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HERALD AND NEWS, KlamatB Falli, Ore.
Thursday, January It, 1961
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
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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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Newspaper Reading
How do you read a newspaper?
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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.