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MGSt-A HERALD AND NEWS. Ham rails, Ore, Thursday, Janaary (. lMt NOTHING SPECIAL (W. I. S.) Q "Moke Yourself Comfortable, Mr. Stevenson" ii School i Those persons interested in education in the Klamath Basin will have a chance to learn more about it and an opportunity to express themselves in the first "Lights on for Education" meetings scheduled for area schools tonight ' :: We are hopeful that there will be a great deal of interest manifested in the meetings. Qualified speakers have been obtained to out line the discussion points, and develop topics of interest. The program is statewide in na ture, and if our citizens and voters will at tend the sessions, lawmakers should have a practical yardstick for measuring the merits of legislation considered in Salem this year. The open season on business predictions for the new year attracts more interest than usual because of speculation over what the Kennedy administration will do about them. There is a pretty general tone of uncer tainty over the first half of 1961 in economic forecasts so far made public. Even the conservative National Indus trial Conference Board's year-end economic forum, discussions by 14 big business, aca demic and government experts can offer only this outlook: "America's economy will begin 1961 in low gear, possibly even move lower during the ' first and second quarters, then shift into steadily higher gear in the second half of the year." , ' National Planning Commission's chief economist Gerhard Colm finds evidence that the present slack in business is not just "anoth er temporary setback, but a turning point to a lower pace of economic development." , This view is said to be in contrast to NPC's own projections thaf the economic growth rate will increase from the three and one-half per cent of the past decade to four , or four and one-half per. cent in the 1960s. More bullish predictions than that are hard to find. . . . . , Labor union economists, concerned largely by unemployment rates, are down right pessimistic. There were four million totally unemployed in November plus 2 and seven-tenths million working part time. Even the Conference Board's forum fore sees the possibility of 4 and eight-tenths mil lion totally unemployed by the middle of 1961. Employment is expected to rise in the second half of the year. But total unemployment is projected at 4 and one-tenth million by the end of 1961, which is no net improvement . over present conditions. This puts the incoming administration on something of a spot. In self-defense, the. Democrats may claim that they inherited a recession from the Republicans. But it will be the Democrats' problem to cure it if they can. Or else they can ride it out, hoping that it will be of short duration, 1 THEY SAY... It is difficult to guess. I am not a gypsy. But we must have hope. There is an old Russian saying that a drop of water can move a stone. Nikita Khrushchev, on possible eas- ing of East-West tensions. The Germans are intoxicated with their physical well-being. They devel op great virtues in times of trial and scarcity, but as soon as the larder is full they lose all sense of proportion and kick over the traces. German economic minister Ludwig Erhard. BARBS " .Every man starts life as a baby and the smart ones outgrow it t There are three sides to a family triangle but no point to It Any girl who to worth a million doesn't have to look like it. . After a girl marries she discovers that candy can be bought in ten-cent bags, too. Meetings Tonight At the same time, citizens should recog nize this occasion as a responsibility as well as an opportunity. No single element of our tax structure is as vital and important as ed ucation. Here is a made-to-order opportunity to tell legislators about what we want and what we need in our school systems. There are more than 50 measures pertaining to schools scheduled for introduction in the legislative session starting next week. Of particular in terest to Klamath County taxpayers and citi zens should be the new proposals for state aid to education, and school reorganization efforts. Let's go to the meetings and see what it's all about. Guessing Game and start building from there. The Democratic platform commits the Kennedy administration to the doctrine that the American economy "can and must grow at an average rate of five per cent annually. . . . We pledge ourselves to policies that will achieve this goal without inflation. "As the first step to speeding economic grpwth," the platform continues, "a Demo cratic president will put an end to the pres ent high interest, tight money policy." Just how they will prevent inflation by ending the tight money policy is a neat eco nomic trick they haven't explained. But that's apparently one rabbit they're going to pull out of Kennedy's high inaugural hat. In the next section the platform declares that "the Democratic party reaffirms Us sup port of full employment as a paramount ob jective of national policy." . .,' The solution for low business levels and high' unemployment rates which organized labor spokesmen propose to the Kennedy ad ministration is to create more consumer pur chasing power. The AFL-CIO "Economic Review," put out under the direction of its research direc tor, Stanley Ruttenberg, maintains that 70 per cent of the nation's total output is related , to consumer purchasing power. s This can be stimulated, it is maintained, by increasing wages and salaries and by re duction of standard working hours, without reduction of take-home pay. This is what more conservative economists call "trying to spend yourself rich." Kennedy has not yet committed himself to a short-range economic program. The "90 day" legislative program to which he has so far given top priority is for more government aid to housing, school construction and depressed areas. But it would take six months to a year to get such a program rolling. The effect after that might help lift ,the national economy to the desired five per cent growth rate. It would' help for 1962 and beyond. But the more Immediate problem is what to do about the first half of 1961. Gods and Goddesses ACROSS 1 Chief of Um Olympian gods S God of Hoc In and putum 8 Month 12 Girl's nsnt 13 Malt beverage 14 Soviet river , 15 Check . 