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HLKALD AND NfcttS, Klamath t ails, Ure.
iuurniay, January lit, life!
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SPECIAL
Dear Dad:
IW. B. S.I
x-Zoning Hassle Needs Clarification!
' More than a little attention has been giv
. en to the principle of invasion of property and
individual rights in the controversy centering
aroumt the proposed Klamath County Zoning
, Ordinance.
It would be a little ridiculous to attempt
to argue that laws or regulations do not re-
strict or limit. These limitations apply to us
as individuals and as segments of society.
These restrictions are accepted by law
abiding citizens who have the health, safety
and weL'aie of their human counterparts up
pGrmost in their minds. There are many and
varied Instances that could be pointed to in
i establishing this historic principle. Insofar as
it applies to zoning, one might use as an in
T stance a situation where a property owner
X chooses to burn down or otherwise destroy
holdings on his property. Assuming that he
has the right to do so, it is obvious that such
. an action, in an uncontrolled atmosphere,
Xi would pose a threat to adjacent property own-
crs.
We can cite many instances where our
J-Treedom of action in traffic situations is con
trolled and restricted by regulations that seek
slo promote fhe safety and welfare of our
. neighbors and others who use the highways
and streets. While admittedly not directly ap
plicable to the topic of discussion, the sit
ualions are somewhat analagous.
'X While we're touching on this aspect of
J; personal responsibilities and liberties, it might
" be well to offer some comment regarding the
method in which zoning might be effected in
our situation. There are several ways. How
ever, it has repeatedly been emphasized by
'"both the Planning Commission and the County
Pourt that an election will be held to resolve
(Eugan. Regiitar Guard)
The Parkinsonian system of philosophy is
- widely known and widely quoted. The system
- started with the first enunciation of Parkin
son's basic law, that work accommodates itself
lo the amount of time and the number of
jioople available. Less well known is the Gum
.."personian system. But it should be bettor un
derstood, for it reveals much of the splendid
jnystery of the universe.
The Gumpersonians nolo, for example,
;;that you can throw a cigarette out a car win
;.dow and set the whole woods afire. But the
;" Sunday paper, an armload of kindling and a
box of matches won't get a fire going in the
fireplace. Similarly, grass grows with enthus
iasm in the cracks of your sidewalk, but it
-'refuses to grow In your lawn.
As explained in Changing Times, the
law holds that the contradictory of a welcome
- -probability will assert itself whenever such an
::JHESE DAYS
Best Kind
;.; By john chamberlain
- It is otten said of conservatives
that they are mean, curmudgeon-
ly fellows who like to doe babies
starve to death. And hen a
'.. conservative ir an old-fashioned
liberal like myself opposes an
extension of foreign aid, the com
tnon retort Is that men on the
,j Right Wing of contemporary poli--Jics
have no feeling for the needs
jil less fortunate countries.
'. In the arguments, pro and con,
Jiver foreign aid, the fact that It
is generally unsuccessful when it
. passes through the hands of gov
".ornmcnts is pretty much over.
..looked. Vet even liberals such as
..I. Kenneth Galbraith, our Ambas
sador to India, are coming to sea
that intergovernmental grants and
- loans tend to gel hnrt-circuilcd.
Thry are wasted, so to speak.
, on Cadillacs for potentates, and
the common people, far from ben--.ptiiing
from the money, cower
;1n the a Hoy way a, and pray that
Uieir children won't be run over
J,1i the streets.
-. W hen foreign aid follows volun
"fiiry patterns, however. It is sel--dom
wasted. And the fact Is that
"jtome of our most effective foreign
aid comes a.s a reflex of pro.
' grams developed hy far-sighted
-business men.
There is Mr. J. Paul Austin,
- the new president of the Coca
I. Cola Co . for eiample. With I
long background of experience in
i'.Afrira and Europe. Mr. Austin
Is i mine of Information about
'.Ihe unintended local benefits of
- American business activity in for-
Cicn parts. Cora Cola went Into
v foreign countries for 1 reason
'jhat was eminently acceptable to
': stockholders: it was looking In
vmJu mora money. Cut Uul, as
Gumperson s Law
Of Foreign
Mr. Austin points out, proved to
be only half of the laic.
In the Middle East, even' as
late as the ln.MK, thirsty people
drank gcrm-inlcstcd water out o(
community tin cups that were
dipped, unwashed, into malodor
ous goatskins. For a short period
the appearance of Coca Cola In
the Middle Easl seemed to be
helping only that segment of Ihe
population that could alford the
local equivalent of a nickel for a
drink. Bui soon a number of sec
ondaryand unintended elfecls
became apparent.
