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Burnt iWKir-Buatft Kami tmunfrt uom MVMMUI AM INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ALTON T. BAKER, Publisher, 1927-1961 In the Editor's Mailbag Below Olympus ALTON P. BAKER JR. Editor and Publisher EDWIN M. BAKER General Manager RICHARD A. BAKER Managing Editor ROBERT B. FRAZIER Associate Editor A. H. CURREY Associate Editor The Register-Guard's policy is the complete and impartial publication in its news pages of all news and statements on news. On this page, the editors of the Register-Guard offer their opinions on events of the day and matters of importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful in the development of construc tive community policy. A newspaper is a CITIZEN OF ITS COMMUNITY. Published every evening and Sunday morning by the Guard Publishing Co. 12A EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963 First You Need Something to Trade Fidel Castro, the man who wasn't there, grabbed most of the headlines from San Jose, Costa Rica, where Presi dent Kennedy met with the presidents of six Central American republics. Castro is, news, and so is whatever other American chiefs of state say about him. However, the main idea of the San Jose meetings was not the cussing of Castro. It was to work for the economic better ment of Central America. This, of course, in the long run works against Castro, for Castros cannot come to pow er and cannot survive in societies that are economically' healthy. President Kennedy talked with the other presidents about how best to use any money that comes to Latin America through the Alliance for Progress pro gram. Also of interest was a review of the Central American Common Market, a spectacularly successful experiment not greatly different from the European Common Market. Five of the six Central American -Republics (Panama is not in) belong to this economic union. In two years trade among the five has increased by 30 per cent. This is encouraging. But it is in itself no answer. More than just trade is needed. The nations also need something to trade, They need increased productiv ity as well as increased distribution. Here's where the Alliance for Progress money can come in handy. Alliance money comes in part from the Latin American governments themselves, in part from the U.S. treasury, private U.S. investors, international organizations like the World. Bank, and private Jap anese and European investment. With out such money, Latin America may re main forever an undeveloped society. Aldous Huxley, writing a pamphlet for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, recently put it this way: An underdeveloped society is a society without adequate capital resources (for capital is what is left over after primary needs have been satisfied, and in underdeveloped coun tries most pcoplo never satisfy their primary needs); a society without a sufficient force of trained teachers, administrators, and tech nicians; a society with few or no industries and few or no developed sources of industrial power; a society, finally, with enormous ar rears to be made good in food production, education, road building, housing and sanita tion. This fits Central America all too well. The needs are so great that there . is no surplus or, in the rare cases where there is a surplus, the relatively few who accumulate it invest it abroad where the political situation is more stable. Tied to this problem is the tax structure in many Latin American na tions. Taxes on high incomes are, by U.S. standards, very low. Thus the capi tal flees and not even the home govern ment has money for capital improve ment of the nation. : Alliance for Progress funds should be used in lieu of this non-existent home capital. There is always a temptation, however, to use it to satisfy the press- ing, immediate needs of hungry people. And, too often, the money is diverted by those in power for their own narrow, political ends. It is important, too, that a stated objective of the Alliance for Progress i is the encouragement of "foreign" (meaning in this case mostly U.S.) in vestment in the Latin American econ omy, This runs into two obstacles. First is the natural fear of the foreign in vestor that his investment will be the victim of a creeping expropriation. This he fears despite efforts to underwrite some kind of insurance policy for him. The other is the likelihood that this nec essary foreign investment will be viewed by local demogogucs as "imperialism." If such a view is wide-spread, as it is in many Latin American countries right now, the U.S. investor realizes that by investing to help the Latin American economy he is also hurting the image and interests of his own country. It is with these economic problems that the anti-Castro leaders of Central America must come to grips. If they are solved, or if the pcope can be convinced they are about to be solved, Castro will be no problem. ft ft ' ft ft ' ft ft Making It Official Before they play the No. 1 ranked collegiate basketball team of the nation Friday night in Louisville, Ky., Oregon State University's "surprise" western champions will receive official congratu lations and encouragement from the , State Legislature. An appropriate resolu tion was rushed through at Salem Wed nesday. Fervently, Oregon sports fans will be hoping