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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregea Tuesday. February 28. 1961 See -What Happens When You Let People Vote?" NOTHING SPECIAL dtt&iial flags (W. B. S.) ' c Q We Americans are loading ourselves with such an ever-increasing mountain of personal debt that the question must be whether we can ever get out from under. Some specialists in consumer finance are saying they don't think so. In World War II, with installment buying under government limit, the total of all con sumer credit sank to $4.4 billion at one point. From that low, it has generally surged upward to a present fantastic $56 billion. Its biggest single leap, $7 billion, came in 1955, remem bered as an extremely prosperous year. This burden, of course, takes no account of home mortgage debt. Leaving out farms, the mortgage total on family properties in late 1960 had reached $139 billion. In 1945, the last big war year, it was only $18.6 billion. It isn't enough to say that all this is per fectly natural because the population has shot up 30 to 40 million since the war. Nor can it be shrugged off by declaring that the dollar has been losing value throughout this span. The fact is that when figured in constant dollar terms, consumer spending has had an annual average increase of 3.5 per cent since 1947. In that same period the annual average population gain has been 1.7 per cent. We're piling up the credit load especially heavily for automobiles. At, the end of 1960 the installment burden in this field totaled $18 School Full "slates rights" are provided for In the special message and proposed legislation on federal aid to public grade school and high school education which President Kennedy has sent to Congress. The hope is that this will remove all ob jections by people who think the federal gov ernment is trying to take control over educa tion away from the states. If legislation is approved, checks would be sent directly to the states to, do with as they please for either construction of schools, pay ment of teachers' salaries, or both. There will be a certain amount of bird dogging by the government to keep the states honest, says Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Abraham A, Ribicoff. He says he thinks there is little chance that federal aid to education will develop into another highway fund scandal. He believes state education officials and school boards are honest fellows who will use the money for purposes intended. But it's a tempting lot of jack $666 mil lion the first year, $766 million the second, $866 million the third. The total is $3.3 bil lion just for classrooms and teachers. No matching funds will be required from the states for new expenditures. This was a feature of the bills passed by both Senate and House last Congress, effective after the first year. Lack of such a provision is one of the main objections to the new Kennedy pro posals. This opposition is increased by the fact that the program offers the states such a tempting dish of government gravy for state officials to spot their vests with. On a grant per pupil in attendance- in public primary and secondary schools, the South would be greatest beneficiary. Arkan sas would get the most, $28.18 for each en rolled pupil per year, as compared to $15 per pupil in nine of the richest northern and west-, em states. The national average would be BARBS If you have any idea you can take' It with you, start working on your in come tax. Hitchhiking is banned in numer ous places, but the girls still do a lot of finger waving. Now don't you wish you had the money you saved on heating gas or oil during last summer? When your buy-word is cash, you run into a lot less trouble. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Are tsetse flies found in coun tries other than Africa? A No. Q How many bombers partici pated In Doolittle's air raid over Ja pan in April, 1942? A Sixteen. u Boon Or Burden? billion, four times the sum of all consumer credit in the depth of war. In the decade of the 1950s, according to Federal Reserve Board figures, we borrowed $135 billion altogether for the purchase of new and used cars. As the burden mounts, we buyers try to stretch it out. The average car loan now runs more than 30 months, and many go 36. But before that deadline is reached, your car may need costly major repairs and your dealer is suggesting a new one. . Television sets, washing machines and other appliances may serve a little longer, but repair and replacement inevitably become fac tors. Even the partially unemployed don't es cape. Though they try to reduce their install ment burdens, figures show that in the end they still lay out about the same proportion of their aggregate income 8 per cent on credit buying, as do the fully employed. Some Detroit officials think of car .buy ers as permanently in hock. The supporting evidence seems fairly substantial. Every individual consumer, and every specialist concerned with the health of the economy, should perhaps be at least faintly ' trojblcd at the growing mountain. We have borrowed our way into a very nice standard of living. Let's hope we're not , borrowing a real economic cave-in at some distant date. Aid Battle Looms $19.75. The basis for allocation of aid is need, and inability of the poorer states to pay their own way. The practical effect is political to win support from Southern congressmen. If they don't vote for it, it's dead. The present outlook is that the bill will have no trouble in the Senate, but it will be close in the House. It will ba tougher going because there are 22 more Republican repre sentatives this year. Most are likely to oppose the Kennedy program. To be perfectly blunt about it, the oppo sition this year, as last, will be based not on educational theory or political science, but on racial and religious grounds. . Kennedy