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o O Why should I debafe HochMwc? . . . .. te Capital Report -WAtsif-ro! post. One figure which is bound to change as larger numbers go on to college One figure bandied about with some frequency is the monetary value of a college education. The Salem Capital-Journal spent some time belaboring the "college myth" t;or Its readers a few days ago. But even the Salem newspaper missed one of the major points in the whole business. The "college myth" is the amount of money a college-trained person Is supposed to earn in his lifetime, vis a vis the earnings of his high school classmate who did not go to college. It has been ex pressed as anywhere from $40,000 to .$200,000, all profit return from the expenditure of four years of time. The Salem editor feels the surveys made in this area generally over-estimate the value of a college degree. The surveys do not take into account the basic differences be tween youngsters who went on to college 20 or 30 years ago, and those who did. And you have to go back 20 or 30 years before 1 ho income dif ferences begin to show up very greatly in favor of college. The kids who went on to col lege at that time, and worked on to a degree, usually had some advan tages lacked by some of their fel lows who did not continue school past high school. In the first place, they had, or could get, the money to pay the bills. If they iiad the money it was obvious they had a greater start on a career than the fellow who went to work after he finished high school because lie didn't have the money. If they worked their way through college it is obvious they had more ability, drive , and desire than their fellows who chose not to do so. In the second place, those who graduated from college, on the av erage, were gifted with more native ability than those who did not. These people would have earned You Just aren't Informed It would be Impossible to count the number of times The Bulletin und other Oregon newspapers, over the years, have urged renders to register and vote. We'll probably keep doing it. But in the future we'd like to add something like this: "but not in Ignorance." We were reminded of the old get-out-the-vote campaigns in a tour last week of a neighboring state where municipal elections were be ing held. In almost every city, largo and small, the would-be politicians ended their statements with some thing like this: "everyone, no matter what their views, should vote." ; In one city, the newspaper, after 'a shallow discussion of the election, which took no sides, ended by urg ing its readers to vote. The editorial said, "It doesn't matter how you vote, just vote." Well heck, Sam. It does matter Undersecretary Carver foresees day when national park tours will be rationed Hatfield discusses fesues beffind special session of legislature more than the average, regardless of their college training. Now, for the point the Salem editor missed. Most of the surveys of average incomes are based upon the careers of persons who now are at least 40 years old. This means those survey ed finished high school and started to college prior to their involvement in World War II. And back in those days only about one of each seven persons in our population was for tunate enough to attend college at all, and fewer than one in ten was able to continue through gradua tion. The percentage of those attend ing college has been increasing steadily ever since World War II. Now almost one of three high school graduates gets some advanced training. In some areas, half the high school graduates are enabled to go on 1o college. The proportion of those in our population who grad uate from college lias more than doubled in the past 25 years. As the? numbers have grown, the average ability has declined somewhat. While it's true the really bright, but poor, youngster has a better chance for a college degree than ever before, it's also true the average, but financially able high school graduate, too, has a better chance for a college degree than ever before. In other words, the average college graduate of 25 years ago represented richer cream in ability than the average of today. It's ob vious that, as the ability level de clines, the earnings differential will decline. A college education has been worth money to almost everyone who has had it. But the financial advantage of a college education is almost sure to decline as n larger and larger percentage of our popula tion finishes four years of study be yond high school. By Robrt A. Smith Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON - Does the shakeup in the high command of the National Park Service indicate a shift in policy that will encourage development of more tourist and recreation fa cilities such as ski lifts, hotels, boating marinas, hotels in the nation's most scenic parks? This is the question raised by the premature retirement of Conrad L. Wirth, director of the National Park Service for the last 12 years. The question is more than routine because Wirth's departure was hastened by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, who wanted a younger man with new horizons. He chose George B. Hartzog, Jr. who joined the Park Service after World War II as compar ed with Wirth and many veteran Park officials who came out of the New Deal's CCC movement. The issue raised by this change is the volatile one which divides nark traditionalists, who ! resist most public improve ments in the parks, against iS those who favor augmentation of tourist and recreation facil ities. Traditionalists, for