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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falli. Ore. Thursday, March 21, IK ED30N IN WASHINGTON . . . After the Brawl Is Over Alliance For Progress Popularity Declining 3 One would think, from listening to some folk, that Richard Nixon had gone to the Ant arctic since his 1962 defeat for the California governorship. Actually, he is still busy think ing Republican thoughts. Recently he turned out a guest editorial for The Southern Republican, a party news paper published in Louisiana. It is a vigorous exhortation for party unity as a necessary base for presidential victory in 1964. He warns the GOP stalwarts to cease their "favorite Indoor sport of intraparty canni balism." And he adds that there has been too much argument over the "fine distinctions" which set off "modern" Republicanism from "traditional," liberal from conservative. He urges an end to such "hairsplitting" and a re affirmation of faith in basic GOP principles. Few Republicans probably would quarrel with the lofty tone of Nixon's statement, which undoubtedly is one of the few public utterances on politics he has made since his defeat. The trouble is that Republicans of all poli tical colors believe they are already adhering to sound party principles. Where they differ is on how to implement them. And not even Materialism, East And (Decatur, III., Herald and Review) The big question in foreign affairs for the last 17 years has been how to defend against Russia. Now, suddenly, the strategy makers are wondering how to exploit Russia's family feud with China. Or, might it not be better to hope for some kind of "inevitable" downfall of the Communist powers? This inevitability talk has the Communist, trademark on it. But the same sort of thing has been heard in the West. Actually, the Communists preach materialism and deter minism, while we practice it. v It is no wonder, then, that Russia, de spite all Its talk about the proletariat, has not been able to give its workers the bare essentials, while Western workers have joined the middle class. . The Russians are ahead of the Chinese in industrial growth, but they can hardly begin to compete with the West in production. .Rus sia, as confessed by Premier Khrushchev in his latest economic plan, is still half peasant. Fifty per cent of the Russian people still till the soil, many without machines, and Russian cities are filled by decree with rustics to. whom mechanization is a mystery. Russia has come fast and far. But it Is, in the words of Historian Peter Spender, "a great power founded on a weak society." IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO Miami Ilraoh: Reliable reports from Rio do Janeiro, reaching well-informed Cuban exile Intelli gence groups, are giving Latin American diplomats Uie jitters. These reports pinpoint the loca tions of Castro Communist guer rilla training camps in Brazil. At present, there are well-organized staging areas In the slates of Coi ns, Mato fi rosso, Rio, Muranltan, Rio Grande do Sul, and Bahia. Troops, armed by Castro, are ready to move against the Bra zilian government at a moment's notice. Pentagon: Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester Is in hot water again. Having embar rassed the White House once by admitting that this Administration "manages" the news, Mr. Sylves ter is now In bad with his boss. Secretary McNamara, for picking a fight with Chairman John Mc Clellan's powerful Senate Perma nent Investigations subcommittee. The Assistant Secretary ques tioned the motives of tiie com mittee in looking into a Pentagon contract for the TFX plane which will cost the taxpayer some Kon million more than necessary. Fit-to-be-tied committee members forced Mr. Sylvester to apologize, but they are now shuremiig knives for Mr. McNamara. The Sylvester boo-hoo. In short, has ended (lie Defense Secretary's honeymoon with Congress. Washington: A reader sends me a clipping which discloses that Uie Federal Communications Commis aion silenced a radio being used for liaison with the Cuban under ground - just 10 dy before the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Thii radio, hidden on a yacht in a mangrove swamp, was supposed to alert sntl-Castro forces when Cuban Never The Twain the loftiest words, whether from Nixon or any other, seem to have much effect in erasing these differences. Men like New York's Sen. Jacob Javits believe the party can espouse broad welfare measures without tossing out the principle Nixon labels the "primacy of the individual." But to strong conservatives, such measures are virtual socialism. The more extreme right wingers go be yond this. They argue that men of the Javits category do not in fact support Republican principles but are either socialists, liberal Democrats, or unprincipled vote-seekers. Some "modern" Republicans return the favor by declaring the extreme right-wingers off the party limits. So what it amounts to is that each major element in the GOP thinks it is now applying Republican principles with unique effect. In any event, the differences are