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J PACE-4 HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Wednesday, February 2(1, 13 EDSON IN WASHINGTON Nothing to Do Now but Wait GOP Leaders Poised Food Builds A Better ' Nearly half the world's Ihrce billion jijople do not get enough to cat. from 300 lj: 500 million actually suffer from hunger. This country and many others are trying to tfo something about it on a major scale. That explains more than $11 billion of U.S. Food for Peace shipments to more than 100 countries in the 1955-62 period: It also explains the new World Food Pro gram and the Freedom from Hunger cam paign. The former is sponsored by the United Nations and the affiliated Food and Agri cultural Organization. FAO launched the Jai ler campaign. Our government actively supports all ijiese efforts. To draw further attention from (hem, we Intend to make the most of Freedom from Hunger Week this March and to parti cipate in the World Food Congress scheduled in June. Perhaps the most inleresting idea Jo emerge from this broadened attempt to feed (he hungry is the notion that food should not simply be doled out as relief. Charles Wcitz, FAO co-ordinalor of the Freedom from Hunger campaign says "the increasing emphasis on the use of food for A Single ', (Gazette - Times, Corvallis) ;! In Governor Hatfield's Second Inaugu ral Address to the Legislative Assemhly he recommended, among other things, "A single board of education, enlarged to perhaps 15 members with a single executive. ..." This is probably a horrifying idea to those people primarily concerned with higher ed ucation, but we can sec many definite ad vantages for over-all education in the State of Oregon. . At the present time we have two com pletely separate boards governing education in this state. One, the State Board of Educa tion, controls elementary, secondary and the community college program. The Stale Board ot Higher Education controls all other public institutions of higher education. These two boards compete for a share of the same tax dollar. When each goes be fore the Legislative Assembly the lawmakers have no way of knowing where cuts would hurt the least. If a common budget were pre sented this decision would be more easily made because the Board itself would identify (he areas. Thus a better rounded program would be available to our youngsters. Furthermore, there is very little coordi nation between the present boards. The Board of. Education presents a curriculum in our ejementary and secondary schools with little Letters Shelters On a hx.il idilio nows Inpe Wednesday, Feb. U, tlw local Civ it Defense officer mi id in rc.si.ioii.se ti questions aliout protests tn spending of funds on fallout shel ters, tlinl the program in Klam .ith Falls was "furnished tn the Civil Defence by the federal rov rrnmcnt. at no tost In the stntc up rminty." rwiio i he try mil tn kid" '.' Mis. I.inria Hind Scholarships tVboliirships as scholarships e pve many deserving and ambi tious students an opHirtunily here tofore iinav.nl.tblr. RcMnre schol arships Inname available, .students in this category either had to Live up their ambitions or wnik tvenhly fur finances to further t&rir education. tin most caes after due lime I Bey found they iisl could not hack the prind while oilier lud health breakdowns and only a few trickled through to "home pl.jte " Since scholarships have liecome so plentiful students m " need" are gixen the opportunity to fulfill their scholastic ambitions without the heretofore financial problem. This brings me tn the point 1 wish to bring out: Schol. ajships are based on need; merit is a ntxessary fpiahticat-on but it is secondary tn need. Heir is the other category of students I wish to mention. The ones lha! are completely equal Mbolasticaliy sjeaking and could qualify equally lr as many schol arships except for one factnerd, 'No one is complaining on this (Hunt, tJie fact that need is a ie qmrement In obtain almost a!l K-holarships. This particular group just happen, In be the result of parental amhitjons for their children's educalion and weliaie that put (hem m this financial talegory, These parent r. tn nnl tacs economic development projects adds to ef forts which are being made to help people help themselves." What docs this mean? It means that food shipments In needy na tions are more and more often being distrib uted in the form of wages to persons who are engaged in development projects. Food is, in effect, being used as currency to lubricate the economic machinery in many underdeveloped countries. If this idea can be applied in a big way, it might he almost as important as the food it self. For long experience has shown that, while people will take what is given them when they need it, they generally feel much better toward themselves and their benefac tors if they can somehow earn the