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1 PAGE HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath FalU, Ore. Monday, April 1, 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON . Never Had It So Good Morocco King Seeks Closer Ties With U.S. Psychologists long ago concluded that selfishness is one of the most natural and in evitable aspects of human life. Few of us can manage to be more than occasionally selfless. Genuine altruism, humility, self-control-all attributes admirably exhibited by some people, but not nearly enough provide the only personal checks on self-expression. The law and the moral code and other factors, of course, supply external curbs. From time to time we are quite sensibly advised to put ourselves in some sort of per spective by noting that the little fragment of time we call recorded history is hardly more than a flyspeck on the backdrop of the earth's long span and the measureless eons of the universe. Yet for most humans this is an almost im possible exercise in imagination. There is an alternative, if only Antarctica can be opened some day to tourists. For the awesome, primitive, brutal grandeur of that white continent can lake the self-importance out of anybody. This is a place where summer tempera tures seldom go above freezing and where Could From the (Pendleton) East Oregonien The recommendations of interim commit tees do not do well when they get to the state legislature. In fact the record shows they have done so poorly that one wonders how it is pos sible to perpetuate the interim committee procedure. This isn't because interim committees do not perform well. Most do. It is because it is difficult to get a majority of 90 legislators to see, under pressure, what the small member ship of an interim committee has seen in calm, unhurried deliberation. An interim committee is not harassed by pressure groups as a legis lature is. Having said that, we trust that the recom mendations of at least one of the interim com mittees are approved by the next legislature. This interim committee has been studying all aspects of the divorce problem in Oregon and has prepared some recommendations for the legislature. . The interim committee would like the present three-day waiting period before mar riage extended to seven days. At present pa rental consent is required when the girl is under 18 years of age or the boy under 21. IN WASHINGTON . . . By RAl.1'11 dp TOLEDANO Any government body devel ops a lile or its own. It becomes an organism which grows ju.st lika any other and before you know it. something temporary In comes as permanent as death and taxes. In many cases, the job II was supposed to do becomes sec ondary to fccM-pcrpctuation. What prompts those remarks Li a series of speeches by David Lilicnlhal which he delivered at Princeton University. Mr. Lilicn lhal Is considered one of Uie ar chilects of the TVA. He served as the first chairman of the Atom ic Energy Commission. He is also known lor bis dedication to pub lic power and the increase in government intervention in the nation's business. Bui Mr Lilicn lhal is an unpredictable man, and his strictures on the A EC come as a surprise. .Since they will never make tlie best-seller lisle, they are worth (II discussing, and (21 relating to another prolif erating government body, t h e Rural Electrification Administra tion. The Atomic Energy Commis sion, to recall ils history, was set up in 1946 lo further the military use of nuclear power and lo make sure that it would not he improjierly exploited by what flop, diet Holifieki of California called Uie "Iriggcr-happy gener als" al Uie Pentagon. Suice Uicn, however, the AEC has branclied out every which way into what we describe as Uie "peacelul uses" of aUimic energy. Few people know that if Com pany X sels up an atomic power plant and it blows up, the federal government ts atuck w ith all the damages. Few people know, loo, Uiat Uie Atomic Energy Commis sion is up lo lis eyeballs in con- t t Antarctica Is A Man-Tamer Cut Divorce Government Throttling trolling all phases of nuclear pow er, civilian or not (and classified or noil in Uie United States. However much he may be a so cializcr In Uie public power field. David Lilientlial believes that whenever the time comes that civilian uses of nuclear power become necessary, it should be produced by the privately-owned utilities even as private owner ship provided Uie telephone, the automobile, the diescl engine, and radio-TV communication all with out pushing or financial sup port Irom Uncle Sam. If a power shortage arises, as a result of the exhaustion of present fuels, or il atomic energy can be made competitive, there w ill be no need tor multi-billion federal expendi tures lo bring this new power to the consumer, Mr. Lilienthal thinks. Until such a lime arrives, of