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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1963)
PAGE 6 A 1TERALD dihfimL (paqjL Subtraction By Addition In a remarkable bit of understatement, one Republican Congressman said the other day that it was going to be terribly hard to do anything about the Administration's budg et "if Republicans vote to increase it rather than decrease it." He was commenting on the failure of the House to make any cuts in the r?cord-breaking weapons authorization bill. : For not only did the House not make cuts in the bill, but by a 374 to 33 vote it added $498 million more than the Administra tion had asked. The $15.9 billion measure now goes to the Senate, which is not in much of a whittling-down mood where defense is con cerned. Now the Republican leadership is report ed to be a little discouraged over the results of this first test of its economy drive. Only a few days ago 20 of the party's members of the House Appropriations Committee an nounced a campaign to reduce Government spending by $4 billion to $6 billion, including a cut of about $3 billion from the total mili tary budget of nearly $53 billion. Since a good many Democrats would also like to see spend (St. Louis Post Dispatch) Opponents of billboard regulations along interstate highways have told a Missouri House committee that such controls would be unconstitutional, unlawful, immoral, and about everything but fattening. Yet, despite such buckshot testimony, the opponents have managed t6 clarify the issue. : It is no clarification, of course, to say that billboard regulations would be immoral and unlawful. Eighteen states are doing very well with billboard control laws. It is more of an exaggeration than a clarification to say that 2600 union craftsmen would lose their jobs just because billboards would be restrict edand not prohibited along a mere 1000 of Missouri's 34,000 miles of state roads. We doubt if the billboards along any of these roads support 2Vi jobs to the mile. The most obvious contradiction of all came from a former legislator, F. IS. (Buck) IN WASHINGTON By RALPH tie TOl.KOANO Sen. Barry Goldwaler's flut statement that lie intends to run for the Senate in 1964 may havo gladdened the hearts ot the Nel sdn Rockefeller forces. Here in Washington, it went almost un noticed. Those close to "Mr. Conservative" say it means not a thing and their politieiil judg ments are backed by their day uday proximity to Mr. Goldwa ter. Is it all part of that ballet which Presidential hopefuls must prance? Does the Senator from Arizona believe that any indica tion of real Interest would give his political enemies and oppo nents ammunition? To many here In Washington the answer Is "yes." In fact, they will put up money to hack their argument that Barry Goldwatcr Is still in the running and breathing heavily- 1'erhaps it is all wish fulfill ment. Perhaps Senator Goldwa ter's refusal to say that ho will not run if nominated anil not servo if elected has convinced them. Perhaps they feel that no one would rofuso a chance to bat tle New York's Governor Rocke feller at a time when Hie smart money says he could not carry Westchester County. This is what makes politics such a fascinating field to cover. You pays your money and you takes your choice. Round and round she goes. But there are so many imponderables that only a foul or a pennis can make cntc gtiricnl predictions. ;ln the case of Senator Goldwa. t(r, these propositions are unchal lengeable: ;1. It is his Miof thai Governor Rockefeller can't make it against President Kennedy. 1. It is also his belief, shared by many ol his followers and by some nonpar tisan observers, that no "moder ate" or "liberal" Republican can defeat Mr. Kennedy. The South, for the first time in many years, may be the key to the next elec tionand Southerners arc not go iig to desert their patronage for sjinwone who is in their eyes no djflerent from the While House incumbent. To continue: 3. Senator Gold watcr is one of the fw Republi AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Orr. ing reduced, why is it always such a difficult task? As far as defense is concerned, part of the trouble stems from individual legislators' own home localities, which turn on the pres sure if local defense contracts are threatened. And some Congressmen seem to make the preservation of certain weapons systems their personal cause. In any case, Congress collec tively would naturally rather err on the side of voting too much for defense than too little. All that is an old, familiar story. But what is not old and familiar is the tremendous size of the total budget confront ing the Congress. The defense budget alone, for instance, has shot up $10 billion in two years. To put that rise in perspective, expen ditures for the entire Government in 1940 were only a little more than $9 billion. If the economy drive does nothing else, it ought to dramatize the budget's almost in comprehensible bulk. And