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Anti-Busindss Attitude Seen
Steel companies have to increase their
wages, come October 1st. They had a previous
wage increase about a year ago, under the
terms of their last contract. There was talk
then about a price increase, but the decline
in demand lefl to. price chiseling, not price
increases. Facing the next wage increase, steel
executives are heard telling the need for a
price Increase. But President Kennedy tells
them not to raise their prices because it might
touch off an inflationary spiral. He gives the
same advice to auto manufacturers who can
settle with the UAW only by giving a generous
wage increase.
President Kennedy says nothing to the
UAW about tempering their demand for
higher wages. Apparently he sees no cause
and effect relation between wage raises and
price increases. Of course he knows better.
And how can he prevent more inflation if he
Though fall doesn't officially begin for a
few more days, and the fine September weath
er behaves like there's no tomorrow, anyone
Who has school-age children or has passed a
school recently knows that one more summer
is long gone.
The companies, regiments, armies of
kids trooping back to books and classes are a
surer sign of summer's end than anything you
can read in Mother Nature. (Incidentally, need
any motorist be reminded that extra special
alertness is called for now when children,
ichool buses and schools are near?)
More
:; A recent issue of the Readers' Digest
documented the case against labor for count
less delays in the nation's space program.
'! It listed numerous instances where vital
programs were delayed because of petty dif
ferences. .
The latest instance comes at Denver at
J.he Titan missile base where a wildcat strike
liow has spread into its second day. .
: About a dozen men walked off their jobs
following Friday's walkout of 120 construction
Workers at another site. Only skeleton crews
iemained at work during the weekend.
I : ; While the strike was labeled a "wildcat"
strike, officials of the Northern Colorado
Building and Trades Council expressed sympa
thy with its members protest over erection of
a fence at one of the sites.
We're not attempting to adjudicate the
dispute, nor are we attempting to take sides
Mom
i 'Ends
: No one believes the story of the
ieeth. Telling it again won t help.
But it happened. My lather
stopped In one evening and asked
my mother-in-law. Maggy it he
would like an evening out. My
mother was going to a shower and
it left Big John with litUe to do.
1 Ho liked Maggy. So he took her
ito dinner. It required a little time
land work to get her Into whatever
Wdieval harness she wore. Mag
to was exactly 5 feet tall and
Xveighed WO. By the lime alie gol
linto the silk print dress with the
lavender flowers and the hem of
;tlie slip had been yanked up on
one side with a knot In the shoul
der strap, Maggy was In a mad
sweat.
She wow her brown hair part
ed in the middle with two trig
dips, oyer- Che temples-. She was a
toud, hearty Rm wk tow
goo toy axr a MglrfraA. Mg
John toe kw to te ai
in Ifcstettra aftr Htsy a
boath 4fiuH VWs snmus.
' The satVer it gfe. hub (
quently y (mow HupoN Ike
waiter. Big 'Jot was a law
'man with snowy hair. Ifc's a m
Itajker and a good listener. Mag
gy was giving him a ndldown on
how grand life was when het
frank was alive. He had known
Frank Dunning at Lodge 211, Elks
Club and the two of them laughed
and almost wept, xc) called the
waiter for another round.
Maggy was peering at him
through her glasses. He was t
pink aqsj white blur. She bought
her passes off a counter In the
flve-and ten. They were great, she
maintained, but sometimes she
used them and, as an additional
Optical crutch, magnifying glass.
Maggy wasn't cheap. She was
the best poverty-stricken sport I
ever met
AND NEWS, Klamath stalls, Ore.
indulge in deficit financing for th govern
ment and encourages (if only by silence) lib
eral wage increases?
Business can prevent inflation if it can
reduce its unit costs of production. That usual
ly comes with added capital investment for
new and more efficient plants. Companies ob
tain the capital from two sources; retained
earnings or sale of bonds and stocks. In eith
er case there must be earnings either to be
ploughed back in the business, or as a basis
for credit. Every live business needs to have
substantial earnings, not merely to pay divi
dends, but also to finance expansion and im
provement which makes possible higher wag
es and lower costs.
President Kennedy's appeal for no price
increases is one-sided, and will be taken by
the business community as reflecting his anti
business attitude.
