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PAGE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli. Oregon Monday, May (, 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON fcdikrriaL (paqsL Sad State Of The V- The cry continues loud in many quarters ' for state-local resistance to new encroach "Orients by the federal government. Gov. Clif 'ford Hansen of Wyoming now adds his voice. But a veteran observer of federal-state relations wonders whether the states are oper ating on a footing adequate to the scope of the problems they want to handle. In a very severe sense, stale legislatures lend to be a part-time enterprise. Only 20 of the 50 states have annual sessions. The rest convene their assemblies biennially. There are six states in which legislatures are limited to sessions of 30 calendar or legis lative days. In two others the meetings can npt go beyond 40 days. rV Altogether, 29 stales, roughly three-fifths of the total, hold their legislative sessions down to 65 days or less. Where sessions arc both short and merely biennial, it is clear the legislatures assemble just long enough to keep the franchise. 11 is hard to see how much work of consequence I can be accomplished in an age of swift-mov-J;ing developments. Good Omen From Canada The election victory of Lester Pearson and his Liberal party may or may not be quick ly translated into command of the Canadian government. But if standard procedures are followed, it seems bound to happen. Years ago the famous Mackenzie King Ilicld onto a minority prime ministership for I-roughly a year beyond an election. But the expectation this time is that Conservative jPrime Minister John Diefenbaker is unlikely !'"to climb to the reins after Canada's new parlia ment meets in a month and a half. ' Ultimate triumph for Pearson, thus wide ly assumed, is of course hailed in the United States. For he is regarded as considerably friendlier to us than Diefenbaker. And he has stated flatly his willingness to accept U.S. .nuclear warheads in the Canadian defense system. 5 It was this latter issue which precipitated ilhc 1963 Canadian election. Blunt American criticism of Dicfenbaker's refusal to accept nuclear warheads produced a storm of feeling vboth pro and con. The test at the polls followed. IN WASHINGTON Cj fcy nAl.ril de TOLKDANO d fcince his 1958 defeat, William p-'J Knowland has devoted himself 'JlnC the affairs of his family news ;)"fyr in Oakland. Calif. Senator Jxnnwland ran Into a buzisaw, when he sought the California governorship, for a whole com plex of reasons. Subsequently, even his most ardent supporters frit Uiat tlie Knowland contribu tion to Republican politics could at best be in the role of elder ' statesman. This is a pretty thank I )ess and ceremonial job, and a Iinan as energetic as the former Ir-rnior senator from California liould hardly be happy in it. But tlie wtwel of politics, like ;lhe wheel of fortune, spins un ; predictably. As the late Major Bowes used to say, "Hound and round slxi goes, and where she'll ; stop nobody knows." Suddenly, ;lill Knowland has emerged from ; obscurity, (or reasons as pouting ;s those that led to his 195H li iisco. Certainly, he is not seeking lh limelight. But In political jireles, it is being asked with increasing frequency. "Will he Iun for Um Senate in 1!H?" ' The quesUon. moreover, is not lime of those routine exercises .' which pundits and correspondents Heel impelled to undergo about Icvery former political figure of tatur who may possibly return to the hustings. There are clear indications that California voters have begun to think once more "of William F. Knowland as a man : Ik might represent them In tlie .world's most exclusive club. J Itecent polls show him creeping jip remarkably on the Democrat ic Incumbent, Senator Clare Kngle J with something like four per rentage point scparatm them. This has startled the profession als, for the man in office un less he has grievously torn his pants on scandal or other foohsh . iiess has on overriding advan tage. And a "forgotten .nan" ".sucJi as Mr. Knowland was pre sumed to be tends to b very ; forgotten when the pollsters get ;out their very fallible pencils. Knowland Demand Grows The emergence of Mr. Knowland as a surprise candidate can he attributed to a number of factors. To begin with. Californians be came accustomed to having their two Senators he figures of na tional eminence. Senators Know land and Nixon, whatever dif ferences in emphasis may have marked their views, were leaders In both the Senate and the na tion. They were known, and Cali fornians enjoyed their promin ence. Their successors, Republican Thomas Kuchel and Democrat Clare Engle, are among the less er lights of tlie Washington scene. Mr. Kuchel holds the position of Republican Whip in the Senate. But his name makes the national