It so hapjions that Coca Cola
depends on an absolutely pure
water supply. To provide enough
water to mix with concentrate, lo
cal bottlers had to Import the
latest and mosl efficient meth
ods of water purification. Local
politicos, watching sewerage wa
ter being transformed by running
it through modern filters, suddenly
saw a bright light. The example
spread to Southeastern Asia. Sin
gapore, for instance, gave ilsell
a modern water svstrm afler
looking at a Coke bottling plant.
And in distant San Salvador in
Centia! America, where Coca Cola
had an early program, the gov.
eminent used Ihe local Coke bot
tling woiks to su ply watrr for
the town when an earthquake dis
rupted the munirpa! mains
In its dealings with foreign
countries, Coca Cola is carelul
to avoid the taunts ot "coca col
onlration" by letting local entro
preneurs build and own the hot
tling plants, the glass works. Ihe
nielal working establishments,
and the lithographic mdusti ics.
Uiat are needed to bring the prod
uct to tin ctutomtr. Cut the
the issue, if that is the will of the people in
volved. It is obvious that an election is de
sired. To us, it is a foregone conclusion that
an election will be held. Under the circum
stances, we would be among those who would
insist that the issue go to a vote before the
zoning ordinance is implemented.
It has hpen stated at one or more meet
ings that the zoning ordinance could be placed
in effect by the County Court, and there is no
question but what it could be. However, to
bring about this situation, the County Court
is required to have 100 per cent endorse
ment by the property owners of any area af
fected in a zoning plan. Under the circum
stances, it is doubtful that any member of the
County Court would attempt application of
this portion of the law to the proposed ordi
nance. Another area of misunderstanding comes
in the allegation that the zoning study is
completed. We have stated in other editorials
that the study is not completed, and that is a
fact. Under Oregon law the zoning study can
not be completed until the public hearings
have been held.
We are not going to impugn the motives
of those who oppose the principle of zoning.
We would only ask that they examine care
fully the allegations and principles they sup
port. Certainly there can be wide disagree
ment on elements of the proposed ordinance.
(We will continue to use the word "proposed"
until the ordinance has, in fact, been imple
mented). Those persons engaged in door-to-door
activities should make certain of the
correctness of the information and material
they transmit.
eventuality is likely to be most frustrating.
Or, put another way, the outcome of a given
desired probability will be inverse to the de
gree of desirability.
This explains why children, after a hard
day of play, have more energy than they had
in the morning. It accounts for the fact that
the available parking places are always on the
other side of the street, and that the dishwash
er breaks down on the evening you are hav
ing a dozen in to dinner.
Gumperson himself is somewhat lost in
history, although it is said that he worked
for the armed forces during the war. It was
he who saw to it that recruits who had spe
cial knowledge of one subject were put to
work doing something else. His untimely
doalh was caused one night when, walking on
the left side of the street as a good pedestrian
should, he was struck down by a British car
driven by a fellow from London on the wrong
side of the street.
Aid
benefits deriving from the dif
fusion of ownership among the
local imputations were not limit
ed to indigenous capitalists. A
metal working industry, formed
to produce bottle caps, soon
branched out in many countries
to provide other Ivpes of metal
products. Class works created to
make soft drink containers found
themselves taking orders for med
icine bottles, I-ocal truck serv
ices, using Coca Cola mainte
nance manuals were quickly
plunged into a general garage
business, with the result that the
lilctime of a truck, in Ihe Mulille
Easl or Africa has been extended
to live years instead ot the tra
ditional one. As fiir the lilhog
raphy needed to make Coca Cola
jHistcrs, it created modern print
ing businesses in a number of
countries.
To its establishments in Atlan
ta, Ga . and elsewhere in Ihe
t inted Stales and Canada. Coca
Cola brings hundreds of young na
tive foreign executives every year
on its own version of the Ful
bright scholarships. Turhaned In
dians mingle with Chinese fiom
Malay a and Latins from South
America as they go about the
United Mates (or three-month cap
sule ionises in modern manage
ment techniques. And Uie hun
dreds wIhi go hack to Africa and
Asia cany advanced manage
ment know-how wit.i them lo in
doctrinate thousands of their coun
trymen who never leave home.
Thus the benefits from a vol
untary foreign aid program air
spread like seeds fiom a bin sl
ing milkweed pod It heals anv
thing that Washington has been
able lo dicam up.
