Tuesday. January 19, 1MI
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls,' Ore.
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Suppose It Were Your Business
! If vou wonder why your taxes are so high,
i this little story may help clear your mind.
'. Construction of a $40 million steel plant
In Montana is scheduled to begin next May.
i The plant will use large amounts of electric
power. The regional investor-owned utility,
the Montana Power Company, offered to sup
i ply it at a rate that is among the lowest in
i dustrial rates in the country, and to invest $20
million in needed transmission lines. Said the
, Livingston, Montana, Enterprise, the company
"would have paid $15 million in taxes per
year to Montana counties and schools, plus
income tax to the state and federal govern
ments on its earnings."
However, the utility didn't get the con
tract. The steel company accepted the offer
of a tax-exempt federal socialized system for
power at a cost of about 2.4 mills per kilowatt
hour. That figure is actually less than the cost
- of taxes alone of the utility company which
works out to 3.6 mills per kwh, says the pres
ident of Montana Power.
The utility's president adds "that every
one .should understand the policy of govern
ment by which a federal agency builds power
plants, transmission lines and substations
with taxpayers' money and operates those
properties in a commercial business without
paying any county, state or federal taxes and
sells the power in competition with a tax
paying power company at less than half what
it costs the taxpaying company to produce and
sell the same power."
Another point is in order. Using its tax
exemption and other special privileges, the
government could build a steel plant and sell
th product for less than any private enter
prise. It could do the same thing with any
product and any service. Then we'd all work
for the government, and we'd all take what
ever orders the politicians in Washington
dreamed up.
'Mobocracy' In Action
Democracy may be at a juncture in his
tory where it needs protection from its
friends as well as its enemies.
The disorders in Belgium are a painful
case in point.
. The sequence of events was simple. When
the Belgians cut, the Congo adrift, they were
faced with inevitable economic difficulties at
home. To meet them, the present government
under Premier Eyskens proposed an "aus
terity" legislative program.
The Belgian Socialists disapproved of the
program. In protest they called a. series of
strikes which have added up to a near general
strike in many parts of Belgium. To reinforce
their complaints, they , have marched in the
: streets and indulged in riotous disorders.
; Now it is clear that this is a political
- strike aimed at the very least at defeating
: the austerity program, and at the most at un
gating the Eyskens government.
; But is this really the way to accomplish
such ends in a democracy? '
; The political strike, the riot, the over-
turning of cars and the stoning of shops, are
these the processes of democracy?
: Of course they are not. They are the tac-
tics and strategy of internal warfare. They
: represent the substitution of violence for the
human intelligence. They are as reprehensible
in the domestic sphere as war is on the inter
national scene.
What is truly stunning is that such weap
ons should be so quickly resorted to, and that
they should find so many ready hands in tiny
Belgium, a nation long seen in the world's
eyes as one of its most orderly democracies.
The Socialists in Belgium may think of
' themselves as democrats. But they have not
been living and acting as democrats. They
have been trying to legislate in the streets,
with rock and muscle. ..
They have been a bad example to the sup
porters of democracy everywhere. They have
done ho service to themselves, to their coun
try, or to the cause of freedom. Democracy is
not mobocracy.
Every time a "democratic" rioter throws
a stone through glass, he breaks a window in
democracy's threatened house. And the wind
which then wafts in is an evil current gener
ated in Communist Russia.; . ,
( Are the peoples in trie democracies thus'
to do the work of their enemies? In too many
instances it would seem so unless they can
.awake to realize that democracy is served only
by democratic processes, not by self-destructive
internal warfare such as has plagued the
Belgians.
Castro Asked For It
In breaking off diplomatic relations with
Cuba, we have taken an action which most
Americans will regard as reasonable in the
light of Fidel Castro's persistent provocations.
There is no doubt that we have also
served Castro's own twisted political purposes. .
As President Eisenhower has properly
pointed out, there is a limit to the harassment
one nation can endure at the hands of another.
Though we cannot take punitive steps against
tiny Cuba, we do not have to pretend to be on
friendly terms with a government which has
made hating America its stated policy.
