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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, October 21, I960
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. B. S.l
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: Those persons who do not think the f ed
' "eral government is doing enough or intends
:to do enough for its citizens just do not
:;realize how fast we are traveling in the di
rection of ultimate fiscal commitment. The
.'direction we are going, and if we add all of
'.'those things many people (under the pro-
posals espoused by Sen. Jack Kennedy) would
'like to see us undertake, would lead us to
fiscal bankruptcy.
This was never made more plain than
through some remarks by Maurice. H. Stans,
i director of the Bureau of the Budget, in a re-
cent talk.
The first of the great delusions (about
government and the economy) is our fasci
; 'nation with the miracle theory of public spend
ing, otherwise known as the "crash" approach
; to national objectives. This viewpoint tells us
: money will buy anything. . . .
j The second great delusion is that when
we turn to the Federal Government to solve
local problems we are only spending the
other fellow's money. It seems so much easier
to go to the Federal Government to fix our
. streets, build our schools, provide our air
ports, finance our hospitals, and even provide
library services, than it is to take our chances
; with the city council or the state legislature.
Together, these two delusions that
money will solve anything ... and that it's
the other fellow's money we're spending
have almost destroyed our opportunities for
: orderly fiscal planning. . . . Our readiness to
borrow to mortgage the future has created
continuing obligations that destroy our flexi
bility to reflect changing national values and
to meet new challenges. ...
As I see it, there are four present major
circumstances that must be taken into account
in charting our future course. '
First, we must appraise the Soviet threat.
; For the moment, the purposes of Soviet pol-,
' icy seem to be served by a parading of mili
tarism. The probability Is that they still
: choose the economic battlefield, renewing Mr.
; Khrushchev's challenge to the free enterprise
: system. In effect, he has pledged all the ener-
gies of the Soviet system toward making us a
second-class economic power. ...
Next, our continuing unfavorable balance
of payments, which ran about $4 billion in
1959, has elements of danger. Whether or not
" those dangers develop depends on how we
maintain the world's confidence in us in our
ability to manage our fiscal affairs, and to
maintain a strong dollar. We have become the
-world's banker with large balances of short-
. term credits.
: If we run a poor bank if we don't man
age our finances tightly we can lose that
confidence, and the results can be serious to
:pur gold supply and to our money and our
national vitality.
Third, to date, compensatory fiscal
: policy has not worked as it was supposed to
; work. Whenever we have a downspin, we ac
celerate government spending and borrow
ing, to pull ourselves out; but when equilib
; rium Is restored we seem to lack the fortitude
BARBS
, : Wives are the reason married
don't let the grass grow under
feet.
You can have corking good times
without a lot of uncorking.
' The gal who wants attention
should make up her mind to mind her
jmake-up.
'.; Funny how we consider a bore
the fellow who talks when we want to.
: If a gal calls her regular beau by his
: right name when she gets back from
vacation she's lucky.
The kids' vacation Is what
.the three R's for mom rest,
and relaxation.
'.; Maybe youngsters are lucky If
they're not allowed to act as their
: parents did when they were young.
Think of the beauty spots that are
'. ruined by being used as picnic spots.
How can anyone look the
square in the eye when asleep on
Job?
Fiscal Responsibility
to curtail spending and generate a surplus to
pay the debts we have incurred to tide us
through the emergency. If we continue along
this line our national debt is bound to go up
and up.
And fourth, the shadow of inflation is
always stalking us. The fact that we have held
it off so well the last few years is not a rea
son for relaxing, because the danger is still
with us. United Nations figures show that 29
out of 68 free countries amost half have
had price increases of 50 per cent or more
in the last 10 years. I don't need to tell you
what this has meant in terms of a loss of
values of savings, insurance, pensions in suf
fering and loss of opportunity. . . .
Our present national debt of about $290
billion is far from all we owe for the past.
