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Plight
The impact of the advancing scientific
industrial revolution on individuality is a
matter of mounting interest to the experts on
human behavior.
We are all familiar with the laments
about conformity and the "organization man."
The picture is given of an American individual
pressed more and more tightly into a vast,
impersonal mold.
In the view of some scientists, the indi
vidual feels himself powerless to influence or
control any major part of today's complex,
technical, mechanical, far-flung outside world.
So, by and large, he seeks to blend with the
"organization" landscape.
The experts contend that neither adults
nor youngsters attempt open, broad-scale re
bellion against their present world. For revolt
implies belief that a condition or circumstance
can be altered and is therefore manageable.
Even if much be granted to these experts
and they can document their case well
there is considerable evidence that individ
uals in this country (and elsewhere) are con
tinuously finding ways to assert and main
tain their own special style of life.
Criminologists, with tongue only partly
in check, offer the many varieties of embezzle
ment and other theft from business establish
ments as one sign.
Author David Reisman and others note
another phenomenon which they call "priva
tism." This is meant to describe a turning
(Register-Guard, Eugene)
The day may come when sawmills won't
have saws.
This startling disclosure comes straight
from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's forest
products laboratory in Madison, Wis. Intense
beams of light, from one of modern science's
most remarkable devices, already have been
used experimentally to cut holes in hard
maple and other woods.
The device which someday may lake the
whine out of lumber mills and produce fin
ished cuts without sawdust is the "laser."
Its name really is an abbreviation of the prin
ciple it employs: "light amplification by stim
ulated emission of radiation." Laser lights
THESE DAYS . . .
Conservatives Lose Face
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
Listening to Joseph Grimond,
the leader of the reviving British
Liberal party, during his sojourn
in Connecticut last week, I got a
glimpse into the reason why tlio
cancellation of the Skybolt air
borne guided missile by President
Kennedy has caused such a tre
mendous flap in London. The flap
has little to do with the moot
THEY
SAY...
If there is any one thing that
makes me an optimist, it is the
increased sense of social respon
sibility the world over . . , per
sons responsible for persons, na
tions responsible for nations.
Ilr. Herbert Welch, oldest Mrth
ndist bishop, on his 100th birth
day. If nnnalignment continues to
be a goal for some countries, non
involvement has become a luxury
beyond price.
Abram Chaves, .stale Depart
ment legal adviser.
If the leaders of crime con
tinue their inroads upon our so
ciety . . . then this country ill
won be perilously close to clan
do! me rule by a group of gang
Mers who will make the current
ciime chief! ans appear to he
schoolboys playing simple games.
Sen. John L. MrClrllan, I).
Ark., on big-time crime.
Ir. some companies, the man
agement team must resemble a
medical clinic in which one doc
tor bases his diagnoses and p-e-scriplions
on the perm theory, an
other relies on the virus theory
and a third practices voodoo.
Prof. Dale Voder, of .Stanford
Graduate School of Business.
If we say that world opinion
doesn't matter we say ultimately
that people don't matter, and wo
would end by relying on bruto
strength and terror, like our ad
versaries. Edward R. Murrow, bead of
U.S. Information Agency.
AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Of The Individua
inward toward the family and the individual
self, with the idea that these limited areas,
at least are manageable.
Kenneth Keniston, assistant professor of
psychiatry at Vale Medical School, writes in
The American Scholar quarterly that today's
young people seem particularly bent toward
privatism. They stress two things: building
a family of their own and making something
special of their leisure. Says Keniston:
"In both these areas, we see a search for
private styles of life that will be predictable
and under control."
The great response of many of Ameri
ca's young to the Peace Corps challenge, with
its stress on individual responsibility in often
remote places, suggests the hunger that exists
for "private style."
Any such manifestations of individualistic
effort, young or adult, are highly welcome in
an age that seems so weighted with imper
sonal, ungovernable elements.
But privatism, a turning inward, provides
a limited, inadequate answer. It yields too
much public indifference to the trend of af-,
fairs. It breeds selfishness, with sometimes bad
blind spots in behavior toward others in pub
lic places. It encourages inactivity in politics.
This country will be on a better road
when more Americans recapture the once im
mensely important idea that individuality is
something not just to be practiced privately
but to be exerted publicly.
Saw (less) Mills
have not yet been developed which are pow
erful enough to peel a plywood log or rip cants
from smaller log sections. But those forest
products lab experts are working , with
have drilled through 30 - inch logs in
120 of a second, making smoothly glazed
cuts which show no evidence of charring.
