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HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Thursday, February T, IKS
Letters To The Editor
New Sidewalk Superintendent
Spreading
California has roughly 40 per cent of the
nation's missile and space work, clustered
mainly around the huge scientific-educational
complexes in th San Francisco and Los An
geles areas.
Massachusetts, offering an even more
spectacular scientific center around Boston,
also stands hich. And it has attracted much
related industrial effort in such fields as elec
tronics. New York figures somewhat in this same
picture. So, on a smaller hut growing scale,
do Maryland and Virginia, where industries
keyed to space-missile research have sprung
up around the focus of the government es
tablishment itself.
Suddenly, however, men in government
are indicating their concern that these efforts
have been concentrated too narrowly speak-
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tional institutions.
Mentioned in President Kennedy's new
education message, and set forth in his 1964
budget, is a proposal to spread the scientific
educational base so' wider participation in the
most advanced government and industrial pro
grams may be possible.
Specifically, the President wants some
$90 million for the coming fiscal year about
three times the current allotment to per
mit the National Science Foundation to extend
its program of matching grants for the im
provement of science facilities at institutions
of higher education.
What the government wants to do, say
some top officials, is get away from awarding
grants to schools sirnply on the basis of pres
ent excellence. The net effect of that practice
THESE DAYS . . .
Machinists Exhibit
Hy JOHN (IIAMM.IU.A.N
Columnists have lwrn likened
in cminlcr-puiKheis in the pri.e
fight game: they gel slugged with
a hi! of news and thev strike
. bark in anger or in scorn. Tim
' Jahnr news of Jalc has brought
forth .in extraordinary measure
of Ibis column. stie counter-punch-irig.
Rut today (his particular col
umnist feels like cheering a un
ion decision. Specifically, Ihe In- .
ternalional Association of Machin
ists is to be commended for ac
cepting a contract with Iho Lock
heed Aircraft Corporation that
omils the union shop clause. Thus
a long, potentially hitter struggle
over a wholly metaphysical boon
has been avoided in an important
foment of the aerospace indus
try. There never was any senj-e
In the movement to rxlnrl the
compulsory union simp from Lock
heed, for Ihe management of Ihe
company has always respected ;
. hot s new to organize Last l.ill.
when a government "(act Hid
ing" tmatd under the chairman
ship of I'tolessor (ieoige Taylor
of Ihe t'niversily of Pennsylvania
lernmniendcd Ihe compulsory nn
mn for aerospace companies
wherever two-thirds of the work
rts oted or it, Chairman Courl
l.nult S. dross ol l-ockhecd pro
levied that it was morally wrong
to ur a ote to force even a
smgel person to belong to any
oi gam .it mn Hut he made it
plain in a letter In Unkheed em
ployes that he had nothing againM
(lie Machinists, with whom he had
been dealing lor years on a basis
of mutual respect.
"We have behind us twenty
' five years of collective bargain
ing with unions," so dross wrote
"We were Ihe first California air
, crall manufacturer In sign a
contract with the union ... We
have never denied Ihe undoubted
contributions unions have made
lo working conditions and indu.-
' trial practices, They have grown
, m strength .and gererally have
' served their niemhers well. We
have never declined In bargain
' in good faith with unions repie
t senling our own employes . . .
We are not antiunion. But '
! are anti-compulsion"
In lighting the urcr lo compul
,1 smn. 1u khecd w hich is. nn i-
rienlally. the company lhal de-
eloped Ihe t'-2 Inch altitude roc
' (innaissance plane that has served
the nation so well over Cuba
look ils coi vuale life in its hands
For I'reident Kennedy had
thiown his influence on the side of
tiie Taylor board recommenda
tions, and just last IVtemhcr Ihe
Defense Department's Arthur Sl
vester announced, with an omi
. nous implication, that all tulure
Lofkherd contracts with Ihe null
; I. try would have lo he approved
; by high-ranking and politically
; appointed-secretaries If. after the
; termination of the lalt-Ilailley
no-strike breathing spell, a long
' fclnk had idled the Ickheed
Our Science
is to make the already busy, high-rated in
stitutions, like Harvard, Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, Stanford and the Universi
ty of California, bigger and busier still.
The administration would like to put
some of this particular grant money into
schools and regions where today there is
merely a potential for development.
No specific examples are cited by of
ficials, But North Carolina's not altogether
unheralded "research triangle," a budding
industrial development fed by three nearby
schools, is perhaps a good illustration of the
"potential" in some sectors.