maybe convince some lawmakers, some time, that you can't subtract by adding. Not in this difficult world anyway. Absent, The Public Robinson, executive director of the Missouri Motel Association. lie said he was appearing as a representative of John Q. Public. It was precisely John Q. who was miss ing from this meeting. The opponents repre sented hotels, motels, restaurants, labor unions, caves and advertising organizations all groups with a particular monetary in terest in billboards. And they clarified the issue by making it so plain that this was a struggle between special interest and public interest or, even more plainly, between bill boards and scenery. Moreover, the public should note that these interests are seeking to exploit 228 miles of interstate highway built with public funds, and also 870 miles which have not even been built. Did the public finance these fine new superhighways to allow them to bo given the likeness of penny arcades? Morton Support cans who can carry the South. 4. He can carry enough of the North's non-minority-saturatcd ur ban areas Ins well as the country side) to give him a fighting chance. 5. The creation of just one more Communist government in Latin America which is far more than a vague possibility in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and-or Venezuela can lead to an anti-Kennedy ground swell which could defeat him. Add it up: Tlic Republican pro fessionals believe that Governor Rockefeller can't win no how. They believe that Senator Cold water can. The pressures on the gentleman from Arizona arc therefore tremendous. He is also being told that it is 19U4 or never a slight exaggeration, but a potent one. Knowing that few men can re sist a manufactured draft and no one with the exception of Gen eral Sherman was able to resist a genuine one those who would like tu give the Republican Presi. dential nomination to Mr. Gold water are relying on a grass roots, please-run petition cam aign. The draft Goldwatcr move mont has just begun, and if my inliirmalion is reliable, it will achieve great proportions. The Senator, moreoor. will do noth ing to encourage or discourage il-which. in politics, is a green light. There are. of course, negative aspects to this kind of strategy. Without clenretit assurances, many ooplo get discouraged. The bandwagon psychology also begins to work in favor of Gov ernor Rockefeller. The profession als begin to mutter. "You can't heat somebody with nobody." And there goes your ball game! Which is why some of the less committed Republican pros have begun to look around. U't's lace it, they don't like Mr. Rockefeller. So they've come up uith an an swer and a replacement. Very (piietly. the word is Ix-ing circu lated: Sen. Thiuston Morton can do it Mr. Morton comes from a Border Stale. He is personable. He is conservative. He Is liked in the South. He is not hated In tlie North. He won an outstanding victory In 1! J. He was chairman o; the Republican National Com Tuesday, April I, 1961 Rising mittee and knows his way around the state, country, and precinct leaders. In many ways, he is a natural. Of course, he is not nationally known when compared to Senator Goldwatcr and Governor Rocke feller. But he is as known as Sena tor Kennedy was when he begun the upward ascent to the Presi dency. Senator Morton, many pro fessionals believe, could lie a somebody against Mr. Kennedy. But until Senator Goldwatcr fi nally makes up his mind, there will he no Morton boom. Every one is waiting for the other shoo to drop. If Senator Goldwatcr waits too long, however, it may he morning before the thud is heard. Almanac By l ulled I'ress International Today is Tuesday. April 2, the ICnd day of 19Ki with 273 to follow. The moon Is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those horn today include the Danish writer of (airy tales, Hans Christian Anderson in 1813; and Kronen writer Emilc Zola, in 1840. On this day In history: In 17112, Congress enacted legis lation authorizing a mint of the United States to coin money, all coins to be inscribed with the motto. "E Plunhus I num." In 18h5, President Jefterson Da vis and most of his Confederate cabinet (led Richmond, Va., alter Gen. Rolx'rt E. Lee abandoned Richmond and Petersburg. In IW2, Thomas Tally 0vned the (list moving picture theater in Los Angeles. In 1917. before a joint session of Congress, President Woodrow W ilson called for a declaration of war on Germany. A thought (or the day Woodrow Wilson said: "Tie highest and best form of efficiency Is tlte sKintancous cooperation of a lice people." lis By SYDNEY J. HARRIS What is wrong with the ''real ist" who believes in "looking at the facts" is his naive belief that wc get our perceptions from the things around us when, actually, the perceptions come from us. . In his book, "Education and the Nature of Man," published a dec ade ago. Prof. Earl C. Kelley tells the old Austrian folk-tale of the three wayfarers stopping at noon to rest beneath