PAGE I A
HERALD
The other day a forum of nine panelists,
assembled in Washington, managed to discuss
the nation's "transportation crisis" for two
hours with hardly a mention of the private
automobile.
Yet everyone agrees that the motor car
has had immense impact on the country's
changing transportation patterns. And govern
ment studies suggest that effect will be even
greater in the next 12 to 15 years.
At the last official check there were 63
million private passenger vehicles on streets
and highways. The figure including trucks and
buses was nearly 76 million. At the end of
World War If the overall total was 31 million,
with some 22 million private cars.
Passenger automobiles in 1960 traveled
close to 600 million vehicle-miles. In 1945 the
figure was 200 million.
Henry Shryock of the Census Bureau
points out that two-thirds of all U.S. workers
use a car in getting between home and work.
In the metropolitan areas of 100,000 or more
people, 82 per cent of those who commute to
central cities rely on cars.
The official population projections for the
years up to 1975 indicate, of course, still fur
ther concentrations of our population in urban
Johnny
(Columbus, Ga., Enquirer)
: Several years ago, educators were
alarmed to discover that American children
were poor readers. This was most vividly de
scribed in the book, "Why Johnny Can't
Head." Now, educators are concerned over
the other side of the coin. They're finding that
Johnny can't write cither.
: In a time when many respected voices,
notably Admiral Rickover, are urging schools
to put additional emphasis on the tougher
subjects, it is paradoxical to discover that the
two most basic sub jects reading and writing
-are not being satisfactorily absorbed.'
Hue to early and lengthy exposure to
television, today's children start school much
more informed than their parents were. The
problem is merely one of interesting them in
THESE DAYS . .
- By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
; The nerviest man In Ihe country
Is a New York economist named
Eliot Janeway, who has been fl;it
ly predicting that there will be no
tax cut In 1963.
All the wishfulnoss that is in me
rises to dispute Mr. Janeway's
thesis. But, after mulling over his
arguments, whicn ho has been
setting forth to business groups
In East Coast cities, one Is forced
tq admit that he may prove right.
The theory that there can be
no significant tax cut rests on
the fact that prices are falling
all over the world. International
competition fur markets imposes
a profit squeeze on all countries
With a smaller margin to tax, do
mestic revenues fin'l the pressure,
tti the United Stales even more
than elsewhere. Thus the pcrsis.
fence of deficits and thus the
red flag which Chairman Wilbur
Mills of the House Ways and
Means Committee and Senator
Hurry Byrd of Virginia. Chairman
of the Semite Finance Committee,
raise against tax rutting that is
unrelated to getting a proposed
t'3 billion budget trimmed back
to at least JH8 billion.
Since influential business groups
such as the Committee for Eco
nomic Development and the
t1. S. Chamber of Commerce have
been making a common front with
THEY
SAY...
The trouble Is he prefers ani
mals to humans. ... I do not
think I would have minded so
much if he collected other wom
en the way most men do
Mrs. Cyril Broomfleld . Payne,
of Wonlland, England, after hrr
ex-husband Has ordered to
remove his pete 14 r;U, in
kittens, 60 guinea pigs and too
goats from her home.
; We've decided the white m.m
i$ not so had. There are even
some you can trust.
-Buffalo Tiger, leader of a group
of Semlnolrs who are going Into
buslneM along Florida's Tumi
ami Trail.
Don't worry if things are go
ing slowly. Who goes slowly goes
safely and goes far.
Pope John XXIII, on Ihe ecu-
meoiral council.
AND NEWS, Klamath Kails, Ore.
Internal Combustion
regions. By 1975, it is estimated, 150 million
Americans may live in the 212 largest metro
politan areas. That is just 38 million less than
the total U:S. population today.
Bureau of Public Roads officials suggest,
furthermore, that passenger car registrations
and motor travel may in the same span
rise considerably faster than population itself.
The great push to the suburbs is, natural
ly, a key factor in all this growth. Only the
motor car has proved quickly adaptable to
the transportation needs of sprawled-out ur
ban centers.