The forest products lab emphasizes that
its trials to dale are inconclusive as to the
practicality and economy of laser-lumber pro
cesses. But it's our hunch that if as much em
phasis were put on these experiments as is
put on the development of any promising
space-exploration device, this area might be
come a major market for laser salesmen be
fore moon-exploration teams are recruited.
point of the technical efficiency
of the abandoned weapon. What is
really worrying the British Con
servative Tarty is that having
staked the future of its defense
program on British use of the
Skyboll. it has been made to
look both incompetent and silly.
This is tlie one type of criticism
that the Conservative leadership
cannot accept with the traditional
British phlegm. For the big talk
ing point of tlie Conservatives
has been that they alone have
the competence to keep what is
left of the British empire nlhi.it
in this dangerous age. The Con
servatives represent themselves
as the able members of society,
the ones who have the background,
the education and the intelligence
to institute farseeing programs
and then see them through to suc
cessful conclusions.
When they campaign. Prime
Minister Mucmillan's Tories make
the hustings ring with accusations
that the Uthntir Party is not to lie
U listed with any flung that de
mands real eawy. As for llio
Liberals, poor fellows, they have
been somewhat airily dismissed
by tlie Conservatives as a splinter
group too small to have any
reservoir of capable governing
talent.
Tho British defense ministry,
which is lieaded by Peter Thorn
eycroft, a man with a reputation
for really running his department,
pinned the future safely of Britain
on the Skybolt for the rather easy
reason that the Royal Air Force
has a deterrent force of 200 jet
bombers in being. 11 is assumed
that these bombers could not hope
to penetrate deeply into .Soviet
airsice with comcntion.il bombs
after the middle nu.eteen sixties
and still accomplish Iheir mis
sion. But armed with (lie Skybolt
missile from the United Males,
the British" jets could lxpe to
release nuclear warheads beamed
on prime Russian taigets liom
safe distances well lo the ninth,
south or west of the Soviet bonier.
With jets earning forty-foot .sky
bolts under their wings, the Brit
ish have estimated that lliey
could obliterate every big Russian
city in the first moments of a
war.
If the Sky bolt has not really
come up lo expectations, it is
Monday, January If, 1961
hardly Mr. Thorneycroft's fault.
After all, he had had many as
surances from Washington that
the .skylxilt program was moving
ahead on schedule. Even now it is
not at all certain that the Sky
bolt is a dud; the U.S. Air Force
announced last week at Cape
Canaveral, Fla , that the missile
had been flown successfully on
its sixth test for two miles. If it
had been armed with a nose cone
it could presumably have "im
pacted" close to a hypothetical
target.
But no matter what assurances
Mr. Thornoycroft may have that
tlie .Skylxdt compilation has more
to do with U.S. budgetary con
siderations than it has to do w ith
the missile's technical promise,
it will do him lilllc good to argue
that lie has. in effect, been double
crossed. For he stands accused
by the movement of events. Bnl
isli conservatives had placed
their reliance for a nuclear de
lerrent on Americans, ami had
let their home-grown defense pro
gram be subordinated to this re
liance. Now, w ith Uie Skybolt can
celled, they have nil air force
without an offensive mission. It
is just us though they had put
their trust in guns without both
ering to provide for ponder and
shot.
No mailer what Uie Conserva
tives may have to say alxiut llieir
competence or their record tor
foresight the next time they go
to the polls, they will be sub
jected lo gags almut "pluuitom"
rockets and a ioothless Royal Air
Force tiger. II will hardly mat
ter thai Labour, if it had been in
power in recent years, might bale
compromised with the pacifist
wing of its party and provided
for ixi nuclear ileleiTcnt policy
whatsoever. Nor will il matter
that the Liberal parly's Mr Gin
mond told the Yale students last
week that he was personally in
smp.ilhy with President Ken
nedys decision to sciap the Sky
hoit. What will count at the polls
is that the Conservatives have
lost their reputation for being
the boys who sec all and know all.
Their "imago" has been dam
aged, and if the Labour parly
cannot benefit from this turn of
cvri:ls. the liberals almost cer
tainly will.
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Letters To The
Sickening
Open Letter to Toy Dealers:
Of late after viewing your teen
age doll products and advertising
thereof, I have come to the con
clusion that your only interest
lies in the dollars and, little or
no thought is given to the influ
ence these dolls have upon chil
dren they are created for. i
You offer, by advertising such
products, young people something
for which they arc not prepared
mentally or emotionally. By giv
ing them false ideas about hu
man relations, you force them to
live in a world all their own in
which they are king or queen.
What has happened lo the
childlike simplicity once a part
of every child?
