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" PAGE -K ' HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall), Ore. Tburtday. December I, lKt NOTHING SPECIAL fcdiichMfpaip IW. 8. S.) I - Q v "A : After reading some of the excerpts from the report of the President's Commission on National Goals, we are somewhat less enthus iastic about their study than we were prev iously. The report is coldly specific on at least one point: the cost of government will rise quite some billions in the 1960's if the sugges tions of the Commission are adopted. And, from the content of the articles we have been publishing on the editorial page, the report is something like a blueprint for U.S. par ticipation in every nook and cranny in the world. , And, as we see it (the entire report) we face a rise in taxes and a lower standard of liv ing if we are to meet the responsibilities out lined in the report. Such a. situation sounds appalling to those of us who do not have op portunity to get out and wave the flag for in ternational reform and do-goodism. We are not isolationists, but achievements of our various international programs of the past 8-12 years lead us to the conclusion that we ought to overhaul those programs before launching into any new and more grandiose projects. . Back to the report. The Commission did not spell out how much would have to be added to federal, state and local taxes to imple ment their suggestions. But they did say: Military costs must rise, by unguess able amounts, to provide a "secure deterrent" against Soviet aggression and Red China's "blatant hostility." . Foreign aid must go up. U.S. invest ment, public and private, in the underde veloped countries must rise from the 1960 rate of $3.4 billion a year to as much as $5.5 billion, within five years. : : To combat city decay, "further urban renewal programs costing as much as $4 bil A Residents of the Klamath Basin will have one more grand opportunity to send the Klam ath United Fund "over the top" this weekend. A program in which the Herald and News is cooperating seeks to lend emphasis on achiev ing the minimum goal of $139,000 sought by UF. V , ' . ; We are hopeful that residents of the com munity will realize the many advantages of a well-organized, smoothly operated United Fund, and that we will not forfeit our re sponsibility. On the other hand, the many disadvantages are obvious. ' There are differences of opinion as to the merits of participating agencies, the meth ods of distributing money; some persons feel that unless all charitable organizations are included in UF, it has no place in the com You, loo, Can Raise A Delinquent Juvenile delinquency, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and others emphasize, be comes a graver problem all the time both in the extent of the crimes committed by juve niles, and in the crime's seriousness. If you, as a parent want to join the parade and raise a delinquent, there are certain rules to follow. Frank Brabant, an authority on the subject, who lectures around the country, recently listed them. Here are a few: From infancy onward give the child everything he wants, so that he'll grow up thinking the world owes him a living. Don't give him any spiritual training. Avoid use of word "wrong';' it may give him a guilt com plex. Do everything for him, so that he'll THEY SAY. .. ; Let there be no mistake about it. Mr. Khrushchev and those around him have threatened to inflict a deep wound upon the United Nations. That wound could be mortal. Canadian Prime Minister John Dief- :enbaker.' I The pressure on us (from commu nism) is intensifying everywhere. It will go on until there is a clear winner and a clear loser. The struggle is too big, too vast, too deadly for compro mise. --Gen. Nathan F. Twining. BARBS All that a wallflower needs to blos som out at a party is some son. 7 One Ohio man dislocated his jaw five times from yawning. He should keep his TV set shut off. . Get into the habit of pleasing where you go and you can fo just 'libout where you please. Foolish Report lion a year are needed." Presumably this means combined federal, state and local out lays; if so, the new figure means at least doubling the total spending of the three levels of government. Over-all outlays for education must be doubled in 10 years. The state, local and fed eral government share by 1970 would be $33 billion. Other cost increases are even less clear ly defined. That the proposals will add up to more billions is clear from this partial listing presented to Eisenhower. More federal aid to higher education. Direct grants for school systems to low-income states and matching funds for richer states. Higher teachers' salaries. In total, says the commission, a "large additional sum." Federal and state loans and grants to help depression-ridden cities and towns build up their payrolls, and to provide retraining for factory workers who are replaced by ma chines.. "Much-increased retirement of farm land, with emphasis on whole farms" pre sumably by public purchase of the land. More'government money for new med ical facilities, the training of doctors and scholarships for medical students. Strengthening of U.S. information ac tivities overseas. The question, raised by the commission itself, is whether such outlays will so burden the economy that the country staggers under the load and will find the admittedly high and difficult goals that much harder to achieve. We can agree with the last statement. This is one blueprint for socialism that should be stashed in the archives and written off as a report wholly incapable of achievement purely on the grounds of objection and rejection. Last Chance munity. There are valid points on both sides in all of these issues. However, the principal point to bear in . mind that United Fund offers us an oppor tunity to display our Christian