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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1963)
PACK, f HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Orcein Sunday, April i, IMS fcdihftmL (paqsL "Insurance" is an attractive word. Al most everyone has some life, accident, fire, theft, hospitalization, liability. It is protection against adversity. But the word can be used in a misleading way. And that is true of the current effort to apply the "insurance" tag to the bill which got nowhere in the last Congress, but is up again in this one to finance various meas ures of health care to everyone drawing social security benefits. The hill is called, on page one, a "Hos pital Insurance Act." But if anyone will fight his way through to page 62 (which, one can be sure, extremely few will do) he will find that the payments are described as taxes rather Marching Doesn't Cure Bomb Danger There is a certain monotonous rhythm to the "peace marches" of the ban - the bomb crowd in Britain and elsewhere. Lately, however, some British partici pants have offered a touch of variety by storming an underground headquarters and trying to scale the Walls of Windsor castle. The onlooker can only wonder at the mis direction of effort. We are'talking, of course, about genuine pacifists, not the Communist phonics who try to use "peace" as a weapon in their undeclared war. No doubt the pacifists will continue to argue that their energies are not misguided so long as they make headlines in the news papers. They equate publicity for their cause with advancement of It. But more often than not this Is pure fancy. This does not mean that British, Canadian and perhaps some other politicians have not chosen to take note of vigorously expressed ban-the-bomb sentiments. The point is that these activities have not produced any serious free world disarmament negotiations that would not have occurred IN WASHINGTON . . . w By RAI.ril de TOI.EDANO Rumors tliat the Senate For eign Relations Committee inves tigating lobbying by foreign gov ernments has sunpoenaed the rec ords of charity organization have led to speculation as to the course being taken. Until the committee reports, it would be unlair to characterize its work although to pry into the books of respected and bona tide chari table group seems somewhat du bious. But some klea o( what may be expected is possible w hen the past action! of the committee's spe rial consultant, Walter H. Pincus. are examined. Mr. I'incus Is very close to committee chairman .1. William Fulbright and is consid ered the real bird uog of the outfit, lie has. in the past, been a freelance writer. A series he wrote in collaboration with Don Obcrdorfer, ran in the Washing ton Post and caused a consider able outcry on Capitol Hill. Where Mr. Pincus stands in the Lell-tn-llighl lineup is a matter lor ol tiers to determine. But cer ium fai ls about him are of Inter eft when his association with a sensitive Investigation by a Sen ate committee Is considered. Here again. I draw no conclu sions but simply slate the facts as I have been able to gather them. Fur example. Mr. Tincus attend ed the 7th International Youth Festival, a Communist propagan da kpedacle held in Vienna dur ing July I!i9. The American dele gation was led by Paul Robeson Jr.. and several Amei leans who attended in order to try to turn the propaganda guns on the Reds weie roughed up A rival "non Communist" delegation was not sealed. At Hie Youth Festival, a num ber of strongly anti-Communist Americans were present the job tiiey set for themselves had been tiie sabotage ol Communist plans. Mr. Pincus has said that these were his motives. II so. he was remarkably rimimct In his counter-propaganda, and in an or ganization lightly controlled by Moscow, Mr. Pimus became a member of the Steering Commit-In. A Tax Is Not Insurance A 'Special' Consultant The newspaper series which Mr. Pincus co-authored, included an attack on the House Un-American Activities Committee. It prompted the committee's chairman, to state on the floor of the House that it was "a concoction of half-truths, untruths, smear, and innuendo" and that it "directly played into the Communist hands." That Mr. Walter should be an gered by an attack on his com mittee is understandable and in no way proves his charges against the series. Criticism ol the House Un-American Activities Committee is not a monoply of the Right. 1-cft, or Center. What is disturbing, in view ol the Pincus position on the Fulhright commit tee, is the fact that in a number of instances, he ignored evidence presented to him by the commit tee and made charges running di rectly counter to the facts, ac cording to Mr. Walter. A special kind of hanky pankv was employed to make nnti III AC points. The newspajier series stat ed that HUAC's staff and mem bers had borrowed hooks and pc-rindu-als from the Library ol Con gross, that these books had never been returned, and that they h id been paid lor with taxpayers dollars. Tlie facts and this was demonstrated to the authors of the series were that the old Pies Comniiilee. before it was abolished and IIUAC created. h.M b n r rowed a large number of bonks for use in a survey many years ago. Some were lost and this was discovered in a Library of Con gress inventory in VSA At Mr Walter's direction. Ill AC paid I he bill for the now-defunct prodivr sor committee. The series which Mr. funus co-autlwred also charged thai IIUAC had been holding a "road show," moving