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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, Maidi It, 1961
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. B. S.I
Fifth Column for Latin America
Time
Seme observers of American life say we
spend too much time in stock-taking and
are too self-critical.
1 Certainly we all talk a lot. But mixed in
with the criticism is plenty of shouting about
the greatness of America. If the balance seems
Wrong, it could be that our pro-Americanism
dwells less on our virtues than on the dangers
and weaknesses of our enemies.
: Even with all our self-scrutiny, it is not
clear that we do a very good job of taking
stock.
We know we have some bad flaws. Crime
and corruption are rampant; we turn out too
much careless, shoddy work; we have let our
big cities fall, generally, Into a curious
crumbling chaos; we bury some of our knot
tiest problems like education, health and
urjemployment In a great avalanche of
words.
: Yet, while we acknowledge these as
shortcomings, we do not consistently exhibit
the kind of concern that leads to effective
action. We have made the lack of caring
almost a way of life. We have made the excus
ing of failure nearly a science.
In the matter of crime, for example, we
can't get sufficiently aroused to halt the flow
of deadly weapons Into the hands of bru
talized or emotionally disturbed persons es
pecially juveniles.
; Often we call car stealing "borrowing"
instead of what it Is. In slums and fashionable
suburbs alike, we concoct a staggering array
of excuses to justify not punishing transgres
(Oregon Statesman)
. Portland General Electric has stepped
into the Intertie situation with an offer to
build a transmission line from its power plant
at Round Butte on the Deschutes to Klamath
Falls. There it would connect with Pacific
Power & Light's network and a connection
could be made with Pacific Gas & Electric
for connection with its extensive system in
California. The Portland-based company of
fers to lease to Bonneville Power Adminis
tration half the carrying capacity of the pro
posed 500-KV line for transmission of its sur
plus from the federal dams in the Columbia
Biisin. The charge would approximate the cost
BPA would incur If it built a line. Some
agency, public or private, would need to build
a line from the Columbia River, presumably at
the John Day power plant when completed to
Round Butte.
This scheme looks as though it would
let the Northwest "have its cake and eat
it too." BPA and the Interior Department
are anxious to build two federal transmission
lines, one ending at Klamath Falls, the other
at Los Angeles. It lacks authorization and
money from Congress, and may not get it be
EDSON
By PETER EDSON
" Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Com
plete confusion Is about nil that
came out of a day-long discus
sion of economic growth before
200 of tlio nation's top business
brains, assembled In Washington
by the American Bankers Assn.
ABA wanted some fresh Ideas
on this subject and It got them.
Three of the country's most bril
liant young professors of econo
mics were asked to present pa
pers on the subject. They disa
greed on practically everything.
Gobbledygook hit the blowers
and was spread knee deep all
over the place.
Paul W. McCracken, Universi
ty of Michigan Graduate School
of Business Administration, quoted
that of 26 civilizations, 16 are
dead, 9 have broken down and
only 1 remains ours. The his
torian'! conclusion was that civ
ilizations break down not from
outside pressures but from dis
integration within. McCracken
then pointed to the siens.
The number of pnlenls issued
and applied for, relative to the
sizd of Uie economy, is lower now
than in the 1920s. The number
of Hew business concerns initiated
is half that of Uie 20s.
"Even the smaller incidence of
failures may be deceptively com
forting because this could mere
ly Indicate that the process of
creative destruction has become
more sluggish," the professor
said.
"Few things could perk up this
economy so powerfully as an
augmented flow of genuinely
new products lmed straight at
For A Hard
Another Intertie
cause of opposition to further spending on
federal power installations. Also the North
west, notably Washington, objects to an in
tertie unless its priority for use of the pow
er is set in law. The prospect therefore of
congressional authorization of federal lines
is rather dim.
If private companies bought and trans
mitted the power and if the contract with
BPA limited its transmission to "surplus"
power then California public bodies could not
effectively assert their claims under the gen
eral preference clause. We presume, at least,
that this is the reasoning of the private util
ities. Portland General Electric offers this as a
solution, and certainly it is a constructive ap
proach to public-private cooperation. Pre
sumably BPA will await action by Congress.
The question arises, if Congress fails to ap
prove and finance a federal intertie will gov
ernment agencies clear the way (including
rights-of-way on federal lands) for private
company construction? Time is wasting, and
so are the kilowatts rolling unharnessed down
the Columbia.
IN WASHINGTON
Solution Forthcoming
Hie American consumer," he con
cluded. Paul A. Samuelson, Massachu
setts Institute of Technology,
crashed through with a 21-point
program on what the country
should do to achieve economic
growth.
It was so long and detailed that
he didn't have time to reud it.
Rut it is all in his text and it
goes way beyond anything Presi
dent Kennedy offers in (he way
of government aid to private busi
ness and social welfare.