This 4,600-acre project could conceivably
be a thriving site one day. Already it has made
a modestly good start.
Other schools and other regions are deep
ly envious of the big "magnet" areas around
Boston and the Pacific coast. They seek to
emulate the North Carolina example and build
ambitiously from scratch.
Rightly or wrongly, many political lead
ers have the idea that the economy of their
areas will not prosper as they want it to do
unless they can get into the electronics-space-missile
vanguard.
Aides say the President also sees major
economic value if more regions can take part.
No one can quarrel with this goal. A balanced
effort nearly always has much to recommend
it.
It needs to be noted, however, that there
is also much potential political benefit from
a spreading of favors in this field. Conversely
there is danger as rumblings in some places
indicate in dispensing grants too narrowly.
So this particular program could have many
charms for many people.
Some Common Sense
manufacturing plants in Califor
nia and its installations at rocket
centers from Cape Canaveral to
Hawaii, the government could
have killed the company simply
by awarding ils contracts lo other
manufacturers.
Fortunately, the Machinists Un
ion sensed the good laith of Ihe
Ijockheeri management in rela
tion lo collective bargaining issues
bearing in such items as wages,
fringe benefits and vacations.
They also sensed thai Ihe temper
of California aerospace labor is
anti-compulsion, for in three oilier
companies General Dynamics.
North American and Hyan the
unions had not been able to mus
ter Ihe requisite two-thirds maj
ority in a vote on the compulsory
union shop clause. So, hy giving
ground on the issue of compulsion,
the Machinists have forestalled
Ihe sort of hlccding struggle that
has been going on in Cleveland.
hio. where the members ol Ihe
Newspaper Guild hn.e been beat
ing their brains out trying lo c
lort Ihe union shop from manage
ments I hat are friendly enough
on most other bargaining issues.
At Lockheed Ihe management
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has agreed lo suggest to new em
ployes lhal they "give considera
tion" lo joining Ihe union. But this
is a far cry from coercion, for the
genuine anti-joiner can still growl
a "so what?" and go on. with his
job. The fact that the drive lo
union compulsion has been
checked by a direct rebuff lo
Washington should give impetus to
.Senator Barry Goldwatcr's pro
posal (hat action on the union shop
issue should he confined lo stales
which specifically permit compul
sory union membership contracts
to be negotiated. If the federal
government wuold only keep its
lingers nut of collective bargain
ing on the matter ot compulsory
union mcmlcrship, the issue
might die the death it deserves
in any free country.
Alter all. even David Dubin
sky of the International Ladies
Garment Workers, who believed
in fighting for the closed shop as
a tactic, recognized that some hu
man hemes just wit' not be com
w lied W hen he encountered a
''natural anarchist" in one of bis
dosed shop establishments, he
winked and let him fco on working
without signing up.
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By RALPH de TOLEDAXO
Two words describe the reac
tion of past and present mem
bers nf 1 he Joint Chiefs of Staff
to Defense Secretary McNamara's
statement on American military
policy: utter shock. For he has
told Congress in secret testimony
that it is no longer U.S. defense
policy to be able to obliterate the
Soviet Union if it attacks us.
In other words, Mr. McNamara
has said that though e are
spending $.V1 billion in defense,
we do not plan to have in readi
ness the kind of deterrent whiih
lias held the Soviet Union at bay.
All we intend lo do. according lo
the new strategy, is to "reduce
the power of any (oliow-on attack"
By SYDNEY .1. HARRIS
Purely Personal Pre jurfice :
The way a mart traditionally
maintains his self -respect is by
rioins a difficult job and dmnq
it well; and the widespread los
of self-ropert in the modern u-orld
is larpely owing In the increasing
number of jobs that can be done
simply, perfunctorily, mechanical
ly, uselessly, and under no com
pulsion lo be done well.
(iiven power, an intolerant ideal
ist can become more oppressive
Ih.tn any tyrant: it was the intol
erant idealists of the French Rev
olution who created the ReiRn of
Terror, which an avowed tyrant
like Napoleon, wilh n less exalted
iew of mankind, would have had
too much sense to inflict.
Those who are fond nf asking
thnmrlvr Ihe jejune question.
"U Hie worth living?" rare
ly pause tn ask themselves the
enrollarv question, "Is death
worth Hying?"
Marriase has been called a
tie." hul it is more like a belt,
whu'h cannot be too tiplil 'or it
binds' and cannot be too looe
or it f.ills'; and marriages that
fail are those which have only one
nntvh in the belt, so that it cannot
be loosened or lightened In ad-u.-l
to the changing weights and
pressures of the relationship.