from city to cit. presenting the same evidence and the same witnesses in order to make headlines all at a cost in the taxpayer. The falsity of this charge was explained to Mr. Pin cus and his collaborator and a casual reading of lianscripis would have corroborated the de nial but the charge was novel tlk'less male Mr. Pincus has attempted this technique on the Fill, to wh.ih than premiums. And page 62 is the truthful one. Social security payments are taxes and not premiums. Social security offers no contract, as an insurance policy docs. The taxes collected for medical care, for example, would not be set aside for the future use of the tax payers, under an actuarial system, but would he used on present beneficiaries. The courts have held that these taxes are exactly that taxes. And so has the Internal Revenue Service, which has placed liens on "delinquent taxpayer accounts" within the Social Security System. ' Let government medicine, socialized med icine, be debated to the limit. But let's not accept misrepresentation which is exactly what calling a tax an insurance plan is. without the peace marches. Free world lead ers do not need pacifists to tell them the perils of nuclear war. Is the pacifists' parading really the tri umph of sensitive human intelligence which its honest advocates imagine it to be? Or is it just an easy way out for people who haven't the stomach to tackle the prob lems which have given us a world society in which nuclear confrontation is possible? Sir Winston Churchill, then a voice al most alone, said it far back in the 1920s when he told the world that the way to achieve dis armament is to solve the problems that lead nations to arm. Aside from some militant and often ig norant persons (perhaps most of them in Red China) who do not know or care about the danger of nuclear ruin, people all over the world want to avoid it. The pacifists flatter themselves that this is their special cause. It is everybody's cause. If they want to contribute to it seriously, let them get busy and do something more productive and imaginative than scaling castle walls and storming underground shelters. Those are children's games. he )6 antagonistic, but with no success to date. However, the Fulbright committee investigation may give him the forum he seeks. There are a good many hon orable people in Washington who represent foreign governments, register this fact with tlie Justice Department, and go about their business openly. But the indica lions arc from stories circulating on Capitol Hill, that the misdeeds of a few will be attributed to all. The laws delimiting the activi ties of Americans representing foreign governments ore clear cut and stringent. If the Fulbright committee hearings become anoth er senatorial Roman holiday, no one will benefit but Mr. Pincus w ho w ill have material for a book or anoiher series of articles. Tins is hardly justification for the la bors of a Congressional commit tee. Al manac 11 1 nilrd Vrr IntrrnlHinal Today is Sunday. April 2. Hip 118th day of l:vt with 247 more tit follow. The rrnon is appto.nhine its firt quarter. The mnrning stars are Venus ind Saturn The evening stars are Mercury and Mars, Thiw horn today include .fames Monroe, the fifth President of the I nited States, in 17M. On this day in history: In 17S8. Maryland entered the I mon as tlie seeiith state In PM 1 . aviator Charies Lind bergh re-Mcned as a colonel in tlie I S. Air Force rrr-ervc In HM2. the government ordered a "dim-out" in all communities alonji the Atlantic foast alter d.isk In l!,2. the war uith Japan of f'cially ended as a tieaty signed in I'VSl by the t'.S. and 47 other nations became e(fectie thou tint for the day Italian dictator IVnito Mussolini Mid ' War alone brings up to its high est tension all human energy and puts tle stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it " , New Rate System Needed Excerpts from an article by Herbert H. Harwood Jr., in the magazine Trains. The present railroad rate struc ture is an amazing anomaly. The word "structure" is a misnomer the system is no longer a struc ture but rather a hodgepodge of individual rates, each one de signed to serve the needs of a particular customer, maintain some marketing relationship, or meet some individual competitive situation. Several different rates may apply to the same commod ity between the same two points, and the same rate may apply tn similar shipments moving over greatly differing distances. Rates are quoted by the hundredweight on some items, by tlie ton on others, and in some cases the weight makes no difference what soever. A new customer may be charged less than an old faith ful customer. In sum. there are few other in dustries with so chaotic a pric ing system. To move goods from shipper to receiver, any railroad must per form three basic jobs, and does each one with a widely differ ent degree of efficiency. Usually it must: (I) provide a container for the shipment the freight car or piggyback trailer; 2 perform a pickup and delivery service that is, collect cars from separ ate shipper sidings, and on the other end, distribute them to scat tered receivers, and finally Mi carry the cars between termin als in trains the line-haul opera tion. The line haul is railrnading's real ace. The other two items are dif ferent kinds of animals. Moiling stock is expensive to buy and diflicult to keep moving. The aver age new 50-foot boxcar can cost lietween $lo.ouo and sit. mm stripped. The average freight car