certain-, ly more than "fine distinctions." The facade of unity Nixon calls for would of necessity have to be a pretty frail structure. Neither the Republicans nor the Demo crats have the singleness of outlook he suggests. Quite different social traditions are found in the West, but the conviction that material prosperity is all-important is as pervasive as it is in Russia. In fact, the conviction orig inated in the West and was borrowed, or imitated, by Russia. This flatters the West at the expense of Russia, but neither side has found unmixed joy in materialism. Most galling is this unending struggle for economic superiority, a struggle which supposes that if the Communist system of ma terialism can some day equal in production the capitalist system of materialism, the bat tle will have been lost or won, depending on the viewpoint. This is nonsense on the face of it, but such are materialistic jealousies. The West likes to think that it is defend ing spiritual values against communism. But the only places where a battle-line has been thrown up against the rather haphazard Com munist advances are where economic or mili-' tary interests of tho West are directly at stake. Perhaps this is a realistic defense. There is, after all, truth in the argument that lib erty cannot be gained around the world until it is gained at home. For the moment, then, while China is forcing Russia to assess its motives and achievements more closely, It might be a good time for tho United States to do the same. A Reporter's Notebook exile forces landed on the island. So fur, no corroboration at this end, but It fits in with other stor ies of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Knibassy Row: Latin American diplomats wonder just how long their countries will remain silent. Behind the scenes, they have been prodding the Slate Department to invoke the Rio de Janeiro Treaty of Mutual Assistance, signed by all American states, against Cuba., They point out that t'astro-oi gan Ized sabotage in Venezuela comes clearly under the terms of this inter . American treaty, Mure im portant to them Is the presence of Soviet troops in Cuba. On De cember 17, 1!X2, however, at a secret meeting of the OAS (Or ganization of American States) Or gan of Consultation, Latin Ameri can leaders were ordered by the United States not to call for any ultimatum for the removal of So viet troops until "diplomatic means" had heen exhausted. Tltc diplomats are still wailing (or iermission. Jackson, Miss.: Kor those who weep about education in poor Mis sissippi, wime statistics from the National Education Association guiltiest in this area. Mississippi is 17th among the states in ht cap ita expenditures for education, with $60.79. New York is 23rd. dh a per capita expenditure of WH. Massachusetts is 50th, w ith $21 09. As a topper, Mississipplans report that Jackson ranks fourth in the nation (or cities of its size In the number of college graduates. I ll come back lo this. House Cloakroom: Republican Congressmen are thinking serious ly of a mass emulation of Rep. Thomas M. Pelly of Washington. Mr. Pelly recently announced that he would attend no more Slate Department foreign policy brief West ings, held for members of Con gress. In a letter to the depart ment, Pelly said that these brief ings were held "for the purpose of tranquillizing public opinion, re gardless of the true facts." Some GOP members argue that they simply get double-talk at the briefings, that some kind of dra matic demonstration of Congres sional anger would be very salu tary. Supreme Court: Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold's blast at tho nation's highest tri bunal or its decision banning school prayer Is still , causing a buzz among Washington Constitu tional lawyers. They say that Dean C.riswold ranks high with the members of the Supreme Court bench. And they agree with Gris wold that the school prayer de cision was not based on the First Amendment, but on other ideolog ical considerations. As corrobora tion, they point out that tlie Su preme Court has refused lo oxer turn "Blue laws" that discrimi nate on religious grounds against some sects which would like to transact business on Sunday but shut up shop on Saturday. House Office molding: Despite the complaints about the lack of minority members of House and Senate committees, tlie living need for Capitol Hill Republicans is more cash (or the vital House Republican Policy Committee. A staff of two, plus one secretary, tries to cope with an increasing volume of work while the heavily slafled Republican National Com mittee chalks up a "do nothing" lecord. Washington correspond ents claim that it is almost im possible to obtain even routine in formation from tlie GOP Nation al Committee, mil limn ill-will hut because no one seems to know . r- f 1 1 -'2T '-zhj-'v -m. '. v - jester -Kri By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: Past a certain age, a "gay dog" is simply a man who has per manently tied a tin can to his own tail. In the United States, at last most legislation of a "moral" na ture seems to be founded on