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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Friday, February 15. 1KJ
EPSON IM WASHINGTON . . .
Education Issue Gets
Additional Confusion
Born Too Late?
A
(Th Sacramento Be )
This is an age of mass technology and au
tomation. Yet one out of every four who be
gin high school in California will drop out be
fore he gets his diploma. A tragic waste in op
portunity in human capacity.
1 This fact known, the State of California is
beginning to move in on the problem, even
iE- tardily. Governor Edmund G. Brown wants
Iq "find out what's wrong and how to keep
IHcm in school." Slate Senator J. Eugene Mc
Ateer of San Francisco wants to find out, too,
and has introduced legislation to finance re
search. The legislature should support this study.
The dropout, as he has come to be called
in professional education circles, is more than
a problem to his school, his family, his com
munityoftentimes even to the police. He is a
problem to himself.
:. Never has the demand for education been
more severe in getting a job and, that job
landed, in getting ahead. Never has the com
petition for desirable jobs been more acute.
Wiere a high school diploma opened many
(The Sacramento Bee)
United Stales Senator Clinton P. Ander
son of New Mexico is readying a new wilder
ness area bill for introduction in congress at
an early date. The senate passed a similar
measure in 1961 by the overwhelming vote of
78 to 8. Notwithstanding this clear senate
mandate for action the house interior commit
ted refused to let the bill go to the floor for a
vote.
The wilderness bill has assumed a sig
nificance beyond its intent to set aside a part
of the public domain for preservation in its
natural state for the perpetual enjoyment of
the people.
It has become symbolic of the question of
whether a comparatively small group of live
stock grazers, miners, petroleum drillers and
lumber operators can prevail against the wel
fare of nearly 180 million other Americans.
:: From ils original version the senate bill
was watered down to an irreducible minimum
bqyond which it no longer could have served
the purpose of saving a part of America's still
unspoiled wilderness from exploitation and
deslruction by selfish private interests.
Congressman Wayne Aspinall of Colorado
explained the rcluclance of the house interior
A Moral: Throw Away
Illy JOHN (iOl'Ll)
In-Thf Christian Science Monitor)
4 pjadsnme tidbit lcaxd al
int from 111 printed page, and I
learned that llw American pub
lic carries 12' a million pounds
ol keys in ils pockets and purses
each day and loses three tons
of them a week. .Something there
is that doesn't like a key. and
wouldn't tins he a splendid place
il nobody ever had to link any
thing tip? Tlie American public
would weigh 12'j million pounds
Iras, and everybody could laugh
al locksmiths.
We don't link up here, al all.
The old house. Ihal burned, didn't
'en haxe locks on Hie doors;
and when we buns tile entrances
to cur new home I put Hie keys
on a brad in a summer kitchen
beam, anil there they are. They've
never been down. Well, if some
body comes with malice nlorc
Ihnught. he'll Ret in, locked or
unlocked. Hc.sidcs, if we locked
tlie front and back doors lie rnuld
conn? by the shed, and if we
locked III shed door he mill d
come by the cellar. There's al
ways a ladder in the barn, and
the Ustairs altic windows don't
have locks.
One lime we hid some city
guest:, here and as we all stalled
up for repose Hie lady said,
"Aren't you going lo lock Ihe
door?" I said c nevrr did. and
she said for goodness sake
she'd not sleep a wink all unlit
if she thought a diwir was un
locked. What would we do if a
neighbor decided to walk in, she
faid. I said he'd think it funny
if we. had a door linked on him.
But I went down and made as
if lo look the front door, and she
said she never slept nioif sound
ly than she d'd Ihal nighl. tif
course, I'd left the back door oen
so Ihe dog could come In and
mil , it was summertime, and she
didn't know that. .Some n( Hie
old-lime sluff has been under
mined, bill there Is still a phil
osophy in Maine that being put lo
forcible entry is inhospitable. The
wixl uuii it badiUuiuls) kit
Very Black Future
Wilderness Bill Readied
committee by saying the wilderness legisla
tion should be held up until congress enacts
a measure defining the roles of congress and
the executive branches of government in the
field of land management.
That is, to a large extent, so much hog
wash. For as Dr. Ira Gabrielson, one of Amer
ica's foremost conservation experts, pointed
out, laws have accumulated on the books for
nearly a century establishing clear-cut guide
lines for Ihe use, management and disposition
of public lands.
