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KERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregoi
Monday, January 16, 161
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
' United Nations Is
Problem For, Kennedy
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President Charles de Gaulle unquestion
ably is now embarking upon what must in
evitably be the most critical days of his entire
career as leader of France.
Algeria, everyone understands, is
France's toughest problem. The referendum
De Gaulle has won on the issue does not solve
it in any degree. It is simply a mandate to him
to continue trying to solve it.
De Gaulle won the mandate partly be
cause he made it a clear test of his leader
ship. Most Frenchmen grasped the fact that
they have no really effective alternative to
the austere general. They were not prepared
to rebuff him.
! They appreciate, too, that they cannot
stand still on the Algerian issue. They may
not like the direction in which De Gaulle pro
poses to move toward a strong measure of
Algerian self-determination but they know
they cannot live forever with the terrible ec
onomic and military drain Algeria now repre
sents. How it will be ended is still the great
puzzle. The Algerian rebels, despite De
The windstorm of late . wreaked
havoc with the business area of the city.
Shoppers were beset by an onslaught of
sawdust that made the air in the downtown
frea almost unbearable.
; In addition to the normal amount of dirt
ind paper that assaulted the area, everyone
had to contend with flying particles of saw
dust which attacked the face and the eyes.
; When the wind subsided, sawdust was
piled up in almost every corner of Main
Street. Curbs were lined with it and every
one wondered what could be done about such
are-occurrence.
Unquestionably, the major source of the
sawdust was the huge pile at Consumer's Heat
ing Company. It falls proy to any busy wind
and creates an uncomfortable situation.
' In former years, it was a "black" snow"
situation from the company's huge smoke
stacks that created difficulties. However, it
must be pointed out in all fairness that the
company spent quite a few thousand dollars
Just to correct this situation.
They cut their stacks down and Installed
g?j Men
Some psychiatrist are worried
because the new American male
tacks aggression. He is becoming
too polite, too sweet, too easily
turned away from his goals. Our
omenGod help us! now have
more aggression than the men.
They are bolder, brassier, and
more ready to fight for the things
they want Once, they wore a
mantle of lovely ignorance,
i There is a joke about a fat
man sitting in his socks in front
of a television set. His wife
walked across the room and
Slapped him. He looked up and
growled: "What's that for?" She
trembled with rage. "That," she
said, "is because, you kiss lousy."
He sat back and watched the
how awhile.
'Then he stood, walked across
(he room to where she sat, and
iauled off and belted her.
fWhat's that for?" she said.
. I "That," he said, "is for know
ing the diflerence."
; Man has always kept his wom
an Ignorant, because what she
didn't know couldn't hurt him.
The ladies used to brag that they
fcnew nothing oxcept what their
mothers and husbands taught
them. The men of those times
were more aggressive and it was
not unusual for a boy with only
four years of schooling to rise to
the top of the heap and become
millionaire. The women could
afford to be passive. They could
ixprcss their own secret aggres
sions by forcing their husbands to
do their bidding,
j It was a nice sort of life that
.way. The men were men; t h
omen were ladies. Aggression Is
not belligerence, nor bad man
ners, nor pugnactousncss. It is a
manly desire to cherish and pro
tect and dominate a family and lo ,
go out in the world and fight
for the good things for them.
- Is Dr. William Glasscr'i new
Chance At A Miracle
Sawdust Storm
JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . .
Abdicate
Leaaersnip i o
book. Mental Health or Mental
Illness? (Harper), he says it suc
cinctly: "All civilized societies
are continually caught in a basic
dilemma: the need to curb ag
gressiveness to the point where
it docs not harm others yet not
curb It to the point where it ceas
es to function for the good of the
individual." Nations that become
soft and eflcte almost always fall
under the heels of more aggres
sive countries.
In America, it is considered
smart to avoid military service. A
young man who says: "I'm patri
otic. I want to serve my coun
try" could be put away.
The clever boy tries to figure a
way of being turned down for
military service. He is also less
prone to fight for his girl, a new
job, a raise in salary, knowledge,
competitive sports.
