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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
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ham Lincoln. It is, of course, a
"fact" that he lived, that he was
President, that he was assassinat
ed. But, in Kclley's words,
"there are as many Liucolns
as there are learners." 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."
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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.