assistance. The whole "feed the hungry" enterprise is obviously a wonderful tribute to the spirit of helpfulness in men of good will in many lands but most particularly in our own. Agriculture Secretary Freeman man ages, however, to make the goal of abolishing hunger seem a lot closer than it is. His praise for the effort would perhaps register more solidly if it were tempered with more vocal recognition of the immensity of the task. Board Of Education thought of coordinating it with the necessities of higher education. Many students must take courses in college which they should have tak en in high school. Many times emphasis in study is in the wrong direction, and far too often the students get programs which will not qualify them for admittance to certain universities. And there is this community college ano maly which is neither fish nor fowl. Some stu dents are taking liberal arts courses which they think will qualify them for higher ed ucation in our State institutions only to later learn their credentials are not acceptable All these liberal arts programs should be under the SR1IE. A glorified manual training program is also presented in our community colleges. This could be made available to more students and at much less cost if it were all coordinated into advanced high school programs within the high schools. A combined Board would lake care of these problems and wastes as well as defining responsibilities in teacher certification and the ever-increasing field of educational tele vision. Actually, the Board could be split into two sub-Boards so the duties would not he too time consuming with coordination between the two at the executive level as well as at joint meetings of the two sub-Boards. To The Editor through sacrilice. steadfastness, ingenuity and good honest wotk prepared to meet this financial responsibility (or their children, thus need is not a necessity al though these students are equally qualilied on merit for scholar ships. And now we're attending gradu ation exercises tins is a large class, over ;too students. The scats are alt taken by proud parents, jelatives and loved ones of these students. They have come to wit ness this feat of achievement and in lar loo many cases the end of formal education Tito graduation exercises takes lime. Alter the audience has been seated and entertained by the oung talented musicians, enter the graduating class, step hy step, to the slow mmh music ami all attired in I he tiadilional cap and gown Following speeches hy annus selected sjeakers the diplomas are gixen to the indi1 iduat giadu ales. Kven thing so tar has been li.recllv associated with the whole graduating class. Now comes (he eii'pg of the many scholarships to the "needy" students. In a large graduating class tins leiemoi.v lakes almost equal lime as live giung of the diplom.is While these students me actuallv awarded special recommendations and attention the other equally scholastic student sits uiu n or. med, unheralded because he did not have the "need" to apply oi scholarships t ne group of students simpK because of need is In Id up. com mended and prated for Ms achievements Again may 1 state that I am ;ca(! in faor of these scholar slops under the en -cuniMances 1ml I do behexe I lies could he gicn (tut at a (non appropriate tune and pbee than during graduation exeicisrs with a i aptixe audience. It is neither fan to exploit the diaiity student or put an unfa snrablr light on the financially blf student by putting one be World cause of need and ignoring the other because of lack of need. (iraduation exercises should be for the entire graduating class. Any recognition given at gradu ation, in all fairness, s'lould be given on merit alone. Halph M. ParmnHy, 1'n.u (Ireensprtngs Drive. Arbitrary There was an example at the Feb 4 city council meeting of arbitrary decisions made by men rather than decisions made from standards for justice. Two cases of reoning were before Ihem. Until involved private properly and private capital. In both cases those who opposed the reoning slated they did not want n.uiuple dwellings. Our had the pressure of government ottieials and hired porsiinnel; the other opinwtion was just every day eitiens in the alloc ted area. Was (here a standard such as ."! per rent of I be people in the area mus npposp the change be fore the request could be de nied ' No, only men with arhi tiaty ideas, making aibitrary de cisions. nd. sure enough one re quest w as ci anted and one was dented' Tins becomes "the brute ton e of i;oeinment " V h e n Klamath Falls' citieus do not kick at ai bitrarv decisions the cl.ivs ol isiue fur all are num Ivied I am kicking and I want lo IV heaid on this issue. totveinment by men makes pn sihle tnv eminent hy HraiUs liov et nrnent hv law means govern ment in w hu h all citieiu can know the slandaid, olvy it and distend on luMue when measured hv it Anient an people used to believe in this, stand hv it, die tor tt; because without justice measmed by lav nn man or rm piocity. or hi life wore . a fe. W hal is happening here in Klamath Falls toda ' bene 'I nr. !V0 Pallet M'll fcls . 