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PAGE-4 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Tuesday. March 12, 19W EDSON IN WASHINGTON Transportation Mess Requires Attention QUESTION: How Is the War in South Vietnam Going? its mm& w ml ...'fmmie bit slow:.. Can One-Party Democracy Work? Critics of the American political scene often charge that we have virtually a one party system, that the Republicans and the Democrats despite the noises they make are fundamentally about as different from each other as Tweedledum from Tweedledee. There is, of course, much truth to this. We are a mature, successful people, fairly homogeneous, in essentia! agreement as to our national goals. We are not divided by deep philosophical schisms that need to find ex pression in violently opposed parties. Some critics go further, however, warn ing that a one-party system in practice, if not in law, is a slipping toward tyranny. This strikes closer to home. This we fear. Witness the way we so often elect a presi dent or a governor of one party and give him a legislature controlled by the other party. We share with the English the belief that there must always be an alert and vocal "loyal op position." There must be a Tweedledum to sometimes say "no" to Tweedledee. To achieve this, we are willing to pay the price of two-party or multiparty democra cy: a certain legislature inefficiency, politick ing, the ballyhoo of conventions. There is at least one nation a democracy that is considered taking a different path. This is young, energetic Tanganyika, whose weeks-old constitution may be legally revised by the parliament to outlaw all but the ma jority party, the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). A press story from the capital, Dar es Salaam, quotes a speech by President Julius Nyerere in which he gives the reasons he believes a one-party system is necessary for his country. Opposition parties, he said, are a for eign and oversophisticatcd importation. In Africa, they could well lead to violence, "be The Jefferson, Ohio, Gazette, has made this interesting editorial observation: "Many a boy through his high school years earned enough to get a start at college, Often this part-time employment led to a career in the business." But now, the Gazette goes on, all this has changed. And one of the reasons is the mini mum wage requirement. In its words, "Mini mum wages have their place in the modern In dustrial scheme of things, but they have de prived . . . lads of an opportunity to earn spending money and to save for their future ... in the hundreds of small towns and rural communities, the social reformers, with their well intended laws, have barred youth an op portunity for self independence." Letters Whooie! I nolicc in my copy ot today's Herald and News that you are continuing to play your part as the publisher of a small town pa per, in your usual small way. I believe I would be right in assuming that you were raised in a small town by narrow minded parents, if your favoritism of one side of the news is any indication of your background, and it dors seem to me to be. We are cut off hero in Klamath Falls, and I might also say In the slalo of Oregon, from both sides of the news by people of your calilwr. By caliber I mean opinionated. Republican, labor-hating, small minded reactionary type of man. 11 did not Just occur to me that you were this type of person, but you have prompted me to let you know my opinion a1, this date, because of the free publicity that you have been giv ing the railroads of the United States in Hie past week, and today the railroads of Oregon in their so-called nntifcntherbedding cam paign. You give everything (hat the railroads say or assert on this is sue front page coverage with large headlines, and I doubt that you even know the railroad workers side of the slory, and if you did you would not even put it on page 8. The railroad unions have paid you for each ad that they have published in your paper to com bat the slander. I will give you credit for publishing one letter on this subject written by a railroad man's wife. It wasn't on the front page. Next week tlie railroad unions are going to give an hour and a half of testimony on Hie Oregon full-crew law. I am sure Uint yuu will not give what they have to say front page coverage as you did the slander and degrrdaUon that occurred in Salem at 7 o'clock cause the opposition parties will tend to be regarded as traitors by the majority of our people or, at best, it will lead to the trivial maneuvering of opposing groups whose time is spent on the inflation of artificial difference into some semblance of reality 'for the sake of preserving democracy.' " This does not mean there would be no criticism of the government or that elec tions would be a mere formality. Members of TANU, the president said, "would be free from the voting discipline normally imposed by the party whip and could support or