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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
T-H.V. Apr,. . i3 edSON IN WASHINGTON .
National Library Week
"Never in Godde's Wourld will there be
bookes enuf." Thus wrote the forgotten Scots
poet, Jamie Fulerton, in 1643.
Untold millions of books have been pub
lished since Jamie Fulerton died and was laid
to rest in an Edinburgh cemetery. Many have
disappeared into limbo. But innumerable oth
ers remain, and have their honored, useful
place in the libraries of the world.
During the April 21-27 period we will
observe National Library Week. No institu
tion can be more deserving of such an honor.
For a library is, in the full sense of the word,
a monument to civilization to its tragedies
and triumphs, its disasters and its victories,
and, above all, what men have felt and man
aged to put down in words of prose and
poetry.
A world without books would be the
emptiest of worlds. And the man or woman
who does not read and read seriously
is missing, tragically and unnecessarily, one
of the greatest of human needs and pleasures.
No! We Won't Let You Vote!
(Gazette-Times, Corvallis)
The Democrats in the Stale Legislature
have turned thumbs down on a sales tax as
the solution for Oregon's fiscal problems.
They have thus decreed that Orcgonians will
continue to pay among the three top highest
income taxes in the entire nation. They have
decided our property taxes will continue to
be a problem. They have further decreed, in
our opinion, that Oregon shall now begin to
join those states who offer their young peo
ple a second-rate education.
The Democratic leadership of the State
Assembly has decided the above situation
shall exist and the people of Oregon must go
along with the decision without being al
lowed to express a contrary opinion at the
polls.
We peons are allowed to vote as often as
we like on daylight savings, capital punish
ment, truck taxes, housekeeping measures or
almost anything else, but we cannot say yes
or no on a sales tax.
Why? Why? Why?
The excuse they used to give was that
Oregon voted on a sales tax and turned it
down. But Mr. Legislator, that was 20 years
ago.
There is very little similarity between
the tax picture in Oregon in 1944 and 1964.
Twenty years ago everyone who wanted a
job land some who didn't) were working full
tilt and making more money than they ever
dreamed of before. The income taxes were
down, the property taxes were not yet ex
cessive. As a matter of fact, it was almost dif
ficult to find something on which to spend
tax money. There were very few youngsters
kicking around in our institutions of higher
education and the expenses of many who were
here were being paid for by Uncle Sam. Nor
was there any such thing as basic school sup
port. Each school district paid its own way
for its own kids.
Buildings? What for? Even if you had
someone to put into a new building you
couldn't get the materials with which to con
struct it. Highways? Who needed highways
if they couldn't get gasoline?
In 1944 Oregon got along pretty well on
an appropriation of $24 million dollars. To
day our school kids will be cheated if we wind
up with a budget of $400 million.
This is not an editorial to argue the
merits of the various tax proposals. This is
an editorial screaming to High Heaven be
cause the State Legislature will not permit
the people of Oregon to decide which tax
route they wish to follow.
Why? We want to know! Why, can't the
people decide? Can't they be trusted to vote
the way the Legislatures want them to?
Letters To The Editor
Candidate
In the past few years we have
boon led to believe that the only
solution to an overcrowded condi
tion that exists at KU would be
to build additional buildings. Since
that conclusion was made, the
question of reorganization was in
troduced. A step in the right di
rection was taken, as this opened
the door, for a deeper study
into the future plans of all of the
schools in Klamath County. Now,
let's take a look into the various
reorganization plans that were in
troduced. The county system would put all
of the schools under the control
of one county school board. We
would all be taxed on the same
basis for school levies. Would this
be a fair solution? Perhaps for
the immediate metropolitan area,
for they, no doubt, would receive
the most benefits. They would
have the privilege of paying low
er taxes, because their school tax
would be bused on the value of
Klamath County.
Now one must understand that
there are considerably different
problems existing in rural schools
as compared to metroiolitan
schools. Most important is the
fact that although rural residents
arc paying the same amount for
education, their children will not
receive the identical type of cur
riculum as the city schools. There
is no good reason why the rural
resident should have to help sup
port the metro area, when the
school problem exists only in the
metropolitan area.