that this may help inspire the Beavers to victory over Cincinnati Uni versity. A Friday night win would mean that the plucky OSU team would be at least assured runner-up honors in the national championship tournament at Louisville. And, it could easily mean that the Beavers would go on the next night to win the championship, outright. The Legislature, beset with all its problems, must be excused for being a bit tardy about congratulating OSU for winning the western division title last Saturday night. But those congratula tions certainly are in order. The under dog Beavers played masterfully in de feating Arizona State for the right to go on to the final round of the national playoffs. As for encouragement, the Legisla ture's resolution should be especially well-timed. It won't add any points on the scoreboard for OSU, but it will make Incontestable the point that all of Ore gon has been stirred by the Beavers' re fusal to be awed by any foe and by the Beavers' constant improvement through out the season now coming to its close. Viewpoint Murray Kemptnn in the Scik Republic: Campaigns against pornography are luburban by their first premise, which is that evil comes from the outside and that walls can be built against it. Power Structure With very few exceptions in history, Congress, especially the Senate, has been dominated by conservative members. They have headed the committees, de cided what bills could be introduced, what bills considered. At the root of this fact is the seniority system, which gives choice assignments and chairman ships to members who have been there longest. Conservative voters are less likely to change congressmen. So con servative congressmen are more likely to be re-elected. Now, however, the New Republic foresees a possible shift, suggesting that the Senate five or six years hence will be dominated by senators who are more liberal. Noting that the conservative Democrats, who now call the shots, are mostly southerners, the magazine points out that most of the southerners are quite old. The more liberal senators, however, ate quite young. Of the 17 incumbent Democrats now over 65, 10 are southerners. But of the 31 Demo crats under 55, only four are southern ers. The greatest number of funerals in the next few years, one imagines, will occur in the conservative ranks. All this is fine with the New Repub lic, which is the Bible of the capital "I," Liberal. However, a couple of other ob servations should be made, too. Some of tlu;sc young liberals won't grow to be old liberals; they'll grow to be old con servatives. It has been ever thus. The other fallacy in the New Republic's wish ful thinking is the assumption that the young liberal Democrats, mostly from the North and West, will continue to be re-elected. Quite the opposite assump tion must be made. The nothern and western Democrats risk being defeated, far more than do the southern Demo crats of any ago and we can't say that the younger southern Democrats who replace today's leaders will be any more liberal. Letters Intended for the Editor's Mailbag must be signed with the correct name and address of the writer. No anonymous letters will be published. Letters of less than 300 words in length will be given preference as will those in which the writer con fines his letter to one topic. For Local Girls SPRINGFIELD (To the Edi tor) I agree with the woman who said the girls chosen for the Boat Parade should be lo cal girls. Just why do they have to be society girls, mostly from Cal ifornia? This is a McKenzie River affair, why not girls from the McKenzie High School or Thurston High? Perhaps two from the high schools and two from the university, whose homes are in that area. 1 am sure we have as many "lovely little ladies," (the way they were described on radio) in the -McKenzie region as any where in the world. JEAN PRIDMORE 150 W. E St. Mexico DORENA (To the Editor) Thank you for the articles writ ten by Harry Ferguson about Mexico. Too many people have had a misconception of the true Mex ico. They drive over the border into Tijuana, then think they have seen all there is to see. Mexico is its people. We were fortunate, last July,! to visit down there, past No gales. Old-fashioned courtesy, thoughtfulness and true kind ness are what we found every where. It seemed to be an in born fact with the people, which I hope they never lose. For instance, when you walk into any of -their shops, they want to talk. And they love to have you bid on the article you are interested in. They seem disappointed with you if you don't. I had a specific article in mind I wanted to buy for my daughter. The young lady I talked to' didn't have it. But within a few moments she lo cated it for me, in another shop. Anything to please. We were "just looking" in other shops, when we found a young man who had worked in Pendleton and other places in Eastern Oregon. It was imme diately evident that he had been treated very good up here. We could have had anything in his shop, when he found we were from Oregon. ' My husband wanted a decal for our windshield. We inquired at the police station. They didn't speak English. We finally found a gentleman who could speak English and understood what we were looking for. He closed his shop and drove my husband to the Chamber of Commerce building. (Would anybody up here do that?) As we were