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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1963)
i PACE S HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath f alls, Orp. Monday, April 15, 19M diiouaL (paqsL Our Unique Revolution '. From the earliest days of our history as a free nation, we have felt a kinship for other peoples struggling for independence. More thn that, we have believed we could serve as something of a model for them. Consequently we have been puzzled that, In the last 15 years, so few among the many emerging nations of Asia and Africa have taken us for an example. Now a Vassar history professor, Carl N. Deglcr, vigorously questions whether we can find useful parallels between our remarkable story and that of the new countries of the mid-20th century. Writing in The American Scholar, he sug gests that scrutiny of our past indicates "our experience is too special to be a guide to the life of other people." Ho starts with the American Revolution itself, which he describes as stemming from a deeply conservative effort to redress griev ances within the British colonial system, rath er than a heart-felt wish to break away. It became a fight for freedom only When Ameri cans reluctantly concluded redress could be had no other way. "There was in America no long drawn out underground independence movement, as in India under Ghandi or Ghana under Nkru mah," says Dcglcr. Acknowledging that we have always tak en an Interest In other people's revolutions, he notes, however, that where they did not take the American pattern and lead quickly to orderly democratic societies, we became disillusioned and sometimes openly hostile. Certainly we have in fact exhibited some such disappointment in recent years as we watched the almost ungovernable chaos in the Congo and the leftward leanings of Ghana and Guinea to mention just two among the newly independent. We are perhaps inclined to forget that most of the new nations have had altogether too little experience, if any, at operating demo cratic institutions and practicing orderly gov ernment. As for us, we had a century and a half of virtual self-government under colonial rule before the Revolution. Kven at that, we went through a horrendous period of chaos under the Articles of Confederation before steady hands took hold under the new Constitution. We could not name one nation on earth which had as much practice at self-government as we did before independence. We were able to build on our past. Most of today's new countries want to repudiate theirs. The differences between our experience and theirs are many more, not the least of them our abundance of fertile, available land, holding rich resources and offering natural transportation routes. Impatience unquestionably has led a good many people to seek independence before they were ready. We, on the other hand, have also been impatient-in imagining that, once free, they could and should quickly follow our own very special example. ' The Less A Man Works (The Tribune, Morris, Minn.) The less a man works, the less he pro duces. The more a man works, the more he produces. Since our nation is made up of millions of people, the same generalization can be made. The more pcoplo work, the more a nation produces. On the other side of the coin, the more that is produced, the more there is to con sume. Or putting it another way, nothing can be consumed which has not first been pro duced. Accordingly, the way to more good? and services for more people, a higher stand ard of living, is through more production. ; It is disturbing, therefore, to hear serious talk about cutting the work week in the United Stales from 40 to 35 hours. In essence this niopiis a one-eighth cut ip the goods and services available to the American people. r It makes little difference whether , or not wages would be held at the same level for a 35-hour week as for a. 40-hour week. The effect of reducing the work week is more easi ly seen if wages are likewise reduced accord ingly. The individual has one-eighth less buy ing power, there is a one-eighth reduction in goods and services produced, and everyone gets along on one-eighth less. If wages are held at the same level for 35 hours as for 40 hours, after a period of dislocation, the result would be the same. The same number of dol lars chasing fewer goods and services would drive prices up accordingly. In light of the experience of West Ger many in the years since the Second World War, serious consideration might well be given to increasing rather than decreasing the work week. It is obvious that such a move would make more goods and services avail aule for consumption by individuals in this country. Whether or not people desire more goods and services in preference to addi tional leisure time may be a moot question. At any rate, it would be a healthy sit uation if there were general realization that we can't have our cake and eat it too. Shorter work weeks produce more leisure time and less goods and services. Less production means less available for consumption. Basical ly it is as simple as that. IN WASHINGTON Nixon Still Candidate Ky RALPH d TOLKBANO Richard Nixon has come out of seclusion, alter his dcteat in California's Rubornalori.il rare. The-timing of his sudden emer gence, and his renewed interest in members of the Washington press corps, may not bo significant. But it takes no crystal hall or ouija board to arrive t certain conclu sions. For one thing, Mr. Nixon's remarks to mc and to other Wash- liipton correspondents make it very dear that he intends to play an important role in the selec tlnn'of a Republican Presidential candidate. He has, In (art, blunt ly yarned that mi man will quality or the nomination II he does; not run In the California primary where Mr. Nixon can lill;exeit political force. By choosing his own bailiwick as the testing pound (or Republi can hopefuls, Mr. Nixon achieves two interim goals, m lie makes tlie front-runner, whoever that may be, beholden to