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HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Thursday, January 17, Wl
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Who Said Vaudeville's Dead?
Better -
If you talk to some political analysts,
they will tell you that one of the big things
" about the American electorate today is that
it is so much better educated than used to be
the case a few decades back.
Everyone knows that a bigger share of
U. S. young people finish high school and go
on to college and that this constitutes a
rising trend. Television, for all its foolishness,
is seen as an important educative factor gen
erally. Yet these acknowledged advances can be
misleading. Kor there are still 58 million
Americans who have not finished high school
And, as the National Education Association
observers in a study of undcrcducated adults,
even high school graduates are losing jobs to
machines.
A worse statistic, some 11 million persons
18 or over are "functional" illiterates who
can't really learn marketable skills because
they can't read and write as well as average
fifth graders.
Admirably, 450,000 men and women are
completing their elementary or high school
work in adult public school classes. More
(Milwaukee Journal)
Tremendous sums, public and private,
are being spent on college expansion to keep
up with mounting enrollments. Even so, it is
freely predicted that Ihere will not be room
for all. One hears all sorts of stories about
this or that bright youngster who had to apply
to any number of colleges before being ac
cepted. Yet four-year accredited colleges have
room for at least 57,000 more freshmen in Jan
uary, according to the Kiplingcr magazine,
Changing Times. The magazine's survey had
revealed 41,000 freshman vacancies in the fall
semester.
So if a qualified applicant tries hard
enough he can find an accredited four-year
; (Ledger-Star, Norfolk, Va.)
A firm in Washington (a "think com
pany" is the description used by the Insider's
News Letter), is working on something called
"self-regenerating" food.
The Immediate pressure for the product
is the nourishment of space men on long
trips, hut it is pointed out that success would
also solve the world's food problem.
What the researchers are trying to do
THESE DAYS . . .
British Liberal Speaks
II y JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
Floating around Ihe cistern
part of the I'nited Slides those
days is a loll, attractive English
man named Joseph or Jo (with
out an "K" (in Hie end ol it'
Grimond. He is the leader of
the Rrilish Liberal Parly, which
is making somethinc of a come
Kirk in lis home isle alter long
jears spent in llie wilderness.
Grimond apieaied (it Vale ('di
versity last week as a Chubb
Fellow, thus juning ex-President
Truman, ex-Attorney General ller-Ih-I'I
llniwnell, and Senator Har
ry Goldwnlcr in a list ol tuminar
ics who have heen reckoned suf
ficiently imjxirlant to he invited
to spend several Hays talking to
undergraduates about Ihe great
world of politic. This week Gri
mond is scheduled lo apiear in
Washington for a meeting with
President Kennedy.
The English Literal leader had
much to say lo the Yale hos
ahout I lie desirability of British
participation in the European
Common Market. Hut what in
leresled me particulaily almul
lus conversation was his analysis
Of social forces which points to
lli( possible decline and break
lip ef the Lab r Party in Eng
land. The same forces are at
work today in America, eroding
the power base that once threat
ened to put Washington, DC.
under the control of industrial
unions whose leadership has
cared little (or the pcrelualion
of a freely competitive economic
system.
In Britain. Ihe evangelistic fer
vor ol Ihe middle I'MOs seems to
have gone out of Ihe Lalur ral
ly. Hw parly intellectuals, head
ed by Hugh Gailskrll. do not
speak the language of the trade
union wing. As the lute of nation
allied industries loses its glil
let. no longer serving as an is
.sot to bind trade unionists and
intellectuals, a middle class
"swing vote'- has deserted La
bor (or the Conservatives.
But Not Good
Uncrowded Colleges
college that will accept him. The best chances
arc for commuting students at large urban
universities. Kor example, the University of
Denver could have accepted 150 more day
students this fall, says the magazine.
Such vacancy figures are interesting but
hardly significant except to a really desperate
student or one who happens to find one of
these uncrowded institutions convenient and
to his liking.
The necessity for rapid expansion of
higher educational facilities generally and for
maintaining the highest standards is too evi
dent to challenge. Yet there will be growing
necessity, too, for many young people to be
satisfied with whatever suitable college oppor
tunities arc available.