It has been destroyed by forc
ing them into a more mature
world than they arc able to com
prehend. Being a queen of teen
- .fy
Dr -
Vffii rilOWIN"AI
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
It lakes a long time for the
habits and attitudes of a people
to catch up to their technology.
This is what the sociologists call
"cultural lag." and nowhere is
it more evident than in our vaca
tion patterns.
Why should children of today
be out of school for nearly three
months in the summer? This cus
tom began a century ago. when
we were a rural nation and the
children were needed to help with
the important farm work in the
decisive months.
This necessity has long since
passed, but the vacation pattern
persists, even though our public
schools are over-crowded, and a
one-month vacation in the sum
mer is long enough for any child.
On the adult level, new modes
of transportation arc just begin
ning to crack I lie traditional pat
terns of vacationing. 1 know a
number of doctors, for instance,
who now take a month off every
year divided into four periods of
10 days each.
They have found that a whole
year is too long to wait; tensions
build up. fatigue sets in. and ef
ficiency falls off. So each spring,
fall, winter and summer, they
lake off for 10 days. With jet
planes, they can go farther and
do more in a week than their
parents could have in a whole
month.
Physically and mentally holh,
relatively short periodic vacations
arc more rejuvenating than one
long one. Most ple returned ex
hausted from a protracted sum
mer vacation, in which they tried
furiously to make up for the las
silude of the rest of the year. It
is comparable to the tsoii who
starves himself all day and llx-n
eats an enormous meal at night
when three or four light meals
over Ihe same period arc more
liealthlul.
The same cultural lag persists
in cur daily working hahits Peo
ple used to go to bod at p m :
nowadays il is closer to midnight
Yet the bulk of workers still arise
at "am, and most jobs begin
a! : or in the morning
and the firsl hour or so is largely
wasted.
It would make nuiih more
sense to begin at 10 a m. 'except,
perhaps, on t!w production line',
aixl 1 am com nurd thai just as
On Both Shoulders
agers should not be a part of a
10-year-old's life.
So gentlemen, I appeal to you,
the advertiser, for a solution.
The final "yes" or '-'no" for the
selling of such products is up to
you, and your decision must be
thought out and not based on
greed for money.
Dick Miller
Because of the current promo
tion of a certain teen-age doll,
1 would like to express my opin
ion on the harmful effects these
dolls may have on our children.
My main objection to the doll
and her male counterpart is that
their ages and activities are far
above tlie social maturity of the
9 and 10-year-old girls for whom
they are designed. If we fill our
youngsters' minds with nothing
but dates and clothes, how shall
they amuse themselves when they
TPIPTI Y
I IXI I I I
DCOtM a i
much work would be done if not
more. Most modern urban work
ers don't get enough sleep dur
ing the week, as attested to by
the staggering amounts of cof
fee they must drink in the morn
ing before they can function
properly.
Much of American society is
still geared to a rural 19th cen
tury rhythm of living, even Uiough
our tremendous advances in tech
nology have made this rhythm
awkward and obsolescent. Seven
ty per cent of tlie American peo
ple live In urban complexes, but
our work habits and school hah
its remain dominated by outmod
ed customs. We would not per
mit our machinery to so long out
last their original purposes.
POTOMAC
FEVER
JFK urges a $10 billion tax
cut. While House '63 slogan:
From the man who has every
thingsomething for everybody.
Russia says it's found a mis
take in Newton's Iqw of grav
ity. Several Soviet astronauts
who went up never came down.
Senator Symington urges a na
tional academy of foreign affairs.
College yell: Budapest and Bei
rut. Baghdad and Bangkok. If we
can't beat Navy, we'll crush Slip
pcry Hock.
On the network TV program,
Jacqueline Kennedy looks right
at home in Ihe While House and
if it weren't for Middlchurg. Palm
Reach. Hyannis and Italy, she
would be.
Il"s rumored the primers re
fuse to end the New York nr
paper strike until Mnise
Tshombc stages one of his sur
renders in a town Ihrv ran
spell.
The logic of the New Frontier's
tat cut is simple: The more mon
ey you have left after taxes, the
more chance the Government has
of borrowing some of it to pay
r.s bills.
FLLM1EH KNtliLL
Editor
reach the age when such interests
are normal?
A second factor is involved in
this problem. Although it is a mi
nor one, I feel it should not be
overlooked. How much love can a
little girl bestow upon a doll that
is older than she? Don't little
girls like to mother baby dolls
any more?
It is the duty of both toy deal
ers and parents to carefully
weigh the consequences our chil
dren will suffer because of these
dolls, and act accordingly.
