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Right-Wingers Gain Stature
Militant rightists in this country are not
troubled over the argument that they consti
tute a very small minority ot the voting popu
lation. They believe, with good reason, that
they have a lot going for them.
From the past record, few could doubt
that they have ample money resources.
But a rather startling prediction that
right-wingers will spend more in 1964 than
both major party national committees com
bined may cast the right-wing effort in a
somewhat new light.
The forecast comes from Wesley Mc
Cune of Group Research, Inc., an agency
that keeps tab on rightist activity.
It is notable, too, that right-wing money
evidently is being spent these days with more
concentrated effect than before. There are
persistent reports that powerful assaults are
being leveled against a number of moderate
.o liberal politicians in the Mountain states
where a dollar may go a long way.
Furthermore, the rightist movement is
attracting more "prestige" leadership than
ever In its history. Ezra Taft Benson, former
secretary of agriculture under Dwight Eisen
hower, leads an organization called "We, the
People!" Benson's son, Reed, is active in the
John Birch Society In western areas. Retired
generals and admirals are joining up in larg
er numbers.
Rightists often have been concerned over
a public image given some of them as "freaks
and oddities." In recent months they have
managed more and more to dispel this image
by gaining audiences among business and pro
fessional groups of long standing, farm
bureaus, and the like.
Robert Welch, head of the Birch Society,
who labels Eisenhower a Communist or a Red
dupe, won warm response from a top business
club in Chicago.
Nor is the right-wing discouraged by talk
it is a fly-by-night thing which took severe
lickings in 1962 voting and is declining.
Four John Birch candidates for Congress
lost in 1962. But two got more than 45 per
cent of the vote and all got at least 40 per
cent. If New York's new Conservative party
could duplicate later the 141,000 votes it got
for governor last year, it could decide a close
election.
Researcher McCune points out also that
aggressive rightist activity did not start with
President Kennedy's election in 1960. A whole
host of organizations trace their history back
to the 1940s and even 1930s. Even Gerald L.
K. Smith is still flourishing in the field.
Right-wingers may be on the "fringe" in
terms of relative numbers. But by a good
many other measures, they are right in the
thick of the nation's political combat.
Gas Tax, Highway Bonds
(Oregon Statesman, Salam)
A new wrinkle has been injected ln the
drive In the Legislature for selling more high
way bonds to finance construction. Two bills
are ln committees: one ln the House for $37
million in bonds to finance work in Tillamook
County on U.S. 101, and other roads; another,
in the Senate, for $17 million to reconstruct
U.S. 20 from Corvallls to Newport. The gim
mick is to authorize an increase in the gas
tax of one-half cent to finance this bond pro
gram. Whatever way you slice it, it is more
taxes and more bonds. With the Legislature
busy devising ways to extract some $60 mil
lion more from the state'a taxpayers for gen
eral fund purposes, to add a one-half cent
gas tax to the present six-cent state tax will
be oppressive.
As for the bonds, It's time to call a halt
to selling highway bonds to expedite construc
tion; and time to have the Legislature quit
picking out roads and bridges to build, cither
by designation of use of bond proceeds, or by
the "gentlemen's agreement" route.
The people know that we'll never be
through building roads. We should stay on a
pay-as-we-build basis. This is the more im
portant since we already owe nearly $70 mil
lion in highway bonds, which last year called
for payment of $6,800, principal and $1,838,
700 interest. True, the people had the roads
the money built; but the debt service forces
other communities to wait longer for their
improvements.
The Statesman endorses the stand of the
Benton County highway committee which
opposes sale of more road bonds, though its
section of U.S. 20 is one which would get a
share of the bond money proposed.
Letters To The Editor
Candidate
Lct'i continue the discussion of
reorganisation. At ttatea in I
prcvioui letter. I prefer the metro-county
district!, with the pur
pose that it would achieve I Jun
ior high tystem. ln the junior
hiph ayitem gradei aeven, tight
and nine, the atudenta have the
opportunity to adjust to the fu
ture problems of the senior high.