This is just the interest-bearing debt. To really,
understand what we owe, you have to add in
some other things. For example, the benefits
which we have voted to veterans and their
dependents will cost $300 billion in the years
ahead. On top of that, unfinanced government
liabilities for military and civil service re
tirement already come to nearly $60 billion
more.
And along with this, the Federal Govern
ment is piling up C.O.D.'s for future redemp
tion at an astounding pace. Our commitments
for highway improvements, for public hous
ing, for civil public works, and for merchant
shipping and other subsidies, run into the tens
of billions. In fact, when we put these com
mitments together with the huge unspent
balances of appropriations in the defense pro
gram, the total comes out to nearly $100 bil
lion of C.O.D.'s.
Now the $290 billion of public debt, plus
over $350 billion of future obligations for past
services, plus nearly $100 billion of C.O.D.'s
add to the almost unbelievable total of nearly
$750 billion and that is what I keep referring
to as the Federal Government's mortgage on
America's future, on ourselves and on our
children, beyond the regular annual costs of
defense, welfare and commerce. ...
r We agree with Mr. Stans, and add fur
ther that we are alarmed that there are so
many who will claim that all we need to do is
add to the tax burden to provide the "welfare
state" so many aspire to. We agree, too, with
Mr. Stans in his philosophy that "in govern
ment finance there is no acceptable alterna
tive to conservatism. Any other choice means
speculation. . . . Conservatism still leaves
ample room to be dynamic, to take up new
ideas, to move ahead as we can afford to
do so . . ."
We agree with a reader who recently
pointed out that "rugged individualism" can
be carried too far. That such a philosophy,
rigidly applied to our economic structure,
can be harmful. We would not like, either, to
see our aged people dying in want because
they lacked the few dollars necessary for prop
er care, as one example.
At the same time, we are as firmly op
posed to the pic-in-the-sky proposals advo
cated by Sen. Kennedy and others whose,
liberal attitudes exceed our capabilities and
point the way to fiscal disaster.
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By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA1 - When
the serious religious issue and the
frivolous side issues of Dick Nix
on's five o'clock shadow, his
wife's hairdresser, .lack Kenne
dy's boyishness or his wife's hair
do are excluded from the presi
dential campaign, there are still
a dozen major dehale subjects
that should be the basis for de
ciding the election even if they're
nol.
United Slates daily newspaper
editors receiving this column
through Newspaper Enterprise
Assn. were therefore asked to
list what they considered most
important of these big issues. The
purpose was to get a national
pulse-taking on public reaction to
campaign speeches and arguments
advanced by the candidates.
Replies were received from 300
editors all over the country. Com
piled to make a table of priori
ties, this shows the percentage of
editors listing each of the follow
ing as the most important issues
(more than one selected):
Foreign policy, 71 per cent; can
didates' abilities, 60 per cent; na
tional defense, 55 per cent; farm
programs. 44 per cent; anti-com
Silent Ones
Various citizens of the Klam
ath Rasin are fighting zealously
to turn the tribal property, being
sold under the Klamath termina
tion program, into a separate na
tional forest. At various times
they have exerted energy to do
other things besides Ht protect
the economy of the Rasin by hav
ing sustained yield provisions in
corHirated in the termination law:
12' turn our marsh into a wild
life reluge. In addition, these per
sons are continuing to express
concern over how we will han
dle our termination money.
While they fought vociferously
for sustained yield management
(for which the Klamath Indians
are paving dearly! and are now
fighting vigorously for the crea
tion of a separate national for
est, they were silent during the
election fiasco, and a sain when
our appraisal was slashed. They
did not raise a whisper of con
cern when the federal govern
ment provided gross misinforma
tion to the Klamath Indians about
the value of our property, advis
ing tribal members to study this
misinformation before making
their "most important, irrevoca
ble, decision." They did not seem
to care when, finally, alter the
election, we were informed that
the appraisal information w a s
wrong so wrong in fact that
there was a mistake of some 30
million dollars. And lliey did not
raise their voices with us in pro
test when the election was pro
nounced valid.