the , fantasies of spinsters of both sex es. The best way to plot against the increasing success of an ag gressive, egregious, publicity seeking personality is to form a conspiracy of silence; such ego centrics welcome attack and en courage aspersion what they cannot stand is being calmly and politely ignored. Reading about the new spring styles from Paris, I was reminded of Wilde's observation that "Fashion Is a form of ugli ness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Frugality is going without something you want, in case you should in the future need some thing you probably won't want. Friends who conscientiously keep up a personal correspondence would be tolerable, were it not that they somehow manage to make the rest of us ashamed of ourselves for our lack of similar diligence; there Is always a touch of self-satisfaction and self-righteousness in the compulsive letter answerers. None of us should listen to a man giving a lecture or a ser mon on his "philosophy of life" Places and Things ACROSS 1 City In Oklahoma 5 Southern stats lab) 8 Stout cord 12 Was borna 13 Drone be 14 Mountain (comb, form 15 Ledger entry 16 Conjunction 17 Wolfhound 18 More facile 20 Possessors ii Traiisiio.se tub.) 23 Greek toller 24. Harbor, Maine 27 limned latety SO Congolese creature 54 liutdo s note 35 Protuberance 37 l.ove fsmt 38 lleasv volume 40 Alios 4'.' linos' kiln 43 Calyx teat 45 Assam silkworm 4 Boy's nickname 47 Toper 49 Negative reply SI Ohio community 54 Capital of Colorado 38 Nsutical term S9 r'roien w ater 61 Sedimentary material ev: f alsifier . 03 Scottish alder M Kssential bcins ho Mountain pool Sri How er property 67 violf mounds DOWN 1 CHv in Pennsylvania ! Observe lljlin) 3 Roman dale 4 Koi'-n 5 Hebiew month ti Mr. Chanev 72 3K I a 6 f? 8 9 10 11 15 Jl 17 18 9 p" 20 21 23 lZZ i Us 27 i 34 135 39 1 40 47 bl 6i t0 6iT I S. I STRICTLY PERSONAL until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his sub ordinatesand his enemies. For a brief and honest mili tary biography, nothing can beat the line of Charles Henry Smith, who wrote alter the Civil War: "I joined the army, and succeed ed in killing about as many of the enemy as they of me." Those who think it a great im piety to speak ill of the dead us ually have no such inhibitions about the living; what a curious superstition to have more regard for a corpse than for a creature still capable of being wounded. Speaking of wounds1, those persons who try too desperately to protect themselves from hurts are In the long run more vulner able to injury; it is the hand that has developed callouses that slides more easily down the escape rope in an emergen cy. Listening to a contentious wom an arguing with a store manager the other day, I recalled Oliver Herford's deft analysis: "If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS . Q How last have the nation's radio stations Increased? A In 1932 there were only 600. Now were are 3,900 AM stations. ' 1.200 FM staUons and 700 TV stations. Answer to Previous Puixla US rsii .si' LltiU'A rsi 7 Knthusiasm 8 Virginia comm unity P Shield bearing lo Km it U Eternities 10 Sea birds '2 rronoun 4 Wa fers Tropical plant 26 Sloping way 'J8 Number '29 Merchandise 31 In a line 32 Sit for portrait :u pevrMeea 36 Lonq fish 3 Oriental A Without rutin) 44 Card gam 48 Trinitv 50 AMiutt jl Brew inuredient 5J Peudonm of Charles Laino 53 Approach r4 Low haunts 55 Holding devict 56 Otherwise 3T Routes lah.) SO Blood mnnev 30 ?!a!m,oi Imessi '31 132 133 42 46 3T 41 49 fco 54 5b 56 57 61 LETTERS TO THE ' EDITOR Split Schedule Upon arriving from college for the spring vacation holidays, I found the people of Klamath Falls involved in another attempt to correct the over-crowded condi tions which are present in the lo cal high school. I was very disap pointed in the decision reached by the school board on Thursday. March 14. Before going further, it should be pointed out that the so-called "impossible" situation did not come about suddenly. Educators in the past recognized the immi nent problem and attempted con-, structive steps to alleviate the problem before it got out of hand. I attended Klamath Falls schools from Uie first through my senior year in high school. I can still clearly recall the building of the Pontlerosa School, which was constructed as a Junior High School designed to take much of the pressure off the one union high school; also, I can. remember feeling that it was a definite possibility that 1 would attend the school. That was six years ago. and still no move has been made to establish the school as a junior high school. I'll admit that I may not be close enough to the situation in this one respect, but in conversing with many per sons in closer contact with the problem, I have heard the same question repeated quite frequent ly. The fact remains that when ever this factor is brought before the school administrators as a possible solution to the problem, it is always pushed aside. The education offered to a po tential college student from Klam ath Falls may be termed ade quate. After graduating from high school, there was