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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon
Sunday, February li, 1961 .
JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . .
Nixon Plans To Maintain GOP Titular Spot
LINCOLN,
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assist in bearing
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the necessity of
being ready
increases
Look to it.
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loose
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others rfceor.,,,. ,l . .
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FREEDOM What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty
It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, our m
Tee are not our reliance against tyranny. All of those may be t ne against
us without making us weaker in the struggje. Our re nee i he to verf
liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is In the spirit which ruo
liberty as the heritage of all men, In all lands, everywhere. mT
) Nineteen-sixty-one marks the Centennial
: of the outbreak of the Civil War. As befits the
: importance of this conflict and lis incalculable
effect upon the history of the American
-"; people, many publicgathcrings, battle rcenacl
Z ments anr other observances have been
planned.
; ; The words of Abraham Lincoln at Get-
tysburg come fresh to mind: "It is altogether
: fittihg and proper that we should do this."
. But what Lincoln went on to say over 07
years ago still holds today: It is far above our
poor power to add to or detract from what
; those brave men did.
Again, to paraphrase Lincoln, we their
; descendants should rather dedicate ourselves
I to finishing the great task. For though the
'; dead of that war, and even those who listened
A
The condition of America's youth contin-
ues to be a subject for warm debate.
' Many will argue that the phenomenon of
." delinquency is considerably exaggerated, and
'-' that to the extent it docs exist it is at least as
; much the fault of parents as of their children.
I Some say that we adults are badly undcr
; estimating the young generation, that its re
' bellion, where it exists, is in fact a protest .
against not being taken seriously enough.
;. If there is any great substance to this con
: tention, light could be thrown upon it by more
exhaustive inquiry into the causes of unem
: ployment among young workers.
Rather astonishing it is to realize that of
:' our current sizable total of unemployed, three
j: in every 10 are less than 25 years of age.
: One might be tempted at first glance to take
;jthls in stride simply as evidence of the rising
t; number of young job seekers. But the disturb
:ing facts are that far too many in this age
'. group are both uneducated and unskilled at a
:time when the economy's demand is for just
; ; the reverse for highly trained individuals.
- And all signs suggest that as the increas-
,ing numbers of young people hit the labor
: market, their proportion among the total job
; , less may also rise. The only thing that can pre
" : vent this is a vast improvement in training and
. , education of our maturing youth.
Whose fault is it that they come now to
the labor market so badly prepared? Certainly
this is one demonstration of the failure of our
. school system to meet the demands of the day.
. But that is not all.
funr AmnriiH fontllinc An tnt cnl cl,irt
....j ,,i,iviivaii iniitini.i tiu iiwb 01 1 .iitiiiu-
; ards of hard work. They do not put the eyes
'of their children on the pursuit of excellence.
: This pursuit need not be in professional, busi
: ness and other white collar tasks. There is dig
;nity, satisfaction and financial reward in tho
: development of manual and mechanical skills
in this highly technical age.
Many trdnds in present day life work, of
course, toward doing it the easy way. The ac
quisition of skills is not easy. Without parental
urging and example countless youngsters just
on problems of
nrWi. , s only ,
Mews.!
Fitting And Proper
to Lincoln, are long since vanished into dust,
the principles which impelled them are as
alive and vital today as they ever were, and
in as great danger.
As long as injustice and human slavery, of
mind as well as body, exist, that work remains
unfinished. As long as freedom stands in
jeopardy from whatever enemy, the idea we
call America, which so many men in so many
wars have so nobly advanced, still demands
a new resolve in 1961. Today, Lincoln's birth
day, is a fitting time to ponder on it.
It is in this sense that we should enter into
the Centennial observances. Only if we draw
from them an increased devotion to our coun
try, and to the strivings for liberty and peace
by men of all countries, will they have had
real meaning.
Way To Test
won't make the effort. Even with it, some will
not.
But the family is always the unit of resis
tance against any sort of weakening trends. It
is the bulwark that must hold out. It is the
keeper of tradition, the preserver of strength
in any society.
Let American families once more set the
achievement of excellence as their ruling'star.
Let them drive, not merely urge their young
sters to toil in its pursuit, in all walks. Then
we shall indeed see whether we are underesti
mating American youngsters and if they are
better than some of their elders say.