press only when he supports some loft -of -center measure or throws in his lot with the Kennedy Ad ministration. His influence on Capitol Hill is very small, and he himself is a colorless man. In fact, he is the kind of per son who must always he reintro duced because people have forgot ten him. .Mr Kngle has n o t achieved sulliricnl seniority to tie a power, and since his ideo logical position blends in with that of tlie leadership, he fails to make an impression. In his years ol retirement, how ever. Rill Knowland has retained the loyalty of his supporters in and out of California. There is also a growing feeling among Re publicans that his deiwrture from the national scene has hurt the party seriously. Mr. Knowland was a tower of strength in tlie United Slates Senate second only to Robert A. Tall in the respect he commanded in the COP. Since lli'ia. the Republicans in the Sen ate have needed him badly. A Minority Leader he was a force with which to reckon and at pres ent a vacuum exisls. Mr. Knowland was succeeded by Senator Kverctt McKinley Dirk, sen. Put tlie Senator from Illi nois, however great his oratori cal powers, never seemed to take hold. He was fearful of Demo States Just 17 states put no legal limits on length of session. Others have sessions varying from 90 to 150 days. Add to this the well-known but sad fact that state'legislators are usually paid micro scopic salaries, and you have the ingredients for pretty skimpy effort in many slates. And that is exactly what shows in many places. While high-flying politicians are sounding the gong for "returning power to the states where it belongs," while major domestic problems pile up, state lawmakers are busy licensing beauty operators and de bating how to label eggs for market. If the states want to wield important authority in the late 20th century, it seems wholly reasonable to ask that they equip themselves properly for the job. They can hardly perform effectively when, as in many instances, their principal organs of power meet rarely and then only on a token basis. While part-time lawmakers are busy running law offices, selling insurance or real estate and managing businesses, the people with big problems take them to Washington. Though anti-Americanism played a prominent part in the campaign now conclud ed, many observers suggest it was not the decisive matter. Canada is plagued with a host of economic problems, and many voters evi dently wish to let the Liberals have a crack at them. Thus it would be improper to conclude that the Liberal party's gains are wholly and simply a sign that Canada rejects the anti Americanism propounded most ardently by Diefenbaker. On the other hand, Canadians clearly did not act solely to emphasize their obvious resentments toward America. However nu merous these may be, the voters appear to have taken the sensible view that any deep rift between two neighbors so close and so tightly intertwined strategically, economical ly and culturally could gravely damage both nations and the whole free world. The Canadian outcome is not decisive. But it is a trend toward the good sense we must all hope will prevail in the long endur ing comradeship of Canadians and Americans. cratic wrath at the wrong times. And he has never seemed able to mobilize Republican troops when the battle lines are drawn. Re cently, moreover, his health has not been of the best. On the Senate side of the Hill, it is not uncommon for Republi cans to bemoan the present lack of leadership. Whatever post he might hold, a William Knowland hack in Washington in 1965 would mran that the COP would have a rock and an anchor. Whether or not President Kennedy w ins re election. Mr. Knowland can do much to re-establish the authori ty of the legislative hrnnch and give it once more the kind of prestige it has been steadily los ing. Al manac Ry I ailed Press International Today Is Monday, May . the I2i'-lh dav of 1HS.I with J.t to follow. Tlie moon is approaching full phase. The morning stars are Venus. Saturn and Jupiter. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In IMS. the Works Fmcress Administration was created by Congress to provide work for the unemployed through a series o( projects supported by federal funds In 19.17, the German dirigible "Hindenhurg" exploded at Lake hurst, N. J , killing .Kit persons. In I'm. Communist dictator Joseph Stalin became a premier of Russia, succeeding V. M. Mololov. In I960, Britain's Princess Mar garet was married to a common er. Antony Armstrong Jones. A thought for the day British author Oliver Goldsmith said "Conscience is a coward, and tlKV-e faults it has not strength enough to pi event it seldom has justice enough to accuse " "But, When 4:1 . 1 I . 