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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ok.
Friday, January II, 1963
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
Better Mouse Trap
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The
. The concern Is legitimate over whether
this country is going to have enough school
buildings and teachers to handle the rush of
young Americans who will be seeking educa
tion at all levels in the decade ahead.
. Yet it would be unwise to conclude that
if by some miracle we should meet these re
quirements we would have no other major
educational worries.
We must have youngsters who want to
learn. The forecast of 7.5 million school drop
outs for the next decade is strong evidence
that the urge to learn is not as deepset as it
Ought to be.
Francis Keppel, the new U. S. Commis
sioner of Education, looks to society in gen
eral and to the home in particular to provide
an atmosphere encouraging to the acquisition
of learning.
The best teachers and the best build
ings in the world will not help too much un
less U.S. children come to school fortified by
their parents with a love and respect for learn
ing and a powerful desire to acquire it.
"You can't buy a climate of thought of
the sort that is fundamental to the needs of
our 10 and 15-year-olds," says Keppel as he
plunges into his new job. .
. Entire schools can be weakened as insti
tutions if they happen to be populated largely
by students who are indifferent to learning
and have no understanding of its importance.
;' This fact explains in part why many
(Eugene Register Guard)
Down In Klamath County, where land use
regulations (zoning) are being proposed
and vociferously opposed the Herald and
News has found it necessary to explain the
difference between zoning and urban renew
al J: It seems that some Klamath residents
have had the erroneous notion that the City
of Springfield recently voted to throw out its
zoning ordinance. Others have thought that
zoning and urban renewal are one and the
same. And still others have believed that zon
ing would dictate even the types of building
materials which would have to be used in local
construction.
The Herald and News deserves praise
for attempting to explain, without arousing
needless new emotions, that urban renew
al: Is distinguished from zoning in the same
way that preventive medicine is distinguished
THESE DAYS . .
Deflation Period Coming
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
It used to be axiomatic that
alter every big war there must
come a period of deflation, when
prices are put through the wring
er; Hut for almost 20 years the
demands of the cold war have
served to obscure this fundamen
tal truth as it applies to the
aftermath of World War II.
Now, however, as Congress
meets to face up to some neces
sarily painful decisions, the long
overdue reckoning seems about to
present Itself. This means perplex
ity and trouble to an adminis
tration which must have super
latively good times If it is to
finance its commitment to in
creased welfare expenditures. All
the traditional post-war birds of
ill ; omen seem at long last to
be. coming home to roost.
The result can hardly be an
era of good feeling. For periods
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Misguided
It Is my considered opinion lli.1t
favorable action on the present at
tempt to pass the so called inning
laws will only result in placing
another weapon in the hands of
the professional so - called "do
gooders" whose only mission in
life is to regulate the lives of the
other half.
Surely the number of families
which have moved to the various
suburban areas and pi it up with
all the minor inconveniences at
tached to living farther out in the
country have expressed their de
sire for this type of personal
privacy.
Now Is the time to put a stop
to this misguided effort of a few
to Impose their views on the ma
jority. II. D. Lindsey.
Love Of Learning
southerners protest the racial desegregation
of schools, since many Negro students have
not had the chance at home to discover what
learning is all about.
On the other hand, one southern gover
nor has said privately that this situation con
stitutes evidence that separate school facili
ties for Negroes can seldom in fact be "equal."
This amounts to saying that a good education
can only be had where the great majority of
the students want one and will work to get it.
As indicated, however, Commissioner
Keppel thinks society as well as the individual
family must have a proper interest in knowl
edge and its dissemination.
A society that does not care about learn
ing, is even perhaps suspicious of it or hostile
toward it, will find its attitudes reflected first
in the family and then in the offspring sent
off to school.
There are plenty of signs, current and
historical, that this country does not always re
spect the learning process as much as it might.
We are often distracted by what some call
the "practical" aspects of living as if a gen
uine education somehow were not practical.
