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PAGE-4 HERALD AND NEWS. Klamtth Fall, Oregon Monday, December 21, 1961 STRICTLY PERSONAL LAST BLAST Unemployment Is A Challenge According to Secretary of Labor W. Wil lard Wirtz, more productive man-hours were lost in the first 11 months of 1962 through un employment than in all the strikes of the past 35 years. The secretary does not discount the se riousness of strikes nor the need to settle them as quickly as possible. Like his predeces sor, Arthur Goldberg, he has personally inter vened in labor disputes. Yet Wirtz believes that the question of unemployment is a fundamentally more im portant matter than strikes, spectacular as some of them may be. A sluggish economy and the growing use of automation have kept unemployment hov ering around 5.5 per cent of the total work force for several years. The November figure was unexpectedly swollen by 150,000 teen agers looking for jobs. Some of this persistent unemployment is "hard core," made up of workers who are not so much unemployed as unemployable. They would be out of work no matter what the state of the economy was. The balance includes, among others, peo ple whose jobs have disappeared from under them, whether because of recession or be cause of technological change. It is these the nation cannot afford to let become unem ployable. For their part, some labor leaders have come up with nothing better than urging a 35-liour work week. While this may be a stop gap measure during a recession, it would, in (The New York Times) At the Paris NATO meeting, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara again pre sented to our allies the American objectives: A' larger number of divisions between the Alps and the Baltic, and a closely integrated nuclear deterrent. These objectives are sound, but the Kennedy administration's achieving them leaves almost as much to be desired as did the methods of its predecessors. The NATO meeting was preceded by an abrupt notification to Britain our most im portant ally that Washington was seriously considering the cancellation of the Skybolt, the air-launched ballistic missile on which the Conservative Government had built most of its military policy and much of its political, fortune. The meeting itself, therefore, was overshadowed by this development, a devel opment that could influence the future his tory of NATO, and particularly the Anglo American and Anglo-French relationships. Moreover, Washington's continued insis tence that Europe is not doing enough in or ganizing, training and equipping conventional forces fell on rather deaf ears, since the basic case for 30 divisions as "adequate," as com EDSON New By PETER EPSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper EnVrpiUe Attn. WASHINGTON I MCA I There will b a siecial session o( the United Nations General Assem bly next spring to consider new ways to finance the world organ ization's peacekeeping operations. This has been one o the ma jor objectives o( American Inr eign policy at the D.N. It has been one o the most troublesome Issues (or the U.S. at the U.N.. particularly as it relates to financ ing peace-keeping in the Congo and the Near East. A 21-natinn committee will try to work mil new formulas Inr financing such operation in ad vance o' the special assembly. This will be in compliance with resolution adopted by a "S to 17 vote, with 10 ahstotHions, at the close of the 12 session. It endorsed the World Court opinion that all UN. memleri must pay their assessments lor peacekeeping operolions. This is the key not only to preventing UN, bankruptcy but also to mak ing the world organization an ef . (eclive peace enforcement agency. The nations which did not vote for Die General Assembly resolu tion on financing were in Com munist countries and Cuba. France, .loidan, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Syria and South Africa. As of Jan. 1. Ia, 10 countries will he in arrears on their pay ment for l!it and 1M2. This could cause them to lose their voles In the coming secial ses sion of the General Assembly, If they do not pay mmething on account before it convenes. Seven are Latin-American coun the long run, spur the pace of automation all the more. Manufacturers would naturally seek ways to overcome the loss of productivity which would result from having more men do less work. If they did not, they would have to raise prices. Prosperity cannot be built with a plan that would only spread around available work; it is achieved by increasing the amount of work to be done by opening up new indus tries and new areas of employment. This is what has happened since the in dustrial revolution began in America. It is 'happening now. Millions of people are em ployed making products or performing serv ices that were unknown 20 years ago. For many older, workers displaced by machines or stranded with skills no longer needed, the government's retraining and re location programs around the country are helping make their period of unemployment one of preparation, not desperation. Industries and unions also conduct similar retraining schools. For teen-agers who find a blank wall fac ing them after 'they leave school, the need is not for retraining but for the right training in the first place. Knowledge and skills, not muscles and availability, are the basic re quirements for fruitful employment today. Unemployment is a challenge to every one, from grade school teachers to senior senators. The challenge is being met. The question is whether