Oversimplified, here are some
Samuelson ideas: More public ex
penditure to reduce the risk of
private investments. Permit as
sets to be depreciated on a base
that is inflated with tlie price
level. Change from a system of
graduated income taxes to con
sumption and wealth taxes. Give
trmixirary tax cuts to sluggish
industries.
On monetary and fiscal policies,
Samuelson's recommendations
were so complex they dcly sim
plification, lie himself got all
mixed up in them. His text
read. ". . . American policy
should lie to alter the parity of
the dollar but when asked
about this later said. "I would
not favor devaluation."
At the end of his papci, S.im
nelson wrote this as his linal
flpokigy: "I wish I could have
come here and promised that
balancing Die budget, preserv
ing monetary discipline, reduc
ing government expenditures uml
busting the monopoly powers (
labor unions would usher in an
era of growth and prosperity with.
Look
sors. But a criminal law without penalties
might as well invite its own violation.
Some suggest that American life today
is increasingly like a great glacier, whose sheer
size and weight forces a human conformity
that deadens initiative, robs us of heroes and
the example of high performance they can
give us all.
Too many Americans in their public as
pect lack dignily and a sense of responsibility
of the sort befitting a proud people.
They park their cars badly, depriving
others of space. They do not even accommo
date graciously to the presence of other per
sons, but instead block stairs and doorways,
monopolize a sidewalk, noisily dominate a
room shared by many.
Clerks at magazine stands, in book and
record stores shudder at the daily descent of
some members of the "public," for they leave
behind them a clutter of rumpled magazines,
crinkled book pages, and scuffed records.
They "use" but do not buy.
One would fill a book with the horror
tales of work badly done, whether it be origi
nal repair or maintenance effort.
The "excusers" say it was always like
this, that things only seem worse now because
the absolute numbers involved are greater.
Some parts of history tend to support
this notion. But history also shows that na
tions and civilizations do slip badly and some
times fatally.
Are our shortcomings "normal" or are
they marks of decline? There's a problem the
critical stocktakers have hardly touched.
nut inflation or tears. It was not
my heart that kept me from
doing so. It was my head and my
fear of being in violation of the
laws of fraud."
George. W. Sliglor, professor of
American Institutions at Univers
ity of Chicago and president-elect
ol tho American Economic Assn.,
with rare sense of humor, took
completely opposite views.
"1 urn not greatly concerned
about the growth rate of the
American economy." he admit
ted right at the start, "whether
judged in terms of national sur
vival, domestic happiness or in
ternational benevolence."
It was his view that science
was vastly overrated and that the
American supermarket has meant
more to American economic pro
gress than atomic energy. He
thinks mergers arc good. He
doesn't fear hcml-en collisions be
tween business and government
regulation because regulation is
Ineffective when the industry
doesn't wish to be regulated.
"I am suggesting." he said,
"that an efficient economy re
quires discontented businessmen,
outraged labor leaders and frus
trated bureaucrats."
Stigler refused to present any
list of recommendations to pro
mote economic growth, but he
made a prophecy on what might
happen if a sot of policies could
lie devised to raise output 10
per cent iht capita for the fu
ture: Then, in Uie well-known year
l'.KH, average family income would
Ik- m.OOU before tasos, possibly
somewhat less after taxes. Ami
which of our pressing problems
will have vanished?"
What Happened In
By JOHN ALLAN MAY
(In The -Christian
Science Monitor)
It is important to get straight
w hat actually happened in Europe
between the 14th and 29th of
January, 1963. For what happened
is likely to have implications of
the most profound importance for
years ahead.
On Jan. 14, President de Gaulle
of France held a press confer
ence in Paris. Here are extracts
from what he said:
"The Treaty of Rome was con
cluded between six continental
states ... of the same nature. . .
Moreover they are adjacent, they
interpenetrate, they prolong each
other through their communica
tions. "To link them in such a way
that what they have to produce,
to buy, to sell, to consume, Uiey
do produce, buy, sell consume
by preference among themselves
is to conform to realilcs.
"How can we incorporate Eng
land, w ith her way of life, the na
ture of her production and her
trade, into the Common Market?
"The question is to know if
Great Britain can at present place
herself . . . within a tariff that
is truly common, Rive up all pref
erences with regard to the Com
monwealth, cease to claim her
agriculture be privileged and,
moreover, to consider as null and
void the commitment she has
made (to her EFTA partners). . . .
Obviously Britain alone can an
swer. "It must be agreed that the en
try, first of Great Britain and then
of other nations would completely
change the whole system. . . .
What would result is a very dif
ferent Common Market . . . one
of 11, and then of 13, and maybe
of 1R.