Left-Overs That Grow?
is to create an edible tissue that would grow
back after part of it was consumed. A space
traveler, according to the explanation. wouH
cat up all but a small portion of his "steak,"
put the left-over piece into a special culture
and it would grow back to a full-size steak.
Sounds like a fine idea. But let's not con
fine this promising investigation to food. How
about looking into the same kind of possibili
ties elsewhere?
Say, in self-regenerating children's shoes?
Hut i! (inmond is right, Ihis
swing vole cannot really feel at
home in the Conservative Parly
n( dukes and landed gentry and
believers in Ihe old-style British
imperial mission Cnmnid makes
the point that his Liberal Party
stands for the right lo own prop
erly. But he speaks for a new
order of propertied people, the
young technicians of industry win
own somewhat Americanized
homes complete with refrigera
tors, washing machines, television
sets and at least one car standing
outside at the curb. (Irimond is
making his appeal to members
ol Ihe newly allluent classes wh.i
wish to see British industry de
livered from the toils of govern
ment bureaucracy on the one
hand, and Ihe old system of car
tehed monoxilv n Ihe other. He
sxike last week of rllorts lo
spread the ownership of voting
stock in British eotoiatitns. pos
sibly by giving tax concessions
to businesses which sell shares
on a prelerential basis to their
own employes.
If the Conservative Parly tails
lo hold Ihe young detectors bom
tiie Gaitskcll wing of the Lttwir
Party, the Liberal Party might
suddenly re-emeixe as the sec
ond p.uly in British politws
At Ihe very least it m.iv aspnr
to Ivecome a balatne-otsiwer
group with sutlicient icpicsenl.i
linn in Parliament to f i,r sig
n;lu ant i omprnmiscs on bolh the
Conservative matonly and t h e
' lov.il opositinn" as svttiholird
by I ab-r's ll.igh tiailskell
The rev iv it nation of British lib
eialism. which is something quite
distinct bom the colloctivisl lib
eialism of thosp Americans who
would be called socialists if Ihev
lived in England, is part of a
world phenomen.'n tin the ton
Itnent of Ewoie this phenomenon
has resulted in Ihe decline of Ihe
old Marxist paides. In Germa
ny the new realignment of tones
has compiled Hie old Social
DemTratie Parly lo repudiate
Enough
than 930,000 others take business, trade, in
dustrial and technical courses.
The fact, however, is that these figures
together represent a bit more than 2 per cent
of the undereducatcd 58 million.
Thirty years ago, educator Robert M.
Hutchins was the center of a controversy over
whether people could be prepared best for
life by pumping them full of information or by
schooling them in fundamental ideas they
could apply to any practical situation. Hutch
ins favored the "idea" approach. But it was
only a Question of emphasis, since ideas can
hardly exist apart from the great body of
knowledge.
The point today would seem to be how
many millions of Americans still lack the
thinnest underpinning of knowledge, and the
tools for its use. Without solid substance here,
how can they hope to develop truly useful
ideas?
Until these millions nearly a third of
our population somehow acquire a better
grounding in the fundamentals of education,
they will be sorely limited in their efforts to
be good parents, good workers and good citi-
Up
Marx's insistence on government
ownership of the means of pro
duction. In Ihe I'nited Slates the emer
gence of young families with a
property stake in society that is
far more widely diffused than was
the ease in tire IMOs is making
trouble for Republicans and Dem
ocrats alike. The young, whose
parents were Roosoveltians. do
not teel comfortable under the
Republican label. But Ihey do not
want tn lie run by a coalition con
sisting of Walter Heulher and the
letl wing farmers union. So Ihey
back and lill, electing Eisen
hower at one lime, and delealing
Richard Nixon by a hair's
breadth al another.
Maybe, if Grimond stresses the
IKirlent lo President Kennedy of
Ihe Liberal Parly as related to
tile English scene, he will, by
bice of the unspoken analogy.
l"omt Ihe way lo a presidential
re-'onsideralion of Ihe Democrat
ic Party's jMwer base.
Al
manac
Bv I nltrd Press International
Today is Thursday. .Ian. IT. live
Kill day of l'KH with .14A to lollow.