Some of the blame, I think, is
on the mothers. Many of them
try to create sissies in their own
Image rather than in (he image
of the fathers. The moro religious
the mother is Uie more inclined
she is to emasculate her sons.
My mother used to watch me
preen for a date. When I got the
coat and the hat on. and the tie
was properly disposed, I would
kiss her goodnight. "Be a gentle
man." she would say. "Treat the
girl as though she was your sis
ter." I used to get so irritated
that I'd say: "If she was my sis
ter, I wouldn't go out with her."
Dr. Glassot points out that the
women now outnumber tlic men,
and lltcy have learned to be ag
gressive for themselves. Most mo
tion pictures and television shows
that depict family life show the
mother as the dominating influ-
ence and the man as a bumbling,
good-natured idiot. It wasn't that
way in our house. My fallier
ruled the roost and the issue was
never in doubt
Gaulle's many sincere overtures, have not
yet come to the bargaining table. The blood
shed goes on.
Tens of thousands of less violent Mos
lems in Algeria declined to take part in the
big referendum. No one knows to what ex
tent, if any, they will now participate in the
various Algerian assemblies which must be
formed if self-determination is to become the
reality De Gaulle seeks.
On the other side, it is thoroughly plain
that the Europeans in Algeria, not to mention
strong elements in the French army, are still
substantially opposed to any solution which
gives the Algerian Moslems the inevitable as
cendancy their numbers warrant.
In virtually every approach he has made
to the Algerian problem, De Gaulle has proved
himself pre-eminently the statesman. But to
crack this major dilemma seems to require
nothing less than the powers of a miracle
maker.
A large share of the population in France
and Algeria have given De Gaulle the addi
tional opportunity he demanded to attempt
the miracle.
filter chambers to absorb the "black snow."
This helped a great deal and they are to be
commended for their actions.
However, it would seem that this pile of
sawdust could be kept wet on top, holding
down the pile. We realize that the company
is not in the weather forecasting business
and can't predict when winds are going to
blow up, but a certain amount of wind is con
stant in this country and precautions should
always be taken to keep the pile from blowing
down on unsuspecting citizens.
We do not want to harass the company
unduly because we're glad they are operating
here, but it would seem something should be
done about this problem which caused con
siderable cost to the city and businessmen in
cleaning the sawdust from the streets.
Even the grimmest situation, however,
has a humorous side,
A visitor to the city inquired,
"Do you always put sawdust on your streets
and sidewalks when it, becomes slippery?"
Being imbued with a certain onse of
civic pride, what could we answer?
Role Of
Women
The most Important element
In making a man is not victory,
- but defeat. II I had a son who
played football, I would hope that.
In the first season at least, he
would get his brains knocked out.
No man learns from triumph. If ,
he can como back after a beat-,
ing, spitting mud from between
his .teeth, he has learned lesson
number one.
Some psychiatrists have a ten
dency to write off male aggres
sion as a lost cause. They feel
that if wo are going to have a
race of hypersensitive men with
their own special hair-do's,
why fight it? Some of our boys are
so pretty (hat it makes one think
that mother got her wish when
she prayed for a girl.
This, as a national calamity, is
no worse than the psychiatrists
who have written off God as wish
ful thinking. One psychiatrist was
in Haiti, where voodoo rites are
practiced. He met a witch doctor
and studied the array of gods
worshipped by the natives.
"How cap you obey so many
idols?" the psychiatrist asked.
The witch doctor grinned. "We
aren't half as obedient to these
gods," he said, "as you Ameri
cans are to the one you have
strapped on your wrist."
THEY
SAY...
The political tensions between '
our countries exist at a very
high level .... so we did not
expect it down among the physi
cists. Russian physicist S. Y. Nlkl
tin. visiting Stanford I., on the
absence of cold war la the sci
entific ""rid.
Creeping Capitalism" '
j THE
SOMETIMES it takes a new ap
proach to make an idea work.