There is no need to catalogue again the
many Castro provocations. The final straw, of,
course, was his order to reduce our Cuban
embassy staff from near 100 to 11 the exact
number in Cuba's American embassy. Our
obvious conclusion was that this would make
our Havana embassy virtually inoperative.
; From Castro's viewpoint, the gains in this
: move were clear. Much of the U.S. staff in
Cuba was engaged constantly in processing
visas for Cubans eager to escape to America
from the wonders of the Castro regime. '
The backlog of Cubans seeking U.S. entry
Is said to be at least 50,000 right now. They,
plus the thousands already landed in Florida,
constitute an intense embarrassment to Cas
tro. For they advertise in loud tones that his
revolution is not universally accepted as the
blessing of the century.
Besides this, Castro undoubtedly found a
kind of warped satisfaction in the mere act of
our breaking off. In his petty dictator's world
, even such a negative act can be hailed as a
triumph, for he will offer it as proof his "hate
America" campaign is justified.
In actual fact it is not justified. We may
indeed have had our shortcomings in our rela
tions with the Cuban people. But a strong,
basic friendship existed, and as far as we are
concerned, still docs. Thus the severing of
diplomatic ties must be taken with deep regret.
I THEY SAY...
The role of a woman in the United
J Nations can be the same as the role
i -of a man. There is no difference be-
tween the mind of a man and a woman,
i Mrs. Haling Anegay, 25, beauteous
Moroccan delegate to the U.N.
' Certainly we in the United States
win never accept the present situa
tion In eastern Europe as anything
but a temporary nightmare before the
inevitable dawn of freedom.
Undersecretary of State Douglas
y- Dillon.
;'; We win dissolve state boundaries
; because political boundaries are obso-
lete ... We'll kick the judges out of
: their jobs and give them chance ter
go to work and make an horast Mv
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: presidential candidate, with some of
his platform.
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f capitalist 12 hours a day and was
1 always tired. Now I work for myself
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Economists Predict Need For
Immediate Fiscal Procedures
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press Newt Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sunny
and sober.
Those (wo words spell one of
the basic differences between
President Eisenhower and President-elect
Kennedy. '
. The elderly 70-year-old Ei
senhower appears to have a sunny
optimistic outlook. The young 4.1-year-old
Kennedy is not pessi
mistic but appears to take a much
more sober view of the world.
Three stories, which moved
within an hour of one another on
Associated Press wires, point up
the difference.
During the presidential cam
paign Kennedy complained the
American economy was dragging
its feet, needed to grow faster.
Eisenhower has appeared rather
satisfied with the rale of growth.
A number of economists agreed
with Kennedy. ;
Thursday at 4:38 p.m. The AP
moved a slory saying the National
Planning Association which de-
scribes itself as a nonprofit, non
political organization teamed up
THE LIGHTER SIDE
yell, At Least Congress
Is In Action, He Finds
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPD - For
a while, I thought that Congress
was sick or something.
My fears were aroused by the
Congressional Record for Jan. 3,
which indicated that members of
the House ol Representatives in
troduced only 383 bills on the first
day of the new session.
This averages out to less than
one bill per congressman, which
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EDITORS'
OPINIONS
Settling Strikes
(MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE)
Now that pressures of election
year politics have diminished, per
haps Congress will face up to the
pressing need for revision of laws
designed to handle strikes.
. A good many proposals to cope
with this problem have been of
fered since the end of the steel
strike.
1. Limitations on government in
tervention. The aim is to encour
age the full use of collective bar
gaining yet. give the government
sufficient means to act when the
public health and safety demands.
2. Flexibility. A number of al
ternate courses would be permit
ted the President, depending on
the nature, and severity of the
strike. These might range, for ex
ample, from the early use of a
presidential fact-finding panel lo
imposition of an injunction to halt
a strike, perhaps even govern
ment seizure of a critical indus
try. Boards of inquiry might be em
powered by the President to make
a simple report of the facts or
might be asked to assess blame
and recommend settlement terms.
One advantage of a flexible ap
proach would be that labor and
management would be kept on
edge as lo the form' of inter
vention and thus be stimulated
to reach their own settlement.