it is being met fast enough. NATO Turning Point pared to the present 25, is still not clear to many Europeans. The willingness of the United States to "aid" though how much was never specified the development of a European nuclear deterrent represented some advance over the more or less stand-pat nega tivism of the past. But NATO noted that Mr. McNamara still in disagreement with the highly respected Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, General Lauris Norstad, who is soon to retire stressed the importance of a sea borne rather than a Jond-basr-d nuclear de terrent. The Paris meeting, therefore, really posed more problems than it solved. NATO members collectively and individually must now face realistically in private discussions what is clearly a turning point in the history of NATO. A rcstudy of present objectives, a determination of new ones, and above all a codification satisfactory to all NATO's 15 members of the basic strategic concept of the Alliance is essential. Such a study requires time and contemplation; Washington's past tactics of polite coercion, illustrated by the Skybolt episode, will win no friends and in fluence no people. IN WASHINGTON UN Finance tries Argentina. Bolivia. Cuba. Guatemala, Haiti. Honduras and Paraguay. The others are Hun gary, United Arab Republic and Nationalist China. U.N. accounting is so complicat ed that the tmsition of Russia is unclear. The Soviet has re lused to pay assessments for the Congo, Near East and other spe cial funds. Russia was $.12 million in ar rears for l'.niO and 11. Its as sessments for 1W2 an about U per cent of the total U N. budget. They include, in round numbers, a regular assessment of $11 mil lion, a Congo assessment of $l million and an emergency fund assessment of $3 million on a full year basis. The total is around $tn million, but the record ol payments or Is not jet complete. The Russians would have to be come more than fun million in ar rears for Mil and 1W3 to lose heir vote in I'M. It is not con sidered likely they will allow this to happen. They are expected to pay up enough to prevent being counted out, even though they do not cooperate on U N. peace keep uig operations. There has boon an increase of such operations in the past year. Nrw U.N. "presences" were es tablished in Western New Guin ea. Oman. Yemen and on t h e Thai Cambodian border. The Pal estine refugee relief opor.itiM, which was to have ended in l"-3. was extended tor two more years with better Arablsraeli cooper. Uon. The American idea lor sending one-man observation missions to Formula report on conditions in Portuguese Angola anil Mozambique was op posed by both Portugal and the Afro-Asians. But at the General Assembly session just ended, the U S delegation was able to walk a diplomatic lightwire without an gering1 either side or falling into cither camp. The American delegation's rec ord on colonialism still one of the most controversial Issues be lore the U N was mixed. Many of the Atro-Asi.'in nations went along with the U.S. proposal to get target dates out of a general resolution supporting freedom and independence tor all former colonies. The assembly acted re sponsibly on Southwest Africa, not so well on Rhodesia On an assembly resolution sup porting the right of any country to nationalize foreign-owned prop ernes in its territory, the Ameri can proposal that there must be just and prompt compensation was sotlencd to a provision that the seizure must he In accord with international law, Bui it Is the Congo situation nd the financing of the U N. peace keeping operation that presents the biggest cloud on the U V horizon. If the U N. pl.in for uni fication of the Congo succeeds, it will lie offered as evidence th.u no single nation and no other irganization could hae brought it off. If th U.S. plan (ails, one al ternate is that the United Stairs will have to throw its resources into the Congo on a preventive basis to prevent the Russians dom trying to take it oer as Uiey did in 10. uiv4 Hit -kJc- k&m- . ' 1 3i 0 L :T , x-v ffk U C K - ( Yt : Letters To The Too Lote? For the past several weeks I have watched with mounting amazement the furor over the question of "to zone or not to zone." That there should be a controversy only indicates a lamentable lack of knowledge on the part of the dissenters, aug mented by their insistent refusal to concede that one iota of good ever can come from the com bined efforts of a great many, dedicated and fairly intelligent people. They also are residents of this same suburban area and have given unselfishly of their time without one cent of pay over the past Uiree years to see if something can't be done to im prove the living conditions in our Miburbs. Here perhaps is the very basic root of our troubles; that the opposition has so very little con ception of what a beautiful sub urban area we eould have had by now had we only started our planning and had the proier zon ing forty, or even fifty, years ago. II is particularly lamentable that the opposition's chief objec tion seems to be to Uie fact that the members of the Planning Com mission have had the foresight to ask help from other communi ties who have met and solved Uns problem. And that they have asked that a paltry few of our own tax dollars be returned to us by the federal government to enable them to hire an all too slender staff of trained help to assist in digesting the mountain of data that has been gathered in order that we may apply it to, our own needs. And. in addition, they object