Outdoor Advertising
iThe Christian Science Monitor)
"Bigger than all outdoors" used to be a
superlative of general application. The out
door advertising industry appears bent on
having it apply only to billboards.
The latest move in this direction is a re
quest to the Federal Highway Administra
tion to permit signs twice as large as cur
rently allowed along the new interstate high
way system.
The American Automobile Association is
fighting against this proposed expansion from
a 150 to a 300 square foot maximum for ex
pressway signboards. Both logic and virtue
(which have no lobbyists of their own! arc at
the AAA's side.
It was the intent of Congress in passing
the interstate superhighway program that
billboards should not beleaguer the sides of
the new roads unless states were willing to
pay a money penalty in order to assert their
rights to allow unrestricted signs. The public
is investing upward of 37 billion dollars in
these new highways and it has a right to have
its safety and scenery protected.
To permit blockbuster signs would be to
go against the whole logic of the federal ex
pressway program. The federal highway ad
ministrator should turn down the request for
larger billboards without compromise.
our time :
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PEACE .....to do all
l may achieve and
cherish a just and lasting
among ourselves, and
with all nations.
By JIM BISHOP
(Copyright, 1961, by
King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
MIAMI One of America's un
employed sat in the back seat of
a big red Chrysler Imperial
talking about the future. His
name is Richard Nixon. He has
no job, no stocks, no bonds. I
am convinced of three things
ill He will be the fighting head
of the Republican Party; 2 he
will run for governor of Califor
nia next year; I3 he will not
run for president in 19(54.
Since his defeat for the presi
dency last November, Mr. Nix
on has been silent about the fu
ture. Pundits have speculated in
public, but the man with the
dancing eyes and the scowling
jowls has said nothing. He has
been called a gracious loser. His
wife was so sickened by the tight
race for the presidency that she
has hoped, out loud, that he will
be content to go home to Whit
tier, Calif., and stall the private
practice of law.
Richard Nixon is not only ill
love with his wife, he is also
her partner in devotion. He lis
tens when she speaks. He took
her to the Key Biseayne Hotel
in Miami, he tnok her to Nas
sau, and back to Miami. The
Nixons have a villa on the op
posite side of a pitch-and-putt
golf course from mine. The for
mer vice president spent a lot
of time thinking.
This morning, in company with
Bob Neale, managing director of
the hotel, he phoned me and
asked would I join him on a
yachting cruise to Coco Lodo. 1
declined, with regret. He said he
would like to see me for an
hour to talk about the tomorrows,
all the tomorrows.
I met his in the hotel parking
lot. "Ride with me to the boat."
he said. "We can talk in the
car." His friend C. G. Rczozo
drove. In the front scat sat Roger
Johnson, of Superior Oil Company,
an old friend from Whittier.
Mr. Nixo;i talked. What he had
to say came openly and fully, in
a moody monologue. The sky was
cloudy, and the breeze warm. He
crossed one black shoe over a
knee, and put his dark straw
hat on top of it.
"My problem is not one of
money, Jim. The offers front law
firms amount to more than a
man would earn as president.
Besides, taxes are such that
money can not he a factor. My
problem is to make a basic de
cision as to whether I'm going
THE DOCTOR
Don't Expose Class ;
To Feverish Child
By HAROLD T. IIYMAN, M.D.
Written for
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
A distressed mother protests
the action of some of her neigh
bors who send children to school
when they have a fever. She says
there are times when a working
mother has no alternative since
there's no one to care for the
sick youngster at home.
But most' times, according In
her experiences, the mother de
fends her action on the ground
that the feverish child "doesn't
really feel sick," "hasn't a rash,"
"didn't want to miss classes or
a class play," "would drive her
out of her mind if she kept her
at home."
Then what happens, says my
correspondent, is that most of the
class gets really sick, "plus a
few others. "
Tile lady couldn't have found
a more receptive car into which
to iour her complaint. For it is a
fact that contagious diseases are
most highly infectious during their
period of incubation or in their
very earliest stages.
By the lime the nose is really
running and the whoop is heard
at the end of the coughing spell
and the rash is seen on the face
or body, the damage has been
done. And much of what we do
thereafter is like locking the sta
ble door after old Dobbin has been
stolen.