3. Public representation. Espec
ially since the nation's experience
with the steel strike, we believe)
there is widespread acknowledge
ment of the public's right to be
, represented as "the third voice''
' in major indusu-iul negotiations.
4. Individual Industry responsi
bility. Lubttr and management
should be persuaded to work out
their own procedures for prevent
ing strikes. Only it these failed
would government intervention be
torn gvssiy.
isn't even enough for a good bon
fire. Ordinarily, the opening day
inflow will average about three
bills per congressman.
The record for Jan. 3 came out
on Wednesday and, needless to
say, I didn't sleep much that
night. I lay awake for hours try
ing to figure out the reason for
such a puny total of new bills.
In the hallucinations that insom
nia can produce, I even began to
fancy that the republic might be
in jeopardy. But fortunately, my
worries were groundless, or at
least premature.
On Thursday, the next edition
of the record revealed that House
members actually greeted the
New Year with 1,827 bills, 82
joint resolutions, 34 concurrent
resolutions and 64 plain resolu
tions. This was clear evidence that
our lawmakers still are vigilant
and relentless about looking after
our interests, so we can all feel
reassured. Some of them aren't
even waiting for President-elect
John F. Kennedy to point the way
to the new frontier.
In looking over the list of pro
posed legislation. I saw many
measures of vital inconsequence
to the national welfare. Here are
some of the more vivid eye
catchers: A bill to provide an official
flag for congressmen to fly on
their car bumpers or yachts. Ever
since the dawn of the republic,
congressmen have been forced to
travel around without a flag they
could call their own. It's nice to
know that someone is trying to do
something about this privation.
A bill to "create a presump
tion"' that heart attacks and hyp
ertension suflcrcd by government
workers are "incurred in line of
duty." This would entitle them to
disability compensation even if
they get ulcers on their own time.
A bill to prohibit the registra
tion of trademarks containing the
words "While House." This, I
presume, would keep motels from
pretending to be the executive
mansion or from putting up signs
claiming that "John F. Kennedy
slept here."
A bill to provide for the coin
age of $30 million worth of $5 and
$10 sold pieces. Rep. Carroll D.
Kearn (R-P , who introduced
it, anid would 'oe better to put
pnrt of our bullion in circulation
ihnn to "risk the gold slipping
out of this country." For all I
know, he may be right.
A bill to require that dogs be
kept under leash in public places
in the District of Columbia. I
don't know what motivated this
measure, but I will try lo find
out It ought to nvtto inteitti-
,'ltalttfy, d
on Kennedy's side, called for fast
er growth.
Trying to accomplish this is go
ing to be one of Kennedy's tough- .
est tasks'.
At 5:30 p.m. The AP carried an
other story out of Washington.
This one, basing its information
on "authoritative sources," said.
Eisenhower would send Congress
a budget which at this moment
locks very sunny, indeed.
The country is in a recession,
the fourth since World War II,
and just preventing its getting
worse will call for strenuous ef- .
forts by Kennedy's new adminis
tration. If it does get worse, Kennedy
may have to take stringent steps.
The President's budget is his es- 1
timate of how much spending
should be for the fiscal year start
ing July 1 and how much the gov
ernment will collect from revenue
to offset the spending.
Eisenhower figures, the AP
said, that if Congress votes to
spend no more than he suggests,
then at the end of the fiscal year
(June 30, 1962), the government
revenue will be $600 million more
than its expenses.
But this is based on a happy
view of the future: The belief that
the recession will get no worse
and that a gradual recovery will
begin in the next few weeks.
This is contrary to the way most
economists see it.
Just 10 minutes after The AP
finished moving the Eisenhower
budget story it moved another as
a bulletin out of New York where
Kennedy is staying until his in
auguration Jan. 20.
This one started off: "President
elect John F. Kennedy tonight re
ceived study committee recom
mendations for swift emergency
measures to combat the business
slump. The group also urged
temporary tax cuts if the situation
turns a great deal worse in the
spring."
