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HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Friday, December 21, 1962
"You'd Smile, Too, If You Could
Get Votes the Way He Does!"
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
New Frontier Building
Only Half Finished '
We
For many people, a certain letdown fol
" lows Christmas, something that doesn't hap
. pen after any other holiday.
They complain that they went overboard
on presents, that the card list got out of hand,
that Aunt Harriet didn't like what she got, that
the day just wasn't worth all the trouble that
went Into it.
They're thankful, they say, that it is over.
It may be inevitable that this be so, for
jio other holiday is thought about so much,
talked about so much and prepared for so
far in advance. Indeed, it seems as if the im
portance of Christmas, having almost ob
scured Thanksgiving, is slowly creeping back
on the calendar to cast its shadow even on
Halloween.
: Christmas may be getting too much bally
hoo. Still, it is not just the exploitation of
Christmas that causes the letdown. In fact,
this need not bother us if we don't let it. Nor
is it the hustle and bustle, the social obliga
tions, the emotional strain. These are shallow
reasons.
A more basic explanation at least for
;those who are affected by the true meaning
;of the season may be that the very idea of
'Christmas revolves around intangible things
like happiness, love, good will.
Letters
: Speaking Out
-! I was absolutely shocked by
the big fuss being made over the
fact thai a man was not indicted
on a hit run charge when actually
no one seems to know much about
the situation. We, as a people,
have seen many trials in Klam
ath County, and as a rule have
always abided by the decisions
ot our courts and law enforcement
agencies, even though at times
we may have wondered why cer
tain tilings were permitted as evi
dence and others were not. That
Is why I can not understand this
sudden and unwarranted attack
on our district attorney.
Of courso the district attorney
had to present evidence to the
grand Jury, and I certainly hope
that, as a human being, he is
entitled to his own opinions and
to the right of freedom of sjicerh,
even as you and I. But he decs
not control the grand jury, and
litis I know for a fact, because
a short while ago a friend of ours
was involved in some trouble,
and we later learned (from out
side sources, 1 might add.t Uiat
at the time of this party's ap
pearance before the grand jury,
tlm district attorney's oflice re
ported to Ihe grand Jury that,
in their opinion, there was not
enough evidence to Indict tins
, parly, or to get a conviction.
. However the party was Indicted,
had to spend several additional
weeks In jail, stand trial by jury,
only to be found "not guilty" in
the end. So not even our good
editor can convince me Uint Mr.
C'rabtree or anyone else controls
the grand jury. As for "swaying
their decisions" as mentioned in
Ihe letter from "name withheld"
I wonder how many people have
: fat In court for a few days, or
served on jury duty, and noticed
how some of the attitudes and
, actions of the judges can cau.se .
; a jury to react. (I would like to
; point out that I am not accusing
; anyone, but al) people ate hu-
man.)
I, personally do not know if
the man in question panicked and
left the scene of the accident, or
if he did not realize until later
that he had struck someone. I
am willing to leave that decision
to the grand jury, even as e
leave the decisions of other trials
to the jurys that serve on them.
H was an unfortunate accident,
.but it could happen to any of us.
1 would like to know, however,
hat good could be accomplished
hv sending (his man to prison,
separating him from his family,
and placing his children and wife
on relief rolls for a taxpayer
to support, also taking the chance
of his returning to society a bitter
man, perhaps a real criminal?
And h;i anyone taken time to
figure up what a trial by jury
costs us, the taxpayers? The in
volved party is tiie only one who
knows what really happened that
night, and why he reacted the
way he did. whatever that reac
tion was, and I feel sure that
just the thought of what hap
pened is just punishment, (if we
feel that every accident must be
punished if It happens to break
a law). Since we seem to be on
a Scripture quoting trend then
how about "Justice is Mine" say
eth the Lord.