But what we need to hear from Keppel,
from other educators, from the nation's lead
ers, is how we can build our youngsters a
better atmosphere of thought in a world daz
zled by its material attractions on the one
hand and stifled by destructive poverty and
ignorance on the other.
Zoning' Is Protective
from radical surgery. Good zoning laws can
not assure perfection in community growth
entirely by themselves. Sometimes, despite
'diligent zoning efforts, cancerous areas do tie-
vclop and must then be removed by drastic
means demolition and rebuilding. But,
where zoning is instituted soon enough and
employed with proper concern for both pri
vate and general public interests, the proba
ble need for either privately financed or government-instituted
urban renewal can be con
siderably reduced.
This is essentially the point the Register
Guard and other newspapers have been trying
to make in supporting proposals for zoning
coastal areas of Lane, Douglas and Coos coun
ties. The only real difference is that if these
coastal areas are allowed to become blighted
because land uses have not been regulated
within them, there can be no effective renew
ing of their lost beauty, their magnificent na
tural splendor.
of falling prices and an intensified
struggle for work markets always
seem to abound in agony. Dur
ing the long post-Napoleonic dec
ades in Britain the pioneer so
cialists bemoaned the effect of
new textile mill automation on
jobs, and English farmers fought
bitterly against proposals to re
peal the tariff on imported wheat.
The period culminated in the
strikes and demonstrations of the
"hungry is." when Friedrich En
gcls. Karl Marx's collaborator,
predicted, mistakenly as it turned
out, that the "workers, the great
majority of Uie nation, will not
endure II." What Engels did not
sec was that even in the 4fts
more workers were making more
money in spite of hard times.
The ugly manifestations of de
flation appeared in the post
livil War United .States when,
during the long period between
the panic ol 1873 and the coming
of tlie McKinley boom in the late
90s, farmers and working men
seemed to be calling for Hcd
Revolution. In 1877, railroad em
ployes, protesting wage cuts,
burned railroad yard equipment.
There were the cries against the
new "trusts" in oil and sugar,
llusiness fought hungrily for high
er tariffs; the farmers organized
to battle the railroads in states
which lacked a water-borne al
ternative to rail transport; and
practically every session of Con
gress witnessed the drive of free
silver advivates as tliey strove
to "expand" the currency by
pressing for unlimited treasury
purchase of a metal that was be
coming far more plentiful than
gold.
Hie (act that falling prices and
increased factory automation pro
voke loud outcries. howeer, usu
ally cloaks a mysterious advance
in the general well being Though
it is not felt immediately, people
are belter off. Ileal waces, as
opposed to inflationary wates. rise
every time a retail price drops
by a few pennies And when the
shouting of the Jeremiahs is over,
it is generally found that "de
flated'' uUoa has advanced to
new grounds of productivity and
prosperity.
It certainly happened that way
in the late 19th Century in Ameri
ca. The proof of the pudding is to
lie found in the statistics. During
the 1855-1895 interval there was
an average yearly increase of
1.27 per cent in wage rates reck
oned in terms of what could be
bought with an hour's wages.
Thus, during the 40-year span
that included the great post-Civil
War deflation, labor made a very
ponderable advance in the pur
chasing power of its wages. Dur
ing the supposedly "good times''
of 18-1916, on the olK-r hand,
the annual rise in real wages fell
off to a meager .55 per cent av
erage. To ieoplc who hold on to their
jobs, then, deflationary periods
are. paradoxically, the times most
productive of advancing com
fort and well-being. Hut. though
job -holders always constitute the
vast majority of the work-willing
population even when prices arc
falling, nobody ever organizes a
pressure group to defend their
slake in better real wages. The
inefficient marginal groups that
are hurt by falling prices get all
the attention, for they are al
ways making the loudest noise.
