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PAGE 8 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thurulay, April t. W63 NOTHING SPECIAL The New Diplomacy (W. B. S.I V;; ,;: v;f Some of our more thoughtful folk keep worrying over how to spot and develop 'the creative individuals among the rising tide of youngsters flooding Into our schools. Fresh evidence suggests they will tend to separate themselves from the pack. A University of California study, fi nanced by the Carnegie Corporation and spurred by one of its trustees, Board Chair man Charles Thomas of Monsanto Chemical, turned up three or four keys to the creative spirit. The university's researches dealt with genuinely creative persons in art, science, literature, mathematics, architecture and other fields. N One key possessed by all is independence. Another is flexibility. A third is eagerness for and receptiveness to new experience. A fourth is a person's ability to understand him self, to know how to draw on his inner resourc es and govern his weaknesses. Enlarging on these notions in the Mon santo magazine, John Gardner, president of the Carnegie Foundation, says the creative' ones show their independence by escaping the imprisonment of group pressures. They do not hold much with phrases like "everybody's doing it" or "what will people say?" They do not accept something as fact simply because most people seem to believe it. Yet they do not take their nonconformity to foolish lengths. Usually they dress and be have quite conventionally, saving their rebel State Budgets: No Tax Cuts There (Tha Christian Scienca Monitor) Whatever may happen about a cut in federal Income taxes, nobody is talking about a reduction in the taxes levied by American , states and municipalities. The increase of de mands for services, particularly in the area of education, has put states and cities much more heavily into debt and their budgets in the red. Twenty-nine of the 50 stales operated on a deficit in 1061. Forty-four of the 47 state legislatures in session are considering tax in creases of various kinds which, according to the Tax Foundation, would add $1,500,000, 000 to their revenues. Apart from rising school costs there are requirements for more police and fire protec tion and other municipal services as more and more Americans move into cities and towns from the farms. But with nearly 50 per cent IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO Pentagon: The Soviet army, which has over 50,000 tons of the nerve gas Tabun (20 times as toxic as hydrogen cyanide' rea dy or use, is stockpiling chemical and biological warfare gases and toxins al what one expert calls "an enormous rale." U.S. Intelli gence estimates Uial 15 per cent ol the Soviet Union munitions stockpile is made up of these agents of silent death. One school of military strategists here be lieves that chemical and biologi cal warfare not the Rig Bomb -may bo the Soviet Union's ma jor weapon. They note that is is cheaper and that it will not de stroy America's valuable industri al plant just kill Americans. Stale Drparlmcnl: Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who headed the list of those in the Kennedy Ad ministration slated to go. re ceived a slay of execution. Rea son: None of the possible candi dates for his job is willing to accept the backseat driving of President Kennedy's foreign poli cy first team at the While House. They say lhat under this Adminis tration the nation's top diplo matic official has been Utile more than the water boy. Reason Two: Any Secretary of Slate will be caught between the conllicling pol icies of Presidential adviser Mc George Dundy and Attorney Gen eral Bob Kennedy. Treasury Department: Officials here arc wondering how they will b able to explain European tariff trends to Congress. At President Kennedy'! urging, they sold the nation's legislators a shiny pack age giving the White House the right to cut tariffs. And they ar gued that if the U.S. gave up its old protectionism, Europe would follow luit, parUcularly under Die Skimming The Cream lion for matters of major consequence. Those who imagine that bizarre clothing and unorthodox habits demonstrate independ ence may in fact merely be cloaking a very ordinary, uncreative spirit. Creative people do not fence themselves in with rigid views, but keep themselves men tally "loose." Sometimes this makes them ap pear pretty disorganized, especially to teach ers who like things in neat packages. But out of this seeming disorder often comes the really original approach to a problem. Particularly in the artistic realm today, the notion has got about that you prove crea tivity by rejecting everything that has been done before you came on the scene. But the California study shows that the creative persons shuts his mind to nothing. He absorbs the past. He tries to see, hear and digest more of the present than his uncreative fellows. Experience, taken with a purpose and not just for its own sake, is fuel to his recep tive mind. The problem, as always, Is to try to dis cern the individual with these special marks at a reasonably early age and get him start ed in fruitful directions. The California study, as thus far report ed, seems to offer no more reliable hints than have others on the matter of how to distin guish the creative from the merely rebel lious in the first stages. Their early growth can be slowed and misdirected before they finally pull clearly ahead of the ranks of the uncreative. more children going to public grade and high schools than 10 years ago, and with state and local governments carrying 96 per cent of the cost, somebody has to give and it's the state and local taxpayer. This year may well mark a change of trend in American tax collecting. For decades the federal government, with benefit of the