Summer Gone
Where did summer go? It seemed as if
it had hardly arrived. The passing of sum
mer always seems sad somehow, yet that feel
ing doesn't last. A peculiar excitement, an
anticipation of fall soon takes its place. The
weather's still sunny, but there's a nip in, the
night air that calls for a little extra covering
All kinds of activities get going once more
football, club meetings, theater and concert
seasons.
The summer hiatus was nice, but it's
good to watch the leaves turn again. Per
haps it's because we know it has to end that
we like summer so much.
Space Delays
in these disputes, but it would seem to us
that something could be done to prevent'these
so-called widcat strikes.
There has been talk of barring workers
who participate in unauthorized strikes from
further work on defense contracts. While
this may seem drastic, it remains one of the
few avenues open to the government to speed
up its space program in the fsce of so-called
wildcat walkouts, which have plagued it from
almost the beginning.
These walkouts have cost us time in the
vital race for space, particularly with the
Titan missile which is our big hope for sur
vival in the event of a future nuclear holo
caust. Even in the face of possible national an
nihilation it seems some people still sacrifice
sense for dollars, i
JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . .'.
- ln - Law Night Out
On Toothy
She always put a $5 bill on I lie
bar and it was always her last.
Sh6 didn't drink often, but, when
she drank, she liked to be serious
about it. This is one of the things
Big John admired about her.
The glasses came off, and she
squinted at my father through a
hanging tear in the left cyu. He
told her1 a funny story and they
got to laughing and couldn't stop.
She reached across the booth and
gave him a slap on Uie shoulder
that almost drove him out of the
booth.
They ordered dinner and agreed
that the roast beef wus delicious.
Maggy moved onto an cur of corn
and her bridge came out standing
in the kernels. This struck them
funny and they laughed some
more md called the waiter for
another cool transfusion.
Mayey put the teeth in her
purse. There were three of tliem,
with bit of wire curling oft both
sieVs. They were upper front and
they too looked as though they
curie off a counter in the five-and-ten.
The heck with appear
ances, Maggy said, a girl has to
retax and enjoy herself.
Big John agreed and sent for a
second piece of apple pie. After
awhile. Maggy said that her shoe
button Irish nose must be shiny,
and to plee excuse her. She was
in the powder room 10 minutes
and. when she came out. she
looked worried.
"John," she soid, "1 think t
lost the d. teeth." He looked up
out of his happy mist. "What
teeth?" he said. She seemed on
tlie verge of tears. ''The little
front bridge. I think it went down
the drain."
"A.O' he said, waving an arm.
"forget It. I'll get them for you
In the morning." Maggy was
brought home toothless that night.
Wednesday. September 11. 1M1
Note
When she breathed, the upper lip
flapped. Her shame was so deep
that she remained in bed all the
next day.
However, Big John was never
a man to forget a promise. He
went back to the Banjo Bar and
spoke to the German who owned
tile place. "The stout ludy who
was with me last night lost her
teeth." he said, displaying t h e
shield of a lieutenant of police.
"This is an honest place," the
German said. "No one would steal
a lady's teeth, lieutenant." Dad
put his knuckles on his hips. "I
didn't say anybody stole the
teeth," he said. "She lost them
in the rest room. Those teeth hap
pened 16 cast $1,000. You don't
want to be sued for a thing like
that."
"Sued?" the owner said. "I
didn't do anything wrong. Why
would I-?"
"Be a good bov." John said.
"Get the teeth."
By afternoon, a plumber and
his helper were taking the drains
apart. By evening, they were dig
ging in the yard. They found the
teeth. Big John thanked the man.
who kept looking at the three
choppers and mumbling: "How
much did you say?" and Dad
took them hrmo and sterilized
them.
My mother went into e kitch
en, took a look iq the boiling pot,
and went back to sit beside my
sister. "Don't say anything," she
said. "He's in thcOitchen boiljng
teeth. Don't say anything. .fist
keep quiet. This might be a break
down." q
The Bugs Bunnies were sneaked
back to Maggy by II p.m. Noth
ing was ever said about it. Later.
Maggy said to me: "I should
have met your father .40 years
ago." . , .
o "Heyf Down With Imperialism!",
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Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 13,
the 256th day of the year with
109 more to follow in 1061.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 1788. the U.S. Congress au
thorized the first national election,
lo be held the "first Wednes
day in January next (1789)."