Furthermore, not only did these
people remain silent when w
were trying to secure an amend
ment to the termination law that
would have hastened the unneces
sarily prolonged and costly sales
period, but certain individuals ac
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
Editors Compare
Campaign Issues
munism, 41 per cent; party plat
forms, 35 per cent; civil rights,
29 per cent; labor relations, 2!)
per cent; economic growth, 28
per cent; fiscal policy, 28 per
cent; inflation, 23 per cent; rec
ord in Congress, 23 per cent;
candidates' wives, 17 per cent;
foreign aid. 12 per cent; time for
a change,'7 per cent, and social
security, 5 per cent.
Foreign policy and national de
fense are paramount issues na
tionally, right across the country.
In this connection, nnli-commu-nism
is listed more as the fight
against international communism
than against domestic subversion.
And it is important to note that
foreign policy is considered more
important than the candidates
themselves.
Other top issues in the list are
more spotty, by regions. Farm
policy was listed by 57 per cent
of the midwest editors but by
only 35 1 per cent in other sec
tions. Civil rights was lisled by 35
per cent of the southern and east
ern editors, but by only 23 per
cent in midwest and west.
Another significant revelation in
this list is that with the excep
tion of the farm problem, domes
tic economy issues are given a
Letters To The
tually thwarted our efforls to get
this accomplished. This has cost
us thousands of dollars in interest
alone.
Our objection is not so much
over the furor raised by these
individuals over such matters as
sustained yield, but to their silent
indifference when it has involved
the inequities suffered by t h e
Other Editor's Opinions
Ron Phair's
Answers
(MADRAS (ORE.) PIONEER)
Hon Phair, the Republican can
didate for Congress from the sec
ond district of Oregon, submitted
to questioning Monday on his
views on the farm program. His
answers do him credit.
Himself a farmer, Phair slates
flatly that there is no pal. easy
answer to the farm program: but
he does have some ideas that he
should be given a chance to pur
sue as a congressman from east
ern Oregon.
First of all. Phair eels that
too many Americans, including
congressmen and senators from
non-farm slates, believe that all
farmers are rich and getting
richer, through supports paid
for by the taxpayers. He cites
the statement of the chairman of
the house agricultural committee,
who has slated that there never
has been a wheat bill proposed
which could win more than 30
ht cent of the voles in the
House of Representatives, a clear
indication that understanding is
lacking. Call it bad public rela
tions it you will, hut Phair is on
the richt track when he savs that
a bettor national understanding
of the larm problem will create
an atmosphere in which a solu
tion may better be sought.
Phair also says that while he
lower priority by most newspa
per editors.
Labor policy questions red-hot
in previous elections are down
graded to a mere 29 per cent in
interest. The debate on econom
ic growth has aroused only 28
per cent of the editors, the same
as fiscal policy. Inflation which
scared so many people last elec
tionnow raises only a 23 per
cent response.
And the foreign aid programs
w hich isolationists thundered about
so loudly in the two presidential
campaigns now gets a rise out of
only 12 per cent of the editors.
Social security is down to a 5
per cent rating. Only a few edi
tors wrote in "old age health in
surance" as an important issue
and nobody mentioned minimum
wage increase, unemployment,
aid to depressed areas or even
juvenile delinquency.
To get at the big issues from
other angles, editors were asked
for opinions on three choice ques
tions: Which slate of candidates is
the abler Nixon-Lodge or Kennedy-Johnson?
Which party has the better
platform this year?
Which party has the better
record in Congress?
Consistent with the fact that 59
per cent of the newspapers are
supporting the Republican ticket
to the 14 per cent supporting the
Democrats, the GOP came out
best on all three.
The Nixon-Lodge combination
was considered abler by 54 per
cent, to only 12 per cent in favor
of Kennedv-Johnson.
Editor
Klamath Indian people during
this termination period.
Marie Norris,
Klamath Tribal Member,
112 High Street,
Klamath Falls.
Flava Yates.
