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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1960)
I FACE HERALD I - Too Much Of A Good Thing? ; J Scratch an American parent today and, !gqnerally speaking, you will find someone who :vants his children to "have all the best of it.", i ;.: This is an admirable goal, as far as it "goes, The only trouble with it is that it seems ;ta leave out of account what ought to be the other side of the equation. Our youngsters Zshould be asked to give all their best. ; !.. Too many are not asked. Too many are 'being 'conditioned to live in what appears in creasingly to be a taking world, j We are learning with shock that millions of American young people are not even physi ically fit for "giving" for the inevitable hard j tasks of life though they live in the world's 'richest industrial society. Recent comparative studies measuring :U.S. youngsters against those of Britain and Cyprus, coupled with an older one drawing .parallels with Japanese youth, show us lag ging badly in physical fitness in these age brackets. , By almost every test tried, Japanese boys and girls surpassed ours. The British kids also utdid the "American inuch things as physi cal endurance for sustained activlly7iegpow-. ?ernd arm power. '. . Since neither the British nor the Japanese fypr have been noted for the remarkable bal ance and quality of their daily diets, this ver j One does not expect miracles of order : jnd cleanliness in down-at-heel neighborhoods In bur cities. But if people have a basically Wealthy outlook on life, it will reveal itself in Constructive attitudes and activities even in the midst of deterioration. : ,'A recent newspaper picture of an aban doned car in a blighted area eloquently point ed up the fact that too often today that posi tive outlook is missing. The car appeared to be a fairly old one, !but at least possible, to salvage. It Isn't any Snore. C.'"' .'. -: v -':"vf' 'V-'c ' Vanflalsi mostly youngsters, have canni balized it anil gone far to destroy It. They tjlashed the tires ripped out all the seats, iroke the window glass. : To all this they added a final Indignity: rfhey are now dumping garbage in it. So today the car is. worse than worthless, it is an un sightly menace to, the neighborhood's health. Now this is not the first time an old car ;has been pulled apart on the streets of an American city. But is this really the only thing that enterprising, energetic young Americans : can think to do with one? j . 5 He fights time and so he sits un easily in luxury. The house on Deer Run, in Miami Springs, is (right and sexy, with deep pile fchite rugs and lavender semi fcudes on the wall of the bar and gay chairs designed by the man Jvho has no patience. His name is JWr. William Hartack and. for the fourth time, he is Jockey of the Year. ' -: Most jockeys look like boys with Ihe heads of old men, but Mr. Hartack has blue eyes, a thick belt of dark shiny hair, a small iron body and features that 150 girls find attractive enough to make him worth a try. Most of the girls who make the pilgrimage I Deer Run are beautiful and Jwear pants as tight as an extra Jiyer of skinJ ;The sports writers do not like William. They call him tough and Usolent fie is. He Is a perfec tionist who gets on a horse to fight the clock and he has no time for tact. They say that he Is dot a picture rider. .He isn't. On a hard run, his hips should be on a level with his head. Instead, Har tack bounces, his arms dap, and he switches the whip from one hand to the other by passing it through his teeth. He isn't a picture rider, but he rides more winners than anybody else. He has been in about 10,000 faces and he has won about 2,700. . This year he won more than 300," and that beats Gomez and ,3hoc Oaker, the runnersup. A few . ypars ago, his .mounts won $3, . (00.000 In one season, At the age of 27, he earns somewhere around KOO.OOO a year, owns the house on Deer Run, a Cadillac and a Jaguar, a big wardrobe, farm, ' some municipal bonds, and to go ing to build a motel near the AND NEWS, Klamata Falls. Ort. This Needs Fixing JIM BISHOP: REPORTER Jockey Hartack's Prowess Makes Him A Hard Loser Miami Airport. I spoke to him about the girls. He looked down at his hands. He doesn't smile easily, "I like kids," ho said. "Some day I'll get mar ried." He let it go at that. He . didn't mention his charities: the boys' soft-ball teams, the bowling teams, the den mother feeling he has for youngsters. When he dismounts from a los er, the trainer and the owner' wait for him. "What happened?" they say. Tact tells a jockey to excuse, the horse and the trainer . by saying that Hie horse was bumped, or dirt was kicked in his face, or he lugged in at the wrong , time. Hartack stands for brutal truth, "The reason we lost," he says, "is tluit the horse didn't have it," Outfits like Calumet and Krank Merrill do not use Har tack. Once, in the lack room, he said, to a trainer: "Why do 'you put me on slow horses?" He doesn't like racing writers either. "I don't know five men in the sports field who tell the truth," he says, "because they don't know the Imth." He keeps a bale of bad notices about