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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Or.
Sunday, February 17, 1963
"But Fidel, What Are We Going to Do for
Ransom When They Run Out of Relatives?"
NOTHING
SPECIAL
IW. B. S.I
Not
i Death and taxes are not the only certain
things in the world. It is also an immutable
fact that without work man perisheth if not
physically, then emotionally.
This truth has been expressed in many
forms over the ages. It has now been con
firmed in a public opinion poll, which, to
our modern way of thinking, is the ultimate
stamp of approval.
The University of Michigan Survey Re
search Center asked people around the coun
; try whether or not they would continue to
work if they somehow or other had all the
: money they needed.
- Eight out of ten men replied that they
would continue to work, usually giving as their
reasons the emptiness of a life of nonwork,
the boredom of nonemployment.
Yet this apparently universal need to
work exists side by side with a fairly general
dislike of work. The poll also indicated that
for many people work remains throughout
their lives only an irksome necessity. That is,
they are not doing the kind of work they
think they would like to do.
Altitudes toward the idea of work were
especially revealing .When asked to define
work, about 50 per cent said it is something
one has to do or doesn't like.
Twenty per cent described work as some
thing productive, important, of social value
to others.
Eight per cent defined work in terms of
(Salem Oregon-Statesman)
When a six-year-girl can't go a few blocks
to a store, in the environs of Portland to fetch
some groceries, without being kidnaped and
killed, and when other assaults on females
are common in the news we musl admit that
our society is sick. This was the first trip alone
for Monnic Rue Minyard, but she was sure she
could make it. Her mother thought she was
big enough to go and get home safely, too;
so she let her go. Monnic Rae never reached
the store. Many hours later her dead body
was found many miles away in a roadside
ditch. Her relatives arc bowed in grief, and
a community is bowed in shame.
Do we have a general relaxing of morals?
THE GLOBAL VIEW . . .
Position Helps Russ
Ity I.KON DENNEN
Newspaper Enterprise Analyst
NKW YOIiK (NEAi Who will
now ilony that Nikila Khrushchev
was burn under a li'tky star? He
is nue Russian politician who
survived Stalin's purges and has
lived to see his great dream of
a rift in NATO come true.
President 11c Gaulle's rejection
of Itrilnin's entry into the Euro
pean Common Market comes at
a moment when the Soviet pre
mier is himself engaged in a hit
ler feud with lied China's Mao
Tsc-lung. lie Is also lacing a nag.
ging economic crisis behind the
lion Curtain.
Now Khrushchev's troubles have
been largely overshadowed by the
ragic discord in the West. It has
given Hie Soviet premier an 0
imrtiinily tn convince his lted Chi
nese rival and tormentor that Mos
cow's soft sell pays diplomatic
Almanac
Hv t'nlled Tress International
Today is Sunday, Feb. 17. the
4Sth day of I9M with 317 to follow.
The moon Is approaching its
new phase.
The morning star is Venus.
Tlie evening stars are Mars,
Saturn and .lupiler.
On this day in history:
In 1817. for the first lime in
American history, a city street
was illuminated by gas lights in
Baltimore.
In IMS. Alice Roosevelt, oldest
daughter of President Theodore
Roosevelt, was married in the
Kast Itoom of the While House.
In 1944, American soldiers land
ed on the Japanese-hold base of
tniwetok In the Marshall Islands.
A thought (or the day Irish
playwright George Bernard Shaw
said: "We have no more right to
consume happiness without pro
ducing it than fo consume weallh
without producing it."
By Sweat Alone
exertion or effort. Ohters said it is some
thing scheduled or timed or routinized.
Factory workers most often gave the
answer that work is an activity that is timed
and paid for. People with high education
levels tended to consider work a duty and
not much fun.
According to Dr. Robert L. Kahn, the
survey director, these attitudes are inherited
from the family background. They are neither
caused nor corrected by the educations dif
ferent people receive.
Kahn sees a reflection of our dislike of
work in union practices. He feels union poli
cies say, in effect:
"Work is too hard; work is too long;
working conditions are bad."
Unions, he says, have given relatively
little attention to the questions of variety
versus monotony, scheduling versus free
dom on the job, other kinds of satisfaction
from the job besides money.