waiting for my husband (we had two friends with us), a young, well-educated man came by and started to talk to us. He was a truly happy person. When we were ready to leave, we thanked him for a pleasant conversation. His re ply was "No. Thank you. You come and sec us again. I'll be around here next year, when you come back." He knew we'd like to. As we crossed the very busy intersection to go to our car, one of our friends, who is ter ribly crippled with arthritis, couldn't cross the street fast enough on crutches, so traffic on all four sides slopped. (Would we?) When he was about to get into our car, strangers opened the door for him and helped him into the car, as though it was their priv ilege to help. Where else can you hear a sincere, "My home is jours," or "God go with you"? We, too, found them to be a hard-working people, but never too busy to help a stranger. We truly hope we will be able tn visit them again. MRS. T. O. ML'NROR Disslon Rt. D unes FLORENCE (To the Editor) Why is Senator Ncuberger still trying so persistently to push a national park down our throats? Facts were presented at three Senate hearincs, which are now a mailer of record, proving without a doubt that we don't need a national park. The Forest Service and slate parks are providing more rec reational, camping, and tourist facilities than a national park would even allow to exist in a national park. Or did Senator Neuberger even bother to study the facts in the Congressional Record? Or do we have a sena tor too egotislic.il to gracefully accept defeat, back off and ad mit she was wrong? Any business operator in the area will tell you the tourist business is good here and is in creasing every year. Why? Be cause the tourist has freedom. The tourists can turn their kids and docs loose on the dunes or beach for a good run, they can hunt or tarset shoot, they can rent a boat or cabin on any lake for a fishing trip, they ran ride dunes bugsic and horses over Ihe dunes, they can cmp overnight in the state or forest parks, they can buy and eat hot dogs! They can go through myrtlewood factories and gift shops in short, they can have a good vacation of freedom enjoying plenty of di versified activities. Now Senator Neuberger wants to establish a national park on the grounds that it would in crease tourism, hence improve the economy of the area. I hope the public and other congress men are not gullible enough to swallow that gargle. Stop and thinkl This country was built on private enterprise, which we still have a lot of In this area. You've heard the ex pression, "As American as hot dog" Senator Neuberger wants the national park so we won't have any hot dog stands in the areat ... - How many tourists are going to continue coming to this area when there are no longer varied activities that are provided for them now by individual busi ness operators? If the national park is established here the tourists will go elsewhere, where they still can find a bit of freedom. The individual busi ness operators wilL be going elsewhere either for employ- ment or to re-establish their business. : What will happen to the econ omy of this area? For God's sake think before it's too late. T. M. DERRICKSON P.O. Box 1018 Oppose Street Plan ' EUGENE (To the Editor) We don't think that the new highway should go' in the park. Children go out in the park' every summer and fly their' kites, make forts, we have a horse and we ride him there. We also go to find pheasant eggs, we also play hide-and-go-seek and many more things. Consider all of the wildlife that would have to move or die. We don't think that the new high way should go through Amazon Park. TRICIA RAINES .. Age 9 2951 Ferry St. (Editor's Note: The above letter was signed by 19 other persons, the majority of them youngsters.) Resents Editorial EUGENE (To the Editor). I read your editorial in the Guard last night (Mar. 13) lam basting the Eugene Water and Electric Board for lowering the price of electricity. I, along with probably twenty or thirty thousand other people, resent that. Perhaps the Eugene Water and Electric Board can foresee some good old American com petition in some of the pipe lines already in use. The city of Eugene and other cities have lived like parasites from the labors of farmers, log gers, laborers, and even some railroad men. There are outside areas that own their own streets, lights, schools, etc. Are the state police just for city dwellers? Suppose we put gates on all roads entering the city and charged toll. The gates could open both ways. Who would give up first? One more question: How many papers do you sell out side the city limits? GALEN F. FARVER 115 Irvington Dr. Likes Death Penalty COTTAGE GROVE (To the Editor) I believe in the death penalty. There is no proof that it docs not deter many from committing murder. I believe in the integrity of our courts, judges, attorneys, and juries, and I do not hold with the idea that they are influenced or bribed to save the rich and ex ecute the poor. There are no such records in Oregon. I never heard anyone object to the care of prisoners in our state prisons or express the idea that such prisoners should be executed. 