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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1963)
fcdtijfoiaL (paqsL Reasonably Effective The ironies in the realm of national af fairs are sometimes incredible. Take this one: There is an outfit called the Council of Slate Governments, whose whole purpose is to make the 50 states more effective instruments ;of government. The Council has various arms the Governors' Conference, the National Assoc iation of Attorneys General, the General As sembly of States (made up of slate legisla tors), and so on. All these working arms are designed to heighten the grasp of state and local prob lems by slate officials, to encourage solu tions below the federal level, to promote in terstate cooperation where that seems sen sible. Where these techniques work well, the net effect can only be to hold back new en . largements of federal power, j ' The Irony is that an agency such as the ; council, thus dedicated to the preservation !and Improvement of state authority, should ; be under some assault as "communistic." I Normally the 50 states almost automati cally vote their annual appropriations in sup port of the council and its various arms. This year one western state was diverted only at the last minute from a plan to bar the usual funds. Suspicions of communism explained the nearly successful maneuver. IN WASHINGTON ft By RALPH df TOLEDANO l( Secretary of Defense Mc Namara's military policy can he mimmcd up, it culls for: A dras tic reduction of the Air Force (, -Mid an eventual elimination of the Strategic Air Command', a small Navy built around the Po laris armed submarine, and the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile as the mainstay of our defenses. Mr. McNamara hones that his i tidy package will cost far less In the king run than the Ei senhower concept of balanced forces. ( In fact, as we have seen in the TFX case, it will cost far more if only because the Defensa Secretary believes thai Ins "rouRh judgments" are su perior to the careful estimates of trained military personnel.) Cost aside, the McNamara policy rails for a r I g i d reliance on ICBMs locked underground in tlieir immovable concrete silos. On paper, this makes as much sense as did the Maginot Line Ahich France's leaders insist ed would keep tlie (iermans at bay for all lime. The Maginot Line, behind which France slept, was considered impregnable. It included every gimmick and gad get of underground defense. And actually it did not succumb In frontal attack. The Germans sim ply sliced around one flank. Tie error of Maginot - Line thinking is that it is based on a theory that military strategy ran lie worked out on paper like a mathematics problem. One wea pons system, thcrelnre. is always ferind which will presumably sen for all eventualities. Mr. MiNamara's demand for a TFX to serve the incompatible functions of Air Force and Navy, in order to simplify his bookkeeping, is of a piece with this psychology. The. military analysts and plan ners, however, reaiize that flex ibility and variety are the only bases for an adequate defense policy. The enemy may not want to trade blows with K'HMs. He may develop new weapons or improve old ones which are not subject to attack or retaliation from underground ICBM silos. The manned system of air defense Is the only answer to shifting ene my concepts. And it is the manned (yslems which Secretary McNa mara is doing away Willi as rapidly as he can. ". ih need (or manned air and dirospaca craft has been pointed ofit succinctly and eloquently by Dr. James D. Atkinson, a re search associate of Admiral At- leigh Burke's Center for Strategic Studies at Georgetown I'niversi ty. Dr. Atkinson is also presi dent of the American Military Institute. In the newsletter of the American Security Council, he notes some of the reasons which make manned craft of vital im portance In tlx earth's air space or beyond. One of the major advantages of manned craft is Its "controlled Manned Systems Needed launch." That means that It can he sent aloft and toward its tar get "in response to a low-grade equivocal warning, and can lie later recalled." The "go" signal for ICBMs can be given only when it is absolutely certain that the U.S. is under attack, which drastically cuts down warning retaliation time to minutes ami seconds. If there are unverified warnings, the U S. must sit still where ICBMs are concerned. But it could send its manned craft speeding toward the target with orders not to attack until there was verification. Manned aircraft systems serve another purpose. Just as the Brit ish navy won diplomatic victories by showing the flag, manned air power provides an opportunity for a show of force which ran lie a very successful deterrent. "The display of