In fact, in few areas of government are
the rules spelled out more definitely, so it is
obvious opponents of the wilderness bill
have raised this as a stalling action in the hope
the public demand for preservation of some of
the nation's remaining wilderness will just
naturally pass away.
II is not apt lo. As the population grows
and the traffic, noise, grime and smog of the
cities increase, the desire of the people lo
seek a respite in nature's wilderness will rise
commcnsuralely.
The greatest crime which this generation
could commit against the generations to come
would he not to take steps to set aside a por
tion of the land to preserve America as it was
for science and the enjoyment of the people.
open should somebody get lost or
caught in a storm, and a proper
owner will leave the wtxxllxix full,
Ihe lamps trimmed, and at least
some Hour in a tin can.
.Sometimes the hoars get Ihe
flour. In bear country the man
who links up a ramp, shutters
Ihe windows and props Ihe shed
door is inviting destruction, for
hears don't like to ho locked mil.
They'll leave a place looking as
if a couple of sticks of dynamite
went oil. Host thing lo do is
tie the doors open with a rope,
so Ihe wind caul blow them
shut, and leave a hear feeling
wauled. A hungry old black hear,
coming nut ol his den in Ihe
spring, doesn't hit latches and
swing hinges he just whales on
through. I suppose our old farm
philosophy is much Ihe same -that
if nnyliody comes he has
some reason lor coming, and it
looks unkind to make him stand
on the cold stem while you unlock.
.Summer people, with a deep
sense ol possession, don't alwas
understand this. Hack during the
war a lohslerman hoe on his
trawl warp and found he was lied
inlo something he couldn't budge
It In: nod out to be a stihm.u ine
which was just pulling out to
sea, so he jumiod ociboaid. Al
most al once he (vrceived this
was a January mistake, lor Hie
(scan was even colder llian it is
in Maine in .Inly, hut he kicked
himself oxer to an ollshoie is
land where Mr. and Mrs. Mone
hags liom llighnosc Submits had
a collage which they had cue
Itilly locked up bcloie Ihey wont
home.
Tins lisheiman shook in his
( lollies so the ii r jingled like a
glockenspiel and .suieed Ihe m!
ualion. To him. lock and key
were cold and disnt.il woids Then
lie went down lo Hie beach and
gol a rock alxxit Ihe i.e ol a
clam basket, and he c.imo back
and smaslvrd down all Itxir doois
lo the collage, lie found I h i
exercise wanned him up a good
ilia, and gave him tune to make
doors only a generation ago, today it barely
suffices.
The boy or girl who drops out will find
applications will be rejected except for the
most mundane and often menial tasks and the
first question asked by a prospective employer
will he "Education?"
At the outset it was observed the dropout
is a problem not only to all of society but to
himself. He is. Often he is emotionally mixed
up and this has contributed to his decision
to leave school. He docs not know leaving
school is no solution but he will find out as
his frustration grows.
He will become more and more discon
tented as he learns his opportunities are
sharply limited. Never will he know, unless
he corrects his error, the sheer joy which
comes with learning for learning's sake, and
here he has missed as much in a spiritual
sense as he has in material opportunity.
No slate study will end all the dropping
out. But the stale should be concerned about
reducing the number of dropouts to absolute
minimum.
That Key!
a careful decision about which
portal he would finally enter. He
selected one, went in. kindled a
fire, found some llrooks Bros,
yachting (lollies in a closet,
decked himself out splendidly and
warmly, and was able to find a
few things in the buH'ry to eal.
Alter that he broke three locks
on the hoal house, trundled mil
n dinghy, and made his way In
the mainland, where he generated
ipiile a hit of comment alxnit the
summer people who lock col
lages When the summer people
came back in Ihe pleasantness of
lale .tune Ihey reported to Ihe
police that their collage had lieen
broken into, but all the police
man said was, "Kah. 1 know."
I might add tli.it when Ihe sub
marine came up Hie nel morn
ing Ihey found a ring of lobsler
hIs around lite conning, with a
nylon line to a Jtrt-loot Hamblen
boat, and that alter a lew dns
the Coast (iuard brought the Itsli
ernian Ins cratt. 1 thought you'd
like lo know.
Oh, I know another thing that
Isrars on this I had an uncle
who sailed as ship's cai filler
lor some caiv and noon retire
Ills-lit he used In make didd
boes for people Siber rhesis.
lonl chcsls, jewelry Ixtxcs auv
kind ol litlle Ixix He'd make
a bo and carry It around tor a
gift, anil although he always built
a lock mlo the lids he never
delivered a key He lold them if
they linked the thing then tixVd
lose the key some day and lx in
tumble. So he had all these keys
hanging on nails in his shop wall,
e.u h a souvenir ol some low!.