These age groups are in the
grnwing-up stage, and have a
lcttcr opportunity to mature to
gether for Die senior high. The
education at planned for Ilia
junior high Mould prepare tlx
atiidont f o r better education
through the tenlor high.
Allhough I do favor the junior
high tytlem with a metro-county
district, I am not In favor of
building additional buildings un
til va decide which type of edu
cational system we want, to that
our future building plant can be
sensibly organized.
In the past week, a tingle dit
to ict organization has presented
petition to the county board
nd District No. 1, to force an
election for a single school dis
trict. We should say a county
school district, as there shall he
one board from the county lo
govern all school grades one to
12. The main reason for this dis
trict is for tax purposes, at I'm
sure there has been given little
thought to what educational stan
dards will prevail, or what sys
tem of education we will have.
I assume from my point of view
lh.it those interested people want
two large high schools, one at
KU and the other at Henley, or
can there be another reason?
Will we benefit from lax re
duction! or education in one uni
fied district? There ii only one
advantage and that'a education.
Each atudent by hii equal ihare
of the tax burden ihould have
the equal type of educaUon no
matter where he livei in the county-
Let's list the disadvantages.
I. Ai a county unit the school
board is elected by population.
Of court there. will be represen
tation from the rural area. As
the population it concentrated in
the Klamath Falls area, three
director! would hat to come
from the metro area, the other
two from the rural area, and
when representation is finally es
tablished, one director would
come from the immediate area
of Klamath Falls. Can these
directors from the city area cope
with the problems of tlie rural
school and vice versa?
One thing sure every school
must be on an equal basis, and
these director! will find them,
lelvei in a very unworkable sit
uation. 2 Will we save taxes? How
can we? It seems like we just
have to build new buildings. So
this is what happens. Pressure
hss to be taken from KU. Ad
ditional buildings must be built
at Henley at once. In addition to
the annual serial levy In effect
by the county, we will heve tn
get inlo an immediate building
program.
One must remember that we
are all paying equal taxes. The
Henley School must be equipped
just like KU. Additional taxes
must be levied to meet all of these
requirements. Next, here we have
two large high schools, and all
equipment hat to be maintained
with higher budgets. Rut wait,
we're only talking about Henley.
Those students at Merrill. Malm.
Bly. Bonanza. Gilchrist, etc. are
entitled to the same advantages
as the metro area schools. You
should insist that they have equal
opportunity. Why should they suf
fer? So as these conditions arise,
higher taxes have to be levied for
this expansion.
S. How about teachers. Will
the same high caliber teacher in
the city area school be in the
rural school? Will there be an
acute problem to obtain rural
school teachers? Will the pay
scale be the same for every
teacher, whether he teaches in
the rural area or the city area'
Ask the administration of the coun
ty district If any such problems
would arise.
As I have always maintained,
our school problem it a metro
politan problem, and must be
met by the people in this area If
we expect top-notch education
we're not going to get It for
peanuts. We need to unite our ele
mentary schools In the city with
the suburban area. We must
have the high caliber education
found in metropolitan schools.
Why must we always involve
those taxpayers In the county
with our headaches ot the metro
area? Klamath Falls is the huh
of our county. If we are to at
tract Industry or other business
es, our school system hat lo be
a prime consideration of those in
terested concerns. I cannot be
lieve that a single county district
will solve any of our school pro
blems. This Is a summary of my posi
tion It l most important that
the budget be defeated. I know
it can be greatly reduced without
impairing the quality of educa
tion. If it is passed, it is your
Indication that you approve of the
conditions that now prevail at
KU. I definitely oppose the split
schedule or any modification of
it. I would carefully assess the
existing conditions to determine
strengths and shortcomings, and
with the cooperative endeavor
plus the utilization of the intel
lectual and professional resources
of our high school, would strive
lo upgrade our academic policies.
The participation of the class
room teacher is helping to evolve
plans and policies is very impor
tant, particularly if It affects the
teachers and their professional
responsibilities.