3 ft.il I S By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The best things work for their nun reduction and elimination. If we understand this curious process, we can then judge the value and the direction of our cl forts. "Medicine," said Lord Bryce, "is the only profession that la bors incessantly to destroy the reason (or its own existence." The aim of the art of medicine when it is not perverted by greed is lo put itself out of busi ness. Tlie aim of parenthood, like wise, ought to be to set the child on its own feet and make the parents more and more super fluous. The aim of true education is to make the student less and less dependent upon the teacher and the textbook. In these three essential realms Uie physical, the intellectual and the emotional the proper end of medicine, education and parenthood is the freedom of the object. Whatever binds the ob. ject more tighlly violates thus end and damages the object. This is the only test we can apply to discover whether our dedication and love are real or counterfeit for the counterfeit al ways discloses itself by trying to possess the object rather than lib erate it. Parental love, for instance, should be a ladder, leading the child upward and outward; too olten. however, it is a cage or a chain or a corset of unyield ing suffocation. Its aim is not the child's liberation, but the par ent's gratification. We can see how this perverted process works most clearly in Medley ACROSS lBiMbitl club 4 Cam into tftistrnc 5 Cirn , 12 Mintril rock IS Sropt 14 Kinf of Judih iPibl 15 Nothing 15 Composure 16 HydroRrn, for instance 30 F.nrirhtt with bicon 11 Riblirtl prophet 2JFcl 24 Hirbor 2 linMtered 27 Pronoun .10 Uf.il pies 32 Kind of bullft 34 Photoirraphie dfvicn ss DiKrrns .IS Abatrict being STTV.rs 39 tamt 40 Kttinl 41 Br id 1? part 42 Splendor 4ft Pramnff 49 SMton and oth?m ill Mountain pail &2 Mutical CompoMtiftR M Hmhlandfr MCioddtu of infatuation M Number (pi.) 57 Obwrre DOWN 1 Rib. for instance 5 swt covering 3 Wii-m 4 CMabhihtd ft Alftntan araport ft lMte 7 Small how (if m wrijht J 1 2 J A 5 5 7 8 9 10 U ra ra n rs n 1 iT r- a 33 3i - 3j b-1 3? 35 35 p 37 b" - 35 4 43 (44 ri4S"4 47 43 B bo 52 33 3 5 35 57 Pop, How Will a Tax Cut Help You're On Strike All the Time?" 8::'. l'J. STRICTLY PERSONAL education. The most badly mis educated person is the one who must continually use references, appeal to authorities, and substi tute what has already been said by others for his own thinking. His education has crippled him for creative thought and made him totally dependent on "the books." The readiness (however pain ful in parti to give up their chil dren is the most profound char acteristic - of genuine parental love. Just as the doctor aims at liberating tlie patient from his physical ills, the teacher aims at liberating the pupil from his in tellectual confinements, so the parent must aim at freeing the child from its emotional depend encies. And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper at tachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully al the right time. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 9 What li the leigth ( the New Jersey turnpike? A The road is t.H miles long. Q Whe was the Ration's first Republican president? A Abraham Lincoln. answer to Previous Puizle 9!,ov god 10 Vacant 11 Conrlumons 17 Aviator 19 Dull fimsb ?3 Measures 24 Slep J.i Japaneae coin "J nMtrurtthlc 27 Neurit n of ariattc oervt, (pl.t 25 Kool part 31 Short trip 33 Plant lou 3K Regal resident 40 1 jmeluroftral bird 41 Failure (slang) 42 Kind of boat 4.1 Puebto Indian 44 Oitnchhit birds 4 Prtsentle 47 Memorandum 43 Merriment VI re otee FAt-merly 18 J OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS No More Bonds! (Register-Guard, Eugene) Heavy pressures are being put on Oregon's Legislature to author ize issuance of more state high way construction bonds. Mainly, these pressures are being inspired hy die-hard advocates of imme diate improvement of the northern part of Coast Highway 101. It isn't enough, in the eyes of these 101 partisans, that tlie stale has spent more improving the coast route than it has on any similar highway in recent years. It isn't enough that the 1961 leg islature approved a special bond issue for the construction of a bridge across the Columbia at Astoria despite State Highway Commission objections. They don't seem to care that Governor Hatfield has warned against the issuance of any more bonds as a threat to the entire state highway program, a program which must go ahead at the same time out standing bonds are being paid off with interest which might have bought additional paving. Gathering support from other groups, who want pork barrel financing for other special proj ' ects, the lot lobby is brazenly asking that Oregon's slate gas lax be increased to finance at least $25 million in new highway bonds. And. mind you. this is hap pening at the same time the leg islature is struggling to