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IN WASHINGTON
UN's
By RALPH de TQLEDANO
The military assault on Katan
ga, as immoral and lawless as the
Soviet rape of Hungary, will live
to plague the United Nations and
the United States. For this cold
blooded and aggressive act has
changed the nature of the U.N.
and established a dangerous prec
edent. It is now established United Na
tions policy that it can intervene
in the internal affairs of mem
ber states. That President Kenne.
dy has supported this interven
tion with the power and the guns
of the United Stales is a sorry
commentary on the decline of
American principles.
To make matters worse, the
justification for what amounts to
raw U.N. imperialism is as cyni
cal as anything I have ever
By HYDNKY .1. nARUIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
The next time, before you blame
your child for "not listening to
reason," take a look around the
world and count too number of
adults who habitually listen to
reason.
Speaking (if that uncommon
trait, might we not define an
'unreasonable" husband as one
who wants his wile lo look
lovely without taking the time
that loveliness requires?
A venal police force is a great
er threat to liberty in a society
than a ne-t of sulvcisivcs; sub
versives can to dealt with hy
the law. but who is to deal with
the law?
The line between discretion and
cowardice is exceedingly fine,
and man's worst sin Is the nega
tive one of tailing to speak up
tor justice when it cries out for
suport. Nothing we do is half
as had ns what we do not do.
Best and tersest explanation
for the steady output of creative
pioductions w;is given hv Aucr
bach. when he wrote. "The little
dissatisfaction which every ai!i-t
feels at the completion of a woik
forms the germ of a new work."
The cultural snobs who sneer
at Ihe masses for being "vtc
1 limlfil hv hail llnllvnnnd
lilnis are themselves vliiimlird
more often than Ihey know hy
bad foreign (dins whose mis
erable lark of technique mas
querades as ''realism."
Hostesses who bung sti aligns
together at a patty by saving
brightly. "I'm sure you t.vo will
1 1 nd a lot in common." have al
ready put a damper on the rela
tionship: lor nothing makes us
more ill at ease than the feeling
that some otner person has a huh
anticipation el niceiing us
What voting people tail to ie.il
i;e is that candor without kind
ness invariably defcts itself, tor
no one will t.ikc to lie.rt anv
malue: "lolling the truth" with
ill will is on!)' telling pail of the
MDAour
'
Lawless Precedent
heard. The United Nations went
into Ihe Congo presumably to act
as a buffer between the corrupt
and shaky Congolese government
and a prosperous Katanga which
insisted on its independence. The
U.N. command, however, imme
diately sided with the Congolese
and demanded forcible unifica
Uon. The reason advanced was that
without Katangan revenues, the
central government would go
bankrupt. This ignored the fact
that the Congo is rich in natural
resources, that its economic trou
bles stem from semi-anarchy and
Uie inability of Premier Adoula
lo govern. By merging the Congo
and Katanga, the U.N. will be
left with a totally disorganized
and pauperized area which it will
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
truth, and most ineffectively.
To marry without physical
attraction is a crime against
the body; to marry for physical
attraction alone Is a crime
against the spirit; and both
rrlme i eventually exact a
heavy punishment, of different
sorts.
Those who proless to despise
pleasure often do so because they
obtain more pleasure Irom despis
ing Uian Uiey would from enjoy
ing. An ideal parent is one who
knows when the child wants to he
forced to do something against
his will.
POTOMAC
FEVER
IFK'a messages lo Congress
are awaited. Odds are running
in to 1 that as for the State of
the I nion, he won't nominate
Mississippi.
There's some talk of giving
the discarded Skvhnll missile In
the Supreme Court. There are
still some prayers around that
haven't been shot down.
A $14 billion pay raise (or Ihe
armed forces is in tlie works.
Other medals ami decorations are
all right, hut they can't touch thai
old distinguished buying cross.
Bepubliians are willing to try
nnvihmg (or 'M They're even
talking about giving away Green
Nnmps with Ihe candidate.
One school has a popular
new- electronic teaching device.
II doesn't eliminate teachers,
but It does do away with the
11 A
The mystery of the sioik mar
ket surge is cleared up. It's ru
mored Wall Street got one of
tho.e secret phone calls (rom
;,Miv saving his brother thought
it w. about time to move ahead
r LLiniF.it k.tiLL
be necessary lo support or lo sur
render to the Communists.
IVhy then Ihe eagerness of
Secretary-General U Thant to
crush Katanga? First, there is
Mr. Thant's own ideological posi
tion. As he stated frankly to the
Academy of Political Science in
1958, he believes that the answer
to Africa's problems is socialism
and neutralism. Katanga repre
sented the only prosperous capital,
ist slate in Negro Africa. It was
also strongly pro-Western and
anti-Communist until the United
States stamped its seal of ap
proval on the U.N.'s unconscion
able aggressions.
