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Sunday, January 20, 3
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The Spoon-Fed Generation
: You can find a hatful of theories about
Hie causes of juvenile crime. The trouble wiih
most of them is that they seem only partial
explanations.
: For example, such usually cited factors as
poverty, bad housing, broken homes, racial
discrimination and poor schooling obviously
don't play any role in the substantial amount
o( crime committed by well cared for young
sters in U.S. suburbs.
The playwright Arthur Miller, writing not
long ago in Harpers, searched hard for a real
common thread, one which would bind togeth
er juvenile crime not just in this country but
all over the world. It runs high in Europe
even in the Soviet Union.
Miller believes he has found the bond. He
thinks it is an all pervading boredom, a
strange kind of emptiness of the mind and
spirit.
; This, he says, is not the boredom of Idle
ness alone, though there can be little doubt
that the joblessness of ill-trained youngsters
contributes.
: The emptiness he speaks of comes from
an absence of challenges, a lack of genuine,
meaningful conflicts, a failure to test the in
dividual's will and capacity.
The poor man's son sees the government,
with some erratic exceptions, providing wel
fare checks. The rich man's son sees his fath
er providing cars, television sets, cameras, at
the asking.
: When does cither young man learn he
niust earn the rewards of life?
: In this grand age of excuse and permis
siveness, the youth, rich or poor, is forgiven
virtually all his errors by the courts, the wel
An
(Oregon-Statesman, Salem)
: J. W. Forrester Jr., publisher of the
P.endlcton East Orcgonian, enjoyed a holiday
a), the Oregon Coast recently and upon his
rbturn wrote the following in his column "Of
Cabbages and Kings": .
We have never regretted leaving
the coast to come to Eastern Oregon but
getting back to the coast for only a day or
two is always good for the spirit. Like the
big sky of Eastern Oregon the Pacific
Ocean is a tonic for the soul.
The rain-dwellers of Western Oregon
might well turn this about. Although our
roots burrow deeply in the soil of the Wil
lamette Valley, no one can consider himself
a "compleat" Orcgonian without an occasion
al pilgrimage to the beauty which lies cast
af the Cascades.
Negotiable
By JOHN GOl'l.D
In The Christian Science Monitor
One of the bread bakers has put
a hip, billboard on the slate mad.
and it gladdens the passing world
with the important news that the
shortening now being used con
tains 21 per cent less fat. Thus
we course the accelerated journey
of our wonderlul times. This extra
bonus of nonfat-fat will make us
all want to buy this fine product.
- In my youth about the only
bonus I can think of that derived
from canny purchasing was the
Utile pieces of paslclioard lhat
separated the layers of Shredded
Micat. These were handy for
many things, and none went to
waste. Oh. dun't let this sound
like a gratuitous endorsement of
shredded wheat biscuits, which
I never particularly liked. What
I'm endorsing is the basic mar
keting principles of Shredded
Wheat, who simply sold shredded
wheats, and didn't nice us In
buy Uiem because we got paHr
to do school work on. Those won
derful little sheets of cardboard
were never figured into Ihc deal.
I'm back in the days of rooked
cereals, naturally. We usually had
oatmeal, laced with molasses and
lied down with pan cream, and
D was cooked all night in a double-boiler,
which was an imple
ment of homemaking now almost
forgotten. Now and then, lo spue
up the outlook, the oatmeal shift
ed to cornmeal mush, and may
be to a wheat cereal. Whichever
it was. it got dipped by a long
handled spoon Into a soup plate,
and if we didn't eal it we wouldn't
get any Iried potatoes, eggs and
meat, biscuils and pie.
But there were already several
dry cereals on the market, which
were considered all right for sum
mertime, when a person could
eal light. We children considered
H a treat to tackle, occasionally,
t lie novelty of pulled wheals,
ahrodded wheats, and corn flakes.
And 1 always had a preference
fare agencies and social workers, the indul
gent parents. Few if any demands are made
upon him.