Ixix lie had made, ami little tag'
on them telling w hoc boxes they
hi. Wrll. amongst many doein
of keys on thai end of the slxp
he had a couple of lags hang
ing up lli.it looked a mile dil
lerenl and altr.uled attention,
and when vou lixikod al litem one
o! them said "I th.uik-vou." and
the nlhcr mx- s.ud, ' II - yon
plcaso "
Yv.iMt t that nice'
IN WASHINGTON .
The
By RALPH de TOLEDAXO
Since the Kennedy Administra
tion took office, non-defense spend
ing has risen from $34 billion a
year to a requested $4:1. .1 billion
for Ihe coming fiscal year.
This is a sizable jump for an
. Administration which has been
preaching frugality. Fven in this
day of runaway spending. $0.3
billion is no small sum. It al
most equals what we pay on the
national debt each year.
The question asked is not wheth
er non-defense sending has in
creased too rapidly but whether
lite increase was warranted at
all. Congress has frequently ques
tioned specific items and programs
in Hie budget, but this dncument
has become so complex that it is
hard for a Senator or Represent a
live In come lo grips with the
laets and needs.
This past week, however, a
Democrat and a Republican Sen
ator Millnn R. Young of North
Dakota and Senator Sjssard Hol
land of Florida oened the dixir
a crack on the false urgency of
While House requests lor funds.
In Ihe closing days of the last
session of Congress, the Budget
Bureau sent lo the House and Sou
ale a supplemental appropriation
bill. Senator Young told his col
leagues: "Representatives of the depart
ment of the Federal government,
testifying in behalf of these sup
plemental appropriations, claimed
that they were so urgently need
ed that Ihey could not ossibly
wait unlil the new Cungress con
vened in January of l!v'l."
House and Senate aiqiroved
these riesxrately needed addition,
al binds, though in slightly dif
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ferent forms. But ' Congress ad
journed before the two bodies
could agree on a conference re
port ironing out the differences.
The departments and agencies,
therefore, did not get the $5."U
million which they had so pas
sionately argued for. And thai was
the end of it.
"We are now in Ihe second
month of Ihe new i session i," Scn
alor Holland pointed out on the
Senate floor. "There has nol come
lo our attention any request for
supplemental appropriations at Ihe -present
session of Cnngress lo
lake care of the items repre
sented by the earlier requesls
which were included in that $.ViO
million bill which was not enact
ed." Senator Holland has twice
reminded Ihe Director of the Budg
et, but somehow, no one seems
interested in the appropriation any
more.
Because the House and Senate
disagreed a terrible thing, we are
told by White House efficiency ex
perts the American taiaycr
saved more than half a billion
dollars. Included therein was $1.5
million for the Food and Drug
Administration. According to Sen
ator Kefauver, Ihe entire nation
was in terrible peril because the
FDA lacked adequate funds. But
the country has managed to sur
vive, just as it would if $10 bil
lion were trimmed from the non
defense budget and another $" bil
lion Irom the military budget.
If Ihe truth he told, this would
make almost no difference in Ihe
workings of the Federal govern
ment. Washington is sjxitted with
agencies, created for a temxirary
pui'ixiso. which continue In exist.
They do make-work hut acluallv
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Half-Billion
live in a kind of bureaucratic
limbo. The Hoover Commission
turned up agency after agency
whose functions were being dupli
cated or w hich could be more use
fully and economically employed
if merged with other Executive
groups.
Once an agency has been creat
ed, however, it acquires a kind
of immortality. When no work can
be found for it, the agency en
gages in "studies'" which are al
ways described as vital.
Discussing Ihe Case of the For
gotten Half Billion, Senator Hol
land summed up neatly: "If these
various requests, and others which
I shall mention, had been so criti
cal as Ihey were painted tn us
last year, the country would have
come to an end by this time."
The members of the House and
Senate committees examining the
President's $!I9 billion budget
might well copy those words on
their shirt cuds to he referred tn
when next an Administration
sjxikesman predicts national ruina
tion if his appropriation is re
duced. Al
manac
By I niled I'ress International
Today is Friday. Feb. I."., the
4iilh day of li:i with 119 to fol
low. The moon is approaching ils last
quarter.