On the other hand, Kahn says manage
ment has its own implicit assumptions about
work:
"Work is undesirable: people won't do it
unless they have to; it is something they try
to avoid; pay is the only compensation for
work."
It would seem that all of us, whether em
ployer or employe, need to rethink our alti
tudes toward work. It's been with us since
Adam; it promises to be around for a long
time to come.
Sickness Of Our Time
Have sex drives become more powerful? Are
our customs loo loose? Are the restraining in
fluences of religion and of home guidance
losing their grip? Have we as a people be
come too self-indulgent, greedy for our own
pleasures and satisfactions?
The moralist and the social scientist will
probably say there is no single cause to this
increase in delinquency; but surely the root of
it is the lack of home and community disci
pline. Too many are abusing their "freedom,"
indifferent to life itself, willing lo toss aside
the body of a victim after fiendish tastes are
satisfied. There will be no recovery from this
toll of life and disgrace until home and so
ciety invoke sterner disciplines. The time to
start in that direction is now.
dividends. It succeeded where
Mao's revolutionary brinkmanship
might have failed.
lied belligerence in the past us
ually forced the NATO allies to
draw closer together and mend
disagreements in their own camp
through diplomatic negotiations.
Hut Khrushchev's current "soft
policy" seems to have lulled fears
of lted aggression and encouraged
the Western nations to quarrel
openly among themselves
The Soviet premier is too
shrewd lo open his cards at this
stage in the West's discord.
Judged by tlie Soviet press, he
seeks to gam his advantage by
directing his pressure against
West Germany considered by Mos-i-ovv
as the more vulnerable mem
ber of the North Atlantic alliance.
Now it is Bonn's Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer who, the Itussians
claim. Is chief villain in the Com
mon Market drama. According to
Moscow's Pravda. the "double
dealing Germans" deliberately
provoked the Western crisis by
playing oil France against Hut
am However. Western diplomats
have not lorgollen the Stalin I In -ler
Pad. They are convinced that
the Soviet premier is negotiating
secretly with the West Germans
even as he attacks them
Is Khrushchev's long-range plan
to isolate the West Germans bv
maneuvering them out of NATO
alxnil lo succeed''
As long as Komad Adenauer
remains at the helm in Bonn. Mos
cow's diplc.natic intrigues aie
likely to lad. But the 8,-year-oid
chancellor is pledged to ret lie this
year. Khrushchev is aware thai
there are inllurnlial West Gor
man Industrialists and xititicians
who eye wistlully the Hid bloc's
vast markets and whose onenta
lioi is pro-ltussian.
The German "neutralists" may
not love the Itussians. But llicy
have just as little love for IH
Gaulle and the British Hussia.
in their view, is also the only
power in a position to unile Ger
many. II will thus require all of Presi
dent Kennedy's wisdom and diplo
matic tact to counter Moscow's
intrigues and end as speedily as
IHissible the discord in NATO.
Time is not on the side of the
West.
Diplomacy is the ai t of the pos
sible. The schemes of some of
President Kennedy's academic ad
visers In punish and "isolate" He
Gaulle and revive NATO without
l-'rance is bad diplomacy and com
pletely unrealistic.
"A European alliance without
France is like a wedding with
out a bride." a Western diplomat
told this writer.
France is a key Kurotcan ow
rr aral essential to the defense of
the West, lie Gaulle cannot he
discredited by President Kenne
dy's Now Frontiersmen as another
Napoleon. As long as he guides
French policy lie cannot be iso
lated or ignored.
President Kennedy would be
wise lo find a (ace-saving gim
mick for a meeting with He Gaulle
when he visits Italy and West
Germany in the spring. An agree
ment with the French president
should be the primary aim ol I' S.
diplomacy.
Admittedly IV Gaulle is a dif
ficult and stublioin man who
clings to Ins piTHsterou.s vision
ol Frame's "grandeur" in the
Atomic Age. It will take time,
eltoit and patience to eonvimc
him that he made a mistake in at
tempting lo keep Britain out ol
the Common Market But if we
can negotiate with Kluushclicv.
study we can negotiale wi!h le
Gaulle.