Not everybody thinks the suburban revo
lution will continue apace. One A. F. Parrott
of the American Statistical Assn. suggested in
1960 that the movement is slackening. But
Census officials argue that there is scant evi
dence of this so far.
Meantime, the crush in transportation
seems merely to get worse, as does the cost
of trying to case it. Fancy million-dollar-a-rnile
urban beltways open one day and two
months later chalk up bumper to bumper rush
hour loads.
If there is a "transportation crisis," it
is fair to suggest that this is it. And even those
gatherings of experts which do mention the
motor car appear to have no ready solutions.
Can't Write
the materials of learning.
Children cannot learn to read well on
books that bore them, and reading, of course,
is the key to wriling. Poor grammar, incorrect
sentence structure, wrong choice of words,
and atrocious spelling plague many adult
Americans today. Their children arc generally
following the same curriculum that produced
these Inadequacies.
The encouraging factor is a spreading
recognition of the new forces at play in chil
dren's minds, and the need for new ways to
train these minds. In truth, Johnny can prob
ably read and write as well as his mom and
dad did at his age. But we expect more of
children today. And they raised on a meatier
diet of information than their parents ex
pect more of school.
No Tax Cut In Sight
labor groups In calling (or an $11
billion tux cut, which could he
taken cither in one or two stag
es, the presumption has been that
the pressures on Congress must
override the protests of such pro
fessional watchdogs as Repre
sentative Mills and Senator Byrd.
Surprisingly, however, legislators
who are returning to Washington
tend to discount the claims of the
taxcutling lobbies. Senator Wilr
liam Proxmiie of Wisconsin, for
example, speiiks ominously of an
"Administration jugger
naut'" which is being geared "to
persuade Congress to cut taxes
in spite of a near-record delicti. "
Senalor Proxmire Is a Democrat
and he was once one of live more
happy-go-lucky troubadours of
the New Frontier. His conversion
to standards of fiscal strictness
has been iiniiue but if Mr.
Janeway, is right the Proxmire
defection may portend more than
individual aberration.
For myself, I think a tax cut
is necessary lor reasons tli.it have
to do with Parkinson's famous
"law" that says spending will
always riso to meet income. If
the federal government can col
lect close to $i9 billion in a year,
it will certainly find ways to pass
that sum of money along to fa
vored groups. Take Sit billion
away from the Adminis
tration, however, and tlie pres
sures w ill build up to slash spend
ing. A coi respondent. Editor Wil
liam K Babel of the Press-Republican
of rialtsburgh, New
Vuk. ohected to a column I
wrote recently in whuh I struck
out against a government ouilay
of $19,400 for surveying the habits
ol skiers. What is the signili
cance. so Mr. Hubol asks, of snip
ping a mere S19.4H) out ol a pro
jected $'i9 billion' Admittedly the
sum of $19,400. though any indi
vidual would he glad to have it.
is practically nothing when taken
by itself. Svmholically. however,
it is a meaningful token of fail
ure to guard against waste.
However, i( the micrornsmic
approach I. ills to impress certain
people, one can lake hold of budg
et cutting Irom the other end For
example, Representative Otto
Passman. Chairman of the House
sulicnmmittee on loicign d.
sicnt Ins recent vacation sigh
ing our foreign budectary commit
ments on the spot He came home
with Ihe conclusion that at least
$1.5 billion could lie whacked out
Wednesday, January 18, 196J
Eithei
?
of the $4 billion annual foreign aid
expenditures without hurling the
position of the United Slates in the
world. Oddly enough. Representa
tive Passman has such inveterate
New Frontiersmen as Professor
.1. Kenneth Galbrailh, our Am
bassador to India, and Chester
Howies, our envny-at large-to - the
universe, on his 'side. They, too,
have urged cutting our donations
to countries which chronically let
our gills of cash wind up in
bank vaults In Zurich. Switzerland.
So $1.5 billion could he cut
fiom foreign aid. That leaves us
with $9 5 billion to go if we are
to match Ihe proposed tax cut
figure of $11 billion. And nt least
$2 billion could be cut out of the
agricultural budget if the Adminis
tration would shilt the incidence
of its aid to provide less support
for Chicago insurance men who
also own farm lands, meanwhile
taking greater care to finance
siihmargnial farmers while they
are learning to do something of
more profit to both themselves
and the economy.