Frances Dal Broi
What has become of the simple
cowboy and Indian games that
children enjoyed so much; the
rag dolls, and the little red wag
on? Talking dolls and popularity
games have taken place of these.
The youth of America grows
up so quickly they are married
and divorced while still children.
While all this is going on ra
dio and television and some news
papers are spreading the sick
ness farther and faster by ad
vertising these new gadgets.
The companies who produce
these games and talking dolls and
toys are aided and abetted by
tlie ridiculous, childish advertise
ments in papers, television and
radio.
Maybe the public will open
its eyes and stop this nonsense
by refusing to buy tlie product,
but until then the future adults
are only going to be insecure
children.
Miss Patricia Pilletlc
Punishment
I'm writing Uiis letter in answer
to the letter Mrs. Lincoln A. Saver
of 3240 41st Avenue S.W.; Seattle
16. Washington wrote.
She writes "is this 1963 or
16H3?" Would she rather have
a person tried in a court of law
or would she rather have a per
son tried by lynch mob?
Then she writes "Wo have just
read with alarm that the death
penalty has been decreed for an
other one of your citizens, Her
bert Mitchell; and we fail to sec
where anyone, individually, or so
ciety as a whole, can possibly
benefit from such inhuman acts of
revenge." I suppose it was all
right for Herbert Mitchell to take
revenge on my brother by mur
dering him in cold blood.
I just hope none of her loved
ones are murdered in cold blood
or anyone else's.
George Yerkovich,
412 I'pban:.
Vaccine
Some people may thank God
because the Sabin oral polij vac
cine tastes Joed. This causes one
to wonder if those ten men re
ported to have contacted polio
directly as a result of Sabin vac
cination arc also thankful. It also
raises the question of how many
cases of Sabin caused polio were
not icporled.
TV fact that Sabin vaccine
has been known lo cause polio,
makes the takuig of a dose of
Sabin virus roughly equivalent to
playing Russian roulette. A man
w bo plays Russian roulette may
thank God that he lived: but God
will not protect any man in this
type of folly.
Laurence Halousek,
Kt. 1. Box 245.
Tulelake. Calif.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
IJWhv does Faster always
tall on a Sunday?
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uced in 315 A I).
EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
3
fpu Budget
mm -v rr jtx.
Changes Proposed
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) Presi
dent Kennedy's budget message
for the next fiscal year now is
expected to ask for over $100
billion in "new obligational author,
ity" for the first time in his
tory. It was $99.3 billion last
year. Undoubtedly there will be
a new effort to change govern
ment accounting methods to make
it look smaller.
The President raised this possi
bility in his "economic myths"
speech at Yale last June, but it
wasn't very enthusiastically re
ceived. Congress did nothing about
it.
With a former Williams profes
sor and member of the Council
of Economic Advisers, Kcrmit
Gordon, now installed as budget
director, the idea probably will
not be allowed to die.
Main purpose of this proposed
reform is to keep separate the
government's current operating
expenses and housekeeping bills
which are paid for out of income
and excise taxes.
Payments out of trust funds for
things like social security or high
way construction and government
expenses for capital investments
and loans would then be kept in
other accounts.
The net eflect of this would be
to make the so-called "administra-.
live budget" smaller than it is at
the present time.
It would include government
payrolls, national defense, veter
ans and farm programs and in
terest payments on the public
debt. These might total only 60 per
cent of the budget as it has been.
But on top of this would be a
capital budget, covering the gov
ernment's investments on which
it gets some return. This would
include foreign aid loans as well
as domestic loans for housing and
agriculture, which are repaid with
interest.
It would also include expendi
tures for public buildings, direct
appropriations for highways, air
ports, hospitals, public lands, pow
er dams, irrigation projects and
stockpiling rograms.
These are long term invest
ments that cannot and should not
be written off in the years money
is spent for them.
An argument develops over
whether expenditures for national
defense equipment should be con
sidered capital outlays or admin
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Election Expense
Reporting Hijinks
By FULTON LEWIS, JR.
How - to-succced-in-busincss-withoul-rcally-trying
department.
Multi millionaire Ted Kennedy
has filed a sworn statement that
he did not spend a single penny
in his campaign for brother Jack's
old Senate seat.
In a report filed with the Sec
retary of the Senate, as required
by law, Teddy says that he re
ceived no contributions and made
no expenditures during his year
long Senate campaign. Nor does
he have any knowledge of funds
spent in his behalf by others.
Massachusetts observers put the
cost of Kennedy's campaign at
more than half a million dollars.
For instance. II. Stuart Hughes,
tlie sell-styled "peace candidate"
who opposed him as an indepen
dent, acknowledged spending
more than Hoii.OUO.