16 Route (ab.) 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H i ffttTlJw A?y e a I C kQfA i 1 tSS" kiiD!. nTs Si I "1 I NOON I t ALA gOt? fc n L. L. HaII e1l ItIaIcIl. I IS Ii U I II 14 0 I l i t H re ii " i? If - l I7 n Ir - 5" 1 1 1 a a" LJ ' www -ir Srprpr sr T ns g b" r 5T 41 ii 3 -pT A U 4 U "" 4 60""" IT- gj 53 " a a s i i i i i i i i i i THE LIGHTER SIDE . . . 'Pocketbook Thrombosis' Hits Scribe By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) - Each year before the opening of a new session of Congress I make a tour of tile .legislative premises to see what our lawmakers are doing to make themselves comfortable. This, of course, is hard on the feet, but that is not where I feel the greatest pain. As a taxpayer ' in good standing with the Inter nal Revenue Service, I suffer more than seizures of the wallet. Only the good lord and Capitol architect J. George Stewart know how much has been spent in the past few years to make the halls of Congress more habitable. Since I don't have an adding machine handy, I wouldn't even attempt an estimate. But you can get some idea of the cost from the notes I took as I was meandering about the complex of buildings that stretch from the new Senate Office Build ing in the northeast corner of Capitol Hill to the new House Of fice Building in the southwest corner. Secrecy Sm rounds Gym The first stop on my tour was the Senate gymnasium. Like the war room at the Pentagon, the gym operates in an aura of se crecy, so I naturally couldn't get in. However, word has leaked out that our senators are enlarging their indoor swimming pool. The pool itself, I trust, will be leak proof. Last year at this time, there was a gaping hole where the Sen ate steps used to be. The steps have now been rebuilt and under them, nenring completion, is a new $4 million terminal for the Senate's branch line subway. The terminal is not as big as Grand Central Station but it will be equally commodious. There will be an escalator for senators who are too tired to walk 10 feet to the elevator. The terminal also will have telephones, rest rooms and a maintenance shop. Garnge Still A Gleam Eventually, the terminal will connect with a huge underground parking garage beneath the Capi tol plaza. Hut for the moment the garage is still only a gleam in Stewart's eye. Above the plaza, carpenters are hammering to completion the platforms and stands which will be used on Jan. 20 for President elect John F. Kennedy's inaugu ration. The bill for this construc tion will total about $150,000. As soon as Kfnnedy is sworn in, it will all be torn down. The -ceremony will take place before the east front of the Capi tol, which recently was rebuilt and extended at a cost of around $25 million. Barring the unexpect ed, it will remain there after the inauguration. Pocketbook Thrombosis Hie only other major congres sional project now underway t, the third House Office Building, which is still a couple of years from completion. I have had trou ble keeping track of how miuh this building will cost. At last re port, it had edged up to around $IOO million. I ended my tour at this spot without going by tlie two addi tional blocks that Congress u buying for further expansion. I was afraid that if I went any far ther I might have an attack of pocketbook thrombosis. Nation Finds Not Much Use For Ex-Presidents By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press Newi Analyst WASHINGTQN (AP) The na- " tion will have three ex-presidents and three former vice presidents but will probably find little or nothing for them to do when Dwight D. Eisenhower steps out of the White House Jan. 20. The three former presidents Eisenhower, 70, Truman, 76, and Hoover, 86 have had vast gov ernmental experience. It has been argued the country could well use that experience. , That's debatable. President Kennedy almost cer tainly won't call on the three for mer vice presidents: Richard M. Nixon, 47; Henry Wallace, 72; and John Nance Gainer, 92. His rea sons in each case would be differ ent. Kennedy, a practical politician who may be looking for reelection in 1964, is not likely to build up the prestige of Nixon, who ran against him in 1960 and may run again. Wallace, who served one term under President Roosevelt, has been unattractive to Democrats since he broke with them in 1948 to run on the Progressive ticket for president against Truman. Garner, too old for strenuous activity, has been out of the politi cal picture since 1941 when he retired to his Texas farm after two terms under Roosevelt. Both Truman and Eisenhower used Hoover to head commissions for reorganizing the government. Both men got on well with him. . But neither assignment required any advice from Hoover on broad White House problems. Eisenhower not only made no use of Truman, who blasted him in the 1952 presidential campaign, but carefully avoided any contact with him. Kennedy may ask Eisenhower o undertake some goodwill mis sions abroad. But he can hardly ask advice from the man whose two administrations he called in ept. It is doubtful, because of Hoov er's advanced age, that Kennedy will want to , burden him any more. As for Truman Kennedy has no particular reason to love the man from Missouri. Truman rooted for him in the later stages of the I960 campaign. But the former president tried to wreck Kennedy's White House Al manac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of the year with 360 mora to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Mare. On this day in history" In 1779, Stephen Decatur, called the most conspicuous figure in U.S. Naval history between John Paul Jones and Adm. David Far r.igut, was born. In 1895. Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, already convicted by a French court martini on charges of trans mitting military intelligence fo Germany, was summoned before an army garrison in Paris and subjected to degradation. In 1925, the first woman was sworn in as governor of a slate. She was Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor of Wyoming. In 1949. President Truman la beled his administration the "Fair Deal." chances before the Democratic convention. Still there's the question: Shouldn't some way be found to use the experience of ex-presidents? There has been a sugges tion that they should automatical ly become Senators. They would have no vote but could speak their minds since they would have insight into gov ernment which the experience of no senator could match. Nothing ever came of this no tion. There are arguments on the other side: that when a man be comes an ex-president the nation should thank him for his services but say goodbye to his opinion. ' By putting a two-term limit on the presidency, the nation has shown it wants a limit on the gilidance of any one man. Further, an ex-president may be, and probably is, miles apart from the new president's think ing. It is questionable whether an ex-president, generally well along In years before he steps out, is still flexible enough to change a lifetime's thinking to meet situa tions different from those he encountered. THE DOCTOR SAYS ... . 'Drafts' Are Not Cause Of Illness By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. One of the many ways I've wasted time and energy during my medical career is trying to persuade people that there's not an illness in the books that's caused by drafts. A draft is de fined in Webster's Dictionary as "a current of air passing through a channel or entering through an aperture." If that definition is accepted by those who blame colds, sinus in fections, muscle pains, neuralgia and what-not on drafts, perhaps someone will explain why it is we're not all ill, all of the time. Tliere can't be a day or a night or even an hour when we're not, at some time, in the path of "a current of air" as described in the dictionary. My reason for being particular ly upset about this matter today will become clearer after you've read the following letter from a distraught mother who lives in Kentucky: "When I brought my baby daughter home from the hos pital," she writes, "I noticed threi or four blisters around her navel cord. I thought it was just a skin irritation, caused from drainage of the cord. But, a few days later, when the cord dropped off, I saw that the blisters had spread upward to the chest. "I phoned my doctor, and his nurse said there had been quite a lot of this infection in newborn babies and there was nothing to worry about. She prescribed an ointment. But tlie blisters contin ued to spread from the navel to tlie neck and then up to the face and into her hair until the whole top of her head was covered. "She was fussy and whined some but, oilier than that, didn't seem to be sick. On the morning of Um day site was 20 days old. The following, believe it or not, came from an advertisement in a favorite newspaper of mine. I don't know who prepared the copy, but the philosophy ex pressed is good enough, I think, to merit considerable repeating. Title of the ad was "Only One To A Customer." It read: "This shiny, brand new year, . just opened . . . 1961 . . . it's the only one of its kind! Let's not squander it . . . it's the only 1961 there ever will be. Let's not waste it; there are no refills, no second chances. Let's make it the finest year ever, in our country, in our community, and in our own . little circle. Let's treat 1961 like a precision thing. How?. By all of us acting like Americans should act! "Let's hang on to that best known of all American commodi ties ... our sense of humor. Must the whole world be dark as tar paper? Can no funny bone be found in the X-ray of these mod ern times? If something strikes Us as funny, then let's laugh like people used to laugh. Let the rest of the world be Gloomy Gus not us! "Let's not be afraid of being a flag-waver! Why shouldn't we wave that good old red, white and blue? Why not get goose bumps when we hear the Star Spangled Banner? It's almost a fad, these days, to act blase about that old-fashioned word 'patriotism.' Being madly in . love with the U.S.A. may not be stylishly new, but don't let any one kid you it's anything but corny! "Let's loyally back whomever we elected to serve us whether ( we voted Republican, Democrat ic or Vegetarian. Sure, criticism of public officials is an old and honored American tradition one we want to keep but let's con centrate on the genuine, construc tive kind of criticism. (Did it ever occur to you that a disunited America is the gift the characters in the Kremlin want more , than any other?) ' "Let's make 1961 the beginning of the end for juvenile delinquen cy. But let's not leave it entirely up to the schools. Kindness and tolerance, and fair play are first learned at home I Don't ever let your youngsters tell you these traits are for 'squares' they're the very qualities by which Amer ica lives! Let's work for more and better schools, and greater opportunities in the teaching field but let's do our homework, too, and teach our children the cor rect sense of values. They're not somebody else's juveniles, you I fed her the 2 a.m. bottle and she was perfectly all right. "She ate good and didn't spit up any of her milk. Then, when I got up at 6 a.m., she was dead. And the coroner said she died Of pneumonia. 