The put pose of any diplomatic
negotiations is to reconcile diller
cut national interests. Tiij is es
pecially line ol allies faced with
a common enemy.
trial of strength between the
7.' vcar-oH lie Gaulle and the 4.V
yeaiflid Kennedy can only end in
a victniv lor Premier Khrushchev.
State Department 'Loose Shop
By ARTHUR KROCK
(In The New York Times)
The acidulous official comment
dated Jan. 30 in which the Unit
ed States Government thrust it
self into the current Canadian
Parliamentary debate on that na
tion's defense policy bears the im
print: "Department of Slate." So
very justly the Department is be
ing strongly criticized for one ot
the most ham-handled ill-conceived
and undiplomatic employ
ments in the record of American
diplomacy and for the resentment
of all Canada for this intrusion in
Canada's most vital issue of pol
icy. This resentment will con
tinue. Hut, as is usual after large
blunders have been committed in
this Administration, the President
and the White House have been
quickly surrounded by a w ide pro
tective moat, flowing with the
printers' ink that is wont to be
expended on these occasions in
friendly newspaper writings out
of Washington. And this time
the State Detriment is left whol
ly stranded on tlie outer shore as
solely responsible for this concep
tion, offensive wording and re
lease to the public of this im
proer Intrusion in Canadian in
ternal affairs. That such a mis
take could have been made by the
Slate Department, after two years
of Kennedy super-efficient govern
ment, is explained by the asser
tions that John Foster Dulles loft
it in frightful administrative dis
order, and that Secretary Rusk,
though of course at least a sub
wizard, just simply isn't any great
shakes as an administrator. Final
ly, it is "revealed" that President
Kennedy is "furious" again?
over a blunder, and again? is
going to make sure nothing of the
kind can re-occur.
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Different Conclusion
But this correspondent, after
diligent inquiry, has what he con
siders sound reasons for a dif
ferent conclusion. This conclusion
is' that the President and the
White House have not only great,
hut final, responsibility for the is
suance of the Jan. 30 statement,
including its phraseology. Before
the paper was released, it was
"cleared at the White House." And
anyone who knows anything about
the dual structure of the man
agement of foreign affairs under
President Kennedy knows two
things at least about the meaning
of the words "cleared at the
White House."
These two things arc:
Hi The White House office from
w hich the State Department is un
der orders to seek "clearance" is
that of McGeurge Bundy, the
President's special assistant on
matters of national security; and
I2i Bundy knows the President's
attitude on events and situations
from his constant access and con
fidential relation. One of the ex
planations now being offered by
those who concede these facts is
that, not Bundy himself, but
"someone in his office" granted
the clearance and this was accept
ed by the department as good
enough authority.
A I.oose Shop
But the implication of this in
credible account is that Bundy
and the State Department arc unit
ed in the management of the loos
est Government shop, with the
most important inventory, in the
history of the U.S. and that they
run it without resort to their
employer in situations deeply and
obviously affecting his interest.
Though this correspondent holds
that two State Departments the
head of the official one languid
and comfortable on the lap of the
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unofficial one is bad administra
tive procedure, particularly vul
nerable to blunders in its delicate
area of responsibility, the results
of his inquiry dispute even the
modified explanation recorded
above.
President Kennedy probably
was angry over the ineptness that
produced the anti-American explo
sion in Canada. But unless he is
one of the very few Presidents
with the humility to acknowledge
in their private hearts that theirs
arc the errors being publicly attri
buted to subordinates sometimes
at a President's own prompting
his anger was directed at some
principal in this operation of the
dual State Department system in
stead of at himself, its author.
The sentence in the release of
Jan. 30 most obviously, with its
ill-timing, likely to unite all Can
ada in resentment over the gen
eral intrusion of its sovereignty
was: ". . . The Canadian Gov-'
ernment has not as yet proposed
any arrangement sufficiently prac
tical in nature to contribute ef
fectively In North American de
fense." Vet this survived all the
official "clearances." up to and
through "somebody in Bundy's office."
Other
Editors Say
WOOD VS. CONCBETE
(Oregon - Statesman)
Whether due to the cost of la
bor, material or construction fac
tors, the fact remains that ood
apparently is priced out of the
market so far as its use in a
proscd new grade school at
Bend is concerned.