The mornin; star is Venus.
The evening slars are Mars.
Salurn and Jupiter.
Those horn on this day includes
Susan B. Anthony, pioneer cru
sader or women's rights, in IH30.
tin this day in history:
In I8M1. the US. ballloship
"Maine" was blown up in Ha
ana Harbor, inflaming American
public opinion and presaging the
Spanish-American War.
In 1M.1, President elect Frank
lin 1). lioosevclt narrowly escaped
assassination in Miami when a
lanalic fired several hullels.
In PH2. Singapore loll seven
days alter Ihe island fortress was
imadrri bv the Japanese in World
War II.
In IWI. a I' A. mission railed
iitnn dissident Congo lactams tn
ne;otiale H'ace. The conciliation
group called for a federal system
in Hie Congo.
thought for Hie day Fug
lish author (I K. Chesterton said:
' The world will never starve for
wonders; but only for ant of
wonder."
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Signs
Huh the stop lights al Klfv
enth and Tine now a topic n( dis
union can anvone give me one
gixl reason for the signals al
Sit:i and F.lm streets' What a
nuisance and what a wvte of tax
payeis" money! Peihaps 1 car an
hour crosses the intersection.
Jim Vvman.
By PETER EDSON
Washington Coriespondent
Newipaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON' l.NEAl As Ihe
House Education and Labor Com
mittee carries on its scheduled
two weeks' hearings on the Ken
nedy administration's omnibus
school and college aid program,
a welter of conflicting and con
tradictory proposals are emerg
ing. This may indicate that every
one agrees that something will
have to be done to aid education
at all levels. But it is obvious
that a number of compromises
will have to be made or nothing
will be done. And this isn't any
thing that will correct itself just
by leaving it alone.
Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen. R.
N.J., ranking member of the
House Education Committee, and
some of his colleagues oppose the
idea of an omnibus bill. They want
it broken down into sejiarale
parts: aid for primary and sec
ondary schools, aid to vocational
and specialized schools, revision
of the present National Defense
Education Act programs for aid
to areas affected by federal gov
ernment employment and exten
sion of college student loans.
The catch in this idea is that
last year a half-doicn separate
aid-to-cducation bills were before
Congress, the way Representative
Frelinghuysen wanls it now. The
Senate reported out or passed
most of these bills. But Ihe House
Rules Committee finally told the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare in effect: "You can
have only one of these hills. Which
one do you want?" The answer
was they wanted them all.
The House nevertheless passed
only one a five-year low-interest
loan plan for college construction.
A compromise version of this,
including a scholarship program,
was worked out witn the Senate.
Hut ' near the end of
the session the House sent Ihis
back to committee for reconsider
ation and there it died.
One of the quirks in the present
situation is that Sen. Barry Gold
water has come out for a na
tional scholarship program to en
able more high school graduates
to attend college. The administra
tion wanted some scnolarships last
vcar but Congress balked. So the
WASHINGTON REPORT . .
Garment Workers'
Leadership Closed
By FIXTOX LEWIS Jit.
hitc-maned. bicycle-riding Da
vid Dubinsky rules with an iron
hand a union, the International
Ladies' Garment Workers, that
contributed more than $200,000 to
assorted Democrats seeking public
office last fall. He controls the
Liberal Party of New York, with
out whose endorsement President
John Kennedy may have consid
erable difficulty carrying the Em
pire State in 1W4.
One of those particularly cogni
zant of Dubinsky's power and in
fluence is Labor Secretary Wil
lard Wirlz. a personal friend of
Adlai Stevenson. Wirtz. says Mis
souri Congressman Tom Curtis,
a Republican, refuses tn protest
the discrimination against Ne
groes and Puerto Ricans by of
ficials of Dubinsky's IU1WU.
On Nov. Ifi. Curtis wrote to
Wirlz. enclosing a ropy of testi
mony given to a House Commit
tee last summer by Herbert Hill,
labor secretary of Ihe National
Association lor the Advancement
of Colored People. It sX-lled out
in detail discriminatory practices
of the II.C.WU leadership. Curtis
said:
"I would be interested in know
ing what actions are taken or con
templated by the Labor Depart
ment in connection with the
charges which Mr. Hill has made
in his statement to this Congres
sional group."