In this situation, it is suggested, he manu
factures excitement by venturing into daring
and often brutal crime. The "senseless" as
sault perhaps makes sense only as a momen
tary release from boredom.
Parents, indeed the whole adult world,
cannot be relieved of heavy responsibility for
creating the vacuum in which today's young
sters thresh about often so wildly. But nei
ther can the young be absolved of blame.
One individual who seems to see things
this way recently addressed teen-agers
through the columns of a Washington news
paper. To young folk bemoaning their sad lot,
he wrote:
'.'GO HOME! Hang the storm windows,
paint the woodwork. Rake the leaves. . . .
Shovel the walk. Wash the car. Learn to cook.
"Help the minister .... Visit the sick. As
sist the poor. Study your lessons. And then
when you are through and not too tired
read a book.
"Your parents do not owe you entertain
ment. . . . The world does NOT owe you a
living. You owe the world something ....
your time and energy and your talents, so that
no one will be at war or in poverty, or sick,
or lonely again.
"In plain simple words: GROW UP. Quit
being a crybaby. Get out of your dream world.
Develop a backbone, not a wishbone. And
start acting like a man or a lady. . . ."
For parents and children alike, these
words make a cracking good reading lesson
with which to begin a new year.
Integrated State
Time has stood still in much of that
vast region. Whereas Nature has covered the
work of the ages with a verdure of soil and
greenery west of the mountains, in Eastern
Oregon the upheavals of eons past are still
exposed for all to wonder at.
In the minds of some, Oregon is two states
divided by the Cascades. Certainly, in terms
of climate, and somewhat in terms of eco
nomics, the division is evident. It crops up
politically, too.
We prefer to think of the two parts as
complementary rather than separate. As trav
el becomes easier, each section draws increas
ingly on the other's recreational resources.
In industry, when a company diversi
fies and expands so it no longer has to rely
on other companies, it is said to be integrated.
Oregon, thanks to the diversity within its uni
ty, is integrated rccrcatinnally.
Shredded
for shredded wheals because of
the sheets of paper. 1 am happy
to report there has been no great
change, for to document this splen
did report I went to Ihe store
and bought the lust package of
shredded wheat biscuits we've
had in the liousc in 40 years, and
the separating stationery is still
to be had. It was truly a won
derful thing, to find in this mael
strom of change, lhat one small
ish nialter has been faithful. I feel
I Ins strongly overcomes the nor
mal editorial reluctance to give
lice publicity to a commercial
venture.
Paper wasn't too easy lo come
by back in those times. We were
always frugal with what we had.
and did our sums small jo we'd
have room. Mother used to keep
a shredded wheat card behind
Hie mirror in the kitchen, (or her
egg records. I remember Father
used a whole sheet one time to
send a note to Mori Guptill. say
ing. "Will you come Sal. and help
me with the well." and Mother
chided him fust lor using a whole
sheet for such a short message,
and then for writing a note at all
because Mori couldn't read any
way. Word of mouth would have
been good enough, and the shred
ded wheals would have lasted that
much longer.
Shredded Wheat paper was ne
gotiable. A man came one eve
ning and wanled to borrow money
from my uncle to buy a mowing
machine, and I'm le wrote out a
note on a shredded wheat slip
letter, my uncle needed Ihe mon
ey, so he discounted the note at
Ihe bank. Somehow this implies
an integrity lhat comlorls me as
I contemplalc in later limes Ihe
new kind of bread thai has 21
icr cent less fat in Ihe fal.
I can aver, loo. that shiocMcd
wheals had a cultural cnnlrilui
lion I mean over and above the
homework we did on them. They
made an authoress of my moth
er. (or one thing. Mother never
Wheat
wrote much of anything except
notes lo my leaehers. but the
clean shape of the shredded w heal
teased her into excellence, and
she comiKised notes that deserve
historical attention. At first she
used to write, "Please excuse
John for being late, he was de
lajed." But these ripened into
masterpieces of composition:
"Honored and esteemed sir In
Ihe vast press of matutinal obli
gations; coupled with the reluct,
ance of a water pump to thaw out
by reasonable persuasion, time
elapsed until my son (ell upon a
dclicit schedule. Please be so
good as to make allowances, etc."
