PAGE S A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, January 23, 196.1 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Cuba Issue Remains In Unsettled Stage Expediency ' (Eugene Register -Guard) Some things that are done under the ".guise of government fiscal necessity, and then 'l.-defended as "plain good sense," are almost too '.ludicrous to merit editorial comment. And yet, they must be editorially exposed and be . rated else more such inane actions will be 'undertaken, until the entire fabric of govern : mcnt fiscal policy is one of expediency with . out a fiber of reason left in it. A case in point: :; , Oregon had one of the nation's most equitable systems of administering unemploy ment insurance. It provided that employers I -who operate enterprises which frequently .'cause fluctuations in the ranks of the unem j'ployed should pay more into the state govern J;mcnt insurance fund. Conversely, it recog ;'nized that employers who keep their work . forces steadily employed should be favored with reduced insurance rates. In brief, the Oregon system did just about what all priv: insurance systems do in assessing lh difference in insurance risks and ralcuUlirig premium rates accordingly. But ihe 2 559 Suie Legislature, faced with --impending drpvMion of the state unemploy ; incut insurii fund, abandoned this princi- :"good" risk should be charged just as much i&s a "bad" one. And, to top that off, the Legis lature raised the basic rate charged of all 'employers. V Contentions that Oregon may, in time, be able to restore the differential between rales paid by those who do not and those who do cause the greatest part of our un employment problems only beg the real ques tion at issue. Certainly, we hope that in time 50 J (St. Loult Post Dispatch) The hardest thing about teaching young Americans what Communism and capitalism inland for may turn out to be the long-prcvail-'Ing attitude that it isn't necessary for them to learn it that they get it by a kind of osmosis that comes out being Americans. That, at any rate, is a piiuiuiu conclusion uum me results of the first year of a six-week course In the subject required by slate law for high school seniors in Florida. Only half the Jacksonville students who took the final test scored a pass ing grade of more than 70 per cent. Furthermore, a third of them failed to pick out as false the statement "It is possible to be at the same time a loyal citizen of this country and a true Communist," which was what the Stale Legislature had been most par- THESE DAYS . . . The Embattled Dancers 111 JOHN ('IIA.MnKRI.AIN As Hip Itolshnl Rallet packs up in Now York to return home In I ho Km lot Union, two American dance comjianios, tleorgo Bnlan dime's City Collier orfnrmors Hid the Martha Graham trniiie , mine hack from a series of stands ; in Iron Curtain countries and nn ; turns just this side of the great ; political dividing line. Though no ; fxidy speaks very oenly of "prop aganda" in connection with the gieal coniietilion of the dancers. ' II is nude obvious that both the Sm lets and the t inted Slates have hi-cn using pirouettes, entrechats and the more modern techniques Almanac ' 1W I nitrd Vrs lntcrn.tllnn.il i"' Today is Wednf Miny. .Ian 2.1, . loliow. ; The moon is ,-ipprn.H lung ilh ; new ph.c Tlio moininn htars hit Vpiius and M.iis. The rvciwiK stiirs art Mais, Jupiter and Saturn, (in this d.ty in hitor : In IH-ti, Coiicicm rtilod th.il a-l n.itiou.il rlwimns will Iw Md Hip lirt Turday follow inn the fu st Mnndfiy in Nmemlvi. In 1!:7. 17 HusMan l'.mmuinK lonloM'd Ihcy conspired wilh l.nm Trotsky In undermine Hie rrtmr of Josef St.ilin i In I'Mt. Charles Lindbergh ap- iv.ired before the Hmi.