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PAGE 6-C HERALD dxJt&uaJL (paqsL Extreme Measures Need Challenging The Wall Street Journal which, to borrow and corrupt the slogan of another great news paper, knows all the news that's fit to print about business, has just come up with a dis covery. It has learned that the Great Depres sion of 30 years ago was actually a period of economic growth. i "Between 1933 and 1940," says a Journal editorial, "the Gross National Product prac tically doubled and the national income more tian doubled." It should be made clear at once there is no advocacy here of depressions as a source of economic growth. The moral of the piece is that private capitalism and the free enterprise system have an enormous resiliency which should make It impossible for anyone to feel pessi mistic about America's future. : Few people will disagree or want to ar gue about that. ; The Journal's editorial writer uses the point to refute modern economists now pro posing extreme measures to speed up the country's lagging economic growth. Such measures were rather freely band ied about by the professors at the American Bankers Association's recent Washington conference on economic growth, and they need challenging. The phenomenon of business, recovery from depression to which the business paper has referred has, however, set Washington economists to looking up the figures. Gross National Product a figure t h a t represents value of total production was $56 billion in 1933 and $100 billion in 1940. That missed being exactly double by $12 billion. GNP actually doubled in 1941, when it reached $125 billion, passing the $104 bil lion of 1929, the year of the crash. '. There are some other factors about this period which are also worth remembering. : The years 1933-40 inclusive covered Franklin D. Roosevelt's first two New Deal terms as president. Government spending really got going in those years. There was RFC to bail out big business, NRA to bail out School Science Comes Far ...But, Who Sells Tickets? By JOHN GOULD (In The ! Christian Science Monitor) I LISBON FALLS, Mc. - The jioung man at my door with shin ing morning face said he w a s selling tickets for a scliool movie, ajid It would cost mc 50 cents to participate. Ho said they were raising money to buy scientific equipment. "Why doesn't the town buy it?-' I asked, thinking the tax rata should have given them an insti tute of technology on every floor by now, and he said he didn't know. "It's by Walt Disney!" he said brightly. I said I guessed I could pass up this golden oppor tunity, thanking him heartily for remembering me, and he said I was the first one who had re fused. .1 expressed my pleasure at this unique status, and he said, "Well, they told me to say that If anyone refused and then they'd buy afler all." I think under the pressure of modern exploiters who have the Education Fund wvll in hand, we are often too unmindful of our fundamentid cultural aims. It's a matter of history. We don't pause now and then to ponder on how all this started. High-speed, rooty tooty America has gimmicked th little ol" school Into a fetish why else would a boy be sent during school hours to shame me into the conforming devotion? 'flie folks who came here to start oar country were not a lace-collar lot. They were a bunch of rude, cjude, rough, tough and nasty people, many of thom convicted ol contemporary crimes, and all of them woodchoppers, fish cut ters. and buccaneers. Man's reach should exceed his grasp, so they early set up Iheir schools. They wanted their chil dren literate. The old records, where you find them, Indicate this was a very expensive project. Tied In wiln church and govern ment, the school got Its money, and there was no county authori ty, no state board if a school master didn't produce he got AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. little business, AAA to bail out the farmers, PWA to bail out the construction industry, and WPA to bail out some of the 12 million people business couldn't employ. Also, the U.S. national defense effort be gan about 1939, with $3 billion expenditures in that year and the next. Total federal government expenditures were $4 billion in 1933 but $10 billion in 1940 two-and-a-half times as much. This 250 per cent increase in government spending Was its contribution to the growth rate of the 1933 40 period. The national debt, $22.5 billion in 1933, was $42.9 billion in 1940 a 90 per cent in crease. It more than doubled by 1941, When it rose to $48.9 billion. Here was deficit financing on a scale nev er before heard of. It was considered neces sary in 1933 because the unemployment rate of that year was 24.9 per cent of the labor force, or 12 million out of 52 million people. 1 In spite of all the government spending in eight years (it added up to more than $60 bil lion, $4 billion more than the increase in GNP) and in spite of the growth which private sec tors of the economy experienced in the same period, unemployment in 1940 was still 14.6 per cent, or 8 million out of a 56 million labor force. Even the most liberal government econo mists would oppose a 250 per cent increase in federal spending or a 90 per cent increase in the national debt today. That big a jolt isn't necessary, either to speed up the country's growth rate or to cut unemployment below four million (5.8 per cent of the current labor force of 73 million). One reason it isn't necessary is that there are a lot of forces operating in the economy today which were just beginning in 1933-40. Unemployment insurance and social se curity, for example, contribute more than $20 billion. This is double the whole federal budg et of 1940. And there are few people who would want to go back to those good old days, even if it was a period of growth, as the editorial writer says. sucked by the very people paying the bills. I like to tlii iik, in that society, many fathers and mothers eager ly wailed for little Joe and Toss to get home from school so they, too, could find out what was learned today. Tho finest part of all this was, of course, tho close, intimate interest of the parent, taxpayer, and citizen not a guid ed, loaded, lip-service interest of a PTA or mothers' club, dime with decrusled sandwiches and musical interludes, but a real, honest concern built around the fundamental fact that you couldn't spell cat but your child could read Caesar. We've lost that, wholly. Even my generalizations here will he answered by protesting profession als, and if today anybody tried to inject a thought into the regulated systems, where would he start'' With the Governor's Advisory Committee On Education? (This is run by the stale commissioner you see.) No, it is gone, done, over, lost. Scientific Equipment. 