course, the federal government is pouring ils rapidly dwindling fi nancial resources into AEC ex periments, tests, and research all of which could be handled by private companies which do not subsist on the bounty of Uie U.S. Treasury or tlie American tax pa) er. In a roundalmit way. this gets us to the Rural Elceuilicalion Administration, a federal agency which lends to gel all the rever ence due lo motherhood. Tlie RKA was set up in 193i to bring elec tric power to Uie nation's depression-paralyzed farmers. Rut Uie REA, like Old Man River, keeps rolling along. Today, !7 per cent of all the nation s farms have electricity. Rut REA keeps going back lo Uie con gressional well for wads of more money. Today, RKA . financed projects have branched out so Uial mure than SO per cent of Iheir cus winter readings, averaging 50 to 80 below, oc casionally plummet to 125 below. Winds funncled through glacial passes called "hell holes" rage up to 200 miles an hour. Most of the land lies depressed be neath an ice sheet 7,000 feet thick. Except for a rare patch of lichens or a few venture some birds, there is no life. The cold seas ringing the continent bear a menacing burden of great icebergs now and then 50 miles long broken from great ice shelves at the continent's edge. Their crashing collisions fill the air with an un earthly roar. In Antarctica you are in the presence of nature at its most commanding. You may also witness, in the view of many scientists, a kind of preview of the "ice death" predicted for this planet as it slowly chills under a gradually expiring sun. One can find comfort in the prospect that this fate may be billions of years away. Nevertheless, Antarctica's overpowering pres ence is a marvelous cure for the inflated ego. There are a great many people thus af flicted, walking the streets of the world, who deserve to be on the first regular flight south. Rate The interim committee proposes that the con sent of a circuit judge also be required. Post marital counseling also is recommended. This would be performed by conciliation courts that would have trained counselors to assist young people whose marriages are threatened. Another recommendation is for a post divorce cooling-off period. Marriages now are terminated at the time of divorce decree. The interim committee suggests that the marriage would not be ended at the time of decree but would be continued for six months. It is impossible to know how any one of these courses of action or the combination of all of them would affect the rate of divorce in Oregon. It seems to us it would be better to agree to try them than to debate at length the effect each might have. Adopting these would show that Oregon legislators recognize the im mense problem that divorce is and want to do something about it. Surely in a slate where there are some years almost as many divorces as marriages it should not be necessary to say to the legisla ture that anything that gives the slightest hope in the direction of reducing the divorce rate should be tried. tomers are industrial or residen tial. Today, RKA, which "bor rows" money from the Treasury at interest rales far higher than it lends it, is going into the busi ness of generating electricity rnUier llian simply supplying it. Though ils average rates are high er than those of private utility companies, it operates on a lax free basis. REA is a fixture, a Washington sacred cow. It asks Congress for money which it uses to put pri vate utilities out of business which in turn reduces I h e federal income. It is no longer necessary to read between the lines lo discover thai REA hopes eventually to take over the na tion's entire generation and trans mission of electricity as a gov ernment agency In short, the REA has served its very laudable purpose. It should (old up its tents and disappear. The Atomic Energy Commission was set up at a time when nuclear power was a big question mark. Today, t h e military aspects can be turned over lo the Pentagon and the civi lian aspects can be handled by Hms companies which believe that research and development will refine our techniques lo the poinl that nuclear power can com pete with oil, coal, and hydroelec tric energy. This. I believe, is the point David Ulienthal was mak ing My point is very simple. Tliere is no need for a government igency lo hold a monopoly on the most radical development in fuel energy. Experience has shown that private control, when ade quately supervised by the govern ment, is cheaper and more elli cienl than anything the federal bureaucrats can do. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS It is always easy to tell when a man is too small for his job he gives his subordinates a great deal of responsibility, but no authority, so that he can take credit for the right decisions, and blame them for the wrong ones. The money one gets tor sell ing one's soul Is always spent In deadening (he conscience, so that the net gain at the end of a lifetime Is no greater than If the diabolic bargain had not been made. Most of what we call "history" is gossip in lop-hat and tails. America, more than any other country today, is a land where boys refuse to grow up, and where girls grow up loo soon; whatever the stated cause, I am conviccd that the majority of di vorces occur because the woman has attained a level of emotional maturity that the man docs not even aspire to. And should anyone ask what this vague and tantalizing phrase "emotional maturity" means pre cisely, I refer him to an analcct of Confucius: "What the super ior person seeks is in himself; what the inferior person seeks is in another." Most parents of any affluence give their children loo many les sons too early skating lessons, swimming lessons, dancing les sonswhich merely rob Uie chil drcn of initiative and turn out "well-rounded" mediocrities who can do many things fairly well but lack the passion and drive lo do any one thing supremely well. Doggy Data ACROSS 1 Young dog 4 Mother Hubbard'! lark 6 Dog's 12 Way ub. 13 K u rope an river 14 Within tcomb. formi Rassaqe egrets 40 Apple center 41 Kin! of Judith I Hit) I 42 Acquire knowledge 45 Affected with paresis 49 Treacherous M (.iris name r2 Ceremnnv 53 Preposition M Native it 15 Tree ttt Perfume IH Quivers 'JO New York citv L!i lad nickname Hebrew mnnth 22 Kxttnct wild OX '2A Knok part 1!6 Chinese d nasty (vaf.) '27 Coterie 30 Reluctant 32 Apprise 34 Hmh Siemu volcanic peak, 35 African fly 3 Seine ait 37 Final musical 36 t.aseous element 57 Negative prefix IMWN 1 Oolf teachers 2 Western sute 3 Small pet dog 4 Irke.l 5 Smell ft Centaur 7 Before I 2 3 U 15 16 17 I 8 9 llO ill T2 13 14 II 16 yj 18 19 ri20 2i Wry ! I ' l 2i V" "J 7 (28 j 29 35 31 V 32 33 34 I J5 36 n37 jT TH39 lo in 4i ' ' 42 7T7T b 46 4l so b 52 Ol 54 55 55 67 I I ! I I I i STRICTLY PERSONAL A purllan is loi often a person who thinks he has to make a hell of this world in order In enjoy heaven In the next. Those many among us who overestimate the good effects of education would do well lo ponder the observation made by Addison more than two centuries ago: "Learning, like traveling and all other meUiods of improvemenl, as il augments good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thou sand times more insufferable, by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities." It takes a husband a long time lo learn that it is useless to ar gue with a woman for if she is right, she will overwhelm you with fads, and if she is wrong, she will undermine you with feel ings. For every evil that is perpe uated out of vice, a hundred are committed out of boredom; most viciousness is not so much an act of the will, as a lack of will, a restless uncreativity, a nega tive rather than a positive ges ture toward the world. THEY SAY... U we serve them (Uie nation's youth) better now. they will serve their nation better when the bur dens are theirs alone. President Kennedy, asking Congress to create a Youth Con servation Corps and domestic "race Corps. Answer to Previous Puzzle a Kivrr iliu-ks 9 I'nkrr slake 1U NoIikh 1 1 H(V.nla( 17 InturiPs IS Shifts ill Period ot tim :W Stanza :t Testify 40 Weeper 41 MalK-imis burning 4- Hurdv-jiurdv 4:1 lieraint s wife 44 Doe in Thin Man" 4ft far 47 Nested boxes 48 r'remh citv 60 Charged atom T.I Lariat 24 lUuanan tlrandparf ntat -'ti Singing oire 1!T I'liuht 1'8 K.ntial Iwing -9 licit mounds ' fstjA terete fciser? feSipsMxiAtetyitie. ctaIb mi iJbTr lUEe &UQ,siyKJAXtejjpi51 SNfee wen Atdeif" PETA'g hyA'R1 PfeTstei LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Cut Back According to the remarks of one teacher at a recent meeting at the high school, he and per haps the administration has the idea that we parents who oppose the split schedule are motivated hy the inconvenience which it will cause us. and not by a con cern for our children's education. Many of us resent this implica tion. Of course there will be in convenience for many families, but practically anyone who has raised even one child to teen-age lias become used to being incon venienced in many ways. I have two reasons to oppose , this schedule: First, I want my children to have every opportuni ty to take as many courses as they are qualified to study. One child lias carried six subjects this year successfully and had hoped lo continue with his extra work in his chosen field. The other has been in an accelerated junior high program, but to what avail if she is limited in her high school cur riculum? For years we have been willingly taxed to provide the opportunity for other quali fied students lo take a full schedule, and now that our own children are of high school age, they