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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29.1958 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Catered u second das miller H UM pool office M KUautk Palls. Ore., on August 30, 1MM, under act of Central, ICaraa t, 117 8EKVICU: ASSOCIATED PRJSS UNITED PRUS AUDIT BUREAU" OP CIRCULATIONS Senrinf Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER I MONTH MONTHS , 1 YEAR MAIL I MONTH 1 MONTHS 1 YEAR t 1.50 . a.oo , $18.00 t l .bO 7.SO u.oo Problem By BILL JENKINS For people who like to solve prottlems the field is growing ever wider. Right now there is a prob lem in New York City that has Che city fathers tearing their hair out in great chunks and no solu tion in sight. Seems that the city is suffering the loss of 45,000 shade trees yearly and is blaming the loss on the dogs. The belief is held that 70 or 80 canine visit) to a tree is too much for even ' the hardier varieties. So what to do about it? It has been suggested that the fireplugs be made more attractive to the dogs, possibly through use of perfume, but no further re search has been done on the situa tion. If you have any brilliant theo ries on how to eradicate this prob lem the National Arborist Asso ciation, PO Box 426, Wooster, Ohio, will be happy to hear from you. Of course if Gotham would merely follow the example of Klamath Falls and certain other Western communities they would have no problem. Nor any trees The solution requires only a handful of axes and the necessary men to swing them. By this sim ple expedient you can wipe out the problem and the trees, in less time than it takes to holler "tim ber" and in due time you have a beautiful, barren, dusty waste over which you can see for miles and miles and no trouble with blowing leaves, busted pipes or that nasty shade that keeps the beneficent tun from baking the earth. The Monthly Clip Sheet from the Catholic Digest, which is in turn quoting an article from Ladies Home Journal, says that you can tell what sort of person your (riends are by watching how and what they eat. The Clip Sheet goes on to say that most men would rather mar ry a good cook than a beautiful woman. It is assumed that a com bination would be ideal. Conse quently, they say, a man will put up with most anything if his wife turns out tasty goodies on sched ule. Further reading discloses these little facts: If you save the most delectable tidbit on your plate un til last it proves that you have a strong sense of security. If you eat it first it shows that you hove no sense of security at all and feel much insecurity. "Anxious eaters" are afraid of certain foods and show a lack of self confidence. The "ritualistic eater" must always dine on time, eats by rote and doesn't enjoy himself much. The "substitutive eater" uses food to replace love and affection and tries to eat his way out of frustration by gorging on sweets and French pastries. The last on the list is the "indif ferent eater" who considers eat ing a chore and gobbles what Is put before him without question. This proves that ho is lacking in aesthetic senses and is pretty much of a clod. I don't know that my personal eating habits point out much of anything except that 1 must have been a hog in some other life or am destined to be one in the next. I consider myself to be a good, consistent trencherman and never complain ns long as the food is varied and tasty. I'll eat moat, potatoes and biscuits' at any giv en time. Sufficient variety can easily be added with a meal or two of home made noodles with chicken. Gravy, of course, should be served with all meals, includ ing breakfast. Of course, being married to a food editor I have more chance than the average man for trying new and different dishes. But I still think that the standby of steak, potatoes, hot biscuits and gravy is pretty hard to beat. For any meal and for any given period oi lime. building costs of schools are too high, that there are too many un necessary frills in a school build ing, that the teachers are paid too much, that school funds are be ing wasted by the teaching of meaningless courses, or any num ber of other criticisms associated with the school programs. The board members and the school administrators are vitally interested in criticisms of this na ture and they are interested in correcting any shortcomings asso ciated with the schools. However, they seldom have access to the "coffee shop" complaints. It's a rare instance when anyone other than a person trying to get a raise or sell something appears at the board and budget meetings. This writer doesn't profess to know whether teachers are paid too much or too little, nor whether school buildings cost too much or whether there are too many un necessary components in a school building. However, this writer does attend most of the board and budget meetings, and is at the same time exposed to many of the "coffee shop" confabs pertaining to schools. By virtue of this dual at tendance it is well known that some of the coffee cup complaints are completely without foundation or are founded on faulty or ex aggeratcd