PACE (- HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Orejnn
Wednesday, May . 1J
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Communist Leaders
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: "The greatest resource we have, and
the one we sometimes lake the least pride in
developing, is the human mind."
j Astronaut John Glenn uttered the words
: in the course of a talk to the nation's news-
paper publishers.
f. He also said we have to exhibit the same
? respect and admiration for academic cxcel--Mence
that we now show for achievements in
. sports, In business, in entertainment and other
fields.
The same note recently was struck even
more solemnly by Dr. Krnst Mayr, director
: of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Kile suggests we stop belittling superior per
sons and start rewarding them.
5 v In a comprehensive report on the newest
; developments in evolutionary theory, Mayr
! dares to hint that the human race may have
; reached its zenith in intelligence and may
' need to husband all the mental resources it
has.
The early humans who could think best
: were the ones who survived and passed
; intelligence to their children. After men
I banded together in groups, more general stir
Jvival became easier. Today physical survival
'is assured for virtually all, regardless of in
; telligence level.
; ' This means, says Mayr, that superior per-
sons are proportionately a vastly smaller part
of the total population than once was true.
i; Money is what it will be all about when
: the United Nations General Assembly meets
In special session in May.
Money. Money to finance the U.N.'s peace-
keeping machinery especially the Congo op
eration and maintenance of the U.N. Emer-
gency Force in the Middle East for the balance
: of this year.
And the hot potato no doubt will he
passed on for a more permanent solution to
the next regular U.N. session in the fall. A
special 21-country group, meeting several
times to consider the problem, has come up
: with nothing in the way of a solution.
J The Red bloc has its own made-in-Moscow
$ excuses for dodging payment. Other countries
WASHINGTON
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By WASHINGTON STAFF
Newspaper Enterprise Awn.
'. WASHINGTON iNEAl - Rep.
I Rob Wilson of California, chair-
man of Urn Republican Congrcs
I aional Campaign Committee. made
! a little slip in talking tn the He
l publican Women's Conference in
I Washington.
"What uc want to Ho," lie tolrl
"Ihe assembled women, "is In give
; President Kennedy a Republican
; Congress in 19M for his own
: siwi "
; For the moment ho forgot I lie
OOP's hope of getting Kennedy
I, out of tlie White House next year.
Wilson was using the party's
t, la slogan.
J Interior Secretary Stewart
! I'dall took 24 members of his up-
per stall to Camp David for two
days of meetings. One member
nniocj lo nis norror inui uiuntsii-
ately after lunch every one of the
24 was out doing some sort of
physical exercise. John A. Carver
.lr., assistant secretary of Inleri-
- .. .. - u-nrVinft mit M ilia trnm.
poline. Undersecretary .lames K.
ran was playing nasseinau.
. I'dall was playing tennis. Others
'. were swimming and playing
" horseshoes. One laggard was sim
ply floating on his bark In the
pool.
"Said one of the conferees, "Ev
erybody trotted around as If II
was the YMCA. No. we didn't get
any orders to exercise. We just
knew what was expected of us.
It was rather terrifying."
Sen. Norris Cotton. RN H .
tells a story about a gunman who
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dow ol a large plant and said
"Never mind the payroll, Bud.
Just K'nd over tlie welfare lund.
the group Insurance premiums,
tlie pension fund and all the with
holding taxes."
Gen. Maxwell Taylor was be
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Butterfingers In
have dandy formulas for splitting costs
especially when the other fellow is to pick
up the tab.
What it boils down to is that many mem
bers of the U.N. family want the big hoys to
pick up the check and more than one would
he delighted if Uncle Sam paid the entire tab.
However, the United States which has been
carrying nearly SO per cent of the Congo
operation has told the committee of 21 that
it will pay only ils assessed 32.02 per cent
share of operations in the future, unless other
countries pay up.
The next order of business, boys, will he
to butter your fingertips before it's time to
reach for the next check.
NOTEBOOK
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ing considered for the presidency
of Uie Lincoln Cenler for the Per
forming Arts in New York He was
asked what experience he hail
which qualified him for such a
high post in the cultural field.