him, and (21 he leaves the door ocn (or a "Nixon drall" which, given n California primary victory, would lit him once more in contention. At tins time, there is no Republi can Presidential hopeful who could defeat Mr. Nixon in a California primary battle, and this includes Governor Nelson Rockclellcr. Most of llio parly machinery is still loyal to Hie former vice presi dent and would, moreover, be compelled to back a native son. This is not to say that Mr. Nixon even hinted to those of us vh spoke to him that he consid ered the possibility of attempt ing a second try in 1!M. But the evidence that tuch a plan is not completely out of his mind can he found in his relusal to take im portant and lucrative posts out tide of California and his deda- nil inn lhat, (or the first lime in many years, he feels free to speak out on national and inlernation- . a! issues without the restraint of being an administration spokes man or defender. (Had he done so in lfltiO, he might today be President.) A t h I r d straw-inthe-wind is tht Mr. Nixon is continu ing to maintain a special staff to handle the kind of chores which n man no longer needs if he has really eschewed public office. At present Mr. Nixon is aware that linvernor Rockefeller is out ahead as a candidate (or the GOP Presidential Humiliation if only because there is no opposition. Hut within the Republican Parly arc forces strongly determined to Muck the nomination of Mr. Rock efeller, traders of these forces believe that Mr. Rockclellcr can not carry the South or Hie Mid west and is therefore a "can't win" candidate. Unless .Senator Harry Goldwa ter declares himself a candidate, they will be left wailing, at the church come convention lime. Mr. Goldwator's strategy is lo hold these tones together without giv ing tliem an outright promise that he will run. II. at convention time, he de cides lo make the gamble, there Is the possibility of a Gold-water-Rockefeller deadlock. 1( he steps down, the forces backing him will he compelled In tuid a new candidate. In cither ease, the lightning can strike Mr. Nix. on. Most of the ari-Knckr(rllcr forces are made up of (ormer Nixon adlwrents and there is no doubt that they would inlimtely prefer him lo Governor Rocke feller. At this point, it is all ery iffy. Mr. Nixon is enough of a politi cian to know that his lest strategy is to speak out on the issues often enough to keep him self in the public eye and to es tablish a reputation as the un remitting foe of the Kennedy administration. Today's GOP dark horses may become somewhat I'ghler by the spring of l4. The Republicans may decide lhat Rocky is their man if only be cause President Kennedy seems unbeatable. As they used to say in the old movies, anything can happen and usually does. II is predictable that Mr. Nix on will seek public attention in the months to come, that he will make no long-range deals, that to the naked eye he will be above the battle. If the political situation shapes up his way, he can move. II not. he can come to Ihe aid of the Republican candi date and eventually lind himself boss o( tlie State Department. In any case. Mr. Nixon is bai k in politics. His success or fail ure w ill depend in part on sheer hick. In part on Ihe number of those former (riends alienated by his secretaries he can win hark lo the cause. THEY SAY... If it can he said that Nathan Leopold committed the crime of tlie century, certainly his reha bilitation is the rehabilitation of the century. . . A pe"uasie argument against capital pun ishment. Attorney Elmer Gerti. as hn client melted complete free dom alter 39 rr. The Snowman Who Won't Go Away 01 -.M?tyv r .';;,.. -'.;r ; . . V'Wf --, V- :v-;-v. ':,' --'Jit : . - I I . .... . . .. STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS 'Mentioning the man who want ed to suppress certain "danger ous" books, as I did the other day, reminded me of the curious way in which people live in intel lectually air-tight compartments. What I mean by that cum bersome phrase is easily seen in Ihe people who want to "crack down" on what they consider to be offensive literature: they want the laws sharpened in this area. " But, in other areas, they com plain that there are already too many laws. They are worried about expanding governmental power. They insist that citizens should he left alone to pursue their own pleasures and profits. Thus, the word "government" to them exists in separate air tight compartments. When they are for something, they want no government interference with it; when they are against something, they promptly demand that we pass another and stricter law to cope with it. We can see Ihe same process operating, on a broader scale, in the area of government spending. Those who protest most loudly about government expenditures in the civilian sector do not make a murmur of protest about the massive government spending in the military sector. Yet it is the plain (act that spending goes to pay or past, present and future military needs. We could spend twice as much on the domestic (ront without feel ing it, if the military budget were made up in a rational world. Moreover, it is historically ac curate lo point out that if we arc really worried about "gov ernment control," the way most Farm and Garden governments lake over is by maintaining a state of military emergency until it becomes an accepted way of life. Most of our extra taxes today arc hangovers from World War II. which have never been repealed. What we may or may not need (or "de(ense" is a matter of speculation and controversy. But hardly any of the vocal oppon ents o government spending dare to question our military appropri ations; the government has vir tually a blank check on this, and its authority is unquestioned. We cannot have more laws and fewer laws at the same time. We cannot impose restraints upon the government's domestic spend ing while at the same lime ac quiescing in its astronomical arms budget. We cannot do this r.nd become ineffectual. To keep one's ideas in such air-tight com partments is eventually to die from psychic suffocation. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What Is the wettest sprit on earth? A Cherrapunji, India, where for five consecutive days, 30 inch es of rain have been known to pour from the sky each day. For x century the annual average has been 450 inches. Q Who wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews In the New Testament? A Definite authorship is un known. It has been credited to Barnabas, Apollos and the Apos tle Paul. 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The proper time was when KU district anticipated an overcrowding of physical fa cilities by extension of the dis trict boundaries to Include the county or South Suburban area. If I remember correctly, a long time ago, perhaps 20 years more or less, someone made an at tempt to bring this fact to pub lic attention. It was first organ ized in 1926. Typically of Klamath Falls, even though we are not unique in this respect, we chose to al low ourselves to (orget that by extending KU boundaries there was no guarantee that the over crowding and its inevitable prob lems would in some miraculous way be solved without any labor and increase in tax monies (10m you and you and me too. Before you pick tip your phone to blast me (or this reminder, let me tell you now that my hus band and I are paying school tax support to all three school dis tricts presently embroiled. That is lo say. we own real estate in city . elementary - KU district. South Suburban-KU district, and Henley school district. We have considered ourselves fortunate and not until this moment, think o( ourselves as smug or overly virtuous because there arc very many more like us. Not every one has been as fortunate nor do we expect you to invest your money likewise. But we and oth ers who believe in getting along peaceably wilh our neighbors, do expect a stop to the uniformed chin-music. I do refer to those people who are self-righteouslv stating that they don't know what is wrong but they don't like how things are being run. May I also add that we have one child, a sophomore in KUHS. Our Constitution guarantees our (reedom of speech. Our common sense tells us that if we don't like something why not find out how things are being run and then we will know why we don't like the operation. Maybe some of us will discover that some of the responsibility belongs on our own shoulders, and of course we don't like to think about that. Being taxpayers is not enough in the (ace o( a crisis o the sort lacing our school authorities. We were remiss in our responsibility a long time before most of the high school teachers were even out of their respective colleges and finished with teacher train ing, ready and willing to leach our kids or anyone else's. We cannot expect any other at titude toward some of the prob lems engendered by loo many normal youngsters crowded into a building too small to hold all o( them and still expect the high cal iber education we need for these students. Voting spitefully against the next session budget will most certainly bring us a state board investigation. To say nothing of the moral and mental setback we will hand our youngsters just to satisfy our punctured ego. No wonder our teachers havc liter ally thrown up thCir hands in complete exasperation and ties (Mir. I earnestly agree diplomacy is an exalting virtue and the hellig. erence of our faculty and school board toward us is not diplomat ic but how about their side ol tlie mess' We have said with our votes that they will therefore have lo make do with what we hae paid for and not talk back EDSON IN WASHINGTON Buying Safeguards Up For Congress Review By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON ( NEA ' - Em phasis in the first part of the Securities and Exchange Commis sion's 12-pound report on its two year investigation of the stock markets should be placed on what added protection will result for the consumer the stock buy erand not on the broker or sales man whose faulty practices are analyzed in detail. There are 17 million sharehold ers in America. This is really less than a 10 per cent minority. But it is the top 10 per cent from an income standpoint and it is the foundation of the capitalistic system which free people want to preserve. All the hullabaloo over getting a faster growth rate in the United Slates, granting tax credits to in vestors in new enterprises, and even cutting taxes so people will have more savings to invest, is deaendent on convincing investors it's safe. This (uts responsibility for the survival of capitalism and the free enterprise system right where it belongs. It is up to management to de velop sound enterprises. And it is up to the securities salesmen who market the shares of private enterprise to safeguard the in vestments of their customers. This would apply even to the extent of protecting people who have no knowledge of business and who have no business risking their savings in ventures they know nothing about. Kor this the federal government has assumed for itself a regula tory role over the investment busi ness through the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. In the additional regulations which SEC now proposes arc ap proved by Congress, a stock pur chaser would be given these prin . cipal new protections: He would deal only with regis tered brokers, since all salesmen would be licensed. New standards of character, competence and financial respon sibility would be established for members of the associations of securities salesmen and stock ex changes. All firms and individuals would be required to come under the authority of these self-regulatory agencies. SEC would be given discipli nary control over enforcement of these standards and would apply sanctions like temporary suspen sion of licenses after code abuses. On new "hot stocks" so at tractive to many inexperienced in vestorsCongress will be asked to give SEC authority to require that a prospectus be