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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, February 7, 1961 New Model EDSON IN WASHINGTON American Aid To Laos Not Wasted Entirely dy? Edward R. Murrow, the veteran news broadcaster who now heads the United States Information Agency, has a formidable assign ment ahead of him. How well he performs it will depend not only on him but on President Kennedy. Often in the past the USIA has been as sailed for waste, for misguided presentation of the American story, for not maintaining suf ficiently sound operating personnel in Wash ington and the field. No doubt there are gains to be made in these matters. But a bigger USIA shortcom ing needs to be overcome if the agency is to give this country full value. If such an agency is being properly led, it should have a substanial voice not simply in the telling but in the making of the Amer ican story. In other words, it should play a role in the establishment of U.S. foreign and de fense policy at the highest level. Every move we make in these fields has obvious impact and repercussions on the world abroad. When the policies are framed, an expert in the molding and shaping of world opinion should be sitting in, and not merely as an observer. Too many times in the postwar years we The common phrase is juvenile delin quency, but there are many situations today in which the proper term really should be "parental delinquency." In all too many instances, parents are guilty of a fundamental failure to develop and enforce reasonable discipline in the lives of their children. They do not make of tho family the guiding force and controlling agen cy it can and should be. Though this is the basic lack among many parents, it is being compounded in case after case by further failure. Thus when young people without disci- Two Ideas For Oregon (Gazette Times, Cervallit) The speed at which 85 per cent of the driv ers on a particular road travel should be the realistic speed fixed for that road. This novel conceptresulted from a study made for the New York State Traffic Commission, which seeks to take sole authority for setting speed limits on stale highways passing through vil lages and cities. Maybe New York has two ideas there from which Oregon could benefit. There has been a great deal of discussion on our lack of a basic speed law. What is safe in some places certainly is not reasonable in others. Rates could be set for each individual high way. Also, If the state were allowed to set the rates of speed in all locations there would no longer be these village speed traps which are used in some cases just for municipal reve nue. This would certainly be an improvement. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS How long did the Battle of Alamo last? A Thirteen days. the Q What type of song Is a threno- A A dirge or funeral song. Q Is Pacific saimon all the same? A No. There are five types: king, sockeye, silver, pink, and chum. Q Which Is perhaps the oldest boys' high school in continuous oper ation in this country? A Richmond Academy at Augus ta, Ga. Q Who Is considered America's first suffragette? A Maragrct Brent of Maryland. Q Which president once owned Virginia's Natural Bridge? A Thomas Jefferson. Plenty Of Work To seem to have acted in matters, of major im portance without full regard to the psycho logical influence of our acts. On unnumbered occasions, the results have been bad. j Obviously there are things we must do sometimes without respect to their effect on world opinion. We must do them because they are right and wise. But in countless instances we can sensibly take account of the propagan da result without loss of our objective. Moreover, there are even occasions when, without damage to our national purpose, we can tailor policies specifically to win signifi cant psychological benefits among the peoples of the world. To acomplish these vital goals for USIA, Murrow will have to prove himself far more than just a news expert with an immense amount of personal prestige. He will have to exhibit a high order of political judgment, and a real grasp of the nature and problems of both our friends and our adversaries in Eu rope, Asia, Africa and Latin America. And President Kennedy will have to want him to achieve these ends, to sit in on the making of policy and help guide it for maxi mum psychological gain for the United States. Few enterprises of the new administra tion will be watched with sharper interest. Parents Aren't Blameless pline commit transgressions against their com munity, the response of the parents involved is often to assail their accusers in the bitterest terms. The correct and moral reaction of respon sible parents would be to accept fair evidence of wrongdoing when it is presented, and to cooperate with the authorities in the appli cation of punishment. , Listen, however, to. the spokesman for a group of builders who have been plagued by youthful vandals stealing property at con struction sites: "Parents. have been completely 'uncoop erative. Most parents refuse to believe their child guilty, even when caught in an act of vandalism. They often berate the watchman, the builders, or the police officer." He cited as typical vandalism the holiday time destruction of $75 picture windows in every one of eight new homes in a certain project. The culprits were high school students. A watchman caught four and turned them over to police. Until they confessed, the parents of one youth flatly denied he was involved. Only one set of parents ever took any disciplinary action. In the train of this inexcusable laxness and callous irresponsibility on the parents' part, the vandalism has continued in this par ticular instance. So, indeed, do transgressions in many places and for the same reason. Parental delinquency is one of the ma jor problems of the day. It is wholly possible that the social science experts may in time con clude that juvenile delinquency is simply an offshoot of it. We have been placing most of the blame on small shoulders. Very likely it belongs heav ily on bigger ones. Veteran Actor ACROSS 1, S UU veteran actor Death brought an end to career DOWN 1 Stinging insect 2 Singing voice S Uied in his profession 4 Make obscure 1) Athena 14 Major Adam. ?BuU'hon, V'Jr?.. Sleeping visions eharacurlxv Car fart 18 Demolish io3?r 17 Nauve metal iJKSL,., Xnin.v'.T M Employs 30 1!?.?? !Sr i. 