Every board member must
prevail with the highest moral
standards, as his responsibility is
lo the parent, and lo the com
munity. I would work for good
salary schedules for our teachers.
If e are to employ excellent
teachers, we must be in a position
tn offer a salary commensurate
with their ability. The voters
should have the utmost confidence
in the integrity of their school
board members. What I have said
in this and every letter sent to the
editor it my sincere beliefs. I
urge you to demonstrate your en
thusiasm at the school election
May s. The decisions are in your
hands.
Boo Fredrickson.
Candidate for School Board No 2
Change Sought In Foreign Aid Status
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) Endors
ing recommendations of the Presi
dent's Committee to Strengthen
the Security of the Free World,
headed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay,
a private research organization
here has called for greater em
phasis on private enterprise in
foreign aid by both giving and
receiving nations.
Promoting this proposal is the
International Economic Policy
Association, whose president,
N. R. Danielian. is former head
of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
River Association.
Supporting the new organiza
tion are such big companies as
Alcoa, Chrysler, Ford Interna
tional, International Telephone
and Telegraph, Hoppers, Monsan
to, Pfizer. Owens Corning, Ow
ens Illinois and others.
Their recommendations, to be
made to Senate and House com
mittees considering next year's
foreign aid program, include:
Strengthen t h e Hickcnlnnp
cr amendment, which denies U.S.
property without compensation.
Extend U.S. investment guar
antee programs to more countries.
Reorganize U.S. Agency for In
ternational Development AID
to give private investment a
greater role.
Define specifically the areas in
which governmcnt-to-government
financing for public enterprises
should be limited so that the pri
vate sector can be developed
more fully.
Encourage all forms of invest
ment by private, public and coop
erative sources in accordance
with the political and economic
system of each country, so as to
get multiplicity of ownership and
maximum economic growth.
These recommendations are
based on a finding that there is
not enough capital available from
all forms of saving and taxation
to meet the demands of the devel
oping countries.
It is concluded that the United
States has over-extended itself in
trying to meet too much of this
demand.
About one-third of the U.S. na
tional debt of $303 billion is at
tributed lo post-World War II for
eign aid programs.
Of this, about $66 billion has
been in grants and $34 billion in
loans, some ol which now are
being repaid.
From 1U50 through 1962 the U.S.
balance of payments deficits has
totaled $26 billion. Of this, $3.
billion has been in U.S. gold ex
ports and $18 billion in liquid
liabilities now held by foreign
governments who could demand
payment in gold.
While it is frequently claimed
that SO per cent of the foreign
aid dollars are spent in the Unit
ed States, tlvs includes eight per
cent for military aid and eight
per cent for sales of U.S. agri
cultural supluses for foreign cur
rencies. Also, the 20 per cent of
foreign aid dollars spent abroad
add to the balance of payments
deficit.
Another drain comes from the
sale of foreign securities in the
United States. Totaling $5.5 bil
lion from 1930 through 1301. these
flotations were $1 billion in 1962
and are running at the same
rate so far this year.
.The U.S. Foreign trade posi
tion also has been shifting to
America's disadvantage. While
the volume of U S. exports has
been rising, exports of other
countries have been rising, too.
And U.S. exports as a percentage
of world exports have been de
clining. U.S. imports also have been in
creasing. While this country used
to be a net exporter of iron and
steel, petroleum and even autos,
it now imports more than it ex
ports. International Economic Pol
icy Association estimates that the
U.S. would need $9 billion increase
in exports to balance its trade
position. '
In summary, the association's
analysis shows a tremendous
Millions of Dollars 1945-1961
U. S. LOANS AND GRANT i ECONOMIC AND MILITARY
S,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
; I WESTERN EUROPE ' OTHER COUNTRIES
-I 1 1 1 vi l 1 1
f m Less Than One
Million Dollars
3,000 : ;
WESTERN EUROPE OTHER COUNTRIES
2,000 ; '1 V
1,000 ' zzr v Sif1"
MILITARY ""-n. tJ
ol PNlt-4-Jn i i i i i i i i nu
FOREIGN LOANS AND GRANTS Newschart shows the net loans and grants made by
the United States since 1945 in the economic and military categories. They are shown as
going to western European countries and other nations of the free world. The economic
chart shows the shift of U. S. aid since 1954 from the developed countries of western
Europe to the less developed. Data: Department of Commerce.
change in free world economic
patterns.
