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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.
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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,