"I have been in Washington for
some considerable time." ans
wered Taylor, "and I've learned
the fine art of fast and fancy
footwork."
When the Stale IVpartmcnt
made up its program for Hip
spring briefing of out-of-town writ
ers and broadcasters on foreign
affairs, it lislvd at the end of the
lirst day a "eolfee reception" in
tlie luxurious Thomas .lelferson
suite on the top floor.
Presiding over the opening ses
sion. Robert .1. Manning, who is
assistant secretary (or public af
fairs, haslened to announce that
"we are going to try to make it
a little more invigorating." They
did From an undisclosed source
came a contribution which con
verted it Into a rocklail party
standard operating proceduie.
The new lage in Washington is
Ibe "Dickens" martini. The for
mula is simple: No Oliv-cr Twist.
In all the discussion over
agreement to install ' hot line"
communications between Mos
cow and Washington, did any one
ever find out whether we are tn
talk Russian or it they are lo talk
English?" asks Sen. Karl Mumlt.
R-S.D.
Will Nelson Rockefeller run lor
the presidency in 1M? Accord
ing lo political salirirt Mark Rus
sell. Rockeleller obviously would
like In be president.
"And I can t say as I blame
him," says Russell. "I,et j put it
this way. How would you like to
have tn live in Albany. N v.? Al
bany is a place where tlie late,
late show goes on at a K) pm"
In consequence, it becomes increasingly diffi
cult for them to assert their gifts for leader
ship, for creativity, for organization all of
which modern society badly needs.
As average or below average individuals
rise in total numbers with the huge population
boom, the difficulty is magnified. Less and less
are the processes of society designed to serve
and advance the mightily useful gifted per
son. .
Mayr suggests that overpopulation could
have dire effect in this regard long before
the earth reaches "standing room only."
"Men," he says, "would become involved
in such a hopeless struggle with social, eco
nomic and engineering problems and the
harmful by-products of crowded cities that
little opportunity would be left for cultivation
of man's highest and most specifically human
attributes."
Here we come back to John Glenn's and
Dr. Mayr's prescription for a way out: elevate
superiority to the eminence it deserves.
Haven't we had enough of sneering at
Harvard, of deriding intelligent folk as
"square," if not downright subversive?
No mailer what some politicians argue,
the Common Denominator is not the Great
American If we insist on demeaning superiori
ty and on putting our faith in the mentally
commonplace, we may one day find ourselves
adrift on an ocean of ordinariness which has
no end.
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Washington tourists apparently
know a good thing when thev see
it
l.asl fall, T. Sutton Jell, region
al director of the National Park
Service, and Allred .1. Rarrolt,
horticulturist for NPS. launched a
drive tci beautify tlie nation's cap
ital with more than 40.000 Dutch
tulips, narcissi, daffodils and cro
cuses. They were carefully plant
ed in a score or more of the
small green parks that riot
Washington's downtown.
To assure the best jiossible
growing conditions, the two beau
ty lncrs thoughtfully piovidcd
small signs to lie placed in each
of the newly made tulip beds
which read. "Ssh! Tulips Sleep
ing" Not only did the idea appeal lo
the Holland hulhs doing below
for the winter, it also appealed lo
Ihe sightseers. Tlie signs prompt
ly disappeared.
Eugene Zuckrrt, secretary of
ihe Air Force, was talking tn as
sociates about who would bp a
good man tn lilt a vacant slot in
tlie Air Force liersnnnol setup.
"You know." said Zuckert. "there
me tun kinds of personnel men
lite kind interested in personnel
and the kind interested in people."
I-ulher Hodges, secretary ol
commerce, who has just written
a new hook called "Tlie Rust
ness Conscience." was asked bv
a fnend recently how he found
the time to do it
He says his wile answered for
him:
"Ry neglecting me," she said.
Sen Peter H IVmmick. R Colo ,
says ihe latest While House rumor
is that Ihe President called his
bmtlwr Teddy in alter the latter
smashed a newspaper photogra
pher's camera and warned: "The
phrase is 'managed.' not 'man
gled' news, Teddy."
There'll Be New Problems
(By Rt'SSKIX BAKKR)
(In The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, April 17-Dcar
Mr. President.