If rationality were to govern in
politics, which it admittedly sel
dom docs, the answer of Congress
to tlie threatened onset of a de
flationary epoch would be to
lake economist Arthur Hums'
advice and concentrate on the
one tactic or providing (or in
creased unemployment insurance
coerage. If relief were to be
funnelled into this narrow but ef
fective area, the larger spending
schemes could be cancelled or at
least postponed. Meanwhile, with
the budget balanced at a lower
level of government spending, the
great joh-holdinf majority would
benefit from tlie deflation of
pines. And industry, forced to
piovide for divxtcnds out of cost
rutting iiicenuity, would emerge a
disciplined source of "more goods
for less money" (or the popula
tion as a whole.
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The Just And The Unjust
(From The Wall Street Journal)
We guess we don't run in the
right social circles.
For years we have been read
ing those books about wild living
in the suburbs and wondering
somewhat plaintively why the ex
citement seems to pass us by. In
years of suburban living the wild
est shock to the even tenor ot our
domesUcity was the day the dog
drank up tlie cocktails and bit
the mayor. It was weeks before
we were forgiven.
For almost as long, we've been
reading about all this notorious
highliving on the expense ac
count, boats and all that, and
groaning over what we seem to
have missed. After a quarter
century in that den of iniquity.
Wall Street, no one has tempted
our journalistic virtue with even
so much as a night at a hunting
lodge, much less a sca-going voy
age. Where, indeed, are all those
expense-account yachts?
True, we aren't without sin, as
defined in the new dogma of the
Internal Revenue Service. We suf
fer business luncheons dreadfully
often and when we turn in the
voucher we don't deduct tlie $1.23
we would have spent anyway for
the Blue Plate special. A man is
entitled to some recompense' for
punishment in line of duty.
When business takes us to Peo
ria or Dubuque, as it docs all too
often, we take an aperitif before
dinner, choose tlie steak over tlie
chicken-a-la-king and sometimes
splurge on the movies, charging
the lot to the stockholders. If it
weren't for their business we
Wouldn't be there at all, and
frankly we have better steaks at
home.
Moreover, tlie children being
more or less at the age of discre
tion, we have lately taken our
wife along on some trips. We
haven't persuaded the curmudg
eonly auditor to okay her ex
penses, but not long aco we drove
to Washington on legitimate busi
ness if talking to a Senator is
legitimate) and our wife rode
along in the car. Even that bale
ful auditor didn't ask us to re
imburse the company for the
equivalent price of her bus ticket.
Give or tike a few details, this
Is not unlike the situation of thou
sands of businessmen in a country
where men at work are ceaseless
ly traveling to and fro. The door-to-door
salesman and the (lying
corporate executive are brotliers
under the skin; they are working
also when they pass the time of
day with the lady at the door or
the business acquaintance across
the luncheon table Sometimes the
smartest business is not to talk
"business" at all but to be friend
ly, interested: to listen and to
learn. Only ignorant and petty
minds could imagine that I h e
"free" lunch is all beer and skit
tles. Rut now it turns out that all
THEY
SAY...
The fact is, many people live
through their whole lives in com
parative happiness and productiv
ity . . . and never really think
at all
Dr. Kranris A. Cartirr. author
ity on communications, saving we
should stop worry Ing, Hart think
ing constructively .
Although love is ow o( the
greatest emotions o( life, it is
unquestionable that live rrrMion of
labor ami creative work is hichcr.
Dr. Mikhail TsenWner. In Mnv
row's "Young Communist" newspaper.
this is under the suspicion of
undermining the public morality
and the solvency of the U.S.
Treasury. In any event the gov
ernment is going to treat all the
people as crooks until proven oth
erwise. This suspicion of malefaction
flows from every word of the new
regulations on record-keeping, pe
dantic in language and picayune
in detail, drawn up by tlie Inter
nal Revenue Service.