is load Venezueiu ACROSS 1 Veneniela Ann 1 Ut on a Cimni River branch Thi country has foreU 11 Bird 11Claw 14 Kind of far (Pi ' i.sriiff? up is Witticism 17 Ntimrwr 9 Island l FY.) L'd Killed 22 School subject 1M Mountain 24 Proclamations if Moor 2 srntt inh stream l'S Wolframit Jfl M pi Mire of rlolh TO B if k . .11 Bias "1 Plt'TVwM Journey .1 Scottish cap 37 Musical direction W ivi 40 Chfmical tuffn 41 Varnish inertd ient 4? firatutiv 4.' Malevolence 4 Roarh Wti nation 40 Thought 50 Fmel 51 EnelisH dramatist 52 Trios m hn (mlTm DOWN 1 Sharon C Intermit 3 Sar.5 cheerfully 4 Mncin worm rrafly Piceon ra T (iuidti i note 1 S 3 I 15 I rg TJ 5 5 To n uj FT" rc i? re r- ; rris rmjT 53 In 25 t-i Lim )Ld I 27 -18 ' 75 i J5 iJ 44 16 IiT7 48 3 53 si 55 I I I I , r it ed to less than 80 per cent of its weight capacity. Including idle lime, switching, and all other factors, the aver age car moves at the glacial pace of 1.9 m.p.h. It spends 90 per cent of its ac tive life standing still. Even when it's rolling, over one third of its mileage is empty. Thus a freight car really earns money only about six per cent of the time, 22 days a year. . If equipment efficiency leaves something to be desired, terminal operations are worse. The nature of the service makes it inherently expensive small cuts of cars must be shuffled, trotted around to widely scattered sidings, fetched when empty, and rcshulfled. The I.C.C. has calculated that it costs tlie average Eastern rail road over $40 to place a boxcar on a customer's siding and pull it out later on. or $81 a car to switch it at both ends of the movement more than the cost of hauling the car .100 miles over tlie road. So railrnading's inherent effi ciency is at best only partially exploited. A properly designed rate struc ture may well be the only way tn cut unit costs and beget business within the framework of present operating practices and equipment and plant capabilities. If there is any one magic word, it is incentive. The whole object of incentive pricing is to give the customer some sort of stake in railroad ef ficiency, and to allow both cus tomer and carrier to share sav ings. This concept would center around several simple elements: Get more into each car thus making the car produce more earnings and cutting down car needs. Reduce terminal switching by 9 Parti of fishing lines 10 Worms 1J I j rided properties 1.1 ( anvai shelter lfl Rrtter vetch 21 K-vpand 23 Basement 2S Primitive chisel ? Fjihihition ft V enemela t capital .12 Girl' name S3 Creek letter 34 Spanish it the language 35 Motonsl 36 Kast Indian Mi nd ' 37 Winter vehicle 30 Mimirkers 44 Indiana 'BP 4i Fnelish letter 47 "Treasure Island " author'! initials M Rndonr 91 Appemer Wm EOT! M IMIAffBSOiAiR-l pd2&4Kt.T ft lAtunlAl l-JikrIH5SSTmg V getting more cars in each ship ment. Get Hie cor loaded and unloaded quicker. Entice the customer to give the railroad at least a portion of his normal, year-round business rath er than simply his peak overflow or unusually large shipments, or conversely, penalize any extraor dinary shipments which demand extra equipment. Finally, and inescapably, relate the rail rate to the cost of han dling the shipment rather than to artificial classifications or expedi ent compromises. No matter what form future rail rates take, they must some how be based on costs on both rail costs and those of the com petition. A customer now has many al ternatives. He no longer finds it too difficult to run his own trucks, boats, barges, or pipelines, and if he can't afford those, he usually can find some highway or water carrier willing to make a cost-based contract rate. The result: pricing by anything other than costs has become practical ly unworkable. Despite occasional lapses. I.C.C. rate decisions have tended toward using competitive exists as a major criterion of what a "right" rate should be. President Kennedy's transporta tion message has recognized the hard facts of transport competi tion and has sanctioned a broad range of new principles for the railroads to follow. His invitation was unmistakably clear but of course he left it to the railroads to decide w hen and how to accept. The solution devolves complete ly on the railroads and particular ly on their presidents. The tools are available. It is up to some one to give the word to use them. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Q What mountain Is often railed the "monarch nf moun tains?" A Mont Blanc, western Eur ope's highest peak. Q Which slate produces twist wheat? A Kansas. Q Is It true that ants kill rows? A An ant of southeastern U.S. is known as the cow-killer ant. Although it is a wicked stincer, it ability to kill a cow is doubtful. BERRY'S WORLD "Tb utrit ftrt U tbt rtfUttd mt gtvt Q An incident that occurred in the business office the other day serves as an instrument to point up a practice that is prevalent with the Herald and News, and other newspapers, generally. A fellow came in and wanted to publish an advertisement for girls to sell magazines. We don't run such advertising, as we believe that Klamath area young ladies are better off unemployed than they would be running around the country with some old goat soliciting magazine, or other, sales. ' We apply some pretty tough yardsticks to the types of ad vertising we will publish In the Herald and News. While we do not attempt to keep a record of advertising we re fuse. It runs up into a pretty big figure every week. Once In a while a bad one will get by the