Of H
spring
To The Editor
The actual question here is, do
we have the right to question
every action made by our law
enforcement officers, after we,
ourselves elected them? I wonder
if anyone has paid any attention
to Uie good that Mr. C'rabtree
has accomplished for us? Or
doesn't anyone care? Such
things as setting up an office for
the collection of supor! payments,
auid seeing to it that errant fath
ers do support their children,
thereby relieving our overloaded
welfare rolls. And who started
Ihe ball rolling, and devoted night
alter night of his own time to
start and finish the Citizens
Crime Convention, which made
intensive surveys into some of
our crime problems? 1 also won
der if the people who arc yelling
the loudest nbout Mr. Crabtrcc's
so called inefliciency in office put
in any time on tlic.se surveys,
or even bothered to study llieni
when they were completed?
It is absolutely revolting to me
when the public will pick up an
editorial, or any other gossip or
insinuations, take them at face
value, and start tearing down a
public servant without bothering
to find out (lie facts (especially
when Uie accused party cannot de
lend himself without breaking the
very laws lie ha been elect
ed to uphold). 1 feel that we arc
very fortunate to have a district
attorney like Dale Clablree. In
my opinion he is one of the best
that wo luive ever had lie
is a man who will not "deal"
with anyone nor will he lower his
own standards or principles, no
matter what people say against
hinii nor how he may hurt his
own political or professional ca
reer. I. for one will not commend
Mr. Sweelhind on his "line" edi
torial, 1 feel he could find heller,
much better use for the editorial
space.
I agree that there are many
things wrong in Klamaln County,
but our district atlnrnev's office
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Doc. 28, tlie
Stand day of IvW with three to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
, first quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those rm on tl-j iiy include
President Woodrow Wilson, in
IMS at Staunton, Va.
On this day in history:
In 1M2. Vice President John C.
Calhoun resigned from oflice. the
only vice president to do so. He
had been at odds with President
Jackson.
In 1846. Iowa became tiie 2tli
state lo enter the I'nion.
In 189, chewing fjum was pat
ented hy William Somplc of Mount
Vernon. Ohio.
In 1943, Congress officially rec
ognized the "pledge of allegiance."
ope
Presents and all the rest are only the
visible symbols of Christmas. The true Christ
mas is a general building up of enthusiasm
for life and great, vague expectations that cul
minate on this one special day when our love
for friends and family overflows onto all hu
manity and when every man has the right ot
be greeted with a cheery "Merry Christmas."
Then, after Christmas, comes a feeling
that there is less happiness in the world than
there should be, that good will to men is still
just the aim of the few. The decorations sud
denly look tarnished and drooping.
It was fun, this Christmas thing, but we
were only kidding ourselves. The real world is
eleven other months, not this one month or
this one day. Christmas is for the kids.
Yet wise and disillusioned adults would
not do away with Christmas, nor even the
post-holiday reaction. For that, too, is part
of Christmas.
It reminds us that even though our spirits
may have overreached themselves, they did
search for something better. Simply, we went
out again in search of the Star of Bethlehem.
And while we may not have found it, or
discovered that it was only tinsel, we know
the fault was ours that there IS a real star,
that we will look for it again.
is not the place to start correcting
them. If we don't like the secrecy
surrounding Uie grand jury in
dictments, then lets work on
changing tliat. Laws can be
changed, you know. But for good
ness sake, lets stop finding fault
with the men who arc, to the
very best of their ability, trying
lo uphold the laws that we do
have. There is a saying that has
great meaning, and should be
thought upon by all of us. "Before
you lind fault with someone else,
take timo to count ten of your
own."
If we had, perhaps belter, and
more impartial press coverage
of the "news" and less of the
liersonal "views" of our editor,
thereby having a better informed
public, then perhaps Mr. Crabtree
and others who hold his same
principles and ideals, could do
something about correcting some
of the problems wo have here.
I am not ashamed to sign my
name to this letter, as others
must have been, since so many
letters are unsigned. On the con
trary I am proud to be able to
speak out for our district attor
ney. I only hope that olhers who
know Mr. Crabtree, and appre
ciate Ihe fine job he is doing here
in Klamath County will add their
names to mine, and give the
wholehearted support he needs.