'til V- 8 IN WASHINGTON . Hy RALPH de TOI.KIMN'O I have been taking a quiet poll of Congressional sentiment of the Cnited Nations. I find that those Senators and Representatives with whom I have spoken feel U that the U.X. is becoming a pernicious influence in world affairs, '2' that the L'nitcd States would be wise to withdraw everything but token support, and .H that the legisla tors would rather cut out their tongues than express these sen timents on the floor of House or Senate. There is a basic conviction that the C.N. means us no good, that it has served as a forum for Soviet propaganda and a field for Communist maneuvers. That the U.S. is picking tip the larg est share of the tab for the U.N. operations is a fact that lew for get as they walk the halls of Con gress. The U N. role in Katanga, in suppressing the rightful aspira tions of an independent people to remain out of the clutches of the corrupt and chaotic central Con golese government, has not been forgolten. Neither, for that mat ter, has Secretary (ieneral U 'Chant's inability to win the re spect of even so small a dicta tor as Fidel Castro In short, they have seen the United Nations used reieatedly as a tool of anti-American iorces, increasingly dominated hy a com bination ol Communist and neu tralist countries many of whom fail to pay their dues and assess ments. This antagonism and opposition, however, are expressed only in a .scattering of speeches and in ld the Heavens ACROSS 1 Fourth planet from mm iirmrrMty (lb.) ft pvchc ptrtt 1 1 Stvl)sh 1 Container 1.1 Kp.IjcI U Koman IS Fish f RC lft Snv-tfl nvpf 17 European of srt 19 Show rontfmpt 20 PrintuiR u& ) SI Pronoun 'J J family Xrtl 2S lrgct planet 2$ Martian tcomb. form t ,10 HrptilM ;il Kant bird 32 Meadow .i.t lcl rlaitn 3-1 Pl.Hiorm 3STo ithrr 37 Third planet from Min 3fi Publisher! 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In the past months, however, the situation ha begun to chance. The defeat of Republican Repre sentative Walter .ludd of Minne sotahailed so gleefully hy the Administration may be a costly loss to those in the White House and at Hie State Department who include the U.X. in their nightly prayers. Mr. .ludd did yeoman work on Capitol Hill to restrain anti - U.N. forces in Congress. Without him. many of the young er legislators who followed his lead have begun to drift into the anti-United Nations camp. The brazen attempt of UNESCO, an arm of the U.N., to act as a propauanda machine for the So viet Union may. moreover, he tin cause for the first open revolt in Congressional rank. The United Slates pays a third of UNKSCO's annual $40 million budget. The USSR pays roughly one-seventh. Yet I NKSCO has Used its funds to subsidize the writing and publication ot a pam phlet which whitewashes the So Answer to Previous Puiil M,IN1ACJD 1 i iv r: c- A R.r'bJt ASS F-.SI a fixe SOPrenidire i Plunge ;ui.iteiary degree in Heavenly body 34VValiers i t Uorrdom 18 PosM-itsive pronoun 10 Pan tiers 3fi Crasslike plant 37 Part of the tc 3t Brilliant planet 40 Red-ha. ked 21 Chmee money sandpiper 22 Serene J.( Region 24 Close 2j Hebrew prophel 2fi Hrnd 27 Cudc Hnrr 41 Indian buffalo 42 Near 4 l Coal pit 41 One 4 Wander 46 River tn Belgium 4R Fra iN.OiR.TiH 1 T 1 ,AV'..' li viet record and beats the drums inr Communism. This pamphlet, months old, has suddenly been discovered by the Congress. And some of the more bitter members of that body are asking why the Soviet invasion and annexation of the Baltic re publicsnot recognized by the L'.S. should be described in the UNESCO pamphlet as a "vol untary restoration" of Soviet rule. They are also asking why the I'nited Nations should broadcast a publication which denies or glosses over all the facts of So viet official suppression of minor itiesfacts that have been thor oughly documented. Publication of the Soviet-serving pamphlet, written by two Rus sian stooges, has already led to proposals that President Kenne dy demand its repudiation by the Secretary-General. The out cry comes at a time when the l'nitcd Nations Special Fund an nounced that it was giving ag ricultual aid to Cuba under a six month grant. Having recently told Mr. Thanl to go peddle his pa pers. Fidel Castro is being re warded by the U N. he ignored. It is still loo early to say that Congress will vote for U.S. with drawal from the I'nited .Nations. But if the present sentiment con tinues, appropriations lor the U.N. included in the current mammoth Kennedy budget will be dra-tical-ly pruned. Other Editors Say . . . Questionable Bill (;.)etle - Times, CnrvalltO Son. Walter IVarsnn has n hill More tlir Ixjiislature