issued within 00 days or less after the issue is registered and offered (or sale. Congress also will be asked lo extend the present requirements on stocks listed on national ex changes to slocks sold "over-the-counter." Filing of annual and periodic fi nancial reports, compliance with proxy rules, and protection against insider trading would be extended gradually over the next five years to all companies with more than 300 stockholders. This dissemination of full in formation is intended to lessen improper selling practices, mis leading public relations in mar ket letters and irresponsible in vestment advice. SEC will issue a full analysis of over-the-counter markets in the second section of its special study report, which is expected in May. This is the area where many of the existing abuses to customers have been found in the long in vestigation. Private agencies which supply over-the-counter slock quotations like the National Quotations Bu reau, which specializes in wholesale prices by underwrit ers to dealers would be required lo register wilh SEC and adopt rules of (air practices. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Germ Warfare Sti Constitutes Threat By FULTON LEWIS JR. Germ warfare.' thought by most Americans to have been outlawed almost half a century ago, is a frightening reality to those who must protect the country from enemies foreign and domestic. The fact is that germ warfare has yet to be banned, although official Washington has sometimes acted as if it were. Intelligence re pofts that reach Gen. Marshall Stubbs, chief of tlie Army Chemi cal Corps, show the Russians lo be engaging in extensive research in the field of chemical-biological-radiological (CBRJ warfare. Stubbs is confident the Soviets would use germ warfare "as long as it were to their advantage." And there is little doubt but that it is right now. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public are sitting ducks for a CBR at tack. If as few as ten Soviet planes or rockets got through U.S. defenses, they could rack up "at least 30 per cent casualties in the United States," according to General Stubbs. He talks not of lethal agents, but newly developed materials that can stun people (or 24 hours while an enemy force takes over. He in such a fashion to their "eld ers" ius. The real issues have been ignored too long. However, personalities must not be given the most attention, nnw in ascendance on both sides, as this is only further clouding of the genuine issues. Apparently too many personal and selfish in terests are prevalent. This is the impression I believe in, from the many personal calls 1 have re ceived since my first letter to the editor. Unless we are offered firm, but flexible, reorganization of the three school districts guar anteed by impartial geographical representation of county and city interests alike, we will find our selves without a high school at all. Within the next few days I am meeting wlh a number of mem bers of the old Cittjccns Commit tee to get facts and figures to pass on to you. They cordially and eagerly extended the invita tion so that a free agent view point might be able to give the public the information we hae asked for repeatedly and urgently need in order to cast our votes intelligently. Vou will hear from me acain, if Mr. Swcctland can find enough space to print these epistles. I thank him now for his cniutesy and for any future privileges I thank everyone for their calls due to the first letter. I hope I didn't crush loo many toes, by express ing my own personal opinions. Mrs. R K. Ferrario. Phone TV 2-in; Class of lMT-Kl'HS. points out thai . domestic sabo; , teurs can rack up considerable damage as well. Dr. Robert Goodlow, an army scientist, says all a saboteur would have to do "is to take an ordinary auto and disseminate the stuff from the tailpiece, right along the road, and get the job started, and it will take off by itself very simple." An official government report, drafted almost a decade ago, goes into considerable detail. This volume, the so-called Newton Re port, was completed in 1955 after months of investigation by the Civil Defense Advisory Commit tee of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Coun cil. The report, gathering dust in a downtown agency, has yet to be released to the public. It dis closes, however, that one Com munist agent could kill half a million Americans in a single day and get away scot - free. The 157 page report shows how poison, whipped up in private homes, could wipe out most of the U.S. Imputation in 24 hours. "During Ihe past 15 years many new toxic chemical substances have been discovered. Some dis play such extreme toxic potency as to render them likely agents (or sabotage usage. "It must be considered possible (or a saboteur to make enough o( such poison in his home to do great damage: in a food in which it is compatible." So "possible" is this lhat the report tells how batches of such poisons can be readily whipped up. literally in the kitchen sink, and w ith casy-to-obtain materials. The report says: "If a saboteur had access to a food plant with wide distribution, he could easily conceal a suffic ient quantity of (he toxic ma terial on his person and poison enough food in one day to provide a lethal dose lo 500.000 people. "As few as 100 saboteurs es tablished previously in food plants and acting in unison could so seriously demoralize the Ameri can people that confidence in our foods would be lost. Unless some proper organization is set up in advance to handle this type of emergency, the effect on morale could be devastating." Dairy plants, meat packing houses, slaughterhouses, brewer ies, bakeries all these are un guarded targets for the hypothet ical hundred Communists agents. Eight years ago. those who wrote the Newton Report found that "very little work has been done nationally to set up a defense against tlie threat of CBR at tack We find that, adequate plans for such a detense are lack in: " And they are today.