Second, it is an open secret at
the United Nations that Mr. Thaitl
sought Soviet support for his elec
tion as Secretary-General with a
promise that he would pursue
the subjugation of Katanga vig
orously once he was permanent
ly ensconced in office. To impose
this policy, he has clamped a
totalitarian censorship on the
U.N.'s acUvities in the Ce.igo. As
a result, his repeated provocations
in an effort to goad Katanga
President Moise Tshombe into a
rash move have never been fully
reported. All the "news" from
. Katanga comes from the central
Congo capital of Leopoldville
w here it is carefully and skillfully
"managed" by U.N. propagan
dists. Whenever Uiese U.N.
handouts were susceptible of
checking, they proved to be, at
the very least, inaccurate.
What makes the assault on Ka
tanga so tragic is America's par
ticipation in it. The cost to this
country will be great, for it has
already further embittered our
relations with Britain. France.
Belgium, and West Germany.
For a time, there was suffi
cient pressure on the Administra
tion to force it to desist, and
President Kennedy reportedly op
posed military aggression. We do
not know what changed his mind
hut he did. giving Ihe green light
L' Thant needed.
When the blame is assessed,
therefore, the United States will
, get the '.ion's share and it can b
predicted that the African na
tions which applauded U.N. ter
rorism will have second thoughts
as they discover the significance
of the U.N.'s new position as
prosecutor, judge, and jury of
Ihe internal problems of weak
countries.
Mr Thant is. of course, de
lighted He is already committed
to Uie belief Uiat trie Cold War
is a product of Artierican "fear
and hatred" of Communism. For
delivering tlic Congo to chaos, he
has already been praised by Com
munist Radio Prague for his "im
mense ahility, political experi
ence, and his devotion lo the is
sue of world peace." He can now
turn to the major item on his
personal agenda, the admission
of Red China to the I" N. More
worrisome, he is no more the
paid international civil servant
of all the members of the V N.
Instead, he has embarked on a
course of his own which puts
him in conflict with Ihe West
ern alliance.
By its wilful actions in Katan
ga, the U.N. has ceased lo be a
debating oociety and a convention
of nations and become a power
unto itself. Katanga was the fust
sparrow to (all. ' Remember Ethi
opia and Mussolini''' When the
next sparrow is shot down.' the
t nited States will have only it
self lo blame
A book title in the window of
a local store reads something like
"How To Raise A Teen-ager." I
think most parents of teen-agers
will agree with me that what
parents need is some advice on
how to get their view points across
to their teen-agers without using
a sledgehammer.
A very clever man was the
fellow who stopped in the other
day to put in a classified ad.
He offered a $100 reward for the
return of his wife's pet cat.
"That's an awfully high price
to pay for the return of a cat,"
remarked one of the girls at
the counter. "Not for this one."
replied our Hero. "I've already
drowned It."
Now, don't be forgetting the
increases in postage prices, and
that odd shaped and undersized
envelopes are banned from Ihe
mails. The taboo includes cards
shaped like animals, automobiles
and like. Automated machinery
will not take them and it's about
time for some of the crud that
went into Ihe mail as. "clever"
postcards sent from vacation
spots and other isolated areas.
Senator Douglas of Illinois, who
, is generally considered one of Ihe
more liberal Senators, has some
thing to say about various ex
penditures of the National Insti
tute of Health, which is the re
search arm of the government's
Public Health Service. The Sena
tor noted some of the projects
undertaken and grants given by
Ihe Institute.
Among them: "The Oral
Health of Icelandic Peoples,"
$14,030; "Investigation of Infor
mation Contained in Echoes,"
$13,837; "Studies of Silent Think
ing." $26,5115; "Red Tuna and
Yellow Fat Diseases in the Cat."
S19.985; "A Stereostatic Atlas of
the Beagle Brain," $9,775.
We can only conclude, sadly,
with the Senator, that these ex
penditures "undoubtedly fostered
gang research ... the idea that
merely by hiring a great many
people, one can solve problems.
WASHINGTON
Russians Destroying
Religious Influence
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
To Nikita Khrushchev it is a
campaign designed to "popularize
atheism."
To all decent men it is a ruth
less, reckless attempt lo destroy
Ihe human soul.
Thirty Russian peasants, adults
and children, brought lo world at
tention the intensity of this cam
paign last week. Begging asylum
at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow,
they said simply they would he
killed if sent back. Sent back
they were.
The Moscow incident, tragic
and pathetic, is by no means the
first indication that Premier
Khrushchev has declared war
upon those who believe. Reports
from behind the Iron Curtain in
dicate Uie anti-religious campaign
has been sharply stepped up in
recent months.