-e Koiein VI;.ir Committee nnd testified ac.tinst the proved leml leasr hill of World War II In 1.M8. Cen. Dwilit Eisen hower said I wouid not meept any nomination for the presidency, thought for the dav-ln PLM, in his first inaucural address, for mer President Itwiphl KKenhouer aid: "Si nee tins century's bepm nmg time of temfcsl has f.eeineH to rnme upon the contin ents of the earth " Doesn't Justify Nonsense Oregon's unemployment problems will shrink that the reserves in the state jobless in surance fund will be increased to permit a reduction of all premium charges. But, in the interim, there should be no confusion about the mistake that has been made and which is being perpetuated so long as the Legislature fails to restore the principle of charging most of the costs of unemploy ment insurance to those who are mostly re sponsible for our need of it. It is not plain good sense, as the Capital Press is arguing in Salem, to leave the flat rate unemployment insurance rate schedule in effect. It is plain nonsense, using that word in its most original meaning. If, in order to keep the unemployment insurance fund solvent, rates for some employ ers should be further increased, that would be only just. But, it is not just nor does it set a good pattern for government handling of other public problems to have the state continue charging penalty premiums against businesses and industries which deserve preferred-risk rates. In the long run, what Oregon needs is more stable employment sources. And Oregon will be the long-run gainer if industries of this sort are encouraged in every way that is just and equitable. If some unstable industries are pushed to the wall, simply because they can not afford to pay their rightful shares of job less insurance costs, it is questionable that they are adding much to the state's overall economy anyway. It is likely, in fact, that they are causing as much drag upon the state's economic development as they are con tributing to ils progress. Percent Flunked ticular they should learn. The course says the law, shall lay special emphasis on the false doctrines, evils and dangers of Communism, and ways to fight it. . Some of the seniors had only the most confused notion of what Communists and cap italists are even after taking the course. One said capitalists are "anti-Communists," anoth er that they are "the haves, and the prole tariat the have-nots." As for the other system, a graduate of the course described it by say ing that "whenever you have a thesis and anti thesis you always have a synthesis which is Communism." All of which suggests that teaching the nature of Communism is not going to be very successful when it is based on crash courses hastily flung together. of "eontraclion-flnd-release" in the battle for men's minds. At first inseetion il may seem a little silly to suppose that dam -mu, which is a lanuae of mow ment. can convey anything of ini)octance in tlte way of politi cal statement. Hut there are subtle overtones in this battle of com par.tt i vo dance techniques, and both the 1.S. and Soviet wtliti cal authorities think they something of value by sendnifi their dancers abroad. .lust where does the balance ac tually lie in this esoteric branch of political Cold War tare? Ha inii watched the Hotshoi U.illct recently in New York. I think the advantage must p to the Ameri cans. The Hoishoi dancers ae re markable, no doubt about it. theie is a nullity power to their leaps, and a crisp preciMon to eoi -tiling they do. Hut what rio they hi inn to America Ivvoud their technnine'' The answer is thai they hnn n whiff of old Imperial Husm.i Tliey dance the Nineteenth Cen tury fairy tales (he Swan 1-akcs and the (iiselles with all the old maaic. Hut when they liy to adapt the mannered elegance ol tt ac tional hallcl to pioletanan theimw the results are comic So. in tin cultural battle for men's iiiiod. Khrushchev's ballerinas prove nothing Ivvond tle I, tit thai the Soiet U.wr to tall back on a creation of the tune of the Hnmanotl dwi.Wy when lhe want to imptevt toii-icncis With H.ilaiHlnnc .tnd Maltha Craham. howcxer. tiie Russians, the Serbs and the Poles lu e len tic.tlcd to NomelluiK that ii nit nine-, to be frehl mxentve and aiaptah!e To Ittivsian audien ces, Halanehine sliow s that ti a ditional ballet technique can tc combined with all the new dis- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1 In hat two rnunlrle diirs Ihf (iohl llrsert llf? A China and Outer Mongolia. eocenes in movement that have grown out of the modern dance. As for Martha (Iraham. she has taken to certain countries of the Old World a number of remark able modem interpretations of their oldest legends. In Israel, lor. example, she re cently stayed a tremendous group performance of something that had been commissioned by Israel, "Legend of Judi'h " Then, in a long tour that moved from Ankara to Turkey, to Athens in Creeeo. to agreh