Hereafter you must account to
the government not only for your
yacht but the beer you buy a
business acquaintance. The docu
ments for any "entertainment,"
no matter how trivial, must in
clude tlie amount, date, place by
name and address, type (mar
tini or ham sandwich?), explana
tion of the "benefit" to be re
turned for this bounty, the name
of the recipient and sufficient
documentation to explain your
extravagance to the satisfaction
of any revenue agent who sub
sequently examines your tax re
port. And if perchance on a trip you
spend more than $25 in any day
you must itemize everything else
too the day you left home, day
you got back, every telephone
call, meal, cup of coffee, taxi
cab and bus fare. If you want
your books to balance, you'd bet
ter even keep track of the postage
stamps for the letters to the home
office.
The sheer absurdity of this
avalanche of paper-work is only
the beginning. The metaphysicians
of Mr. Mortimer Caplin's bureau
cracy have now gone off to mull
such esoteric questions as: What,
precisely, constitutes a "busi
ness meal?" What is the allow
able difference in cost between a
lunch for a life insurance prospect
i $5,000 policy! and the prospect
for an electric dynamo ($5 mil
lion sale1? Can you also buy
lunch for the prospect's wife, or
do you suggest she go eat in the
drug store? What if your own
wife is along too do you leave
her back in the hotel room to
munch a hamburger and watch
television?
As ridiculous as these ques
tions sound, they are precisely
the sort of thing that must now
be decided upon at the highest
levels, and Mr. Caplin confesses
quite understandably, we think
that it w ill be some weeks be
fore we can expect any official en
lightenment. It has never been
easy to decide how many angels
can dance on the head of a pin.
Vet it is neither the absurdity
of the paper-work nor the ridicu
lousness of the metaphysics that
is the true evil.
Here is a situation in which
the government is. no doubt about
it. confronted with a problem.
Some people do hide yachts in
oxensc accounts, just as some do
hide misbehavior in the suburbs,
and the government has the power
to deal w ith tlie real tax cheaters.
But the vast majority of the
people everywhere lead quiet,
placid and upright lives, and the
v ast majority of those w hose tax
es support the government give an
honest accounting of their affairs.
Yet here we use the majesty of
the law to treat every taxpayer
as a potential cheater because pin
Ivcad minds ran think of no other
way; the integrity of all must be
insulted, ami the conduct of their
affairs made insufferable, be
cause of the sins of the few.
Now completely apart from this
question of expense accounts,
this is a philosophy of government
which is evil in itself. We once
had an example of this when, to
stop a few people (rem drinking
too much, we adopted prohibition
which treated all men as potential
alcoholics. Surely the results have
not left our memory.
The results of this noble experi
ment can also be foreseen. These
new rules will give trouble only
to honest men. The real "opera
tor" the man who is really out
to cheat on his taxes can drive a
truck through them.
The smart lawyers are already
figuring out the perfectly legal
loopholes; beyond that, those with
larceny in their hearts will not be
disturbed because they will show
records, receipts and paper ac
counts by the carload. As sure
as tlie sun rises tomorrow, to
day's rules will have to be fol
lowed tomorrow by new rules
upon new rules "tightening" the
rules.
And while all this is going on,
the honest man the man who
takes a business trip to do an
honest job for his company and
with no desire to cheat either his
company or his country that man
w ill see himself not merely laden
with burdensome paperwork but
with the fear that everything he
does is under suspicion.
Because he honestly tries to
keep honest records, all the rec
ords will be there and he can be
called up a year later, two years
later, and find that what he did
in good faith is adjudged wrong
by some petty bureaucrat im
bued with the idea that any ex
pense account must conceal some
wickedness. The smart operator
will have his lawyers; the little
taxpayer will be helpless against
the insolence of office.
We submit that to order the
public affairs in this manner is
an affront to the public morality,
just as it would be for the state
to require of every citizen a de
tailed accounting of his home-coming-and-going
because some
men cheat. That government gov
erns illy which can find no other
way to deal with malefactors than
to maltreat all of its citizens,
the just and the unjust alike.
POTOMAC
FEVER
Barry Goldwater says he wants
a year to decide whether to run
for the White House. Atter all. it's
a big job. There are an awful
lot of clocks in that place to turn
back.