are cut back. I do not agree with Mr. Hunsaker that five courses (of which one is required physical education in quieter classrooms are equal to six cours es with noises in the halls! Secondly, we will have a 14-year-old daughter who will walk to and from school. At best, with no night courses, she will have to walk in the dork one way dur ing the winter. One officer of Parents and Patrons could see nothing wrong in this situation. Perhaps he does not know that incidents have happened this year where the police and juvenile of fice have had to be called in to assure young girls a safe walk home from school in broad day light. We parents may insist our children be off Uie streets after dark, but this school schedule, with probable night classes and night-time activities, makes our precautions impossible. ' No large organization, be it school or business, can be run without discipline. If discipline is the problem at our school, then it should be vigorously enforced by the proper school authorities, and students who value an educa tion should be allowed to progress unhampered and not condemned t. mediocrity. Mrs, .lop Leonard QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q tt'hal dn churchmen mean by the word "ecumenical?" A Ecumenical comes from the Greek "oikumenc." which means "the whole inhabited world." The World Council of Churches, and other groups use it tb signify the whole household of laith, tmbrar ing all races, all nations, a 1 1 branches of the church itself. Q Ky what term dn Kuropf n trier to water power? A-White coal. Q In .par terminology, what l the meaning ol coriollj force? A Deflection of a projectile in flight caused by the earth'! rotation. By PETER EDSON' Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON I NEA i Thirty-three-year-old King Hassan II of .Morocco is visiting the United States for 11 days state visit at the invitation of President Ken nedy. This is of more American inter est than most such ceremonial calls because the United States is committed to evacuate its four military bases in Morocco and the Voice of America transmitter in Tangier by the end of 1963. Morocco now uses two short wave VOA transmitters for 80 hours of local broadcasts a week. But it has no use for the $10 million transmitter complex which now covers all of Africa. By the end of the year VOA will shift its African services to relay transmitters now being built in Liberia. The military bases aren't con sidered as essential as they used tfi be, either. One was never ac tivated. The SAC bases are gradually being outmoded as missiles re place strategic bombers. The naval base would be of use to the U.S. Mediterranean fleet, but operations are being shifted else where and, as the Air Force pulls out, the need of a supply port is reduced. The bases cost the U.S. $500 million. Their maintenance costs have been about $15 million a year, not counting pay and sub sistence of U.S. personnel. When they leave, Morocco loses an im portant source of dollar earnings which it needs. That the U.S. has been able to keep the bases in eight years of Moroccan independence from France is considered something of a diplomatic achievement in itself. It is said to demonstrate the friendliness of the Moroccan government. Nevertheless there has been considerable criticism of the State Department and Pentagon for this "retreat," which was an nounced by President Eisenhower when he visited Morocco in 1960. French and Spanish troops are also scheduled lo complete their evacuation of Morocco by the end of 1963. From the point of view of King Hassan, who succeeded to the throne on the death of his fa ther two years ago, the presence WASHINGTON REPORT . . . U.S. Dollars Go To Pro-Commie Brazil By FULTON LEWIS JR. Good-looking, fast-talking Joan Goulart, president of Brazil, has proved anew the famous adage of P. T. Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute." Two years ago, Goulart. then vice president, led a Brazilian delegation to Peiping, bearhugged Mao Tse-tung (whom he calls "the great emancipator"), and signed long-term trade agree ments w ith the Red Chinese. Goulart will soon receive from Uncle Sam $1.5 billion, bringing to almost $4 billion the total U.S. aid funneled to Brazil. The mon ey will be used, says Goulart's finance minister, to increase trade with several countries, including those of the "socialist camp." Says Carlos Lacerda, anti-Communist Governor of Guanabara. tlie populous slate which includes Rio de Janeiro: "It seems the plan of the men in power is to hand Brazil over to Soviet Rus sia with U.S. money." Brazil is getting Uie money de spite assertions by Lincoln Gor don, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, that Goulart's administration is Communist-infiltrated. Gordon's statement, made