1 know a fellow who became a great brain in tlie electronic business, and I can tell you exactly and precisely what scientific equipment ho worked with as a high school stu dent. Tho building burned. On a bit ter winter night with the hydrants frozen and the firemen unable In crank the new-fangled autotruck. The floor-oil in tho wide planks, accumulated f o r generations, threw a black cloud against the moon, and the bell in the timer melted so they never found a trace of it. Under that bell, in a tower room Just 14-lcet square, which was never heated until that night, tho town had assembled the scientific equipment around which the eternal verities were pondered. There was, of course, the little machine with two handles, and f you held the handles while some body turned the crank your hair would stand up like a haystack. Mr. Asbury, tire latest teacher, Sunday, March 31, 19M would never hold the handles and the theory prevailed that he wore a transformation which would not respond, and he desired to keep tliis secret. It may have been so. Then there were two pool balls with which you saw the effect of motion with-or-without other force. There were two pulleys and a length of pot-warp. There was a little carl on wheels that went up and down an inclined plane; a balance; and a Wheatstonc bridge. A color wheel, and thermometers with tin cans for testing freezing and boiling. With, of course, odds and ends to piece out with, and that was it. If you left the door oien from downstairs enough heat would come up so you could study, but if it was really too cold they called the class off and you could do your Greek instead. When that building burned that night, it was the end of tint era. The new school had its bond issue, and was built to meet state requirements, and it had an office for a principal who never taught anything but just sat in there and coordinated. What does anything prove? Tlw other day I was talking to a young lady who is majoring in mathematics at the university, and 1 asked what goes on with this in a world no computed mechanically, where telephone bills and magazine subscriptions, as well as the orbits of the farth est nebulae, are a punch-button routine. She said there was a great future in setting up the patterns and programs. Yes, but I sec no place in all that (or a reluctant teacher who wears a wig, and I'm sure the "future" can also be a relative and ponderable blessing. I once saw a man press a button and a machine went into a tizzy of energy, and out came an Inven tory of all the black pepper in all the Ked & White grocery stores. To Uie ounce. That this magnifi cent achievement was set up by a rh I), in mathematics is true, hut did he have his own hair? According to New Frontier Logic RELEASES m: CONSUMED W1 WHICH STIMULATE "TW6 PRESIDENT'S 'J 8.7 BILUOM ' TAX cur 02J . ' 1He REPUBLICANS! Letters To Refutation 1 would like to take opposition with a recent letter to the editor by Floy Johnson of the Klam ath County Taxpayer's League because of its many fallacies. First, Mrs. Johnson stated that too much time is involved in the presentation of scholarships at graduation. I cannot agree. Rath er, I believe the lengthy speeches made at graduation unnecessar ily drag out the ceremony, mak ing everyone uncomfortable and miserable. I have never heard about the amount of time taken up by the awarding of scholar ships. Secondly, Mrs. Johnson says, "The honoring emphasis of these exercises should be for all graduating students and not for those who plead financial need. All graduating students arc meri torious in our opinion." If all graduating students were honored equally there would be no in centive for students to study hard and get ahead. Moreover, all graduating students are not equally meritorious. How can any person think they are? Do you believe that those disinterested students who barely graduate be cause they have not put out any effort should be praised and hon ored equally with those who stud ied hard for good grades and are struggling to continue their edu cation? The disinterested student will not go on to college, so why give the incentive to do so? "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 upper per cent," Mrs. Johnson continues. I would like to know where Mrs. Johnson got her in formation. This is not true. In every case that I know of the scholarship recipient was required to be in the upper per cent of his class and be active in school activities. Financial situations were considered in border line cases when decisions were dif ficult to make. Many scholarships were awarded regardless of fi nancial need. In addition, those organizations which present scholarships and Syria ACROSS 34 Pigeon 1 Syria Is unit ?5r.cct nf t rw ITnilH ."'vi Republic 5 It has rf&ervei 9 It is in the Middle 12 Tissue (in it.) 13 Route tb.) 