and Belgrade in Tito s Vuyo-lavia. to Poland and Swe den and Finland, she took other dances from her wide and inven tive reHMtoire In Athens she as lonisheit tlte Creeks with the in tensity of her dame versions of their own ancient drama the eitiens of Athens would not have iH-licved that the values of Aeseh lus and Sophocles could he en hanced by tillering them through a choicogtaphy horn ot tl)e Ameri can nunlern ilance. Miss (iiaham s "Clvtemnestra'" brought down the house .n Athens even as it had on Broadway in New York. And when site and her company danced it all over again in Zagich, in Com tnunist Yugoslavia, they chanted her name in the sheets ami gave lier a salute that is nnrm.illy le sei vet tor dictator Tilo It mav le lancitul to supjise that anv nt this i of great mo menl. piopagandisticallv pvakmg. Bui where the BoUlvoi Ballet proves to Vniericans that the Im penal Kussui ol the Oars could pied tut something of beauty ami hand on its tradition to pioietai lan umh'ivis, tin tiaveiling niei i tan dame companies .show- that the democratic and lanitah-t Ueslein woild is still busy spin nmg ott new and adv entui on things N. on tlii. one small sector ol the Cold War provuam)a front, we aie almost teitainlv gettitu the best ot something that is eu phoniistiealK eaileif fl "ctiltttial exchange " Wouui thai our ' e prrt" in (Mittcal w.olate cu!d (to as well in bigger Uuii.;v ''With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies?" IN WASHINGTON -gjv What By KALI'll de TOl.KDA.N'd According to many economists, the number of telephones in a Riven country is an indication of its development. For those who look superficially at the statistics, without botherinc to determine what they really mean, the Soviet Union must be making real eco nomic time. In the most recent year reported on. the USSR showed an increase of 1!) p e r cent. That put Khrushchevsville far ahead o. the rest of the world iiercentagewise of course. But what does this isolated sta tistic really mean? For those who devote tlieir energies to "proving" thai the Soviet Union is outdistanc By SVDNKY J. IIAItltIS W hat has become know n. throughout history, and in all tlte world, as 'Pandora's box." wasn't a box at all. and didn't belong to random. The famous glass slipper" of Cinderella wasn't glass, but fur. And Delilah didn't cut off Samson's hair. Yet truth has no strength against a hung legend; once an idea, however false, implants itself in the human mind, no force can uproot it. The tact that Voltaire inner made the remark about disagreeing." that F.merson nev er mentioned the "mousetiap." that Mark Twain didn't coin the "weather" saying, cannot prevail against the common liciiets Tlie very name "America" is a misnomer, lor Amerigo Vespucci niwer discovered the New World And Indians in this country are so-called by a geographical blun der on I lie part of the early dis coverers here. Likewise, oi course, turkeys do not come Irom Turkey but Irom North America. The truth, indeed, may make us dee. but it is legends that we live by and that we tenaciously cling to in the face of all nuis tng evidence. For more than a icnluiy, upper-class Unions have lieheved that the Duke ol Welling ton ascribed victory In the "plav-mg-lii'lds ol Finn." which he nev er did And. in the same vein, the French have been sustained In the suposcd remark ot the Ruimi ile t'anihroiuie at Waterloo- 'The Old loiard dies, but does not sur render " Canilunnne hiniscll. -il years later, disavowed the saying. .Hiding honestly. "In tin- lirsi place, we did not die. ami in the sivoiid place, we did surrender " nieiiians are lend oi nuntuig t'li.tiles riinknev s dcliance of Talleyrand's hi iio seeking agents with the phrase. 