Klamath Tribal Member,
P.O. Rox 264
Chiloquin.
recognizes the need for recipro
cal trade agreements and foreign
aid, he does not believe in cruci
fying American (and Oregon!
farmers to pay for them. He is
particularly concerned also, he
said Monday, with the encroach
ment of imported lambs and the
ever-increasing importation of for
eign beef.
As a glower of wheat and pota
toes, Phair said that while he
does not have any pat answers,
he will work for a program that
will protect the best interests of
the farmers of the 18 counties
east of the Cascades.
Conversely, what have we had
from Al l'llman, his opponent?
As the incumbent, l'llman has
had four years to come up with
the answers (which he and his
supporters are demanding of
Phair'. To date, l'llman hasn't
come up with much of anything
except a spate of news releases
reading "Congressman Al l'llman
today expressed approval of . . .
(something that someone else had
done'." Alter four years, l'llman
has failed to show that he can
be ellective in Washington. He
linally got some money for a
Malheur County project, hut he
even had to make a dicker with
a Republican congressman to get
that lo show as a trophy when
he came home to campaign
l'llman has faded to produce.
Vole for Ron Phair.
You may or may not agree that
some elements of Edward Gib
bon's "Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire" have some ap
plication today. He listed as some
of the reasons for Rome's fall:
1. The rapid increase in di
vorce; the undermining of t h e
dignity and sanctity of the home,
which is the basis of society.
2. Higher and higher taxes and
the spending of public monies for
free bread and circuses for the
populace.
3. The mad craze for pleasure;
sports becoming every ypar more
exciting and more brutal.
4. The building of gigantic arm
aments when the real enemy was
from within; the decadence of the
people.
5. The decay of religion faith
fading into mere form, losing
touch with life, and becoming im
potent to warn and guide the
people.
. Our Main Street Adviser the
other day described parents as
people who bear inlanls, bore
teenagers, and board newlyweds.
Has it ever occurred to you
that man's life is full of crosses
and temptations? He comes into
this world without his consent
and goes out against his (most
of the time) consent. And the
trip between is exceedingly rocky.
The rule of contraries is one of
the features of his trip. When
he is little, the big girls kiss
him; when he is big, the little
girls kiss him. If he is in poli
ties, it is for graft; if he is out
of politics, you can't find a place
for him, and he is no good for
the country. If he doesn't give to
charities he is a stingy cuss:
if he does, it's for a show. If
he is actively religious he is a
hypocrite; if he takes no inter
est in religion he is a hardened
sinner. If he exhibits affection he
is a soft specimen; if he cares
for no one, he is cold-blooded. If
he dies young, there was a great
future for him; if he lives to an
old age, he missed his calling. If
he saves his money he's greedy;
if he sends it he's a loafer and
a spendthrift. If he gels his, he's
a grafter; and if he doesn't get
it, he's a hum. If he doesn't go
around with a perpetual smile
he's a grouch; if he does he's
a simple fool. So, what's the use
of it all?
I'll never get accustomed to
seeing these high school boys
and girls (and younger) trotting
or driving around with a cig
arette drooping from their lips.
There probably are a lot of
things much worse, though.
Once heard about the conimu-
Can
By HAROLD T. HYMAX, M.D.
Written for
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
If you have a hypochondriac in
your family, perhaps you'll sym
pathize with a gentle critic (of
Pensacola. Fla.l, who expresses
the opinion that medical columns,
such as mine, are harmful to
emotionally unstable patients,
their families and even their doc
tors. "When you write your com
ments concerning various dis
eases, poisons, antidotes, etc.,"
he writes. "I'm sure you do not
realize that many readers are
not mentally stable enough to di
gest your comments without feel
ing they have the same disease
you describe.
"As they read, they just know
they have the same symptoms
and must have the same dread
disease although their family doc
tor just hasn't found it.
"I know theirs is not a
healthy attitude but let's face it,
there are hundreds of people of
this type in our country and cer
tainly your column does them,
their families and even Iheir doc
tors no good.
