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PAGE ( HLRALD AM) NEWS, Klanulh Falls, Ore. You can fill a hall easily in this country if the topic is combating communism. Americans abhor communism as a doc trine and a system of life. Nevertheless, in a curious way a lot of this nation's citizenry seems to be drawn, consciously or uncon sciously, to certain communal notions about property. ; The flagrant thievery of the avowed criminal is one thing. Quite another is the taking of property which the taker, somehow, persuades himself is less than theft. We have become great "borrowers," often glossing over the fact that the borrowing is done without that essential ingredient permission of the lender. For long years, many have convinced themselves that "souvenir collecting" justi fied lifting all kinds of objects from hotels, motels and similar establishments serving the ' public. f ' When, as today, this reaches the point where people march out of these places bear ing lamps, television sets, blankets and other costly Items, it suggests that the souvenir liiinters are going for pretty big game. .'.The new justification, evidently, is that these public establishments "can afford it." There is no feeling, it seems, that an individual is being robbed only that some impersonal thing, a faceless management, is being "tak en." Obviously this is self-deception of a high order. Calling theft by a lesser name does not Another Honor For Sir There are times when everyone can ap plaud an unprecedented act. That was the case when Congress, for the first time in our history, voted to proclaim a foreigner an honorary citizen of the United Slates. , , The foreigner is Sir Winston Churchill. And he is, in the full sense, the first citizen of the Free World. The history which he did so' much to write in deed and in words is his enduring monument. His was the voice, in domitable in the face of appalling defeats IN WASHINGTON By ItALPH de TOLKI1ANO With so murh of every day's news, grim and foreboding, any glad tidings are doubly welcome. 11 is therefore a little surprising that the press hus not paid much mind to some encouraging and im portant stories out of Formosa, Hit Chinese Nationalist stronghold. The news proves that foreign aid, w hen coupled to a w ill to success, can be valuable. Without that will, It Is a waste of money. Wlien President Chiang K a i slick's forces were driven from the Chinese mainland, It was a common prediction among the smart boys at the State Depart ment that Formosa iTalwam would he a perpetual drain on the U.S. Treasury and that corrup tion would destroy any possibility of economic improvement. Ss usual, the State Department's pundits were wrong. For For mosa ami Uie Chinese Nationalist regime there have become a kind or. showcase of proscrity and ef ficiency in Southeast Asia. JThe fads of the Formosa story have lccii brought together by Professor David Nelson Rowe of Yale University in a pamphlet pub lished by the pioneering American Afro-Asian Educational Exchange, Inc. Hf 5011 write to 79 Madison Avenue and say that I sent ou. I'm sure you can get a copy Professor Rowe coers a good deal of ground. But some of the faijs he mentions should be under, snored. For example, while the staiidard of living in mainland Chi-na-lias nose-dived as a result of the attempted collecliviralion of the farms by the Communist regime, on Formosa the real Income of farmers has gone up .'14 per cent in the past decade. 'Hie farmers of any country in the world would welcome such a fate, though we still have with us here in the U.S. people who wish In deliver For mosa to the Chinese Iteds. Not only has farm Income gone up. Ited China has seen a phe nomenal drop in agricultural pro duction. Mao Tsetungs "great leap forward" lias dropped his country into a production abyss, and near starvat ion facet many of Common Thieves make it anything but theft. And it is a piece of effrontery to declare that any establish ment "can afford it." For what the "imper sonal" managements do is compensate for losses by charging everybody higher prices for service. One of the worst signs of the "your property is mine" philosophy is the depletion of college and public libraries by theft. An eastern school reports it loses some 2,000 books a year this way, not to mention other losses through mutilation (the party ruth lessly slices up a book to get those parts he wants). Here, plainly, the losers are all the honest students who needto use the books but can not. The selfish thieves believe their private requirements are superior to the general