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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1961)
P6l-A HERALD AND NEWS, KlamatB Falli, Ore. Thursday, January It, 1961 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Strata anbfttto Too Big To Swallow Twentieth century dictators, large and small, have made a standard practice of trumping up fears of outside invasion. But seldom have they gone to the lengths that tidel Castro is pursuing in Cuba. We all understand the reason for stirring the fears. It is a way of distracting the citi zens from the discomforts they may be suffer ing at home.. It may encourage them to en dure still more. Moreover, it is a way of solidifying pop ular support behind a regime. Nothing seems to cement a people more quickly than a threat, imaginary or otherwise, from the outside. As employed by the German Nazis and the Russian Communists, this technique has served a double purpose. In addition to ce menting support, it provides grist for a propa ganda effort designed to fix blame on other nations for acts the complainants decide Jo commit. For all his attempts to fan the revolution ary fires elsewhere in Latin America, Castro isn't in the same league with these practi tioners on that score. But, at the pretense he is being invaded, he would be hard to match at any .time. What will Cast.ro fell the Cubans when the invasion from America fails to come off? Naturally he will not admit the hoax. To do that is to acknowledge the crushing .truth that his whole regime is a hoax upon the Cuban people. Presumably he will try to persuade them that his showy preparations "scared America off." The Cubans who accept Castro are gul lible. But are they gullible enough to believe that their tiny island could stand out against the United States if we' were really bent upon subduing it? Most likely they are not. The chances are good that when the invasion doesn't mate rialize more and more Cubans will begin to have doubts about their hero. Eventually those doubts will be big enough and numerous enough to be woven into a fabric of defeat for the fraudulent Cas tro. But, as has been noted often before, this is a fabric that only the Cuban people them selves can fashion. The Conference On Aging , (The Christian Science Monitor) Parliamentary bodies sometimes must produce decisions by showdown votes. The White House Conference on Aging was not a parliamentary body; it was not so chosen. It was a conference, and the better purpose of conferences in general is to produce under standing of a problem or set of problems, some agreement if possible on solutions, or at least a consensus as to lines of approach. The conference just held in Washington has served these purposes to some extent even on the focal political question of financing health care for the aged and to. a possibly greater extent on other questions which may prove in the long run equally important. It is significant that chief support for use of then social-security tax method came from the conference subgroup concerned with in come maintenance while principal opposition to this method came from the subgroup coik cerned with the quality of medical care. If it be conceded that there was an over all growth of sentiment for tying medical service into the social-security system,' it is well also to, recognize that this proposal does not solve all the problems involved. . There is first the matter of providing aid to a large number of most needy who do not yet have coverage under government old-age insurance. This as well as encouragement of voluntary health insurance is being under taken by the federal-state program already under way. There is further the desirability of per--mitting a certain amount of voluntarism at one or more stages of any new program that may evolve. This may involve, for example, a choice, of whether to participate at the outset, , or choice of government or of private insur ance, or a choice as to modes of treatment to be received. Then there is' the consideration that the system should not encourage execs- . sive or unnecessary reliance on its benefits. , The discussions in the White House Con ference should have helped somewhat to throw light on these questions for Congress. Other Editors' Opinions Canada And The United States , (Baltimore Sun) Canada has just announced a new tax-and-budget program which will bear heavily on foreign investors. Since some 70 per cent of foreign investment in Canada comes from the United States, the new taxes will hit American capital. Special exemptions accorded foreign investors will be withdrawn. New taxes will be imposed on the earnings of foreign corpora tions in Canada. Does this mean that a paroxysm of feel ing against the United States has swept the Canadian government? Is even our good north ern neighbor now taking up the painful cry, Yankee go home? Not a bit of it. Canada is simply trying to right a balance-of-paymenU difficulty exactly like the one the United States now confronts except that it is. more serious. The