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The 500 or more antici pated "students" will have ac cess to a large school building where they will receive education at nursery and primary levels, and there will be facilities for occupational therapy, training in industrial arts and courses in home economics. There will be a hospital with clinical facilities for training and research, a chapel, a gymnasium-auditorium, a play ground and a picnic grove. And. almost best of all. there v. ill be an "exit cottage" for Kennedy, Khrushchev Traits Are Similar By JAMES MARI.OW Associated Tress News Analyst WASHINGTON (API The two K's President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev have some things in common besides dcbal ing Richard M. Nixon. Neither is a sUilfcd shirt. Both, to some extent, are unpredictable and give their bodyguards the creeps. They're blunt, have humor, be lieve in ad ion, and show an in terest in individuals. Khrushchev almost has turned patting habies into a hobby. Hi anlics scared his bodyguards when he was al the United Na tions in New ork. He would scoot away, bill Ion hole strangers, pop up in shirt sleeves on his hotel balcony in full sight of any crackpot with a gun. U.S. Secret Service men, used to protecting the fairly predict able former President Dwight II. Eisenhower, have their hands full with Kennedy. He gave I horn fits at Hie inaug ural ball by jumping boxes to shake hands with friends. At 2 mi he dashed off to party in a friend's house in Georgetown. Last week, after a snowstorm, he left tnc While House for a local theater to see a moM which end ed al midnight. Kennedy, like Khrushchev, is a shirtsleeves man. Reporters who were wilh him during and after the campaicn still recall his sitting down wilh them, coat otf. smoking a cigar, chewing the fat (or hours. A week ago he wandered inlo the White House otlice of his press secretary. Pierre Salinger, found a newsman there, sat down and talked wilh hun lor IS minutes. Kennedy has nluays been in formal. Even on his inauguration day he did the unexpected few minutes before going to the Capi tol. He took plaque across the I reel to the home ef a woman neighbor as a token of thanks for SAYS . . . Little Gity Helps Unfortunate Group those whose development has ad vanced to a stage where they ap pear likely to be able to earn an independent living and to progress from the Little City to a larger community. The present population of Little City is only 46 of whom 30 are mentally retarded youngsters be tween the ages of 12 and 22 years. But it doesn't seem possible that the citizens of America's big cities, towns and villages will permit anything to stand in the way of rapid completion of this non profit, nonsectarian project which, in addition to everything else, hopes to have an outpatient diag nostic clinic to which heartsick parents may bring their unfortu nate youngsters for guidance and possible admittance. For additional information, you may write the Little City Founda tion, 111 North Wabash .Avenue, Chicago 2, 111. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "What About Cancer?" send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman. care Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Station, New York, 19, N.Y. her kindness in giving hot coffee to newsmen who had been stand ing for days 'in freezing cold out side his house. The day after his election he began arrangements to have his own physician, Dr. Janet G. Tra veil, heat a newsman who had covered his campaign with an acutely painful, ailing back. Kennedy later appointed her While House physician, (he first woman in history in that job. Stolid Stalin sat in the Krem lin. Khrushchev, a man of action, bounces around the world, makes speeches, gives interviews, and has turned Russian foreign policy inlo new. imaginative, and ag gressive channels. Kennedy promised action which began as soon as he entered the While House and shows no signs of letting up. Both men debated Nixon when he was vice president. Khru shchev in Moscow. Kennedy on TV in the presidential campaign. The Russian likes blunlness, as he showed when he demolished the I0 summit conference and ridiculed Eisenhower. Kennedyi also is blunt as he said, by preference in repeatedly picturing the American economy in bleak and somber color. Khrushchev has humor. He's a bit of a ham. Kennedy's humor pops through also. The night after his inaugura tion at a private dinner he de fended his appointment of his brother, Robert, 34. as attorney general by saying it gave his brother a chance (o get some legal experience before he slarted to practice law Thoughts And he said to his dlsriplrs, Temptations to sin are sure tn come; hut woe to him by whom they come! Luke 