The expansion nf your family
anticipated during August is
pood news, but as every father
of three will tell you, the move
up from two lo three children is
going to create some problems you
prnbahly haven't thought of.
First you might as well fare
it right off you will be destroy
ing the family balance nf power.
Two children, particularly when
they are girl and boy. make for
such symmetrical family groun
inss that the two-child family
scarcely knows what confusion
and chaos are.
With three children, however,
ynu take on diplomatic problems
that will linyer long after you i
leave the White House. It is the
nature of three children to divide
into an alliance of two for the
mutual maltreatment of the third.
The out manned third w ill nat
urally come looking for an al
liance with you, and then ynu are
in for it. From Ihe oppressed,
there ill b long harrow ing
grievance lists delivered with
heartbreaking sobs. From thp oth
er two, outraged protests of ex
treme provocation, artfully de
signed to keep ynu neutralist and
uncommitted.
.Some people just cannot take it.
These wind up hy expanding tlie
family to four on the shaky the
ory that two nicely balanced al
liances of tun children each will
produce stability, peace and quirt
around the house. What usually
happens, however, is that ail
four begin coalescing against the
outnumbered parents.
With three children, about the
only thing a father can do is
plan in advance to avoid fore
seeable friction points. When time
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comes to buy a new car, for
example, make it a station wagon
Instead of a sedan. This will pre
vent thousands of quarrels about
which of tlie three are to get the
two seats by the window every
Lime you decide to drive to
grandmother's for the weekend.
The television problem is just
about insoluble. If one announces
that she wants to watch "The
Three Stooges." the other two
will demand to see "Popeye"
which, by one of those miracles
of programing so common in the
television industry, are on at the
same hour.
It sometimes helps to keep cal
endar records showing that this
week tliey watched "Popeye" and
the next week they will watch
"The Three Stooges.' It gets to
he a nuisance keeping the calen- ,
dats. but it's belter than yield
ing to the demands of the ruling
alliance that you settle the issue
by popular vote. I
Ynu will also have new problems
about baths. With two children,
as you have probably noticed,
both go together upstair where
it's dark and far away, and each
waits in comforting proximity to
the bathtub while the other bathes.
All that w ill change with
three.
With three, two will go up to
gether to keep each other's cour
age up, then mn downstairs leav
ing the isolated alone when his
turn comes to enter the tub. His
tears will be answered with
taunts of "Chicken" from the
other two. and this usually leads
tn prolonged uproar all through
the house. 1
For a father confronted with
this situation there are Draconian
alternatives, but the only sen
sible thing is for him tn get a bonk
or slate paper and go up to the
bathroom and make himself com-
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fnrtable while his isolalrd child
takes a bath.
Even without its incessant dip
lomatic tensions, Ihe three-child
family is inherenlly awkward.
You'll find, for example. thafU
runs up your travel bills unless
ynu are careful. The trick is lo
ask for a sinjlp hotel nr motel
room with two double beds, then
have the management roll in a
cot.
Ine.ierienced three - child fa
thers usually start nut by bonk
ing adjoininc rooms, thinking the
kids will appreciate a room of
their own. What happens, of
course, is that two gang up
aRainst the third. The parents then
asree In bring the aggrieved
into their room.
This acgrieves the nlher two.
who are threatened with neu-rosis-in-laler-life
because mommy
and daddy are giving preferential
treatment to little Busier. Everv
hndy winds up in one room
sometimes wilh the father
foiening sleep on the floor unlil
all tlie children are a-slumhcr and
he can escape tn the vacant room
adjoining.
Yon will probably find that
fathers with three children age
faster than those with only two,
but that they also learn humility
quicker. 1 hey sonn lose the young
man's instinct lo do something
impetuous when erisis arises. In
fact, presiding nver a three-child
family should be Rood experience
in the uses of patience and. so.
make any man a heller President.
Other
Editors Say . .
Military Pay
(Thr w York Tours
I.rsislation of key importance to
wricf morale the military pay
bill-will ho debaleo in the Hnue
Mmn.