In filing his report. Kennedy
satisfied one provision of the Fed
eral Corrupt Practices Act, which
requires "every candidate to file
within 30 days after the date an
election is to be held" a record
of campaign finances. In that re
port, the candidate must supply
"a correct and itemized account
of each contribution received by
him or by any person for him wilii
his knowledge and consent . . .
together with the name of the
person who has made such con
tributions." He must, loo, list all
campaign expenditures.
Kennedy claims that he person
ally received no contributions. AM
funds, he says, were received and
spent by tlie Edward M. Kenne
dy Campaign Committee. He
claims no knowledge of where
campaign funds came from, or
where they went.
The Kennedy report is no more
misleading than those filed by
several other Senate Democrats.
Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson, who
defeated Republican Alex Wiley,
swore that lie received only $816
for his race, and spent nothing.
Nelson did not list substantial
gifts from four unions: The Com
munications Workers of America.
The Machinists Non - Partisan
Political League. Railway Labor's
Political League and the United
Steel Workers. Nor did he report
king-sued contributions from Uie
Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee
Missouri Senator Eduard Lon;
reported that he spent only $!M)
in his rc-clcctjin campaign. Ik-
Accounting
istrative costs. Tlie weapons that a
country buys its warships,
planes, missiles and military
hardware are of course, capital
assets that can be inventoried dur
ing their useful life.
But they are expendable in war
and soon become obsolete in
peace time, after which they can
be sold only as junk. There is
no return on such investments oth
er than their contributions to na
tional security. This is a valu
able service, but it does not pay
a tangible dividend measurable in
dollars.
According to another theory of
accounting, the government's cap
ital budget should aiso include de
velopment programs like the
atomic energy or space research
programs for both military and
civilian use. Still another theory is
that government appropriations
for health, education and welfare
should be considered capital ex
penditures since they develop hu
man resources.
More conservative economists
don't accept this practice. They
hold these are one-time expendi
tures on which the government
gets a direct return only by the
increased tax-paying capacity of
the individuals affected. Therefore
it is argued that health, education
and welfare appropriations should
be retained as administrative
budget expenditures.
There are, finally, the so-called
"cash budget" items that in the
past have not been included in
the administrative budget. They
include federal gasoline taxes paid
into the highway trust fund
which is disbursed to the states
for construction.
There arc also payroll deduc
tions from both employers and
employes for social security
payments to the aged, state pay
ments into and withdrawals from
unemployment insurance funds,
veterans life insurance premium
and benefit payments.
These payments now total over
$25 billion a year, with receipts
slightly higher. They have a def
inite impact on the U.S. economy
and they are fully accounted for.
When added to an administra
tive budget of, say $60 billion and
a capital budget of around $40 bil
lionincluding defense equipment,
research, health, education and
welfare payments they would
make the federal sector of the
national income budget close to
$125 billion. That's a figure to
remember.
did not bother to report contri
butions from the United Steel
Workers, the Oil, Chemical and
Atomic Workers, and the Machin
ists Non - Partisan Political
League.
The volatile Wayne Morse. Ore
gon's gift to Washington, reported
receipts of $62,146.56. He i i not,
however, list gifts from the United
Steel Workers, the Trainmen's
Political Education League, the
International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, the American Fed
eration of Musicians, the Interna
tional Union of Electrical Work
ers, the Building and Construc
tion Trades Department, and the
Nat onal Committee for an Ef
fective Congress.
Morse reported campaign, ex
penditures of only $15,384.88 for
printing, meals and travel. lie
made no mention of funds spent
(or newspaper ads, radio or TV
time. One Oregon expert esti
mates that Morse spent $100,000
lor air time in the closing days
of his campaign.
Connecticut Senator Abe Ribi
coff, elected last November, rc- ,
ported expenditures of $6,701
for campaign buttons, bumper
strips, and one political ad Uie
Holy Trinity Church Bulletin'.
Itibicuff's advertising budget ac
tually ran into tins of thousands
of dollars, but was not reported.
Neither were most of his contri
butions. 'He claims to have re
ceived only $6,701 I
A!
manac
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Jan. 21 tlie
21st day of 1963 with 344 to follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are YcnuJ
and Mars.
The cvoninz stars are Mars.
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this day include
Confederate Gen. Thomas iStone
wall" Jackson, in ikm.
On this day in history':
In 1861, Jeflerson Davis re
signed from the U.S. Senate. 12
days alter Mississippi seceded
from the Union.
A thought for the day: British
writer and statesman Alan Her
bert once said: "The critical pe
riod of matrimony is breakfast
tunc "