criti cize the government according to their in dividual consciences." Another advantage would be that civil servants could take part in politics. There would be no need to maintain administrative impartiality between parties because there would be only one party. There has been some criticism from Tan ganyikan minorities. They say it would be wrong to write into law what could be merely a passing phase of politics (the overwhelming popularity of TANU.) The right to form a legal opposition is a political safety valve. It is dangerous to shut it off. The Tanganyika Standard, leading English-language newspaper in the capital, warned that ". . . if all opposition is forced underground, the violence which is becoming a feature of West African politics might begin here." In principle, there is no reason why com plete democracy cannot be maintained in a one-party state. So far in history, it has never been done. Least of all is it likely to be ac complished by an inexperienced and impatient country in which it would be actually illegal to organize an opposition and solicit public support. Africa, and the rest of the world, will be watching Tanganyika. The Employment Barrier The record supports this view. Take, for instance, retail business large or small, chain or independent. Large numbers of , retail stores can offer jobs, often on a part-time 'basis, to people who are without experience or any particular skill. Obviously, their value to the store is limited. Yet the work they are given can prepare them for advancement to more responsible, better-paid positions. But, if ail" arbitrary wage-hour law forces the costs of (his kind of employment to unprofitable levels, it will be cut to the limit. The moral is a simple one: The funda mental clement in determining earning pow er is an individual's productivity. The two can't be separated. To The Editor last nighl. 1 notice that you were able to hide in one paragraph (par agraph 61 of this article the fact that mere were several hundred in tlie audience during this testi mony. Did you know that at least 100 of these people were railroad workers from this small town that probably pay their daily dime for your version of the news. Two busloads of these people went to Salem yesterday morning and I would estimate there was an aggregate loss of wages by them of $2500 besides the $500 paid for the two special buses. I am sure that you were not aware ot this, but If you had a report ing staff of your own you might he able to give this sort of news, but then you are a small town paper and small town papers don't hire reporters. Did you have a reporter in Salem last night or did you buy this coverage from UPI along with the other trash that you get from them daily? Do you really know what is going on in the United States, Mr. Sweetland, or do you just take UITs word for it? And pass it on to us readers of your paper. 1 know that you are nut a debater in the truest sense of the word, although I have heard you take great pride in being one, and if you do have any pride ou would give the railroad unions a chance In tell their story in as large an area on the front page of your paper next week when they give their testimony in Salem about the full-crew law, as you did t h e railroads tonight. This I don't ex pect to see. hut is only to remind you that you are not fair-minded and do not publish all ol tlie news. If this letter has offended you, that was its purpose, as your newspaper has olfrnded me daily for many years, even bclore you became its publisher, and 1 have paid 10 cents per copy (or tins nllrnsc, and this letter has cost you nothing. Bobby L. Jones. Conductor, Southern Pacific to. Thanks On behalf of my sale commit tee and myself I would like to thank you for the excellent cover age we received on the High Country Angus show and sale, March 2. It takes a lot of time and effort to put together a sale and the cooperation of local breed ers, ranchers, and businessmen was certainly appreciated. The sale grossed $29,205 on the 5.1 head sold. Forty of the ani mals were sold to buyers from the Klamath, Lakcvicw, Mncdoel, and Tulclnke areas. We feel that there were many good quality Angus sold and wo are glad to sec good bulls go to local com mercial herds. Naturally, any of the Angus breeders in tlie area would be glad to give information on An gus cattle, and we hope that any one interested will leel free to call any of us. Thank you again lor your ar ticles and pictures on tlie Angus sale. Charles D. Cheyne. Sale Chairman. Scott Warren. Joe Smith, Alvin Cheyne. Kusscll Smith. Marion Palmer. Al manac Ily United Press International Today is Tuesday. March 12. the "1st day of 1963 with 294 to fol low. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus ami Mars. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In t'.HM, a $5 million gilt by An drew Carnegie established the Carnegie llrro Fund Foundation ...'FAWIWLE By SYDNEY J. HARRIS All the furor over the exhibi tion of the "Mona Lisa" in t h e United States reminded me of the curious way we have with names. For instance, almost all Americans are convinced (if they think ol it at alii that da Vinci's painting is a portrait of a woman who w;io named MonaM.isa. Actually, the name he gave the painting if he bothered to title it at all, which most painters do not was "La Gioconda," since she was the wife o( an Italian burgher of that name. Her first name was Lisa, and "Mona" is merely the familiar form of "Ma Donna." And Whistler, of course, would never have considered for a mo ment entitling his famous pic ture "Whistler's Mother." He gave it the sedate and formal illc. "Arrangement in Ciray and Black." Yet no one ever' calls it that, and to posterity it re mains known as "Whistler's Moth er." Much the same has happened in music. One of the best known of musical compositions is Beetho ven's "Moonlight" sonata. But the composer bluntly called t h e work "Opus 27. No. 2." lie open ly expressed his deep dislike of giving nicknames to his composi tions. However, when a German critic of the time heard the piece he was reminded of moonlight on Lake Lucerne and dubbed it the "Moonlight" sonata, which, dis pleased Beethoven, but which has stuck. It seems as if the public needs some kind of verbal "handle" to assist it in grasping or remember ing works of art. Most of the West Pointer ACROSS Wir hero's son, P. Kelly He is a at West Point Bridge holding Arrayed, ai twons 35 Distress signal 38 Biblical character M Dinner courses 4i Onager 4ft Harangue 4ti Scuttle 49 Settle El Oleic acid ester IS3 Card suit 54 Serious address 55 Ixwk of hair 56 Expunge DOWN 1 Bird bill protuberance 2 Biblical name 3 Pillar 4 Statues 6 Genus of marine snails H Profession 7 Warning of Lecturer Raver Small tumor Finer Abstract bcin? Regards highly Bndxe Air i comb, form! His father was a World War It Disembark lirerk god of war Aleutian island Liquid measure Hanger S Noise 9 (".rafted fhfr.l tqusi 1 2 3 4 lb I 16 17 18 19 110 11 12 : 13 U 15 16 r-j 17 18 " 9 22 23 24 "Ja P 25" 27 128 29 ' 31 32 33 3 j!T 3tT" aT" 38 39 40 41 OZCL r J46 i47 TT 50 51 52 53 54 55 56" i; M SLOW... STRICTLY PERSONAL popular names of classical com positions were not given to them by the composers, but by others, in much the same way as we dub baseball players with nicknames. Even so minor a piece of verse as tlie familiar poem be ginning "Twas the night before Christinas" is not known or called by its proper title, which is "A Visit From St. Nicholas." Every one takes the first line for tlie title, and nothing will ever restore its proper name. Indeed, it is the name, and the aura attached to it, that often compels attention more than the object itself. "Mona Lisa" is a magic phrase by now. and will attract millions of viewers who know and care nothing about da Vinci, his sitter, or the art of painting. 1 once heard an amusing, and psychologically sound, story of a Paris antiquarian who displayed in his window five wooden stat ues, which he had tilled "The Five Senses." The first day, a customer came in and bought one of tlie statues. The next day the antiquarian had calmly reletlcred the title card to "The Four Seasons." Upon selling another, the remain ing group became "The Three Graces." Then they became "Night and Day." When all but one had been sold, he titled the remaining statue "Solitude." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Do stars also rise in the east and set in the nest as the sun does? A Yes. Answer to Previous rui,. 10 Adolesee'tt 11 Kind ot ropt 1.1 Doctors lab.l 18 KnglL'-A letter ;0 Ust 21 Forms 22 Blow with open hand 23 Top of head '.24 Poker stake 27 Ireland :!8 Nevada city 35 Emphasis .16 Mouths 37 Bristly 40 Complications 41 Fisherman 42 Paid notices 43 Month tab.) 44 Cicatrii 48 Cured meats 47Siouan Indian 48 l,ow haunt 50 fish 29 Hops kilns 5' Ace mm eps r?3 m. to kippim'? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Tax Loss Senate Bill No. 275. at present under consideration of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Util ities, commonly known as Oregon Minimum Crew Law for Rail roads, was enacted in 1913 as a public and employe safety law. Al the time of enactment the aver age train length was 30 cars and speed average was less than 25 m.p.h. Today the average train has 90 or more cars and travels at speeds up to 60 m.p.h. The safety factor of this law has been or will be shown to more than ever needing the third brakeman on today's long trains, to protect the public as well as the employes who work on these mile long trains. The American railroads and in cluding the Oregon railroads, have yet to give much of an answer to this safety factor, but instead keep giving out all sorts of information to the public about millions of dollars they are losing each year, and how much the pub lic would save if the supposedly excess employes were eliminated. Let's lake a