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The majority of scholarship win ners are not hardship cases nor are they irresponsible. Their award indicates just the opposite. They are the most responsible stu dents of their class for they have excelled in school and showed the desire to continue with their edu cation. This is why they were honored with scholarships and not because they begged for charity. In conclusion, I have never read anything further from the truth. I challenge Mrs. Johnson to produce some evidence to back up her arguments. I strongly urge the school board and the people of Klamath County to not be tak en in by these distorted miscon ceptions. And I add my support to those who believe the League should "go climb a tree and look for something constructive to tie into." I can not sit idly by and let an organization ruin a good thing in order to get a name for themselves. Tim Mason, Freshman, University of Oregon, Eugene. Al manac By United Press International Today is Sunday, March 31, the 90th clay of 1963 with 275 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those born today include Aus trian composer Franz Joseph Haydn, in 1732. On this day in history: In 1810, an executive order is sued by President Van Burcn es tablished a 10-hour day work week for government employes. In 1880, Wabash, Ind., became the first community to be com pletely illuminated by. electricity. In 1!)18. Daylight Savings Time went into effect throughout the United States for the first lime. 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And, of course, it is obvious to anyone that money it self is not what the man wants: it is the "game." the "thrill," the gratification of "winning" that makes Sammy keep running long after he has any need to. What I think is less understood, however, is that a chase of this sort is essentially a substitute ex perience. And a substitute is al ways something that we can nev er have enough of. The man is really looking for self-esteem, and he seeks to find it by winning the esteem of others. In other society, the fastest and surest way to do this is by amass ing a great deal of money. So tlie money becomes a substitute, a symbol, for tlie esteem. But in the deep chemistry of the psyche, things do not work out this way. Getting the esteem of others does not give us self esteem; worthiness comes from the inside, never from the outside. This is why a substitute expe rience always leaves us hungry for more. -Money is only one example. Sex, of course, is another. The man who chases women (like the one By FULTON LEWIS JR. "I'd hate to have a toothache or any other ailment for that matter anywhere in Russia." That's what Dr. John Abel, president of tlie American Dental Association, told reporters at the conclusion of a three-week tour of Soviet dental facilities in June, The findings of Dr. Abel and seven colleagues who made the trip with him are spelled out in voluminous detail in a recent is sue of the Journal of the Ameri can Dental Association. One doesn't need a medical de gree to understand the following; "Operative dentistry is primi tive; orthodontics so limited there is no opportunity for good evalu ation; endodontics (root canal therapy) crude and dangerously haphazard; pedodontics (c h i 1 dren's dental work) seriously handicapped by inferior operative dentistry: periodontics (treatment of pyorrhea) almost devoid of debridgement and cutterage tech niques." Alter three weeks in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad and other Soviet cities. Dr. Abel saw only four high-speed drills and these were not in working order. "They are quite common in the I'nited States."- Dr. Abel said, "but I didn't talk to a single dentist in Russia who had ever used one." Russian dentists are badly ov erworked. The United States has 125.000 dentists. The Soviet Un ion, with a higher population, has but 45.0H0 dentists, most of whom are only partly trained and "are not qualified to render more than an elementary form of treat ment." Equipment is scarce, often non existent. Many dental chairs are of U.S. origin, lend-lease gifts to the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet equipment dis played in certain showcase clin ics was of recent vintage. It compared favorably with "those . I 1 . By Karl Hubenfhoi 3 rvi I rw I , A A SEES MASTEC'Sl ),AL gs-v-SYrv 4 HU STRICTLY PERSONAL who chases money) can never have enough, can never be sat isfied, can never settle down to one possession. The compulsive Lothario is perpetually as insati able as the compulsive driver in the marketplace. For the same motives operate in this area. When sex becomes a substitute for love, it can never be gratified, but must go on from dizzying triumph to dizzying tri umph (and each triumph ends in a kind of internal exhaustion and defeat, convalescence and con tinuation). The libertine can never find what he thinks he is looking for, any more than the acquisitive man can ever have "enough" money. Our genuine needs are self-confidence. These can be achieved only by giving, not by getting. When something in the psyche blocks us from expressing and gratifying these genuine needs, we turn to substitute ones. But no liquid can quench our thirst ex cept water itself. Not only can the substitute not satisfy us; it also contains its own law of diminishing returns like tlie dope addict who needs more and more of a "shot" in order to maintain the same level of eu phoria. Finally, he needs massive doses simply to keep alive, to keep reality at arm's length. Sam my runs because if he ever stopped, he would drop dead at the mere confrontation of his real needs. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Dentistry Points Up Weaknesses Of Russia used eight to 10 years ago in the United States." Small X-ray units were rarely used because Soviet scientists had not discovered a way to shield their radiation. Dental units often lacked running water; mechan isms to eject saliva were not once seen in operation. "Many items commonly used in dental offices in other parts of the world were not seen in the Soviet Union." says Dr. Abel. "These include cotton rolls, ma trix bands, anaesthetic cartridges and rubber dams. There was a remarkable lack of cutting instru ments. Burrs seemed to be avail able only in relatively large sizes and diamond instruments were not in evidence." Gold is rarely used for fillings or bridgework; stainless steel is used instead. The American dentists were steered to the Moscow Medical Stomatological Institute, one of to schools that train full-fledged dentists. There the supply of common materials such as alloy and syn thetic procelain cement was mea ger. Cutting instruments were very rare. The American doctors concluded : "The facilities of tlie institute ' were wholly inadequate for the number of students enrolled. Clin ical equipment was ancient and outmoded and little or no re search was being conducted in the clinical departments." Concressman Chester Morrow, New Hampshire Republican, went for broke last year. He sought the GOP Senate nomination, came in a poor fourth In a four man race, losing his House seat in the process. Morrow, who racked up an ultra-liberal voting record during his nin terms in Washington, was said to be considering a re turn to the political wars, running aiiain for the Senate or for the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ridiculous It looks like the same old gang Is on the important committees in Salem. I refer to a story on tlie front page of the "Oregon Journal" for March 6. 1963. The story con cerned the "problem" of taxation facing the present legislature and concerning the proposal to elim inate tlie federal deduction when figuring our state tax, I quote: "The advantage of elimination of the federal deduction, in the eyes of many members of the com mittee, is that it brings in a lot of money primarily at the expense of the federal government and not the Oregon taxpayer." This is an insult to the intelligence of the taxpayers of this state. If (for il lustration) $1,000 is added to my adjusted gross income from which my state tax is figured, how in the world do they get the idea that the additional state tax this will create for me will be paid by the federal government. A per son with an eighth grade educa tion can figure straighter than that. Wanting us to pay a state tax on our federal tax is bad enough. But when they try to tell us the federal government will pick up the tab, so to speak, for this ad ditional slate tax, this is ridicu lous. Another quote from the commit tee appearing in this article re garding several other proposals was "Let's not stir up the ani mals." This apparently is the opinion they have of the people of Oregon, and they obviously think we have the intelligence of ani mals, also. Many letters were written to the papers and the legislature by people stirred up by the lack of deer to hunt. I only hope at least some of these people will take the time to let the legislature know their feelings on something that is much more important than a lack of deer for their hunting pleasure. This tax business is money right out of their pock ets. I put the word "problem" in quotation marks at the start of this letter, because I don't think new or more taxation is the prob lem. The problem is making the state's expenses fit the present income. Over-taxation has been the downfall of many nations in history and between the federal and state taxes in this country now, we're not "very far from the breaking point. The give-away pro grams of our federal and state governments are getting way out of hand and show no signs of decreasing. But unless they do, we're in trouble. The sooner people face the fact that there is no such thing as something for noth ing, the sooner we'll be on the road back to a democratic, free private enterprise country. And private enterprise is what made this the greatest country in tlie world. Thomas Miller, 3922 Sturdivant Ave. Disagrees I disagree with Floy Johnson's reasoning that scholarship awards honor "hardship cases and irre sponsibility." On tlie contrary, they honor hard-work cases and scholastic responsibility. I resent, on behalf of the schol arship recipients, Mrs. Johnson's inference that it is immoral to accept a scholarship because it is "asking for aid." To my knowl edge scholarships are only given in recognition of scholastic achievement. I do not know of any well-recognized institution of higher learning or civic organiz ation ever awarding a scholarship tc a student with a poor scholas tic record. I do not speak of trade schools w hich sometimes ap pear to offer a "scholarship" to any student who will take it. Mrs. Johnson stated, "It is a fact that 99 per cent of all schol-' arships are awarded on financial need to a special few." 1 chal lenge her to show me the records proving that even a much, much smaller percentage of such awards were given to mere indi gent students who never at tained adequate scholastic stand ing and contributed nothing crea tive to their education. Mrs. Johnson further believes that all students in an upper per cent should qualify equally (or scholarships. Surely anyone who has attended high school knows that in addition to required sub jects, "snap" courses are avail able for students who do not aspire to a higher education, which can raise a student's grade po'n' av crage without qualifying him for anything. Undoubtedly, scholar ship committees, as well as col lege entrance boards, consider courses studied, extra-curricular achievement and initiative in ad dition to grades. I suppose the Taxpayers' League objected only to the amount of time given to the presentation of awards and scholarships, and not to the actual presentations, and Mrs. Johnson got sidetracked to tlie unwarranted question of the morality of giving or accepting a scholarship. Loora Egger, Bly, Oregon. Governorship. He has junked that idea, going on the State Depart ment payroll as an expert in community relations, whatever they are.