information. At the same time, some of the off-the-cuff complaints or suggestions seem to have a lot of merit to them. So ... if you have a suggestion or criticism pertaining to the multi-million-dollar school opera tions, you will be doing the boards and yourself a great favor by taking your thoughts to one of the budget or regular board meet ings. The chances are good that you may have a suggestion of con siderable value. And ... if the case is such that you are belabor ing the school operations on the basis of erroneous or incomplete information you can help yourself and the boards by getting the oper ational or cost Information straight from the horse's mouth Information pertaining to sched uled meetings can always be ob tained by phoning the clerk of the city districts or the clerk of the county district. Movie Audience By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK Wi-Is the mental age of the average movie fan only h years; This has long been the nrivatelv held but rarely spoken view of some members of the motion pic ture industry. It Isn't shared by David Lean. British director of "The Bridge on The River Kwai," who is an odds- on favorite to win an oscar this year. . 'If we lack larger adult audi ence, he remarked quietly, "it merely shows we need to make more adult films. 'When it comes to judging the truth and sincerity of a movie, I have a great respect for the ver dict of the audience. That is one of the wonderful things about an audience it has a mass horse sense. "If they laugh at the wrong place in a movie, nine times out of ten those who made the movie are wrong and the audience is right. "An individual, even an indi vidual who makes a movie, may lack horse sense. But a large group usually has it." Lean, once acclaimed by fellow director John Huston as "the world's best." is a slender, dark haired artistic genius with craggy brows and brown eyes that hold an animal intensity. His quizzical expression and wry way of talk ing are both reminiscent of the late Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York. At 19 Lean quit a post In the office of his father, an Erglish ac countant, because "I was tired of adding up figures that other peo ple had added before me and still others would add up after me, He got a job as third assistant director for a film. Then, con vinced most pictures are made or lost in the cutting room, he be came a cutter for several years. I still do my own cutting be cause I feel it's so important," he said. "It's a lot of fun. You're there practically by yourself, alone with a pair of scissors cut ting out little pictures. Quite pleasant. Although, at 49, Lean has been 30 years in the industry he has directed only a dozen films. But they include such notable ones "In Which We Serve," "The Hap py Breed," "Blithe Spirit," "Brief Encounters," 'Great Expecta tions," "Oliver Twist" and "Summertime." All his work bears the stamp of patient craftsmanship and he likes to take his time about it. He spent a full year studying and polishing the script for Bridge on The Riv er Kwai," another six months shooting and cutting it. Lean believes Sir Laurence Oliv ier is the greatest actor alive. But he likes to work with American actors. "They learn their lines, they get to work on time, and they're keen as mustard about anything they're doing," he remarked. "It's a long slog making a picture, and en thusiasm is a wonderful thing to have around. American actors also don't argue about trying a thing In a new way. They like to experiment." Lean is an admirer of producers Mike Todd and Sam Goldwyn be cause he feels they are great gamblers. "The movie world will die if it doesn't have gamblers," he said. There are no guarantees in it, and if you want to play life safe, you'd better go into another business. "The big pictures are always big gamoles. If you succeed, every one says, 'well, how could he miss?' but if you fail, they say alter all, what a crazy idea! hatchery in Tupelo, Mississippi his home town. His speech on the matter concluded with this argu ment: "Why sires, thousands of millions of fish are clamoring at this Congress for an opportunity to be hatched at Tupelo." The House gave in and passed the bill. House speakers have been among the most colorful of our lawmak ers. One of them was Speaker Thorn as neeo. oi .Maine ... a six- foot-four giant with a face as Ion as a horse and a biting wit. It was Reed who told President Theodore Roosevelt: "Teddy, it there's one thing admire about you, it's your orig inal discovery of the Ten Com mandments." Reed, like all speakers, had his portrait painted. His reaction was typical. He took one look and roared at the trembling painter ah my enemies are now avenged:" Another speaker was Uncle Joe Cannon . , . full name John Jo seph Gurney Cannon, a tall, ci gar-smoking politician who served In the House for nearly 50 years and won a reputation as the most dictatorial speaker in the history of Congress. , In those days, the speaker ap pointed the powerful rules com mittee. Cannon handpicked the committee and ran Congress to suit himself. One lawmaker got a request from a constituent