good look at this "fairy tale." As for their poverty and almost bankrupt condition, the American railroads in the last live years paid in excess of two billion seven hundred million dol lars in dividends. This definitely does not sound like they are on the brink of bankruptcy. Now let's explore the large sav ings to the public and shipper that the Oregon Railroad Association is advocating in news releases, and whose representatives are trying to "brainwash" shippers a n d farmers in Oregon with personal contact calls. In my own county of Klamath, in tile last seven years on the Kirk Subdivison of the Southern Pacific which runs from and in cludes Klamath Falls and Cres cent Lake, a 100-mile stretch of track, there have been in excess of 165 railroad employes of all crafts jobs abolished. If we are to accept the Oregon Railroad Association's figure on the yearly wages of this number ol employes it is in tlie ncighlor liood of one million seven hundred fifty tlwusand dollars. With the amount of trackage in Oregon in an excess ot 10 times greater than that of Klamath County, the Oregon railroads should now be saving in excess of SIS million per year on job reduction alone. The railroads have removed sec tion workers' living houses, and supposedly unnccded spur tracks and switches, all of which were at one time on the tax rolls of counties in which the railroads operate. This saving must equal another one-half million. What I as a property owner and taxpayer in Klamath County would like to know is if the Oregon rail roads are now saving a large JIB million per year, and have not reduced shipping costs to the pub lic and shipper, why should we expect any saving now by sac rificing public salcty. when the only ones who will gain arc the out-of-state stockholders who will clip more and larger coupons while we taxpayers dig a little deeper to make up for the loss A member ot Klamath County Taxpayers League V A McMillrn. 1405 Canhy Street. Klamath Kails. Ore. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON NEA - It both sheer coincidence and inevi table fate that half a dozen im portant matters aflecting the U.S. transportation policy have come to a bead at one time. They illus trate better than anything else Ihe mess this policy is in. President Kennedy has again sent to Congress recommenda tions for new transportation leg islation which Congress last year did nothing about. The U.S. Supreme Court has held in effect that railroads have the right to change work rules which would eliminate what the employers call "feathcrbedding" and the employes call "job secu rity." This decision would become ef fective March 29 after more than a decade of bickering be tween management and labor and two years of presidential commission investigation and court litigation. Railroad management now has invited the four "on-train" broth erhoods, with 200,000 members, to resume talks on this subject in Chicago March 13. If either side or bolh of them decide at that time they have nothing further to discuss, tlie is sue becomes a National Mediation Board case, headed for settle ment or a strike about June 1. Before this crisis date, the 11 off-train brotherhoods with 450. 000 members are scheduled to begin negotiations with Class I railroads for a new wage agree ment. A complete railway tie-up by early summer is possible. A Senate antitrust and monop oly subcommittee under Sen. Es tcs Kefauver, D-Tenn., has just reported favorably on his pro posal to defer until 1964 all action on railroad merger applications now before the Interstate Com merce Commission. Legislation to provide more fed eral aid for mass transportation facilities in metropolitan areas does at last seem likely to pass in this session of Congress. Repeated delays to which the handling of vital transportation By FULTON LEWIS JR. A 71-year-old millionaire has chalked up the most amazing comeback since Bobby Thomson and the other New York Giants overtook the Brooklyn Dodgers in the final inning of the final game of the 1951 National League Base ball season. W. Averell Harriman, trounced by half a million votes when he sought reelection as New York governor in 1953. was thought by friend and foe to be washed up. Few believed that Harriman's future brightened much when, in 1960. Nikita Khrushchev s u g gested that President Eisenhower name him director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Two years ago, he entered the State Department as roving am bassador and, many thought, the honorable oblivion of a defeated Democratic governor. By May of 1961, however. Har riman had been made chief dele gate to the 14-nation Geneva Con ference on Laos. By November he was Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. And now he is slated to be come the Number 3 man in John Kennedy's State Department. Un der Secretary of State for Politi cal Affairs. Tlie remarkable background of Averell Harriman is told best in a brilliant little volume "The Fringe on Top" written by three of tlie country's outstanding young conservatives. They are 28-year-old Stan Ev ans, editor of the Indianapolis News; my able 24-year-old asso ciate. Bill Schulz; and 28-year-old Allan Ryskind, son of playwright Morrie. who is assistant editor ol Human Events Newsletter. Their work i S2 ' is published by American Features. 