Mrs. Lila Lasley
lit. 3 Box 1079.
Agreement
This is regarding the conlrover
.sy on zoning in Klamath Coun
ty The peoole opnosiag zoning are
fearful of further government
control and well they might he.
The government program on ag
riculture is costing us $.1 billion
a year in price supports alone,
and yet the small larmer is being
forced out of business The fed
eral government is right now
Handing $2115.000 to improve Cor-Ix-r
reservoir anil Ihe area around
it for recreational use, while we
desperately need a new hospital,
an improved road on the west
side of the Upper Lake, or a
number of other projects more
than we need this improvement
at Gerbor.
Oregon is so backward in at
tracting industry, that we are Die
subject of an article in the Sat
urday Kening Post. Yet our Sen
ate refuses to modify the crip
pling inventory tax situation.
Roads have boon paved In tins
county that will never carry more
than 8 or 10 cars a day while
roads that carry hundreds re
main unpavod.
However. private planning has
not done so well either. The early
Mihdividers in Klamath Kalis laid
a square grid over our Mis. As
a result, we have streets that are
impossibly steep, lots that have
no access, and dead ends where
the street mold not be put
through.
These liungs will stand (or gen
erations as monuments to the ig
norance and greed of the men
who planned them.
Surely we can come to an agree
ment on this toning problem so
thai v.e can lie proud of what
we buiid (or the future
James Kwns.
W 4 if J Tisg 1
IN WASHINGTON
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Jrv'-'i '?T: .
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
The saying that history repeats
Itself has grown frayed around
the edges, but it retains its valid
ity. Perhaps this is so because
man is fallible and human nature
stubborn. But it is also true that
those who guide our national des
tiny stumble down the same stair
case because they fail to see the
parallels between the past and
the present.
In an interesting dissection of
the Kennedy Administration ("The
Fringe On Top," by M. Stanton
Evans. Allan Ryskind. and Wil
liam Schullz), the point is clearly
underlined. This paperback volume
has many pertinent and some
times frightening things to say,
but I was particularly struck by
a quotation from a speech deliv
ered by young Representative
John F. Kennedy in January, 1949.
Discussing Yalta and its tragic
altermath, Mr. Kennedy said:
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Speaking of those "nouns of
multitude," as I was not long ago.
I became a little caught up in the
subject especially alter one of
my colleagues remarked that I
had neglected that fine designa
tion: "a gaggle of geese."
I wonder if any other language
beside Knglish has so rich and
diverse a collection of words to
describe different kinds of groups.
Drawing as we do from Latin
and Greek. French and Anglo
Saxon, we seem to have an
enormous range of words about
assemblages of things and crea
tures. To the foreigner, as I suggested
in my previous piece, it must be
puzzling to be told that we have
an assembly of people, a batch
of bread, a bench of magistrates,
a hoard of directors, a brood of
chickens, a catch of fish taken in
nets, a clump of trees, a cluster
of grapes, a e:ew of sailors, a
company of soldiers, and a house
of senators.
And even English ears f.nd it
rattier quaint to hear about a fell
of hair, a muster of peacocks,
a pencil of rays, a skein of
ducks, a skulk of foxes, a rookery
of seals, and a mute of hounds.
As numerous as the nouns of
multitude seem to be. there is
evidence that Uie English lan
guage has lost many others over
Ihe centuries. Dame Juliana Bur
ners, in her "Book of St. Al
bans." published in 1486, remarks
that in designating companies we
must r.-y use tlie names of groups
promiscuously, and gives the lol
kiw ing examples ;
"We say a congregacyon of
people, a bisost of men. a fely
shyppynge of v,omen, and a bevy
of lady os, we must speak of a
herde of dere, swannyes. cranys
or wrenys; a sege of herons or
bytourys; a watch of nightmga'es.
a flyghte of doves, a elaterynge
of choughes. a pryde of lions, a
slew the ol beetes, a gagle of
geys. a sculle of frerys, a pnntih
eahtye of prestys. and a super
fhiyte of nonnes."