"My experience is from a per
sonal standpoint." the letter goes
on to say. "I have a member of
my family who has never been
well, has many and various ail
ments all the time and. believe
me. grabs the paper each day
and eagerly reads your column
and just knows her symptoms are
the same as you describe and
that she must have the same
dread disease described that day.
"Neurotics seek medical a i d
regularly, and give their doctor
and families enough concern with
out aid from your column. Don't
you agree?"
Dear friend. I couldn't agree
more. Nor could you possibly find
nity busybody who bustled op
to a small boy who she detected
puffing happily on a cigarette.
"Does your mother know yoa
smoke?" she inquired severe
ly. "Lady," countered the boy,
"does your husband know you
stop and talk to strange men
on the street?"
We appreciate much the little
tips and bits of information that
are dropped our way by readers.
It is not easy, at best, to keep
these columns interesting, espe
cially for the newcomer to tha
community. If you have some
thing of general interest, we'll
be happy to hear of it. Perhaps
it is an exceptionally kind deed
by neighbor friends, or an un
usual achievement of some in
dividual, or some unusual degree)
of selflessness, civic accomplish'
ment or other incident that does
not fall into the general category
ol "news." We like to get those
items in here. There is enough
of brickbats and criticism. A few
bouquets won't hurt a thing.
And, along those lines of think
ing, gentle reader, you can be of
great assistance in helping us to
get the news, thereby being of
greater service to the communi
ty. Generally, if some incident
or happening of news valuer
doesn't get inlo the papers, it's
because we didn t know about
it. Surprisingly, most people think
the newspaper office is one of tha
first places to hear about every
happening of news interest. Not
so. It is, tragically enough, often
one of the last places to heaf,
about it because everybody thinks
we already know about it. Don't
be bashful about calling us or
otherwise letting us know of
something you think will be of
general interest to people of tha
community. We're anxious to have
your help, and exceedingly
pleased when you notify us ol a
news event no matter how small
or trivial in nature you might
deem it.
The recent story of the U.S.
admiral (retired) who got clob
bered for smuggling some hun
dreds of cases of whiskey to the
U.S. reminds me of the old Irish
contractor who was passing
through customs. "Do you have)
anything lo declare?" asked tha
customs official.
"Only a bottle of water," tha
contractor replied.
The customs official took
whiff of the cork.
"What kind?"
"Holy water."
"It's whiskey!" cried the offi
cial. "Glory be!" exclaimed the con
tractor. "A miracle!"
THE DOCTOR SAYS . . .
Column's Services
Be Beneficia
anyone more sympathetic to your
suffering. Rut I must take ex
ception to the obvious inlerenca'f
that medical columns, such as
mine, are not in the public in
terest and hence should be dons
away with.
As a thoughtful and experienced
man, you must realize that ev
ery public service is capable of
misuse in the hands of unstable,
ignorant or malicious persons.
1 don't think you'd favor aboil
tion of fire boxes because of a
prankster or a maniac occasion
ally turning in a false alarm.
I don't think you'd favor a
ban on sweet shops because an
occasional diabetic goes on a
candy binge and ends up in a
state of acidosis.
Nor do I think you'd favor re
enactment of the constitutional
amendment that prohibited tha
manufacture and sale of alcoholic
beverages just because too many
of your neighbors and mina
drink more than is good f o t
them.
Certainly my columns and thosa
of my fellow columnists do harm
to those who misuse or' abuse tha
information that's contained in
them.
Rut. for each reader who's
harmed, I believe there are many
who profit by what they read.
And. in any democratic soci
ety, the host that any public ser
vant can hope to achieve is that
which brinus the greatest good
to the greatest number.
Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap
preciates your comments and
questions but regrets lhat I h
heavy volume ol his mail doesn't
permit him to answer each in
dividual letter or post card. How."
ever, he will comment in coiumna
like the above upon matter! of
general or unusual interest
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