American gap between foreign spending and foreign earning is now at an annual rate just under $4 billion. Allowing for Canada's smaller population and economy, the Canadian deficit is proportionately al most four times as large. So what Canada must do is what the United States is trying to do cut down its foreign spending and boost its foreign earn ings. By attracting less American capital to Canada, the Canadians will encourage Cana dian capital to stay home and to come home. Stated in per capita terms, Canadian invest ment in the United States is about four times American investment in Canada. And if Cana da dampens down American demand for the Canadian dollars needed among other things for turning American capital into Canadian plants and equipment the Canadian dollar will decline in value as against the United States dollar. This will mean that Americans can buy relatively more in Canada, with consequent growth in Canadian exports. It will mean that Canadians can buy relatively less in the United States, with, consequent decline in Canadian imports. In short, Canada is doing with her new taxes just what the United States is doing in a variety of ways trying to get foreign payments to her and foreign payments, by her into better balance. There is, true, some sentiment against the United States, particularly in cultural matters, among Ca nadians who want to stay Canadian and not become mere facsimilies. But the new tax measures arise from solid and quite unwhim sical economic considerations. THEY SAY , The average American family now spends about $18 a month or nonpre scription or over-the-counter products ... Many actually bring little bene fit from a health standpoint. American Medical Assn. Sea Life The fate of humanity can no long er be decided by a few large and pow erful nations. We too the younger , nations have a word to say, and that word will surely echo down the years. Indonesian President Sukarno. I believe it's a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going no one reminds him of it. President Eisenhower, now 70 and oldest president in history. BARBS A hospital in the West lets fathers hear baby's first cry on a microphone. A wail of an idea. Trust only to luck and you have to be doggone lucky to get anywhere. . 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No I'm not trying just to promote . nome form of a game of silly questions, inviting sillier answer?. 1 ask the question because I be lieve few people get but a small percentage of the potential use alue out of newspapers that they have for them, that, under their particular circumstances as read ers, their newspapers might have for them. Newspapers are one of several forms of communications by which people receive something of news of what takes place in the world, opinions of some others as to what is significant in this news, how it fits in with other events, general principles7 which . , apply to events and actions that have taken place, and, mainly in the advertising, information they may use to fund where to secure what they could use and have need of, with a minimum of time and effort. Certainly also much of what is going on in the world, especially knowledge as to what is being done in advances in pro duction, is sometimes found in tho advertising. Other media people of today have for essentially the same pur pose are the radio and TV. Then we have the various kinds of mag azines and books, but these tend to cover specialized fields. And we have many kinds of organiza ' lions, including schools, which , also serve as means of communi cation, making available some in formation, and versions of opin ions on the significance of some of it, which generally come from some who are at least supposed to be specialized authorities in the field upon which they com ment. As you contemplate this whole field of means of communications, the people of today have avail- . able and use to secure such in formation, it becomes apparent that radio and TV cover the same fields as the newspapers. But, there is one thing that Stands the newspaper entirely apart from those two. For with those two you have to secure particular in- formation, or particular opinions, at a certain time, and have to tako them at a rate determined by those putting them out. You . can not stop enough to absorb a point, can not go back over some thing, of which the meaning was not clear. And after having ab sorbed the factual news as some thing which has taken place, you can not (stop ) and reflect, while (tils news is fresh in your mem-' ory, so as to find likenesses with what is happening somewhere with things which have taken place in your own direct past experiences as you con witli your newspaper. And, with the aid of this, huild up views as to what ' could have been done to best . take care of this situation. With the newspaper you can, unless you are of those who are so crowded for time you have to throw everything including your breakfast and food generally with one quick gulp. When you read of the charges