himself. When he feels himself getting into an uncomfortably good mood, he opens the clippings and starts reading about how awful he is. "When these writers approach me." he says, "they don't stand a chance. The writers I like are men I never met: Harold Weiss man and Gene Ward are two." t ' His mother was killed in a car accident when he was 5. His fn " thcr worked hard loading, by hand, in the coal mines of Penn sylvania. Today he has his father onji beautiful farm. There is a story - and that's all it is ' that if he catches his father work ing, he stops his allowance. There Wednesday, Deeemta 14, 1M dict is truly startling. And that's the way it seemed to the surveying group, the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation: , "The comparisons are shocking. They cannot be lightly regarded or glossed over easily. They should provoke serious thought and stimulate universal, organized action be fore, it is too late. "They reveal that the rapidly changing mode of American life is leaving its imprint on the basic physical fitness of American youth." Translating that a little, it evidently re fers to a softened life in which a high propor tion of American youngsters are asked to per f6rm only such exercise as is necessary to get in and out of automobiles, to change television channels and rip the wrapping off family gifts. Millions of U.S. mothers and fathers, if pressed, would insist that their children's bet terment is the entire focus of their life effort. If that be their true objective, then let them stop giving their youngsters a free char iot ride to the good things "they themselves never had." Let them teach their children how to pave their own way to these riches. And since paving requires muscle and energy and stami na, let them make the young people physically fit for all the problems and challenges they must confront. V We're supposed to be a people with an almost inborn talent for machines. This is a land of the hot-rodders and the industrial giants. This is where kids learn mechanical tricks early. Why couldn't an old car, a perfect wind fall, be a laboratory? A couple of determined neighborhood dads, enlisting the support of the youngsters, could make an enjoyable and instructive project out of fixing up the thing. In a short time a lot could be learned about the workings of a car, If the technicalities, could "be mastered, someone might even take title to it so it could be used, especially for driving lessons for the young. If all this solinds too noble for words, then that puts some kind of measure on the kind of society we live in today. . A few people in the neighborhood where the demolished car was photographed are complaining to the city. In a sense they are lodging their complaints in the wrong place. They should turn closer to home. For the youngsters on that street have made the old car over in their own image. is a sister Evelyn. 29, and mar ried, and. a sister Ma.xinc, 20, and engaged. I asked him if he had a special pride in anything he - has ever done. "Yes," he said. The grin came up and he wiped it off. "1 once entered a jumping race at Monmouth and won it. The horse . was Mielaison. It's good I won it, I guess, or else I'd still be try ing." Most jockeys believe that horses are stupid animals. Hartack dis agrees. "Some are. Some have racing intelligence. There was one named Pet Bully. He wasn't great, but lie could pace himself and that's intelligent. If he found himself out in front, he would slow down; when he felt another horse closing in from behind, Pet Bully would ope'n up." Once he was in Chicago on a horse named Mighty Moment. Hartack was sitting easy in third place when the bridle came off in his hands. The bit came out. "The whole thing fell in my lap. Some other jocks went by and I yelled: 'Look. No hands.' "Mighty Moment finished five lengths behind the winner. One race later, he ended IS lengths in back. "The trainer said to me: 'What do you think is the matter?' I said: 'Hun him without a bridle.' " When Mr. William Hartack los es which is three-quarters pf the time he is mad. Not moody, Mad. "I'm mad at one of three things," he says. "Me. The horse. Or tlie trainer. If the trainer docs his work properly, and the horse does his part, I must do mine." He is sensitive. He is unpopu lar.' He is unreasonable. He is lough. He Is honest. He is a champion. , . if s Always Guarded-e Way or Another GOALS p Increasing Employment Is By HERBERT STEIN Director of Research Committee for Economic Development One of a series of easy-to-read condensations from chap ters written by eminent Amer ican authorities for book publi-. cation by Prentice-Hall with the Report from President Eisen hower's Commission on Nation al Goals. Edited by Ray Crom Icy for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Copyright 1060, the Amer ican Assembly.) . Further reduction of unemploy ment should remain one of the primary objectives of economic policy. There are two main reasons for continuing concern with unemploy ment: Its direct impact upon those who are unemployed and Its effect upon total national production and its rate of growth. Of these two reasons the for mer is more important and by itself sufficient to justify national concern. Among the categories of people who for one reason or another do not share the benefits of national prosperity, the unemployed are one of the largest. The reduction of unemployment is clearly also the least costly way of making a significant contribution to eco nomic growth.