Now. as my correspondent sug
gests, there are times when the
working mother is desperate, per.
haps fearful that she ll lose her
job. Then, it's her obligation to
instruct the child to go directly to
the school nurse or doctor both
as a mailer of self-interest and
for the protection of others.
But there's nothing lo excuse
the mother who exposes a whole
class of children or a group at
tending a parly merely as a mai
ler of her own convenience.
I'nlortunalcly, there is nothing
that any one ran do ollicially to
prevent such occurrences unless,
of course, there's an active PTA
whose members would be willing
lo make representations to the
woman in question, q
In answer In many questions,
there is no danger of stimulating
cancerous growth through the use
to commit a majority of my time
to private interests. My future
must be either private or pub
lic." He squinted in the breeze from
the front window and asked Mi
Johnson to roll it up. "I tan
only look two years ahead at a
time. It is impossible to go fur
ther than that because situations
change. However, I want to
, write. I want to speak. I want
to travel. One of the things I
must learn is hew to take a va
cation. Pat and I spent nine days
in Nassau and five at the Key
Biseayne and I'm fidgeting.
"I have no staff. I'm on no
payroll. Take the mail I receive.
11 comes to two or three hun
dred letters a day. It must be
answered. I have a fantastic num
ber of requests to make
speeches. And I'm telling you
right now that I haven't made
a filial decision on anything yet."
He wiggled the black shoe and
studied it. "After 14 years, I'm
not in a position to cut off pub
lic life. The making of money, in
private practice, is not exciting
to me. ,1 would" his face frac
tured itself in a grin "be bored.
1 have a house with a mort
gage and a little money in the
bank.
"You see, a retiring president
gels a pension and a staff. A
vice president gets nothing. In
two years, I will qualify for a
civil service pension." He was si
lent, studying the pale jade wa
ters of Biseayne Bay aas we
crossed Rickenbacker Causeway.
His mind was moving ahead, and
coming back to a common theme.
"I will not be satisfied to re
tire to private life. I'm not go
ing to be a vegetable. I will not
retire from public life."
He was thinking the things he
had thought many times, except
that now he was thinking them
out loud to a man with a danc
ing pencil. "I have had law of
fers amounting to $150,0(10 and
$250,000 a year with unlimited
' vacations. I'm going lo take a
job. So far, I haven't decided
which one. I want a job which
will give me lots of time for a
separate life.
"I must learn how to relax, to
have time to read philosophy
and history."
"Who is the real head of the
Republican Parly?" I said. Mr.
Nixon shed the role of the nice,
polite choir boy at once. He
clenched and unclenched his jaws
and the mandibular muscle flexed
under the blue beard. "The ar
gument about who is the titular
head of the parly is silly," he
said. "The actual leader is the
important person. No one be
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comes a leader by saying: 'I am
the leader." He must command
the respect of the people in the
party. The contributions I make
to the party, their quality as well
as their quantity, will make me
Uie actual leader of the Repub
lican Parly."
This was an oblique shot at
Governor Rockefeller of New
York, , who has been accused of
doing as little as possible for
Nixon in the campaign and who
lost New York's 45 votes to Ken
nedy, and Senator Barry Gold
water of Arizona, who, accord
ing to the Nixon people, aspires
to lead the party back to the
aloof conservatism of Herbert
Hoover. It was also a word to
the wise to Senator Everett Dirk
sen of Illinois and Representative
Charles Ilalleck, of Indiana, who
have been looking in mirrors for
a new parly messiah.
"I'm taking a sabbatical from
politics for Uie next few months."
he said, "because I believe that
it is fair to permit the new ad
ministration time to launch its
program, without carping. It will
take a few more months before
we begin to see the meat of
what they have to offer.
"Then I intend lo speak out
on all big issues. I also plan
lo reinvigorate the Republican
Party in the states. I will assert
leadership. I will go where I am
asked to go. give ideas and as
sistance, and I will especially
urge young attractive candidates
to run for office."
"Suppose others dispute your
claims to leadership," I said.
"I am the leader of the par
ty." he said. ,"l am not going to
reply to every man who sticks
his head up and says: 'I'm your
new leador.' What is more im
portant than those little things
is that the Republican Party must
stop being the exclusive club
it pretends to be. It must open
its doors to the young and vig
orous, the college students, the
big city groups."
"We have a little time, but we
are going to have to work on
the precinct level, the city level,
the county level and on up to
the state and national level.