In 1943, Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek was elected president of
the Chinese National government.
In 1955, the Federated German
Republic (West Germany 1 and the
Soviet Union established diplo
matic relations, the first since the
end of World War II.
A thought (or todoy: Greek biog
rapher Plutarch said: "The wise
man knows nothing who cannot
profit by his wisdom."
THEY
SAY . . .
Whenever men take the law into
their own hands, the loser is Uie
law and when the law loses,
freedom languishes. . . . The
smallest county courthouse in Ala
bama and the august chambers of
the Supreme Court of the United
States must be dedicated to the
same purpose to maintain the in
dividual's fundamental rights.
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy.
YOUR POCKETBOOK
Make Care
n Any
By FA YE HKNLE
My wile and 1, city dwellers in
our 40s, aro thinking about buying
land in the country with a view
to building a house in 10 years or
so, pbssibly as a retirement home.
Would this be a good long-term
investment? How can we fi
nance? R. F.
Dear R. F.: Values have gone
up and you may strike a piece of
land that could triple in value in a
decade. Remember, however, to
take taxes into account.
Keep abreast of news of the area
which interests you, such housing
developments, all of which can al
feci values.
Whether you can finance land,
depends on the area. If you're able
to finance, a down payment of 50
per cent is most likely.
Before you start building, re
member Mr. Blandings and his
dream house. Costs have a way of
soaring beyond estimates.
A suggestion: Why not buy a
house and rent it out until you are
ready to occupy it?
(J How can you figure t h e
amount of return a stock pays to
the shareowner? B.J.
Dear B.J.: Difide the number
of dollars pa$l the shareholder
during the past year the dividend
-by the current price of the stock.
A slock selling at $20 that paid its
shareowncrs one dollar last year
yields five per cent.
Q I have been buying savings
bonds through the payroll deduc
tion plan. They are registered in
ni"name and-or my. mother's. My
mother is 80 years old. If she
should pass away, would I have
Article Hits
For Teaching
By LYLE C. WILSON
WASHINGTON (UPI) - If this
essay were a filly or a colt, its
blood lines could be stated like
this:
By the Saturday Review out of
the Saturday Evening Post.
In their current editions these
periodicals deal with a tragedy ut
the modern United States. This
tragedy is the dictatorship of an
educational system that blindlv
refused to teach Johnny how to
read, spell, or write.
Thomas M. Cooley II is dean
of the University of Pittsburgh
Law School. His article in the
Sept. 12 Saturday Review begins
like this:
"A major and malignant dis
ease has taken hold of the body
of American education: The grad
. uates of our colleges, including
the best ones, cannot write the
English language."
Dean Coolcy's article is cap
tioned: "A Law School Fights Il
literacy." The article relates that this
shocking illiteracy among college
graduates is not limited to grad
uate schools of law. The deans of
engineering, medicine you name
it all complain Uiat the bache
lors of art or of science with
whom they contend are Illiterates.
Dean Cooley docs not believe
that faulty elementary school
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What English author was
called (he Wasp of Twickenham?
A Alexander Pope.
ful Study
Land Buying
to pay inheritance tax on my own
bonds? E.B.
Dear E.B.: The Internal Reve
. nue Service tells us that since you
are paying for the bonds out of
your own pay check, the bonds are
your sole property not subject to
inheritance tax should your moth
er pass away.
Q I am interested in starting a
business of my own and would ap
preciate some information. The
businesses I have in mind arc a
baby sitting agency and independ
ent milk delivery. Please send me
particulars. E. C.
Dear E. C: Anyone thinking of
going into business on his own
should check with his state's de
partment of commerce or local
chamber or commerce.
The first thing to determine us '
whether there is a need in your
area for the service you wish lo
sell or a market for the product.
Ask how much money you'll
need in order to get started. If
ou need labor or raw materials,
find tut about sources and costs.
Above all, get advice on pricing
your product. Many a person go
ing into business on his own fails
lo evaluate his time properly.
Q I am 69 but have not been .
able to get social security benefits
oecaue I have not worked long
enough under social security. Will
the recent change in the law help
me get benefits now? A K.