Doctors, workers, teachers,
have been drawn into the cam
paign to promote "scientilic athe
ism." lo help wipe out "religious
prejudice" among the Soviet peo
ple. Where there were 78.000 Ortho
dox churches before the Russian
revolution, there are now but
10.000 of all denominations.
Some 2.000 have been nailed
thut in the last two years, ac
cording to the highly authorita
tive Institute (or the Study o( the
USSR. The institute, made up of
scholars who have left the
Soviet Union, recently released a
copy of a letter of protest sent
to Premier Khrushchev by sev
eral thousand parishioners and
worshipers at the famous Pock
ayev Monastery in Western
Ukraine.
It is, Uie letter shows, open
season on Orthodox monks. A
number of KGB i Soviet Se
cret Police i ofliccrs are named
in this protest as those responsi
ble for daily sorties against the
monks.
A favorite sport of the KGB
goons is to "drop in casually
with a militia squad, break down
a lew doors and (Hill out a few
monks, who are taken for a ride
and dropped, alive but beaten
up. as much as 200 miles away
in the middle of a forest ind
warned never to return to Pock
ayev. This is the lot. loo, of pil
grims who come from many parts
of the Soviet Union for services."
The letter charges that 1 squad
of 12 militiamen headed by Cap
tains Ostapenko and Mi.ximov and
Major Bochkarev on Aug 31, 1W2,
forcibly removed Father .lo.
eph. To. to an insane asylum,
where he u reported to have been
and has also encouraged the ap
plication of funds for project
which are not really important."
A project I'd like lo see studied
by someone land most of us Rave
practical experience we would be
glad to impart to any govern
ment agency I is "How To Spend
More than You Earn and Still
Keep Going."
Even alter a couple of weeks,
I'm still sickened when I recall
the words that appeared in the
Portland newspaper account tell
ing of the slaying of a six-year-old
girl. It stated: "...
A roundup of known sex offend
ers in the area is underway."
These horrible incidents always
bring on the cry to do something
with Ihe sex offender. I can't
conceive anything that would be
punishment loo horrible for Ihe
real "sex offender." There are
many categories of those who
come under the common label
"sex offender." For the purposes
of simplification I'd say that any
person caught molesting children
(regardless of extent) or another
adult against his or her will
should be salted away. This whole
area is kind of grey for those
of us who don't have to come into
contact with and handle the type
of person involved in these hor
rendous crimes. But I see no call
for mercy,, leniency or whatever
when one of these fellows is
picked up.
It was Alexander Pope who ob
served that he never knew a man
in his life who could not bear
another's misfortune perfectly like
a Christian.
Take a look at the hike In
your Social Security, withhold
ing, and related taxes, and I'm
sure you'll quit calling them
"cheap politicians."
The most agonizing, frustrating
moments in a would-be writer's
life come as he sits at his type
writer hoping to get something
written and nothing not a thing,
comes out.
REPORT
murdered. Two other monks have
suffered fatal injuries in the con
tinued violence, according lo the
letter.
There has been no government
decree for seizure. The party au
thorities are apparently trying to
drive the monks out through con
tinual harassment.
Confiscation of property al Pock
ayev. as in other monasteries, is
regular. Monks must suffer what
parishioners call "persecution by
examination."
The monks are forced to submit
to continual medical checkups.
The incidence of disease, diag
nosed by state doctors, is by
strange coincidence, extremely
high. Many monks apparently in
perfect health are forcibly re
moved from the monastery for
"clinical treatment."
The number o( monks has been
reduced from 140 in 1961 to .16.
The campaign continues against
not only Ihe Russian Orthodox,
but .lews. Catholics, Protestants,
and Moslems, as well.
It is a campaign, says Pravda.
that must be stepped up until
the last vestiges of religion are
removed from the Russian char
acter. Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Jan. 10. Ihe
10th day of lM with 3S3 to lol-
low-.
The moon is approaching its
lat phase.
The morning stars are Mars
and Venus.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those born on this day include
Revolutionary hern Ethan Allen,
in 1737.
On this day in history:
In I77B. Thomas Paine pub
lished his pamphlet "Common
Sense." in Philadelphia setting
(orth the proposiUon that the col
onies should be separate from
England.
In HOW. Florida seceded from
the Union.
In 1870. John t) Rockefeller in
corporated Standard Oil Co. in
Cleveland, Ohio, with a capital of
$1 million.
In 1917. frontier scout and show
man William F. 1 Buffalo B.1H
Cody died.
A thought for Uie dav Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes'jr. said
' Taxes are what wt pay (or civil
ised society."