example, think hikers at the end of a day's trail should be able to take a cool swim in a scenic lake but that the Park Service shouldn't build swimming pools in the parks, or that a quiet motor launch operated for vis itors to see the beauties of the area such as in Crater Lake is fine but individually-operated motor boats should be ban ned in parks. Recreation en thusiasts, on the other hand, think the Parks Service has been too adamant in opposing ski lifts, motor boats and other pleasure devices. While Hartzog's attitude has yet to take shape in new de cisions, there is a presumption that the park administration will be less traditionalist, more how people vote. We're not sure if it wouldn't be better if all the people didn't vote. Ideally, the informed voter should make the best decision. Ac tually, we know that this doesn't always happen, But we've seen a lot of elections swung by t ho dopey fellow who votes because he doesn't know any better and because he can then proudly say, "I voted." Many times, lie doesn't oven know I he candi dates. This will probably continue to be the American way but darned if we ran see these would-be candi dates urging people: "no matter what your views, vote." We would like to see someone, someday, say something like this "Don't vote unless you know what you are voting about or for. And if you can't vote for me, then you just aren't properly biformed." flexible and more amenable to public and congressional opinion when it favors more recreation facilities. But the New Frontiersman who has most openly chastised the Park Service, Assistant Secretary of Interior John Car ver, former Boise attorney, is eager to convince his critics that "I'm not anti-park." In an interview he said he has heard it said he will permit ski lifts to be installed in Olympic Na tional Park north of Seattle. "I'm just not going to tol erate that at all," boomed Carver, slamming his fist down on a table. Carver has received enough compliments in the last two weeks to convince him he was right in dressing down the Park Service officials in a recent speech at Yosemite when he told them they treated park visitors as though they were to be tolerated rather than wel comed to enjoy the outdoors. He said they had lost sight of their obligation to the public. A previous speech, in which he said "the world has changed and whether we like it or not our parks must change," drew fire from conservationists who feared he had in mind resort type changes. Carver denies this. "I'm not for swimming pools and recreation facilities, just the opposite," he asserted. He noted he had defended the Park Service when they sent rangers into Yellowstone to kill 5000 elk when they feared an over-population of fauna threat ened the park flora. The meat was given to Indians. Criticism came from hunters who wanted permits to make sport of the occasion and from animal lovers who protested harming any animals in Yellowstone. But on another occasion, Car ver clashed with Wirth when the Park Service decided to elimi nate motorboating in the south ern arms of Lake Yellowstone. Boaters protested through Sens. Frank Church, D-Idaho, for whom Carver previously work ed as administrative assistant, and Gale McGee, D-Wyo. Car ver overruled Wirth and let the boaters back in but cut their speed limit down to 5 miles per hour, which he said achieved the avowed purpose of the Park Service to prevent shoreline erosion. But what changes are In the works? Even Carver is un certain. "I don't think we have on the drawing boards the right kind of plans to handle the peak numbers of people who want to visit the parks," he said. "You take the floor of Yosemite Valley on a weekend or holiday. Traffic comes to a monumental halt. In the Great Smokies it's the same thing. A new highway between Anchorage and Fair banks will cut through Mt. McKinley park and bring a ten fold increase in visitors. Our big challenge is to maintain the scenic values and still handle the increasing volume of people." Carver said more and better roads are not the answer and added: "we face a day when we must say the park expe rience must be rationed. How do you do that?" Asked if he visualizes park rangers standing at park en trances turning away visitors after the daily quota has been reached, Carver said, "Well, we face quotas with our camp grounds now." He noted that Congress has suggested development of more recreation areas outside the national parks in the national forest, along seashores, on pub lic domain lands to help accom odate the public desire for out door recreation without over loading the parks. This is the direction In which the New Frontier is moving. t u i yi ii i i ii, i ) y I I I II "1 I J Washington Merry-go-round Labor backing of ex-con has Canadians all upset By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON The amaz ing thing about astute George Meany of the AFL-CIO and Wil lard D. Wirtz. able and consci entious Secretary of Labor, is that they have supported an Al catraz ex-convict against the Prime Minister of Canada. This is the real reason for the serious snafu in Canadian - Am erican relations only a short time after a pro - American Prime Minister, Lester Pear son, was elected, and after he and Kennedy had their import ant get - together at Hyannis Port. Since then, Pearson has coop erated with K e n n e d y on the placing of nuclear warheads on Canadian missiles and stockpil ing nuclear weapons in Canada even though it has caused him all sorts of political head aches. But recently most of this good will has been