need. Trespass on other people's land is a steadily rising favorite. The fellow who or ders trespassers to leave is regarded by some as a sorehead who does not understand that I he land he bought as his own should he shared with everybody. All of this, of course, adds to "something for nothing" and "the world owes me a liv ing." But hasn't this kind of comforting self intoxication gone much too far? The "some thing" has to be taken from "somebody." The "world" turns out to be one or more per sons. Taking from them, whether it be an ash tray or a television set, is thievery. No amount of shiny paint can make it anything else. and disasters, which rallied peoples and na tions and led, at long last, to victory. And there is something vital thai the statesman of the present day, here and abroad, can learn from Sir Winston. There was no drift when his hand was at the helm. There was no irresolution. Risks great risks were taken with full knowledge of what might happen, and with full resolve to see the dan gers through to "the end, whatever that end might be. The western world of the present needs more, much more, of that spirit, cour age and dedication. Formosa Moves mainland China's people. But on Formosa, there has been a BO per rent rise in the production of farms and fisheries. In specifics, the rice crop has gone up 36 per cent, pineapple too per cent, sugar 130 per cent. The fish catch. Professor Howe points nut, has doubled. Agricultural ex ports have steadily increased. The farmers have doubled the percen tage of the income which they were able to deposit in the han'.c Simultaneously, industry has moved ahead even more rapidly 10 the point where only the need for large military forces has pre , vented the island from becoming self-supporting. And Formosa has become a training ground for in dustrial and agricultural techni cians from every part of South east Asia. Even the Japanese have turned to Formosa for new IriTi ninues in agriculture. Perhaps moie important is the expanding role of the Republic of China in the development of Africa. Trade, which Is the lite blood of nations, has increased steadily. Between l!58 and lt, that in crease in Sinn-African trade lias added up to 2.1 per cent. Political and economic mission (mm Formosa have been sent to every part of Africa. The job has been to share with the newly hide pendent nations the experiences of Nationalist China, to lake part in the development of these countries, to olfer new techniques 111 am i culture and fishing, and to invest For example, last .lime sugar refining experts from Free China went to the Congo to help restore to operation a refinery which had lieen shut down as a result of the departure of Europeans from that country. Surplus Free Chinese equipment Is being used in South Vietnam and other countries nl Asia and Africa. Trade has not been tlie only kind of aid being tendered by Free China. Hospitals have been set up in North Africa, stalled by Chinese doctors, and these have won for the Nationalists considera ble friendship and rospret. Signifi cantly, cooperation between Free China and tlie Afro-Asian nations Monday, April I, S Winston Forward has had an interesting by-product. Whereas most of the new nations were once solidly in the "admit lied China to the U.N." camp, Ihey have been slowly changing their minds and their votes. The lied Chinese to thcin are rapidly becoming neo colonialists. T h e Free Chinese, on the other hand, meet Ihem on a quid-pro-quo basis. They give, hut they also expect a return and the new nations re siled this. Where the U.S. seems to be offering charity, the Free Chinese enter as equals. This, as 1 said, is the best kind of news for the West. Free Chinese relations with the new nations can do more to cement the non-Communist world than all the pretty speeches about foreign aid from Dr. Wall Whitman Rostow or Sec retary Husk. Al manac Hv t nltrtl Press International Today is Monday. April 8, I he With day of l,1, with 2t7 to follow. The moon is approaching full phase. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1T:U. the fust Jewish congre gation to be organued in America formed its synagogue in New York City. In imi.5, General V. S (leant asked (ieneral Robert E. I.ee to surrender in the name of his army in Virginia and l.ce asked Grant In stipulate the terms. lee surrendered tile following day In IM2, President Truman seized the steel industey to head off a general strike. In ls!. the Algerian truce was ratitied by 90 per cent of the voters in a public election. A thought lor the day: Greek philosopher Plato said: ' Without a cause nothing can be created " "Stop I ill. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS . 1 was given a fountain pen for my 12th birthday. It was a hand some, substantial instrument, which 1 kept and used for more than a dozen years, and felt a keen sense of loss when it dis appeared one day. Now a full generation later, I own no fountain pen. Instead, like most of us. 1 am forever buying cheap ball-point pens. They write poorly, they have no character, and they seem to vanish from sight overnight. The case of the ball-point pen is almost the prototype of our modern social order. We have more of everything, but less of anything. A dozen ball-point pens,, scattered about the house, with half of Ihem inkless, do not some how add up to one good fountain pen. It is a trivial example, but not without significance. The old-fashioned fountain pen did not really become obsolete; good pens of this sort today are even belter than they were 30 years ago but we have got out of the habit of buying them and keeping Ihem. It seems easier and cheaper to pick up a dozen ball-points; but it is. in reality, neither easier nor cheaper. For the pens don't work when you want them to, and over a period of a year they add up lo more than the price of a decent pen that might last a decade. It is ton easy to blame the man ulaclurers, or the marketing pro cess, or the advertising agencies, for this sad decline in our hab its and practices. What is hard er to do is to accept the fact that permanence, continuity, excel lence of workmanship, are no Colors ACROSS 41 Sick 1 Kind ot Rrecn 42 Pauline 4 F.ureka red hrilhani'e 8 Sky color 4"i Made up of 12 Kdt-e 49 Nonconductor 13 Mimirker 51 Advocate ot the MNohleman novel 15 Before 52 Portent 16 Alfeclod 63 Heavy blow lilerarv style S4 Chatter IS Maid, (or 85 Thorn instance S Saucy 20 Type measures 57 Pigpen 21 Electrified DOVVV panicle 22 Silkworm 1 President tab ) 2 Ireland .'riijtrls nicknama :. ,: 27Hroadav sign . iV1? 50 llalv to Romans 4 Heathen .12 Harass s Preposition 51 Best Middle ."IS Kanry 7 lesert reRlon Id Worm 8 I'uiRi'd .'17 Chalcedony communist .IlltJreek war cod h Secular 40 1'pper throal 10 OuKtelUtlnn 1 12 13 I U 15 16 17 I 8 9 10 111 rj i3 u rs if rr ' 7 nirSj 1 1 ' 35 31 j 33 35 ' J' a j j J" 7T" 77" T 46 TTTT" 15 51 S2 53 5? 5aT""" " 5o " I I I I I . Taking Pot Shots STRICTLY PERSONAL longer the standards we live up to in our own lives. And perhaps it must be so in our "affluent society." Perhaps our rise in the material standard of living demands that we pur chase inferior objects, discard them speedily, and buy new ones just as inferior. To keep a pen, or any object, for a long time, is to limit our "productive capacity." Perhaps, as some economists ar gue, waste makes wealth. Each people develop their own national style. Our style, as the 20lh Century proceeds, seems to be more and more in the direc tion of change, novelty, temporary iness, the annual model turnover, and "planned obsolescence." It used to be considered a Yankee virtue to buy something that would last a long time; now it seems a sin against our econom ic deities. The ball-point pen is a peculiar ly American phenomenon, along with the frozen dinner, the instant coffee, the disposable diaper, the plastic dish, the paperbound book. In each case there is some ad vantage; but we have not yet come to ask ourselves whether our ideas and ideals are becoming as, temporary and disposable as our objects. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What Is the color and con sistency of nicotine? A It is a poisonous alkaloid, a colorless, oily, acrid liquid. 0 Which is the most famous blizzard in American history? A That of March 11, 1888. in the northeastern slates. Answer to Previous Pinzle 11 Shade tree 17 Deemed 19 Dress material1 Swift 114 Musical instrument 2f Elevator imentor '. Lethal 27 Birds Anatomical network 29 Native melalj 33 Fur-bearing aquatics TO Wisconsin city 40 Whet, as a knife 41 Supine A Trod tdial 4;itiullet tcomb. form i 44 Sailing 4rt Above 47 Chair 48 Punch' doj SO Sjunmnc toy r l K merges CIA p TTriAii srnAlTiel SI I mlsBe pjEsluEj RE LHS T SUR EIAIPISI 5 "frllwiaj1' 'i ' E Hi at Me" WASHINGTON REPORT... JFK Forces In History Rewrite Job' By FULTON LEWIS JR. What follows is the most blat ant, most scandalous case of news management to date. Over coffee one morning last month. Sen. Carl Curtis (R., N'cb.) noticed a Baltimore Sun Dispatch, datelincd Geneva, in which Semyon Tsarapkin, chief Soviet disarmament negotiator, was quoted. Tsarapkin said it was the Unit ed