the same community year after year This enables the Democrats to dig in at the precinct level Their men are trained they can count on steady advancement in the organization and they are subject to the discipline of good soldiers THE BUSINESSMEN so the pro said used to have the same sort of solid relationship to the Republican Party that labor now has with the crats They took an interest in the local community they could be counted on for cial support and they supplied tho party with workers whn were to do the menial jobs of bell ringing ing and the dissemination of literature But said the pro all this was some time ago Business told the executives in a sentence that struck home is now organized on a national TwsK Thp average junior ex- who might be expected to do party work in behalf of a conservative philosophy now seldom stays more than a few years in one place ie will in Ohio during one year in New Jersey the next time around and in North Carolina after that He won't be able to dig in at any precinct level forming ing ties with people who stay put y ar after year in the same community The pro who is himself a small businessman when he is not running for political office pointed to the particular city he knows best Westinghouse and General Electric men come and go in that city usually living well outside it in a suburban area The favored few eventually wind up in far off Pittsburgh or Schenectady OTHERS FIND a final haven in Philadelphia or Lynn Mass But in no case do they have a real opportunity to become in the older traditions of politics The pro was willing to admit that his party had been just as remiss as the businessmen in meeting the challenge of the new day It is ridiculous he said to ex- busy junior executives to get out and ring doorbells He thought there should be some way of giving party ment to attractive potential without asking that they do their share of the menial bor of politics He proposed somewhat that the businessmen form committees to back men who meet with their approval for specific congressional ces There will be al vacuous in the next few years he said because of the coming congressional A businessman's committee that could work for two or four years to put over a candidate of its choice would soon commend itself to a state executive com- iK ANOTHER IDEA advanced was for a conservative counter organization to the leftists Americans for Democratic tion But nobody came up with a sure-fire formula for keeping such an organization out of the hands of extremists and kooks And the meeting tossed up one memorable phrase A pro spoke of his state executive committee as being the product of a floating crap game meaning that if any group has money and muscle to put up for politics it can begin ing dice The Oneonta Daily Star Otsego and Delaware's Independent Newspaper 102 Chestnut St Oneonta N Y 13820 Dial GE Member The ord The Bureau of ELTON P HALL and General DONALD 3 CLIFFORD General Manager ALAN COULD JR A PERRETTA ROBERT WARNER Sidle Editor f: STURDEVANT Sporli AV KIMBALL D McLEAM Ret I Can Manager CHARLES G i.e Senior BUTTS Poam ng Room LYLE A MATHEW Jcc Subscription weekly by carrier delivered to your home By mail ip Otsego Delaware Schoharie nnd Chenango Counties except in areas served by Three months Six months One year Outside Three months Six months One year The Oneonta Star U except and certain Star Jnc H Presided Elton P Excretive and J Brown Vice President R Boyd Vice AUi Ruth B Ottaway Donald J Alan Gould Jr Secretory Second-Class Postage Paid at Oneonta Good Man On Shelf Forever By DREW PEARSON The last telephone call I ever received from O'Dwyer was a pathetic one He said he had noted that Lyndon Johnson was having trouble in Panama and if Lyndon needed a good man who knew Latin America he was ready to help I never called him back I felt guilty that I didn't But the only thing I could tell was that he wasn't needed that he was on the shelf He was 74 had an ailing ticker and a reputation with some that was no asset Even so I knew he hated to be benched for life I used to see in Mexico City when he was down there practicing law in self-imposed exile He never admitted it was self imposed but I could tell from the way he talked he wanted to come back to New York when the snow melted off the car barns that his heart was really in Manhattan He had been away so long that he didn't realize there were n o street cars and car barns any more He used to brag about the climate in Mexico and the of its people but I could tell he wanted to come back He was a great sador to Mexico and the people loved him The Mexicans didn't care that he had been involved in the Kefauver investigation of New York political graft They only knew that was warm and friendly and had stood up for them I HAD GOT to know O'Dwyer when he was a dier general during World War II in charge of part of the military occupation of 11 a 1 y There he rowed with the Brit- ish over the food ration for the Italian people at that time only 900 calories a day flared into headlines fighting for a higher ration and got it The Italian people were forever grateful So were the Italian cans who later helped elect him mayor There is one chapter in the life of O'Dwyer which few people know about how tes Kefauver finally ed Mm Like all senators who are con- ducting intricate probes fauver had to depend on his staff He didn't have time t o check every detail And after talking to O'Dwyer in Mexico City I became convinced that didn't know that the i criminating contributed to his campaign fund by John F Crane had actually come from the Uniformed Association Benefit Fund RETURNING to Washington I talked to Kefauver about it He finally came to the con- that his counsel Rudolf Haley had been too much of an eager beaver in link i n g O'Dwyer to this contribution and