Well, my father had an o d d
business that kept him away from
home a week at a lime, and then
lie would be home lor a week,
and while he was away the barn
clinics were all mine. I would
hear Ihe school bell ringing de
mandingly across the fields, and
while my mates were gathering
(or opening exercises 1 would still
be coaxing a calf to drink, or try
ing to get Ihe hay thrown down
Mother would have a nole ready
by my dinner bucket i( one were
needed, ami I would come chain
ing inlo school and hand it to
the principal.
It was on a shredded wheat lli.it
my mother wrote the gre.ile-t
noloto-a-ioachor of all lime She
had palicnlly explained to Hie
gentleman that family cucum
stances obliged me to slick to
the last, and that while she re
gretted my frequent tardiness
she was dving the best she could
and his understanding would be
appreciated. My father, also, had
put in a word of explanation, lint
Ihe principal slill thought he was
obliged lo pursue Ihe mailer, and
one day he gave me a nole to
take home to Mother w Inch said,
"Isn't there something we can do
lo get John to school on time "'
Mother used a whole slueclded
wheal. She wrote, back. "IVm t
si.ut until he gets theie "
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IN WASHINGTON
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
To read Ihe newspapers, every
thing is over for Katanga but the
wake. President Moise Tshombe
is finished and the U.N. has suc
ceeded in substituting chaos for
order. Forgotten completely is Dr.
Albert Schweitzer's humanitarian
warning that "if Katanga is un
willing lo be reunited with the
Congo, Ihc U.N. should respect
its wishes and not try to impose
its own will at any cost."
Here in Washington, however,
the big question is how Congress
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
In Charles Osgood's brilliant
new book. "An Alternative to War
or Surrender" which could just
ly be subtitled. "Neither Red Nor
Dead" the author, who is di
rector of the Institute of Com
munications Research at the Uni-
vcisily of Illinois, devotes an
opening chapter to what he prop
erly calls our "Neanderthal Men
tality." Prof. Osgood points out that Ne
anderthal Man died out in large
part because he had little pa
tience with paradoxes and puz
zles, because he lived in the past
and was unable to adjust to
changing conditions. Then the au
thor lists four of Ihe principal
paradoxes in the world today:
1. "The greater the destructive
capacity of the weawns in our
hands, the less most people seem
to worry about it."
2. "While feverishly engaged in
a nuclear arms race, both sides
express peaceful intentions and
Icrvcnt holies that these weap
ons will never be used."
.1. "The more nations spend for
what they call 'defense. Ihe less
real security their people have."
4. "The greater a nation's mil
itary power, the less seems lo he
its Ireedom of initiative in foreign
policy."
Consider, for instance, the third
paradox, aUiut "the more arms.
Ihe less security." As Prof. Os
good says, "Who will deny that
over the past 10 years we have
been steadily increasing our ex
penditures tor weapons? And who
will deny that now we aie really
levs sale, less secure, less defend
ed than ever betore in our nation
al history'.'
"The reason for this." he ex
plains, "is lo be found in a basic
fact about military technology in
a nuclear age. This is the fact
lhat offensive capability has com
pletely outstripped delcusive ca
pability. Policy makers are fond
of talking about great defensive
'shields' or 'umbrellas.' but these
delenses are more in men's minds
than their weapons. Defense in
tins nuclear age adds up to little
more than mutual (car."
Only by recognizing Ihe Nean
derthal within us can we hope lo
control him. Ihe author warns
We cannot avoid global war by
denying the threat, by ignoring
the paradoxes, by adopting slo
gans and attitudes lli.it are total
Is outmoded. Nor can we avoid
war by "frightening Ihe living
daylights out of people" with
s Katanga Story Ended?
will react to the Administration's
support of U.N. aggression in Af
rica. There are Democrats and
Republicans in both Houses who
are not happy over America's role
in the Congo crisis, and they have
a number of interesting questions
to ask.