to the fact Uiat it is proposed that we outlaw our slip shod methods ol the past which they so fondly call "private plan ning," and replace it with a care fully worked not plan for the fu lurc, for a controlled growth for our city of tomorrow. Even as 1 write these words 1 can hear this vocal minority .indignantly shouting. "What's the matter with our .suburbs? They are just fine the way they are! We don't want them changed!" Which, of course, is all right lor this small minority. Rut I doubt if most people who live in the suburbs are too happy with the wav things are. Take, lor inslance, Shasta Way, a thoroughfare to one of our fa-lest growing heller suburban Almanac By I nilrd Press International Todav is Monday. Pec. 31, the last day of 12. This is Ne Year's Ee The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Mars The eening stars are Jupiter and Saturn Thoe horn on this dsy include French painter llenty' Mattise, in 1SW. On this day in history In 1870. a crowd gathered at Men'o Park. N .1 . to watch Thorn as Edison s first public demon stration of his electric incandes cent lamp. In liwi. EIl.s Island in V-v York Harbor became the receiv ing station for all immigrants to the United States entering en the Atlantic Coast. A thought lor the d.t Char Lamb wrote: "Of all sound of all bells . .most solemn and touch. rg is tin peal which mis out the old car," areas, where some of the most vocal of ihe opposition now live. "What's wrong with it?" they ak. Plenty. The first full mile of Shasta Way after crossing the canal is one long built-in traflic hazard. It is too narrow to carry half its present traffic, let alone the increasing load in years to come. It is lined with deep ditch es; pedestrians have to walk in the street; it is bordered by al ternate good homes, shacks, bar ber shops, country grocery stores, more homes, service stations, weed covered lots, trailer houses, good home and more shacks. Had there been proper planning forty years ago Shasta Way to day could be a thing of pride and joy to both the city and the people who live there. It would be at least 100 feet wide with provisions for four lanes of traf fic, sidewalks, side access streets for Uie better shops and Mores that would be glad to be there in socially zoned areas, and far better homes in each of the separate zones which would have been set aside for the low, me dium and high cost areas. And when various pieces of property on the street came up for sale, as all property does sooner or later. Uie owners would be safe in the knowledge that they would get one hundred cents on the dollar of fair market value instead of the haggled prices which now so manv of them have to settle for. And if these lovers of "private planning" care to see another choice example of what lack of controlled growth can blossom into, I suggest Uiey take a leisure ly drive out Altamont Drive. Here's one of Uie more choice ex amples of Private Planning in these United States, an area where the owners of Uie tew remaining pood medium priced houses are lortunato if tlicy get seventy-live cents on the dollar for what the same house would get them in most other places. The rest are lucky if they get half that. Note particularly any one of Uie several auto wrecking yards and junk sluips which have been started up in some vacant lot, in the midst of what once' were some very de sirable homes. Then see how as the years sped on and these blights continued to spread Uieir cancerous growth until the whole neighborhood became, to put it politely, "eligible for clearance and suburban renewal." Tins, an area which I recall, not so many years ago, as being bright, neat, clean and attractive, one which we were proud to show visitors from out of town And as you drie on around, swing down Summers 1-ine and see Ihe blight which already has started to creep in there under Ihe banner of Private Planning Take a good look. too. at the area in the icinity ot the rinve-in theaUe. These people had every right in the world to build their theatre Uiere when they did. Rut now Hut the town has grown out around them the theatre with its noise, traffic and contusion has become a source of continual n ulalion to everyone who lives within sight of it and an admit ted nuisance to anvone who owns a home on any of the access roads leading into it And even the the atre people, now. are at a dis advantage. Had there been zon ing and an area set aside lor de velopments of that kind they still would have room to expand today, to add the additional recreational facilities such as bowling alleys, amusement devices and Uie family recreational areas which are prov ing so prolitahle sideline for drive-in theatre in cities where this need tor f iture expansion Editor had been seen and provided for. Then, go a little further out Summers Lane and turn down towards Peterson School. You w ill find that you have driven past hundreds of fine new homes, with more new homes still building. But stop just short of the new 'Catholic church and take a look to the south. There, only a couple of hundred yards off this rapidly growing street, is a large collec tion of old weather-beaten pens and buildings. That, my friends, is a slaughterhouse. Fortunately, for the owners of these new homes it has been out of operation these last couple or three years. But only recently it was advertised for sale on bids by the bankruptcy referee. And unless Ihe zoning or dinance goes into effect before someone buys it and starts oper ation, there is not a thing in