Among l lie hardest advice to
Mlow is that given by (leorge
Macdonald when he said. "H you
luxe a disagreeable duty to do
at twehe o'clock, do not blacken
nine and ten ami eleven and all
between with the colour of
Iwehc "
Hrlorr e lire prnui) of eon.
(rolling our passions, il might
Ho well tn ask nunrlve nhrth
rr our control Is so slrnns or
our painn so wrak.
Kvrn genius ha. it limita
tion. F.inMein could nut find the
unified tK-ld Hwoia he was look
ing for a'l hts lite, but tupid;t
is mtimte there is no fancy or
belief th.it marks the boundary
ol human credulity, ami some
man can always be found who
will carry uie banner of stupidity
across a new frontier.
The d i ttere iht bet w re n t i ie
Si
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by Ihe Communists.
The key word is "reduce." If
the Communists wish to hit us
again, this new military doctrine
says, we will not prevent it by
any kind of massive retaliation.
Spelled out, it means that Sec
retary McNamara is willing io
trade a series of missile strikes
with the Soviet Union. This will
be good news to Comrade Khrush
chev. He now knows that should
he clobber us with missiles, we
will not immediately wipe the So
viet Union olf the face of the
earth.
Mr. McNamara's new' slrategy
is the latest of a series of mili
tary plums we havf handed to
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
cynic and Ihe skeptic is this
when confronlcd with something
lhal seems too good to be true,
the cynic says that it isn't good,
while Ihe .skeptic says that it
isn't true.
Experience Ik nol the best, but
the worst, teacher for those with
closed minds; as someone has
observpd, a cat who has sat
on a hot stove will nevrr sit
on a hot stove again hut
It won't stl on a cold stove,
either.
True forgiveness doe not con
sist merely in burying the hatch
et; it must include forgetting the
burial - place.
POTOMAC
FEVER
rians for a tunnel under the
Knglish Channel are faltering. If
De Gaulle ever condescends tn
visit Britain, he intends lo walk
cross.
James Meredith derides on
another term at Olf Miss. He
hears they have brand new
history class where they study
The War between The Slates
without re-enartint it.
South Dakota's Gov. C.uWirud
vetoes a bill to require car cat
belts. It violates the freedom of
Ihe seas: Th right of every man
to sail through his own windshield.
Thincs are so touch in Europe's
Common Market, they won t even
let an Englishman buy French
post cauls.
Kennedy asks production con
trols and subsidies tor larmrrs.
I, ike his predeersnr. IKK lis
urrs the best way In handle the
farm problem Is to pass II along
tn a successor untainted hv solu
tions. The admimtrations ta cut and
deficit plan is baed on t h e
found principle th.d the public
ami tbf g,,Nernrn'nt should never
go broke simull.moously.
Fl .ETCHER K.NEKKL
the Communist bloc. It is a strat
egy developed hy a group nf
"whiz kids," imported by the Ad
ministration, w ho barely know one
end of a rifle from another but
are very handy with an IBM com
puter. These "experts" have
swept aside the Joir.t Chiefs and
their military experts. In today's
Pentagon, a lifetime of experience
with war and its weapons is a
black mark.
It should be poinled out that
Secretary McNamara's brain
storm, however shocking, comes
as no real surprise to the Joint
Chiefs ipast or present'. B it by
bit, they have seen him moving
in a direction which may spell
catastrophe. That the stubborn
Mr. McNamara is acting out of the
best of motives makes the pill no
easier to swallow.
But look at Ihe record.
The American ace-in-tlic-hole
was its power to hit every major
target in the Soviet Union at a
moment's notice, should Comrade
Khrushchev embark on any mili
tary adventures. Uncertainty as
lo when and how the U.S. would
move was prime factor in keep
inc the Kremlin reasonably in
line.
Then Ihe egghead planners de
cided that we should inform the
Soviets that we would never use
our strategic nuclear weapons un
less we were attacked first. It
was necessary to make this an
nouncement, we wer.: assured, in
order to keep Prime Minister
Nehru and Ihe pipsqueak under
developed nations nappy. It was
also mighty reassuring to the men
of the Kremlin. Short of launch
ing their missiles, it gave them a
Iree hand.
But this was not enough. The
Pentagon, at the Administration's
behest, then announced that in
any retaliatory move, the United
Slates would aim at strictly
military targets. We would nol
allcmpl to hit any cities or great
population complexes.