This was particularly true of the
Klamath Auditorium.
FOR THE LAST few years, the
Old Armory, as many still call
it, has been a while elephant. It
was built initially in a joint ef
fort by Die city of Klamath Falls
and the county.
In the ensuing years since its
construction in Uie 30s. it has
been used, primarily for such
things as dancing and boxing and
wrestling, and occasionally for
large convention gatherings.
But its use in recent years was
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Jan. 16, the
16lh day of the year with 349
. more in 1961.
The inoori is new.
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Mars and
Venus.
On this day in history:
In 1770. the organist in New
York City's Trinity Church played
part of Handel's Messiah, the
first such performance in Amer
ica. In 1SR3, the rcndlcton Act pro
vided for (ho U.S. Civil Service
Commission.
In 1020, the Volstead Act to en
force the 18th Amendment to the
Constitution, prohibiting manufac
ture, sale or transportation of in
toxicating liquors, went into ef
fect. In 1!M2, actress Carole Lom
bard and her mother and 20
other passengers were killed
' when a commercial airliner
crashed, near Las Vcgr.s, Nov.
Thought for today: English au
thor Francis Bacon said: "Re
venge is a kind of wild justice,
which the more man's nature
runs to. the more ought law to
weed it out."
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Use Of Auditorium
Proves Paying Plan
dwindling, and yet the cost of
maintenance and upkeep was
quite a figure.
Each year, the city and the
county each put up $1,500 for
operation of the building.
THEN, George Price, recrea
tion director, came up with the
suggestion that it should be turned
into a civic activity center. He
told both the council and t h e
county court that he felt it could
be made to pay its own way.
Despite doubts of this optimis
tic an estimate, . both bodies
agreed to add $1,000 to their an
nual allowance for the building
to give Price a chance to work
out his idea. The understanding
w-as that he would try it for a
year' and Uien the results would
be re-assessed.
THE OTHER DAY, Price is
sued a six-month report on the
progress of his use of the Klam
ath Auditorium. It was a success
ful report, with income (or the
period from July 1 to Dec. 31
totalling $1,928.46 and expenses of
$1,725.57.
This meant that the auditorium
had not only paid its own way,
but had shown a net profit of
about $200 in that period of time.
HOWEVER, this docs not mean
that the operation can continue to
maintain such an excellent show
inc. There are heat problems in con
nection with the building which
will be heavy between now and
spring, and other maintenance
items that could force the de
partment to dip into the funds
added by the city and the county
before the year is up.
NEVERTHELESS, if one sur
veys the activities that the depart
ment has interested in using the
facilities, it also becomes appar
ent that the venture is extremely
successful, not just from the fi
nancial viewpoint, but also from
the viewpoint of providing addi-
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reational activities.
ACTIVITIES in the building run
the whole scale from kindergarten
activity to meetings of the Golden
Age Club.
Twenty seven children attend
the pre-schoo! play school. Over
130 teenage boys participate in
the play of the Victory League
basketball group, and 120 men of
the City League practice there.
Hi-nite is another popular fea
ture with as many as 200 high
school students attending this
function.
The baton and marching class
es draw 50 young ladies, and 35
persons take part in the work
of the Pelican Players, a theatri
cal group.
The list goes on and on.
FIGURES kept by the depart
ment record the tremendous in
crease in use that the building
has had since this venture was
launched.
In July 800 attended activities
there. This figure had risen to
1.000 by October and it reached
the tremendous figure of 5.000 dur
ing the month of December.
These figures will, of necessity,
decline during the summer
months when the accent is on out-of-doors
play, but they tell a
graphic figure.
OUR CONGRATULATIONS to
Price and his staff for doing an
excellent job of turning this white
elephant ititn an active, going
facility that is providing new push
for our community activities.
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Interpretation
An incident which occurred re
cently I believe deserves to be
brought to the attention of a civic
body, such as yours. Although
trivial in itself, it could have
considerable bearing, if repeated,
on the good feeling prevailing be
tween the residents of the Cali
fornia portion of this Basin and
your merchants.