strength through the deployment of obvious military power has a psycho-political val ue w hlch can scarcely he obtained Irom missiles buried deep in the ground," Dr. Atkinson notes. Any kind of mobilization that can bo observed by the enemy is more Musically Inclined ACROSS 1 "Down by the MiU Stream" 4 "Golu 'Round My Tinner" B Carnegie 12 Mafculme 31 Mock M Lone Scout Scribe lab.) 37 Soak! flax sg Epic poetrv 40 lateral part 41 Knock 42 Run away 4-S Requiring 49 Deviation 51 Poetic appellation 13 Martian icomb. forml 14 Curved molding 15 Girl's nam IS Iratribihly IS stranjenel 20 Fm-eun'.erj 21 Repltra 22 Riietiall refereea lab.) 24 Snake charmer's rlarmet SS Uibliral name 27 Mineral annng .to Click beetle 32 Prnaeil contraction 52 Roman road 53 Verbal 54 Broadway sign 55 Fosrl f S Cane 57 Kind of rope DOWN 1 Hodgepodge 2 Grant use 3 Sponges Mlang) 4 Pricea 5 Angers fl Centaur 7 Obtained M Sip trfth I Sharreni rirof I 12 13 I U lb 16 p I 18 19 no 111 l 13 u 15 16 iT TS 19 "72(3 1 i I ' IT r IT a 7T a k t " 33 3i Iz jj 3? 15 35 r-jf is 40 41 T" 7T 17" " y "'' 5 46 47 43 49 50 " 51 52 53 54 S5 - -j I I I I I I I I I I I I ii Barriers Certain extreme right-wing writers and publications profess to see in the council and related agencies some sort of insidious master effort to communize America below the fed eral level. The argument seems to be that the ftcds ply their trade not just in Wash ington, but in all the state capitals. Not only the Council of State Govern ments but the Advisory Commission on Inter governmental Relations, product of the Re publican Eisenhower era, is also sometimes rung in on this. The commission likewise seeks the betterment of government at lower levels. Aside from casting aspersions on some of the personnel in these agencies, the right wing critics find most damning any and all attempts to promote collaboration among slate units. Thus the council's persistent efforts to promote uniform traffic laws among the stales, and many other uniform codes, are labeled ''collcctivist planted legislation." The Council and many state leaders contend simply that if the rising demand for more uniform laws is not met at state level, Washington will move in and do the job. The council and the advisory commission are reasonably effective barriers to federal encroachment which exist. If their efforts are "collcctivist," then what but anarchy is not? etlcctive than the statement that the missiles arc ready to go. Given the Soviet Union's eco nomic difficulties, however, the so-called "mix" factor may be of prime importance. The more possible methods of aggression ur retaliation in American strat egy, the more difficult will be the Soviet Union's task in pre paring its own military arsenal. Since there is only one test of any strategy, namely war. the Soviet Union will be strained to the utmost if it is forced to match its own weapons "mix" with ours and to seek new ways of burying us. If all our reliance is on one system, the Soviets can plan ac cordingly, delivering a surprise attack at their convenience. 'flic best thinking in this coun try, although Secretary McNa mara studiously ignores it, is that new technology has increased i not diminished! the importance of manned aircraft system. The Secretary of Defense may believe that he is safe behind an elec tronic Mnginnl Line, hut he has few supiorlcrs among the ex perts. Antwir to Previous Puttie t Awnr 10 Tot fear that II from fruit Weirder II Fewer 33 17 I'nwhotrWTnt 19 B(hovti'l 3 Mountain nymph Holriinf right MaiU St a g ur n Symphony 40 28 Pimitlt 24 Sw iu 2M,uii1oi high notn MMrvi-d 'J7 1 art rM 'foil 28 Child icomb. fnrmi Redact A polio 'i mother (myth t Opened (poet ) Arm Roman emperor Expand t'nit of weitjht ?9 Drink mid PAGE I HERALD "Can You Letters To The Responsible When I returned to Klamath Falls Irom Salem temporarily to li.x up my house tor sale, a man I always regarded as a worldly, responsible and astute individual asked me why a local cop t sher iff i had recently been charged with acts this man felt were of no significance. Such a question docs not alter my opinion that the man who asked this is a high minded in dividual. Nevertheless, it does indicate a lack of realization of the serious and far reaching im plications and dangers if bad po lice practices are permitted. Like many citizens, he is unaware of the workings of law enforcement and the law, just as I am con cerning his vocation as an edu cator. Neither am I a cabinet maker nor can I deliver babies. I am a layman, not an authori ty on the law. I have always been a policeman or a defense investi gator, nothing more. But I did learn early that a police officer is the one person in our society empowered with the authority to enter your castle, take your physi cal body into