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V Milt fc-D HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore. Sunday, April 7, 1963 fteralfc anil Seta NOTHING SPECIAL 'Don't Rush Me!" (W. B. S.) It is a commonplace that the president of the United States gets no easy matters for decision. More commonly than it is, the same ought to be said of the United States Supreme Court. Hearing only some 200 cases a year, it has no time for small things. It must focus on questions of broad import. The pressures of time, however, are not crucial in compelling this concentration on large judicial affairs. The fact is, this is the high court's function. A former American Bar Assn. president, Charles S. Rhyne, who has tried a hundred cases before the Supreme Court in the past 25 years, calls it this country's great "organ of decision." He argues that any free government needs such a final arbiter. For, inevitably, there will be many potential stalemates as major conflicting interests battle for position in the arena. Who is to break them or prevent them if there is no place of last resort? Not the least reason for this nation's pre Constitution paralysis under the Articles of Confederation, suggests Rhyne, was the ab sence of anything like the present high court. He sees it as fitting and necessary that we shape our great controversies for ultimate decision at this level. We cannot leave them undecided. The other courses would be cither a new paralysis or conflict approaching war. The Supreme Court's role as final re sort is not an enviable one. The great contro versies it hears are almost certainly charged with emotion. The court knows powerful, sometimes socially disruptive consequences (Hartford Ceurant) The special Senate subcommittee on aging has been hearing some pretty discon certing testimony on the way old folk are being bilked by swindlers and quacks. To this unconscionable breed of scoundrels Whistler's Mother would have been not just a nice old lady, but a target for a phony land deal . . . They might well have tried to sell her a plot of land in the Mojave Desert 50 miles from the nearest river. . '. . Thousands were duped by this "lakeside" development Those who add a chronic ailment to their other worries are specially vulnerable. Food and Drug Administration officials figure that $500 million a year is spent by old people on IN WASHINGTON . . . w By RALPH dc TOI.EDANO ' There is general agreement across the country that something must be done to provide employ ment for young people. They make up tlie largest single group In the nation's unemployed. And they have the least chance to get the almost five million jobs which are today going a-begging because of a shortage of qualified labor. The Domestic Peace Corps is President Kennedy's answer to the problem. I am sure that he sincerely believes in it. Hut labor everts are almost unanimous in their insistence that anv kind of a Al manac By United Tress International Today is Sunday, April 7, the Win day of ISM with Sfl to follow. Tlie moon is approaching full phase. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star Is Mars. Those born today Include Eng lish poet William Wordsworth, in Till). On this day In history: In 1927, an audience at the Bell Telephone laboratories In New York witnessed the first success ful long distance demonstration of television as Secretary of Com merce Herbert Hoover spoke Irom his desk in Washington. In 19.W, Italy invaded Albania. In l!M7, telephone workers In 3!l (tales started a 23 day strike. In 1953, Dug llammnrskjold was elected Secretary General of the United Nations. A thought for the day Norwe gian author Henrik Ibsen said: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that de pends upon borrowing or debt." The Final Arbiter Special Targets worthless health foods, or bogus vitamin spe cialties. . . . Last year it is estimated that 9 million persons over 45 spent as many mil lion dollars on quack remedies. . . . It has been suggested that postal laws be tightened so that officials can move more quickly against the charlatans. Food and drug officials would also like to have the laws streamlined so they can get phony drugs off. the market quickly. But the committee is not at a law-writing stage now. It has struck a rich vein of villainy and, as chairman McNa mara says, "This field is larger than we ex pected." Like everything else in our coun try: Robbing the old is a big enterprise. Training Program new CCC will merely aggravate the problem. It will take young people and put them to work (or a period of time certainly. But it will not train them in the skills necessary to mako them employable. They will leave the corps just as helpless and unem ployable as when they went in. The tragedy is that the govern ment, the schools, and the labor unions are not doing anything to make useful citizens, instead of unemployment statistics, of tlie young men and women looking (or work today. In a significant article appear ing in this month's Harper's, Kd ward T. Chase points out one rea son why. He decries a system "that produces unnccded farmers, cabinet - makers, and weavers while the demand is rising for business machine repairmen, chefs, auto mechanics, and elec trical servicemen to mention only a few of the skills in shurt sup- ply-" "Skills" Is. of course, the key word. Every year the nation s need for blue collar workers di minishes. At the same