This would leave us with $7 S
billion still to go 10 reach that
$11 billion figure. Surely editor
Babel could take it Irom here.
Al
manac
Ry t nlled Press International
Today is Wednesday. Jan. IS.
the 16th day of PW with .149 to
follow-.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars.
The evening stars aie Mars,
lupiter and Saturn
tin this day in history:
In the I S. Civil Scivu-e
I oinniivsion was cstaMisltcd
In 1920. saloons closed lhe:r
doors ss live Volstead Act to en
force the prohibition amendment
went into effect.
In 1"."2. Russia otdoiod all for.
ein diplomats in Moscow to io
slricl thc.r travel to within
miles of the city.
In 11, 28 men died when a
"Texas tower" radar island sank
in Ihe Atlantic. M miles south
cast of New York City
thought for the da The Eng
lish phikisopher. Francis Bacon
said 'Foitune Is like tiie mat
kct, where many limes, if vou
slay a little, the price will fall,''
tv '
IN WASHINGTON
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
F'or the first time since U Thant
of neutralist Burma became Secretary-General
of the United Na
tions, members of Congress have
begun to ask themselves serious
ly: "Just what kind of a. man
is he? What does he, stand
fur?"
They have watched Mr. Thant
take the lead in an unjustified ag
gression in which the United Na
tions, tearing up its Charter, forc
ibly imposed its will on the Con
go. They note that in the rape ot
Katanga. undisciplined UN.
troops killed as many civilian
bystanders as they did opposing
troops. And they wonder why the
U.N. occupation troops which
were so anxious to destroy the
pro-Western regime of Moise
Tshombe sit by unconcernedly
while rampaging tribesmen
mount a revolt in Kasai province
against the central Congolese gov
ernment. Are Ihe reasons for this double
standard ideological? Is Mr.
Thant determined to wipe out Ka
tanga because it has or had un
til he moved a prosperous tree
enterprise system? The answers
can be found in a speech, now
being carefully read here, which
U Thant delivered in April 1058
to the American Academy of Po
litical and Social Science in Phil
adelphia. It is an interesting document.
For one thing, it advocates So
cialism as a means for "the re
laxation of social and economic
tension" in the world. In effect,
moreover, he equates "democrat
ic Socialism" with the Soviet and
Red Chinese brand, though he
sees differences "in method." Tak
ing a page from Karl Marx, he
sees in Socialism "a new culture,
a new civilization" deriving from
the "class struggle and class con
sciousness." And he rejects pri
vate enterprise in large indus
trial societies as moiiojvnly and
"a burdensome tax on the com- '
niunity and no longer a reward
lor investment and speculation."
In lo. Mr. Thant was very no
ble aUnil not passing judgment on
Ihe internal affairs of other coun
tries a principle he quickly for
got in the Congo when it ran
counter to his Marxist bias. Far
more important to the I'.X. aie
his views on the l nited States
and the Soviet Union. The t inted
States, he says, has "concerned
itself with what was happening in
the rest of the world" only out
of "fear of Commutiism and sus
picion o'f Communist motive''
which he describes as "very un
desirable states of mind " And.
he orates, "fear of Soviet Com
munism has led the United Slates,
and those who follow her lead, to
take a distorted view of the world
situation "
What, according to Mr Thant.
is that distorted view' That the
Soviet I men is an international,
aggressive force seeking worid
compicst1 Nonsense, he savs.
When "Icniiyrs cool," the Com
munists will show that they real
ly want to co-exist peaeotiiliy Willi
ii. remaining within then Un
der otiienuso, snne they are so
much mote powciinl than the
West, they would have launched
a war ol conquest
"I nhke Nazi l.ei many,'' Mr
liiant to!d t:e bemused members
of the academy, "the Soviet I'n
ion did not comel hv 11,111,11 rni'i
t.uy invasion any of Us ne.ghbors
to become satellites " The Hun
ganatis who were shot down in
Who Says No News Is Good News?
mmmmmmm
What UThant Believes
the streets of Budapest, presum
ably, did it for kicks. And what
of Greece and Iran, where So
viet forces came within an inch
of taking over? But Mr. Thant
sees no evidence that the Soviet
Union has any intention to com
munize the world.