spirit and our regard to man without resorting to massive governmental agency programs. Further, in some instances, our dollars are helping ad vance the cause of science in the fight against many diseases and illnesses that plague man kind. It is realistic to agree that United Fund is not 100 per cent effective. At the same time, it is reasonable to say that nothing is. This, we think, is the real yardstick to apply when one is considering participation in the UF program. Every honest person will admit that UF, whatever its drawbacks, is preferable to other activities or single fund drives. . become accustomed, to throwing all respon sibility on to others. Give him all the spending money he wants, and never insist that he earn any of his own. Satisfy his every craving and sensual desire after all, denial may frus trate him. Take his part against neighbors, teachers and the police. When he gets into real trouble, apologize by saying, "I never could do anything with him." These rules aren't hard to follow and abide by great numbers of parents have, as surging juvenile delinquency shows. You, too, can produce a delinquent, simply and easily. Theauthority adds one more observa tion: "Prepare for a life of grief. You will be apt to have it." Planetarium l ACROSS 8 Flower A Russian river 7 Head (rT.) 8 Poem Kind of lily 10 Indiana 11 Appellation IB Organ ol hearing 21 Torrid 23 Venerate 24 Regal residence 29 Heavenly body 1 ComlelUUen 4 Remote planet 9 "Source of liRht" Vi Sweet potato 13 Ventilated 14 Japanese outcast 15 Rout (lb.) 16 Writing Unlet 18 Domestic Slav. ?? 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But there are many ways and means of government participation. The Soviet experience has shown that an economy directly con trolled and operated by ihe state WASHINGTON WINDOW Kennedy, Johnson Face Big Right-to -Work Showdown By LYI.E C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)-An inci dent on the Potomac! Did Sens. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson offer to bar gain away a principal labor plank of the Democratic ' presidential platform in exchange for the sup port of Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D Va., for their presidential and vice presidential candidacies? The answer to that astonishing question is: Yes, Sens. Kennedy and Johnson did just that. The sequence of events was like this: The I960 Democratic platform contained this pledge: "We will repeal the authoriza tion for 'right to work' laws." Virginia has such a law bar ring the closed shop, enacted by the state under protection of the Taft-Hartley Act. Byrd denounced this platform promise to repeal the section of Ute Taft-Hartley Act which enabled Virginia to act. This was the first indication that Byrd would not endorse the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. This indica tor proved to be 100 per cent accurate. Congress convened in renewed session after the national conven tions. Kennedy sought a mceling with Byrd at this time and, the Virginia senator being agreeable, . Kennedy and Johnson called on him in his Capitol Hill office. The nominees were accompanied bv Sen. George A. Smather, D Fla. These three visitors were pain fully aware of Byrd's distrust of numerous provisions of the Dem ocratic platform and, especially, of his public protest on the issue of right-to-vvork. So, there was a discussion of the platform during which Byrd emphasized his sense of outrage, notably on the closed shop issue. Kennedy then told Byrd that he had no idea of acting to repeal right-to-work laws. Johnson con curred. This incident on the Potomac raises, of course, some qucslions. One of them is this: Did Kennedy and Johnson mean It when their endorsement of the Democratic platform coiorcd it wholly from the first word through the last or, did they mean what they said to Byrd? The answer to that question will Role Of Government Set By Attitudes Of People can be effective at least in the short run and for the accom plishment of specific goals. But. the stifling of individual initiative and creativity may prove in the long run to lead to dangerous loss of economic vitality. In any case, we cannot con sider sacrificing all else for eco nomic effectiveness. We still have to meet our other imperative, that of the democratic economy. The problem becomes one of balance. The public objectives which we may select must be weighed against their cost in indi vidual rights. f Price stability or economic growth are not desirable per se; they are desirable only as they ultimately lead toward the na tion's basic goal of individual self fulfillment. Government intervention is not come when the new Congress is in session. Organized labor went all out for the election of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. Big labor believes with considerable justice that Kennedy and Johnson could not have been elected without its help. There will be an effort by labor's representatives in C o n grcss to kill off at the source all slate right-to-work laws. That would be by amending the Taft-Hartley Act to withdraw the authority under which the state laws have been enacted. To this amendment there will be great opposition. Big labor will expect Kennedy and Johnson to help them overcome Uiat opposition. And at that point, the showdown will come. There are other Democratic platform promises which are in a similar sort of political limbo. One of them is the pledge, if it was a pledge, to repeal the 27 per cent tax advantages enjoyed py the oil, gas and other extra active industries by reason of de piction allowances. There may be quite a ruckus about that. Al manac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Dec. 8, the. 343rd day of the year with 23 more in 1960. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Mercury and Mars. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1765, Eli Whitney was born. In 1886. the American Federa tion of Labor was founded. In 1920, the first regular night ly radio concert in America was broadcast from Pittsburgh. The program was heard by a few radio enthusiasts through head phones. In 1940, almost ,400 German bombers raided London. The House of Commons suffered its first serious damage in World War II. Thought for today: The first United States President, George Washington, said: "There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation lo nation." evil per se; it is evil if it does not properly reflect the consensus of the people, or if the gains are clearly overbalanced by the re sulting inroads in the individual's sphere. Having determined that there are valid public needs which are not being adequately met through individual action, we need to make careful judgments about the best method of governmental ac tionbest from the points of view of both effectiveness and democ racy. One method which holds prom ise is persuasive leadership by the executive branch of govern ment. . The American economic process has created a system which is reasonably responsive to the wish es of the people. If their wishes can be clarified and focused, they can be quite effective. Some of the devices might be the follow ing: 1. The Council of Economic Ad visers is already making contin uing surveys of the general per formance of the economy. These functions might be broadened to ' include the making of recommen dations for actions necessary to the achievement of specific eco nomic objectives. 2. The government, through its executive agencies, could exer cise more initiative to assist in dustries through difficult econom ic adjustments. More could be done to case the effects of automation through gov ernment co-operation. Special re training and placement and other programs could supplement the modernization efforts of various industries. The public benefits greatly from automation and has an obligation to case the costs borne by individuals. 3. In some crucial and par ticularly sensitive or costly areas, the government's executive agen cies will have to take the lead in industrial development. This is true of the activities of the Atom ic Energy Commission and of many segments of the military services. 4. In the area of national emer gency strikes, the government might enter earlier into potential ly difficult situations and play a more aggressive role in making settlement proposals. But collective bargaining still works best when it is left to the parties. Compulsory arbitration leads automatically to wage fix-' ing, as in Australia. There arc several alternative courses, in cluding different degrees of med iation, fact finding and voluntary arbitration. It is better to have several such courses of action available. Great er use of independent third par ties to assist in collective bargain ing has been helpful in several instances. 5. The government can use Ihe conference method more widely lo spread information and to help form opinion as. for exampln, among industry and union lead ers on the issue of price and wage stability. There are real limits of the. effectiveness of such largely per. suasive devices; hut there are also real uses. They involve a more affirmative, constructive role for government, but they generally slop short of direct par ticipation in the established derision-making processes of the economy. Some interesting things turn up in the news that aren't always printed. For instance, I see where a guy in California is suing his hometown weekly newspaper. Seems that he was a candidate for City Council and inserted an advertisement that said among other things: "You need a friend in the Council." Trouble was, that little "r" was dropped and the phrase read "you need a fiend in the Council." That is only one example of the horrible things that can devel op as a result of a simple typo graphical error that is over looked by the proofreader. Harsh critics should realize the hundreds of thousands, and even millions of opportunity for error in reading newspaper proofs every day, and at least understand, if not forgive. Somo of the best and most in teresting bloopers turn up in the advertisements. A few samples culled from some outstanding nerve-shatterers': The Springs Cot ton Mills ad: "Springmaid sheets are known as America's favorite playground" ... A West Rox bury, Mass., monument firm: "There's still time to get under the deadline" . . . New Industrial Rayon Corp.'s slogan: "The knit with the fit where you sit" . . . Perfume ad in Los Angeles Times: "Ciro's four most-wanted fragrances: Danger, New Hori zons, Surrender and Reflexions." Then I read the other day where a guy in Illinois lost the $1,000 diamond from his ring while feeding chickens (don't ask me why a guy with a $1,000 dia mond ring would be feeding chickens). After a thor ough search of the premises failed . to . find the diamond, the fellow went to the chicken house, axe in hand. Twenty-four chickens and five turkeys were slaughtered be fore he found his diamond in the crop of the 29th bird investigated. Also in the news is the inci dent which proved to a congress man that it doesn't always pay to be helpful to his constituents, ac cording to the experience of a California legislator. Seems that a prospective mother-in-law wrote the gentleman complaining that the Navy wouldn't let a young sailor leave his ship to marry her daughter. The ship was an chored in San Diego Harbor. The bride-to-be and her mother were waiting on the wharf for him to come ashore. The congressman contacted the captain of the ship to find out why our young, hero was being denied the opportunity of ro mance. Before long the captain replied that the sailor had not asked for shore leave. . Shortly thereafter the con gressman got a note