for copy of the House rules. The lawmaker sent him Can non s picture. Wnahintfion n ils By GEORGE J. MARDER (United Press) uixon Lewis oi Alabama was one of our most outstanding law makers. Outstanding physically anyway. Lewis weighed 500 pounds required a chair reinforced with steel, and during hot weather had two page boys fan him from ei ther side. Another character was Sam Houston of Texas. He was the only lawmaker who ever brought a knitc and some blocks of wood onto the floor of Congress so he could spend his idle hours whittling. Congressman John Allen of Mis sissippi has gone down in his tory as a lawmaker with a fine sense of humor. His maiden 6peech in 1885 is rated a classic. He was halfway through it when the speak er reminded him his time had ex pired. "That's a pity. Mr. President." Alien replied. "But I would at least like permission to print some remarks in the Congressional Rec ord and insert 'laughter and ap plause' In appropriate places. Now I will retire to the cloakroom to receive congratulations." It was Allen who once tried to get an appropriation for a fish Pogo Iludget Studies By JOHN GUERNSEY The school boards and budget committees of Klamath Falls ami Klamath County schools are now on the brink of undertaking their budget studies to determine school expenditures during the 1938 59 school year. Each year the boards study the school operations under their di rectorship and spend loii hours trying to give the people the fa cilities and educational programs Ihey desire at the least possible cost. The county and the city are fortunate in having exceptionally capable and conscientious boards who devote much of their time to doing a thorough job. Now, the point is thin, you can walk into any colfee shop in town and more often than not hoar someone complaining that the PiOiT .1 PONT WAST" TO M GUINEA PISS.WT16 AH.. V EXPfiSlMf NT4 WHAT iL &cmct ma6S wrrw A U9 m COUf&B 9 I OUINfA 0MT WBNpS POSTED ) I SUiNgA VflOiN' T3 v-. I - ft WITH 'gM? I) & S 1 I NOT..uT Tax And Prices Ashland (To the Editor) - read each day with interest your editorial in the Medford Mail Tri bune. I think your views of last evening call for some additional information oft the subject. I have analyzed the financial statement of the General .Motor: Corp. and the story it tells has much to do with the pricing of their product, inasmuch as taxes are just as much a part of the final cost as are wages, materials and capital expenditures. This is what I found, for the year 1956 Gross sales $10,796,4-12,575. There were shareholders 656.076 There were wage earners 650,000. Taxes $1,150,000,000. Wages $3,155,000,000. Net gain $847,000,000 r.acn wage earner earned on an average $5,056. The shareholder earned on an average $1,291. The shareholder was paid on an average $847. For each of the 656,076 share holders of General Motors, there was an average of $1,752 paid in taxes. It has often been said that about one third of the selling prici of a new automobile is taxes, eith er uirvci or indirect. As long as the people of Hie United States ire paying part of the taxes oi the people of foreign countries. just that long are the customers of our products going to have to pay more taxes, in the form oi higher prices. Someone is going to have to tell the people the simple facts of the effect of taxes upon the costs of .things we buy. I am sure, that very few of today's students and perhaps only a few more of their teachers can digest a statement and understand the significance of it. When the tax collector, takes a larger share of the product oi production, than the people that furnish the tools, its time to recon sider, the purpose of the game. Thanks for your good editorials. Roger F. Rath Quotes By UNITED PRESS NEW YORK Sir Percy Spend er, retiring Australian ambassa dor to the United States, on anti- American sentiment abroad: ' It is a tragedy that the Ameri can people are so little under stood in other parts of the world. Americans are basically a reli gious people. Americans are kind ly, generous and friendly." WASHINGTON - A special ad visory committee to the govern ment, on the need for stockpiling tootl and medicine anainst the possibility of atomic attack: "The time has come to take ac tion or human sin i al. relief and rehabilitation in event of nu clear attack." DAMASCUS. Syria - President Sukri El Kuwatly of Syria on plans for merging Syria am! Egypt into one nation: "I would bo glad to hand over my precious trust to Gam.il Ai del Nasser a young man mi lium itn i-'hu-i.im tor the sorwif ot the Atab world." Jury Foreman Asks Boycott Of Schools With Much Crime NEW YORK tfi-The foreman of a special grand jury investigating crime in Brooklyn public schools has suggested that parents have their children boycott schools where crime is prevalent. Foreman A. George Golden made the suggestion at a jury ses sion yesterday. At the time, the grand jury had not yet learned that George Gold farb. 55, principal of violence-tormented John Marshall Junior High School in Brooklyn, had plunged to death from the roof of his home. The district attorney's office pronounced him a suicide. County