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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.
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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
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much grumbling in Congressional
offices and-nr cloakrooms. Wheth
er they will admit it or not,
most legislators liere are con
vinced that any open and concert
ed move to pull the United States
ctut of the U.N. or to curtail the
activities of this embryonic world
government will result in trou
ble at the polls. I would venture
to say that a sizable majority of
the American people do not care a
hoot about the U.N. But those who
do care have by some mighty
fancy sleight-of-hand led our Rep
resentatives in the Congress lo
believe that the U.N. is sacro
sanct. 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
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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.