Estes finally wrote a letter to O'Dwyer telling him so I don't know what's become of the letter but I know it made an old man die happier a man born in Ireland who had come to Manhattan with in his pockets and did more for it than perhaps any other mayor except LaGuardia The records may even show that O'Dwyer built more hospitals more schools and more public housing than LaGuardia I WAS with O'Dwyer shortly he came back to New York from Mexico for the first lime and we drove out to Ebbets Field to see the Dodgers play the Yanks in the 1955 World Series We drove in a taxi not an official limousine We passed crowds of people but they were not cheering pople They didn't even notice the man in the taxi who had pounded tlie p a v e- men is of Brooklyn as a cop who had worked his way up In the top as a star tor as the man who sent Louis Lepke lo the chair who broke up Murder Incorporated So I hope I can be forgiven for not returning Bill's phone call when he volunteered h i s services to help in Latin ca I couldn't bear to break It Used to Be Pablo different from what we have today Here we have at once the ry of man the quality that rates him from the brute but also the secret sources of his anxiety We can reach out ward that we have not yet achieved but in doing so we are also aware that we do not measure up to them We can anticipate a future that is not yet but in so doing we can be aware of all the uncertainties and risks that may mar its com- ing We are free because we are conscious but this freedom in turn can beget a deep anxiety Consequently many people find freedom too painful and try to escape from it A man for example may join a totalitarian party to which he can nate himself like a robot Now so he thinks he will not have to make painful choices for self he will simply be an in- strument in the hands of those higher up It is as if he wanted to escape being human by ing himself into a thing One of the most common ways man turning himself into a robot according to Sartre is the excessive con- of a person who tries to live exclusively in the eyes of others The other person after all sees me only externally as an object he does not ence the depth of my interior life with its freedom If I live exclusively as he sees me I be- come nothing but my own im- age and lose that interior life altogether In his most extended effort to describe his philosophy for a popular audience Sartre called it A New and I think we can now see exactly what he meant by this label JEAN PAUL No Organization Man fl meaning to our human tence man has to do it himself Sartre has been an unwavering and principled atheist since the age of 10 The idea of God Ss for him an impossibility for we can never explain the existence of the world as a whole the sense much misunderstood in which Sartre speaks of tence as absurd perhaps he might have said more rately that it remains ly a mystery f If V But if Sartre is an promising atheist he is not a superficial one To eliminate God is in one way an advantage to man since it leaves him sub- servient to nobody but himself and his own troubled capacity for freedom On the other hand the loss of God is a real one since it leaves man alone and forlorn in a universe for which there is no reason like phan abandoned on the cosmic doorstep L In what sense is ism a new as contrasted with old Be- cause Sartre says it from a newer and more radical vision of human existence ei humanisms tended to assign to man a more or less definite human nature with fixed drives and values the fact is that human no static thing Man changes the higher Being who has assigned What Is a Many Views of Washington No tourist ever forgets the city of Washington And no two ever agree on what it is The capital unlike other cities seems to assume part of its own character and part of the I was standing with a on the Capitol steps We com- pared notes I saw the huge dome he saw a steam shovel demolishing the slums behind the building Looking south I saw the colonnaded Custis Lee sion where Robert E Lee raised his family My friend saw a small blue flame on the slope below where John F Kennedy resls We were not seeing the same things When we did our reactions were different Later when I was alone I walked a little and rode a little and saw what I ed to see On a side street there was an old house I rang the bell and a Chinese lawyer responded H e By Jim Bishop did not know that he owns the Surratt House where John Wilkes Booth once reclined on an upstairs bed and hatched out a ridiculous plan to kill a President THE RIGGS BANK building is unimposing On lop of it a young redheaded e r named Godfrey broke into tears when a caisson bearing the body of Franklin D Roosevelt ed the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue onto 15th Street The granite shaft of the ton Monument makes me think of how the people of the United States stopped donating money for it when it was partly com- and 20 years later Congress reluctantly voted funds to finish the job The simple solemn majes t y of Lincoln sitting in bronze among his imperishable words unable lo hear the little ren read them off the walls The Smithsonian t i o n where the Spirit of St Louis hangs by piano wire in flight Lafayette Square where Lincoln's Secretary o f State William Seward lay i n bed with a broken jaw as an assassin astride him stabbing and stabbing and THE OLD Senate Well where statesmen once reduced logic to the irreducible In 1850 tor John Calhoun living a few Senate Leans Closer To Control of TV Code By G MILTON KELLY An AP Special Report WASHINGTON AP A row sparked by senatorial charges that crime and violence on tele- vision help lead lo juvenile de- is coming to a head Senators have started talking of possible new laws to force action if the television industry doesn't clean its own as they put