Representative Donald C. Bruce
ilnd.l, for example, has been ask
ing why the State Department and
the U.N. should be siding with
the corrupt and anti-democratic
central Congolese government. He
has no firm answers, but he is
disturbed by what he has so far
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
apocalyptic visions of the world's
extermination for this only
makes people dig their heads
deeper in the sand.
"An Alternative to War or Sur
render" offers some practical,
sensible alternatives lo Red or
dead. It should be studied care
fully by all who do not want to
perish like the Neanderthals.
POTOMAC
FEVER
One thing about JFK's slalc-of-the
union message. Democratic
speech-writers never have to grope
around for enough problems to
pad out the text.
Experts predict the economy
will move sideways in I DM. Just
ai Gov. Pat Rrown boasted: ev
erything's sliding toward Cali
fornia. Right-wingers hold a two-day
conference in Washington. They
didn't dare stay around the New
Frontier any longer or somebody
might sneak in and give them a
government subsidy.
Psychiatrist: The fellow who
keeps track of your social inse
curity number.
The temperature drops to IS
below In Lai Vegas. They're
river-doing this business of a
cold deck.
Trouble with the Republican
party, it can never seem to got
equal time in this population ex.
plosion.
THEY
SAY...
Roth sides should pull back
their forward troops from actual
contact with each other un Eu
rope1. . . . Both in Berlin and
elsewhere there are loo many
soldiers about. They are a most
awful nuisance.
Field Marshal Montgomery.
The person from Ml to 73 ye.us
old is an advanced middle ager
now Homes for the aged are no
longer places for retirement
Morris ZrldlUh nl New York
School f Social Work.
discovered. Without making any
charges, he offers the following
evidence:
1. Katanga's importance to the
rest of the world involves the rich
cobalt and uranium mines in that
country.
2. A European cartel has for
some time cast covetous eyes on
the Katanga mines. With Presi
dent Tshombe out of the way, this
cartel will probably pre - empt
these valuable properties.
3. Fowler Hamilton w as a direc
tor of this cartel until he became
the Administration's foreign aid
chief. He was succeeded by his
law parlncr in this enterprise.
4. Undersecretary of State
George W. Ball, prior to becom
ing a part of the Administration,
handled the law business in this
country for the cartel. His former
law firm is still active in t h e
business,
5. Bo Gustaf Hammarskjold,
brother of the late Secretary-General
of the U.N., is also a director
of this mining cartel.
6. Sturc Linner was executive
vice president of one of the com
panies in the cartel. He is now a
U.N. representative in the Con
go, and therefore partly respon
sible for the events of the last
months.
7. Sven Schwartz is an officer
of the cartel. He is also an adviser
to the United Nations in the Con
fto. 8. Another officer of the cartel
was connected in an advisory ca
pacity to the U.N. in the Congo.
In short, present and past of
ficials of the United States and
the United Nations had connec
tions with a company which stood
to gain by the ruthless destruc
tion of President Tshombe and
the subjugation of an independent
Katanga. Neither Mr. Bruce nor
those members of Congress who
are troubled by these facts be
lieve lhat the U.S. officials in
volved were trying to make a
fast buck. But it often happens
that previous associations condi
tion a man's thinking. In the case
of the U.N. officials. Ihe motiva
tion is a little harder to explain.
Without beating to death the
conllict-of-intercst theme, it is ob
vious that a coupling of the dol
lar sign with the ideological com
mitment of officials such as Secretary-General
U Thant creates
an explosive mixture.
There is a certain irony to the
exploration of these factors. For
the anti-Katanga and anti-Tshom-be
forces at the U.N. and in the
Administration have made tre
mendous use of the term "mer
cenary" in alluding to Mr. Tshom
lie's Belgian advisers. In describ
ing any activity of the Katangan
army or Mr. Tshombc's civilian
officers, it has been made to ap
pear that many thousands of Bel
gians were running the country as
agents of "white imperialism."