States, not the Soviet Union, which originally offered to settle the test ban impasse by agree ing to only three on-site inspec tions a year. Sen. Curtis took the Senate floor and said: "If this is true and if the Soviet delegate is not misquot ing our people, then I say they have placed us in an untenable position on tlie matter of the nu clear test ban inspections we shall undertake each year." Senator Curtis pointed out that a limit of three on-site inspec tions would leave us at the mercy of Soviet scientists who could test to their clandestine hearts' content. One day later. Curtis received a lengthy letter from William C. Foster assuring him that Tsarap kin was completely in error. Fos ter, Chief of the U.S. Disarma ment and Arms Control Agency, wrote: "I assure you, Senator Cur tis, that this allegation is not true." In calling the Tsarapkin state ment mere "propaganda." Foster was backed up by Senator Joe Clark. Pennsylvania Democrat, who rose on the Senate floor lo say: "1 am perlectl.v confident in my own mind that Mr. Foster's denial of the validity of the charge made by the Soviet delegate is correct." Clark spoke from au thority, he was an observer at the Geneva talks when the U.S. proposition was said to have been made to Tsarapkin. Shortly after Curtis was as sured by Foster that no such pro posal had ever been made, he began to wade through a fact packed volume with the ponder ous title. "Second Annual Report of the Arms Control and Disarm ament Agency." It had been sent down to Congress by the Presi dent in February. Appendix III of that document. Senator Curtis discovered, con tains the druft treaty submitted to the Russians at Geneva. Auq. ?7. 192. And what does Article 8. Paragraph 8 of that proposed treaty contain? It says: "The maximum number of in spections which may be request ed in territory under the jurisdic tion or control of a permanent memlier of the commission shall be three in each annual period." Curtis was shocked, but not nearly as shocked as he would soon be. Immediately after Cur tis' initial Seech. in which he scored the idea of three on-site inspections, the Disarmament Agency issued a statement cor recting a "misprint" in its an nual report. Two months after tlie President released the repoel. two months aller it was printed in the Consi-essional Record, the agency put wit a statement which road Paragraph 8 should read 'The maximum number of inspec tions winch may be requested in Letters To Deerslaying Just a word about the deer:! Those who have been writing in about the deer herd and telling what Uiev know about it. some how do not make sense. The mis information they write about could mislead a lot of readers. What deer eat and where they winter has a lot to do with understand ing the deer. We who have lived half a century near the deer know their habits very well. The range that is fed - off would be tlie range the cattle feed on through the summer and docs not affect the deer, but where the deer win ter there is lots of feed. Thousands of acres of logged otf land have now grown up to all kinds of brush which the deer feed on and the cattle do not feed on brush, so the story about no feed for deer in the winter is not so. We have checked on this and found plenty of feed for winter. Just stop killing the does and fawns and we will have a fine deer herd in Oregon. We have a heavy loss of deer through the winter due to sick deer that have the flukes and this can be cut down by develop ing the water source in the hills where the deer spend the sum mer. There are lots of springs that dry up in the summer that could be developed and kept ac tive. Another cause of loss is the coyote which prey on large numbers of the smaller deer, docs and fawns, also the bobcats get their share. Not only the var mints but the hunters who do not know the closed season and keep on killing deer all winter. Then there are the bow hunters who start two weeks before the regular season opens, killing does and fawns while they are still lame. This works a hardship on tlie deer. It is plain to see we do not need a special deer hunt to keep the herd down. This state should boast of having the largest deer herd of any state. The deer will keep up if given half a chance. Issuing doe tags and special sea sons or killing does is a good way to get our deer all killed off. Bow and arrow hunting two weeks before the deer season opens, when the deer are tame, is a shame. Bow and arrow hunt ing should be the same as the regular season and not before the season opens. When you kill a doe, you kill three deer, not one. and if