The gerrymander plans were
proposed on the basis that there
would he more equalization in lax
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dollars. These particular plans
would split areas involved in the
suburban area, whereby a partic
ular section of the immediate
suburban area plus the county
system would unite into a county
unit with the city and remainder
ol the suburban area uniting into
a metropolitan district.
The main reason for proposing
these plans was lor lax purposes
only. It would split our education
standards in the middle of Klam
ath Kails, and the outlook would
be for two different educational
systems within the metropolitan
area.
The metro-county system as
ugrecd by all of the school boards
is quite simple. There would be
two districts. A metro unit, and a
county unit. With this reorganiza
tion each district would control
grades one through 12. It is most
important to realize that before
additional buildings be erected,
the system of education should be
ol prime . imKirtnncc. Shall we
continue with, grades one through
eight and nine through 12. or
change to a junior high system
with elementary grades one
through six, junior high grades
seven, eight, nine, high school
glades 10, II. 12. My preference
is lor the junior high system.
In the metro area we will have
accumulated additional schools in
the suburban area, and added to
the city schools would give us
great llexibihly. Each school could
be used to lull capacity, as we
will hac control of grades one
ihiough 12. and can adjust our
m IiooI population in the metro dis
trict to our best advantage.
In this way we can create a
junior high in the suburban area,
another in the city, and have a
high school lor grades 10, 11, 12.
With this very important flexibil
ity the future expansion of
schools can lc planned more el
liiieiiily. There may be a need
in the future lor another junior
high and high school. We must he
in a good sound planned program
tor these population adjustments.
First, we should decide what
school system we want, then we
skill know what to expect in tax
es to achieve this end. 1 will
continue discussion on this sub
ject plus other problems in a In
line letter, Reorganization has tu
lie accomplished now. Action,
not words, will be determined by
jour decisions at the school elec
tion The answers ate in your
hands.
Rob Frcdrickson,
Candidate lor
Sthool Hoard No 2
Nasser Plays Reds, West For All Aid He Can Get
By PETER EDSON
(First of three articles on
Near East developments.)
WASHINGTON ' NE A i - The
United States has a big stake
in the new United Arab Republic
just formed by Egypt, Syria and
Iraq.
The merger unites Z1 million
Arabs into one strong force, dom
inated by Egypt.
Near East authorities in Wash
ington look upon this development
as something new and different in
the Arab world. They believe
it bears watching: American in
terests arc involved.
The first U.A.R. of 1058 broke
up in 1961 because Egypt exer
cised too tight a control over Syr-.
ia. President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser may have learned something
from this.
Whether he did will be revealed
in the degree of local independ
ence allowed tiic youth Ba'ath par
ty in Iraq, the Nationalists and
Socialists in Syria.
Nasser has banned all political
parties except his own in Egypt.
It may be difficult for him to
maintain a unilied country if he
has three different local political
systems.
The new U.A.R. has announced
there will be central financial di
rection. But who is going to col
lect the taxes? And will Iraq
turn over to Nasser a share of
the oil royalties it now collects
(rom Iraq Petroleum Co. 47 per
cent owned by American compa
niesor keep these funds for pure
ly internal development of the
Iraq "area," as each of the three
new states will be called?
Relations between the new
U.A.R. and its neighbors arc also
being watched closely. The king
doms of Jordan and Saudi Arabia,
which formed a loose alliance last
year, may have completely dif
ferent reactions to the new na
tion. Jordan has made encouraging
progress the last few years. Young
King Hussein recently declared
that if conditions were right and
his people wanted unity with oth
er Arab countries he might resign
his throne. He might also be as
sassinated, which is the tradition
al Near East way to remove un
wanted kings.
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand,
has been close to direct conflict
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Egypt, Iraq and Syria have joined their futures to
gether in one single Arab nation, the United Arab
Republic (UAR). Under one flag, the alliance forms a
belt across the Mideast, extending from the borders of
Turkey to the northern edge of Sahara Africa.
with Egypt over the revolution in
Yemen. Nasser has had 23,000
Egyptian troops supporting the
revolution while King Saud's
forces supported the old Imamale
that was overthrown.
Yemen has had observers in
Cairo while unification of Egypt,
Syria and Iraq was being ar
ranged. Yemen could conceivably
provide a fourth star for the new
U.A.R. flag. This would not meet
with favor in Saudi Arabia, which
then would be isolated.