"It is." he believes, "very
difficult to arrive at an objective
appraisal ' of such suppositions.
Suspicions are not proof, and it is
doubtful whether any proof has
been sustained to establish this
charge." The Communists, he ar
gues, believe that Western so
ciety will collapse of its own
and therefore the Kremlin and
Peiping will sit back and wait for
this to happen.
Mr. Thant compares the strug
gle between East and West to
the battle between Christianity
and Islam. See. he says, both
sides quieted down and now live
in peace. Both saw the light. He
ignores the fact that Islam swept
across North Africa, through
Spain, and into France until it
was decisively and militarily de
feated at Tours and forcibly
driven out of the Iberian penin
sula. But this Is not all. The Secretary-General,
an international civ
il servant who is not supposed to
take sides in the disputes of East
and West, openly supports the So
viet position by declaring that to
keep Red China out ot the U.N.
is not only wrong but "violates"
the Charter. He brushes aside as
an "assumption" that the actions
of Red China in Asia make it
unfit to be a member of an
organization which claims to base
By SYD.NKY 1. HARRIS
Today we are going to play a
literary guessing game. Please
try to identify the authors o( the
following passages:
1. "Few realize how ardently
Balzac wrestled with the problem
of the angel in man. 1 say this in
onlcr to conlcss that, in slightly
different guise, this same proh
loin has been an obsession with
me my whole lite long. I believe
it has always been the chief pre
occupation of every creative in
dividual. . . . The artist is ob
sessed with the thought of re
creating the world, in order to re
store man's innocence. He knows,
moreover, that man can only re
cover his innocence by regaining
his freedom."
2. "In one of his essavs, D. H.
Ijiwrcnce punned out mat there
were two great modes of hie.
liie religious and the sexual. The
burner, he declaied, took prece
dence over the latter. The sexual
was the lesser way, he said. I
have alwavs thought that there is
only one way, the way of truth,
Iciulini mil to salvation but to en
lihtennient. However one civili
sation may difter Irom another,
however the laws, customs, be
liefs, and worships of man may
vary from one penod to anoth
er. ... I perceive m the be
havior of the great spiritual lead
ers a singular concordance, an
exemplification of tiuth and
wholeness which even a cnild can
grasp "
3. "A new world is in the mak
itself on world law. The conquest
of Tibet and the military adven
tures in Malaya, Indo-China, and
Korea do not seem to concern
him at all.
These are some of the views of
the man who guides the destinies
of the United Nations. The issue
today, he believes, is the struggle
of "tlie master race" namely the
West and what he says the West
considers "sub-human" namely,
the rest of the world. '
Letters To
Shorn
I with to state a condition now
going strong in and around Klam
ath Falls, where the taxpayers are
really paying through the nose.
For example, here .s what hap
pened to me:
I was given a citation for sup
posedly running a stop sign
at Summers Lane and Johns Ave
nue, whereas the state patrolman
was approximately a quarter of
a mile away. I told him that t
had come to a complete stop,
which I had done. He told me
that it was my word against his.
I appeared in district court at
1:30 p.m. on Jan. 2. was put
"through the mill" and convict
ed of said crime.
The citation states that I am
to appear in court at 3 p.m. on the
12th day of Deccmlier, but I was
given the citation on the nth of
December: how could I appear
in court the day before 1 was '
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
ing, a new type of man is in the
bud. The masses, destined now to
sulfer more cruelly than ever be
fore, are paralyzed with dread
and apprehension. They have with
drawn, like the shell-shocked into
their self-created tombs; they
have lost all contact with reality
except where their bodily needs
are concerned. The body, of
course, has long ceased to be
tlie temple of the spirit. It is
thus that man dies to the world
and to the Creator."
4. "To me it seems that sex was
best understood, best expressed,
in the pagan world, in the world
of the primitives, and in the reli
gious world In the first it was
exalted on the esthetic plane, in
the second on the magical plane,
and in the third on the spiritual
plane. In our world, where only
tlie bestial level obtains. ?x func
tions in a void "
5. "Never has there been a
world so avid for security, and
never has life been more insecure.