Hie moon is in its last quarter
The morning stars ate Venus
anil Mais
The evening stats .lie Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those bom on this day include
Ihe American inventor, stale-m, in
and author. Benjamin Eranklin,
in i;nn.
On this day in history:
In ismi. a birth occurred in Ihe
White House for the fust time
when Thomas .loftcrson s daugh
ter, Martha Jeflerson Randolph,
gave birth to a son.
In int;. Hie I'nited Stales
Isiuglit the Virgin Islands liom
Denmark for E5 million.
In I'.Nt. Gen. Dwight Eisenhow
er assumed cvmmand of the Al
lied htieiation force of Wmld
War II.
i
IN WASHINGTON
By RALPH dc TOLEDANO
Though Hep. Charles Halleck
Mud.) has been Ihe best House
Republican leader in many years,
he is the first target of criticism
when things go wrong. These at
tacks are due in part to wrong in
formation from those who cover
Capitol Hill, in part to politically-motivated
misinterpretation o(
events.
Cases in point are ( 1 1 the de
fection of 28 Republicans to the
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
The worst companion in any ven.
lure is an incompetent enthusiast:
for every one person in whom
enthusiasm is a virtuie, there are
a dozen in whom it is simply a
substitute (or knowledge.
The samp quality that attracts
us lo a male Is often the very
quality that eventually repels
us: a woman marries a man
because she thinks he Is domi
nating and then learns he Is
merely domineering: a man
marries a woman because she
Is Huffy and then learns she Is
merely pulpy.
II is a vast over-simplification
lo suggest that poverty "creates"
crime; what would he truer to
say is that the man with the least
to lose is most likely to take. Ihe
greatest risks, in anv direction It
is so-called "respccthbility." rath
er than honesty, that keeps Ihe
hulk ol people from laking lo il
legal pursuits.
.lust as standing waters be
come poisonous, so a mind that
does not change and flow freely
becomes noxious Irom its own
stagnant ideas: propaganda from
the outside does not poison minds
nearly so much as their own lack
of activity.
The last paradox lh.it man can
grasp was expressed by Proust,
when he said "The universe is
true (or all of us and different
(or each of us "
Al) of us are believers tn tree
will when we are successful, and
believers In determinism when
we fail: success nukes us over
estimate nur own power, anil
failure makes us ovrr-rstim.itr
the blind forces of tale.
Speaking of success and failure,
isn't it this polarity which deter
mines whether we icier to some
one as a "slight acquaintance" or
an "old school friend?"
The futility of giving advue was
piercingly expicsiod hv Gem g
Macdnnald. with h.s usual pun
gent hreutv. when he wmir
"When people seek advice, it is
too olten in the hnjsr of nnding
tiie adviser side with their second
familiar sell instead ol their aw
lul fust self o( which thrv know
so little "
Impatient romantic should
Wt" Vvv uw '
Halleck Not Threatened
Administration in the baltle over
a packed Rules Committee, and
(2i the thoroughly misnamed "re
volt of the Young Turks" over
House Republican leadership.
The first point demonstrates
the difficulties under which Minor
ity Leader Halleck operates. It
was the firm policy o( the
House GOP to fight President Ken
nedy's packing plan for the Rules
Committee. Two weeks ago, it
seemed certain that the Republi
cans would hand Mr. Kennedy his
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
he cautioned that a daydream
thai enmes true before we are
ready for It can seem like a
nightmare; tn meet one's
heart's desire before one Is big
enough or strong enough or
steady enough tn handle It ma
turely is the mnst devastating
experience.
Man's fall is perpetually sym
bolized in the fact that nothing as
we get older tastes as good as
our first taffy-apple.
POTOMAC
FEVER
The secrel of the Mona Lisa's
smile is now revealed. She's
amused at the Republican dis
comfort over all the mileage Ken
nedy is gelling out of this cul
ture kick.
The hig split In the Commu
nist world Is so severe, Russia
has to keep 17.000 troops in
Cuba tn make sure Red China
doesn't Invade the place.