being slung around in the United Nations meetings, for instance, with the play made to arouse fears, hates, prejudices, do you stop and ask yourself questions as to why this is done, what will be the effect on those in whom such emotions are aroused, and on those who allow themselves to give way to anger and disgust, ..and how things could best be han dled to defeat the intentions of those who sought to slir up those . emotions? And, if you find your- . self baffled by these questions, " do you mark them down in your mind as points upon which yutt should make some inquiry into? If you fail to utilize some time, in cases where you have it, for some of these things you are get ting but a small percentage of the value out of your papers. I am one who thinks our news papers could be verv much im- ' proved. But I also think this can not take place out of the effort of newspaper people alone, in a vacuum of effort on the part of people as a whole. That you who are a reader of newspapers have a very definite responsibility to do you part towatti what can be done to improve the papers. And the first point at which you should begin is at asking yourself what you might do to better use your papers, and to follow that up with actions. 0. 0. Womada 1 1 ft Ii U It It. I I; U II ho III 112 ii n n ii n nrr-nr -jb ; ' 1 in ra"pf 1 1 1 u a n fr-p a- a ft il a 1 V-LF a a Ti 57 jTan m i j i h xr ir U Ul Mi n "ii jit ft SI STST 3 w 3 5? I I I It Al manac By 1'nlted Press International Today is Thursday. Jan. 19. the 19th day of the year with 346 more in 1961. Tlie moon, is approaching its first quarter. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. On this day in history: In 1736, James Watt, discoverer of the power of steam, was born. In 1809, American writer Edgar Allan Poc was born. In 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union. In 1881, Jay Gould and William Vanderbilt organized the Western Union Telegraph Co. WiflTS, TTTia-' v-sftr aBOTK. 1 a- U'V,- P I - I I aasaj Hear of Naonal Cultural Conror would be building. s i"i. iiuiip)- .' t t'SX 0 lWrfw- 'tiki, . Theodore Roosevelt memorial's proposed "celestial sphere." L 1 NOTHING SPECIAL It appeared that the whole dern town of Chiloquin turned out for the annual Reservation Jaycees Award dinner the other night. And, I'm told, thafs the way they do things in Chiloquin. They get together, and they work to gether. Right now. they're in the midst of a project to really pub i licize Chiloquin and the area this spring and summer as a means of luring more tourists into the area. Most of us probably feel that we're about 12 times ahead of the statistics. But figures show : that the average American fam ily spends $295 a year for health services . medicine, physicians, dentists and hospitals. Dr. Cliff Robinson told this one. Seems that a family of eight chil dren lived near an area where a major highway was being built, and bituminous surfacing was be ing laid. The children often played near the highway. One day. the mother sensing something wrong, hurried out to where they were playing. On her arrival she was informed that three-year-old Joel had fallen into a drum of tar. The mother fished him out, looked over the gooey, sticky Joel cov ered from head to foot with tar, and she sighed, with tears in her eyes: "I believe it would be easi er to have another, than to clean this one up!" LOOSE ENDS: The best social security for old age is to be respectful to your children . . . Just as I swore I'd quit using puns, I see where a Texas judge sends a girdle thief up for a stretch ... No one" seems to know what people want these days, except they won't accept a cent less . , The world weighs only 36 million sextillion tons, but ' it seems a lot heavier to us col umnists charged with supporting its weight-, . . Nothing, sighed J n Pearson, scatters wealth like taxation and a large family , , . Many girls are attracted to the simpler tilings in life men ... Wclh we seem to be having our school housing problems in Klamath. Nothing unusual, I guess. But a problem. Wonder how much thought has been given to conducting school here on a 12 monlh basis? Certainly, and if for no other reason, there are plenty of mothers who would go for it! There are obvious advantages and disadvatitages to such a meth od. On the one side, we have our tremendous investment in school buildings, playgrounds, etc., and then we use them only nine months of the year. If we could figure out a way to use our school buildings and equipment 12 months a year, it would be possible to keep our investment rate to only three-quarters of what it is now. Teachers, too. would benefit in some ways. They could earn more money if they worked 12 months instead of the nine months as they do now. (Altliough there are many teachers who go into some other field during the summer months). Another advantage is that pu- IW. 8. S.) pils would complete their school courses in less time, or they could take more subjects in their ele mentary training, or undertake extra-curricular