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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fills, Ore. Thursday, March 14, 1961 NOTHING "Care to Join Me in a Little Snack?" SPECIAL dit&UtL (paqiL (W. B. S.I Q Hospital Needs Continued Support The enthusiasm and determination of Klamath area citizens as they set out to pro vide themselves with new and adequate hos pital facilities is something to behold. Professional fund raisers with long ex perience and amateurs in civic organizations with an equal amount of experience are amazed even awed by the response of area citizens to "get in there and pitch" for the proposed hospital. Last night's kick off dinner was but one manifestation of this desirable situation. We need every bit of this drive and de termination. Raising more than $725,000 in a community of our size and resources is no easy task. But, we feel that we are equal to the challenge. While the suggested goal has been established at $725,000, it is no secret that we will need more to finance this project. In any event, the more money we can raise on the local level, the less will be our debt burden on mortgages required to complete the financial structure of the project. In our experience with public fund Where Nobody really questions that a loss of freedom anywhere, however small, diminish es freedom everywhere. Yet not much is said about the idea that . the same thought should apply in the realm of individual, national and world morality. At none of these levels is observance of the moral code ever even remotely close to perfect, and no practical person expects that. But it is always fair to demand that the tenets of the code at whatever level be constantly reasserted, and that departures from such principles be noted and protested. Where, then, are the indignant ones to day? When New York's Rep. Adam Clayton Powell sought recently to answer charges that he had abused congressional privilege in a va riety of ways, his defense was simply that he was only one of many who do the same things. Undoubtedly there are more than a few who think such an answer is both clever and sensible. What he said is true, isn't it? Very likely it is. But is that the kind of reply which ought to satisfy a nation con cerned for its moral character? If not, where Is the Indignation? The logic of Powell's argument is that one transgression justifies another. Carried to its limits, that suggests that anything goes so long as somebody else is doing it. The end product of such thinking is the destruction of the moral code. An individual or a society which seeks to rationalize im morality has no morality. IN WASHINGTON By RALPH dc TOI.F.DANO The Presidential press confer ence, broadcast free to the nation, is Uic biggest weapon in Uie While House propaganda arsenal. For the President can, unchallenged, make statements with very little fear of contradiction which further his political position and slam his opponents. Theoretically, a correspondent can press a point. In fact, this is impossible. Ho never gets a chance to ask a sec ond question and II he says any thing which might put the Presi dent in a bad light ho is consid ered something of an outcast by the White llouso and by his own associates. "Ask your question and shut up" no matter how evasive or incor rect the answer that's the rule Correspondents who violato it find themselves under a subtle kind of ' ostracism which can wreck their careers. But the fiscal soundness of this country is too Important a matter to consign to Presidential kitlcn Ishncss. If our economy col lapses, Mr. Kennedy's ability to field a question cleverly will hard ly compensate us. The national defense, moreover, is nothing which should be used as a politi- cal gambit. Therefore, Uie Pirsi ; dent's performance at last week's ; press conference requiies some J analysis. I have waited for the ; Republicans to offer it, hut the COP is so overcome by its bold j ness when it makes one good cf- fort that It generally retires to the sidelines for Uie rest of the con test. The President, in discussing his budget, attacked "this idea that there are three services and there fore you can save $3 billion by cut ting l billion out of each" as drives, we never have seen such purposeful ness of citizens as we see in the campaign underway now. Prominent, busy citizens are devoting an almost unbelievable amount of time and energy to the project. The rest of us can do no less. Or, at least, we tan and must do our share to assure the success of this drive the biggest undertaking of its kind ever in Klamath Basin. II is especially encouraging to see that this project is not branded as a "Klamath Falls" responsibility. Every community in the area has organized and will play a prominent part in bringing the financial campaign to a successful conclusion, as well as participating in future activity to assure the long-term suc cess of