They've put Moise Tshombe
under curfew In the Congo. He's
the first revolutionary in his
tory to go on the eight-hour
day.
The Comptroller General charg
es that millions have been wasted
.n aid to Korea. Congressional
leaders arc upset. That kind of
money is supposed to be wasted
at home.
Ode lo the White House
"background" news conference:
We've learned from a fashionable
source Uiat the leak in Palm
Beach wasn't Morse. Nor was the
chief villain Do Gaulle or Mac
millan. but tlie man who feeds
Caroline's horse.
Q VI hat's 'the difference be
tween news and gossip? A
News is something had that
happens lo you. (rfftfip Is some
bad thai you wish would happen
to you.
Republicans are striving for a
more youthful look. Trouble is.
it s hard to look vital and buoyant
when your fret are killing vou
from all that marking time
FLETCHER KNEBEL
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
I happened to overhear three
women at a luncheon table next
to mine discussing a childless
couple they knew. One of the
women wondered why the couple
hadn't had children, and the sec
ond woman suggested that per
haps they couldn't.
"And maybe they don't want
to," chimed in the third. "Don't
assume that every couple wants
children some couples shouldn't'
have them, and arc smart
enough to know it."
Her comment (with which I
fully agreed) reminded me of a
passage in a Robert Louis Steven
son story, in which a doctor is
congratulating himself and his wife
that their marital state has not
been "marred" by the presence
of children.
Looking up the passage later,
I found that this was what the hus
band said to his wife:
"I think of it more and more
as the years go on, and w ith more
and more gratitude toward the
Powers that dispense such afflic
tions. Your health, my darling, my
studious quiet, our little kitchen
delicacies, how they would all
have been sacrificed! And for
what?
"Children," he went on, "are
the last word of human imper
fection: health flees before their
face. They cry, my dear; they
WASHINGTON
South
Active
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Shortly before he was to take
his oath of office last week as a
U.S." Senator, South Dakota's
George McGovern told a news
paper friend:
"Since the end of World War II,
my overriding interest has been
in exploring every avenue for the
attainment of world peace."
Few of those who have fol
lowed McGovern on his path to
the U.S. Senate disagree. They
point out, however, that not a few
of those "avenues" that he ex
plored are little traveled.
There are few men in public life
who have, for instance, advo
cated U.S. foreign aid to the Red
Chinese. There are few who pro
fessed to "understand" Russian
opposition to NATO. There are
few who ridiculed U.S. efforts to
secure free elections in eastern
Europe, but McGovern did all
three.
Nearly 15 years ago McGovern
supported the Presidential candi
dacy of Henry Agard Wallace,
whose Progressive Parly was lat
er shown by a Congressional
Committee to be Communist
controlled. In a letter to the Mitchell
(S.D.) Daily Republic in 1948,
McGovern wrote: "I take my hat
off to this much smeared man
who has had tlie fortitude to
take his stand against those pow
erful forces of fear, militarism,
nationalism and greed. I'm tired
of listening to the thoughtless
jeers and charges of 'crackpot'
and 'Communist' being thrown
bis way."
In conclusion. McGovern asked
that someone "take live time to
point out to me those specific
issues wherein Wallace de
parts from the Sermon on the
Mount."
McGovern earned his Ph.D. at
Northwestern University in Ev
anston. III., then returned to
South Dakota to enter state pol
itics. Taking control of a listless
Democratic machine in 1953. Mc
Govern demonstrated political
acumen, so much so that three
years later he won ejection to
the U.S. House.
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Friday. Jan. 18. the
18th day of the 196.1 with 347 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars.
Tlie evening stars arc Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this day include
orator and statesman Daniel
Webster in 1782.
On this day in history:
In 1788. the first English set
tlement in Australia was made at
Botany Bay.
In 1912. En:li.-h explorer Capt.