- We are, as a nation, beyond the point of deciding that high employment is an important na tional objective and that the gov ernment has a responsibility for its achievement. Our real questions now are how this objective can be achieved with least costs and what costs we are willing to pay for it. Re ducing unemployment is an im portant objective, but it is not an absolute objective which must be achieved regardless of cost. Means can be found to reduce the average rate of unemploy ment below Uiat of Uie 1930s with out costs so largo as to outweigh the benefits. The cost that must be seriously considered is infla tion. The essential requirement for maintenance of high employment is a steady growth of total de mand for goods and services at an adequate rale. The problem Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Dec. 14 the 349th day of the year with 17 more in 1960. The moon is approaching 'its new phase. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Mais. Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1799. George Washington, the first President of the United Slates, died at Mount Vernon. In 1819, Alabama entered the Union as the 22nd state. In 1861, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, died. In 1895, Albert Frederick Ar thur George, later King George VI of Great Britain, was born. In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen discovered the South Pole. Thought for today: American President George Washington said: "Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire consdensc.' FOR AMERICANS Major Objective For U.S. here is with the "steadiness." It. is important to note that our problem is to increase demand when, and to the degree that, -it otherwise would be inadequate. To add to demand "all the time" will yield little reduction of unemployment and much infla tion. It will leave unresolved the problem of increasing demand still more when it is needed. A major step that could now be taken would be to make tax rate changes available as an in strument of economic stabiliza tion policy. Starting from present tax rates, . there is room for powerfully, stim ulating private demand by cutting tax rales or for restricting de mand by raising tax rates. Two main obstacles prevent the use of tax rate changes as a flex ible instrument of stabilization pol icy. . . First, there is sharp disagree ment in Ihe country over the kind of tax cut that should be made if a tax cut becomes appropriate. Second, it is apparently more difficult to raise taxes than to lower them. A tax cut adopted to combat recession might prove ir reversible when economic condi tions changed, with probable in flationary consequences. There is no mechanical way Other Editors' Opinions Scrap Brewing (THE OREGONIAN) One of the many legislative con flicts to be expected in the com ing session of Oregon's 51st Legis lature is that over the teacher tenure laws. The Interim Commit tee on Education is currently pre paring for publication a number of recommendations, including a series involving the tenure laws. Professional groups, including lea dership of tlie Oregon Education Association, have also been con ducting extensive studies of ten iae and arc prepared to oppose some, perhaps all, of the sug gested amendments. The interim committee recom mendations with respect to ten ure may he simplified as follows: (II Increase the probatipnary pe riod for teachers from three to five years (2) provide tenure sta tus for administrators as teachers but not as administrators; (3) ex pand (lie sco))e nf causes for which a tenure teacher may be discharged; (4 permit a teacher to appeal dismissal by a school hoard to the courts on an iss'ie of cause as well as on an issue of procedure. Of particular importance arc (2 and (31. Administrators elementary and high school prin cipals, for example have tenu'e in their administrative posts. A man who proves himself to be a poor principal can be removed from his post only by booting him upstairs into the administra tive hierarchy, unless the school administration be willing to go through the process of a dismis sal hearing, in which the adminis tration is as much on trial as is the principal facing dismissal. Such hearings, under the tenure system, are as rare as a high school without a parking lot. The principal who is out of his field in an administrative post may very well be a good teacher. The school administration should be permitted to return him to a classroom position without resort around these obstacles. Tax rates should not be low ered or raised in reaction to ev ery small fluctuation in economic activity. But this instrument should be much more available than it now is for use in more serious situations. Two suggestions are now cur rent for reducing the possibility of error in a stabilizing money