The study group, appointed by
Kennedy to evaluate economic
conditions, wasn't predicting dis
aster which would require massive
spending and public works.
But it did suggest a bundle of
steps to end the slump without
trying to be drastic right away.
It then suggested drastic ones if
the recession takes a mean downturn.
While we would much prefer it
otherwise, most of the material
on our editorial page is prepared
and produced as much as five
days in advance of publication.
For Instance, I wanted to be on
hand for the opening of the state
legislature Monday, so I had to
get editorial pages out for Tues
day and Wednesday and have
them ready before I left for Sa
lem Sunday.
This is not a serious situation,
but one that does not leave too
much lasl-minute flexibility. At
the same time, there are only
rare instances where editorial
comment on any situation is of
such vital nature that it cannot
be postponed for a day or two
in the interests of efficiency and
planning.
I realize, of course, that the
Herald and News editorial page is
not as powerful or as crusading
as some people like to see. At
heart, we are a pretty conserva
tive element in the community,
and I'm afraid that is the way
we will remain. Our editorial
page is directed toward building
the community not tearing it
down - with dramatic rampages
against this or that issue, or this
or that group of individuals in
the community. And, I think, too,
that some readers like to see edi
torials not directed wholly at lo
cal levels. They like to see an
occasional piece on Cuba, or Laos,
or whatever other isolated spot
might be in the news and in our
minds for a few days.
This is not by way of apology,
or of being apologetic. It is just
a way of pointing out that I do
not believe any editorial writer
should go off half-cocked or rant
about something he knows nothing
about just to excite readers.
It Is easy for some editorial
writers to pick up some little
incident in a community and
make an, issue of it. More often .
than not, however, such crusad
ing does more harm to the com
munity than good. And. in the
long run, readers generally come
to realize that the writer is pret
ty shallow that he has nothing
to offer but dirt and muck.
- We comment on'' local matters 1
when comment is due, I think. On
state and national issues affecting
the Klamath area, I often find
that I do not have the time to
research the matter carefully
enough before writing an editori
al. Therefore, I do not feel quali
fied to write, and so ... no
comment. As 1 become more fam
iliar with the problems and bel
ter acquainted with, background
and history that will assist in sol
utions, perhaps there will be more
leading comment than at present.
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, Uie
10th day of the year with 355
more in 1961.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning star is Mar s.
The evening stars are Venus
and Mars.
On this day in history: .
In 1737, revolutionary hero Eth
an Allen was born.
In 1776, Thomas Paine pub
lished his pamphlet "Common
Sense" setting forth the proposi
tion that the colonies should sep
arate from Great Britain and es
tablish their own independent
government
In 1861, Florida seceded from
the Union.
In 1870, John Rockefeller incor
porated the Standard Oil Com
pany in Cleveland. Ohio.
In 1901, the great Texas oil
boom began when oil was struck
in Beaumonl, Texas.
Thought for today: American
statesman Thomas Paine said:
"Suspicion is the companion of
tttcan souls, and the bane of all
gmg flfcicty."
vorable comment. Summing np,
I would nay that while we are)
doinf a fair Job on our edi
torial page, we promise uncon-
dilionally to get better.
As long as I'm on this line, I
am hopeful that with Congress
and the state legislature in ses
sion, we will see more people
using our "letters" column. Actu
ally, it doesn't take too much
time to sit down and whack out
a few lines on topics or issues
that interest you. And you'd be
surprised, probably, at the peo
ple who will agree with your
viewpoint. And, of course, we're
always interested in hearing the
opposite side, aren't we?
I think too many people ar
afraid to write to their newspa
per because they're afraid the ed
itor will add a note to their let
ter taking their hide off. We don't
do that.
You'll be interested in know
ing that our Progress Edition is
moving along, almost on schedule.
There's practically a warehouse
full of material for this first ef
fort, and I think you'll like it.
Don't forget to reserve extra cop
ies for your out-of-state (or in
state) friends and relatives whs
will be interested in knowing
about the Klamath Basin, its in
dustries, business, culture, and
progress. (Not an ad plug mere
ly a public service.)