an oak tree. One, looking up through the branches, said, "What a fine mast this oak would make for a ship such as I used to sail upon." A second, who had been a drap er's assistant, said, "What a fine brown cloth my master could have dyed from this fine bark." Tlie third, who had spent his youth as a swineherd, said, "What fine fat pigs could be grown from tlie acorns which fall from this oak." Which of them saw the "fact" of the oak tree? As Kelley points out, after recounting some psy. etiological experiments at the Hanover Institute, "since the per ception is the usable reality, and since no two organisms can make the same use of clues or bring the same experiential background lo bear, no two of us can see alike. We have no common world." If wo truly understand this, it will make us more humble, more tentative, more tolerant, more flexible in our opinions and in our disputes. If, as Kelley indi cates, no two persons can know the same thing,' and no item of knowledge can have the same ef fect on each of them, then wc can never go from the "facts" to val ues about them. He uses the example of Abra Poetess ACROSS Poetess. 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He ex plains what he means in these words: "Lincoln is one thing to an Old Guard Republican, who holds him as a model but believes little that he believes. He is something else lo the descendants of the slaves whom he freed. He is still an other person to the Southern aris tocrat. ... To some lie does not exist at all. and to others he is far from what we hold him to be." This docs not imply that we cannot arrive at common judg ments, at basic value-agreements. It docs suggest, however, that such judgments cannot be rooted in "objective facts," but only in the ways in which wc grasp and combine these facts with our memory and our experience. It is not the hard facts of the objective world that keep us from working together but the hardness of heart that makes n think the oak tree , is only for masts, or for cloth, or for pigs. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What was the Inspiration for Chopin's "Study In C Minor?" A Because of political troubles in Poland, the composer left for Paris. On his way, news reached him of the capture of Warsaw by the Russians and this event in spired his "Study in C Minor." Answer to Previous Puzzle El U Dlt K t Kl .IRiOISF-lwWT I V E RISBOL sua CIA ilk U BL.UiUAUKiU 4 lawyer lab.) 5 HrRinnuiu Aiu-ipnt Mrf 7 Follow after fl Demvn ub 1 V Stl'kKll 10 Compound flluT t)l I 1 1 TranMulions h Hotkt'ptHico I'd !sionires -6 Military a.toMant 18 Kaniio .10 Taid notice III Vrrh M Prime ;lii Maxell cloths 37 City in Wisconsin 38 Pan-hilii: :9 Mountain crwt 41 l.ikcnrs 4 Climbing planU 4,t Sra birds 4" Fruits Ml Roulf lab ) Hops' kiin 1 1 ii i L E,A .g.NBBPiA.B.E THiCl I n "i " toTdu : rinNJtgl RTiT'enoWTtS peEl ''..v.Vf,'- '. . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR April Fool The students of Klamath Un ion High have been April-fooled by their parents and neighbors, the voters of Klamath Falls. These voters have vetoed every proposal by the school board, from the budget to the junior-high school plan. Now they are criti cizing the split-schedule plan for next year at the high school. Of course, the plan isn't ideal. However, an undesirable situa tion exists and the school board is trying to alleviate it in the ay they feel is best for the stu dents and faculty. You who are so quick to criti cize the board: have you con sidered that the school board is in a position to understand the situation much more clearly than any other group or individual? They have not relied on what their children, students at KUHS, say, nor have they formed an opinion from a visit to the school during the noon hour. They have carefully studied tlie prob lem and considered many solu tions before making their pres ent choice. Have you forgotten that the members of the school board were chosen by your vote lif you were one of the few who cared enough to turn out and vote? Have you also overlooked the fact that Ray Hunsaker, superin tendent of city schools, has had much training in school adminis tration and is the most capa ble man in the community to guide the action of our high school. Also, remember that W. C. McKinny, principal of KUHS, has had a first-hand expe rience with the situation and shown excellent judgment in lead ing the school during this trying period. These are the leaders whose suggested plan is being doubted. We students are fortunate in having an administration like we do, but we are beginning to doubt the wisdom of you constant crit ics. Your complaints have the foresight of an April-fool pr;ink. The effect, though, will be to Seplember-throuch-June-fiMil the Klamath Union High students. Kathy Murdoch. Kditnr of Kralor, KUHS Newspaper. Boxing hi his sports column of Maich 27. Mr. Wagconer says that poli ticians including Gov. Brown of California, arc using tlie pro posed ban on