the hospital operation. We feel that it would not be presuming upon the prerogatives of those most closely responsible for the successful campaign if we extend their appreciation and gratitude for the work already accomplished, as well as an earnest plea for continued interest and sup port by all Klamath area citizens. Is Our Moral A people silently watching transgression pile upon transgression may well lose all ca pacity for protest. The young who note this silence are quick to perceive its meaning. "Everybody's doing it" is a powerful teen-age weapon against parents who never wax indig nant over the adult world's lapses. And where is the lesson against stealing for children in homes cluttered with ash trays, lamps and other objects lifted "sportingly" from hotels? You can't sell morality to children if you do not practice it and preach it widely. You can't teach self-control in a home or a society that exalts self-indulgence. The same goes for countries and their leaders. In his troubles with Red China, we offer India's Nehru help now not because he is a moral man who has been morally wronged by an aggressor, but because it is in the practical interest of world freedom to do so. If Nehru had any pretensions as a moral leader, he subverted them when he could find no words of protest in 1956 against Russia's repression of Hungary. Where was the wrath of the pious, self serving Africans when Khrushchev resumed nuclear testing on his own? Their indignation appears curiously selective. They reserve it for old enemies. Morality is a whole cloth. "Practical" men inevitably labor to cut it up. But if we are to have human dignity, we must at the mini mum have other men who try to stay the cutter's hand. Kennedy Muddies Record serting, as other Democrats have, that this w as a part of the Republi can tax-cutting program. In point of fact, no Republican has called for a $1 billion - per - service cut. Representative Melvin Laird, a ranking Republican, pointed out that by proper procurement prac tices (that is, competitive bid ding on contracts rather than pass ing them out to political friends1 some 1 billion could be saved without in any way affecting the defense program. Tins is a long way from what the President said. The President, moreover, added: "Now, in addition to that, it has been suggested that we cut school lunches, we cut aid to dependent children." At the OOP press con ference In which the Republicans proposed cutting tho budget, not a single mention of eliminating the school lunch program or aid Independent children was made. There has always been bipartisan support for these programs and the sums involved are not great. Rut it makes tlie budget-cutters look like a combination of Kbone zer Scrooge and Sinwn Legree to raise this issue and it contrib utes less than nothing to the vital debate on the budget. On tlie life and death question of a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet I'nlon, the President said. "We would not accept a test ban which did not give us every as surance that we could detect a se ries of tests underground." This Is a comforting thought. Hut Wil liam C. Foster, heading the U.S. test ban negotiating team, has said that the American proposals would "probably" be able to de tect all tests which is something else again. The U S. has also been ready to settle (or seven on-sito Inspections following suspicion of Code? seismic disturbances within the Soviet Union. And the Administra tion has repeatedly said th.it sci entific "breakthroughs" in detec tion techniques give us tlie nec essary protection from Soviet cheating. While the President was talking to the press, an Administration ex pert on seismic disturbances was testifying before the Joint House Senate Committee on Atomic En ergy. He stated that of the 170 seismic disturbances which take place within the Soviet Union ev ery year, there arc 75 for which tile U.S. has no adequate detection devices or techniques. This expert, Carl Romney, further stated that at present an atomic cheater could test one-klloton devices In granite, 2-lo-ti kiloton devices in volcanic ash, and 10-to 20 kiloton devices in dry adluvium without any means available to us or detection. This is a tar cry from White House "as surances" that Mr. Foster's pro posals will salcguaid the nation. It will bo recalled that recently the Wlue House informed tlie press that "several thousand" Soviet troops were being removed from Cuba by mid . March. Later, there was a quiet collection by CIA that only "several hundreds" would go. At his press conference, however, Mr. Kennedy stated that he had no knowledge o( how many troops were going to be removed or when. But he did lash out at critics of his Cuba policy for at tacking CIA and the Pentagon for our intelligence failures. Mr. Kennedy has forgotten. Criticism of the CIA and the Joint Chiefs came from While House sources. It was the