1 don't object to the death sen tence for a woman any more than for a man. If you do, why? Certainly the mother of the little children she helped to throw off the bridge should get the death sentence as well as the Freeman woman. Why didn't Miss Freeman's lawyer have her plead guilty like the Nunez, woman? The judge wasn't to blame, he could give nothing but the death sentence under the circumstances. This case points out a weak spot in Oregon's criminal laws. No parent who murders his or her own offspring, nor any rape murderer of a child, should be allowed to escape the death penalty merely by pleading guilty to the crime. In Oregon a murder suspect must be absolutely proved to have committed coldblooded, premeditated murder without the shadow of a doubt, before he or she can receive the death sentence. H there Is the least doubt in the minds of the jury they, rightfully, return a ver dict of second degree murder. That is why we have so few ex ecutions in Oregon, not because of any personal feeling of the court for or against the accused. I am glad that Governor Hatfield, for one reason only, has refused to commute the Freeman woman's sentence. No governor should have the right to commute any convicted per son's sentence just because he himself does not believe in cap ital punishment Neither should any Oregon governor pro tern have any right to tamper with the sentences of the prisoners in any of Oregon's penal institu tions. Oregon did away with capital punishment once and lived to re gret it. Let's not make that mis take again. MRS. ETHEL GAB RIO Lorane Rt., Box 102 Drive Results Told EUGENE (To the Editor) We, the students of Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School, would like to thank those people who contributed money or pop bottles to our bottle drive for Pearl Buck on Saturday, March 9. On that day we collected 4,990 bottles worth $176.37. This year, as In previous , . years, RJH is raising money by KOWn McLllll o t u u c u t cai wuaueo, ouiue drives, and doughnut sales to donate to a worthy cause . in our own community. 4 Pearl Buck, the only school of its kind in our area, needs a large amount of money to successfully operate Its school. Therefore, the students of RJH will give the money they earn through their drive to this school. We hope that the residents of this community will support our school as well in the future as it has in the past. KEN CYPCAR Student Body President BONNIE HOWELL Student Body Secretary MARY AMEY Student Body Historian "Heavens! Already? I've barely recovered from the last one!" Excitement of Beginnings To Be Felt in West Africa Cigarette Tax EUGENE (To the Editor) In an article appearing on Page 4A of the R-G March 15 issue and under a Salem AP dateline, we are told that a representa tive of the Oregon Tobacco Dis tributors has stated that the chances of the industry working to refer a cigarette tax to the people would be lessened if the Legislature enacted a defense against cigarette price-cutting. If this statement is true, it would appear that the tobacco distributors' representative was talking with a "forked tongue" when he complained about "50 per cent of the people raising $18 million for the benefit of all the people" (by the 4-cent tax), and at the same time hinted that the tobacco distributors will not object to this way of "sock ing" the cigarette smokers if the tobacco people are allowed (by law) to "sock" the same people even more. If the Legislature passes this cigarette tax bill, the bill will again be referred to the people ' From a Congo Notebook: There is excitement in seeing beginnings. . Europeans and Americans, who are, for the most part, children of Europe, have' moved so far from their origins of na tionhood and e st a blishment of governments there is now no feeling of in tense personal' involvement But here In the Congo, and in the new McGill states of West Africa, the be ginnings are to be seen and experienced. Europeans J- the French, Belgians and English '' no longer have control. One can see what the white man let be hind him.' It is both good and bad, as one would expect. This is how it is everywhere the mixture of cause and effect. The fizzy effervescence of in dependence is gone. There are those stodgy things such as budget and the really gigantic task of educating not merely a new government class, but a whole generation which can teach, guide, manage customs, railroads, laboratories, hospi tals, businesses. ,, A ,Few Similarities . Nowhere is the task so awe some in its properties as in the Congo and Guinea. And since the former is so vast a country the needs are the greater and more complex. The Russians,' who guessed wrong in the Con go, now are trying to open the door which, temporarily at least,; than the young America did when confronted with the many Indian tribes that fought to hold their lands. They, too, acted out of long-held customs and relig ious fanaticisms, including med icine men and witchcraft. The secessionist movement in Katanga was a cynical, greedy business. It was never truly an independence move. There was nothing admirable about Tshombe, who was the front man. The records of the com mercial cartel which backed him have been seized. It is quite possibly they will reveal some interesting international ma chinations. Certainly a great deal of money was spent to sub vert and arouse the tribes against the central government. Tshombe was never able to create a large following. At no time did he have a majority of the tribesmen of Katanga