'Millions lor de (eiive bit not one tent tnr ti i hule " A! Plllcknev did ay was n, no. not a penny " Hut wh.i! chanic tiid that pedestrian replv h.ne against the nnlh of the ter mer phrase ' Lincoln savings have Iven myth nlogied hv the deens and num have been IraiKlulently fabricated line of them, in tail i"i.od must have lined the common peopie. He made so manv nf them "I was The Statistics Show ing us. il is a significant figure. In actual fact, it is meaningless. As of the same year end. the United Stales had 77.4 million telephones in use or 52 per cent of the world s total. The Soviet Union had 5.1 million. The per centage increase, exclusively a result of government use, is significant when applied to the USSU's low base. There are. in fact, far fewer telephones in that entire country than in Hie New York City metropolitan area. These figures come from a new and fascinating brochure, "The World's Telephones Jan. 1. lmtf." published by the American Tele phone & Telegraph Company. The STRICTLY PERSONAL chiseled into the slone entrance of the New York Daily News building. There is no evidence that Lincoln ever said anything of the sort. Facts become pervcrlcd into legends in many ways, both inno cent and malicious. Pandora's box is a mistranslation from the (iieek; and the glass slipper a mistranslation from the French. The Samson story is a careless reading of the Bible tale. Others the great majority are manu factured to lit a particular set of passions or prejudices. When they apeal to the dark, irrational side of a people, no subsequent retraction or revision can eradi cate them from I he public mind. POTOMAC FEVER tine Texan is pleased with Ken nedy's oiler of a $10 billion tax cut If it's okay with the Presi dent, he'll take $. billion this year and $.i billion next Motto nf Hie Western Alli ance: "Divided wp stand. Unit ed De tiaulle." The New Frontier will launch a states-side Peace Corps: Sin h projects as training young teih nicians to go into the big citir:; and help the natives fix the vet ing machines. At knig last a sunui ban om muter has solved the downunwi tialltc problem. He bought a I'arked car. Senior statesman's analysis of Krnnedvs Stale ot the . I ninn message: The world's coinfi to hell in a handhaskl hut at least .ll'K wants In give the rounlry a rheaper ndr. Democrats put the arm on i iv il seiv. nits to huv sum lukets ta a paity dinner One young bureau crat tred to beg e:f txauf hr was still tn his sal. id d.ns so thev ih.ugosl h;m :'. for ti? dressing. FLF.IVHI.R HNF.IUX booklet explains far more about the Soviet Union and the United States than any dozen speeches by Administration spokesmen who doom-and-gloom America's econ omy. In this country, we lake our telephones (and what they mean in ease of communication I very much for granted. That's because 41. people out of a hundred had a phone, at the time of the coun try's latest report. In the Soviet Union. 2.3 people out of a hundred had phones, i Incidentally, tele phone directories arc as secret in Ilussia as atomic information is in the United States. I On a per capita basis, the So viet Union appears decades be hind every major country -in the world, leading for the most part only the underdeveloped new na tions of Asia and Africa which still use tom-toms and the graie vine. Kven little Christmas Is land had more phones per Kin people than the mighty Union of Socialist Soviet Republic. In the Soviet Union, a phone is a status symbol, indicating that the possessor is an imjiortant government official. In the Unit ed States, many middle class lamilies with teenagers have sev eral instruments and at least two telephone lines so that 16-year-old Suyy can have a gab fesl with her hoylriond without cutting off in coming calls for the rest of the tamily. Numliers of telephones, more over, are not the only index of mechanical sophistication. In the United States, 97 2 per cent of all phones were automatic, as of the AT&T, report. But there are many countries, like Switzerland, which have installed dialing in all their phones. The Soviets, however, lag far behind. Only ,'iS per cent of their telephones wore rrwrted as automatic and any one who has sjicnt time in Moscow knows that its dial system is a real adventure. You are never really sure what number you're going lo get. The scarcity of pliones in I he Soviet Union may account for the ciinihcrsomcness of its bureau cracy and the snail's pace at which business is transacted In the U S . if you want an answer tn a fiulmn 'or if you want to com municate information', you pick up your telephone. In the .Soviet Union, you pick up jour hat and trudge to the oftice of the man you wish lo see If he hap jiens to lie out. jou wail. Prolvahly no wars or international crises are caused by this praclirr. But in the everyday lite of the world, quick communication means effi ciency It also eliminates misun