no doubt in my mind that I was prepared to enter any institution of higher education. In my (our years at the school. I took every advanced science and math course offered in preparation for the study of prc mcdicine at college. I attained grades high enough to merit ad mittance to the Honors College Program at the University of Ore gon and to achieve scholastic awards. I then embarked for Etigene. feeling 1 was as well prepared for college as any incoming fresh man. I was in for a very rude awakening. In my classes 1 en countered many students far bet ter prepared for college than the average Klamath Union gradu ate. .Specifically, South Eugene may be cited as an example. Ad mittedly, this is a high school located in a center of higher learning, but (his alone can not account for thde students' superi or preparation for college. The av erage grade point drop from high school to college at Smith Eu gene is only .4 of a point, the lowest in the state. How was this terrific accomplishment attained? 1 learned it was through courses especially set up for students who planned on matriculating af ter four years of high school. If Klamath Falls Union High School goes on a split schedule. t!ie students would be able to lake only live academic subjects annually. This figure does n o t take into account that physical education is required for two tars at all state schools. Freh men and sophomores would only be able to take four subjects: thus, a graduating student would have only 18 academic subjects ptoparation lor college. How By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON 'NEA '-Alliance for Progress has been getting a bad press. Chagrin over developments in Cuba is partly responsible. Also, the unpopularity of foreign aid as a whole rubs off on the special programs to aid Latin America. There is disappointment that the Alliance in its less than two years of existence has not per formed, miracles, like saving Cuba. The fact that the plan was over sold at the beginning is respon sible for building too high hopes. Organization of American States has just released a first report on its planning operations for the Alliance in 1962, and it does not reveal great progress. A score or more of Latin-American, international alphabetical agencies have held conlerence af ter conference. Only six countries have completed their develop ment plans, though more are due shortly. Former Presidents Juscelino Kubitschek of Brazil and Alberto Llcras Camarago of Colombia now are trying to simplify the Al liance bureaucracy. But they have not come up with a plan yet. OAS has spent $4 million and allocated the other $2 million of a special U.S. appropriation for planning. OAS wants more. But this will require a new appropriation by the U.S. Congress, and there may be some opposition to that. Actually. Teodoro Moscoso of Puerto Rico, who is U.S. coordin ator for the Alliance irt the State Department, says that the whole program will require little if any more money to run next year than it is costing this year. This is about $600 million for loans and $100 million for grants. The Alliance is not all just a foreign aid giveaway. Total U.S. assistance for Latin America in the year and a half ending last Dec. 31 was. $1.5 billion, of which Letters To Concerned 1 would like to compliment you on your March 14 editorial "Where Is Our Moral Code?" In this same issue (Nothing Spe cial Column), exception was tak en with tlie Taxpayer League's position on the commencement does this compare with other schools? I am sure that it is quite evident tlie student would fall even farther behind Uian he is in the present situation. There are numerous njher fac tors involved in switching to a split schedule. One aspect, which I would deem very important, seems to have sjipped the minds of the administrators. This is the idea of school unity. It does' not sound vfery important . in print, but it is the one factor that makes attending school a pleasure. With out an "esprit de corps," the students have but one thought in Uieir minds as they attend school that Is to leave. This is wrong! High school years are the most fun-filled of one's life. When a student attends college, schooling becomes a serious business. Think back, what fun would you have experienced in high school with out school spirit? This school spirit would be sacrificed if t h e split schedule were enacted next year. It is still not too late for all the voters and especially parents o children who will be attending high school in the future to resist this strong-armed measure enact ed by the administrators. The split schedule is one step further toward the administrators' goal of a new high school. The voters rejected the first attempt at such a proposal. So it is the aim of the administrators to force the public's hand. These adminis trators feel the people will be come so irritated by the split schedule, that any proposal to build a new school will lie passed automatically. Are tlie students' futures being sacrificed over a petty argument? There have been many construc tive ideas forwarded to the ad ministrators, which they have deftly dodged in order to lorce the split schedule. Now is the time (or the voters to lake stock of the situation. Tlie question at hand is "Should a student s edu cation be sacrificed while sup posedly mature individuals are trying lo prove a needless point?" As a person who is close to the educational standpoint as anv one. I know how I would react il I were of voting ape. Alter all. we must not over look the fact that the schools are designed to further a youngster intellectually. Would tlie people be failing in this (acel if a split schedule were enacted? I think so. Richard Curnn. Klamath Union High School, Class of 12. 