God's green world to keep it from operating forevermore. with its fragrant odor of manure spread ing throughout the neighborhood, and the peace and quiet being disrupted by the noise and con fusion of stock Uucks and freight trucks coming and going, and the cries of cattle and pigs being brought in for slaughter, filling the neighborhood with their pleas ant sounds once more. Then swing on around and come back down Homedale. This is another very fine residential neighborhood. Except, that is. for one of the largest logging equip ment repair yards in the state be ing nestled right in amongst a group of $20,000 and $30,000 homes. Fortunately, the present owner has done everything he can to keep it as neat as possible. But. let's face it: it's still a major repair yard w ith all the noise and confusion and unsightlines that must be a part of even the best run yards. And wnat happens next if the present owner should sell out to someone who doesn't care? And most repair yard owners don't. I wonder if the most militant of the objectors to the proposed new zoning knows that within the last month a local entrepreneur has made inquires into the pos sibility of buying a 20 acre tract of land only a very short dis lance from her own very f i n'e home up in the vicinity of Moyina Heights? For what purpose? The operation of a public trap shoot, a very fine example of free think ing private planning at its best. It is a good site, well laid out for the purpose. And the stray buckshot wouid not quite reach the cows ami chickens and sheep POTOMAC FEVER Tokyo chokes on smog for a week. In Japan, they call Uie stuff Los Angeles incense. Defense Bos McNamara sends military inspectors to the Congo. Oh well, they gotta go sonicwheie and he couldn't gel them into Cuba. Real reason next year's federal budset will jump several billions: JFK figures that when the direct phone line to Ihe Kremlin is in stalled, ol' buddy Khrushchev will start reversing th charics. Economy deal: One mother sa J she has to pay the kids to be good, but their father is good for nothing JFK has but two choices in 14. He can either run on his record s'r Vaughn Meader's. FLETCHER KNEBEL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Not long ago. I look out nine 7-year-old boys for a birthday parly given by my son. All the boys behaved well but the din of their voices was deafening. Why do young children, on Ihe whole, talk so loudly, and seem incapable of communicating be low the level of a shout? Part of il, of course, is due to the exu berance of youth, the superflu ous energy that must be d i s charged in physical motions and exercise of the vocal cards. But there is another, and per haps larger, part. Young children are not used to being listened 1,0 hy adults. They have to repeat and repeat, until finally they adopt the habit of shouting to be heard at all. Few adults really "listen" to what a child is try ing to. say. I came home from work Uie oth er day, tired and a little cross, 'and my boy accosted me enthu siastically with a report of some chemical experiment he had been making. I nodded absent-mindedly as he told me about the chemi cals he had used, and the results he had achieved. But I wasn't really listening until he repeated it the third time, in shout-language. Then 1 told him not to be so' loud. Very little children, of 2 or 3. are just learning to communicate. Their words are garbled and im precisebut Uiey know what they mean. If adults make little ef fort to understand this embryonic language, then the children sense a kind of "psychic deafness" in us and-raise their voices to com pensate. We can see this mechanism working more clearly when we are addressing a foreigner in our language. If he doesn't grasp what we are saying, we speak more loudly as if the physical volume alone will get the message through. Most of us address for eigners as if they were deaf and dumb, as if sheer force of tone will pierce their minds. To children, all adults are for eigners of a sort, in Uiat we do not readily grasp what they are which she keeps in her back yard, bul the shoot would be within the easy earshot of not only her place, but of all the many other $20,000 to $50,000 homes which rapidly are covering that particu lar section of foothills. And if anyone thinks this is a trivial or laughing matter, please drive out to Wocus on any sunny Sunday afternoon for morning or evening, tool when they are hold ing a shoot out Uiere and listen to the racket. Or even on days that are not so sunny. They were at it again last -weekend, as they are almost every week of the year which thdy have a perfect right to do. as there was no zoning when they first built there either. But the inevitable tragic result has been Uiat what otherwise well could have developed into one ot the nicest medium priced residen tial areas around Klamath Falls has been condemned forevermore to a third rate existence where it is difficult even to give a house away, much less sell it for a de cent cash price. Just one more ex ample of "private planning." which is actually another name for "get in there and do whatever you want first; to hell with the other people." I could cite still more examples, until Uie newspaper ran out of space, but these few should be enough to bring people's attention back to the fact that this matter of zoning is not a fight against some "foreign ideology" to pro tect our "constitutional rights." It is an attempt of private citi zens to band together and stop the more reckless of our neigh bors