time, while collar workers and technicians nl all sorts are increasingly in de mand. But the vocational schools are dealing in skills Unit are clear ly obsolete. "So archaic is most of Hie train ing given in vocational schools." Mr. Chaso writes, "that unions in tlie printing, plumbing, food and other trades refuse to give credit (or it. Graduates from vo cational schools must start from scratch on apprenticeships often running from three to five years " Those apprenticeships, more over, are pitifully (ew in ntimlicr ami all bound around by favorit ism and trade union mumho-jum-bo, Tlie vocational education sys tem is still way back in 1917 w lion Hie Smith-Hughes Act Was passed Al that lime, one-third of the American labor lorce was cm ployed in agriculture. Today, it is only one-eighteenth. Vet half of the Federal money spent under the still-existent Smith . Hughes Act goes toward the training o( may follow its decision. Its members know, too, that they are human and can make mis takes. This is perhaps the key reason it so often moves slowly. Yet the time for choice always comes when the end of the road is at hand and deeply entrenched stalemate threatens to become permanent. Inescapably, critical decisions are un popular with many. If they were not, the high court's interest in the issue involved probably would be misplaced. But here Uhyne makes a significant point. It is every citizen's right and privilege to as sail the court's rulings, especially when it is recognized that human judgment can err. Nev ertheless, the lawyer argues, it is wrong to direct this attack against either the court as an agency or the judges as individuals. They, sitting as a court, are acting in the difficult, unpopular task for which they were chosen. We must presume they are doing so according to their oath, and to the best of their ability. If we do not place our faith in them, as individuals and as a body, then in whom may we place it? Should the president, leading the nation, be the judge of affairs he often initiates? Should the Congress, embroiled in politics and passing many laws whose lan guage it hardly knows, be the appraiser of its own acts? Only the Supreme Court stands at all aloof. Even it can be jarred from its vital de tachment. But it is still the only great organ of choice our system of government has given us. Vita new and unnecessary farmers. We're getting the farmers, but the U.S. economy, as Mr. Chase points out, will need 50,000 new carpenters, 5.000 tool-and-die-mak-ers, and 10.000 new plumbers! ev ery year in the UXMs. And our vo cational schools are not turning them out simply because an edu cationist lobby, which beats its breast over juvenile delinquency, is far behind the times but still has a powerful voice in Congress. The head of this lohby insists that there is nothing wrong in a system which trains young Amer icans for jobs that don't exist any more but refuses to give them the needed skills. The girls who study home eco nomics 20 per cent of Smith Hughes funds go for that, Mr. Chase says are learning how to lie the kind of housewives who would lie considered efficient in the day of home-churned but ter and the crank-type ice cream (recer. Typing, tiling, and of (ice work arc not considered "voca tional" to the lobbyists so no fed eral funds are spent in training girls to do these essential jobs. Congress is deeply concerned over the lack of work for mil lions of young people who just don't know how to do anything except use tltoir hands. But a Domestic Peace Corps, which will put these youngsters to work at leaf-raking jobs and manual la Ixir. is hardly the answer. The problem is a big one ami. in fact, should not lie surrendered to Con giess. The nation's schools, locally run, are tlie place lor giving a new generation the tools (or eco nomic survival. And the schools can do it if they slop listening to the butter-churning educationist lobby and look to themselves for on answer. More and more, the educationist lobby is shutting the rioors of vocational schools to those who most need them. It's about lime Mr. and Mrs. Citi icn and tlie lival PTA stop wor rying about the John Birch So ciety and devote themselves to this vital job. 1 :( By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Exactly one hundred years ago, in a burst of typical 19th Century optimism, Victor Hugo wrote an essay on the "future of man" in which he predicted: "In the 20th century, war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boun daries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven." These ringing words were inspired by the industrial Revolu tion, by the discoveries of Dar win and -Huxley, by the advances in science, medicine, and technol-j . .ogy,In the latter. half of: t!ir: 19th Century, it seemed as; if man might at last conquer tlie conditions of his existence and create a new Eden based on Ra- . tionalism, Progress and Human ismthe three reigning deities in the pantheon of that era. But it was not to be. Hardly more than a dozen years after the turn of the new century, the Western world was plunged into the fiercest and bloodiest of all wars. Twenty years after the end of that, another war engulfed half the world. And now, again 20 years later, we are poised on the brink of tlie most calamitous con flict that can be imagined in deed, it cannot even be imagined. War is more virulently alive than ever, hatied is greater and deeper than ever, frontier boun daries are more sharply defined and more passionately defended, and the new dogmas o( com munism and fascism have become pandemic. The savagery, butch Upper Volta ACIIOSS 1 Ouagadougou is this country 8 It bocHinP an imieprmtpnt Aufi. 5, two 1.1 Wuickrn M lladnl 13 I nil of reluctant- lfl Slri't'lsub.) 17 IVrilSPS IS Female sheen !! Kpisperm ihol.) Honev-malter 'JJ Seat anew J4 !mli..n L'T Second-year sherp 28 Miss LanchtMer 32 More unusual .11 Hit 35 Mother of Pent nous itlreek niylh.) .IS spacious :I7 I liar-iratft 38 Lieutenants i.ih.l 41 Mops' kilns 42 Courageous one 45 Wheedle 48 Acquire know If ilce 49 M.ike sport of 5'J l'alm rockaloo f4 I nderworld god S't Itofore SS llirl's name Si Turned inside out Si! 