The author added primly that
a "strict regard" to these ver
.Sid
Learning From
"A sick Roosevelt, with the ad
vice of General Marshall and other
Chiefs of Staff, gave the control
of the Kurile Islands as well as
the control of various strategic
Chinese ports, such as Port Ar
thur and Daircn, to the Soviet
Union. . . .
"Our policy in China has reaped
the whirlwind. The continued in
sistence that aid would not be
forthcoming unless a coalition gov
ernment with the Communists was
formed, was a crippling blow to
the I Chiang Kai-shek) govern
ment. So concerned were our dip
lomats and their advisers, the Lat
timorcs and Fairbanks, with the
imperfections of the system in
China after 20 years of war, and
Ihe talcs of corruption in high
places, that they lost sight of our
tremendous stake in a non-Communist
China. . . .
"This is the tragic story of
China whose freedom we once
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
bal niceties moie clearly distin
guishes "gentylmcn from ungen
tylmen" than regard to the rules
of grammar, or even to the moral
law !
Some modern writers have tried
to add to our already vast stock
of these "nouns of multitude." but
their fancies have not yet caught
on. I believe it was playwright
Christopher Fry who wrote of "an
exaltation of larks." My favorite
though, came from a political re
porter writing a news article
about a smoke-filled committee
meeting in tlie City Council. He
said that a bill had been ap
proved by "a humidor of alder
men." POTOMAC
FEVER
The Mona Lisa arrived in the
United States. Her smile is no
longer a mystery. She's merely
gratelul to have been painted be
fore artists discovered tin cans,
Freud and spray gar.:.
1963 will be remembered as
the year t great selentitie ad
vance when they froze the
orange Juice right on the trees.
Kennedy was so good on h;s
chatty White House TV inter
Mew, the networks may tap him
as the tourist guide replacement
f"r Jacqueline. '
Treasury agents seize pinba',1
machines in a nationwide raid.
Pinballs have to pay a special
tax. We pinheads get by at the
regular rate.
Barry Goldwater say s he won t
run (or vice president. He doesn't
mind Rockefeller as the No. 1
Republican candidate but feare
he d never get equa' time to an-
Chief purpose of most organiza
tions is to service tlie committees
that were appointed to figure out
something for the organization to
do.
FLETCHER K.SEBEL
History?
fought lo preserve. What our
young men had saved, our diplo
mats and our President have frit
tered away."
So spoke Mr. Kennedy. Subse
quently, sentiments such as these
when uttered by conservatives
were assailed as "McCarthy
ism." Harvard professors like Ar
thur M. Schlesinger Jr. grew heav
ily indignant at this analysis of
what happened in the postwar
world and dismissed it as a "devil
theory of history."
But in the years thai followed,
the United States and its Presi
dents have continued lo reap the
same whirlwind, failing to learn
the lesson of China bluntly stated
by Mr. Kennedy. President Ei
senhower's State Department, for
example, was so "concerned" with
the "imperfections" of the Ba
tista government in Cuba that it
cut off all aid and gave Fidel
Cast o a green light. Recent Con
grpssHinai testimony shows con
clusively that at the time the de
partment's middle echelon was
opening the door to a Castro take
over, its files were crammed w ith
documents and Intelligence reports
proving (hat Fidel was a Com
munist and the 2rth of July Move
ment overwhelmingly infiltrated.
In tlie Chinese experience, the
fighting power of the Nationalist
forces was crippled by General
Marshall's refusal to ship arms
until Chiang Kai-shek submitted
lo a coalition with the Communists
and by the too little and t:K)
late of military ind economic aid.
The State Department's middle
echelon, however, continued lo
repeal history. The legitimate gov
ernment of Laos was given an ulti
matum to accept "neutralists"
and Communists in equal parts.
When it refused, all aid was
stopped. Finally a troika was ct
up to rule that strategically im
ixirtant kingdom with the truce
terms lieing flagrantly violated hy
the Reds who maintain strong
units of foreign troops in "their"
territory.