"Amen." said Ihe Kremlin and
moved Ihe nerve cenlers for its
missile bases to Ihe centers nf
big cities where they would be
sale from attack. By the stroke
ol a press rclca.-e. Ihe "whn
kids" had given th Kremlin a
privileged sanctuarv from which
it could organize and command a
nuclear blitz.
Bui the men of the Kremlin
remained nervous. They knew th.it
the striking power of the Straleor
Air Command and the missil
punch nf our IRBM bases in Eu
rope and Turkey, iar nvre effec
tive in the gray ponod between
war and peace, tied them doifn
We are now dismantling those
overseas bases, -.vstcmaticaKy
cutting SAC down to sie, and
dcprivtnc ourselves and our al
lies of the Skybolt missile
As we stand now the Soviris
know exactly what we have and
what we intend lo do with it We
must build enough 1CBM instal
lations to meet every eventuality
however much it may cost. The
Soviris can plan tbrir offensive
stidtecv at a mininvim cost Thry
can pick the time ai.d the p!aie.
They know that if they hit us
hard, we will relaliali with a slap
on the wrist and wail In sre
what the;r next move will tie Tins
may he what the IBM machines
aovisc. But it has our best mill
ury minds in a stale of fear Thev
know tli.it no electronic computer
Ins vet won a war or defended
a nation.
Manipulation
I enjoy Frank Jenkins' writ
ing about the resources of the Jef
ferson Empire, his travelogues,
and his comments on a number of
other things. But I get so tired
of seeing conservatives like him
get so mystified in print over
deficit financing that I'm finally
moved to protest. I'm sure it can't
actually be as mystifying to him
as he pretends, lie has his con
stitutional right to be against it,
but hardly a moral right to claim
to be unable to understand what
he can understand, if I'm nol
mistaken.
Now, it's perfectly true that if
he or 1 live beyond our means for
an indefinite time we'll go bank
rupt, unless we make some mon
ey to make up the deficit, and if
we get caught making that is.
creating money, our printing
presses will be confiscated and
we'll do some time in the pokey.
But the government is author
ized by the constitution to make
create money. It has seen fit
to interpret this authorization to
delegate the making of money
tn hanking institutions, from
which it may then borrow.
I personally question this inter
pretation. It seems to me that
the government should extend
credit to itself when it needs it,
and avoid paying interest to the
banking institutions.
Perhaps if the trainers of (he
constitution could have seen
ahead a century or so they would
have specifically included the ex
tending of credit as well as the
coining of money as functions of
Ihe government only. Maybe this
only shows my economic ignor
ance. But there's no use starting
to cite economists to prove our
points.
The conservatives have their
economists, and the deficit
financiers have theirs. My point is
that while deficit financing might
be wrong, it is net necessarily
an irresponsible system leading
inevitably to disaster. It is just
a way of the government's regu
lating the amount of money avail
able in relation to the amount
ol business tn be done in the
country. It may be, as 1 believe
it is, a too round about way,
but it is a way.
People can. and will, argue
from now on as to whether the
supply of money is being made
too small or too great, because
no syslem has yet been devised
that is fair to everybody. Rut as
for the argument that dclicit
financing will lead the country lo
disaster. I used to believe it. too.
but the last .10 years have worn
Ihe argument out. If it does lead
tn disaster, it will be because
EPSON INI WASHINGTON . . .
President Proposes
Vast Education B
By PETER EPSON'
Washington Correspondent
W ASHINGTON ' NEA -President
Kennedy's special mes
sage on education sets forth a 25
pnint program said to be the most
comprehensive ever presented lo
Congress.
Costs nf Ihe prosram for the
fiscal year beainmng July I are
put at ?I2 billion, with actual
expenditures of $14.! million the
first year because 't takes time lo
cot coing. No official estimates
are made for costs hi later years,
hut a gimd guess is S" billion
or mine for Ihe three to five
years Ihe program covers.
The great nucslioi. "is this ex
pense necessary'.'", will be
heard acain from those who be
lieve that all federal aid lo ed
ucation is wrong and that tins
problem should be left In local
communities, the slates and pri
vate institutions.
But the t oiled Slides Office of
Education has marshaled an im
posing array of statistics to show
lhal the great grow.n nf the pop
ulation, the scientific and tech
nological advances nf modern liv
ing make necessary more and
higher education than existing in
stitutions, with notable exceptions,
on supply.