which has support (mm a majority in hoth Houses of the Assemhly. It would ttivp a legislative rommittre the power to review aceticy rei;uU tintis iMieH while the legislature is not in session. Those regulations the committee did not approve would he held in abeyance until the next session. In the past we hae screamed Inni: and loud over anuses hy gov ernmental agencies. Many agen cies and boards have acted the P.ot of dictators, forcing their iTiitilahnns on Ihe public for tlietr nvwi coin enieine or to build up their own bureaucracy or as a special protection or privilege for Ihe membership they are supposed lo regulate This new hill would correct thee abuses. But on the other hand, we -strenuously object lo tiie Legislature's attempt to de stroy the traditional American division of power among the leg islative, administrative and judic i.ii'y branches of the Government. This bill itnquetmnah!y puts the Legislature in ihe field of aA nvnistt ation In each of the pa.-t few csMnns we have seen the Oiecon leg islalure move more and more tn this direction and we rin't like it. The have atimed that they are ' unoftic.ro members of t'r Slate Hoard of Kducation. the Mighwav Commission, the Liqimr t ontiol Board and all the rest of tr.e hoards and commission The Legislative dabbling in th e ftr'd is corn pai able to lhe:r ap pomtmrnt ot a legislative iommit tee to ov rr tie svmMrr$ of t!ie Supremf Court Judges to Bv PETER EDSON' Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON i NKA i-Repub-lican consressional strategy is gradually taking shape. It should begin to show when Senate and House settle down for a little more work Ken. 18 alter a week of (i()P oratory in observance of Lincoln's birthday. Just before this welkin rinsing began. GOP congressional leaders of both houses approved two state ments lambasting the Kennedy fis cal and foreign policies. These were adopted at an or ganization meeting of the joint Senate-House Republican leader ship Kcb. 7. This 11-statesmen group may play an increasingly important role in the next two years, up to Ihe time the Republicans nomin ate their candidate for the presi dency and he takes over as head of the parly. In Ihe leadership arc .Senators Dirksen. III., Kuchcl, Calif.; Hick cnloopcr, Iowa: Saltonstall, Mass.; Morton, Ky.; Reps. Hal leek, Ind.; Arends, III.; Byrnes, Wis.: Kord, Mich.; Brown, Ohio, and Wilson, Calif. The new members are Sen. Thrustnn Morton, former Cop na tional Committee chairman, and Rep. Gerald R. Kord. the new House GOP Policy Committee chairman. Morton and Wilson arc Con gressional Campaign Committee chairmen. Their groups will fi nance the staff work for leader ship statements, even though this takes some money out of their campaign kitties. It is noteworthy that Rep. Wil liam E. Miller, N.Y., who is also GOP National Committee chairman, does not sit in on this act officially. Neither do Senators Barry Goldwatcr of Arizona nor John G. Tower of Texas, the two most aggressive attackers of all Kennedy policies. The two minority leaders, Sen. Kvcrctt M. Dirksen and Rep. Charles A. Halleck will continue as principal oflicial sxkesmen for the party in Congress and w ill continue the "Kv and Charlie show" from time tn lime, with minor changes. They appeared nn a national By Kl'l.TON LEWIS JR. A While House scheme tn halt free world profiteering in Cuban trade is "so weak and harmless" it cannot do the job. This is Ihe reaction of Max Harrison, president of the Ameri can Maritime Association, lo the Administration plan announced with considerable fanfare on Keb. K. Under terms "f this order, no government - financed i notably foreign air1 cargoes would be shipped on foreign flag vessels that have called at a Cuban )it since Jan. 1. I'.Hxt. "un-le.-s the owner ol such a ship gives satist.utory assurances that no ship under his control will hencc lorth be employed in the Cuban trade." Harrison points to the following loopholes in the law: 1. The Administration order ap plies only to the ship itself and not all vessels of Ihe same line. It is therelorc easy for any owner to continue his trade with Castro as long as he uses one ship for Cu ban trade, and another lor the transport ot U.S. cargoes. Yugoslav ships, tor instance, can continue to carry U.S. aid cargo as lone as the Yugoslav government chooses those ves sels that have not been engaged in Cuban enmmrn-r. This is a comparatively easy mat ter for the Yugoslavs: their mer chant marine mnsisN nf l.V) ships. 