The hill, as reported out hy the
House Aimed Services Commiltee
provides an averace 14.1 per cent
increase for officers and 12 fi per
cent fur enlisted men. with the
eaet pen-en fanes varyinc by
rank and grade.
The leeislathn is much needed
and lona overdue; yet it is a sad
disappointment to the men in nm
form. It does not meet the rec
nmmendathins of an evnerieneed
co.nmitlce th.it studied sen ire
pay: it carries increases far less
than thoe proposed hy a House
stiNnmmittee atler careful eval
uation: it tail even tn achieve
the ery mo.fest coaU recom
mended hy the secretary of de
fense. The pay hill, as The Ai my Navy
Air Force Journal has no:ed. "ynt
causht in a political cross-fire be
tween the tavcuthnc ohcoties of
the Demon atie leadership and the
budkiet-cuttinc aims of the Repub
lican leadership." In its present
iorm. the hill provides pay raises
substantially less than those eh
lained in the List In years by
wotkers in the private economy
and in the civil services. Thu
the coal of military pa "com
p.rabilily." stressed hv the
President in the p.it. hs hern
aliandoned.
The tlanni; deficiencies m I'e
c.irrent leisUtion must 1 cor
rcted if service careers are tn
he maeie ttractiv enotuh tn en
cptirae trrjtprm proifssionai-im.
By PETER EDSON
Washington Cr.irci-ondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON INEAl - Pen
pie with the greatest inlercst and
the greatest responsibility for
dealing with tr.e world-wide Com
munist threat point out that the
Hood of rumors and speculation
about developments behind the
Iron Curtain sprinR from every
source except those inside the
Kremlin, where the facts are
known.
This puts the proper note of
caution irto trying to be too much
of an expert on Chairman Ni
kita Khrushchev's personal plans,
the Moscow-Peking split or other
Communist crises.
Khrushchev himself is quoted as
having said that he can't ro on
forever and eventually will step
down.
But US. Undersecretary of
State Averell Harriman, the last
outsider to see and talk with
Khrushchev, comes back with the
word that he was quoted out of
context, that he is hale and hearty
and that he has not thought of
giving up his position.
Peking calls for the resigna
tion of Khrushchev for having
gone soft on the old Stalin brand
of communism and for having
withdrawn his missiles from Cuba.
But there has never been any sign
of Russian w illingness to roll over
and play dead just to please the
Red Chinese. Furthermore. Khru
shchev eouldn t quit under such
pressure.
This emphasizes the likelihood
that the Russians may work out
their problems in their own se
cretive ways, just as they have
done time alter lime in the past.
They will then announce to their
own people and the rest of the
world only what they want known
after the decision is made.
What is announced at first may
he only a temporary solution. The
real struggle lor ultimate power
will go on behind the scenes.
While the outside world there
fore is really ignorant about what
makes the Communists behave the
way they do. the scheduled Mos
cow meeting of the party's Cen
tral Committee May 28 should he
watched closely. This is a time
when the newest shift in the Com
munist Party line may be an
nounced. Authorities nn Russian affairs
say that one of the great difficul
ties of American public opinion
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Whenever tlie press is blamed
for "blowing up news" beyond its
intrinsic importance. 1 am re
minded nf the problem of the sci
entist in the laboratory trying to
do dispassionate research.
On tlie surface there could be
no greater contrast between the
reporter Involved in the emotion
al hurly-burly nf daily events and
tlie scientist probing objectively
into the essential constructs and
basir behavior of microscopic ele
ments. Yet one of Ihe most balllmg
problems nf the scientist espec
ially in the fundamental field nf
physics is this: his very observ
ance of certain phenomena chang
es the chra (eristics of these phe
nomena. In the act of focusing his mi
croscope, nr even more sensitive
instrument, upon Ihe object of his
attention, he is inevitably alfrrt
ins the object itself. The investiga
tion is a factor in the results.
Now. on a macrnensmie scale,
this is precisely what is hap
pening mure and more in Ihe field
of news events. The fact that re
porters and television cameras
are especied tn he present or
tlie very fart of their unanticipat
ed presence-changes the char
acter, and often the direction, nf
the event.