you have no does you have no deer! Those w ho are interested in sav ing our deer should join with those who are trying to get better protection against the large in terest who appear to be trying to eliminate the deer herds of Ore gon. Arthur Barkhurst, P.O. Box 82, Keno, Ore. Split Shift In a democratic government ev-' eryone is supposed to get into the act, so here goes. I have been following with " prefer to think 0 my crime as just a matter 0 get ting the jump on the tax cut." territory under the jurisdiction or control of a permanent member o( tlie commission shall be 1 blank 1 in each annual pe riod . . . ' " The "error" was not made at the Government Printing Office, it turns out. for it is found in the original typewritten dratt of tlie report. Sen. Curtis and others are alarmed nay. shocked al the ben attempt of the Adminis tration to "rewrite history." They are contemplating a demand for a full-scale incstigalion inio deals which Director Foster and others have really offered the Russians. Note: Equally shocking is the assertion by Adrian S. Fisher, Deputy Administrator of the Dis armament Agency, that "the stra tegic military balance between the U.S. and the U.SS.R. could nH be allered in any way" by Soviet violations of nuclear lesl ban Government officials hae tcti. fied under oath thai three on site inspections a year would be meaningless, that Soviet scien tist could easily test without our know led;e. The Editor intprpst the current sehonl split-shift problem at K.U. It p. pears from the letters appearing in your column so far that one of the most crucial items is the curtailed schedule that neces sarily results from tlie shortened school period on a split schedule. Most of your correspondents feel, and 1 heartily agree, that it is a shame to restrict tlie eager, bright student to five courses including P.E. Therefore. I wondered why the classes couldn't be shortened by 10 minutes each and presto tliere is that needed extra class! I am sure that in 40 to 45 minutes the capable teachers at K.U. could cover the subject matter at hand. As a relative newcomer to Klamath Falls and Oregon I do not know if hour-long classes are a state requirement in high school, but if not I heartily urge seme consideration be given to shortening each class by enough to provide the extra class. As those other interested writ ers have said, we can't afford to restrict those young minds and I'm sure most of the students would be willing to go 10 minutes less to each class and have the opportunity to explore a new hori zon in the sixth one. Perhaps they would even be willing to do 1 little extra homework for the privilege. I know my next year's ireshman would. Irene E. Payne. Other Editors ay States Reorganize (The Christian Science Monitor) One of the most far reaching political reforms in the history of the United States was set in motion by a decision of the Unit ed States Supreme Court about a year ago. This was the ruling in which it was held that a state which fails to keep its electoral districts in some reasonable rela tion to the number of voters is denying its citizens "the equal protection of tlie laws." Ironically, the state in which that case arose Tennessee is still one whose legislature has not been able to agree on a satisfac tory redistricting plan. Another irony is that the nation's only unicameral legislature, in Nebras ka, is apportioned by counties, disregarding population. Though the constitutions of all but four states require at least one cham ber to be reapportioned every 10 years, this provision has been widely disregarded. But the decision in Baker vs. Carr, plus lower court action in a number of states, lias brought improvement in the proportions of voter representation in many stale legislative bodies. The re vision should go on until it be comes a political habit or is placed in the hands of n 0 n political commissions. THEY SAY... There is no single force winch causes more disruption in lh education, training, employment and personal lives of our youth oday . . . than the draft law. Rrp. Thomas B. Curtis. R-Mo.. charging the military are using the draft as a "crutch." Surely, with a little good will and a little give and take, it should not be impossible to reach an early agreement on what has become game of arithmeti-. - CN. Secretary (ieneral U Thant, on nuclear test ban. The final straw, tlie ultimate, a-jravation. is the stupid little habits, done quite unconsciously . . . Marriages seldom founder on the grim rocks so beloved of the lady novelist. -Dr. William Edwards, authm M a marriage booklet.