That there have been in the past
year fewer than 500 Belgians help
ing to administer Katanga is a
fact that will not be learned from
the feverish U N. propaganda.
Don Bruce in the House and
Thomas J. Dodd iConn. i in Ihe
Senate would like a thorough in
vestigation of the men and mo
tives behind the Administration's
sordid involvement m the Katanga-Congo
crisis Whether Presi
dent Kennedy s representatives in
Congress will permit such an in
quiry is a matter lor conjecture.
II they do. it will be quite an
education.it performance
Congratulations to the recipients
of the awards, and to the Jaycees
for their selection of Jim Mon
teith as Klamath Falls Senior Citi
zen of the year and John Heil
bronner as the Junior Citizen.
Both are richly deserving.
Lest any reader get the wrong
impression 1 still regard festoon
ing of trees and yards with bath
room tissue as stupid, ill-consideredsomewhat
akin to tipping
over outhouses, putting cows in
the schoolhouse, or buggies on
top of the highest building in town
in the old days.
Ah, but, it was fun. wasn't it?
Even with equal, opportunities,
some people just aren't equal to
them.
It is a most gratifying thing lo
observe the speed and orderliness
w ith which the proposed intercom
munity hospital is proceeding. Of
inestimable worth is the fash
ion in which doctors of the com
munity have closed ranks to as
sure the development and ultimate
success of the project. We must
bear in mind that the medical pro
fession in Klamath Falls has for
years provided the facilities for
the practice of medicine. This is
a unique situation, and I don't
blame the doctors one bit for
yielding to an opportunity to get
rid of the burden of operating
hospitals.
Too, I've never observed such
unrestrained enthusiasm on the
part of the public to accept the
responsibility and the challenge
to get a Job done as has been
exhibited thus far in the organi
zation of the fund-raising cam
paign. If that enthusiasm and
interest is maintained, I haven't
the slightest doubt that what
ever goal is finally needed, we'll
get the money.
Incidentally, a word of caution
about the monetary goal might be
in order. The suggested minimum
goal of $723,000 to be raised lo
cally is predicated on the hope
and assumption that the project
will qualify for federal funds
through which one-half of the to-
WASHINGTON REPORT . .
Committee Studies
Radio Station Aims
By FULTON LEWIS, JR.
Quietly, behind closed doors.
Senate probers have opened an
investigation to determine wheth
er or not Communists have suc
ceeded in infiltrating a three-station
radio network.
The Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee began hearings last
week on the Pacifica Foundation,
which operates radio stations in
New York, Los Angeles, and
Berkeley, Calif.
One of the first witnesses was
Peter Odegard, a California pro
fessor who serves as a foundation
director. He is said to have an
swered all questions -put to him.
Not so Dorothy Healcy, a regu
lar commentator for the past throe
years over station KPFX, the Los
Angeles outlet. Mrs. Healey. a
paid organizer of the Communist
Party and Southern California
district chairman, refused to an
swer committee queries.
Another witness was Pauline
Schlinder, a Los Angeles widow
who has contributed funds to the
station. For Mrs. Schlinder, ac
tive in the fight to secure "jus
tice" for atom spies Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg a decade ago,
this was her second appearance
before a legislative body.
Ten years ago, she appeared be
fore a committee of Ihe Californ
ia Slate Senate investigating Com
munist activities in Los Angeles.
She refused to cooperate at that
time.
Stations of the Pacifica Foun
dation are devoted lo "exploring
the bases of a peaceful society."
Among regular commentators for
Ki'FA in Berkeley is William
Mandel. who look the Fifth
Amendment before a Senate Com
mittee when he was asked if he
had engaged in sabotage or es
pionage against the United Stales.
In subsequent testimony, before
the House Un-American Activi
ties Committee, in t0. Mandel
boasted that he "killed Senator
Joe McCarthy." then defied com
mittee members and refused to
answer questions about his party
activity.
