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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
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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
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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.
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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.