1 "Please don't think I'm being silly in writing like this," she continues, "but if I knew what caused her death, I don't believe her death itself would worry me so. I keep thinking maybe if I did something wrong. Like giv ing her the wrong kind of milk. Or letting her get IN A DRAFT to catch cold. ... I would be more grateful than you can pos sibly imagine if you could tell me anything at all that might explain her death." Draft' No indeed, you dear, dear mother! I am truly sorry that you do not regularly see theso columns or you'd clearly under stand that your baby was a vic tim of this cursed staphylococcal infection that has plagued mater nity hospitals throughout the world. I beg you not to torment your self. You could have tended your baby in an incubator and fed her sterilized milk from sterilized bot tles without adding so much as an hour to her life. I wish I could also exonerate the nurse. But that's another matter. A final word of caution. In the event that you or your husband or your other "perfectly normal, healthy children" become ill over the course of the next few months, call your doctor without delay and tell him about your experience. Unhappily, the murderous "golden staphylococcus" has not even the grace to go on its way after Inflicting such sorrow on a household like yours. It may con tinue to lurk about in search of more victims unless you obtain immediate treatment with one of the newer "miracle drugs" now available to the medical profession. know; they're yours and ours. "Let's be enthusiastic: let's get excited about our state. Let's givs Oregon's future a shot in the arm. And while we are at it, let' fight for an ever safer, more at tractive city, making use of all its cultural and recreational of fering. Let's make (it) one of America's most beautiful and in viting cities ... it has all the. qualifications. "Let's remember a fine old Western trait being friendly!" Let's stop bonking at the car ahead, the instant the light turns green; let's not bite at the waiter when ha keeps us waiting too long. Left remember that courtesy is con tagious. Isn't it nice to be oa the receiving end of a big, wide smile? Let's keep that sort ol look on Mr. New Year's face. "Let's bring the word 'family back into our home life. Every body's buzzing off in different di. rections, when the best place in the whole world is right at homa with our loved ones. Let's do things together play bridge, or have a pillow fight. The strength of this beloved America is right in our living room! 1961 will be a year well spent, if we can turn it into the year of the happy family. "J961 's going to be a great year . . . make the most of it." , Pretty hard to disagree with the) author of that ad, isn't it? I'll bet the advertiser gets plenty of requests for the additional copies) of the ad he said would be avail able at his store. So far, I've managed to keep my one New Year Resolution: to NOT read any of the think pieces in the national magazines purporting to tell us what will happen in 1961. (If Floyd Wynne can't even predict what will hap. pen in Klamath Falls, how can some of those other birds hope to tell us what is going to happen on a nation-wide basis?) I'm sure you won't mind ona more Christmas story: Ma: "Pa, I think the neighbors don't like the drum we got Johnny for Christmas." Pa: "Why?" Ma: "They gave him a knife, and asked him if he knew what was in the drum." This had to happen, sooner or later. "Is this the office where ' I pay my Income tax?" a worn an asked on entering a Reve nue Office. "Yes." replied an agent, "the cashier there will take your money." ; "Oh, I never pay any bills in cash," said the woman. "I al. . ways use my credit card." In the Chicago Museum of Nat ural History is a document that might make paying the monthly land after-Christmas) bills mora enjoyable. Compare your plight with that of the man in Thebes who signed the following loan con tract in 198 B.C. "I, the peasant slave Ensnak homneau . . . have borrowed from the woman Nekhutes 22V4 aftabas of wheat. I promise to repay this loan with 100 percent interest, making the total due 45 artabas of wheat. Further, I promise to repay this loan with good, unadul terated, chaffless seed wheat . . . (and) to deliver said wheat to ths house of the woman Nekhutes . . . without transportation charges, by the last day of the ninth month of this year with no extensions of time to be granted. Furthermore, everything I now possess or shall acquire is herewith pledged to Nekhutes until I shall have dis charged my debt in full . . ." Thoughts So you shall keep my com mandments and do them: I am the Lord. Leviticus 22:31. To obey God in some things and not in others shows an un sound heart. Childlike obedienea moves toward every command of God, as the needle points wher the loadstone draws. Thomas Watson. - Do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you. Romans 11:18. Earthly pride is like the pass ing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. H. K. White. Now the parable Is this: Th , seed is the word of God. Luk 8:11. When you have read the Bibla you will know it is the Word of God because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty. Woodrow Wilson,