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(rated too mucb on control of-' their environment, and too little on control of themselves. Thus, every advance in our supremacy over nature only increased the distance between the perfection of our means and the confusion of our ends. Our capacity for doing evil outstripped our desire to do good. The central problem of our age is not political or economic or military. It is the problem of raising our humanhood to the lev el of our technology or else hav ing our technology obliterate our humanhood. Our failure to see this, and to act upon it, is the sin of our time. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q-What ii the official color of the star, and the hammer and sickle on the So?iet Union flag? A-Gold. Answer to Previous PiittI in basketry 10 Nomad J 1 Ocean niownictit 12 Oihorwi.se JO Ubel 22 Kmialc ruff pi. i 23 Serious (1i-roure 24 IVrtaimni; to an och 2;"i Kretuy 'Jti Pe-rMa 29 R.i re rours6 nrcuils 30 nre; .11 Fruit drinks ;i;t Musical note :S4 Soul lKc:ptl US New Guinea port HO Harlem 40 StrupKla 4.1 Scheme 44 licntix of eees 4" French city 4ts Shield bearing 47 Gust 4!M;reck letter f0 Soviet city ftl Couche 51 Crimson ft Measure SITEIE1BSUOSTEND TMeiBMj UE Agt:"MM"''A N TIT T RAfTiKOl a:piome7MHiE"r1BbiME (f E M iA Jvi PfAlN TiLTETR n mm WASHINGTON REPORT... JFK Didn't Get Letter From Hosmer By FULTON LEWIS JR. Two weeks ago Congressman Craig Hosmer dispatched to President Kennedy a letter of vital importance. Hosmer is ranking Republican on the Joint Atomic Energy Committee and one of the coun try's best experts on nuclear test ing and disarmament. He laid his cards on the table in the very first paragraph of his March 18 letter: "I sincerely hope this letter may reach you because it con tains information relating to the national security which I feel you ' oiay not otherwise receive." The President did not, however, receive that let ter. It was in tercepted by an anonymous aide and t h e Con gressman re ceived a stand ard, thank form letter you for his troubles. Here is what Hosmer told the President: "Your disarmament agency nf 1 ficials recently outlined to the Joint Committee many of the provisions of a revised test ban treaty under preparation which they state will soon be offered to the Soviets. This proposal con tains a loophole through which the Soviets can move clandes tinely to nuclear weapons su periority and its equivalent, Com munist world domination." Hosmer told the President that government witnesses had testi fied that the verification system to be proposed "is inadequate to detect and identify underground test cheating at yields equiva lent to 3 kilotons and below if tested in alluvium formations K20 miles within the Soviet Union." According to Hosmer's calcu lations, this gives Russian scien tists at least 2.5 million square miles in which to test to their heart's content. Under terms of the U.S. "draft" treaty, the United States would forego wholly any and all weapons development: and as a practical matter, simply trust the Soviets to keep their word not to carry on undetectable tests and secretly de velop nuclear weapons of vast mil itary significance. Listed below are tlie signifi cant weapons which Maj. General A. W. Belts, director of militarv applications for the Atomic Ener gy Commission, told the Joint Committee could be clandestinely tested and developed in this unde tectable area: 1. Relatively low-yield weapons of tlie tactical type. 2. High - yield tactical wea pons that could be developed by extra-polation from explosions as small as t kiloton, without the ne cessity for proof testing. .1. At least one - half of all strategic weapons of all yields and types of interest to the military all without the need for proof testing. As an indication of where weapons development interest lies. General Belts revealed that 5(1 per cent of all U.S. underground testing in Nevada is carried out in this low. undetectable, below 3-kiloton range. Actually tests much larger than 3 kilotons can be carried out clan destinely under terms of the pro- 1 A Prayer For Newsmen is this unusual invocation of particular meaning to newsmen (and I think to our readers, who undoubtedly w ill get a message from these re marks) was delivered by Mon signor John B. Cavanagh, editor of the Catholic Register, at a re cent meeting of the Colorado Press Association at Colorado Springs. In these days of "man aged" news and other attempts at manipulating the news, the fol lowing paragraphs have particu lar significance. "Almighty God, the fountain head of truth, give us convictions that are forged of steel, that can not be bent or twisted or snapped by venal