In West New Guinea, the U. S.
intervened in favor of the anti
Western and dictatorial Indone
sian regime The Dutch were
shunted out. c.uigh President Su
karno had not the slightest claim
to tlie country. That tlie native
Papuans preferred the Dutch and
feared the Indonesians hardly de
terred a State Department which
claimed lo believe that anything
short of capitulation to Sukarno
imperialism would lead to world
war.
An older Mr. Kennedy has for
gotten Ihe failure ol tlie United
Slates to follow through on the
liberation of Europe after World
War II. thereby helping to low
er the Iron Curtain. In Cuba, he
forgot his own lesson by accept
ing an inconclusive agreement
with Comrade Khrushchev which
Is rapidly turning into a scrap of
paper.
THEY
SAY...
In my judgment, the most im
portant unmet need in state gov
eminent across tlie land is a
proper apportionment of legisla
tive representation.
LeRor Co'llnj. former Florida
gov rrnor.
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEAI Nearly
100 of President Kennedy's legis
lative recommendations to the last
Congress were defeated outright
or allowed to die on the vine by
inaction or deferred action.
Just which of these proposals the
President will try to revive for
the new session convening Jan. 9
will be disclosed only when the
State of the Union, Budget - Eco
nomic and special messages are
delivered. If many of these pro
grams are abandoned, it will
mean that the character of the
whole New Frontier will be aban
doned for the last half of this
administration.
Final tabulations on the record
of the last Congress show that
of 183 separately identifiable, ma
jor presidential requests, 67 were
approved basically as submitted
and 19 more were approved with
considerable modification. The 97
recommendations not approved
give the President a 47 per cent
batting average for the session.
This is the breakdown:
National Security and Veterans
Affairs, approved 12, not ap
proved 2; International Affairs
and Finance, approved 10, n o t
approved 3: Commerce and Hous
1 ing, approved 17, not approved .
21; Agriculture, approved 8, not
approved 12; Natural Resources,
approved 5. not approved 20; La
bor and Welfare, approved 14.
not approved 16; General Govern
ment, approved 20, not approved
23; Totals, approved 80; not ap
proved 97.
The interest in this classification
now is not in the legislation
passed, but in the recommenda
tions which Congress did not ap
provethe New Frontier's unfin
ished big business.
In National Security Affairs, a
Defense Study Group appointed
by the President to review all
military pay and pensions did not
complete 'hi work. It will report
next year and the Congress will
act on it. The bomb shelter and
civil defense programs also will
be before Congress again, as will
the RS-70 authorized for $491
million by Congress but still un
der Air Force review.
Kennedy fared better with Con
gress on international affairs than
in any other field.
Remaining for action in 1963
is revision of the whole foreign
aid program, possible amendment
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Curious Recruit In
Black Muslim Group
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Fire - breathing Malcolm X,
white-hating No. 2 chief of the
Black Muslims, has found a curi
ous recruit.
He is Charles Preston Howard
Sr.. a newsman-attorney of New
York City. Howard serves as
special U.N. correspondent lor
"Muhammad Speaks." the racist
journal of the Black Muslim
movement.
He is also U.S. correspondent
for live Afro-American newspapers
published in Washington and
Baltimore. They are not con
nected with the Muslims, a na
tional group dedicated to black su
premacy and destruction of the
white race.
It is not the first extremist group
with which Howard has been con
nected. Files of government agen
cies disclose that Howard has a
record of pro-Communist activity
dating back for many years.
In connection with passport
matters in 1955, Howard admitted
that he had been a delegate to
the Civil Rights Congress in 1947.
had contributed money to the
Council on African Aflairs. and
had attended meetings of the
Midwest Committee for the Pro
lection of Foreign Born.
All three groups were cited hy
the then Atlorney General. Tom
Clark, as "Communist and sub
versive," During the 1949 Smith Act tri
al of 11 top Communists. Howard
showed up at Foley Square Court
house. New York, where he told a
Daily Worker reporter that "the
civil rights of Communists is the
first line in the defense of the lib
erties ol a democratic people."