On Dec. 13 my farm truck,
while on the way to Klamath
Falls, was stopped and the driver
given a ticket because of the
stoplight not working. Although it
was merely a matter of a damp
or poor connection caused by tho
recent storm and easily remedied.
I appeared in the district court
and readily paid a $7.50 fine.
Three days later my same
truck in nearly the same locale
was asain stopped. This time the
crime was no PUC. whatever that
may be. The facts were that I
was merely hauling a small load
of government potato crates to
the Martin Green ranch to be
filled with their potatoes for ship,
ment to the Quartermaster's De
partment of the Army. This load
originated in California and I did
not charge .Martin Green & Sons
one cent for the use of the truck.
Again I was cited to appear
Into your district and cgain lined.
During the argument I posed the
question that should I enter Ore
gon, buy a load of material and
exceed the gross weight of 6.0TO
pounds, would I be required to
have a TL'C permit? Both the
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON NEA-As the
Kennedy administration prepares
to take over, it begins to appear
that new policies must be adopt
ed for dealing with if not solv
ingsome of Its more pressing
problems in the United Nations.
The idea is growing that the
United States can't do everything
alone. It must rely increasingly
on the world organization.
The General Assembly is in re
cess until March. ThU gives ad
. ministration time to get its house
in order. But problems in Cuba,
Laos, the Congo and elsewhere
will come before the Security
Council, demanding immediate at
tention. This prospect comes at a time
when the very existence of the
U.N. itself seems threatened. Tho
General Assembly record from
last September through Decem
ber was not too reassuring.
The Security Council was fre
quently immobilized. The secre
tary general was under attack.
The Soviet Union in effect ex
tended its veto power into the
General Assembly.
Costs of maintaining peace forc
es in the Congo which the Rus
sians refuse to share are great
er than the rest of the U.N. budg
et. So the organization faces
bankruptcy.
The first 15 years of United
States participation in the U.N.
may be considered something of
a honeymoon. In this period the
United States never cast a veto
and never lost a vote.
But the West is losing its ma
jority in the U.N. to the new
countries in Asia and Africa. The
showdown may come soon, if the
United States turns up on the
losing side of a vote.
There may be some public cla
mor then for us to pull out of
the U.N. But that is irrational if
the U.N. is considered essential
to established world order.
Since it has been found impos
sible to amend the U.N. charter,
the hope for the United States
lies in being able to influence
THE DOCTOR SAYS . . .
Operation Often
Not Satisfactory
By HAROLD T. HVMAN, M.D.
Written for NEA
From a desperately unhappy
housewife of West Palm Beach,
Fla., comes the following:
"My husband and I have not
been able to get along together
for the pas! five years. Because
we have three lovely children we
have tried to keep together until
they are old enough to go off to
school or college. But it's just no
use and I'm convinced it would
be better all around if my hus
band and i got a divorce since
the atmosphere in our home is
terrible.
"The children don't know which
way to turn. They go out as
much as they can. And when
they're home, they're afraid to
say a word for fear of hurting
the feelings of their mother or
their father.
"But here's the difficulty. My'
husband has a duodenal ulcer.
And every time I mention separa
tion or divorce to him. his ulcer
kicks up and I have lo put him
back on hio diet and his pow
dors. Don't you think it would
be better for him to have the
operation and get it over once
and for all rather than keep on
like this?"
Whoa, dear "housewife." Bet
ter hold everything until you've
thought your problem through.
First of ail. do you think there's
a possibility that there may be
some causa! relationship between
your marital difficulties and your
district attorney and the judge
admitted that the issue was not
clear and even the state police
officer present stated that in
that case maybe it might be only
a technical violation and could
be overlooked.
The only clear part of the en
tire matter, as I see it. is that
I was out several hours of time
and a srt.all sum of money. The
injustice of the matter seemed
perfectly apparent.