Secretary Wirlz didn't bother to
answer Curtis lor one month. On
Dec. 14. Wirtz replied staling that
his department "strongly endors
es the principle of equal oixir
tuiiity." He quoted his predeces
sor. Arthur Goldberg, to Ihe ef
fect that "we faor. not only equal
opporlunitites (or employment, but
equality of opportunity in unions
as well."
Concluding. Wirtz rejieated that
he did "nol believe it projr or
equitable that Americans should
be dco'ed any available employ
ment because of race, color or
sex." He did not mention what
steps were contemplated tn com
bat IIXjWU discrimination. He
did not, in fact, mention the
ILGWC at any time in his letter
tn Curtis.
Congressman Curtis says the
Wirtz letter is "mere lip-service.
Il is Ihe typical, if I may say so.
lip-service given by tlie present
executive and his administration
in the White House to these seri
ous mailers in an attempt tn
turn them into votes "
Note: According to Hill, tens of
administration dropped the sub
ject this year, except (or a re
search program to see if it was
necessary. ,
Two other Goldwaler ideas not
in the administration program are
lax relief for families with chil
dren in college and a tax credit
for Ihe part of state and local tax
es paid to support primary and
secondary education costs by the
states.
Best chance (or passage now is
given to extension ot the National
Defense Education Act, due to
expire June .1(1.
This program is 12 years old.
Under its provisions, some 6(1.000
new classrooms have been built
and local school board aid has
been given to educating about two
million children ol feoeral employ
es and armed service personnel in
affected areas. The total cost has
been $2.85 billion. This type of
aid congressmen like.
General aid for primary and
secondary school construction and
increasing teachers' salaries is
under scrutiny. The modilied Ken
nedy program gives the states fi
nal say on how ana where the
money would be spent. The pro
posal may find more support this
year from congressmen who fear
federal control o( local educalion.
But this four-year. $1.5 billion
program slill faces opposition be
cause ils benclits would be con
lined lo public schools. Parochial
and most private schools would
be excluded, except for classroom
equipment loans, and they claim
they are just as hard up
Congressmen from predominant
ly Catholic districts can be count
ed on to make the same fight for
this they did last year and In
try to block aid for public schools
unless everybody gels it.
Lobbies on both sides of the
aid-to-education issue have lined
up to testify for ana against the
Kennedy program.
The opposition, as staled by
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and
like-minded organizations, is that
massive federal aid is not needed.
The support, from National Ed
ucation Association and others, is
that state and private resources
are not adequate to take care of
the seven million college, the B5
million primary and secondary
school students expected to en
roll in 1070.
thousands nf Negrnes and Puerto
Ricans Inrccd In join Ihe ILGWU
tn gel jobs have been betrayed
by their union. They are covered
under contracts negotiated by
the union that permit wages lower
than the Federal minimum.
Negroes are not permitted in
three main locals whose members
leccive high wages. These are
IK-al 10. lor cutters: Uxal 60,
lor pressors, and the pressors
branch of Ixal ft!i.
Number 10, incidentally, is the
local which Dubinsky joined when
he first came In this country in
1911. and which he later served
as manager-secretary.
Over a period of years. Negroes
who are members of oilier lo
cals have attempted to join Num
ber 10. Almost without exception
they have been turned down.
On July 2. 12. the New Ynrk
Stale Commission for Human
Rights, which administers the
Stale's Fair Employment Prac
tices statute, found probable
cause against Local 10 in the lest
case of Ernest Holmes, a N'cgrn
who had been reiwatedly turned '
down for membership.
Holmes had boon rejected de
siite the fact that he worked on
Ihe cutting tables nf the union
shop. After a 15-month investi
gation Ihe Slale Commission found
that there were virtually no nnn
white members in the local.
There is nol. said Hill, a single
Negrn or Puerto Rican local man
ager in the ILGWC. although
membership of many locals i.1
overwhelmingly nnn-nhile. Many
Incals. as a matter nf lact. are
almost too per rent Negro or
Puerto Rican. Even these, how
ever, are run by white aides of
Dubinsky.
Hill pointed to Puerto Rico as
another instance of ILGWU's Jim
Crow -ins. The international un
ion there operates two locals 'WH1
and 6iMi and all members are
Spanish-speaking. Both of these
locals, howeer, are denied Puer
to Rican leadership Jerry Si hoen,
a New York local official, was
sent by Dubinsky tn run Ihe show.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q-Hn long nonld It take man
In reach Ihe nearest star?
A If man could traiel at the '.
speed of light-iw.nno miles per
second it would take four and I
half years to rrarn it.