"In the end, it would appear as
a colossal Atlantic Community,
dependent upon and under the
Turkey
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of account
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nickname
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embrocation
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appellation
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quantities
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direction of America, which would
make short work of absorbing
the European Community.
"This is a hypothesis that can
very well be justified in some
eyes, but it is not at alt what
France wants . . . which is a
truly European structure."
On Jan. 17 in Brussels M. Mau
rice Couve de Murville, French
Foreign Minister declared to the
Council of Ministers of the Euro
pean Economic Community: "It
seems to us difficult to continue
the present course of discussions
After 15 months they arc show
ing no signs of success. We turn
in circles. The only problems we
have solved are those which do
not raise difficulties. Each time
difficulties have existed, we could
not come to a conclusion. That is
the case for the problems of Com
monwealth agricultural imports,
British agriculture and British
participation in EFTA. Thus the
United Kingdom proves that it is
not ready io enter the community.
It is therefore quite useless to
continue."
The other five members and
the EEC commission protested.
But on Jan. 18 the council decided
that when it met again on Jan. 28
all it could discuss would be the
French request to "adjourn" the
negotiations.
On Jan. 29, without Uie British
delegation having been asked to
join the discussions, the break
down was announced by M. Henri
Fayat of Belgium, current chair
man of the conference. He stated
that, because of the French re
quest, the member states of the
EEC and the community were
unable to continue the negotia
tions. Defending the French action M.
Couve de Murville declared: "The
responsibility that we have taken
is ... of having said it was
preferable to face facts. ... In
the present state of things Britain
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Brussels
is not in a condition to accept
the disciplines of the Treaty of
Rome and notably those of the
agricultural policy.
"Faced by critics on all sides
who say that we want, we French,
a little Europe, I will say once
more that we are not trying to
keep Europe small or large, but
to be sure , . . only that it is
European."
The references of M. Couve de
Murville to the disciplines of tlie
treaty have led some commenta
tors to assume that it remains
true that all Britain had to do is
to sign the treaty and thus over
ride the French veto. This is not
so. Britain has accepted the trea
ty already. The "disciplines" re
ferred to, and the particular ag
ricultural policy sought by France,
are not parts of the treaty. And
it is upon them that negotiations
have broken down.
But it is clear that even if
Britain accepted all the French
interpretations and details of the
"disciplines," entry into the Com
mon Market still would be re
fused. For the essential basic re
quirements set out by President
de Gaulle, and M. Couve de Mur
ville speaking for de Gaulle, ac
tually are these:
1. Dissociation of Britain from
tlie American alliance. ("America
would make short work of absorb
ing the European Community.")
2. Dissociation of Britain from
the Commonwealth. ("Give up
all preferences.")
3. Dissociation from EFTA.
("Other nations would complete
ly change the whole system.")
4. Abandonment of the concept
of the Atlantic Community
("which would be dependent on
and under the direction of Amer
ica.") 5. Concentration upon building a
new superpower that would be
militarily as well as economical
ly independent. ("A Europe that
is European.")
It is only if Britain can meet
these conditions that it can be
"accepted" into the Common Mar
ket. If it can not, entry is iniws
sible. And that is inevitably the
case, however cooperative and
' Atlantic" the other five members
of the Common Market may be.
and regardless of any contacts or
arrangements between them and
Britain. For entry can not be
effected without tlie agreement
of France.
Frame is also likely to take
steps to keep Britain and Ameri
ca "out of Europe" in other ways,
such as through the regulation of
investment from foreign compa
nies and the refusal to make sub
stantial reductions in Europe's in
dustrial tariffs.
Both Britain and the United
States still aim. first, at the con
solidation of full European unity
and. then, the strengthening of the
Atlantic concept. Tlie aims clear
ly can not be fulfilled unless the
French Government changes its
attitude. The question to be an
swered now is. what means do
Britain, EFTA, the Common
wealth, and the l'nited States
have at their disposal to encour
age a chance of attitude?
They would appear to have few
indeed unless and until they Like
practical steps to institutionalize
the idea of an Atlantic Commun
ity, which being a greater idea
could absorb the lesser.
THEY
SAY...
Tlie Chines are our friends
and always will be. When friends
quarrel or disagree, it is not ter
ribly serious.
Nikiia Khrushchev.
Harry Boivin received a letter
last week from one of his con
stituents. It asked him to:
Cut taxes
Provide more money for high
ways Provide more money for edu
cation Provide more money for wel
fare Cut tlie governor's salary.
Harry promptly read It into
the Senate record as a means
of solving all of the state's
fiscal problems.
The state of Mississippi is the
last stronghold of prohibition in
this country. A candidate for pub
lic office down there was well
known for his capacity for liquor
and was more or less put on the
spot by his hometown newspaper
asking him the question: "How do
you stand on whiskey?"