policy. One would require that the supply of money grow at a steady rate, year in and year out. The other would ask monetary authorities to base their actions more on 'their forecast of the fu ture and less on present condi tions. It is not clear that either would yield better results than recent practice. Other things equal, the more demand is Increased in order to reduce unemployment, the great er the danger of inflation. But there is good reason to be lieve it will be possible to reduce unemployment below our recent average without more inflation than we have had in the last three years and perhaps without any inflation. We should try now to reduce unemployment, cautiously and flexibly, remembering we may ' have to make a different choice if serious inflation emerges. ing to the trappings of a hearing. This part of Ihe tenure law re sulted in saddling some schools with poor administration. This is one of the reasons why many teachers have no confidence in principals as cvaluators in any system of merit pay. The recommendation to extend Ihe number of causes for dismis sal is also a vital one. The present law (ORS 342.265) reads: "No per manent teacher shall be dismissed except for inefficiency, unbecom ing conduct, insubordination, ne glect of duty or failure to comply w ith such reasonable requirements of tlie school board as may be prescribed to show normal im provement and evidence of pro fessional training and growth." There is nothing here to support the release of a teacher who is simply not good as a teacher. "Efficiency" does not necessarily have any relation lo competence in the classroom, and the provi sion concerning "evidence of pro fessional training and growth" is just another way of identifying credits for graduate study. A teacher whose only fault is being a poor teacher cannot be dis missed by the terms of the pres ent tenure law. The interim committee would remedy this omission by adding to tlie causes for dismissal "in adequate professional perform ance" and "physical or mental incapacity or emotional instabil ity." Tlie teaching profession is na turally defensive of the tenure principle and rightly so. School boards or administrators should not be permitted to discharge teachers for political, religions or personal reasons, or on w him. But the tenure law, as it stands today, protects in their positions some teachers and some adminis trators who arc incompetent. Tlie great body of teachers should be a interested as arc parents and taxpayers in eliminating the flaws in the law to blame for that situa Congo Crisis Uncovers Basic U.N. Weaknesses. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) - The Congo crisis has uncovered two dangerous weaknesses in the United Nations. If not corrected soon, they can render the world organization powerless to deal with this crisis or any other. One weakness is financial. The other is a matter of prestige. Both' arise out of the efforts of the United Nations to restore or der in the turbulent, former Bel- . gian territory. Officials in Washington are not sure which situation offers the most serious threat. They are deeply worried about both, be- ' cause the United States is relying on the United Nations to serve as a major instrument of its aims in Africa. These aims in general are to promote the growth of Af rican states as independent na tions, not subject to control from either Western capitals 'or Mos cow. If these purposes cannot be re alized through the United Nations, American leaders fear what may happen. They believe that not only the Congo but also other African lands would become involved in .a fierce, loves-off struggle be tween the Western powers and the Sino-Soviet bloc. This may happen anyway, in spite of the best U. N. efforts. The present grave dangers in the Congo situation are these: 1. The cost of the United Nations operations there to date total about $65 million. The only way Secretary-General Dag Hammar skjold can get the money is from member nations, either by assess ments voted by them or by some other system of contribution. The process is essentially a vol YOUR POCKETBOOK Investment Plans Bring Security By FAYE HENLE Back last summer we asked: What do you do with your sav ings? We ventured our opinion and promised to report on a sur vey then being launched by the Savings Bank Association of the Slate of New York. Here are the answers: You report your money is going into: Savings and loan association shares. Company profit sharing plans. Retirement annuities. . A small business you own and operate. Bank savings accounts and U.S. Savings Bonds. Stock market investments. From the survey we learn: Nine out of ten persons have bank savings accounts. ' Most consistent savers are real estate and construction trades people, followed by educa tors, government officials, doe tors, scientists, communications people, businessmen and finan ciers. More and more banks arc de veloping programs to help your money grow via trust services. Read what Philadelphia's Girard Trust Co. is doing, then urge your local bank to do the same. If you can save $100 or more ' at regular intervals and build this nest egg to $1,000, Girard will invest the $1,000 for you in one of two kinds of trusts: An equity fund, meaning a common stock fund, or in a balanced fund, meaning one in which your dol lars are spread among invest ments in common and preferred stocks and bonds. Of course there is a fee. Gi rard charges 50 cents yearly for each $100 of yours they manage. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Jumping Gun? It is discouraging to read of your criticism of President-elect Kennedy's policies before he has even taken office or has taken any action on them. In your editorial of Dec. 4. you ask that Kennedy and his "mon ey spenders" leave everything alone as far as federal aid lo education is concerned, because "there is every indication that no shortage of classrooms exists." I would suggest that this state ment is inconsistent with our times. This is perhaps true in Klamath Falls or even in South ern Oregon, but if it is true then why are children attending school in split scssiohs in many parts of our country. antl why are teachers striking in some places for relief from below standard wages, and why arc some chil dren getting sub-standard educa tions in too much of our coun try? Nevertheless, it would seem fairer to let Mr. Kennedy act belore criticizing him on this mat ter. John S. Spencer Jr. - Mount Hebron untary one. The problem of rais ing the $65 million and of pro viding for still higher 1961 costs has been under discussion, for itlally and informally, for weeks. Many differences have developed among U. N. members. Even if they finally agree on a formula it may not be adequate to meet the needs for. funds. 2. The first responsibility of the United Nations in the Congo has been to restore and maintain or der. Its effectiveness there is de pendent on physical force. Its troops are drawn from more than two dozen member nations. Four of the nations which con tributed lo the force the United Arab Republic, Ceylon, Yugoslav ia, and Indonesia have stated their intentiens to withdraw their contingents, a total of 1,699 men. Ghana was reported to be consid ering the withdrawal of its 1,185 men. Such withdrawals, though numerically small,, would consti tute a serious blow to U. N. pres tige. The troop problem and to a large degree the financial prob lem arise out of the worldwide split between the Western powers and the Sino-Soviet bloc. They are also influenced by the bold en mities and ' passions clustered around the issue of Western colon ialism. Without funds the United Na tions cannot carry out its Congo mission much longer. Neither can it do so without sufficient troops. The choice facing many U. N. members is whether their immed-' iate individual goals are more im portant to them, than is their long range general interest in main taining the United Nations as a going concern. Usually there is an additional charge of $5 each for tax rec ords and returns. What you gain is expert advice on your invest ment dollar. Are you aware of the tens of billions of dollars already invest ed by private and public services in behalf of our welfare in vestment in people,, as distinct from .investment in productive facilities? It is concentrated largely in facilities for health, ed ucation and peace of mind. In the past decade investment in the nation's educational plant has increased almost two-and-a-half times, at the end of last year totaled 22.3 billion dollars. Invest ment in hospitals almost doubled, reaching 8.8 billion, while dollars invested in personal protection rose from 17.5 to 40.2 billion. .Investment in accident and health protection more than tri pled, now totals 6.7 billion, life insurance investment now amounts to 11.5 billion; dollars earmarked for public retirement plans increased from 4.8 to 12.6 billion, for private pensions from 2.1 to 5.2 billion. Though these funds will be available when you need them, they form an important part of the pool of venture capital nee ed for our country's growth. THEY SAY... Two years ago I criticized the design of cars because I thought they deserved criticism. Now I think the 1961 models are deserv ing of praise and I want to con gratulate the designers. Industrial designer Carl Sund- berg. . If we continue on the path of raid war by piling armaments higher and higher and hooking tlie triggers on our bombs, the end of this decade may well see most of us dead. Dr. Edward U. Condon, profes sor of physics at Washington University, St. Louis. We have a saying to the ex cited, "Keep your shirt on." Henceforth, it may be, "Keep your shoe on." -John Hickerson. L. S. ambas sador to the Philippines, refer ring to Nikila Khrushchev's be havior in the V. N. It is not an easy tiling to talk an economy into a recession and I honestly don't think it is going lo happen to us this time. Yet I must concede that that possi bility is being put In a very severe test. Raymond Saulnirr, top admin istration economist. i Racial) discimination is per haps the" leading unresolved do mestic problem of the nation. . . . Many people do not really wish to discriminate, but feel compelled lo do so by the social pressures of friends, neighbors or relatives. Davis McEntlrc, V. of Cattfor- nia sociologist.