derstanding. The proof of this can !e found in the tact that Ameri can businessmen are almost as ready lo use (lie long distance phone as they are to make kn al In hhnishchfvsviilc. of course, it doesn't matter If you den t make tfve dei isinn today, you can make it tomorrow It i-n t rcullv !ni;sr!ant. it you re if!eo;og!caii jmrc nd d some visitor from the sheikdom of Kuwait, which has more phones st capita than the U:sM!. slmuld compiain about the sei'vue. there's always that han ds statistic a 10 per ivnt in crease m ere year to sau.'y him. even if lisr or.'y partv lie i.m get on Ihe line i the Cum munist Pattv. By PKTER KDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA Five times in his major foreign policy speech In the Supreme Soviet on Dee. 12, Chairman Nikita Khrush chev repeats that he ordered the Russian rockets and planes with drawn from Cuba after "Presi dent Kennedy stated unequivocal ly .. . that the United Slates would not attack Cuba" and would restrain its allies from any such action. This is considered an apparent effort to put Kennedy on a world spot where he refuses to stand. Prior to Russia's withdrawal of of fensive weapons from Cuba-, in a letter to Khrushchev dated Oct. 27. Kennedy wrote: "We on our part would agree upon tlie establishment of ade quate arrangements through the United Nation's to insure the car rying out and continuation of these commitments (to remove Russian weapons systems from Cuba) (Al to remove promptly the quar antine measures now in effect and (Bi to give assurances against an invasion of Cuba." On Nov. 3 it was announced at the White House that the Presi dent had decided to make on-site verification of base dismantling a precondition for a formal Ameri can pledge not to invade Cuba. There is no public record that this position was ever formally com municated to the Soviet Union. But Fidel Castro, having refused lo permit on-site inspection of bases in Cuba by anyone neither the United Nations nor the Red Cross the American government position is that this precondition was never met. The formal Amer ican pledge not to invade has therefore never been issued, al though the blockade was lifted. II became known later that this original offer by the President not to invade Cuba was made when the National Security Coun cil's expanded, 15-member execu tive committee of top administra tion officials was handling the Cuban situation. When policy-planning slaff mem bers were filled in on the opera tion later, they recognized im mediately that the United States was in no position to offer or make a no-invasion pledge. Any question involving the so WASHINGTON Morse, Other Solons Crack At Filibuster By FULTON LEWIS Jit. Called many things during a Senate career that dales back 18 years, Wayne Lyman Morse has vol to be accused of consistency. The raging debate on Senate rules demonstrates why. The vola tile Oregon Democrat is once again among those Senate liberals out to emasculate Rule 22. which permits a filibuster lo "obstruct" legislation. Morse supports the Humphrey Kuchel proposal to allow a ma jority of the Senate 51 members to cut off debate on any issue. Rule 22 now requires two-thirds vote of those present to end de bale. Morse is expected to argue, as he has before, that Ihe filibuster, Ihe "fundamental trick of the oh structionisl, is not funny hut a disgraceful and contemptible pro cedure " He can be expected lo say, as he did in lttS.1: "Oh. how many limes in the last eight years have I stood al my desk in the Senate and plead ed for around-the-clock sessions to break filibusters, which, in my ojiinion. had tlte efteel of deny ing human rights to men and women who ought to be Iree." That observation, incidentally, was maile in tlie middle of a Morse lalkallmn that began on April 24 and ended up the next dav. For 22 hours and 2fi minutes Morse ramhled on. in an ettort to kill tlie tidclands ol (shore oil bill. Morse was. at least, candid, acknowledging that "lihhtislcr lac tics are involved in this lelwte." Tidelands. however, was not the only occ.ision on which Morse has utilized Ihe filibuster. One year later, in -Inly. l!i"4. Morse and fellow- "liberals" look over the Senate for 11 days in a vain attempt to kill "give-away" amendments to tlie Atomic Ener gy Act. On that occasion, on .luiv 