his custody and place you in a cage jaii like an animal. This is not usually By SVD.N'KY .1. HAItniS Not long ago. 1 discussed the perversion of the word "sentimen tal. ' in regard to the people w-ho oppose capital punishment point ing out that the real sentimen talists are those today who insist on retaining this outmoded and in effectual form of vengeance. Today I'd like to examine an other very much abused word. "I'topian." This is a word often applied hy conservatives, or even by middle-of-the-roaders, to those who seem to favor a left-wing philosophy, or who apiiear to be tinged with a "communistic" lean, tng. Actually, it is one of the ironies of language anJ political thought that Karl Marx, tlie founder of communism, reserved his most withering scon for the "Utopi ans." They were the socialists of his day who heki that social re form must come from the people themselves. The widespread Communist movement in the world today is precisely tlie opposite of "Utopi an." It is pragmatic, dogmatic, imposed from the top. wedded to violence, the enemy of all volun tary movements, and totally re pressive beneath its thin layer of humanitarian verbiage. Communism has not moved to ward "the withering away of the state." as Marx predicted it would but in the opposite direction wotse. it has bred the equally poisonous reaction of fascism. The I'topian may have been right or wi-ong and, in my opin ion, they were a little of hoih but it is unitt.st to equate them mow or then' with the Marxists Kor des-ades. the bitterest foes of the communists wvre not the capital ists hut tlie nn-Matxian social ists who saw' all too well, and all too clearly, wnere Marxism was headed and they were silenced b avsAssination or exile. If Marxism had been able to become more genuinely I topian AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore. Spare a Minute, Mr. President.3" done, however, as one would pick up a stray dog. In our society it should only be done legally under the law when one has com mitted a crime against the people. Then following the arrest one must be allowed a reasonably immediate arraignment, a prelim inary hearing, a grand jury in dictment and finally a jury trial all designed to protect the rights of all individuals. But, if the cop who has you in custody is allowed to violate the law in any ay, you may find you will have a situation where he could place any citizen in the cage tjail' without reason able cause ia legal charge'. He could also hold you for a long term checkout or lodge you in jail merely for harassment. And if the policeman or sheriff can break these laws without fear of punishment you would most assuredly have a condition of spe cial treatment for some prison ers and not for others. Proper arraignment is one of our first safeguards against an injustice. Kven the wayward policeman is afforded these same rights under law when he is charged, and it is then that he too is thankful we have the very law he himself violated. STRICTLY PERSONAL that is, if it could have under stood the libertarian strivings of the early reformers then it might not have become as evil in prac tice as its twin, fascism. By re jecting the I'topians, by condemn ing tliem as "mere sentimental ists." the Marxists abdicated their humanity and brtrayed tlie very goals they so nobly proclaimed in their speeches and manifestoes. We cannot understand the na ture of modern communism un less we comprehend its historical roots. It is a perversion of a good idea 'some eminent theologians have even called it a "ChriMian heresy", and its great appeal is based on tlie fact tl',! it appears to otter the underprivileged peo ples greater social justice and economic equality. It cannot do so. of course. But to dismiss these goals as "I'topi an" is ' to misunderstand the Communist revolution and to mis read history. The American idea is indeed a I'topian one, and we should bring the word hack to respectability and recognition, on our side. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS e How It the uniform enlnr of alter prodaced? A llxe from a shruh. annaito. is added to butter to produce the uniform color. 