activity. The arguments against such a plan are as obvious as the dis advantages. There can be no ar gument against the cold fact that it would cut down building and , plant investment. If we use the same building and plant facilities for a whole year, we would be bound to realize some economy in investment and maintenance costs. At the same time, however, we would face increased depreci ation and wear and tear. It is when you get into the teacher-pupil aspect of the thing t that you find yourself in trouble. It would be difficult to work up a suitable arrangement of stag gered classes . and beginning terms that would meet with the approval of teachers, parents and children. Perhaps the problem wouldn't be so great in the large cities, but out here in the coun try it would take considerable compromise and adjustment of the various schedules to make the scheme workable. There is spring and fall work for one thing. Some teachers do not want to give up a long vacation. Some want to go to summer school and refresher courses, or make long trips. Otherj do not relish the thought of a cumbersome, com plex schedule that would have to be arranged for the staggered classes that would be a necessary part of the arrangement. ' But, It would be interesting to kick this thing around for a while just to see what could be worked out. Some colleges have similar arrangements in effect, and they have proved successful. Bet you'd be surprised to know the extent that U.S. people ,move around. Some statistician has figured that we have a complete turnover in population every seven years. Also, more than 30 million families change residence, with more than 2D per cent of that figure moving from one state to another. The ratio might not hold true for all residential areas of a community (in fact, it does not) but for a community as a whole, they are quite applicable. Shed a tear in your beer for the father a time-study an alyst who tended his three children one Saturday afternoon. After the ordeal he submitted this report to his wife: Dried tears 9 times. Tied shoes 13 times. Served water 18 times. Toy bal loons purchased, three per child. Average life ol balloon 12 seconds. Cautioned children on crossing streets 21 times. Children insisted on crossing streets 21 times. Number of Saturdays father will do this again 0. One of the amusing incidents in the daiiy life of a newspaper man is to receive a call from a member of the professional groups asking , for considerable free publicity on this or that function witiiin their group with the added reminder that it is "un ethical" for him to advertise. And all the time we like to think that all of our ads are ethical. A-aasiBlllllSHBHBHSUaillSBBSlSjBBUiaMHBKSaOa.. (' ll , j ' . 1 tl p J - " ) Group of monolithic slabs would make up F.D.R. memorial. EDSON IN WASHINGTON r.AL -J A. IJ n culture center vvouia Hush Memorial Critics 4 ' By PETER EDSON . Washington Correspondent . Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-A plan to bring together memorials to Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. ' Roosevelt and other great presi-' ' dents as parts of the proposed National Cultural Center is being talked up here. ' ' The idea has grown more or less spontaneously from general public criticism of the abstract art designs prepared for the two Roosevelt memorials. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, T.R.'s daughter, declared the "Ce lestial Sphere" design prepared to honor her father would "dese crate the memory of anyone." Similarly, Rep. James Roose velt of California, F.D.R.'s eldest son, declared in what will prob ably be the greatest understate ment of his career, "I have a feeling father would have been for something a little less mod ernistic." With both of these examples of futuristic or art moderne on the pan, there has been consid erable feeling expressed that something more living, more cre ative and more useful, or contrib uting more to enjoyment of life, would better memorialize the spir its of the two great progressive presidents. The proposal to combine the two memorials and possibly oth ers in the cultural center was a somewhat natural development. It has met with a generally favor able response. . , "I think it is a marvelous idea," .' says Rep. Frank Thompson (D N.J.), one of the principal spon sors of the cultural center auth orization legislation. "I think it would provide much more approp riate memorials to these two great men." Thompson called the Theodore Roosevelt celestial sphere design a "Jungle-Gym" when it was un veiled last summer. F.D.R. Jr. - said the proposed memorial to . his father was . reminiscent of Stonehcnge, the ancient ruins in England. ' Backers of the two projects ob ject to incorporating the memor ials with others. Neither group wants the importance of the presi dent it wants to honor subordin ated. Each seems to be trying to sur pass the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, which is difficult if not impossible. One other criticism frequently given