22. Morse admitted, ' this u a fili buster " At live start of the E.jhty-Sev-enth Congress, in . lanuat y. !'sl, M... 1 other lilverais o;vns1 anot.'ver filibuster Tlvir aim t.i outlaw the filibuster. Thry were unsm-cesstul. The most recent filibuster led by LalMisler-loes came last se-s-on when ten 'ocon-mie hliera'? " ti ed to prevent p., -sage of the Arim.nistiation s communications satellite b.l! For two moi-fi tne lilseta'.v tried lo l.iik tiie hill to death. curity of all Latin America can not be decided singly by tlie Unit ed States, even under the Monroe Doctrine. This is a question that can be decided only by all the Western Hemisphere republics, acting through the Organization of Amer ican States. This accounts for the Nov, 3 statement. Still later, in his Dec. 29 speech to the Cuban Bay of Pigs prison ers after their ransom and return to Florida, Kennedy made unmis takably clear that he did not con sider there was any no-invasion pledge in effect. - He told the invasion brigade veterans, after the United States had been made custodian of their battle flag: "I can assure you that this flag w ill be returned to this brigade in a free Havana." That really stirred up the Rus sians and Castro. But the no-invasion pledge issue has now been shoved farther un der the rug by the American Russian joint statement at the United Nations, ending talks on the Cuba situation. No agreement was possible because the Unied States did not win its demand for international inspection of base dismantling. Khrushchev may possibly have foreseen that he could not make a convincing case that a no-invasion pledge had been made, for in his Dec. 12 speech tn the Su preme Soviet he declared: "In the event of these pledges not being respected by the other parly, we would be forced to take such actions as would be required Irom us under Ihe circumstances. It must be clear lo all that our country will never leave revolu tionary Cuba in trouble." One other important factor Is that the Slate Department now reports Cuba still has 100 MIG jet fighters, 144 launchers at 24 antiaircraft sites. 90 helicopters, IB or 20 transport planes. .ISO tanks. 1.300 pieces nf field artil lery and over 7.500 trucks from Communist bloc countries. So Rus sia did not exactly demilitarize Cuba and it remains a hemisphere threat. The doors would therefore still seem to be wide ocn for a re sumption of the Cuba crisis when ever either side starts it. REPORT Finally, on Aug. 14. Ihe Senate voted 63-27 to cut off debate. The f..1 voles were three more than Ihe two-thirds necessary to invoke cloture. That vote alone should convince Morse and others now clamoring for change that cloture can be invoked. But it has not. Those Senators. Republicans and Democrats, who w ish to keep Rule 22 as it is argue tlvat: 1. Minorities have rights which no majorities should override. Ob struction is justifiable as a means of preventing a majority from trampling upon minority rights until a broad political consensus has deveiojed. 2. A Senate majority does not necessarily represent a consensus of Ihe people or even nf the stales. Frequently xular opinion upon a question has not been formulat ed, or if it has been, it is often not effectively expressed. Pro longed debate may prevent hasty majority action which would be out of harmony with a genuine popular consensus. 3. Filibusters do not actually prevent needed legislation. Every important measure deleated by a filibuster has been later enacted, with the exception of proposals on civil rights. Thanks to the fili buster, "some vicious proposals" have been permanently rejected. 4 The Senate, without majority cloture advocated by Morse and company, actually passes a larg er percentage of bills introduced in thai body than does Ihe House of Representatives with cloture. 5. Majority clopno in tlie Sen ate would destroy its deliberative (unction and make it a mere an nex of the House. THEY SAY... We call this new man "Opti mal' rather lhan "Superman " nd wp thmk we can make him in the near future. If we don't, the Russians will Spare expert Dr. Tody Freed man. on preparinj men especial ly suited for deep space flight. It is within probability that 'here will be complete electronic suh-t.tutrs lor worn-out or other wise useless human organ?. K hoard rhairman Paviif Sarnnff.