Dear A.K.: Very likely. Under
the rAnt change in the law a per
son of 69 or older can get benefits
if he has as little as one-and-a-half
years of work under social security.
System
raiiure
leaching of rending is the cause
of this alarming condition. In
stead he lays the blame on the
failure of high school and college
teachers to compel their students
to lenrn to write by writing. The
dean recommends that high
schools and colleges bear down
hard in. their English courses, on
composition and expository writ
ing. ,;
Maybe so. But how can they
write if they cannot read. Di
spell? Frances W. Rummell writes
in the current (Sept. 9)' Saturday
Evening Post of the catastrophe
which has overtaken children in
this country in the past 30 year?.
It was about 30 years ago that
Columbia Teachers College went
overboard for progressive educa
tion and in the process abandoned
the phonetic 'system of leaching
reading to first and early' grade
elementary school children.
Columbia Teachers College is
the brood mare of U.S. education.
Its prestige is great; Its influence
national. Its achievement seems
to have been devastating. The
teaching methods adopted by Co
lumbia and now imposed on the
U.S. school system become more
serious each year. Miss Rummeil
states:
"In city after city, surveys re
veal, almost half of senior high
school pupils cannot read or spell
beyond fourth or fifth-grade lev
els. Seven out of ten young peo
ple entering college these days
must be groomed in remedial
spelling and reading which is to
say, taught sixth-grade work."
Miss Rummell cites names and
places where a return, to the pho
netic method of teaching reading
has had amazingly good results
without, however, budging the
progressive educators and the
mahatmas of Columbia Teachers
College to lift the ban against' it.
A test between students in a
suburban Denver school and a
school at Garwood, N.J.. had
these results: The phonetically
taught Garwood students mis
spelled slightly more than 7 per
cent of the words; the suburban
Denver pupils botched 63 per
cent. Columbia Teachers College
methods prevail at suburban
Denver.
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EDSON IN WASHINGTON... .
Reds Stir Sour Touch
In World's Sugar BowJ
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON INEA) Soviet
Russia is now believed to have
moved into the position of being
able to conduct an international
trade war in sugar, controlling
world prices and markets. The
situation is being closely watched
by U.S. sugar interests.
The development arises through
Russia's barter purchase of four
million tons of Cuban production
and through the still more impor
tant fact that Russia is now the
world's largest sugar producer. Its
output this year is believed to be
seven million tons. Cuba will be
second with six million tons.
Accurate figures are not avail
able, but there are industry re
ports that Russia built 50 refiner
ies last year and has plans to
build another loo. This indicates a
growth potential.
SugA is a high heat and energy
food considered desirabje in cold
Russia. Sugar is not rationed, ex
cept by government control of
prices. These have run as high
as 50 cents to $1 a pound. This
yields a nice capitalistic profit
to the Communists, particularly
on the sugar Russia gets from
Cuba.
There has been some specula
tion that Russia finances much
of its agricultural expansion on
sugar profits. Any oversupply it
can dump on world markets at
ruinous prices.
In what is unquestionably one
of the worst deals the Castro
Guevara regime has made, Cuba
gets paid in cash for only 20 per
cent of tlie sugar Russia gets.
For the other 80 per cent, Cuba
must take in barter whatever Rus
sia wants to supply jet planes or
caviar at prices determined by
Russia.
The ineffectiveness of this deal
may be shown by Castro's desire
to trade prisoners for U.S. trac
tors. It was an open admission
Russia wasn't supplying what
Cuba wants most.
One other sore spot for Cuba is
that some of the sugar Russia
takes may be leaking to t h e
world market through Czechoslo
vakia at reduced prices. This vi
olates the agreement. Cuban white
, sugar is now obtainable in Europe
at prices below Cuba's raw sugar
price.
If the Russians are thus double-crossing
Cuba, it would ex
plain Castro's and Guevara's re
peated overtures to the United
Morse Making Check
On Home Front Stand
By DOUGLAS GR1PP
United Press International
SALEM (UPD Sen. Wayne
L. Morse is understandably cozy
on such topics as who, in his esti
mation, would run him the toui
est race for the U.S. Senate next
year.