The discrepancy came to light
uhen the Bend School Board
found its bids or the grade
school and for additions lo the
hiph school exceeded the bond is
sue passed last fall.
Here's what the Bend Bulletin
said in a recent news lory:
"The (grade school) building
has been originally planned as
a concrete block structure, but
school board members, hoping lo
trim costs, had switched to what
i: was thought would be a cheap
er material wood. However,
bids received last night indicated
that wood construction for
schools, at least is more
e xnensiie.
"On a square footage basis, last
night's bids indicated that the
wood construction would cost in
the neighborhood of $15 per square
foot, which was about a dollar
more than the square foot cost
lor the concrete construction
planned (or the work at the senior
high school."
School construction in tlie Sa
lem area varies. New junior highs
are of concrete and steel, largely
because of roof design. And in the
city itself, code requirements hae
indicated the use of conirete and
siccl cen for grade schools. But
in general, in outlying areas
school construction has been of
wood above the window base.
And Salem school ollicials say
wiwid construction normally is
cheaper than concrete.
Not so in Bend, apparently, even
tlkiugh the raw material for wood
construction is right at hand. And
the fact wood construction waj
even considered would indicate
that building codes were not in
volved. Uimbennen coold well
look inio the Bend situation. The
recent story from there isn't do
ing the lumlHT industry anv
g-Hl.
I guess this is tlie time of year
when we take it out on the In
ternal Revenue Service. Tlie dis
trict director of the IRS is the
one to whom we must send our
income tax forms; he is the
one who collects our money if
we owe a balance.
Lest we forget, however, the
IRS operates under tax. laws
passed by Congress. The Congress
is elected by us. If we don't like
the tax laws, if we are either for
or against a tax cut, if we are
cither for or against the prospect
of deliberate, massive govern
ment deficit financing, let's re
member that it is Congress that
makes the laws and enacts all
money bills.
The prestige and Influence of
the President notwithstanding,
it is Congress and Congress only
that decides what will be spent.
If we don't like il, we should
at least know where to direct
our complaints.
Speaking of Congress we have
a tendency to cling to the idea
members of that august body are
a fairly enduring agency. For
some it is, but a glance at the
1963 lineup shows that there is
considerable turnover.
Of the Senate's 100 members,
only five go back to the 1930s
or earlier. Arizona's ancient Carl
Haydcn is the only pre-1930 mem
ber. Another 22 took office in the
1940s. That means 73 of the 100
have been in the Senate only since
1950 or subsequent election years.
. And 22 more than a fifth of the
total chamber date their service
from 1960 and later.
There Is no question in my
mind that Oregon's statutes re
lating to the handling of publici
ty in juvenile cases should be
overhauled to permit publication
of juvenile criminals' names in
some cases. I know from some
what limited personal experi
ence that such a situation is
effective in deterring youngsters
who are crime-bent.
One thing for sure such a law
impresses upon the parents of
the youngsters that they should be
WASHINGTON REPORT . .:.
Goldwater Faces Big
Choice For Future
By KLLTON LEWIS Jit.
Senator Barry Goldwater has
put off till late this year the
most difficult decision of his 54
years.
Tie Arizona Republican, darling
of his party's right wing, still
has not made up his mind about
a race for the Presidency in
1964. He has told supporters that
he wants all of 1963 in which to
"think." His decision, needless to
say, is by no means an easy
one.
L'nlikc Nelson Rockcfcl'er, Gold
water is up for re-election next
year. Arizona law dois not permit
a candidate lo run for Senator
and President at the same time.
L'nlike Rockefeller, Goldwater
lacks the money for a Presidential
drive. He does not have the high
paid ghostwriters and research
ers, analysts and "cxpcits" that
work out of Rockefeller offices
in Albany and Manhattan.
Begging time from those who
urge that he get in the race,
Goldwater might be giving the
nomination to Rcckelcller by de
fault. His friends warn that Rocky
may get so far out in front that
not even Carry Back coild eaten
him.
Goldwater is noi convinced,
however, that he could win the
Presidency. He is no! certain that
a politician of Jewish ancestry
could be elected President, even
at this late date. And he does
not know if anybody, regardless
of race, creed or coi ir, could heat
John Kennedy in 1964.