find enough money to take care of a basketlul of critical public needs. Sure, additional taxes would pre vent depletion nf cash funds avail able for programmed highway projects. But we've a strong no lion that Oregonians. generally, are well satisfied with the way priorities have been assigned for continued improvement of all slate highways. We doubt that the majority of Oregonians are in any mood lo see the legislature ap prove a crash program which would add a hall-cent to the price of every gallon of gas simply because a persistent self interested minority insists on it. Now we hope that some in the majority will raise quick pro tests to remind the legislature of these facts. ' LETTERS Increose Several letters have been writ ten succeMing the people of Klam ath Kalis would not be willing to vole themselves a tax increase in order to enlarge their school sys tem I hope they. also, would not be willing to vote the rural people a tax raise to enlarge their school system. I sincerely believe there are a lot of people who would not, il they understood our situation. looking into it, we find that tlie rural taxes would increase mills per family under a one unit system. Will this make all students equal? Will there he a swimming pnn for the 39 students at B!y Will we hire enou;h teachers and buy enough equip ment at Bonanza to equal the edu cational opportunities at Henley or Kl? Is it even a piaclical klea lo try lo equal all students ' vie do not think so We have stayed it inn our budect in the rural district. Our children are celling a sound basic education, which is what we can afford to give them. What advantaces would tax raise have, then, lor the rural people Same On f'il. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEAI-Ameri-can investors looking for business opportunities in developing na tions now have an assurance that debts contracted by the govern ment of a foreign country will he paid hy a succeeding adminis tration which seizes power by rev olution. A four-year-old test case on this issue involving Howard Interna tional, Inc., of New York and the government of Turkey has just been approved by the Turk ish parliament. This action makes it unneces sary for the United States to threaten a cutoff of American aid to Turkey as a means of en forcing payment. In view of President Kennedy's recent proposals to promote greater private investment over seas, settlement of the Howard case sets an important precedent for furthering the aid program. Howard International, headed by Sidney A. Lovvry. is an im porting company that has brought large quantities of Turkish chrome into the United States. In 1954 Howard officials were approached by Ahmet Oguz Akal who had large personal mining interests and also headed a gov ernment ministry for resource development. He wanted to find a small steel mill in the United States which could be brought to Turkey to make construction in dustry bars and shapes. Such a mill would cut down Turkish dollar purchases of steel products, conserve foreign exchange and reduce aid. Howard located a SO.IXKMon mill owned by a company in financial difficulty. Contracts were signed in July 1956 to export this mill to Turkey for sale to Akal at $2 4 million. The Turkish government issued the necessary import permits and the Agricultural Bank of Turkey, Ziraat, issued a guarantee of pay ment letter to Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, for benefit of Howard. Tlie mill was shipped in August 1959 and Howard received pay WASHINGTON REPORT By FULTON LEWIS JR. At long last, alter considerable prodding. President Kennedy has unveiled his Cuban policy: Blame Ike. He used a nationally-televised press conference to answer crit ics who charge that the Adminis tration has formulated no policy at all. Eyes flashing, he admit ted there is "a good deal of concern in the United States be cause Castro is still there." He continued to outline his policy: "I think it is unfortumate that he was permitted to assume con trol in tlie 1950s and perhaps i. would have been easier to take an action then than it is now." One thing is certain: John Ken nedy not once warned of Castro's rise lo power, not once asked if the bearded one might not he something less than a modern-day .Simon Bolivar. I sat in the Sen ate Press Gallery many times and watched others George Smathers for one warn of danger to the South. And John Kennedy yawned. It was not until January, I960, seven years alter Castro opened his revolution, a full year alter that revolution was won. that Senator Kennedy publicly ack nowledged Castro's existence. In his book. "The Strategy of Peace." he wrote that "Castor is part of the Icnacy of Bolivar." He indicated that it was per haps unwise of President Eisen hower to back "so long and un critically" the anti-Communist Ful gencio Batista. Should