undercut by the Great Lakes shipping dis pute led by the Alcatraz ex convict. The inside story of what hap pened goes back to when Hal Banks got out of Alcatraz and was sent up to Canada by the AK of I, to head the Seafarers International I'nion, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which Meany wanted to purge of Communist membership. Banks is not only anti-Com-nnmist but. according to the of ficial Canadian report of Justice T. G. Nnrris. he is also: "Cap able, decisive, rgocentric, Intol erant, and ruthless. "He is of the stuff of the Ca nnnes and the Hoffas, of whom the dictators throughout history from the earliest times to the totnlilnrians Hitler and Stalin are prototypes. He Is a bully, cruel, dishonest, greedy, power hungry, contemptuous of the law. in his mouth the use of the word 'democracy' is sheer blasphemy." So roads the official report of the Canadian government. Meany Stirt Canadians Banks was so "power - hun gry" in battling other Canadian unions that the Seafarers was kicked out of the Canadian La bor Congress the Canadian equivalent of the AFL-CIO. He than began a war against other Canadian unions to force them off Canadian ships. Paul Hall, head of the Ameri can Seafarers, retaliated hy ty ing up Canadian ships in Amer ican Great Lakes ports, and George Meany supported him. After approximately one year of harassment, the Canadian government issued its Norris re port, quoted above, and propos ed putting Banks's SIU .under a three in. in trusteeship. Tins brought howls of anguish from the American Seafarers and. believe it or not. a cer tain amount of support from It's Another World Young writer warns against snobbishness Secretary Wirtz. On October 10, one day before the Canadian Parliament was to vote on the trusteeship, Wirtz was persuad ed by George Meany to issue a statement supporting the AFL CIO in its dispute with the Ca nadian Labor Congress. Wirtz was careful not to criticize the Canadian government. Even so, an official statement by the U. S. Secretary of Labor was hail ed in Canada as interference in a purely domestic Canadian problem. Later in the day, Meany Is sued a much stronger state ment. This made Canadian mem bers of Parliament see red. Next day, October 11, they vot ed overwhelmingly, 183 to 4, to slap the United States by sup porting the trusteeship. JFK Pacifies Even Prime Minister Pear son, elected as a pro-American, expressed his concern "for the failure of Wirtz and Meany to realize that this is essentially a Canadian dispute." On October 12. the Prime Minister telephoned President Kennedy and secured from him the pacifying statement that "the U.S. government has not and would not express any opin ion on legislation pending in Parliament." But it was then too late. On October 29. Pearson made a speech before the National Federation of Liberal Women, urging that "no Canadian use this difficult situation to stir up anti-American prejudice." Nevertheless. Canadians being sensitive, anti-American preju dice has been stirred up. Last week, the Pearson government faced a test vote over the policy of arming Canadian forces with U.S. nuclear weapons all be cause of U.S. support for an Al catraz ex - convict officially branded "a bully, cruel, dishon est, greedy, power - hungry, contemptuous of the law". . . Who used "the appearance of democracy in the union as a mere facade." union money for "bribery," and who had "one purpose only to maintain his hold on the seamen and in crease his own power." Note 1 If someone around the Labor Department or the Tuesday, November 5, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cuhmn, Gen. Manager Jack McDermort, Ad. Maner Phil F. Sret, Asixviare laifer O.I Useelman, Cire. Manager kartm B. Oyr, MmH. fet Willism A. Yates, Manaaine Id. CW-n By Elizabeth Chenoweth At a previous time, I wrote a column on prejudices in school. Today I would like to tell you one good reason why people shouldn't be snobby to other people that are "below you" in school. First of all, if you are nice to everyone (this doesn't mean that you have to be real chum my, just be pleasant) you will find a friend everywhere you go. I know of certain people that will not talk to any one that is not in their group. Later when these particular people find themselves in a place where they have no friends, they find themselves slinking around trying to find someone to hide behind. This doesn't just happen on an individual basis, but on a class level, too. In the ninth grade and in the twelfth grade, one finds himself at the head of everyone else, and thus able to do anything one wants to. Later, the class is right down at the bottom again. (From the ninth grade you start at the bot tom in high school, and in the twelfth grade you start at the bottom in college. 1 If you have been nice to everyone at the time when you were at the top, you will find yourself enjoying being on the bottom because you can complain about the up per classmen without a guilty conscience. If you are a bully when you are at the top, you find yourself sneaking around when you are at the bottom. Bemember: Kindness today, will make happiness stay! White House had reminded George Meany. a sincere pa triot, of Prime Minister Pear son's courageous stand for nu clear weapons, Meany's position might have been different. Note 2 The Canadian - U.S. hassle over shipping illustrates the importance of having Cana dian non voting delegates In Congress who can explain these measures to Washington. Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., has given verbal blessing to this idea but has been too busy per ambulating around the country on speaking engagements to fol low it up. (Editors Note: United Press International asked the gover nor to comment on the special session which begins next Mon day.) By. GOV. MARK HATFIELD Written for UPI My recommendations for the forthcoming special session of the Oregon legislature will be presented, as required by the constitution, when the lawmak ers are assembled in the capi tal Nov. 11. But the background of the ex traordinary call is pertinent to current discussions of what they should do when they get here. On three separate occasions, at the beginning of the 1959, 1961, and 1963 legislative ses sions I recommended basic tax reform. Warnings had been given by previous governors, outside consultants, and indivi dual legislators themselves that Oregon needed revision of its tax structure. The day of reck oning could be seen coming. It is in large measure a matter of population increase among non income producing age groups thousands more in elementary and secondary schools, thou sands more in our State Sys tem of Higher Education, and at the other end of the age brackets, more in need of wel fare and medicare. This is one of the reasons I have spent so much of my time trying to en list new industry from other parts of the country and encour aging the expansion of existing industries here. It was a matter of real re gret that my asking for a mid session election by the people on legislative revenue measures was turned down. Had the legis lature recessed for such an ex pression we would have had a better idea of the consent of the governed. Turned down were my proposals for a referendum on the cigarette tax, income tax reform, and for the needed additional funds. What resulted was pitched warfare between the House and the Senate. The revenue bill, a hybrid of many minds, reached my desk 11 days after the legislature adjourned. But reading the temper of the session, which ended in confu sion after 141 days of the long est, most expensive session in Oregon history, it seemed to me better to try to live with what was produced than vetoing the proposals which would have meant an immediate reconven ing of the same decision mak ers What Is the situation now? First of all, Oregon's $1.2 bil lion budget has a governor in a fiscal strait jacket because two thirds of the budget is ear marked, removed from his con trol. This gives us then $404 million of general funds. But an attorney general's opinion indi cated that $135 million of that amount could not be touched through allotment control be cause it is for basic school sup port. What was left, without calling a special session, was precious little to trim without cutting so deeply that essential services either voted by the peo ple or created by preceding leg islatures would be seriously im paired. Why should these serv ices, in a limited area, be cut to the marrow while other agen cies are unscathed because they are financed from untouchable sources? Newspapers have polled voters on what they meant when they said no to the legislative tax proposals. Some people will tell you, and this in my interpreta tion, that they want no new tax es from this session and if any are brought forward they, too, will be referred. Others say to cut this service or that service but not the one over here they consider important to them. I hope for a businesslike, statesmanlike session without the wrangling and personality conflicts of the regular sessio If the legislature does not wi: me to apply the cuts, then 1 them proceed. But it is a ji for surgeons, aware of the fa we are dealing with human b ings when we talk of educatic welfare, state institutions. Government cannot give wh it has not first taken from sorr one else, so goes a fundament concept. But we must look I yond the crisis of the mome and think not for today alo but for tomorrow as well, or shall be only piling up the hea aches and heartaches for o successors. 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If the City of Bend would b the First Presbyterian Chur building on Franklin and Har man Streets we would have beautiful building for our mui um. Parking space west from E Street would surely be amj for visitors to the museum sin that space is not used ve much. Our Hobby Shows prove tl Bend citizens own many ar ques and things brought to Oi gon across the plains whit they would, no doubt, like to s safely registered on a musei register. This dear old church is in logical spot near city center, why not think about this, C: Council, before something el is done with the building whi should always stand where is? No doubt the congregati would be pleased with such use of their old church hon And, like our County Coi House, it would be an asset Bend since it stands on a pro inent site. Signs at north and south trance to town and at Frank and E. Third Streets would needed. Oh. I wish they would it the best location in town for museum. In Boise, Idaho, and Can City, Nev., the museums are the county court houses. Soi cities have special buildin We hope Bend acquires t church building before it is I late. Sincerely, Ethel R. Burleigh Bend, Oregon, Nov. 2, 1963 Barb It's strange how people w always say exactly what th mean expect to keep all thi friends. Contentment It wonderful It doesn't ruin your ambitit As a joke at a wedding, frien handcuffed the groom. Ev after they are freed, his han will be tied. When Congress talks abt taxes wa wish they'd rea make some cutting remarks. 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