from doing unnecessary and harmful things which tear down our neighborhood, destroy our property rights and our rights as citizens to live peacefully in our own community. And last, but not least, if the oppuiicr,, chief battle - cry is that wc must crusade jgainsl zon ing because it is a foreign ideol ogy. I wonder if they hae ccr stopped to think that George Wash ington 'or was it Thom.is Jot fcrson' sent to Paris (or a French man. LEnlant, In lay out Wash ington, DC, with the result that it is the most beautiful capi to city m the world today, spoiled only by the tlwusands of acres of slums on the outskirts where Pri 'vate Planning took over And if it is foreign ideologies they are against w hy don t tney take up a crusade against those several and very basic fundamentals in our constitution that were borrowed directly from that English docu ment known as the Magna Char la? And why don't 'hey campamn against the Ten Commandments that were handed down to us by a tribe of wandering Jews1 And somehow, too. 1 seem to le under the impression that Christmas, and even Christianity itself, came to us from some small country over on the eastern end of the Mediterranean Which easily qual ities it for the distinction of being a foreign ideology I wonder. Are they a -a in-; that, tea? Don Sloan trying to say, because we are tired or inattentive or worried or preoccupied with our own problems. And since they cannot speak our "language," they quick ly learn to raise their voices to command attention, to repeat, and sometimes to whine. Of the four essential human arts reading, writing, speaking and listening the art of listening is surely the most rare and diffi cult. Even in business and the professions, 'the great majority oi executives and doctors and law yers do not know how to listen i with the "third car" I to their employes and patients and clients. Shouting is the way in which chil dren criticize their parents for lazy listening. LETTERS TO THE . EDITOR Temperance All of us in Klamath County should be grateful that people are showing an interest in public affairs such as zoning, the dis trict attorney, deerslaying and the schools. Many have been apathetic too long about these and many more important com munity affairs. Controversy is good for a community. No prog ress is ever made without dis agreement. Democracy is built upon differences of opinion. There are three attitudes, how ever, that can destroy the bene fits of controversy. The first is cowardice, the unwillingness to stand up and be counted. Our na tion contains such a variety of people, that we tend to avoid arguments at all costs. When we do so. the costs are too great because we lose our freedom by knuckling under to an organized minority or to the loudest vocal chords. Silence can be yellow, not golden. The second destructive attitude is to seek, consciously or uncon sciously, for private advantage or privilege against the common good. The third is. Uiat when we dis agree we become hostile toward the person with whom we dis agree, and attempt to knock down his argument by attacks on his integrity, his person, or his motives. Could we dare to hope that aroused citizens could learn to respect each other's intentions and motives even when disagree ing thoroughly with ideas? Just for the record. I am strongly in favor of the zoning principle, even though as a home owner I personally could stand to lose property value from zoning. There is nothing unconstitutional or un-American about govern mental control to preserve my neighbors' freedom. The Ameri can way says that my freedom ends where my neighbor's free dom (and his noseli begins. Our argument really should be with specific features of the zoning or dinance, not with whether or not to have zoning. I am in favor of the present district attorney. Having worked closely with him, I have personal knowledge of his integrity and his intelligence and his concern for improved law enforcement. He cannot be bought. What more do we want? Experience? We don't pay enough for that. Experience comes with years. Most D.A.s be gin with no experience. The Oregon Game Commission is human. It makes mistakes in judgment. So do hunters. Biologi cal control is a highly specialized science, developed by men all over the United States who have had years of interest and experi ence in forest and lield. Natural control disease and predators lokes does and bucks equally. Why go against nature and take only bucks? Our school problems will be solved more easily when all of us quit thinking about how much this is going to cost us personally and begin to think about what is the best education for our chil dren. A reorganization for a county-wide school district, grades 1-12, is certainly a step in the right direction, and I believe that he 6-3-3 system has proved it self nation-wide a valuable. Let's keep on disagreeing, but let's also get more facts and less emotion. Above all, let s begin to trust each other as normal, hard working, thoughtful fellow citi zens, each atic-mp'.ing to develop the best future possibilities of Klarrith County. Lamg W. Sibbet. Oligarchy? I have been reading all the let ters you have printed regarding zoning with amusement. Both p;o and con opinions seem quite prejudiced, and my personal ob servation is: zoning dors not seem to be the issue. 1 have concluded that Uie basic question appears to be Are the majority going to elect' to have zoning, or are we becoming an o'.;garchic s'ale and county'' Herbert Hanelme ?HT Lcshore Drive! 9