Presuk'nl s critics who delended them but the press con ference audience w ill never know. twi aN - '""-jrf- ' , firV"") '" w rX y" C n)jrtjpv v-ml n By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: Not only beauty, but sexual de sirability as well, is in the eyes of the beholder in the Orient, women conceal their bosoms and necks, but reveal their thighs in slit skirls; and the Occidental man visiting there keeps the an gle of his vision directed toward the legs, while the Oriental man looks only at the Western women with their necks and shoulders exposed. Biographies of geniuses are al ways at bottom unsatisfactory, because truly great men cannot be understood; they can only be admired. This is why it is easier to write a convincing biographv of a rascal than of a genius we share the limitation of the for mer, but lack the "x factor" of the latter. A woman gets mighty rest less unless, from lime to time, she can find something to "for give" a man for. The phrase "United Nations'" Is as big a contradiction as "civilized warfare"; for as long as the concept of nation remains pre-eminent, the unity will last only when it serves the self-interest of each. Few of us are as candid as Mark Twain when he wrote on the envelope of a letter addressed to his wife: "Opened by mistake to see what was inside." Speaking of wives, it seems to me that when a woman nags her hushand it is not because Travel Time ACROSS 1 Harbor, Maine 4 Lake City, Utah 8 Seen on a western trip 12 Peer Gym's mother 13 Mimicker 14 Asseverate 15 Yugoslav city ISPanelwork 18 Marinera 20 Alleviates 21 Courlesy title 22 Minced oath 24 KntanRles 26 Egyptian Rod (less 27 Taxi .10 liisnitlej 32 Feminine appellation 34 Used to go abroad 35 Aphrodite's beloved 3ft Hops' kiln 37 Baseball lerm 39 Musical directions 40 Fencint; weapon 41 voyage 42 Cognizant 45 Dried grapes 49 Calamities 51 Negative word 52 European mountains 53 Volcano in Sicily 54 Ciirl'a name 55 Miridle note. (Gr. music) 5S Stacger 57 Flatl ish DOWN 1 Prohibits 2 Continent .lltematinii 4 Flavor 5 Three-handed armadillo f! F.yes o( cameras 7 (.'Ornish town 1 12 13 14 16 16 17 I 13 19 10 ill fZ 13 14 ft" is rr is 19 ir ri2rr ' "So" fj ill 3C 31 32 33 3? ' 35 37 W p 35 41 T -si 55 53 U 55 57 14 WX - INI, STRICTLY PERSONAL she wants to dominate him, but because he has been unable to dominate her nagging is usually an expression of the woman's un satisfied need to be dependent. The surest sign of a writer with a tin car is that he re cords "very" as "veddy" when spoken by aan upper-class Eng lishman; most attempts to transcribe Briticisms in Amer ican writing are as ludicrously false and outdated as the Brit ish attempts to record Amer ican speech. If punishment were the answer to delinquency, as Federal Judge Luther Youngdahl has ironically noted, "We would have had a perfect society centuries ago. with pillories, stocks and the whipping post." Sincerity is a virtue only when it is accompanied by a strong sense of self-criticism; otherwise it can become the most deadly of vices, self-righteousilcss, which is Uie root of most persecution. Why is it that, contrary to Marx's expectations and pre dictions, it has been only the poor and under-developed na tions that have turned to com munism, not the prosperous and industrial ones? Is it not be cause W share poverty is easy; to share wealth, difficult? Air crashes seem so much more shocking Ulan auto crashes because taking a plane is a de liberate act of choice, whereas driving a car seems more natural and inevitable than walking. Amwtr to Previous Poult (prffix) 31 Figures ot speech Dinner course Feminine name 33 (tyni ot scent 3ft Rounded 40 Kxpunge 41 Kind ot hemp 42 First msn 4;. Stratagem 44 Vipers 4ti Finnish name 47 Fossa - - 48 Pierce with knife 50 Thrice (comb, form Heredity unit rnerjjv units Kriited Kind of lace Stout lUinls Simic (comb, form Asiatic der I'pshot Held Operatic solo M) Myerson LETTERS Not Needed I am answering Mr. H. O. Mc Cann's letter of last Sunday. I don't agree with Mr. McCann that we need zoning like we need traffic laws. After all, ears are man made. But God made the land for us to be free and to toil tlie land as we see fit, and not for just several men to tell us what to do and when to do it. If He had wanted . only several men to run His promised , land He would have given us a king to do so. He gave us the gov ernment to do it for us, but not for them to take over all the land as they want to. And I think that all the laws we need about our land and homes are tlie Ten Command ments. Observance of them would make this groat America the most beautiful country in the world. 