So far, the United States has
felt no embarrassment in dealing
with both ancient kingdoms and
new presidencies in the Arab
world.
U.S. policy is to not interfere
in the domestic affairs of other
countries. It has been made clear
in the Near East that on the ques
tion of Arab unity, the U.S. will
live with whatever the Arabs
agree to, so long as the will of
Arab leaders is not imposed by
force.
As an exception to this policy,
the United States has tried to
work quietly with both the Nas
ser and King Saud governments
for an agreement to disengage in
Yemen an agreement that was
reached a few days ago.
Lebanon, with a population half
Arab Christian, half Arab Mos
lem, is having no party of the
unity movement. Lebanon seeks
only to maintain the independence
it has enjoyed since 1958 when U.S.
troops moved in to preserve the
republic.
Oil-rich Kuwait, which Iraq's
"It Would Appear He's Headed Toward Us!"
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
Itv SYDNEY .1. HARRIS
As expected, and predicted, the
loud ci ics ol protest are roiling
in horn the nursing protession
about my recent piece on I h e
changing mud diminishing i role
ol nurses in modern hospital pro
cedures. Many ol these protests, howev
er, are Irom "official" nurses
that is. oflicers and administra
tors in nursing associations who
h,ue a vested interest in defend
ing such practices. More tvpical
ol the working nurse's reaction
is an iiilerosluig letter I received
today:
"1 am a rcgisteied muse in
one of Chicago's largest teaching
and research hosiut.ils and I
spend my day m.iking assign
ments lor personnel, answering
the telephone, checking doctors'
orders, tilling out requisitions.
pushing pills, checking diet cards,
making out reports, and lake
care of financial affairs and re
pairs. "If most of these functions arc
nursing, then nursing certainly
has changed. A great length of
tune has not elapsed since my
student days and I assure you 1
did my share of complaining alxnit
the work expected ol me. but
a I least 1 was doing nursing.
Why do I continue with my job?
Relieve me, the question plagues
me more every day."
In the same mail tliere arrived
a letter from the president of one
of tle most respected collcc.es in
the middle-west, who said in pait:
"I tully concur in your observa
tion that hospitals are organized
and operated on schedules cstab
lislwd to suit the convenience of
the nurses and the din tors, rath
er than to serve the needs of pa
tients It requires great effort on
my part to resist quoting chapter
and verse by way of substantia
tion." Then he goes on to say: "As
for the matter of nurses' training.
I can report that our college no
longer participates in a program
of training nurses. One of the
major (actors in our decision to
abandon this program is to be
found in the fact that in actuai
practice, nurses do not have an
opportunity to utilize the demand
ing education which is forced
upon them by nursing associa
tions, physicians, etc."
What he is saying, in his tact
ful academic prose, is thai the
college would provide the nurses
with a comprehensive training,
and then find that they were do
ing mostly detail and adminis
tiative work that has little, if
any. connection with tlic patients'
medical weliarc - which is left
mostly to the over worked and
under paid nurses' aides.
If an eminent college decides
it is wasting its time in training
nurses who will dispense paper
clips, it is time for hospitals to
take a hard and candid look at
the way they handle patients, or
iiiishv)dlc tliem.
assassinated Premier Kassim
threatened to annex in 19.)8
against the wishes of bolh the
British and all the other Arab
countries, has now relaxed. Troops
have been removed since Colonel
Arif seized power in Iraq.
The most important question
remaining on Near East peace or
war. is Israel's future in a world
of grow ing Arab unity. There arc
now two schools of thought on it.
One is that as Arab strength
gains particularly if Nasser de
velops missiles the danger to Is
rael increases. The other is that if
Arab unity is established, rival
ries of Arab countries to be the
most anti-Israel in action w ill disappear.
The Israeli government is ex
tremely, skeptical of this possibil-'
ity. An agreement in which Is
rael's continued existence is ac
cepted is a primary objective
of U.S. Near East policy.
Along with this is a desire to
see some settlement of the Pales
tine refugee problem which has
been borne largely at American
expense. Of the four refugee '
"host" nations as they are called,
Iraq and Syria now are in the ,
U.A.R.; Jordan and Lebanon are
outside. Getting all four with a
common interest other than ant i
Israclism might facilitate a set
tlement. Next Nasser and (he Russians.