There is no short cut. The Re
publican Party needs work. I
have literally lens of thousands
of suggestions from young voters
for improving the Republican
Party. I intend to issue a report
about this."
The car stopped in front of a
small house. Through an archway.-
the blue bows of the yacht'
Alisa' V showed. It belongs to
Elmer Bobst, president of Warner-Lambert.
We got out of the
car. "Come aboard for a min-
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manac
By United Press International
Today is Sunday, Feb. 12. Hie
4.1rd day of the year with 322
njore in 191.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The evening stars are Venus
and Mars.
On this day in history:
In ltiilO, Abraham Lincoln. 16lh
President of the United Stales,
was born in what was then Hardin
County, Ky.
Also in 1809, famed British sci
entist Charles Darwin, creator of
Hie concept of evolution, was
born.
In 1012, Chir-a became a repub
lic when the Chinese nationalists,
led by Dr. Sun Y'at sen overthrew
the Manchu dynasty.
In 1024. Paul Whiteman conduct
ed a program of symphonic jaz
highlighted by the first public per
du manic of George Gershwin's
"Rhapsody in Blue."
Thought for today: Abraham
Lincoln said: "Let us have faith
that right makes might, and in
lliat faith let us tn the end dare
to do our duty as we understand
it."
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ute," Mr. Nixon said. "We won't
shanghai you." Some young chil
dren at the dock snapped his
picture and he paused to shake
hands with them.
On the rail stood Leonard Hall,
the man in the moon who used
to be Republican national chair
man, also General Wilfred Per
sons who, I believe, was an as
sistant to President Eisenhower.
There were greetings and Mr. Nix
on showed me through the 96
footer. He will cruise around
Coco Lodo (Adam Key) for two
days. He doesn't care much for
fishing.
We talked a little more in a
cabin below. From Mr. Nixon,
and from those who enjoy his
confidence, it is obvious that he
is certain that Rockefeller and
Goldwater will be candidates for
the presidency in 1964. The ten
tative strategy subject to
change by circumstances is
that 1964 will be a bad year
for a Republican to run for presi
dent. Mr. Kennedy will have com
pleted one term, and pow er lends
lo run to power. It is difficult
to unseat a man who has had
one term; Hoover was one of
the few who proved exempt lo
this rule, and he lost in 1932 only
because the land was deep in
the dust of despair.
Nixon, therefore, would prefer
to run for governor of California
next year. This will do several
tilings for his future. It will bring
him back in the national public
eye if he beats the incumbent,
Pat Brown, and he is known to
feel that, at age 48, he can afford
to wait eight years for another
shot at the presidency. He won
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Nelson Reed recently moaned
thusly in the weekly Rotary bul
letin, and I'm in complete agree
ment with his gripe:
One of the great disadvantages
of traveling in this country is
that you have to put up with the
public's taste in music or lack
of it. No female feline crying its
biological urge over the night air
could make the night more hid
eous than these "hot blues" sing
ers on juke boxes in wayside res
taurants. They scream and moan
that their hearts will break if they
aren't smothered with kisses. You
only hope that they'll bust wide
open and you don't give a dang
what smothers them just so they
shut up. But there is always an
other moron to add his nick
el to the agony, and they go and
on until you scream silently in
anguish and dash out without pay
ing for a meal that never was
worth all that suffering anyhow.
I guess Nelson hasn't been
keeping pace with the times. He
will be happy to know, I'm
sure, that those stupid record
ings cost 10 cents for each nail.
Petrillo and ASCAP must have
their cut, Nelson dear.
Harold Ashley also penned a
few cogent remarks which bear
repeating. He said:
This might be an appropriate
spot to give vent to a pent up
gripe against those pests who
desecrate our roads and highways
with their garbage.
For some reason, a roadside in
the woods where the beauties
of nature may be enjoyed seems
lo invite that sort of "animal" tn
dump his refuse. Come to think
of it, most of the "lower" ani
mals are a good deal cleaner in
their personal habits than some
of the two-legged variety.
An instance comes to mind:
Last summer we drove out the
Lake of the Woods road for a
short Sunday afternoon outing,
and stopped for some photo
graphs. An old stump in the snow
brush above the road seemed a
likely location for a shot back
down the toad. But you can guess
what was behind the slump a
rolling, slinking mess of garbage
in the remains of a cardboard
box: cooking oil bottles, empty
milk cans, medicine bottles, dis
carded cooking utensils.