After World War II, the Ameri
can aid effort was directed to
putting U.S. dollars in foreign
hands for their recovery. The
process may have been carried
too far.
It is now necessary to ask Eur
ope, Japan and other countries
to pay a larger share of develop
ment costs.
While direct American private
investments overseas have risen
from $11.8 billion in 1950 to $34.7
billion in 1961, there is need for
more, ft is believed they can be",
a source of increased return to
the U.S., if proper incentives are '
given.
Of the $3.7 billion earnings from
foreign investments in 1961, $1
billion was reinvested abroad and
$2.7 billion returned to the U.S.
'Can't You Read?--Get Lost!"
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices
To achieve self-honesty, we should
approach with mistrust all those
"principles" we uphold th.it co
incide so neatly with our profit
and self-interest: It is only when
we hold to a principle lh.it does
not benefit us land may. indeed,
injure us in a material way
that we may feel reasonably con
fident of its truth.
From many writers, we learn
something; from a lew writers,
we become something; only the
latter are ultimately ol any
value.
The men who make revolu
tion are usually the first oes to
he unseated by it. as the Old
Bolsheviks were swiftly executed
in Russia: and Hie 'sial flaw in
all revolutionary doctrines is
that they provide no pattern of
steady succession, and simply cre
ate an atmosphere for their own
overthrow.
It is a sincular train in Anglo
Saxon society that brilliance in
conversation is the surest way
tn evoke suspicion in the compa
nv; unlike the Latins, who appre
ciate and admire verbal dexterity,
we and the English instinctively
suspect any man who speaks llu
enlly and amusingly of being ei
ther 'slippery'- or "not quite
sound."
No laborer works as hard for
his necessities as the executive
does lor his luxuries; and till Is
the Inony el modern-day alftu
ence. as compared with the pov
erty of bygone eras that what
used In he called the "leisure
class" Is now the coronary class.
The psychological reason that
it is necessary to respect excel
lence was shrewdly put by Goe
the, when he observed. ' There is
no delense against someone else's
superiority except love."
Xo superstition of the ignorant
is half as damaging u the chief
superstition of the educated
which consists in the erroneous
belief that knowing the proper
words for something signifies that
we comprehend It and are in con
trol ol it.
Men nf similar vices band to
gether, not for company but for
camnufhge; for when the birds
are all of a feather, the peculiar
striping of earn does not stand
out mi much.
The conscious search for sereni
ty is one of the main sources of
continual agitation and perpetual
unfulfilment.
The real reason that It is pro
roundly immoral to live by the
ru that "the ends justify the
means" is that nobody can know
what the ends will be isn often
are they cnti ary to our best in
tentions1, and ail we can regulate
are the means we use: and if
Urse are cruel or evil, they in
themselves pervert and deflect
the ends we aim at.
BILLIONS OF
dollars DIRECT. PRIVATE INVESTMENT
347
EARNINGS
BILLIONS ,'
OF 37
DOLLARS
REPATRIATED
M ,7
REPATRIATED 11 '
I I ' ' I
11.8 1950 1961
9.1
n 77
'4.6 .
3.6 2.5 36
1950 1961 1930 1961 1950 1961 1950 1961 1950 1961 1950 1961
TOTAL CANADA tfwCk EUROPE ASIA oTHERs"
FOREIGN INVESTMENT PICTURE Newschart shows how
investments abroad bv private U. S. interests have almost
tripled between 1951 (SU.8 billion) and 1961 ($34.7 billion).