proposes federal grants to pub lic schools only. This is in keeping with his campaign statements that the issue of separa tion of church and state was settled by the founding fathers in the U.S. Constitution, and that's that. ' , . Many Catholics now contend, however, that if the issue of federal aid for parochial schools were brought before the U.S. Supreme Court today, the decision would favor such support. On this and other bases, some Catholic leaders want federal aid for church schools included in new aid to education legislation. No one can predict the outcome on this. On the question of denying federal aid to school districts not In compliance with court orders to Integrate Rep. Adam Clayton Pow ell's amendment Kennedy is in effect taking the same position Eisenhower did. , This is that segregation in public schools is a separate civil rights issue which should not be solved by enforcement clubs in legis- lntion to aid education. In other words, the proposed bill would permit federal aid to seg regated schools. Extreme liberals don't like this a little bit. The fight will be on this line. Nobody can predict how this battle will come out, either. Oil Driller ACROSS l,Eir1voll driller, CoL 11 Small spice 12 Dispatched t second time 14 Hurdles 13 Mortises 10 East It'r ) 17 Compositor icoll) J Affliction 4 Sick 5 Seriously harmful 6 Kail In drops 7 City in Nevada 8 Oneger 9 Retainer 10 Complete 11 Mimtckor 13 Former Russian ruler 18 Affirmative 10 Polynesian herb reply 20 Erect 2! 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J - 3" wTTi srpr ""Mn37"- j 'ji Hr a 3 DLT1 j " 3 so "" 5T w jw a a : ' ' ' 1 1 1 1 1 Allies Fight Soviet Talk On Germany Richard O'Ftcgan, chief ot Tiie Associated Press bureau in Ger many, has closely followed Soviet cold war strategy .along the Iron Curtain border from vantage points in Germany and Austria since 1945. Here he discloses a new technique the Soviets are us ingwith the same old aim. ' By RICHARD O'REGAN BONN, Germany AP Soviet representatives in West Germany arc using new techniques in sow ing distrust and fear between the Bonn government and its NATO . allies. One Western diplomat describes the Soviet "sugar and sweet" campaign as "childishly crude." But it seems to be having some effect on some Germans. Here's how the Soviets arc operating: First, they tell Americans, Brit ish and French that the great powers should work together on peaceful projects and not let the Germans stand between them. The aim apparently is to raise German fears that Hie West may eventually sacrifice Germany for the sake of long-term peace. Next, these same Soviets arc being especially polile to the Ger mans after branding them "war criminals" just a short while ago. They are also laying off their bit ter attacks of recent years on Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. ' This appears designed lo make the West feel that German lead ers are flirting with . the Soviet I'nion and cannot be trusted. Western correspondents in Bonn first noticed the new campaign when they got unusual invitations lo parties, movies and chess games at tne Soviet Embassy and in Soviet officials' homes. .lust Friday night the Soviet military mission in Frankfurt in vited far more than the usual number of Western diplomats, civilians and military men to a Red army day party. ' The need for Soviet-Western co operation is the first theme ex- , pounded by unusually talkative Soviets at these parties. The sec ond theme is that Germans and the problem of divided Germany ' stand in the way of such cooper ation. "You don't need the Germans when we can be friends," the So viets nrgue, suggesting that the old wartime alliance should be re vived. At the same time, the Soviets arc trying to make it appear to the West that the Germans may make private deals with the Kremlin. Soviet trade representatives have become extremely active in trying lo induce West German in dustry to trade with the Commu nist Kast nuropenn bloc. Uncon firmed reports are that some top West German army officers have been invited to the Soviet Union. On the diplomatic front, reports have spread that Soviet Ambas sador Andrei Smirnov has of fered Adenauer a new deal that Mould make It unnecessary for West Germany to pay millions to the United States in helping stop America's gold outflow. Remarked one western diplo mat: "The Russian campain uses President Kennedy's desire to find peaceful fields of coopera tion actually to. stir up suspicion and lark of confidence among the allies here in Germany." EDSON IN WASHINGTON By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA) -' En tirely new relationships between federal and state governments may have to be worked out if the Kennedy administration program is to be made effective. Labor Secretary Arthur Gold berg made a start 'in this di rection in his one day meeting here with state labor commission ers. ' Department of Labor experts spelled out the Kennedy programs on aiding depressed areas, in creasing the minimum wage, ex tending unemployment insurance benefits and coverage.' . The 40' state labor officials, were then given a chance to ask questions and raise objections to provisions in the Kennedy pro posals as they would affect state legislation already in force in these three fields. Goldberg makes clear it is not his desire to "lederalize" all la bor legislation and regulation. He admits this can't be done because the country is too big, too var ricd and too complex. What he is after is better communication and belter coordination between state and federal governments on their mutual problems Goldberg carries this one step further with his proposal that state governments should set up their own advisory committees ou labor - management policy. They , would match the 21 - member group named by Kennedy to ad vance collective bargaining, raise living standards, increase produc tivity. Labor is only one field, howev er, where greater cooperation be tween state and federal govern ments can be useful. It is essential in any federal aid to education which Congress may approve. It is essential in social security cxten.