17:1. No degree of temptation justi fies any degree of sin Na thaniel Parker Willis. OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS . Billboard Act (MEDFORD TRIBUNE) The Council on Highway Regu lation, which actually is the cre ation of the billboard industry, has joined with the Committee on Highway Protection to sponsor two "compromise" bills for bill board regulation. So. after all the bad things we said about the billboard industry during the campaign last fall, we'd now like to tip our hat to them for honorably carrying through on their promise to work for compromise billboard control legislation, which meets the ma jor objections of both sides. This, apparently, they have done. As the bills have the approval of both sides in last fall's fight, they should be passed by the legislatu fe speedily. One of them would limit out door advertising on the federal interstate highways in Oregon U.S. 99 and U.S. 30 and thus qualify Oregon for a substantial "bonus" in federal funds, under the federal billboard control meas ure. It will amount to several hundred thousand dollars. The other would call for appoint ment of a Scenic Area Commis sion, which would be empowered to designate areas where bill boards should be banned on all state highways. We do not see how any serious objections could be raised against these measures. Our friends on Sardine Creek, for instance, would be allowed to advertise their businesses, since the limitation on freeway bill boards would permit advertising of establishments within 12 miles. Business and industrial areas also would be excepted from the freeway billhoard ban, as would signs advertising the sale of prop erty on which they are located, official directional and informa tional signs, and those of specific interest to the traveling public. The bills might not be quite as stringent in regulation as some of us would like. But they do ap pear to be a reasonable compro mise which calls for their ap proval. The legislature owes it to both sides, and the stale's tourist guests, to enact the measures. Tax Equity? (OREGON STATESMAN) Senators Pearson and Over hulse propose a cut of 10 per cent on a person's income tax bill, to cure "inequities." Rep. Clar ence Barton, who has specialized in tax legislation, is quoted as saying he doesn't see how this would cure any inequities, and his home town paper, the Coos Bay World, says he is right. He may be because we don't know just what inequities the two conserva tive Democrats are aiming al. We find ourselves in ethical mathematical bewilderment how ever over Editor Amsden's com ment on the proposal: "Let's see. A man paying $1,000 in stale taxes would make $100 on the deal. ,J taxpayer paying I00 in taxes would make $10 on the deal. A thousand dollars for the rich man and a saw buck for the poor." Our hcwildri.tiral stems from this: assuming there is a desire to cut taxes mst what formula would the editor propose' His manifest concern is for the "poor." Would he then reverse the deduction and give the poor man the $100 deduction and the By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-The war in Laos is a remote, unintelligible thing until you meet someone who has been in it. John C. Cool, a 34-year-old Navy j veteran from Beaver, Pa., has just come back from two years as a rural development adviser for the U.S. State Department's foreign aid program in Laos. - In his short life he has ac quired a Ph.D. in anthropology, served as a local government offi cial in American Samoa, worked as a tea company clerk and a tin company engineer in Malaya. He knows his way around the Pacific and Southeast Asia. His story puts the Laos struggle in better per spective.' Last Dec. 15 he was at work with five other Americans and two Laotians on a village devel opment project near Vientiane. A bus was supposed to take them back to the capital. But this day the native driver heard the Pathet Lao Communist forces were 'going to invade the city, so he took off with the bus. Cool drove the staff back to town in his small car. When they got back to the ill named Consolation Hotel they found it under fire. So they went to the apartment of one of the Americans. When they got word of their whereabouts to the Ma rine guard at the U.S. embassy, they were told to-stay put. They were there two days and nights, while mortar fire kept up, doing considerable damage. Red paratroopers tried to swipe the car, but couldn't get it started. Cool and one of the Laotians went down and gave them some food to keep them from wrecking the car. They promised not to mo lest the party. But that night the paratroopers pulled out, leaving guerrillas be hind, and the situation changed. During the night a loyal Laotian with an automatic rifle kept up sporadic fire from behind t h e apartment house. Next morning the guerrillas, thinking this fire had come from inside the house, stormed it with cries of "Kill the Americans." They shot Joivn the door with their bazooka and came in. Systematically, they shot down the door to each room, forcing the occupants to come out. When they came to the room THE LIGHTER SIDE. Status Symbols Are Changing In Capital By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPH As sev eral hundred thousand social his torians already have observed, it's a changing world we live in. This is particularly true in Washington, which has a some what rootless population and is more responsive than most cities to the shifting sands of time. About a year ago. for instance, I compiled a research paper on status seeking in the U.S. capital. It told how