He replied:
Dear Mr. Editor:
"1 am sorry that you asked the
question as I had not intended
to raise such a controversial sub
ject at this particular time.
"However 1 want you to know
that I do not shun a controversy.
To the contrary I'll take a stand
on any issue anywhere and any
time regardless of how fraught
with controversy it may be. You
have asked me how I feel about
whiskey. Well brother here's how
1 stand on the matter.
"If when you say whiskey,
or demon rum, you mean the
Devil's brew, the Poison
scourge, the Bloody Monster;
that which defiles innocence,
dethrones reason, creates mis
ery and poverty, yea literally
takes the bread out of the
mouths of babes. If you mean
that evil drink that topples the
Christian man and woman from
pinnacles of righteous and gra
cious living into the bottomless
pit of despair and degradation,
shame, helplessness and hope
lessness, then certainly I am
against it with all my power,
might and main.
"But if when you say whiskey
you mean the oil that lubricates
conversation. The philosophic
wine and ale that is consumed
when good fellows get together;
that puts a song in their hearts
and laughter on their lips and
the warm glow of contentment in
their eyes. If you mean Christmas
Cheer? If you mean that stimu
lating drink that puts springi-
Letters To
Pet Killers.
I have just read Mrs. M.
Reeves' letter and I would like to
write a few lines in agreement.
Last summer my little dog
was run over on Orchard Way.
(A street only a block long, which
should mean a car would be going
quite slow turning off one street
onto another one, but wasn't) and
the person or persons didn't even
have the decency to stop!
I had out of town company at
Uie time with three small children
and it was quite a shock to them
to say tlie least.
Last but not least my married
daughter (expecting a baby in
four months) was there. She had
given the dog to me when she
got married, so it wis real sad
all tlie way around.
Maverick wasn't a pedigreed
dog, just a family pet. I don't
expect them (the killer or killers)
to lose any sleep because anyone
that can kill a beloved pet and
drive on by can't have a heart,
hence no feeling. But, Mrs.
Beeves, I sympathize with you
and your son and know how you
must feel. We lost Maverick last
June and still miss his greeting
at the door.
BERRY'S WORLD
'! r rvli
"You'rt not THE Cbnrlet St Gaullt ...the out ubo
knout Princeit Grace?!"
ness in an old man's steps on a
frosty morning? U you mean
the drink that enables man to
magnify his joy and happiness
and to forget, if only for a mo
ment, life's great tragedies, heart
break and sorrows? If you
mean that drink, the sale of
which, pours into the treasury un
told millions of dollars, which are
used to provide tender care for
our little crippled children, the
deaf, dumb, blind and our piti
fully aged and intirm. That
builds highways, hospitals and
schools. Then brother I am for it.
"This is my stand Mr. Editor
I will not retract nor compro
. mise."
There's a great deal of con
fusion surrounding the so
called "gerrymander" plan set
up to solve the school problem
in Klamath County. Actually,
it's pretty hard to explain in
simple terms. We're trying to
develop a map-chart that will
show simply the boundaries
and what areas are Involved
in the proposed districts. Even
some of the proponents of the
plan find it hard to explain to
those who have not been close
to the subject. And, even if
one does understand what the
speaker is talking about, it's
hard to retain In mind, I'm
afraid that a plaa that involves
the complexity of shifting tax
bases, boundaries and bodies
doesn't stand much chance of
approval at the polls. We're
going to get as much informa
tive material together as we
can for consideration of voters
before the election takes place.
I think it will be a good thing
for a legislative interim commit
tee to study the practices and tlie
policies of the Oregon State
Game Commission. I think there
is a certain amount of hysteria
in the allegations of the sports
men, and generally side with the
Commission that experts in gam
management are more qualified
to carry out a program relating
to seasons and limits on game.
Bui, there is so much concern
over the deer program that one
is forced to acknowledge the
sportsmen must have some val
idity in their charges against the
Commission practices. If the in
terim committee report does noth
ing else, it should serve to clear
the air. In any event, I hope
we don't get into a position
where we have the legislature
writing the game laws for the
state.
The Editor
No one stopped and reported hit
ting him. He followed my daugh
ter across the street to visit a
friend, because he loved her so
much and she him, otherwise he
wouldn't have left tlie yard.
I hope some day there will be
laws to take care of people wto
ruthlessly kill pets, because be
lieve me, I've seen it happen.
Mrs. Clara Hall,
2417 Orchard Ave.
Al
manac
By l'nited Press International
Today is Sunday, March 10, the
69th day of 1963 with 296 to fol
low. ;
The moon is full.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars.
The evening star is Mars.
On this day in history:
In 1862, the first paper money
was issued by the U.S. govern
ment, ranging in denominations
from five dollars to one thousand
dollars.
In 1943, B29 bombers of the
U.S. Air Force began their in
cendiary raids on Japan.