before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has not been wholly contradicted. For the tacts arc clear that Gou lart's regime contains pro-Communists. Foreign Minister Hermes Lima, who accompanied Goulart on his 196! Red China jaunt, is a no torious pro-Communist. Joao Mangnbeira. minister of justice, and Almino Alfonso, min ister ol labor, are Marxists. So is Cclso Furtado. Brazilian eco nomic czar. When a Brazilian plane cra-.hed near Lima. Peru last car, docu ments of a Cuban Communist killed in tlie accident were re covered. They revealed that sev eral top-ranking military men were active in the National Con gress of Solidarity with Cuba. Among them was General Luis Gomaca de Liveira Leite. presi dent ol the Brazilian Association of Reserve Officers. Also: Gen eral Henrigue Cordeo Oestc. Colo nel Jocelin Brasil. and Colonel Os car Ratos. Anti-Communists have been purged from the military. When Vice Admiral Hcho Gamier Sam pa:o urged Brazil to send two de tioert to help the naval "quar of any foreign troops on Moroc can soil is a domestic political liability. His visit to Washington is pre . sented as a gesture to show that he is on Uie side of the West, although his official policy is "nondependence," which seems to be an American press agent's new name for neutrality. With a leftist and right-wing na tionalist opposition, the King has had to defend himself against charges of selling out to the West, and particularly to France, which he has also visited officially. Morocco also has accepted So viet MIG fighters which are based at an American-built field and limited quantities of Rus sian artillery and small arms. This became something of an issue when the U.S. foreign aid bill was before Congress last year, with a request lor milita ry assistance for Morocco. It may come up again. U.S. aid to Morocco began with a $20 million grant in the first year of ils independence, 1957. Since then there have been loans of more than $160 million. A U.S. surplus wheat distribution p r o gram on public works projects where part of the wages are paid in grain has worked well. The King has just won a great political victory in a national ref erendum accepting Morocco's first constitution, which he, in effect, handed down from the throne. In the next few months there will be elections for Morocco's first parliament. Today the King runs a pretty tight limited mon archy in which he is also prime minister and army chief of staff. Morocco's voting record in the United Nations has not been all pro-West, but in the Congo crisis Morocco contributed 3,600 troops. They were withdrawn after left ist Premier Patrice Lumumba's death, when the King feared the f U.N. peace-keeping and unifica tion effort in the Congo would fail. Subsequently, King Hassan called the Casablanca conference of six North African countries. They adopted a strong anti-colonialist policy and will meet again this year. , But they are still a long way from any kind of unification, al though the King is keeping close touch with Tunisia and Algeria, which he visited just before com ing here. antine" of Cuba, he was deposed as fleet commander. When General Moacir Lopez re fused to follow what he termed Communist directives, he was re lieved of command of the Fourth Military Region. A similar fate was met by General Emilion Maurcll Filho. who ran the First Military Region. General Filho then charged pub licly that the Brazilian army was infiltrated by hard-core Commu nists. When another high-ranking officer undertook a study of Communist guerilla operations, he too, was fired. Angered by U.S. aid to the Goulart regime are two Republi can Congressmen. Ohio's Bill Har sha puts it this way: "Not only is any negotiation that Would en hance Red trade foolhardy and detrimental to our national secur ity, but in direct conflict with the stated purposes of our tremen dous defense budget and foreign aid outlays." Florida's Bill Cramer says that he looks with "extreme distaste and indeed abhorrence" on aid to Brazil. "There is no question that there is substantial subversive activity in the Brazilian government, in cluding the armed forces. This is a real danger and Uireat." Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, April 1, tha 91st day of 1963 with 274 to follow. The moon is al first quarter. Tlie morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those born today include Prince Otto von Bismarck, founder of Uie German empire in 1815. On this day in history: In 1853. Cincinnati set a prece dent by paying its fire department a regular salary-ordinary (ire men SM a year, lieutenants $I0n a year, captains $150 a year and ptpesmen $363 a year. A thought for the dav - Prince Otto von Bismarck said: "Not by speechifying and counting major ities are the great questions of the time tn be solved . . . but by iron and blood "