to the "cemetery art," is that the city is already too full of monuments to the past and what it needs is more recognition of the future. The answer to this offered by the National Cultural. Center is that it is a concept big enough to honor a dozen .presidents or all of them. The idea of combining a num ber of memorials in the center has not been placed before its board of trustees, which was ap pointed by Eisenhower. Officials of the center decline to make any comment, because they don't want to be put in the position of try ing to grab others' funds. Cost of the Franklin D. Roose velt memorial has been put at 41i million dollars, all to be raised by public subscription. The Theodore Roosevelt Me morial has been put at 4Vi mil lion dollars, all to be raised by public subscription. The Theodore ' Roosevelt Me morial Assn. has already raised and spent over $800,000 for pur chase of what is now called Theo dore Roosevelt Island in the Po- tomac, and for design of the ce lestial sphere to be erected on this site. ' Actual construction costs have been estimated at $886,000. The association wants Congress to ap propriate this sum, since the pros pects for raising it by public sub scription are dim. The House went along with this last year, but the Senate held it up until designs acceptable to T.R.'s fam ily could be prepared. Meanwhile, the National Cultur al Center project is not in flour ishing financial condition, either. Total cost has been estimated at 75 million dollars, to be raised by public subscription. It was auth orized by Congress two years ago, on condition funds be pledged, work started by '63. So far, the center has raised only m million dollars and a half-million of that came from the Hattie Strong Foundation. Mrs. Strong's son, L. Corrin Strong, is 'executive vice chairman of the center.. The plan has been criticized as loo grandiose and costly. Broken into projects, as in separate me morials, it might be more feas ible. Cost of grand salon, big enough to take the three Kennedy inaug ural balls has been put at five million dollars; terraces, river front landing and amphitheater another five million. Opera house, concert hall and playhouse, five to six million dollars each; two smaller audi toriums at three to four million. Plazas, corridors, service facili ties, landscaping, 30 to 35 mil lion, a Expenses Going Up By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) - This gives a picture of how govern ment expenses have gone up, par ticularly military expenses. In 1950 President Truman sent his last budget to Congress be fore the Korean War started. It called for a total of only $42.5 billion for all government ex penses. Out of the total, he said, the military needed only $13.5 billion. Came the war. Expenses soared. The war ended over six years ago. But increased government responsibilities have kept expen ses high. And military expenses, because of the intense contest with communism, have mounted. In his budget message to Con gress Monday President Eisen hower asked almost $81 billion nearly double the $42.5 billion Truman requested to cover all government spending. And whereas Truman asked for only $13.5 for the military, out of his total budget of $42.5 billion. Eisenhower requests $42.9 billion for the armed forces, more than Truman asked for the whole gov ernment in 1950. But Eisenhower's budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30, 1962 will be both a memory piece and a yard stick. In figuring a budget every agency of government has to es timate how much it w ill need to run another year. All these fig ures are reviewed and reviewed in an effort to keep them down. This all takes a lot of time and doing, so much that the Eisen hower administration began put ting together last fall the budget Eisenhower turned over toCon gress Monday. ' Obviously President-elect John F. Kennedy won't have time all for this. He won't submit his own budget until this time next year. But this year his administration will have spending ideas different from Eisenhower's. Since Kennedy's ideas on what needs to be done expressed in the campaign go beyond any thing Eisenhower had in' mind in his budget, Kennedy probably will want to spend more than Eisen hower allowed for. He'll run into a lot of criticism and heckling on this. His critics will use Eisenhower's budget es timates as a yardstick for meas uring Kennedy's programs. Still, Eisenhower was dealing in optimism in telling Congress he , thought that he had figured things so closely that the government should wind up in the black. While he suggested spending about $81 billion, he thought gov ernment income, from taxes and other revenue. ' would be even larger and that the country would wind up with a surplus o"f about $1.5 billion. But this was optimism based on the hope that there would be a surplus only if the country be came more prosperous and Con gress increased postal rates and ' the gasoline tax and set up a new tax on jet fuel. Maybe it would, but its inclinations nut the other way.