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Teachers Union, Is
Dominated By Reds
Ry FULTON LEWIS JR.
More than 2.000 teachers gath
ered last month in the ballroom
of New Yolk's Americana Hotel
for the 27th annual education con
ference of the Teachers Union.
Six state senators were pres
ent. So were five members of the
State Assembly. Greetings were
received from Governor Nelson
Rockefeller, Mayor Robert Wag
ner, Attorney General Louis Lef
kow itz. Supreme Court Justice Wil
liam Douglas, from the president
ot the New York Board of Edu
cation, the Superintendent of
Schools for New York City, and
the State Commissioner of Edu
cat ion.
It is doubtful that any knew
to whom they were sending greet
ings, for the Teachers Union is a
venerable institution, first ex
posed as Communist infiltrated
more than 20 years ago.
An official committee of the
State Legislature declared in 1!W2:
"We have exposed the three or
ganizations through which the
Communist Party worked in the
schools, namely the Teachers Un
ion, the College Teachers Union
and the American Student Union
and identified many of the ring
leaders, now out or on their way
out of the public education sys
tem." Six years later, a social House
subcommittee called Georue Ti
mone. a member of the New York
City Roard of Education, to tes
tify. He told subcommittee mem
bers: "The publications of the 'New
York' Teachers Union in my opin
ion show a consistent espousal of
Communist causes. They constant
ly praise and publicize and de
lend Communist front organiza
tions and their leaders. They have
regularly recommended as class
room material publications and
pamphlets of organizations dc
cribed by the Department of Jus
tice as Communist. They have al
locked those who oppose such or
ganizations. They appear never
to have criticized or cen ex
pressed disagreement with any
Soviet policy or actions ol any
Communist or Communist Iront
organizations,"
The Senate Internal Security
subcommittee made a thorough
investigation of the Teachers Un
ion in lns.1. II heard numerous w it
Hisses, friendly and unfi icndlv.
and then released lis report:
"Before hearing Hie olhcers of
tlie New York Teachers Union
testily, the sulH-ommittcc heard
evidence in sc. ret session that to
of the 13 o hit, it had sub.
pocnaod were mcmliers of the
Communist Partv.
"II also beard that the other
thiee were not members of the
parly. Without revealing this evi-"
dence, the subcommittee asked
Ihe 13 officers of the Union if they
were in fact Communists. The 10
who were so identified all in
voked their privilege against in
crimination; the other three all
denied membership and attacked
the subcommittee."
One of those to invoke the '
Fifth was Rose Russell, the un
ion's veteran legislative director. '
She was very much in view last
month at 'he Americana confer
ence. Delegates cheered as she
remanded "the hidden Gestapo
office that screens teachers as to
their political beliefs and assnei-"
ations be swept away."
Another oliHal to take Ihe Fifth
10 years ago was Abe I-cderman, ;
union president. He holds that po
sition today. He. too, received the
enthusiastic applause of delegates
last month. Tribute was paid to
Lcona Ahrams, a Teachers Un
ion whcelhorse, who passed away
last year. Mrs. Ahrams, an itlen
lilicd Communist, was the wife nf
Henry Ahrams, another idcitti
lied Red who was dropped from
the National Committee For a
Sane Nuclear Policy.
Receiving an award at the
Teachers Union affair was Dr.
Harold Taylor, former president
oi Sarah Lawrence College. He
received his award from Mrs,,
Russell, who reminded the audi
ence of Dr. Taylor's "courage
ous defense of his faculty during
the McCarthy hysteria." She con
trasted this with the "capitula
tion of the New York Board of
Education" which drove "200 and
more superlative teachers from
our schools."
Al
manac
Ry United I'rrss International
Today is Tuesday. April 23, the
113th day of l3 with 2.i2 more
to follow.
The moon is new.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury
and Mars.
Those born on this date include
James Buchanan, the 15th Presi
dent of the United States, in I7!tl.
On tins day in history:
In I.WA. the Democratic Nation
al Convention opened in Charles
ton. S C.. but no candidates were
nominated because nf an inter
party dispute.
A thoucht for tlie day-Ameri-r.-i
statesman John Adams said:
".'rre annual elections end.
Iliert slavery liecins."