1SH0 Lawrence Street. $12 billion was loans and $300 million grants. Agency for International Devel opment AID provided $643 mil lion. Export-Import Bank $378 million, Inter-American Bank $21 million. Inter-American Bank $321 lion, Peace Corps $12 million. Moscoso believes that Uie 10 year Alliance program can be carried out on the original plan. T:.:s vas for $20 billion in U.S. government and private financing, with four times that much, or $80 billion, coming from the Latin Americans. The private business Co-ordinating Committee headed by J. Pe ter Grace of New York recently criticized the Alliance for mov ing too slowly. Grace said $2.5 billion a year should be going to Latin America from government and private sources, instead of the $1 billion supplied last year. Moscoso's position is that Latin America cannot absorb outside capital that rapidly now. He be lieves it will take several years of training technicians before Lat in America is ready for wide scale industrial investment. Latin America now has 50,000 technicians to serve 207 million people, as compared to 1.1 mil lion engineers in the U.S. still not enough for its 180 million people. When Latin America has raised its technical proficiency, then there may be need for a more rapid investment rate. Educationally, says Moscoso. Latin America is moving. Nearly 17,000 schoolrooms are being built this year. Fifty U.S. universities are working with as many Latin American universities on student and faculty exchange programs. One of the principal criticisms of the Alliance is that Latin American countries aren't doing their part in reforms which were to be a condition lo receiving aid. Tax reform and land reform, ur ban and rural slum elimination are admittedly moving slowly, as in every country. The Editor exercises. Actually, the answer to the exception was contained in your own editorial. I would like to emphasize t h e fact the league has no disagree ment with the right of those clubs, organizations, and industries which choose to aid scholars through ' college by gifts of monetary awards. While aid is most beau tiful when done without exhibi tion for those who are needy, a great deal of time is involved in the presentation of 50 or more scholarships at graduation exer cises. The honoring emphasis of these exercises should be for all graduating students and not for those who plead financial need. All graduating students are meritorious in our opinion. Education is a primary con cern of the Taxpayers League. One idea we forward is that gov ernment tax-supported education should be for all students. The in trusion of special interest is det rimental. Special groups are usurping more and more time to bestow charities at commence ment. It is a fact that 99 per cent of all scholarships are awarded on financial need to a special few. Primacy is not given to those who earn it by being in an tipper per cent. If so, all who are in that upper per cent would qualify and receive scholarships without asking for them. This places on students the odious task of asking for gilts and being known as recipients of aid. Those organizations which pre sent their charities at commence, ment are forcing our exercises into honoring hardship cases and irresponsibility. What honor is there for fiscally responsible par ents and those of high achieve ment who will work before tliev will ask for aid? What are, we selling? To quote you. "You can't sell morality to children if you do not practice it and preach it wide ly. You can t teach self-control in a home or society that exalts self-indulgence." ' The school board may take your sugaestion and tell the league lo "go climb a tree and look for something constructive to tie into." We shall look for further constructive things to do. Moral ly we shall insist for our fellow man the right of choice as we did in the zoning hassle and. in this issue, the right of justice and responsibility, not the rewarding of self-indulgence. As you well stated. "But it is ALWAYS FAIR i emphasis mine) lo demand that the tenets of the code at whatever level be con stantly reasserted, and that de parture liom such principles he noted and PROTESTED." We shall study other school problems and the principles involved in a responsible life and while we do so we shall remember your good advice, "morality is 'a whole cloth" and no injustice will be too small for our concern. Floy Johnson, Pribram Chairman, Taxpavcrs Leacuc. J