income tax, has been the rapidly rising reve nue gatherer to such an extent that the states went to Washington for financial aid. But federal aid to education has encount ered persistent obstacles. With the adminis tration and many others urging Congress to reduce the federal tax take by up to some $10,000,000,000, the states may find it easier (if any such undertaking can be easy) to col lect something like a sixth of lhat amount for their needs. In so doing they may learn lhat they can, if necessary, carry the full responsibility for financing education. A Reporter's Notebook Common Market. The Common Market nations, however, arc bus ily raising tariff walls against this country and dumping their own goods. Senators and Repre sentatives arc getting angry mail (mm constitutoiils who feel that the U.S. was a little hasty and optimistic in counting on free world trade'. Republican Nullnnnl Committee: GOP strategists are growing ever more worrivd over grassroots re ports on voter sentiment. These reports almost universally predict Republican disaster if Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York is the nominee. Unless Mr. Rock efeller's Kipularily lakes a sud den rise, he is given no chance to carry his own state. As one GOP analyst put it, "Nelson may be the first Presidential candidate in American history not to carry a single slate." A b a d showing by tlie standard-bearer, it is felt, will wipe away all recent Repub lican gains In I he South and in key Northern stales. House Cloakroom: Groat disap pointment here that I'resident Kennedy played down the Cuban threat and talked of economic problems In his sooch to Uilm American presidents in Cosla liica There bad been some hope thai pressure from the more ener getic anil Castro governments would change the President's mind. ltcmits from south of the border Indicate lhat all the clieers and complimentary speeches did not make up for a fil ling of let down among those who looked lo (lie U S. lor leadership in the battle ugainst Castro Communism. What 1-atin America wants Com plete blockade of Cuba followed by an inler-Amei nan invasion, if necessary. Senate Permanent ImeMlga lions subcommittee: New auger at the Pentagon is building up over charges that (1) a garbled view of the Tr'X hearings had been presented to the public because only bits and pieces of testimony were released by the subcommit tee, and that (2 military mor ale is being destroyed. Senator Karl Mundt, ranking Republican member, points out acidly that the Pentagon handled all censorship of the subcommittee hearings and is therefore responsible for the nature of the information reach ing the public. He also notes that the hearings were aimed at 1 he civilian heads of the Defense De partmentin defense of military leaders who have been increas ingly ignored by Secretary Mc Namara. Hmisc of Representatives: Re publican Representative Craig llosmcr. whose Calilornia district is about 56 per cent Democratic and 41 per cent Republican (with throe per cent Independent1, lias been getting some interesting an swers to a questionnaire he sent out lo constituents, in direct pro portion to party strength. On the Administration's handling of the Cuban situation. 9 2 per cent voted that it was good. 24 2 per cent lound it fair, and tu8 per cent described it as xir. On I S. re lations with Its allies. 3.3 per cent found thorn "better than one could reasonably expect." 38.6 per cent said they were going "as well as one could reasonably expect." and 54 4 per cent felt they were "worse than one could reason ably expect." I In each category there was a small percentage of "don't knows."!' One poll, any Congressman realties, proves nothing. But the results of the llosmcr questionnaire arc consid eied startling coming from a state that went so strongly lVm ocr.tlic in 12. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS White I was visiting in the East recently. I spent a day with a friend of mine who had just re turned from a two-day trip to his state capital. He is a business man, and was involved in some proposed legislation for his group. "This trip did one thing for mc," he remarked ruefully at lunch. "It made me think twice about the slogan of 'state's rights' that sounds so appealing to those of us who are alarmed about fed eral power." "What do you mean by that?" I asked. "II was the first time I'd had a glimpse of a statehouse in ac tion." he explained. "It was ap palling and depressing and I'm sure that my state isn't any dif ferent, or any worse, than most." "Depressing in what way?" I wanted to know. "In every way," he said. "In the caliber of men we have sent to the slute legislature. In the atmosphere of intrigue and deals and moral shabbiness. In the cheapness and scediness of the whole political situation there, in both parlies." "Didn't you find any positive aspects?" I inquired. "Of course," he said, "there are a few men there of character and intelligence; I don't mean to make a blanket indictment. But the general level was so low, the self-serving was so obvious, the ignorance and greed and provincialism so overpowering, . that I left before I really should have." "And that experience soured you on slate's rights?" asked. "It certainly made me ponder the question. 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It's run by men and the men in Washington, whichever party is in power, are of a distinctly high er caliber. Some of the bills pro posed, and actually got the point of passage, are incredible. Let mc tell you about a few of them." I listened to his doleful tale, and was able to reciprocate by telling him that my glorious state of Illinois had recently approved a bill that would outlaw flying the United Nations flag on pub lic buildings in the state. A harm less piece of mischief, but highly indicative of the sort of bigoted stupidity that passes for "patriot ism" in so many state legisla tures. It may be true that (he stales must guard against federal en croachments of their rights: but then the equally large question raises ilseli: who is then to guard us against the inanities, if not worse, of our statehouse politi cians? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q On what did the U.S. Su preme Court base its decision ban ning prayer in public schools? A The first amendment to the Constitution, which includes these words: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." ( W hat percentage of the U.S. Senate is affected in an election year? A Only one-third of the Senate stands for election at two-year intervals. Answer to Prviou Puzzl M.A;L t.1 10 Permit 11 Greatest quantity Ifi Panish seaport I'll Itmhl hand pane !5 Billots 4 tlreek iod of war M Kxhibit Jap 26 Musical 31 Marries 33 Swords used in fencinii V, Press 40 Pared 43 Proxy 45 Denominations 4iC.ratled iher.) 47 Kenrrts 48 Itotlent Ml Solar disk- M ISiblual name r,J Oeert regions 63 New Guinea port instruments 2& l,astroiHil mollusk .10 Above BlO Qi b RWS;ENrtqe EKmXritfKg.el Mail ele e'pI ias si iy'b si LETTERS TO THE", EDITOR Ready The split schedule is just an other example of the inability of our K.U. school administration and school board No. 2 to solve our high school problem. As each decision is made by both parties we find ourselves creeping into a worse situation than the one be fore. The administration claims that there is too much confusion, noise, destruction etc., yet we see no policy set forth whereby discipline is being maintained other than senseless, detention halls. It's strange to hear the admin istration talking about the educa tion of our students. I have been attending meetings f o r months with the School Citizens Committee on the high school problem, and in those meetings there was very little discussion pertaining to education policies or recommendations for the type of school system that should pre vail. Money seems to be the only important subject, yet now there arises concern for our kids' edu cation, and the best way to ob tain it al the high school is by a split schedule. There doesn't seem lo be much concern about how much educa tion is desired, but what will be more convenient and less strenu ous on the administration and teachers. The hardships that fam ilies will endure under a split schedule are unthinkable. Parent supervision will be more diffi cult. Students will be allowed to roam the streets, w ill annoy busi ness concerns, and in many cases will attempt to find something else to occupy the extra free lime . alluttcd to them. Is this what we should expect to receive for supporting our schools? Just what docs it take lo get the parents of K.U. aroused? Perhaps you do not realize the situation that exists, but you are slowly but surely be ing forced into something against your will. If we are to speak out against any injustices, we must unite in a large body to protect such actions. Most parents do not realize the power that exists with school boards, and in these recent deci "sions your protests have had lit tle effect, and you can be sure lhat your future protest in small groups will be of no consequence. Months ago. board No. 2 sought to organize a Citizens' Commit tee to evaluate the high school problem. I'm proud to have been associated with this line group of concerned parents, and alter ex ploiting various solutions, the committee recommended that the districts reorganize into a metro ami county system. History was made when the three school boards organized into a Joml School Boards Associa tion. Agreement on a metro and county system was unanimous. However in discussing the divi sion of assets and equalization, vou would think that the money involved was being taken out of their individual pockets. These people were voted to the school boards to represent our interests, and certainly there should have leon al least an opportunity for the voters lo approve or disap prove the overall plan. The Citi zens' Committee would have lucked them 100 per cent. So now. here we are. Gerry, mending, h.indvmanding. you name it. Just another meth,i of The average American works to pay off his obligations and buy his daily needs. The Tax Foundation. Inc.. a non-profit stu dy group, has figured how much time is spent in each eight-hour day for these expenditures. They found: Two hours and 21 minutes for state and local taxes One hour and 24 minutes for housing and household operations One hour and 22 minutes for food and tobacco " Thirty-seven minutes for transportation Thirty-two minutes for cloth ing " Twenty-one minutes for med ical expenses " Nineteen minutes for recrea tion One hour a.nd four minutes left for all other expenses This leaves nothing for sav ings and investment, unless wc manage to include those items among the "all other expenses" category. Another illustration pointing to the reasons so many of us fall by the wayside economically, is rather facetiously highlighted in a communication to Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R-Marylandi. His constituent wrote: "Dear Senator: "I have a dependent' rela tive who has very little financial stability. He means well, but he kee,)s buying presents for my wife and me. charging them to my account. When he sees some thing that he thinks we might need, he buys it. and I have lo pay. These, things are rarely what we would have bought our selves. Because he doesn't work for a living, money doesn't mean much to him. "He is generous lo t h e poor and needy, with my money and gives to the unworthy, too. 1 just received a bill for his latest spending spree, and it gives mc a sick,' hopeless celing. How much better things would be if I could spend