not Eisen hower have given Castro "a warmer welcome in his hour of triumph?" asked the very junior Senator from Massachusetts. Four months later. Kennedy was questioned about Cuba on Wash ington television. Asked if the United Stales should take positive action against Castro. Kennedy hemmed and hawed thusly: "Well the situation in Cuba, of course, continues to deteriorate but lor the present I think the Administration's policy is the right one . . . for the time be ing. I would conduct our policy on the basis that it is being con ducted. Tlie situation could chance al any time ... for the present. I support the Administration pull ey." The situation, apparentlv. rhan;ed. In campaicn travels Irom coast In coast. Kennedv sensed that tlie people desired ac tion He told cheering Americans on Oct. tj. WJl: "We must end the harass ment, which this government has carried on. o liberty-loving anti ("astro forces in Cuha and in oth er lands While we cannot vio Private Investment Overseas Protected ments in I960 of approximately $1.5 million. The Ziraat bank ac knowledged delivery of the mill in Istanbul and released Howard from its performance bond. The contract did not call for Howard to erect the mill. All this happened during the regime of Turkey's Premier Ad nan Menderes. But in May laso, it will be recalled this govern ment was overthrown by the Army under Lt. Gen. Carnal Gur sel. Parliament was dissolved, Pres ident Celal Bayar, Menderes and several hundred more officials and businessmen, including Akal, were arrested, tried and s e n tenced to prison for crimes against the Turkish constitution. Menderes and two cabinet ofli cers were executed and President Bayar is sl;ll conlincd. The new government soon found itself in strained financial condi tion. It was charged that purchase ol the mill had been an extrava gance of the old regime. The mill was never erected and the $900,000 due Howard went unpaid. The Turkish press took up the case and it became a hot political issue. The consequences of nonpay ment could have been serious for Turkey. Section 620-C of the 1962 Foreign Aid Act provides that when a bank owned or controlled by a foreign government fails to honor a guaranty issued in favor of an American firm, further for eign aid will not be granted. The U.S. State Department and Ambassador Raymond Hare in Ankara moved in to support How aid's claim. For over two years every diplomatic pressure was exerted to persuade the Turks to pay the debt. The new government, now un der Premier Ismct Inonu would not take responsibility for pay ment of Die claim. Instead, after several cabinet meetings. Inonu introduced a hill in parliament, asking authorization for p a y- ment. lt passed. It is expected that Howard's claim soon will be paid, re-establishing Turkey's claim that in credit is good. Kennedy Policies On Cuba Question late international law, we must recognize that these exiles and rebels represent the real voice of Cuba, and should not be constant ly handicapped by our Immigra tion and Justice Department au thorities." So favorable was the reiction that candidate Kennedy continued to play the theme. Five days lat er, on Oct. 20, he said: "We must attempt to strength en the non-Batista democratic anti-Castro forces in exile ind in Cuha itself who offer eventual hope of overthrowing Castro." Two and a half years later, the same exiles, the same "liberty-loving anti-Castro forces." are threatened with deportation, with jail, for doing exactly what candi date Kennedy advocated in 1960, winning back their homeland. Note: The only foreign policy question that seemed to concern Senator Kennedy prior lo his Pres idential campaign was Algeria. In his first major foreign policy speech, in 1957, the Senator urged the Administration to pres sure France into giving up its African colony. Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. a Democrat, derided the .Senator's Algerian proposals a "the supreme touch of naivete " New York Congressman Emanuel Celler. another Democrat, wss bit ing in his observations: "I know France well and havf spent some time in Alceria. Can Senator Kennedy sav the urne' Does he realize that if the french were to leave Alceria. the va cuum created would be quickly filled hv Communist influences Does he know that tne rebellion there is being omenled and the rebel forces are heme supplied with arms by the newest dictator in appear on the iniernalional scene. Communist-hacked Nasser of Egypt'" How right, it iurnp(j ou, , Consressman Cellar. An independ ent Alceria is tortav firmly im planted in the neutralist camp. Dictator Ahmed Ben Bella par rots the Communist hc and is wires Fidel (astro that inc! Sam should get out of OtianUt mo Bav THEY SAY... My feeling u that within s ei can come nf necki.-.r -Candy Jone,. (onnf(. mwjf and author of (,1(f book. i