with him. There was an army of mercenaries and an air force of soldiers of fortune from sev eral lands. The United Nations army, when it moved to save itself, found these mercenaries had little taste for fighting and the secessionist movement ended. That the Congo, granted pre mature independence, has sur vived is a tribute to the U.N. and to those who supported that organization. Some Aid Forthcoming There is even now smuggling from the distant diamond fields. This, too, is a large operation and is financed and managed by interests foreign to the Con go. There is a lack of revenue and and absence of trained many times in the past, regard less of what the tobacco distrib utors do. I will help! Also, Mr. Editor, can you tell me, and the rest of your read ers, what is the present U.S. tax on a package of 20 cigarettes? W. H. COCHRAN 3840 Bell Ave. (Editor's note: The federal tax is 8 cents a package.) .a ti. ,-f i... k.nn has been closed. Thev are ure- bureaucracy. The parliament of uiuai Liueis is largely irrespon sible. The army is not yet pos sessed of the discipline or train ing necessary to police the na tion. Nonetheless, the Congo is viable. Premier Adoula has been to Brussels. He was well re ceived. The Belgians show signs of wanting to make amends for their bad show in Congo. There will be some aid forthcoming from them. The United States will need to continue substan tial assistance. One must always consider the alternatives. Chaos and war will produce more expense and danger than the cost of aid to the Congo. The French and Bel gians, by their refusal to pay the special U.N. assessments made necessary by the Congo operations, are revealing anew one of history's oldest lessons. It is that some nations, like in dividuals, prefer to lose all rather than save an equitable share. The Congo is destined to be the great idustrial boom region of the future. If the major bur den of sustaining the U.N. is left to a few nations, their par liaments and congresses will grow weary. The Russians de pend on this trend. (Distributed, 19SJ, hr The Hall Syndicate, Ina. Boys and Basketball EUGENE (To the Editor) The EBAA basketball season has just drawn to a close, and as I look back over 10 games that I participated in as a coach and the many more I watched from the sidelines, one thought always comes to mind. How good were the officials? It has always been my feel ing that the boys participating in this program should learn more than just the mechanics of basketball. This is a wonder ful opportunity for them to learn of the give and take of the adult world, the joyous feel ing after winning the game, and the challenge of accepting de feat with honor. But most of all, I feel that the boys learn that I fairness and clean play are essential. Because of the boys' awk wardness and lack of skill, the officials are inclined to over look many fouls that should be called. This applies to both teams on the floor! Wouldn't it be better to tend toward this extreme? If the officials called everything that even looked like . a foul the boys would not try to see how much they could get away with without getting caught. I feel that the high ideals of the program would be better fulfilled if this were the case. It is not only for the coaches to plead for a change, it is up to the parents as well. If the EBAA knew that you were more concerned with your children learning to follow the rules of sportsmanship and less con cerned with winning I am sure they would instruct the officials to eliminate all pushing and shoving and foul play that seems prevalent in almost every game. Next year plan to watch your children grow as well as learn to play basketball. Support a clean, wholesome program for ill. ROBERT BEHL1NG 260 E. 17th Ave. ing the U.N. troops, which are being reduced, be wholly re moved, If this should be done the Congo would fall into chaos, Americans, thinking back at their own beginnings, will find a few similarities here. In the young Republic founded in the new world, rivers were the highways. There were no com munications. A month passed before a man on horseback, bearing a copy of the Declara tion of Independence, reached the southernmost colony of Georgia. Until he arrived the news of the historic pronounce ment of man's certain inalien able rights was not known. The Congo has seaports and rivers, but few roads and airports. A Cynical Greedy Business There are 180 major tribes. Many of these have a long his tory of enmity. The govern ment, headed by Premier Adoula and President Kasa vubu, does not control the far reaching hinterlands any more Carmichael THESE flJuM&RE A OMCE Tr!S $E-S0H w " " taMBMaMM So They Say- Ideas are more dangerous than armies. Ideas have immor tality, ideas cross impassable frontiers, ideas penetrate any Maginot line of conformity. Voices can be stilled; men and women imprisoned: books burned. But their ideas live on to torment the executioners, jailers and censors. U.S. Supreme Court Justice WUIIira O. Douglas. bees MEMBER Of TBS ASSOCIATED PRESS Ttit Aiioclated Prese it entitles! iclualvely to the use for republt. caUon of aU the local newt printed In this newspaper. MEMBER Of IHE AUDn BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Serrtcei United Presa International WILLIAM WASMANN, OONN L. BONHA.M. 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