As Ihe President's mes
sage points nut. a M billion na
tional outlay for education in 1!W
has become a $2.1 billion annual
outlay in the early KWs. By 1970
high school attendance should in
crease by SO per cent, college
enrollment should double. Still.
Ihe n.ilion will be shorl W.noo
holders of doctoral degrees for
advanced teaching And the short
age can be met omy by expand
ing Ihe entire educational machine
at every level.
This i what Ihe President pro
poses, fiom bottom io top
Widest interest wi i probably
center on slrengtheninj elemen
tary and secondary education.
First year authorization would be
sg.S billion, with $1.5 billion spent
m the first vear of a four- ear
program.
Giants would be made lo the
states lor essential c.assroom con
struction, removal of fire or health
h.izards, and raisin; teachers'
salaries in public schools The
t.iies would dcteim ne how the
money would be spent. Allocations
it is misued, not because it is
disastrous in itself.
Hubert Herndon
Box 522, Lakeview.
Dolls
The dolls of today which walk
and talk are for children of any
age. because too often motherhood
is not made attractive enough for
little girls.
A doll who walks and talks is
a good toy, because it teaches a
little girl to handle awkward
things and still have fun doing
it. Many other examples could
he given concerning the types of
dolls of today.
People who run down the toys
of today are nothing but jealous.
There is nothing more wonderful
to see than a child happy, and a
child doesn't have to have every
thing lo be happy. It's not toys
that make the kids the way they
are today. It's the parents who
are too busy to teach them right
from wrong.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bryan
Kind Act
My wife and I would like to
laud the kindness and helpfulness
of two Klamath Falls citizens.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Herron. two residents of which
your city can be proud.
Wednesday, Jan. 30, at about
3.30 p.m. we hit ice on a turn
below Salt Creek Falls in the Wil
lamette Pass and slid into a ditch.
My wife received a broken nose
and a bad cut on her cheek and
was bleeding badly.
She is a bleeder which caused
us even more concern. I walked to
the highway and tried to flag
down a car for assistance. After
several cars had gone by, Mr.
and Mrs. Herron stopped. They
took us to Oakridge to a clinic
and waited while my wife was
examined and patched up.
Then they insisted that they
drive us into the Sacred Heart
Hospital in Eugene rather than
wait for an ambulance to be sent
all that way. They saw us safely
into the hospital and inln the
hands nf competent medical per
sonnel before they would consent
to be on their way.
It renews one's faith in humani
ty to meet two such people who
care enough about their fellow
men In help them, even though
they were complete strangers
and even though they had nothing
tn gain.
Klamath Falls should indeed be
proud to have Mr. and Mrs. Leon
ard Herron as residents of its
fair city.
W. Aaron Pfaff,
3fil2 S.E. Crystal Springs Blvd.
Portland 2. Ore.
In segregated schools would be
left to the courts.
Science, malhemat.es and mod
ern language equipment would be
furnished by continued grants lo
public schools and loans to non
profit schools. Government aid lo
federally affected public school
districts would be continued four
years more.
The second part of the program
would be to improve higher ed
ucation facilities, fm which $."S
million is asked. $26.8 million In
be spent Ihe first year. A three
year. $1 billion annuai construction
loan program for needed educa
tional facilities is proposed.
Grants lo Ihe smtes totaling
$50 million the first year would
he made for enlargement of jun
ior college facilities
Two-year training programs for
science and engineeting techni
cians would be financed in col
leges. College libraries and grad
uate schools would be aided, and
foreign language instruction
doubled.
Third part nf the program is tn
improve Ihe quality of education,
for which $-17 million would be
asked. $9 5 million to be spent
the first year on teacher train
ing, educational res'srch and the
collection nf educational statis
tics. To aid college and university
students, $118 million is request
ed. $.i5 million to he spent Ihe
first year. The present student
loan fund would be enlarged, new
government insurance would be
offered on private education loans
of up to $10,000 each.
Vocational education, training
for handicapped chiWen and the
mentally retarded would be ex
pended by a new money request nf
$.17.5 million. $12 5 million expend
ed the first year.
Finally, university extension
courses, adult education and pub
lic library grants to all areas of
a state would be e.spended st
new appropriation cost n( $."2 mil
linn The administration wants this
whole package enactn! as a single
bill, nol broken up into separate
parts. This killed it last year when
the rules rommiHee would ap
prove only one.
Aid for medical edwation would,
however, be handled as a separate
bill this vear.