boxing as a step ping stone politically. Surely, a politician capable of defeating Nixon known how the public feels on current issues, and if, as Mr. Najgnner says, there is wide pub lic feeling against the hnn on bov ine Mr. Bron is mote coura geous than most politicians. He would nut lie the first man who v as alloc) of contemporary ac ceptance But perhaps Guv Brown is politically wie and knows more about how the (wo. pie of Cahlornia fcH than d s Mr a sooner Mr. Waggnwr ,'iiImn ,itcs fed eral control of boxing, which would b an added burden on the taxpayers. If have chime let's ban txixing. Bruce E. Kgi;er. Klv. Letters To Forum They say there is a first time for everything, so here goes: my maiden oyage. a Utter to the Editor only I sincerely hope it is not as hysterical as some 1 have been prmleged to read in our local newspaper. This is. of course, in reference lo last night's parent-teacher-school board discission of the proposed split-schedule to begin with next year's session. I would like to extend my appreciation to Mrs. Hyde for her admirable conduct of the meeting. I think her poise alone kept the thing from getting out of hand. There have been more than enough of vilifications and invec tives thrown at our hard-working school authorities by the voting public and Ihe parents and also vice-versa. At tins point let me ask each and every one of you it you personally would continue working for an employer if he abused you verbally as some of us have .treated various members of the school faculty and our un paid school board'.' Let's end this quarreling and act as adults arc supposed to, all of us. Last night's session was not a shining success, but it definitely was a step in Ihe right direction. We parents (all 200 of usi let the teachers know that we are very much interested. By the way, with only 200 parents pres ent, where were the other parents of the remaining students? Any way, let's overlook the petty af termath of the meeting, because that is always when things get personal. Our teachers and members present from the school board were quite willing land angrily sol to tell the assemblage about the problems they face with too many students in a school out grown and somewhat outmoded. The parents were asked for ideas that might solve or relieve the pressure. At first nobody opened his mouth. Every one of us looked blank or at his neigh bor. Frankly. I will heartily de fend this attitude, I was one of llicm, for this reason: We are ignorant of the true facts. None, or at least, very few of us have taken it on ourselves to pay a personal visit to our high school to find out these facts. . . We do go when Johnny or Janey gets a failing mark or comes home to tell Mama and Papa that teacher bawled him or her out "in front of the whole class . . ." for what reason? Without a doubt the kid was unprepared (or that exam. I have no sympathy for such peo ple and believe me if I had come home to my parents with such a talc, 1 got it at home again. Bo cause, like the teacher, my par ents would have known that I was unprepared. Nowadays, guess what happens sometimes? The teacher gets the reprimand, "for embarrassing" the student! No less. What a set-up. How many ' of you tlear readers know to w hat incident I am referring? Well, enough of that. It is just a part of the overall picture of why KU is faced with such a weighty problem. The bad isn't all on the part of non-interested parents. Some of us are anxious to provide our children with better than average educational facili ties and opportunities. KU has some very fine teachers as well as some not so fine. That's life accept it for what it is, and al ways will be human nature-personality clashes. We can't have everything, no matter how hard we try. I'd like now to make a belated suggestion. One that I should have thought of last night and didn't, for which negligence I apologize. Since K0 is too small to hold a four-year complement of about 2.000 students, and since the freshman class is sometimes the largest unit of the student IkicIv, let me repeal what I've heard countless parents say again and again, and emphatically agree with. Take the freshman class out of the high school. What shall we do with them? Find the fi nancial and administrative an swers to adding a ninth grade to Altamont Junior High School for all those ninth grade students liv ing within the jurisdiction of Alta mont Junior High. Use Fondcrosa School for the rest of the ninth grade students. Arrange for these youngsters to take their P.E. or extra-curricular athletics in their senior high school years, if P.E. facilities at Altamont and Pon derosa arc inadequate. How is all this to be financed and administrated? It will mean our school board and the parents committee will have to work ail summer lo lay out a feasible pl.m that the voting public will believe in and accept. It undoubt edly will mean building addil ional wings to Altamont Junior High and may tie I'ondcrosa as weil. It would add to Mr. Dcnham's al ready crowded school and his headaches. How about it, Mr. Denbam'.' In reference to my suggested "workable" pian. let me enlarge on this hy asking those people who re.tlly know tlie answers lo imp;irt their knowledge to a large ly ignorant voting public. Ju.