expediency, callous in difference, sanguine self-interest, or a cancerous betrayal of our trust as purveyors of truth. The devil is no fool, and his recruit ing program never stops. There are no coffee breaks in hell. His hours are the length of the day, and his years are the measure of eternity. In the beginning, he ap propriately assumed a becoming image, a talking snake. He be trayed and won his first victim, a woman, and the lie became the badge and hallmark of every liar of both sexes from Adam and Eve to this atomic era. "We have succeeded in mak ing our progenitors in the liars' sweepstakes look serenely an gelic. There can be no such thing as virtue in any misrepre sentation. The father of lies knows his disciples. He may give a knowing wink to the man who lifts a paper off the news stand without paving for It. He may give an encouraging smile to the man who plagiarizes a story or lifts a column. He may give a rattle of his tail to the man who pads his swindle sheet. Undoubtedly, he has a hand shake for the man who lives a lie in sheer hypocrisy. "But he has a serpentine em brace for the newspaperman who perverts the truth in his columns: who creates an ad that misleads or corrupts; who pollutes the clear stream of truth in news columns by injecting innuendoes, suggestive and inflammatory de vices of deceit, and by leaving un said monuments to slander and character defilement. May we not so much wonder whose side God is on, but with a renewed pledge to honesty and integrity, may we never wonder whose side we are on. Amen." That $15 billion the House passed recently to be spent for military purchases probably doesn't sound like much of a hunk of the $108 billion dollar budget proposed. But, reduced . to some simple terms, we see BERRY'S WORLD "Why can't you get a job in a field with growth potential like, tay, the Internal Revenue Service?" posed U.S. treaty. Simply by "muffling" their explosions in underground cavities, the Russians could "reduce" 30-kiloton explo s;ons below the 3-kiloton threshold of non-dctectability. In his letter to President Ken nedy, Congressman Hosmer wrote: "So again, I urge you to talk directly with General Betts . . . I am certain that what he will tell you will substantiate the proposi tion that an effective test ban treaty one which will in fact cause the Soviets to stop nuclear weapons development if we do will require manned seismic ob servatories inside the Soviet Un ion as well as on free world soil. "Again, in rinsing. I reiterate the dancer of missing the chance for an effective, risk-reducing treaty by the proposal of an ef fective, risk - increasing treaty." But the President, sad to say, has not seen the letter. what it could mean, if that mon ey were directed into other chan nels (and I'm not saying it should be). To use all of that money in a single year, tlie military will have to spend at the rate of $6,000,000 an hour or $141 million, a day, or $988 million a week. The money would buy 3.4 mil lion $15,000 homes. Or 12.74 mil lion $4,000 automobiles. Or more than 150 billion loaves of bread. At the rate of $1,000,000 a day it would take 140 years to spend it down to the last dollar. And if it were stacked up in silver dollars, measuring a silver dollar at one-eighth of an inch, it would tower to a height of some 100.000 miles, or circle the earth four times. Any way you look at It, It adds up to a pretty penny. Jack Guinn is a columnist on the Denver Post. He is one of the wittiest, sharpest writers of the time. And he's clever. He has come up with a heck of a novel idea which, he alleges, will solve the world's problems. He is leader of a dedicated band of Coloradoans among them former Colorado Gov.' Steve McNichols who are organizing the World's First Seminar on Inconsequential Matters. The seminar is designed tail ored by Guinn to conflict with another seminar at Aspen, Colo. At this seminar, the topic of dis cussion will be "The U.S. Im age Abroad." While eggheads are busy dis cussing "The U.S. Image Abroad," the World's First Sem inar on Inconsequential Matters will be deep in examination of "Irritating Ways to Haggle With French Postcard Salesmen and Other Tricks to Keep Europe ans From Taking Our Money." Other topics will include, "How To Rexlax While Republicans Drive, or. After Novocain e. What?" Also, "Songs for Sit-ins at Saloons," and "Courage In Our Times: Would Bertrand Russell Sit on A Wet Sidewalk to Help Ban the Double Martini?" The real drawing card is bound to be the panel discussion on "How To Load An Elephant On An Airplane." Valuable informa tion on this vital matter comes from an elephant expert who claims that by placing a chicken on the head of the elephant, it will remain calm during the load ingand even during the flight. Guinn asks the logical question: "Would not the world be a bet ter place if the leaders wore chickens on their heads?" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thank You I would like to thank the staff of the Herald and News and the chamber of commerce, and all my friends for all of their support which they gave me in the Mrs. Oregon Contest. It was wonderful and thrilling to be chosen one of three finalists but it was far more rewarding to know I had the support of my home town and friends. I wish Mrs. Sandra Ostcrdain of Salem a successful reign and all the luck in the world toward the possibility of becoming Mrs. America. Virginia McGaughey I