Robert Scott reached the South
Pole, only to find that Norwegian
explorer Koald Amundsen got
there five weeks ahead of him
!n 1943. Moscow annminied
Nazi Germany had lifted its sieje
of Leningrad whuh had lasted
since the autumn of 1941.
In lft'H). tlie Senate repealed the
tax on oleomargarine despite
pressure from dairy interests.
A tlwught fur the day Britain's
Sir Winston 1'hur-hiil said "When
you have to kill a m,m it costs
nothing to be pohtr."
put vexatious questions; they de
mand to be fed, to be washed,
to be educated; and then, when
the time comes, they break our
hearts, as I break this piece of
sugar. A pair of professed egoists
like you and me should avoid
offspring like an infidelity."
How many other "professed
egoists" are so candid and self
discerning? How many others of
this type delude themselves that
they want a child, when all they
really want is the abstract idea
of a child? How many have
children because it seems the
thing to do, but would be far hap
pier without such encumbrances?
Many childless couples genuine
ly yearn for offspring and would be
excellent parents; but just as
many prefer their childless state,
knowing either consciously or un
consciouslythat they lack the
patience or the interest required
for rearing a child properly.
The world is full of couples who
should not have had children, who
resent the obligations it imposes
upon them, and who turn the re
sentment upon the children in ob
vious or subtle forms. How much
more clean and honest to admit
that two professed egoists have
no room in their lives for another
personality, and thus to spare
themselves, the child and society
from the damaging consequences
of this twisted relationship.
REPORT
Dakota Solon
Left Fielder
There McGovern put his brother-in-law,
Lawrence Pennington,
on the office payroll at $8,663 a
year despite the fact that Pen
nington was teaching at Dakota
Wesleyan University back home.
Neither McGovern nor his new
employe bothered to tell the uni
versity president that Professor
Pennington was drawing a sec
ond pay check.
After 2'i months on the'fedcral
payroll, Pennington came east to
McGovern's office. The Congress
man had guaranteed a place for
him by slashing the salaries of
two other employes.
Brother - in - law Pennington
was not the only relative to re
ceive a little boost from Congress
man McGovern, however. Broth
er Lawrence was hired as a Capi
tol cop at $4,725 a year.
After two House terms. Mc
Govern ran for the Senate in
I960, against the Republican in
cumbent, Karl Mundt, going down
to defeat. A fervent backer of
John Kennedy, the unemployed
Congressman was hired as direc
tor of the Food for Peace Agen
cy. In that job, McGovern kept
one eye on foreign countries, one
eye on South Dakota politics.
When Republican Sen. Francis
Case, up for re-election in 1962.
died early last year, McGowrn
flew home and opened a whirl
wind campaign for his seat.
Poor Joe Bottum, the GOP
nominee, never had a chance.
While Bottum, the interim ap
pointee, toiled in Washington, Mc
Govern criss-crossed the state,
gaining ground he never lost.
With substantial labor aid, in
cluding some from the Teamsters
of Jimmy Hoffa, McGovern
squeaked to victory by fewer
than 500 votes.
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Error
We live in a fast changing
world, in which the inconceivable
of one age becomes the com
monplace of the next, but there
are certain values that remain
constant, like freedom, liberty and
independence. These ideals we
cling to and cherish, in our chang
ing world. They are top values.
Our lives, like history, turn
upon small hinges. Our day to
day decisions about things that
we shall allow to matter, will
shape and mold our future: and
this applies to suburban zoning,
just as it docs to Uie farm pro
gram and other controls in effect.
The lighter control and zoning
of our suburbs will cause hard
ship to some, and cause the sur
render of certain freedoms by all
of us affected.
Are we to continue to allow this
era in which we live lo become
more and more an asc of submis
sive easiness, permitting the grow
ing of fatty tissues around our
top values, allowing things that
do matter to us to be decided by
others''
It was quite erroneous at the
beginning, by whoever was in
authority, to so much as consider
tne laying on of these added
controls, witliout a vote from the
people concerned.
Everett Dennis, Realtor