-ion par ticularly in -providing medical care of the aged. Cooperation is also essential for new housing and slum clearance programs, expedited highway con struction, reclamation, post office building and other public works proposed by the Kennedy admin istration to give business a shot in the arm. , The 50 stales. District of Co ' lumbia. Puerto Rico and the ter ritories each have different prob lems in each of these fields. The degree to which they can cooper ate is a lest of the American government as a federation oi states. If it can't be made to work effectively, the alternatives are to have the federal government run everything or to have the federal government run nothing, with the states cutting each oth ers' throats in unrestrained com petition. . This is no new U.S. problem. It is as old as the Whiskey Re bellion And in recent years var ious Washington administrations have tried various formulas to work it out. The F.D.R. formula was to co erce the states to comply with federal policies. The Dwight D. Eisenhower formula was to have the states lake voluntary action to bring their activities into line with Moral standards. Eisenhower had a commission on intergovernmental relations working for three years under chairmanship of the late Meyer Kestnbaum. It brought forth a number of printed reports which make a stack of books six inches high. But they accomplished prac Federal -State Plans Call For Cooperation tically nothing. One of Eisenhower's last rec ommendations to Congress was that the states be forced to pay a larger share of flood control and disaster relief costs. He made that proposal many limes. . It never got any place. . .The states don't want it that way. Their idea of a fair dis tribution of federal - state re sponsibility is exemplified in the highway program. It is 95 per cent paid lor by the federal gov ernment, 5 per- cent by the states. This is one of the principal rea sons, there has been so much cor ruption in it. , The states have their point of view on this in that they don't .want the federal government to get too powerful. But when many slate govern ments, as of . today, can't or won't raise their own taxes to build their own schools, pave their own highways, take care of their own unemployed, aged or needy citizens, the only alterna tive is for the federal govern ment to raise its taxes lo do the job, or let the country go lo pot. This the Kennedy administra tion is- apparently unwilling to do. Better federal - state cooper ation provides one way out. THE DOCTOR ' Food Habits Often Change In Nation By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. We're certainly a nation of food faddists. Not so long ago, red. meat was in disfavor because it was alleged to raise blood pres sure and contribute to arterial hardening. Then mixed meals were opposed. We were told to cat our protein food at one sitting and our starches at another. Next came a big honey boom because, unlike our table sugar, it was a "natural product." Soon, salt was replaced on our tables with substitutes. And now, we're to give up butter, cream, bacon and eggs and replace them with synthetics. And not much of those. Meanwhile the sale of "health foods" and vitamin-mineral sup plements goes on apace. It's soured milks for "auto intoxica tion"; wheat germ oil for fertility, and. most recently, a mayonnaise dressing that can also be rubbed on the face to improve the com plexion and remove wrinkles! There is at least one basic fact that gets no consideration in all of this metabolic hocus-pocus. That is the fundamental observa tion that each substance we eat and digest has first to be broken dow n in our bodies to what chem ists call the "building blocks." From these relatively simple "blocks." the many factories in these wonderful bodies of ours then construct the substances we require. Just as pigs manufacture bacon fat from swill, and cows produce milk from grain and hay, and sturgeon yield caviar from what ever it is that fish dine on, so do we construct whatever it is we particularly need at the particular moment. And the wonder of it all is that At a meeting of interested per sons discussing the problem of ju venile delinquency, it was quite generally agreed that most young offenders come from broken homes, unhappy environment, and just general parental neglect. It was almost unanimously agreed that the whole problem could be licked by parents if they would -take more interest in what their . boys and girls were doing. This whole so-called juvenile delinquency matter can be ..looked at In a different light, too. For Instance, we could say that for every "bad" youngster there are 20 or more who never gel into trouble at all. It has often occurred to this writer that equally as bad as par ental neglect is too-harsh disci pline. There is a question as to the merits of corporal punishment (although I am one who favors It). Our recent discussion sent me to the files for one of the most re markable pieces of literature I have seen in this respect. Perhaps some of you have' read it. It's titled "Father Forgets," and ori ginally appeared as an editorial in People's Home Journal. ."Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, "one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stol en into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of, remorse swept over me. Guiltily, I came to your bedside. "These are the things I was thinking, son: 1 had been cross to you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with the towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily , - when you threw some of your things .on the floor. "At breakfast I found fault loo. You spilled things. You gulped down food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter, too thick on your bread. As you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, 'Good by. Daddy' and I frowned and said in reply 'Hold your shoul ders back.' "Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came up the street, I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stock ings. I humiliated you before your friends by marching you ahead of me to the house. Stockings were expensive and if you had to buy them, you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a father! "Do you remember, laler, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a hurl look in your eyes? When 1 SAYS . what we manufacture bears little resemblance to the raw products that went originally into the hop per. We can do just as well with sweet milk as with soured milk at many times the price. Just as well with granulated sugar as with honey at many times the cost. And just as well with a mixed meal of proteins and starches as with separate meals for each. Rarely do I get a letter telling of some persistent complaint or illness, that fails to state that the ailment, of whatever nature, con tinues despite vitamin "shots" and vitamin-mineral supplementa tions. Yet, except for severe vitamin and mineral deficiencies rarely encountered in healthy persons who consume the average Ameri can diet, there is not an illness, complaint or ailment that re quires these supplementations or that can be expected to improve as a result of over-dosing with these admittedly important acces sories to the diet. If you've been wasting your money on faddist foods, how about making a two-week trial of noth ing but dietary staples? Bread and butter; bacon and eggs; cooked cereal, tea or coffee with sugar and cream: meat, fish or poultry with a baked spud and a green and a yellow vegetable: ap ple pie with a hunk of yellow cheese; a pared apple, a peeled orange and an overripe banana for an encore or between meals; and just plain cow's milk or cocoa to wash it all down? " For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "Understanding Mental Illness," send 10 cents to Dr. Hy man. care of Herald and News, Box 489. Dept. B. Radio City Sti tion. New York 19, N Y. glanced up over my paper, impa tient at the interruption, you hesi tated at the door. 'What is it you want?' I snapped. "You said nothing but ran across In one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me. and your small arms tightened with an affection that God has set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not. wither. And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs. "Well, son, it was shortly after ward that my paper slipped from ' my hands and a terrible sicken ing fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of repri mandingthis was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. It was measuring you by a yardstick of my own years. "And there was so much that was good and fine and true in, your character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn it self over the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous im pulse to rush in and kiss me goodnight. Nothing else matters to me son. I have come to your room in the darkness, and I have knelt here ashamed! "It is feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you in your waking hours. But tomor row I will be a real daddy. I will hum with you, and suffer when you suffer and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it went a ritual: 'He is nothing but a boy a little boy!' "I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as'I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you wore in your mother's arms, your head on her shoulders. I have asked too much!" Is there a father who can wholly and honestly ah' solve himself from the accusa tion outlined here? I think not. We moan and cry about youth going to hell, and it is us fathers who stupidly believe we are too busy to take part in their activities who are help ing them on the way. A soldier in the South Pacific who had been overseas for 14 months received a letter from his wife telling about a prayer their little 4-year-old daughter made: "Dear Lord," the child began, "please send me a little baby brother, so we will have something lo surprise daddy with when he comes home." - Fat Man's Lament; When they gave out brains, I thought they said trains, and missed mine! When they gave out looks, . I thought they said books and didn't want any. When they gave out noses, I thought they said roses and ordered a big red one. When they gave out legs, I thought they said kegs and or dered two fat ones. When they gave out cars. I thought thojr said beers, and I ordered two long ones. When they gave 'out chins, I thought they said gins, and ordered a double one. Boy, am I a mess! THEY SAY... Although we have a far higher proportion of young people in col lege than any oilier nation, for a high proportion of these a lib eral education seems to end on commencement day. Starry-eyed undergraduates turn into glassy eyed alumni and alumnae who, if lliey read anything, read best sellers and magazines. Dr. J. N. Douglas Bush, pro- lessor of English at Harvard. What is good enough for doc tors, teachers, bankers and gov ernment employes should be good enough for us. Rev. Lewis Roberts of Susses. England, calling on elergymea to form a trade union. I believe President Kennedy will become the most prayedfor man in the world. -Evangelist Billy Graham. If an all-out nuclear war should be fought in. say, 1970. the sur vivors' would emerge from their shelters to find themselves on an alien planet almost as inhospitable as the moon or perhaps even more inimical to life than Mars! -Scientist Daodridge M. Cole, recommending permanent under ground colonic! as the "ulti mate" form of human society.