523 State Life Building. Indianapolis. Ind. The three young men have dem onstrated that there is indeed a "fringe'' element whose poli cies are dangerous to the Unit ed States. It is not tlie far right "lunatic fringe" with which the authors are concerned. Say the authors: "The 'fringe' which threatens to undo America is not clamoring lo get into power: it is already there. That is why it is danger ous." A certified member of the "Fringe on Top" is certainly Har riman. The authors reveal that it was Harriman. as a Truman envoy in 1946. who induced the anti - Communist Rumanians to join a coalition government with issues have been subjected are viewed by many authorities as precisely what's wrong with the transportation picture today. Nothing was done about trans portation problems while they were small and manageable. Inde cision has allowed them to grow until they are almost unsolvable. The big bottleneck is resistance to change. Unless all forms of transporta tion can modernize to take ad vantage of new technologies, un less they can be regulated and al lowed to compete on more even terms, some of them appear to be headed for bankruptcy, nation alization of extinction. This is the gist of "Quest for Crisis," a new study of world transportation problems made by James N. Sites of the American Association of Railroads. On an Eisenhower fellowship last year, Sites found that wher ever sound economic practices governed transportation policy as in Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands the railroads give good service. Where politics and resistance to change have determined trans portation policy as in Britain and Italy the railroads are in a mess. Present soundings indicate that if the Kennedy administration exerts the right kind of pressure, it can get action in this session of Congress on the President's transportation reform program, which includes two principal bills. ; The first would give the rail; roads exemption from the mini mum freight rate regulation suclj as now enjoyed by waterways u) carrying bulk cargo and by motor trucks in carrying farm products. If Congress does not approve this, tlie President proposes as an alternative that waterway and highway carriers be bought un der the same regulation as the railroads. The second bill is a catch-all which would in effect make airl rail, truck and water carriers more truly competitive by equal ization of rates and regulation, elimination of subsidies and a p. proval of experimental and joint tariffs aimed to give shippers better and lower cost services. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Harriman Comeback' Amazing Situation Communist forces. Tragedy was the inevitable result. Opposition parties were first in timidated, then suppressed. In 1951. Juliu Maniti, a revered Rumanian leader who had warned Harriman that the Communists would not respect the rights of his countrymen, died in prison, a martyr to his country's freedom. This example apparently had lit tle effect on Harriman. Six years after the disastrous Yalta Con ference, he could not understand "why Stalin took on so many commitments which he sub sequently failed to honor." Early in the Kennedy Adminis tration, Harriman was responsible for persuading the pro - Western forces of Laos' General Phoumi Nosavan into a coalition govern ment with left-wing "neutrals" and avowed Communists. Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, retir ing chairman of the Foreign Af lairs Committee of the Australian Parliament, says this of our new proposed Under Secretary of Slate: "Averell Harriman has the chance to go down in history as the Churchill or the Chamberlain of Southeast Asia. When I was in Bangkok recently, he seemed In have decided on the latter, um brella and all." Harriman in the past has urged a "modus vivendi" with Red Chi na. On "Meet the Press." he ad vocated withdrawal from the two offshore islands of Qucmoy and Matsu to please "America's al lies'apparently not including Nationalist China as one of them. On Jan. 15, 1961, five days be lore he took his new post with the administration. Harriman said on the radio in New York that ad mission of Red China to the Unit ed Nations was inevitable, that "sooner or later the majority of U.N. members are going to ad mit Red China." And, he indicat ed, Americans had belter get used to it. THEY SAY... Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. Wernher von Braun. Tlie sooner tlus source of po tential trouble is eliminated, the letter (or everyone concerned Secretary of Slate D e a Rusk, on Russian troops In Cuba.