Aware that Republicans have
him high if not highest on
their congressional "retirement '
list, the Oregon Democrat is keep
ing cool but making more and
more personal checks of the poli
tical pulse at home as his third
bid for reelection to the Senate
draws nearer.
It is still early and the real
strategy, naturally, is secret, but
Morse is still saying publicly th.it
he thinks Republican Gov. Mark
O. Hatfield will change horses and
file for Morse's Senate seat next
year.
Republicans contend thit
Morse's attitude toward Hatfield
these days is so tolerant, even
complimentary, that tlie 60-yea--old
warhorse doesn't really believe
that Hatfield, who has announced
for reelection, means lo oppose
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States for a resumption of sugar
sales.
Just what's going on in this
tremendously complicated b u s i
ncss may be revealed in part at
the forthcoming International Su
gar Council meeting which opens
in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 12.
U.S. government and sugar in
dustry representatives will attend.
ISC is a U.N. commodity subsidi
ary of 29 exporting and nine im
porting countries or with many
observers.
Exporting and importing coun
tries have relatively equal votes
and its decisions are usually un
animous. Russia with 95 votes,
Hungary with 15, and Czechoslo
vakia with 245 have been exporter
members for 12 years. They have
been generally cooperative though
tliey haven't given much informa
tion on their own production and
consumption.
The United States and Britain
are principal importing countries,
with 245 votes each. Russia, im
porting four million tons this year,
could qualify as the biggest im
porter, but prefers to be designat
ed an exporter.
ISC negotiated a five-year agree
ment in 1958 but provided that It
could be reviewed after three
years. This job will be complicat
ed by world market changes re
sulting from the Cuban situation,
new high levels of world sugar
production, currently depressed
prices and uncertainty over fu
ture U.S. sugar policy.
Existing U.S. sugar law expires
June 30, 1962. Before that time.
Congress must determine what to
do with the three-million-ton allot
ment formerly given to Cuba but
now distributed to 21 other pro
ducing countries.
A further complication is that
the community stabilization pro
gram of tlie new Inter-American
Alliance for Progress may pro
duce some recommendations of its
own on how the U.S. sugar mar
ket is to be supplied and what
price it pays.
Also, there must be a determina
tion of whether U.S. sugar beet
and cane growers will be subject
ed to acreage limitations next
year because of increased pro
duction and imports. A hearing on
this was held in Denver not long
ago. The domestic industry is di
vided on what to do lo get its
prices higher, but Agriculture Sec
. retary Orville Freeman must
make recommendations lo Con
gress early next year.
him.
Secretary of State Howell Ap
pling Jr. and former state treas
urer Sig Unander are, besides Hat
field, the two most prominent Re
publicans touted as possible Morse
opponents.
Appling, despite initial pressure
from the Republican N a t i o n a
Committee, lias so far refused to
lend an ear. Sen John Tower, R
Texas, on his recent visit to Ore
gon urged Appling lo take on
Morse, but Appling was firm.
Appling insists that he will not
cave in at a later date.
Unander is getting more and
more attention, specially since
leaving the door wide open in re
cent statements. His feelers are
far af.eld, with Ralph Emmons,
legislative lobbyist from Salem,
doing much of the tickling.
Before Morse's trip to Oregun
this week (or the state fair, Unit
ed Press International wrote the
senator, asking three questions.
They were:
1. "Whom do you think your Re
publican opponent will be for the
U.S. Senate next year?
2. At this point who. in your es
timation, would run you the hard
est race: Hatfield? Appling?
Someone else?
3. Who w ould you personally like
lo run against?" '
Back came this bland and non
committal reply:
"The only comment I shall make
about the questions you raised 's
that I shall look forward with
pleasure to taking lo the people of
Oregon in the 1962 Senate cam
paign my record of 18 years of
service to tlie state of Oregon. My
ampaign of standing on that rec
ord will be the same, irrespective
of who the Republican candidate
may be."
Thoughts
The Lord will save me, and wi
will sing to stringed Instruments
all the days of our life, al the
house of the Lord. Isaiah M:20.
And grant that when I face
the grisly Thing.
My song may trumpet down
the gray Perhaps
Let me be as a tutOswept
fiddlestring
That fields tlie Master Melody
and snaps. John G. NcthardL