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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.
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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.
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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 "