my own money By FULTON' LEWIS .lit. Hep. Francis Walter, chairman of the House CnAmerican Ac tivities Committee, will press hard for new legislation to govern fed eral grants lo colleges and furth er "secure the national defense." , Investigators for Walter's com mittee have discovered that the , National Science Foundation has been considerably less than choosy in its disposal of such grants. Since 1956 three separate grants have gone to Columbia University for Harry Grundfest, a professor there. . This despite the fact that Grund fest numbers among his associates a member of the infamous Canad ian spy ring. This despite the fact that Grundfcst has served as a di rector of two organizations cited as subversive by the Attorney General. This despite the fact that Grundfcst took the Fifth Amend ment when asked about Commu nist Party membership in con gressional testimony in 1933. In 1965. Grundfcst received $4,500 through Columbia; in IMS. another $75,000. Less than two years ago, Grund fest was summoned lo appear belore the House UnAmerican Ac tivities Committee inclosed door session. There he again took the Fifth when asked if he were a Communist. Two days after his HUAC testi mony, on October 4. lttHl. Grund fcst received another $156,000 from NSF. Two weeks later. Dr. Alan Wa terman. NSF director, told Hep. Walter that he had no knowledge of the background of Grundfcst. He gave the same reason when questioned about a two-year granl of SS.800 made to Philandcr-Smitn College for Lee Lorch. In 1950. the same Lee Lorch was identified as a Communist by three witnesses appearing belore the House CnAmerican Activities Committee hen Lorch appeared belore HI AC. in 1954, he claimed not to he a Communist al that splitting oir community a little further apart. It s time' now that Klamath Falls citizens unile in striving to make our community a belter place for ourselves and future ccnerations. We've started with the hospital, why not the same enthusiasm lor our schools.? Wc. should protest loudly as.unst the split schedule There is doubt even if we need the extended schedule. Let's don't Wd-.te any more time. I'm ready to be heard loud and clear How about ou? Boh Frcdrickvin. 1003 North Seventh. (Ar the things I want. "He won't listen to me, but he will listen lo you. Please, please use your influence lo cut the spending habits of my I'ncle Sam." For about 21) years, I was involved, in several different ca pacities, with the operation of weekly newspapers, and I have some real appreciation of t h e problems involved with their op eration. Perhaps you'll get a kick out of this amusing anecdote. The big city advertising man was interested in acquiring a weekly newspaper and asked the publisher whether the paper made money on subscriptions. "Nope." replied the publisher. "How about job printing that must be profitable?" The publisher shook his head. "Well, you must make money on advertising . . ." "Break even." Overwhelmed, the visitor asked, "Then, haw do you manage at all?" . "Well," replied the publisher, "it isn't easy in this town. Fact, we couldn't continue at all if it weren't for the humor depart ments of the big-city dailies. They buy all our typographical errors." An anonymous columnist of fers this suggestion as a simple home test to determine if your ' children are gelling enough cal cium: Grasping a child firmly by the neck in each hand, bring the two heads smartly together. (If you have but one child, a borrowed neighbor child will do very nicely.) A pleasantly hollow sound will set your mind at ease that your kid's ach ing head has plenty of calcium. The thought occurs that the same remedy might be applicable to solution of the discipline prob lem said to exist at KUHS. And, I suppose if all one gets is a dull "THUD" it means that too much calcium exists. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Commie Professors Get Federal Grants instant, but clammed up when asked about membership in an earlier period. Lorch was cited for contempt of Congress, but acquitted by a fed eral court. Dr. Lorch had been dismissed by at least throe col leges before the NSF approved the grant for his research. .Note: Members of Congress re ceived a substantial jolt in March, 1981, when NSF announced a fel lowship award to Edward Vcllin, a graduate student at Ihe Universi ty of Illinois. In 1958 congressional testimony, Yellin had been identified by an . FBI undercover agent as a mem ber of the Communist Party. This testimony described Yellin as a "well-trained, well-educated Communist colonizer sent into the steel industry in an effort to in filtrate Ihe labor movement." Called to testify, Yellin refused to cooperate, invoking the First Amendment about his Communist activities. In I960, he was convict cd of contempt of Congress, fined $250 and sentenced to a year in prison. His conviction was up held by the Court of Appeals on February 16, 1961, a month before NSF announced that he would re ceive its fellowship. Later it was revoked. Air manac By Cniled Press International Today is Thursday, April 4. the 91th day of 1963 with 271 to follow. The moon is approaching full phase. The morning stars are Venus snd Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1841. President William Hen ry Harrison died in the While House exactly one month after his inauguration. Also in 1841. John Tyler became Ihe first vice president to succeed Hie presidency through the death of Harrison. In 1917. the Senate approved a resolution of war against imper ialist Germany. in 1962, General Edwin A. Walk er resigned alter telling his U.S. command in Germany that the armed forces are paralvzed bv our national policy of 'no win' and letreat from victory." A thought for the day-British financier Cecil Rhodes said: "Edu. cational relations make the strong est lie."