At least this individual had
enough decency to hide his ref
use. Another time, shortly aflcr tiie
slickenslide at the Geary Canal
bridge was uncovered, we slopped
Iherc to see some geological won
der. Someone else had beat us
to "it. For there, among the cm-l-s
of a fire, were some parllv
burned orange peels, paper nap
kins and plates, pop bottles, and
other evidence of people enjoying
our great out-of-doors. Rut ihe
most astounding discovery of all
was a piece of paper among the
litter which turned out In be a
page from a song book. The tille
of Ihe song was "Gods Beautilul
World."
California in a slow countdown
last November and. any Repub
lican who can win a state in
which there are a million more
registered Demot rats than Repub
licans, has a right to feel that
the road back is through Sacra
mento. The former vice president is
also opposed to governors who
win one election and then project
themselves as possible presi
dential candidates. He will not
comment adversely on Governor
Rockefeller, but the animosity is
plain. "As leader of the party,"1
he said, "I intend to have con-
sidcrable to say about who Ihe
19B4 candidate will be.
"Under no circumstances." he
said', "will I run for governor
of California in 19fi2 and run for
president in 1964. If I win. I will
serve the complete term." He
(eels that former President Eisen
hower will come out of Gettys
burg to help the party whenever
he is asked. Ike is expected to
start work on his memoirs at
once.
"I can wait eight years." he
said, studying a painting of two
young girls in the dining salon,
"but, in that time, I would have
lo be doing something pub
licly. If, on the other hand, I
determined that I want to be
nominalcd for the presidency in
1964, I'm pretty sure I could do
it" .
We said goodbye. He stood at
Ihe . rail. I looked back and
waved. Of one thing I am cer
tain: This man is going to fight
for control of his party, and i Ul
hang onto it until he gets one
more shot at the presidency.
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. B. S.)
Warren Bonnet furnished me
some information for a Prog,
ress Edition story the other day.
It shows that something more
than 500 families were moved
into Klamath Falls in 1960, and
that about an equal number of
, families were moved out.
The United States is truly on
the move. During the 50's the
almost unbelievable proportion of
about one out of five families
moved each year. California and
Florida have been swamped by,
new residents. On the other
hand, 28 states and the District
of Columbia lost population. This
is a strange new period in his
lory for Hie United States. In
view of the fact that these mi
grations cause giant headaches
for both the areas which gain and
the areas which lose, it is some
thing which we will have difficul
ty in getting accustomed to.
A friend of mine has it all fig
ured out and he'll make a gruat
efficiency expert. He doesn't do
much, he says, because he figures
the less he does, the fewer mis
takes he'll make.
All this fussing about the Con
go reminds me of the time a can
nibal was dressed in European
fashion and sent to college to
grow up in the ways of civiliza
tion. While on a transatlantic boat
for the first time, he went for a
meal in the dining room. The
waiter asked him, "Would you
like to see the menu?" He hesi
tatcd only briefly before he re
plied: "No, I would like lo see
the passenger list, though."
And. I'm reminded of a cartoon
I saw recently. It showed two cannibal-like
persons sitting under a
jungle tree. One is obviously eat
ing, and the other is stirring the
typical big black pot. Says the
cater: "He tastes good-like a
missionary should."
All this hy way of savin?
'hat I don't think all of the In
ternational do-gooders in the
world are going to correct the
Congo situation for a long, long
time. The Congolese, and the
people who demand "equality"
and "freedom" for them are
doing themselves and the world
a disservice. It is a situation
that defies solution by some or
the world's great leaders. Yet.
we have high school groups
which consider themselves rea.
l.v to pass a resolution favor
ing self-government for a horde
of savages.
After weathering a financial
crisis, it appears that the Modoc
Area Boy Scout Council is on the
ay lo becoming financially solv
it by the end of this year. 1
like the approach the finance
commute has taken in one ele
ment of providing finances.
They re going to emphasize pr
enlal participation, and ask the
Parents of Scouls-Cubs. Scouts,
Explorers-to kick in somethmg
lra. It's a lot of halt) work
but an excellent idea, and one
I hope will bear fruit.
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