1 think. Mr. McCann, there are a great many people who will agree with me that God gave us this land of ours, so we do not need zoning. Eva Thompson, 4612 Balsam Drive. Some Good! At last I have found time to write to you and I do think it is about time that once in awhile readers should write in and say some good about the Herald and News. Without it where would we poor Basiners be without all tlie up-to-date news as prices in o u r shops. We can see and write down where they are giving good bargains and we know exactly where to go instead of running around in circles. It saves a lot of time and mothers do not have much of that. And another thing do people think of what goes into our local paper, (lie time and energy of all the staff at the Herald and News, even risking death to get us good pictures and reading and taking time to go back genera tions for good reading. I do enjoy such reading and our family loves reading tlie history of the dear Klamath Basin too. I hear people grumbling about paying $1.75 for the paper. It makes me feel sick at times. If , (hey would only stop and realize it. perhaps they too would think like our family does. A good many Americans take too much for granted, but if they would only realize how well off they arc. Our family knows how well off it is today, after coming to a won derful country like America. We all wish we had come over on the Mayflower but 1 would not have been alive today to tell you all this about your wonderful country, and believe me I mean it from the bottom of my heart. Our family thinks you are all doing a very good job. I know a pat on tile back means a great deal or even a good handshake. I do hope I am not taking your good time but for a long time now this has been on my chest and if people will read this per haps they will all come to love the Herald and News, our great pa per. And once again, thank you lor all the great work you all are doing. One of your readers for 12 years since we first landed in Klamath Kails Fiances Ixiuisa Croxford and all my tamily. Husband. Edward, Daughter. Mrs. Stan Hendricks. Son Ronnie and family. Son Derek and lamily. NOTE: Mrs. Croxlord and her family came to this country from England 12 years ago. I'd like to lend my support however feeble to tlie endorse ment of Kingsley Field personnel and their high sense of commu nity obligation highlighted on this page in the letter of Mayor Veatch. I only hope the citizens of Klamath Falls and its environs are appreciative of the tremendous activities of Kingsley Field people in promoting the welfare anfl growth of the community. This, despite tlie fact that most of them are here for only a short time. On the other side of the coin, we, as citizens, and our of ficials at every level should go out of our way to show our apprecia tion, and make every airman and his family, if he has one. feel welcome and a part of the community. Maybe someone has the an swer: At what point does a par ent change from a "firm" ad viser to become an irrational despot? Unless I miss my guess, more people are concerned about the national defense and military pos ture of the United States than has been the case for many years. It is difiicult to understand just where we are going in our defense planning. 1 suspect that not all U.S. citizens are impressed with the "whiz kids" that are running the Defense Department. Certain ly, from what one reads, our mil itary service leaders aren't ex actly entranced. Of-alMhings-Dep't. It seems to me that the Taxpayers League could find something more substantial to look Into than the matter of how com mencement exercises are con ducted in KUI1S. And, I fail to sec just how the League is affected by the distribution of scholarships In the school sys tem. If I were a member of the KUIIS board, I'd tell the League people involved in this silly bit of semantics to go climb a tree and look for something construc tive to tie into. Not infrequently, Uie matter ot credit charges by retail firms, banks and loan companies is the topic of conversation, a n d a subject for newspaper and maga zine articles. There are several pieces of legislation in the hop per at Salem touching on the mat- By FULTON LEWIS JR. It's hardly carthshaking, but poor old Uncle Sap has, once again, been taken. He now helps foot the bill for training pilots of Fidel Castro's Air Force. So Congressman Durwood Hall (R., Mo) has discovered alter a thorough investigation of the Unit ed Nations so-called Special Fund. Congressman Hall unearthed the fact that $17,280 ( 40 per cent of it courtesy of U.S. taxpayers I has boon authorized for the training of Cuban pilots at Mexico City. Tlie airmen will attend a so cial school sot up by (he Interna tional Civil Aviation Organization HCAOi. The school, financed by the Special Fund, offers training in meteorology, air traffic con trol, and maintenance of radios, aircraft and engines. Aircraft used in training include the Piper Apache, the Cessna 172, the DC-3, and the Hiller helicopter. Congressman Hall, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says: "I am well aware of the uses of these aircraft in military opera tions, and it matters not to