On the oilier hand, I don't
want to be deprecating. Com
ment of readers on our editorial
page content and makeup Is
tremendously reassuring. I
would say that for every criti
cal comment, we receive be
tween 15-20 times as much fa-
Enough about the newspaper.
Cap Collier wants to know why
I don't write about the blackbirds
down near the river; the number
of pheasants one can see on the
slatcline highway; the unusually
fine weather, about the skiing on
Tomahawk, etc., etc. Cap's right.
I've just not wandered "around
enough looking at the birds and
bees et al.
Political note: It is said that
Kennedy's political margin in
Michigan would have been
greater had Republicans known
he was going to send Soapy
Williams to Africa.
There's always one consolation
we can fall back on. If K weren't
for the scoundrels that make up a
minority of society, how could you
.measure the goodness of the ma
jority? '
I like what the guy said: "This
'just getting by' attitude of ours
is the cue adopted by our youth
today, too readily used to excuse
poor grades, half-hearted efforts,
and the minimizing of intelligence
in all endeavors. , . . Our atti
tudes symbolize a powerful new
cult, the cult of mediocrity. This
'just average' philosophy is laying
the foundation for an unimagina
tive, vegetable-like generation."
He should have added, though,
that the kids are getting it from
examples set by their parents,
and from lack of parental control
and interest, in most instances.
And, I knew you'll agree that
It is probably just as well that
the "jokes" were left out today.
THE DOCTOR SAYS . . .
Child Convulsions
Are Grave Concern
L
By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
The appearance of a convul
sion, at birth, is always a cause
for grave concern. And justifi
ably so, since infantile convul-
sions are1 almost always mani- '
festations of severe damage lo
the brain itself.
By the time the child is two
years old, the first appearance of
a convulsion is a cause of very
much less concern. For, at this
stage in the youngster's develop
ment, the convulsive episode is al
most always the response of a
normal, but highly sensitive, nerv
ous system to fever or to a dis- .
turbance in body chemistry.
The fever is almost always
caused by an infecting organism
that can be liquidated by treat
ment with an antibiotic. The
chemical disturbance is almost al
ways due lp a deficiency of sugar
or calcium that can easily be
overcome by (eeding or injecting
the appropriate substance. So
therefore the convulsive episode
has no more influence on the
child's future development than
an electric storm that terrifies
momentarily and then passes.
But if you are the parent of
a convulsing child, you'll prob
ably want more reassurances than
are given in the bare outline
you've just read.
You'd .want to know how sure
your doctor could le that the
convulsion, attributed to the fe
ver or the chemical disturbance,
wasn't a manifestation also of an
underlying opilepsy. And you'd
want to know why, if this pos
sibility existed, it wouldn't be bet
ter to prescribe ant iepilciajc drugs
to spare your child the harrow
ing experience of another convul
sive episode.
Here's how you can protect
your child and yourselves with
the thoughtful cooperation and as
sistance of your doctor:
Request a tracing df the brain
waves (electro-encephalogram) to
determine definitely whether or
not your child is epiliptic. The
tracing (EEG) is readily obtained
without the slightest discomfort
or risk to the child.
If the tracing is normal, you
may breathe freely though you
must bear in mind the possibility
that the child, up to the age of S,
may still have a convulsive epi
sode at some later timtf if he
suffers a fresh infection.
If the tracing indicates that
your child is epileptic, you may
take comfort in the experience
of Dr. Samuel Livingston, direc
tor of the Epilepsy Clinic at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital. After 24
years of study, Dr. Livingston rec
ommends regular daily doses ot
anticonvulsive drugs for the child
with proven epilepsy. At the end
of four years of treatment in the
case of a boy and slightly longer
in the case of the girl who is
about to mature, treatment if
gradually withdrawn and then
wholly discontinued if all is well
as it is with the very rare excep
tion. In this way, as you see, your
child will not be unnecessarily
treated if there is no reason to
administer anticonvulsive drugs:j
he or she will be given almost
certain protection against anoth
er seizure if drug treatment is
required, and you may rest se
cure in the belief that your child
to safe from haim.
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