The prospect of future harass
ment by your law enforcing and
judicial asencies will certainly de
ter me from any immediate pur
chases of heavy materials from
the Oreron side of the line. I
had in mind the purchase of lum
ber and sheet metal for a small
structure to be built on Shasta
Lake 1 am quite convinced that
I will not be bothered if I go
to Redding.
I am sincerely sorry to have
to bring this matter to your at
tention. I am quite sure it is
not the intent of your many fins
business people that California
residents should be subjected to
"such an unfair interpretation of
the law. -
George G. Yost
Tulelake, Calif.
the attitudes of the uncommitted
and neutral nations. This may
call for new strategy and tactics.
The idea of carrying on the
cold war in the U.N. may have
to be suspended. The new na
tions want no part of it. What
they are interested in is improv
ing their own internal conditions.
The U.N. offers opportunities
for the approach of helping its
member states.
The problem of President Ken
nedy, Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and Ambassador to the U.N.
- Adlai Stevenson is to restore the
image of the United States as a
tower of strength and the hope of
the future for those countries
which may feel that our leader
ship is not what it used to be.
The problem is no longer to
win them as allies in the cold
war but lo protect them from
the Communist East. Underdevel
oped countries in particular need
this U.N. shield.
This may lead to greater dis
tribution of aid through the U.N.
than from the United States alone.
The objection to this is that Amer
ican dollars should not be spent
without American control. The so
lution may be to avoid giving
the U.N. responsibilities it cannot
properly administer.
It can operate successfully
through the World Bank and soma
of its other specialized agencies.
But resolutions which ask the
General Assembly to decide is
sues on which it lacks compe
tence or which ask the sec
retary general to carry out tasks
he can't perform are useless. .
All this must be worked out
in a vacuum until the new ad
ministration can decide for itself
what the Russians really want.
It must be determined to what
extent Russia wishes to extend
or contract the cold war and to
what extent it really wants dis
armament. If the Kremlin policy Is ana
lyzed as a continuation of tho
usual Communist tactics of par
ticipating in an organization mere
ly to destroy before taking it
over, then new policies must be
devised to save the United Nations.
husband's ulcer flare-ups? This
consideration is not intended to
place blame or lake sides. It
does raise the important question
as to a possible relationship
between an organic disease
(soma) and an emotional trigger
(psychosomatic illness). For, if
this possibility exists, removing
the ulcer is tackling the prob
lem at Ihe wrong end. It's al
most like amputating the foot to
get relief from (he pain of a
bunion.
Secondly, you are misinformed
if you think the operation is cura
tive in all instances. Here are
some facts about surgery for the
patient with duodenal ulcer:
The immediate postoperative
mortalily is 3.8 per cent under
best auspices And probably high
er nationwide.
In a ten-year follow-up study.
Dr. Kiefer of Boston's Lahcy
Clinic reported 13.4 per cent ul
cer recurrences, a weight reduc
tion of more than 10 pounds in
34 per cenl, unpleasant postopera
tive distress in 14 per cent, and
inability lo resume the usual oc
cupation in 10 per cent.
And in confirmation of the
Kiefer findings. Dr. Harold Har
vey of New York's Presbyterian
Hospital reports an "incidence of
15 to 20 per cent unsatisfactory
results" following the classic op
eration for duodenal ulcer.
Now in view of these less op
timistic facts about a surgical
. ulcer cure, don't you think you
and your husband would be wiser
to see what can be done to patch
up your marital difficulties? You
may not know it but you have at
your disposal, at little or no cost,
the facilities of the Family Serv
ice Association of America, a non
profit organization sponsored by
great industrialists and labor
leaders.
To avail yourselves of their
wonderful services, write their
main office al 215 Park Avenue
South, New York City 3, N.Y.,
and you'll be directed to which
ever of their 290 member agen
cies is nearest to your home.
Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap
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questions but regrets that t h e
heavy volume of his mail doesn't
permit htm to answer each in
dividual letter or post card. How
ever, he will comment in col
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ters of general or unusual in
terest. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's
leaflet "Understanding Mental Ill
ness," send 10 cents to Dr. Hy
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