House Republicans dump Con
gressman Uneven, H7. for Con
giessman Ford, 4:i. for conference
chairman. The pa'ty cries for
youlh and Ford is just the right
aue lo shed a few tears for his
own.
News managers along the New
Frontier have problems. The way
one press agent lies, reporters
think he's telling the truth The
way another tells the truth, news
men are sure he's lying.
One housewife has decided In
keep all her new year's resolu
tions In Next year they
might cost twice as much.
Bob Kennedy v. ill at cue a gov
ernment case More the Supreme
Court. If Teddy can begin poli
tics as a U.S. Senator, there's no
icason Boh can't start at Ihe top
and work his way down through
tiie courts.
A "vyvung lurk" movement
emerges among Republican in
Cnngrf. In politic, a vmmg
Turk I anvhodv whn wasn't
around tn fight the Crusadrr.
Koiincdv wins his light to lib
eralize the House Ru'es Commit
tee Now we can move ahead
shivering all the way to Ihe
nn.ince companv
FLETCHER KNEREL
first defeat o( the session by vot
ing solidly for a 12-member Rules
Committee. But in that time.
Congressmen who take their lead
(roin Gov. Nelson Rockefeller be
gan to organize against Mr. Hal
leck. The 2B GOP members who
gave the Administration its vic
tory spoke in Governor Rockefel
ler's "don't-call-mc-a - Republi
can" voice and they can be
counted on tn weaken Mr. Hal
leck's legislative hand in the
months to come.
The so-called "revolt" of young
er Republicans is being widely in
terpreted as a repudiation of Mi
nority Leader Halleck and a sign
that the GOP is swinging to the
left. Nothing could be further
(mm the truth. The group that
organized Rep. Gerald Ford's
election as chairman of the House
Republican Conference has no
quarrel with Mr. Halleck's poli
cies. Mr. Ford (Mich.i has one of
the strongest conservative records
in the House.
Rep. Mclvin Laird (Wis. I who
worked closely with the supposed
"Young Turks." is perhaps the
most brilliant and most articulate
of the sound conservative think
ers in the House of Representa
tives. He has repeatedly demon
strated his effectiveness in support
of Halleck policies and maneuv
ers. Mr. Laird is a man to watch,
and his recent hook. "A House
Divided." is an eloquent and sig
nificant discussion of American
lorcign policy, i
This does not mean that Mr.
Halleck was not upset by the
Hidden emergence of a coal
esced force within the Rcpuhliean
leadership. But it is not telling
tales out of school to report that
in tile private sessions of the
young group Ihe clearly - stated
aim was to strengthen 'not weak
en' Mr. Halleck as he moves to
implement Republican objectives.
It is not gossip to. add that other
Republican leaders saw the so
called "revolt" in organizational,
rather than ideological, terms. By
and large, they were pleased.
I'nless Mr. Halleck allows the
cliortles of Capitol Hill pundits
lo color his thinking, he will bene
fit by the changes made short
ly before Congress convened. If
only because the new sub-leaders
are not subject lo Rockefeller
pressure or subservient to a Rock
efeller philosophy. Minority Lead
er Halleck will come out ahead.
His greatest problem ha been tn
hold in line a group of undisci
plined legislators from Atlantic
seaboard stales who worry more
alvout "image" than alxmt prin
ciple. Perhaps the greatest beneficiary
of the shift in leadership empha
sis will he the House Republican
Policy Committee. Since early
l'hsi. Ihis committee has been do
ing yeoman work in studying and
clarifying the issues It has called
on Ihe top academic minds of
the country to offer their views,
t'nder Ihe new dispensation, it
can lie more effective in really
forming GOP policy.
One thing is clear. The popu
larly held view that the "revolt"
is prelude to a scramble for Mr.
Halleck's Hib and a fiagmeata
tion of the Republican minority in
tiie House is not indicated. Young
er men will have more to say
bat youth is not synonymous
with leftism Any way you look at
it. it is imMssihle in some in
stances to differentiate t h e
"Young Turks" from the equally
misnamed ' Old Guard '
Ipffitteti
J. D. Torquemada & Co. Strike
Sill
t. Hi nNi i licii ' rirni . wi.iiiiMHi.i.ii in I
It is regrettable that it is impossible to portray in these black
and white photographs the superb art forms that graced
the writer's lawn following the midnight visit of JD & Co.