It is wrong to suggest as some
naie critics have done that the
news media "create" the event:
but there ran he no doubt that
' "1st as Ibe subatomic instrument
changes either the eloaty nr the
iilun of the particle i the kmml.
edge that an event is to he tele
vised or extensively reported ads
as an inllalinnary force on tlie
people involved in the eent.
This is not to excuse or to jusn.
fy those news media which do
thnve nn exaggeration and dis
tortion; but I think they -, riler
ihn tivv seem lo he. What ac
tually happens in such caws .
that the participant begin lo
act bigger than lite i notice a poli
tician tlie moment he senes a
TV ramera in range , and the
presen.-e of the reporters and
cameramen ern-ie an expand
ing influence on tlie exent
It i a prnKrm nh no run
solution, and it grows harrier as
our te hixMogy becomes moie pro
in appraising communism Is Ihe
belief that conditions inside Rus
sia are just the same now as
they always have been. This is
the principal stock in trade of
right-wing crusaders who make
antienmmunism their principal
husiness. It may not be complete
ly true.
The Stalin era rule of terror
has gone. A new cultural wave
lias shown in Russian intellectual
circles. It does not amount to a
revolt lo overthrow communism.
Russian life today is described
as better than it has ever been
before.
Rut there is a recognizable split
between the Communist Parly and
the people. This is why Ameri
can cultural exchange people
seem to be knocking themselves
out to cultivate contacts between
East and West.
The new freedom in the arts
and literature which Khrushchev
has criticized and been criti
cized for is seen as a mani
festation against party dictation
and domination over all phases of
Soviet life.
Hence, if the Central Commil
tee meeting May 2H produces
another crackdown order that
every Russian must be indoctri
nated with hard line communism
and propaganda, it will come as
no great surprise to students of
Russian affairs, litis has hap
pened before, been resisted, and
could be opposed again.
Regarded as of greater import,
however, will be any Russian de
cisions on how it will handle in
ternal economic strains.
The dilemma faced by the So
viet is that big investments must
he made in agriculture and hous
ing to raise Ihe standard of living
and meet the demands of the
Russian people.
To do this, Russia must cut
hack on either its industrial, mili
tary or space program expendi
tures. This will be difficult.
Russia's current seven ' year
program is analyzed as being on
schedule, with steel production,
though not capacity, approaching
U.S. levels. Costs are rising, how
ever, and the plan is seen as
too ambitious. Something may
have to give.
Kor the first lime, il is being
said in Washington that President
Kennedy is better off with his
problems than Khrushchev is with
his. Which is praising will) faint
damns. '
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
ficient and enables us In enver
events more swiftly and mnre
fully. For example, tlie extensive
coverage given to the proceedings
of the United Nations has simply
transformed it from a deliberative
body to a debating-society whose
contestants are continually try
ing tn score points in frnnt of ils
immense world audience.
The press had a duly to cover
the incidents at Oxford, Mississip
pi, a few months aRo; but who
can doubt that this very coverage
contributed in some measure tn
Ihe violent turn of events? Let
us not he so quick with our "solu
tions" unlil we are sure we under
stand Ihe problem.
AI
manac
By I nlted Press International
Today is Wednesday, May n.
the 128th day of tflfi.1 with 1X1 to
follow.
The moon is full.
Tlie morning stars are Venus,
Saturn and .lupiter.
The evening star is Mars.
Those horn on this dale include
former President Harry S. Tru
man. in IK84.
On tins rlHy in histmy:
In I.VII, Hernando tv Sntn and
a company of Spanish explorers
discovered the Mississippi rtivcr
near Memphis. Tenn.
In l'M2. Vice President Heniy
A. Wallace coined a new phrase
when he said: "Tlie century nn
which e are entering ran he
and must be the century nf the
common man."
In I).-. President Truman an
nounced the end of the war in
Kuroj. on "V E" day.
In V.m, former xie president
Richatd V. Nixon, touring South
Amenra ai th, (,mr. a pt
noon hy leftist students at Lima,
f'eiu.
A thought for Ihe dav-Amerl-'an
author Nathaniel Hawthorne
'aid 'Mountains are earth's un
rietaxmg mrnuments "