2. The Presidential edict applies only lo cargoes shipped from the United States. M..ie than half of all t(in'it:n aid conncs. limeer. are shipped ftom one toroicn mt to another Thus, tile maior part of our lorei'jn aid cat o is n,,t allecled by the plan .1. In choosiim ,l.tn. I a" I h e brjinnmu date. t:-e covornmcnt gives a clean bill of hoalih to those oMiers vviio cnntmiie to c.ir ry cai -o during the entire Cuh.in crisis. The orders do nn! alfett those owners who earned c.o.i to ard from Cuba at fie t:nT Soviet missiles uric kll'OHl have been tiaineti on the I tried Stales 4 The cidris clearly limit airept or tcieit ti'c Couits in tr: pi tvai'on o: tiv . If he l:is:.i;;ii r u.ir.N to m. creae lis power, and it obvinu-iy does it snois'd adopt the nrw Con stitution and sit in annua! srssmn and n:.se l.iws corn n lire t:ir th;n;s it ant to lomnv Rt even torn, tiir laws thov make .-hodd be left to the nii;:u to interpret a-d th- agencies of i t slate lo ,vlm h.-trr. To Fight JFK Orders. television panel show as a cur tain raiser and they will be back on the air waves again when ever they have anything to say, which is frequently. But they wdl also present guest stars now and then, particular ly governors and presidential pos sibilities whenever they are in Washington. It's good free time, open for the asking. It has taken over a month to get all this worked out. But as Sen. Morris Cotton, R-N.H. com ments, no lime has been lost. It has taken the Senate a month to lay the ghost of the liberals from both parlies who wanted a rules change to prevent filibus tering'. And it has taken a month for the President to send Con gress his principal messages on Stale of the Union, budget, eco nomic policy, tax reform, farm, education and health programs. Also a request for a big supple mental appropriation for the rest of this fiscal year. They now give the Republicans something to shoot at. The leadership statement on for eigh policy, released this week, does not try to answer the Presi dent's State of Ihe Union foreisn policy declarations point by point. The criticisms are more on lha President's conduct, or miscon duct, of foreign policy in Europe, Cuba and other trouble spots. Also, the Republicans think they can make more political hay by attacking the President's domes tic policies. They say that "The Republican goal in this Congress will he a reduction of federal spending which can lead to a reasonable lax cut." What this is taken to mean is that the Republicans are shoot ing for a balanced budget. They will try to reduce government appropriations first. Then they will limit the tax cuts In the amot" they can slash from the budg The Republican congressional leadership offers no substitute pro gram of its own other than that. "The government can help solve unemployment by encouraging in dustry and investment capital lo promote expansion and new ven tures. . . . Chronic government deficits will never stimulate American ingenuity, build confi dence or create jobs." WASHINGTON REPORT . . . White House Order Lacks Vital Control themselves lo the Cuban bade and do not in any way touch upon trade with Communist China, North Vietnam or North Korea. Despite the fart that U.S. flag vessels have for many years lieen prohibited by law fixim car rying cargo to and from tho.- Communist lands, foreign vessels that carry goods lo them may also carry U.S. foreign aid cargoes. Harrison says the Executive order does not "constitute a prac tical and elfectivc way of isolating C u h a. It is Iraught with loop holes; full of meaningless words; clearly the product of a bureau cratic whitewash." Major Congressional voices have been raised against the White House ban. Perhaps the most sig mliraut is that of Klnrida's Rep Paul Rogers, who has been one of the most diligent foes of Castio Cuba on the Hill. II was Rogers who last (ail forced the House Select Commit tee on Export Control to investi gate free world trading with Cuba. The public attention thus focused on allied shipping to Cuba resulted in several govern ments agreeing tn suspend and nr discourage further use of their Hag ships in Cuban trade. West Germany was the first na tion to do so. Greece, even though facing serious unemployment on its docks, billowed suit. Turkey recalled several of its ships that were on the high seas en rout to Cuba. Only Great Britain refused to (oofM'tate Congressman Rogers s.ivs the President's edict of Ken. fi is only a "first step Inward banning all ftee world trade with Cuba." "We should not." he says, "be content with timid gestures, but should move lo fully close all U S jiorts to Cuban traders as siwm as possible. "I urge that the United Slates close, iis ports to Ihe (lacs of all nations which allow ar.y of its vessels to call in Cuba. "Closing U S. ports would sho such nations as Great Britain who continue trading with Cuba thai we mean business. The etfeel of US port ban would keep, lor :ns,in,e. the IJueen Mary out of New Yoi k Ha: bor " Congressman Rogers oints out that far mote world trade flows nit of U S. ports than out of Cu ban ixirts Kore:gn countries indif ferent to our ideological battle with Cuba would be toned to choose between I' S dollars and uban pesos. And there are more doi.ai s.