One year later. Howard jour
neyed behind the Iron Curtain (or
a itiff ting of the Communist
dummaled World Peace Congress.
There he saluted a "magnificent
demonstration'' staged in behalf
of Communist North Korea, whose
soldiers wire then killing Amer
ican GIs.
Howard took to Warsaw greet
ings from 'that great world citi
zen. Paul Robeson, whom the
Slate Depar'ment has denied the
right to come here in person."
Howard blasted "the America
of :PU'sident Truman and '.State
Secretary' Acheson" and went on
to deiend the "inalienable right of
of the Battle Act controlling for
eign military aid, immigration
law amendments and a $2? mil
lion program for acquisition and
maintenance of U.S. buildings
overseas.
In the field of commerce and
housing, the principal carryover
is transportation legislation. It in
volved some 20 major programs
affecting all transport media.
Ihey must receive some atten
tion next year. Also not acted on
last session were presidential rec
ommendations for amendments on
Federal Reserve and Federal
Trade Commission laws and a
flood disaster study.
While Congress passed a so
called omnibus farm bill, there
was no action on many parts of
the Kennedy-Freeman program.
This makes it almost mandatory
on the next Congress to pass new
cdtton, dairy products and longer
range feed grain legislation.
The score of Presidential rec
ommendations on natural resource
legislation which Congress did not
act on last session includes cre
ation of a vast wilderness reserve
system, water resources planning
authorization for the states and
many facets of the administra
tion's broad program to estab
lish more rural and urban recre
ation areas, including seven spe
cific national parks.
The labor and welfare programs
which Congress did not act on
last session include strengthening
of the unemployment insurance
system, migratory labor legisla
tion, eoual pay for women, ex
panded youth employment oppor
tunity. But the two biggest pro
grams are medical care for the
aged and aid to education at all
levels. These are two goals New
Frontiersmen can't give up.
In the field of general govern
ment there are a lot of leftovers
on the back of the legislative
stove which the administration
probably will ask Congress to
warm up next year: establishment
of a Department of Urban Af
fairs and Housing, federal elec
tion taw reform, further anti
trim legislation, including a
wiretapping authorization which
has little chance.
The biggest bit of unfinished
business of them all, however, is
tax revision. There isn't a chance
that Congress can avoid doing
something about that next year,
though it may not become fully
operative until 1964
all people lo alter their condi
tions of life by whatever means
they find open to them."
After winning election to tlie
Presidium of the World Peace
Council, Howard departed f o r
Russia as guest of the All Union
Peace Committee of the Soviet
Union.
Upon his return, the New York
Review, a cited Communist pub
lication, put out a booklet entitled
"We Saw for Ourselves," WTitten
by 19 Americans who visiled the
Soviet Union after the World
Peace Council.
Among the writers was Charles
P. Howard Sr., described as "an
Initiator of the American Peace
Crusade." a group cited as Com
munist by the Subversive Activi
ties Control Board.
On Nov. 18. 1959. Howard was
one of the guest speakers at the
anniversary dinner of the Nation
al Guardian, a New York publi
cation termed by the House Un
American Activities Committee
"a virtual official propaganda
arm of Soviet Russia."
Only this spring. Howard wrote
an article on Katanga for "Frcc
domways," a quarterly concerned
with the "Negro Freedom Move
ment." That publication has been
labeled as Communist by FBI
chief J. Edgar Hoover. Its edi
torial board is heavily staffed
with Communists and Party-liners.
A government security agency
sums up Howard's reporting for
the Atro-American newspapers:
"Howard appears to be hostile to
the official United States posi
tion in the U.N. in connection with
African affairs."
It should raise no eyebrows,
therefore, when Charles Preston
Howard Sr. is lusted as special
correspondent for the Black Mus
lims' official publication.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
9 What organization erected
the Madonna of the Trail monu
ments? A-The Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution.
(J How long Is a lurar year?
A Twelve lu.iar civil months, or
354 davs.