federal employes at four levels of the government could be recognized by their stat us symbols. I was looking over this list re cently and I found that it already is out of date. The advent of the Kennedy administration has intro duced a whole new set of status symbols that need to be identified and catalogued. I have decided that the best way to approach this task is to classify various symbols under generalized headings and then de note which ones are "in" and which are "out." Education: Harvard degrees are rich man the $10? Or, assuming there is $110 to be divided, would he split it evenly, giving each $5o? Didn't the poor man get his "equity" when he was taxed only $100? It looks to this editor that his colleague wants the graduated tax table to work in reverse when a rebate is considered. Our income tax structure is progressive, ris ing from two to eight per cent on the state and from 20 to around 90 per cent on the federal. Thus, the higher the income the sniffer the percentage of the tax im posed. Some might argue that tax sav ings should go to those in the top brackets because they have been penalized: others might ar gue that the savings should all be realized by those at the bottom of the heap. To our way of think ing, since the overage has been contributed by all, the simplest and fairest way would be by a flat percentage down the line. If the excess seems to be permanent then the w hole tax schedule should be revised. This is just a theoretical dis cussion, for of course the Pearson Overhuls? idea w ill rijc a borning. In this day of "demands" there will he no tax rebate. Our pur pose is just to expose the fallacy, as far as equity goes, of soaking the rich downhill as veil as uphill. where Cool was, he thought this would be it. But the young Lao tian who was with him stepped in front of the guerrillas and said, "Big brothers, if you're going to shoot down these Americans, you will have to shoot me, too, for our government asked them to come here, and they are our fr'ends." Surprisingly, it worked. There was still some concern that the Americans might be held as hostages by the Communists, which would have given them considerable bargaining power. But late in the second afternoon the U.S. military attache and a British consul drove up. With typi cal British gall, the consul talked the guerrillas out of it. That night government troops reentered the city, the guerrillas withdrew, and it was all over. It's that kind of war. As for the 240 million dollars that the United States has spent in Laos in the last few years, "It hasn't gone down the drain." Cool insists, though he admits many mistakes. Eighty per cent of it has been for military assistance. That has prevented the Sino-Soviet-backed forces from moving in. It has saved Thailand and Malaya and given them time to clean out their own Communists and strengthen their governments. The 50 million dollars in non military aid has reached perhaps 2.000 of the country's 11,000 vil lages, completing some 1,400 de velopment projects. They range from water wells which take three men a day to dig, to local airstrips, which take 3,000 men six weeks to clear and surface so supplies can be flown in where there are no roads. Most of the U.S. funds have gone for hand tools, galvanized iron and other materials not obtainable lo cally. It is all basic economic aid to raise the standard of living of the 45 different cultural minority groups that make up the popula tion but are by no means united as a nation. But this aid, says Cool, has giv en them a feel of democratic ac tion through village and county councils. The desire for schools and roads which the Communists have been promising for 14 years is being met by the Americans who have been delivering it. And even the Pathet Lao respect that. "in." Johns Hopkins is "out." as are most state universities, par ticularly in the Midwest. West Point and other service academ ies are "way out." Neighborhoods: Georgetown is "in" in a big way. Spring Valley is "out." The Virginia suburbs ara "in" but the Maryland suburbs are "out." Medicine: .Male doctors ara "out." Women doctors are "in." Back troubles are "in" but heart ailments are "out." Ulcers can be cither "in" or "out" depend ing on what caused them. Ath lete's foot is "in." Art: Amateur painting is "out." Abstracts are "in" but landscapes and portraits are "out." So il Grandma Moses. Families: Small families ara "out": big families "in." Grand children are "out." Vacations: Palm Beach and Cape Cod are "in." Newport, Denver and Augusta are "out." Civil War battlefields, particular ly in Pennsylvania, are "out." Weekend: Cacoctin Mountains in Maryland are "out." Horse country in Virginia is "in." Clothing: Hats are "in" if car ried rather than worn. Homburgs, either way. are "out." Tie-wise, regimental stripes are "in." Open collars are "in" at Justice De partment. Bow lies are "in" in African affairs office at State De partment. Finances: Stocks are "out." Trust funds are "in." Bank ac counts are "in" but pocket changf is "out." Al manac By tolled Press International Today is Tuesday. Feb. 7. the 38th day of the year wilh 327 more in 1961. The moon is approaching its last quarter. ' The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Mercury. ' On this day in history: In 1SR5. American novelist Sin clair Lewis, who wrole "Main Street." was born. In IffH. George Herman 'Babel Ruth. home-r.in king of the Ne Q York Yankees, was horn. In 19-12. President Roosevelt pledged full aid lo China In 194(1. Gen. Dwight Eisenhow er resigned as Army rif al naff.