their military effectiveness whether the pilots and mechanics and air con trollers were trained on planes configured for civilian opera tions. "The Piper. Cessna and Hiller models are light aircraft that can be used for field observation and for artillery fire direction, as our advisers in South Viet nam have so well proved. The old-faithful DC-3, of course, can and has done dozens of military jobs in past years including cargo and transport operations and tlie dropping ot parachutists." It is not only Comrade Castro, howeer, who receives U.N, aid. Josef Broz Tilo. Communist boss of Yugoslavia, is another on the leccivmg end. Under the 11 12 ICAO program. Tito was pro vided with three aircraft main tenance instructors and one pilot instructor. What these I'.N. in structors did in Yugoslavia is de scribed in an olficial I'.N. report: "They spcat two months m Yu goslavia early in the year to as sist in selling up maintenance procedures (or the aircraft of So net manufacture operated by the national airline and in tho selec tion of personnel to undergo fur ther training in the L.N." ter of credit and interest and re lated things. It seems the most confusing thing for the potential buyer or borrower to figure out is the rate of interest he pays. 1 ran across an article that explains, I think, quite clearly what one can expect in a credit transaction that involves payment of interest. Tho situation went something like this: Suppose you borrow or 12 months at 8 per cent interest. There are three ways you ordi narily would be charged. ; 1. You get $1,000 immediately from the lender and you repay it at the end of 12 months, plus $80 interest. This is called simple in terest and you have paid 8 per cent. 2. You borrow $1,000 at 8 per cent, but the Interest is deduct ed in advance, so you get only $920. Actually you're paying $80 on $920, which amounts to about 9 per cent. This is called a dis count loan, meaning simple in terest is deducted from the prin cipal. ' 3. You borrow $1,000 at 8 per cent and agree to pay it back in 12 monthly payments at $83.33. Because you start paying the loan back immediately, you don't have the use of $1,000 for 12 months; in fact, you have the use, on the av erage, of only about $541 for the year. So you're paying $80 on tlie use of $341 which amounts to about 15 per cent. This is called flat rate interest. If the interest was deducted first, so that you would receive $920, and you paid $83.33 monthly, your rate of inter est would be about 17 per cent. And, I guess, that is the area where we get involved in "high finance." I'm darned if I can see why a team like Henley's Hornets has 10 go through the motions of a tournament to establish itself as the state's top A-2 high school basketball team. They won 20 straight games in an undefeated season. Yet, they have to take valuable time away from books and education to "prove" what? I'll go further and state flatly that all high school tournaments ought to be halted. They're a waste of time and taxpayers' money. And the results don't mean a thing. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . American Funds Used To Train Castro Men Yugoslavia, Rep. Hall revealed, also came in for additional aid in tlie form of fellowships that en able students to train in civil' air law, meteorology, airport engi neering, radar, airport design, air line accounting, civil aviation ad ministration, radio engineering and telecommunications. Some ot tha U.N. instructors are Soviet na tionals. Republicans are up in arms over a White House plan that will, they claim, create an addition al io.000 patronage jobs. The jobs are those available to college stu dents who wish to come to Wash ington and work summers for the government. Applicants in the past have had to pass Civil Service tests before they could get the jobs. At a recent White House meeting, aides of the President decided upon a clearance system whereby the names of all students who desire summer jobs will be sent to the White House. According to Joseph Young of the Washington Post: "Civil Service Commission of ficials have privately expressed dismay at the latest turn of events. The White House job clearance system may be an ef fort to channel these jobs in a more political patronage area, whereby more sons and daugh ters of Democratic members of Congress and key Democratic supporters and contributors may gel summer jobs in government." Al manac Bv United Press International Today is Thursday, March 14, the 73rd day ot with 292 to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Venus. The evening star is Mars. Those born on this day include wnild-lamous physicist Albert Einstein in 187!). On this day in history: in 17M, Eli Whitney received a patent on the cotton gin. In lira. President Hardin? be came the first Chief Executive to hie an income tax. In 19.13. Congress approved a measure authorizing tlie sale of 3 2 beer.