ad staff, but Deb Addison keeps a hard eye on undesir able types of advertising and consistently refuses publication If he thinks they oontain any element of exposing our read ers to a bad deal. For instance, we do not accept any "mall order" advertising at all, un less It Is placed by a local business lirm, or a representa tive of a local firm that has national or regional headquar ters in a city other than Klam ath Falls. Letters To Questions Tlie April 22 issue of our local newspaper carried two items of vital interest to us: One on the front page complete with picture and large black headlines. The second was inside on the editorial page. In my estimation Mr. Hyde's letter should have shared t h e spotlight with the other article, but I'm certain our editor knows more about publishing a newspa per than I do. so please forgive the criticism. In headlines we are oflercd equality by both county and city . interests. The question is: "What is this one county unit how much more will it cost us in tax dol lars?" Is it long-range or short term? My personal viewpoint is that the one faction has handed tlie other a blank check and in es sence said. "Sign here, we'll talk it over later" lalter the check has been fiignedi. Wiry don't you Q Whose likeness appears on the Sllnute .Man monument on . the Lexington, Mass.. village green? A Capt. John Partcer as he ap peared on April 19, 1775, com manding the Minute Men. Q How did the expression "ta feel one's oats" come to meaa playful and full of energy? A It originated a$ a farmer's expression, indicating how much more energetic a horse acts after it has had its meal nf oats. mil um, ubtn tlx mtchn, m Bronx ckttr tt I Uft.m mm ! NOTHING SPECIAL (W. 8. S.I Want some long-range, big-time statistics? Here are some re vealing that the American public set a 3-way record in 1962. Amer ican people set up a record in individual savings, spending and personal debt last year. Accumulated long-term sav ings of individuals in life in surance, savings accounts, and Scries E and H savings bonds grew by an estimated f3l bil lion. This topped the previous peak annua growth pf the year before by more than $8 billion. Accumulated long-term savings totaled $3687 billion at the end of last year. At tlie same time, consumers, increased their expen ditures for goods and services by more than $18'i billion last year. Tliis is practically twice the comparable rise, the year be fore and one of the largest an nual increases in personal spend ing on record. Aggregate consumer spending in 1962 hit 156.7 billion. This was accompanied by a record in crease of just under $22 billion in personal debt outstanding dur ing the year two-fifths greater than the rise in tlie year before and $2 billion above the previous peak annual increase in personal debt of J193 billion in 1959. Well, here we are In official Daylight Time and the earth hasn't stopped orbiting yet. It hurts some people to say a kind word even to children. The Editor people make a few calls on your school board representatives and find out (or yourselves, as I did? We suburbanites are oifcred a choice, and believe me, we ars Soins to be propagandized by one group more than by the other. One side offers equality and the other offers information spelled out in doilars and cents. I do not attempt to influence any person's choice you will do as your conscience dictates on the May 6 election. 1 poked my nose into a few cracks and crannies and on invita tion sat in on a few committee meetings. I learned enough tn send me looking in the opposi tion's direction don't misunder stand me. I believe in studying both sides of a question my vote will be counted right along with those who also deem it worth while to vote on school ballots. I do say gel out and vote',' but make it your own individual choice. Don't allow one faction only tn influence your decision. Our county and city school ofli cials are hard-pressed with an ex treme load of duties and dilem-. mas to face as this year's ses-' sion ends and preparations must he made for the next. However, they are real flesh and blood human beings like you and I. Don't stand in awe of great sound ing college degrees and official titles. These are people who will welcome your interest because it means that our procrastination on school problem! is finally get ting out in the open and becomes subject to our own correction. Remember t important Is sues: U1 Inevitably, more tax dollars, either for or against one county unit: i2 the moral impart. Is it going to be a good basic stan dard, or will it bring more chaos in a few years' time? Educational standards and phys ical facilities are directly influ enced by local economic levels, and low level economy does not produce the dollars and cents that are needed to finance our schools' progress. Budgets and new construction plans get voted down and we have only ourselves to blame because we have not had the time to make intelli gent inquiries. Here is another solid fact. th information is available if you know what to ask 01 your district representatives, and then apply that information to experienced knowledge. (lood intentions have never yet solved any problem. Only our votes can do this, so get smart and make it a persona1! project tn find the right answer (or the good nf the majority and not lor thme privileged few who are popularly thought tn be above average in inioMKrnce. Our standard of edu cation is what we make it Mrs. R K. Ferrarki. 11T7 Wurd Street.