Conservative leaders in Wash
ington and elsewhere are con
vinced that only Goldwater, of
all Republicans un1r considera
tion, could beat Kennedy Their
thesis, spelled out by William
Rusher, publisher of National Re
view magazine. go,-s like this:
1. No Republican could hope to
carry New York or California and
win their R! electoral votes.
2. Any Republican "can hold
the GOP'S Midwestern heartland,
and such peripheral fiefs as no: ill
em New England and certain of
the mountain states, amounting
in all to perhaps 140 electoral
votes." i Two-hundred and seventy
are needed to win '
3. Goldwater. and only Gold
water, can carry enough Southern
and border states to oflsct
the inevitable Kennedy conquests
in the bis industrial states of the
North and sti'J stand serious
chance of winning the election.
more watchful. Publication of his
or her name might not have too
much effect on the youngster in
volved, but it sure rouses tlie
dander of the parents if they
are responsible citizens.
Since 1961, Montana has had
a law of this kind in effect. Mon
tana Judge Lester Loble in com
menting on the effectiveness of
the law, has pointed out the fol
lowing facts:
1. There has been a 49 per cent
decrease in felony cases involv
ing juveniles, comparing the 18
months before the new law and
18 months after effective date
of the act, July 1, 1961.
2. There has been a 68 per
cent decrease in informal hear
ings, which are secret and are not
based upon felonies.
3. There has been a 75 per
cent decrease in juvenile traffic
cases, which under a separate
law are tried in public and are
published.
4. It has re-established the con
fidence of the public in the court,
for people now know that it is
false to say that "nothing ever
happens" when juveniles are ap
prehended and charged with
crime.
5. Parents are concerned for
the publicity affects their stand
ing in the community and they
are more likely to make their
youngsters behave.
I can't think of anything silli
erat the moment than the
news! fad, hiking. It must make
those people who have, for
years, been hiking as a means
of exercise and recreation, kind
of sick at the stomach to see
their pursuit become the butt
of another American era of
stupidity.
I've no quarrel with the well
entrenched idea that we must
have an extensive sports program
in our high schools (although I
think it's overdone). But, if there
is merit in tlie idea of taxpayers'
dollars supporting sports, I think
the idea could be carried over
into other types of high school
extra-curricular activities, such as
speech and related non-hero types
of endeavor.
California's Bill Knowland, for
mer Minority Leader of the U.S.
Senate, urges his fellow Republi
cans to look to the South for
electoral gains. He thinks a Con
servative Republican could cap
ture at least seven states a total
that would make up for the elec
toral loss of California and New
York.
The Florida Slate GOP Chair
man, Tom Kairlield Brown, (eels
that no one can argue seriously
against the Goldwater position as
the Number One Republican south
of the Mason-Dixon Line
Both Mississippi and Alabama,
say the GOP chairmen in those
states, would go Republican if
Goldwater is the nominee. "lt d
be the easiest campaign I ever
ran," declares John Grcnier, Ala
bama chairman.
James Martin, the Alabama Re
publican who received more than
49 per cent of the vote in his
Senate race last fall, agrees that
a conservative could sweep Ala
bama in 1964, and that Rcckelcller
would be trounced.
Tad Smith, at 34 a former Re
publican State Chairman of Tex
as, is adamant about Rockefel
ler: "I am against Rockclellcr
because his nomination would,
quite simply, destroy tlie Republi
can Party of Texas. At one resig
nation rally alter another, lile
long Democrats now turning Re
publican have wanted me that
they will vote for a conservative
Republican in 1964 buc not for
Rockefeller or any other liberal.''
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What percentage of the
world's population lives In India?
A India's 440 million pcop'e
constitute a seventh of the human
race.
Q Hid all three ships of (he
Columbus expedition return to
home port?
A No. the Santa Maria was
wroikcd on a reef near Haiti.
The Nina and Pinta reached home
port.
t Why Is Southampton. Ens
land. clnM-ly idrntitied nilh the
history of North America?
A This was the port of depar
ture or the Mayflower and Speed
well in tin carrying the P;i
gums tn the new world.