-t how does one actually finance and administer a plan of this type? I'm an itinerant voter like a lot of other people, but equal ly ambitious to learn and help in a more cmlifed wav than last The Editor night's demonstration. Too many people there simply didn't know th kind of question that could be answered by a faculty alrea dy primed and hot under their collective collars with an alti tude of "this is what we are go ing to do whether you like it or not." They have reasons for their attitude, I have a lively son myself. My reactions are identi cal to a tired teacher's. But a split schedule isn't acceptable to us parents, and more important it isn't to the best interest of our students. Suppuse our parents committee and some really thoughtful cool headed teachers hold a prepared forum, complete with audience, in the high school gymnasium or the City Auditorium, then repeat tlie performance on TV to give us the information we want. Why not conduct a session such as Presi dent Kennedy's press conferences, with the parents committee and the representatives of the faculty and the school board acting as the panel jointly. Spot some peo ple in your audience to get tlie questions going and beforehand ,make it perfectly clear that the minute the thing gets out of hand and riotous, the meeting will be closed, by enlisting the aid of our city police force if necessary. Does this frighten anyone? Not all of the Klamath Basin voters have an active interest in our local school problem. That brings up another tale to tell. No body wants his property taxes raised just to finance a brand new $3,000,000 high school outside KU's physical jurisdiction. We are presently helping to finance a badly needed hospital, so I sup pose no one . will be. interested in making personal contributions w ith the idea of helping to build a school of such magnificent price. Raised property tax rates are seldom lowered to benefit the general home owner. In closing, let me emphasize the well-publicized fact that Klam ath High is just too small for '.he number of kids who want to go to school for a good education. They are the future of our old age and wc cannot let them down now because we are their pres ent and they look to us for sup port, encouragement, and the love that normal parents have for their offspring. Every youngster I have talked to says "if a split schedule is instituted, well, I won't be able to enter the col lege I need for the career I have wanted to enter . . ." etc., etc. Because they won't be able to study those subjects necessary for that career. Night classes are out of the question. Need more be said? Why make the kids suffer for our inadequa cies? Mrs. R. K. Ferrario, 1337 Wiard Street. Bly Problem We people in Bly (eel we have a school problem too. The high school (acuity we have now is a very good one with unusual in terest in our children and their futures. If it were not true, the 4'i teachers could not otter our students even the few college pre paratory subjects now available. We know our students are not given the advantages of subjects available in larger schools, but feel under present conditions they are getting excellent schooling in a relatively few subjects. Now they want to cut one teacher from our faculty! Over the country the concern is that every child be given an opportunity for a goocf education. "Drop-outs" are becoming a greater problem. Therefore, we feel it is unwise to economize on even one "country" school at the expense of educational oppor tunities. It's true it costs much more per pupil in this school, but any county with a school 50 miles from a city would expect high er cost per pupil. People must live in this area where they earn their living on ranches or work ing in the woods. Shouldn't their children have an opportunity to get the best education possible? This certainly isn't a poor sec tion of the county tax-wise. The complaint should not be that this area cannot support a high school. Of course, if the county saves money hy decreas ing the acuity, the people in this area will not find a reduction on their tax statements. Briefly. we fee! the financial saving is f;ir from justified when measured against loss of educa tional preparation of our young people. Mrs. Harold Davis, Blv. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Why do we speak of ill Hays of Lent when it really lasts over six weeks? A-The 40 days refers to the fast days. Sundays are feast days. Taking out the six Sundays in Lent, there are 40 days of Lenten observance Q-Whal do the letters A. B, AB and O identify? A Blood types. How old Is the Christian Science religion? A It was founded hy Mary Baker Eddy at Boston in 18T9.