it The industry contending the senatorial accusations are gerated and in some cases un- warranted has served notice it will fight any move toward eral censorship of programs The combatants are the ate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency and National of casters representing the bulk of the industry The subcommittee has a number of crimes including ings extortion robbery and gang violence by youngsters who allegedly got the idea Irom television programs The subcommittee's Sen Thomas J Dodd D- Code Review Board an organization of nine broadcast and wagged an finger at the northern senators and If you who resent the stronger portion not agree to settle this tion on the broad principle of justice and duty say so And let the states we represent agree to separate and part in peace If you are unwilling we should part in peace tell us so and we shall know what to do when you reduce the question lo sub- mission or resistance The little movie houses where Representative John Ken n e d y used to take his dates The Bureau of Engraving and ing where they turn out million in crisp currency every day at a cost of of one cent per The Washington where Admiral It is a humanism first be- conditions of his life and in So cause it places man at the can aiso change himself ter and makes him the ure of all things There is ho Sartre has point in a well-known existence precedes which sounds more than it really is On the personal level this slogan means simply that we are born first and make ourselves what we tually become Man fall from heaven like an angel complete and fully formed Ex- istence is thrust upon fant we are bom into definite social and historical conditions that are not of our choosing within this framework forced upon him the individual still the power to forge his sence make himself the of person he comes lo be On the historical or collective level Sartre's slogan points out that whole of humanity as it exists has the if it 30 chooses to change itself for ter or worse Today our ic knowledge has developed even to the point where we can change human biology The final value ot this will have lo be judged the future Yet I think we can say even now it is one of the more revealing expressions of our age In accord with where a long time ago I tured a creative writing class and wished mightily that I knew what I was talking about The fish market down at the point where mounds of oysters and fresh fish lie in open bins The anchorage where Admiral Ernest J King commander of history used to have himself piped aboard a little boat every morning THE HELIPORT on the south White House lawn where little goats Union Station and t h e memory of the train with no brakes coming down the track and coming to a stop inside the waiting room The burlesque own slogan existence precedes theatre frequented in past days Sartre was bom into by OK administering Us Code of George Dewey and Wood r ow Fair Practices has scheduled Wilson are buried This meetings here Dec The subcommittee's Oct 27 report to the Senate contended that ised programs excessively turing crime violence and bru medical students from Georgetown who wanted t o study anatomy William Graves of the Geographic standing beside the Kennedy grave a t night watching PFC Howard Moore a Negro from Ocala Florida pacing back and Graves asked Moore if he liked the cuty The soldier nod ded shyly It's quiet and a little lonely he ed but it's right someb o d y should be here The conglomerate of W a s h- ington is what you make it a world he never made the century with all its chaos and anxieties and he has forged what meaning he could out of life in the very of gale The citation of Committee spoke correctly the spirit of liberty found in Sartre's writings It might also have mentioned that Sartre spoken for individualism and the individual at a time when societies everywhere are ing toward the organization man His refusal of the was also a gesture against that tendency f ful structure was begun in 1907 and is still unfinished Trudy are a proved factor in THE LONG boulevards like spokes coming out of the tol which Pierre con- juvenile delinquency although George Washington would not the only one The patience of Congress though considerable is not Uie report said in warning Howard H Bell NAB code director told a reporter by tele- phone from New York City the subcommittee report made a number of unwarranted allega- tions including one that many broadcasters seem to violate the code with impunity The subcommittee praised code's content but said it was be beautiful Peterson House the old brick structure where Lincoln died at The Negroes lining the in rain If that can happen to him what is to become of The little playground where Jacqueline Kennedy used to take her children and watch them at play The Pentagon across the Potomac a concrete nut where work The little houses of Georgetown with their while doors and shiny brass knockers Cat boats like poorly enforced and that many timid swans trying to tack out violators continued to display the NAB seal of fair practice in advertising which supposedly compliance with the code of the Tidal Basin in a south- easterly breeze THE GLOW of the Capitol dome at night when you're Bell said the industry does not driving into the city by way claim it is perfect but that it of New York Avenue The old can and does police itself Capitol Prison where Booth s Conn has ordered a massive project to monitor every lively strives lo improve its body was buried in quicklime gram aired in Washington standards and will resist any under the flagstones until it was Wednesday Dec 2 1964 the news that he was area lo get evidence for government regulation of the claimed by his brother Edwin on the shelf quent public hearings content of its programs George Washington University Wait WHAT