Judse Samuel S. Leibo- witz promised to study Golden's proposal, which was made in the lorm of a question. "Is there anvthina in the law that could prevent thousands of mothers and fathers from having their young children boycott the scnoois until something is done?' Golden asked. Leibowitz said he will confer with Brooklyn Dist. Attv. Edward S. Silver and report back to the grand jury. When notified of Goldfarb's death. Golden said the jurors will call in Board of Education offi cials to find out whether the prin cipal had been under pressure or had been threatened with disci plinary action for reportedly tell ing the jurors last TH'rsdav that he would like to have a policeman stationed inside nis school. The grand jury and Leibowitz lavor stationing a policeman in every school in the city. This sue- gesuon nas Deen turned down by the Board of Education. School Supt. William Jansen and Police Commissioner Stephen P. Ken nedy. It was disclosed that Goldfarb had notified the police he wanted patrolman stationed inside his school. A later request was mailed Monday night. When Jansen was told about this, he said the Board of Edu cation "would certainly have ap proved nis request. Last week a 13-year-old white irl at John Marshall reuorted she had been raped in the school basement by an unidentified Ne gro boy. Die rape resulted in Goldfarb's appearance before the grand jury. ue was oue to appear again yes- icraay. Last Thursday, two other inei dents involving violence were re ported at his school. Patrolman Thomas Flemine. on uuiy ouisme tne scnool, was punched by one of six youths he ordered not to loiter around the building. The school's recreation director was assaulted by a vouth in me basement of the school. Die John Marshall student body is 4o per cent Negro and 10 per com ruerio mean. The grand jury also heard tes timony that teen-aged hoodlums forced an assistant principal to quit one Brooklyn school under tear of harm, while another youth gang took control of a Brooklyn elementary school and attacked a woman teacher. Later, Dr. Joseph C. Noethen. an assistant superintendent of schools, said reports of a youth gang taking over a school were "not true." "Some high school students got into the building and the police a hospital with superficial womds. ejected them. No teacher was They were later released. touched or assaulted and no dam- Police held five Negro boy is age was done," he said. . to 17, and sought three others for Two teen-age white girls were me auacs. if yvys, puuee m, stabbed in the back as they were changing trains on their way home from a Brooklyn parochial high school. Sharon Gallagher, 15, and Kath erine Guilfoyle, 17, were taken to had been drinking wine in the neighborhood and were "prty high." ' i The girls were attacked when they refused to give the youtu money, according to police. i TheyTl Do It Every Time tm.m. . By Jimmy Hatlo (AHEM!) WILLV all. of the older ladies.. (Z. HARROMPH--SIT on "rut f CHAIRS IM FRONT AHD L -It TWUNOtK ONS rZtH0 OF THE OLDER LADESJ(2SXN WDW what Acnon! 1Z. " I AM H-BOMB COULDN'T WW pFJg Senator Raps Reuther Plan Portland Bus Firm To Quit PORTLAND. Ore. Wi Rose City Transit Co.. which provides mass transportation for Portland's 400,000 residents, lias served no tice it will go out of business Feb. 27. Hose City made its announce ment after Uie City Council failed to pass an emergency measure granting an immediate fare in crease to 25 cent a ride. The fare now is 20 cents. The Council voted 4-1 in favor but a unanimous vote was neees. ary to pass the emergency ordi nance. 11 approved on first readme an other proposal to make the in crease efleclive early in March. Only a simple majority is needed for approval of this measure and it apparently will pass when it comes up on nnal reading Feb. 20. The company countered the Council's action with a declara tion it will continue to operate its motor buses if a fare increase is granted in 10 days. WASHINGTON W) Sen. Dirk- sen (R-Ill) today described union leader Walter Reuthers profit- sharing plan as "definitely an ef- lort to invade the management field." "We're going to have to exDlore that," Dirksen said as Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, was called before the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommitee for a second day of testimony. Reuther testified that control over industry is not "the remotest part" of labor's goal, but Dirksen said the UAW's profit-sharing plan is an attempt "to dictate the ap portionment of profits" by car manufacturers. If Reuther is not interested in dictating policy, Dirksen asked in an interview, "why come up with a plan like that?" Under the plan, advance by the UAW as its chief goal in contract negotiations this spring, the work ers would receive 25 per cent of profits in excess of the first 10 per cent before taxes. Another 25 per cent would be earmarked as a price rebate for car buyers. Reuther said the plan would let workers and consumers share in what he called excess profits, just as company executives do through bonuses. 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