The inset shows earnings and repatriation of the invest
ments. The $2 billion earned on the 1950 investment rep
resents a 17 per cent return. In 1961 earnings were $3.7
billion, an 11 per cent return.
Letters To The Editor
Constructive
l have read with interest the
letters published recently in your
paper which pertain to our school
problems. I was especially in
terested in those from two of the
candidates for the position being
vacated by Mr. .lohn Voth of the
K.L'.H.S. Board.
One of the candidates. Mr.
Fredrickson. proposes that we
adopt a metro-county plan of re
organization. This plan would
solve the long-range problems,
does not split the suburban ares,
and does away with overlapping
district boundaries. However, he
does not tell us how to finance this
plan. Hud he continued tn attend
the meetings of the Citizens' Com
mittee with the Klamath School
Board Association, he would have
known that this plan could not
he realized. Without enabling leg
islation, which it is impossible to
obtain at this time, there can be
no equalization nf educational
funds. Without this equalization,
millage rates would be affected in
the following way City up e .lfi
mills. Suburbs up 15.16 mills,
County down 10.0 mills. Mr. Fred
rickson cannot seem to under
stand that the suburban people
will never vote in favor of this
excessive tax raise. As each
affected area has veto power, it
would he a waste of time and
money to present this plan to the
voters. Let us be realistic in our
approach. When this candidate
says that reorganization has In
be accomplished now. I agree
with him. but I do not see that
he has proposed an acceptable
method for doing so.
Mr. Hyde, the second candidal!
who has written to you. does not
propose to close K.l'. or vote
down the budget as a means of
protesting tlie split schedule as
does Mr. Fredrickson. Rather, he
wisely urges support of the budg
ets. I feel that it is unfortunate that
Mr Hyde did not choose to be
come interested in our school
problems until recently. Had he
been meeting with tlie Citizens'
Committee and with the tchool
hoards, he would know that his
plan of reorganization was consid
ered by them and received little
support. This plan was known
as the gerrymander plan, and
was thoucht to be unwise, as it
would not solve long-ranje edu
cational problems, would divide
the sutvirbs, and would cause an
inequitable tax shift in certain
areas Millar would he affected
as follows City up 3 16 mills.
South Suburbs down 5 1 mills.
North Suburbs up 11 96 mills in
one area and N.66 mills In
another area, and County down
2.4 mills. Millagcs are based on
this year's operating budgets and
would be subject lo change. Be
cause suburban representation on
the County School Board is inade
quate, the 13.000 voters in this
area know they must stand to
gether to see that our interests in
education are made known. The
gerrymander plan is not the an
swer tn our problems.
A perfect solution will not be
found, as there are unforeseen
problems in every situation. I do
Ihink. however, that there is one
plan which provides us with a
workable solution. This is reor
ganization into a single county
unit. This plan would enable us
to care for future population
growth as it would do away with
overlapping districts. Administra
tion could he more effective. It
would be flexible in that build
ings, teachers, and facilities could
he used interchangeably as needed
for the education of our youth.
All the children in the county
would have a basic standard edu
cation with "frills" added by lo
cal area interest groups as need
ed. Under a single county unit
plan we can make our education
what we want it to he.
We have not yet heard from the
third candidate (or this position
on the hoard. I am hoping that
he too will express his views in
a letter to the editor. Mr. C. O.
Borstmg has served previously on
the K.l'.H S. Board and is well
acquainted with our problems. His
thinking will be hacd on studies
made by the K.U. Board, the
Citizens' Committee, and the
Klamath School Board Associa
tion, as he has beer, working with
these people throughout the year.
Our great ailing is our lac k of
information. Frequently we make
decisions from ignorance and mis
reformation. We operate on hear
say and propaganda because w-e
are usually too busy to take the
time to investigate and base our
opinions on all the facts. We must
learn tn evaluate and then re
spond with strength and intelli
gence, ln this way. we will have
a better community and inev
lahly a better world.
Beth Binfnrd.
XiU AKa Avenue.
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