To protect ourselves, we invent
live most fantastic instruments of
destruction, which prove to be
boomerangs. No one seems to be
lieve m the power of love, the
only dependable power. No one
believes in his neighbor, or in
himself, let alone in a supreme
hemg "
nswers '. five pa-saccs a:e
from live works of Henry Miller,
that author isi ' dirty'' Nvkv
Since nwra!i.-eis are a'.ways
puking out scievtod passages as
examples oi "obscenity," 1 thought
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Prospects Not Good
For '63 Labor Peace
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn..
WASHINGTON (NBA I - Pros
pects for fewer strikes with few
er man-days of idleness in 1963
than in 1962 do not appear too
good.
At least 94 major labor con
tracts for bargaining units of 5,01)0
workers or more are due to ex
pire in late spring and early sum
mer. They affect a total of 1.2
million workers.
Reopening of wage contracts for
off-train railroad employes and
basic steel industry workers can
be requested in May. They affect
a total of 900.000 workers. The
other 300.000 workers under con
tracts that may be reopened this
year aie in the rubber, telephone
and electrical equipment indus
tries. While the 1,250.000 workers af
fected by the preliminary Bureau
of Labor Statistics estimate of
3.550 strikes starting in 1962 was
the lowest number since the end
of World War II, the number of
work stoppages and the 19 mil
lion . man-days of idleness they
caused were higher than the year
before, though below the levels
of most postwar years.
The 1961 record was 3,367
strikes, causing 1,450,000 workers
16.3 million man-days idleness.
For the average worker on
strike. the loss of employment
caused by strikes was 15 days in
10112. 11 days in 1961.
Of the 16 major strikes last
year, each affecting more than
10,000 workers, seven were in met
ropolitan area construction indus
tries. Others were in the eastern
garment industry, Lockheed Air
craft, Eastern Airlines, A 1 1 i s
Chalmers, Chicago and North
Western Ry.
The New York City area had
more labor difficulty than any
other part of the contry, with
major strikes settled (or garment
workers, schoolteachers, electri
cal, telephone and construction
workers. The New York newspa
per and longshoremen's strikes,
starting in 1962, carry over into
11163.
What seems to be happening,
according to labor analysts, is
that major strike settlements
The Editor
arrested? (tlie judge of district
court told me that this had no
bearing on the case.)
This shows, by their own cita
tion, that they wanted $15 from
me even before I was arrested.
The judge lowered the fine to
$10 which I refused to pay. Be
fore I left the courtroom 'the
judge told me that one more
word from me and I would be
cited for contempt of court.
I was immediately transferred
to the county jail, and for the
first time, shown any respect.' I
went through the routine of hav
ing my fingerprints and picture
Liken. (Copies of these also go
to the FBI. I
I do not choose to bow down to
such "gestapo" methods. It was
my duty as a United Stales citi
zen to serve in the United Slates
Army in 1918 overseas, last
place being Meuse Argonne. Nov.
II. 1918. It was also my privilege
to serve in the Merchant Marines
in the black gang of a Liberty
ship in World War II.
I have been driving a car in
Klamath County and the state of
Oregon for over 30 years without
any accidents.
It is still my duty to stand for
my rights, be they large or small.
As a citizen of the United States
I would be a coward if 1 did
not light back over this tyranny.
I do not believe in being like
a sheep, for them to corral at
their convenience, and being shorn
of my fleece and turned loose
again until I get a new crop of
wool.
1 do not feel that I am person
ally being persecuted. 1 am just
one of the (lock. I am not against
the laws, but against the way they
are enforced, guilty or not!
A citizen and taxpayer in Ore
gon sinie 8i.
I,ee Potter,
1641 Ivory Street,
Klamath Falls. Ore.
Confusion
I have been following jour se
ries of articles on zoning and I
must say your inlormation is in
terestins. to say tiie least. 1 am
wondenne if your source of in
formation was tiie same as mine.