Let it suffice to say that the graceful forms were achieved
from delightful pastel shades of tissue in lavenders, pinks,
yellows and blues. No cheap white stuff was used, and
this beneficiary (the writerl Is filled with humility at con
templation of this singular honor.
i Ml
If:
Well, anyway, the kids in the
undoing the JO masterpiece.
The accompanying art work to
day labovci illustrates, briefly,
and frr the benefit of those un
fortunate souls who do not live in
Klamath Falls, the work of art
of one or more of the city's
more prolific artists. It happens
to grace the back yard of the
writer as of last Sunday morning.
Believe me. dear reader, it is a
real cye-opencr to get up about
six ayem. reach for the paper
and behold a dazzling display
part of which you see here
in your yard. As yen will note
J.D. & Co. are not the fear
ful type. They came right up on
the patio and hack steps tn com
plete their artistry. And. lo cap
the audacity, my midnight call
ers left the following note, ad
dressed to this corner:
Iiear Sir:
You have just been visited hv
a missive land I use the term ad
visedly, poetic license, etc. of
rcat esteem.
As you probably know and will
see by the thoroughness of t h e
Job pardon me artistic endeav
er. this has been planned (or
some lime.
We hope that you will not he
led to the heights of conceit by
this token of fealty, but will con
tinue to publish the same superla
tive paper you have in Ihe past.
May I insert here a plea for the
continued use of white paper and
black ink?
Once again we thank you for
the service vnu have rendered lo
S P.Q K F.
Yours.
.1 D Torquemada
it ' Friend
For Desecrations. Ltd
Well. I had hern Irarful that
nur preenl-day ynulh were
not up In nverenming harard.
and inrlined In be lav and in
different, tn some extent. How
ever, this expedilinn prove
that there is a well of rerurre
lulness that has not entirely run
dry. Perhaps some of Ihose
hnme higher on Ihe hill ran
expert nme proper art work
now that .1. II. k Co. have
come up with a war of fr
lixinmg property nther than
tree. Good luck tn all!
It might be apinpo to insert
here a hit of Longfellow, who
said
The heigh1 hv great mrn
reached and kept
Were nil attained hv sudden
f.gh:.
again ... 1
neighborhood had a lot fun
NOTHING
SPECIAL
IW. B. S.I
Rut Ihey. while their com
panions slcpl .
Were toiling upward in the
night.
My I: calendar says there
f will be 3S3 days. .12 weeks,
and 13 months in lrxi.1. h u t
I'm convinced It's wrong. Ac
tually, there will be a record
1.0M days, weeks and months
at least according ti Chases'
Calendar of annual events
which lists all the special oh
servanees and events sched
uled for the coming year.
Some of them arc well known:
Mother's l)ay. Fire Prevention
Week. Heart Month and so on.
Others are little less likely lo up
set the everyday rimline. as. for
instance: Buzzard Day. Barbecue
Month. While Bread Sales Month.
Mule Your Muffler Month. Pencil
Week. Satan's Holiday (Hell.
Mich . and Benjamin Harrison's
Birthday.
Of all nf Ihe wnilhless. frus
trating. Irritating hnme neeupa
palinns. I rate hunting for kids'
shoes the top nf the list.
1 don't profess lo he a public '
speaker, but I have put together
some information in a talk about
Ihe proposed Revised Oregon
Constitution. If your program
chairman is despctate because!
his program has blown up in his
or her face for some reason or
another, I'm ready on short no
tice to fill the gap. Beside.
I d like to have more people know
more about Ihe rather sweeping
changes we are proposing for the
new Constitution.
Right ahout now wnuld he a
good time tor snmenne tn sug
gest that the City nf Klamath
Fall should annex the sur
rounding suburban areas,
I'm often reminded of the ob
servation of Cervantes who al
lowed that everyone i a Gid
niade him. and oftentimes a
gifid deal worse
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q Which I the nnlv crime
rlrarlv drfined in the C.S. Con
stitulinn? A Tirasnn