Communist Party "historians."
Herbert Apthcker. editor of "Po
litical Affairs." has broadcast a
series on Marxism over the Los
Angeles station. Thai series was
later issued as a pamphlet i"The
Nature ot Revolution the Marxist
Theory of Social Change"' by
New Century Publishers, official
publishing house of the Commu
nist Party.
W. E. B Dubog-. an admitted
tal cost would be borne by the fed
eral government 'our own money
coming back to us somewhat di
luted i. If the project docs not
qualify under this federal grant,
it would then come under Hill
Burton funds another form of
federal largesse. Under Hill-Burton,
the project would qualify
for only one-third of the total cost.
This, of course, would mean that
more money would have to be
raised through local sources eith
er public subscription, or a bigger
bond mortgage arrangement. It
is possible that we would have to
raise an additional $200,000 or so,
if we do not qualify for the one
half federal grant.
There are an awful lot of busi
ness people if you include those
who are interested In every
body else's.
Another kind of population ex
plosion has been going on in re
cent years. This is the tremen
dous increase in the use of bank
checks. According to a leading
check printing company, some 15
billion checks were written,
cashed, and cancelled in 1962 a
500 per cent increase over 1940.
Those who like staggering sta
tistics can chew on these: All
these checks could form a paper
blcjchct covering 57,000 acres;
if put oo a scale they would
weigh 52 million pounds; put one
on top of the other they would
make a stack 1,000 miles high;
if placed end to end they would
reach 1,654,000 miles past the
moon.
Since checks go through from
nine to 18 bank operations before
finding their way back to the writ
er, banks and clearing houses
would have been smothered long
ago by this huge output were it
not for the aid of electronics.
About 80 per cent of checks are
now imprinted with symbols in
magnetic ink which can be
"read" by processing machines
at the rate of many thousands an
hpar. Unfortunately, most of us
find that the new checks are fully
as elastic as the old kind. They
still bounce from an overdrawn
account.
Communist, has used network fa
cilities to present laudatory pic
tures of Soviet Russia and Red
China.
Another familiar figure on the
network is Carey McWilliams, ed
itor of the Nation, who over the
years has compiled an extensive
Communist front record. He has
been chairman of the subversive
American Committee for the Pro
tection of the Foreign Born,
sponsor of the Civil Rights Con
gress, a member of the Ameri
can Peace Mobilization, an officer
of the National Federation of Con
stitutional Liberties, a contribu
tor to New Masses. The list goes
on and on.
Monthly Review, a Marxist
magazine, was granted time on
Pacifica stations for a scries of
programs called "If This Be Rea
son." The first commentator was
Corliss Lamonl, who has a Com
munist front record.
Pacifica recently presented
Jack Levine. a one - time FBI
agent, in a two-and-onc half hour
attack upon the bureau and its
chief, J. Edgar Hoover. Levine
was subsequently thrown out of
a Congressional hearing when,
as a member of the audience, he
became hysterical and demanded
the investigation be called off.
Immediately after President
Kennedy initiated his blockade of
Cuba last October, a panel of
three professors took to the KPFA
airways. Stanford's Paul Barsn
said the blockade was no more
than an excuse for a "bloodbath"
and "rape'' of Cuba by the Pres
ident. Raran. who has called Fi
del Castro "one of the great men
of tins century," denied any bel
ligerent plans on the part of Cas
tro or Nikita Khrushchev.
KFPA came under fire in 19"4
for a broadcast in which four
drug addicts extolled the virtues
of marijuana. The program was
part of a series called "Concepts
of Freedom" which earlier that
year had presented the Daily
Worker's Moscow correspondent.
The New York station WB.W
last year presented a panel of
homosexuals on their peculiar
ways of life and love
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q To what sovereign was the
fabulous Kohinonr Diamond first
presented?
A Queen Victoria It now repos
es in Queen Elizabeths crown.