My husband and I attended a
Parents and Patron meeting at
Fairhaven School last spring in
March or April. The Planning
Commission 'at least three of its
members, including Ken Black
man' was there. They proceed
ed to tell us how zoning was to be
instituted in Klamath County and
hew it would affect us At the
end of this meeting we were free
to ask questions.
One of the first question asked
it Hi-t as easy to find passages
demonstrating Miller to be a se
rums, thoughtful and perceptive
artist.
made under Secretary of Labor
James L. Mitchell during the Eis
enhower administration and under
former Secretary of Labor Arthur
Goldberg in the Kennedy adminis
tration are now expiring. Renew
al of these contracts under
changed conditions ' is now the
headache of Labor Secretary W.
Willard W'irtz.
The important difference is that
most of the settlements in the
Mitchell and Goldberg eras were
straight economic agreements in
which wages, fringe benefits and
working conditions were the prin
cipal issues.
But the No. 1 strike issue in
the closing months of 1962. con
tinuing into 1963, is job security. '
Labor union officials are becom
ing increasingly concerned by
what is happening to workers who
lose their jobs through automation
technological advances which
tend to reduce employment.
This is the big issue of "feather
bedding" in the still-unsettled dis
pute between the railroads and
their on-train employes. It will
also be the big issue in the con-,,
tract' renegotiations for off-train
employes which comes to a head
next May and June. A complete
tie-up of all railroad services is a
possibility that must be seriously
considered.
Job security will also be a ma
jor consideration in the May con
tract reopening for 350,000 steel
workers and the June negotiations
for 25,000 aluminum workers.
Some further wage increases
negotiated under existing con
tracts will automatically go into
effect this year. They will go to
3.3 million workers 1.8 million in
manufacturing (mainly auto and
farm equipment industries), 600,
000 in construction and 900,000 in
nonmanufacturing mainly truck
ing and retail trade. The auto
matic wage increases range from
six and seven cents an hour in
manufacturing to 10, 15 and 20
cents an hour in the building
trades.
These a.e considered stabilizing
influences in what may other
wise be a year of troubled labor
relations, heightened by a possible
move for revision of labor legis
lation in the new Congress.
was "Were we going to be ah!
to keep our farm animals?" We
were told that on lots less than
100 x 100 square feet we would
not be allowed any animals. On
land less than two acres ve
would be able to retain the ani
mals we now possessed but would
not be able to replace them.
Another question asked was
"Would there be any restrictions
placed on erection of buildings,
the size of building, and the ma
terial used?" We were then told
that a building code was included
with this zoning and there would
lie restrictions involved and we
would also have to apply for a
building permit and submit plans
for approval.
Another question asked, "If we
didn't want to be zoned was there
anything we could do about it or
could we protest in any way?"
We were told that the Oregon
Legislature had passed legislatinn
giving the counties in Oregon the
authority to institute zoning if the
counties felt it would he bene-
ficial. They told us the only part
of zoning we would be able to
approve would be the classifica
tion into which we were to be
zoned, which could be changed if
enough of the home owners in
volved wanted the change. 'r
We were told another meeting
would be held in six or eight weeks
and the plans would be complete
showing us how each area was to
be zoned. At Ihe time of tlie
spring meeting Ihe plans were not
complete. Another meeting was
not called until the fall and we
were unable to attend and these
have been tlie only two meetingj
in our area.
Since the meeting in tlie spring,
Biackman and the commission
made many statements to t h
press and many articles have
been written and many letters
written by the public have been
published.
I have attended these meetincj
when possible. 1 have read the ar
ticles and statements in the news
papers and. all in all. I am very
contused none of the information
Jilies. Tlie statements made by
Biackman in the newsnapers. do
not coincide with the information
given at our school mcet.ngs. Not
every group has been toid the
same things. Many of us are
against zoning, but are even more
asainst not being able to have a
say m the matter. We feel our
constitutional right to vote n be.
ins abused.
So. Mr. Editor, if the peoP'
aie confused it is only because
we have been g.von too much
misinformal.on and not enougti
of the tr ie facts
t.wcndoUn N Jarsehke.
3'.(i8 Cortez. Stewart-Lenox.