HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falli. Ore.
Thursday, March 21, IK
ED30N IN WASHINGTON . . .
After the Brawl Is Over
Alliance For Progress
Popularity Declining
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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 .
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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"
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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
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ANSWERS
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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.
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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.
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