from the sailor asking him to mind his own business! A secretary sighed a beautiful young thing downtown, has a tough job. She has to look like a girl, think like a man, act like Other' Editors' Opinions Unfinished Work (THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) The fact that a record number of criminal trials has been held in any jurisdiction is not of itself good news. But an item of this sort from New York City indi cates that the federal courts there are trying to keep up with a sit uation which Congress should re lieve. The United States Court House is Foley Square. Manhattan, dur ing the year ended May 31 saw the trial of 179 criminal cases, the largest number in a 12-month period in its records. This is not only a tribute to the energy of prosecutors and judges but a re minder that federal district courts in many- centers of the United States are badly overloaded and congested, wilh resultant delays of justice. The most immediately helpful remedy for this situation is in legislation awaiting debate and a vote when the Senate and House of Representatives come back into session in Washington. The pur pose of these is to create new federal judgeships. The House Judiciary Commit tee on June 15 reported a bill to add 35 new judges to the fed eral judicial system. This would be better than the 25 positions recommended by the Senate Ju diciary Committee a year ago. But, according to the Federal Ju dicial Conference, representing the courts, the number really needed is nearer 50. Creation of new judgeships is not the whole answer. Improve ment in court rules can help somewhat. And Congress should think carefully before making fed eral crimes of acts that can be handled by state courts. But at least two score of new federal a lady, and work like a dog. Speed in miles per 'hour, as .' shown by your speedometer, is seldom frightening until you get ; into the higher brackets. Bu when speed is reduced to feet , per second, it becomes apparent how it may affect the seriousness of an accident. Speed in feet per second can be calculated by a simple formu la: One and one-half times the . miles per hour. At 30 miles per -hour, your speed is about 45 feet .' per second. At 60 miles per hour, the speed is about 90 feet a sec ond. If two vehicles collided at this speed, it is equivalent to one ; vehicle striking a fixed object at 180 feet per second. In our household, we have little trouble getting rid of our money, and it comes as a sort of sur- . prise to learn that the federal government actually spends mon ey to get rid of the filthy stuff permanently, that is. Even more surprising is the knowledge that the Republicans have come up with a way to save the tax payers about $200,000 a year with a new method of burning up the nation's worn-out money. Treasury officials say the life of a one-dollar bill is only about 10 months if constantly used. There fore, a lot of them have to be burned every year. It's almost a constant practice. The old method of destroying this worn-out mon ey, including the packaging of these bills and the shipment of them to Washington. The bills were cut in half before shipping, and mailed in two separate pack ages. i This process has been doner9 away with, and now the nation's 12 Federal Reserve Banks burn the money. Iff estimated that they burn over a billion dollars worth of it every year. In your Christmas thinking, don't forget to include the ladies and gentlemen at the county nurs ing home. We're hoping that in the gifts you send to us for dis tribution to them you'll include some of the more "fancier" items although residents of the home did not indicate anything unrea sonable along those lines. B u t I'm sure they appreciate some of the finer things in addition to the candy, gum and smoking items we listed in the Herald and News last Sunday. Maybe you've heard the story about the horse player in Dublin who complained because every day, before making his bets, he went to his parish church and lit a holy candle for luck and still for almost a year he had not been able lo pick a winner. "Which candles are you light ing?" another gambler asked him. "The ones in front of the statue of St. Joseph," the horse player said. "Ah, no wonder you're losing," the friend said. "Them candles are for the greyhounds." judges are seriously needed, and Congress should act next month to pave the way for their appoint ment. People Boom (EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD) California is well on its way to becoming the largest state in population. With the release of final census figures for 1960. the big state of the West shows an increase of 5.1 million over 1950. That's right, 5.1 million! In case you care to divide it out, that is 500.000 per year for the ten-year period, or more graphically, California gained one person per minute, night and day, for ten years. The increase alone is more than the combined total population of Oregon and Washington. California now has 15,717.204 people and is sure to pass New York, the largest state in popu lation, in the next decade. Even now, California is pressing New York as the biggest political plum in national politics. In 1962. Cali fornia will gain eight scats in the House of Representatives. It will have 40 electoral votes in the 1964 presidential election while New York drops from 45 to 43. Oregon grew in population by 247,346 in the past decade, con siderably less than in the prior ten-year period. But we've seen the problems in burgeoning school enrollments at the elementary, secondary and higher education levels and the attendant costs we've had to face. Imagine what it has been for Californianc! Frankly, we prefer the steadier growth we've enjoyed in Oregon. And, we wonder if there aren't many Californians who are ques tioning the value of the statc'l notoriety for baimy junshine. O