4 Why t the yew tree eoa iidrrfi! a ttmhol of tadaess? A Because th branches of the tree hae been used for funeral decorations and twined into wreaths for the heads o( mourn ers. Q What monarch was slain at the Battle of rVswnrth Held" A-King Rivhaid III of tn: laod Monday, Mar 13, 196J Editor Also a police officer when al lowed such indulgences could re lease, according to his own whims, any dangerous criminal as well as the minor or nondan gerous criminal type. Allowed to deter from the proper procedure the policeman could completely disrupt any court and for any number of reasons. He could de stroy evidence and completely cripple the prosecution. Not only docs any accused person have a right to a fair and impartial trial but the cost of mistrials, ictrials and the investigations that make them possible runs into the thousands. The taxpay er pays the lab. The accused, who may be innocent, must en dure the waiting for a retrial, suffers added inconvenience and nr greater expense. If the mani pulations of the wayward police man go undetected the accused loses the l ight to a fair trial. Innocent or not, if the accused is facing a life sentence or even live years, it s serious business especially if it s you or someone close to you. A cop, if allowed to do any of these things, could out of jealousy destroy or hinder the cases of other police departments. Every policeman must know the risk he lakes when he violates his duty by committing an act of malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance. It would not only take guts, but a reason. I can't imagine any one taking such a risk for kicks. Every policeman must set an example for our youth and never lose sight that our law is the very base of our democracy. At some time or anotlier every po lice officer has probably felt like being a "Good Guy." parti cularly when he has had to take oflicial action against a friend or some nice person on a minor charge hut every man wear ing a badge has sworn an oath to God and (he ieople that he will protect the people and their property and enforce the I a w . The criminal is people and he is protected by seeing that lie is afforded every right under the law. This is part ol the police man's duty. Imagine how it would lie throughout the country if all police heads were allowed to vio late these laws making up their own. No one disrespects a dishonest cop more than the pro fessional criminal. In this wonderful, free coun try :.ialpractice by doctors brings about their removal from the pro fession. Wayward lawyers are disbarred and so with sherills and other policemen there are particular laws designed not only to keep them in line but also In protect us from the cop who hides behind a badge of authority and abuses our law'. And to elim inate such practices that make the j"h of the judge. I) A., and at torneys so much more difficult. If we ran raise our police stan daids e will get more for our money, come closer to real jus tice, h.'ne professionahzation and even check the mounting crime rate Higher police standards will eliminate any cause for the con stant criticizing and griping about policemen. We are fratunale that policemen aie not immune to the law. And like the rest of us. when for mally charged (or an unlawful ait. they too are innocent until proven guilty. Most policemen are honest and devoted and our la is good We must allow each to (unction but priMvily. R. C. Claik. 31W Patterson Street Q I don't know how he dues it, but Dale Hallack seems to get more out of the kids who take music and voice in high school than any other director I have seen in action. Not only are the hoys and girls good performers on their chosen instrument or their vocal field, but they seem In get such a kick out of what they are doing that they impart some of that fun and enthusiasm to their audiences. I notice in his concerts and public appearances, Dale gives the kids a "fun" piece or two lo mix in with the long hair stuff. With the excellent music pro gram we have at KUHS, it is a shame that those who gradual" are unable, for the most f art, to carry on with tlieir music hobby or profession. A group in town is attempting to do something about the situation by proposing to organize a symphony group. Normand Poulshoek will direct the symphony which hopes to get or ganized this summer and fall. Tuesday night the small music group which will be the nucleus of the symphony is putting on a performance at Mills Auditorium to raise money for music and oth er material essential to a sym phony group. Helping the orches tra out will be several of Uie com munity's prominent musicians, in cluding Art Compton, Barbara Poulshoek, Barbara Shields, Mary Van Vaclor, LaMar Jensen and Normand Poulshoek. Turn out and give them a boost in this effort to upgrade the Klamath's cultural background. Here Is an old-fashioned puz zle: A and B set out Irom the same place, in the same direc tion. A travels linilormly 18 miles per day. and, after nine days, turns and goes as far as II has traveled during those nine days. He then turns again and, pursuing his journey, overtakes B ?', days atter the lime they first set nut. Find the rate at which B unilorntly traveled. What if we got really excited WASHINGTON By Fl'LTON LEWIS JR. Interested in the "Mammal Fauna of the Chercher Highlands of Ethiopia?" You should be. You and other taxpayers are footing the bill i $29.3110 for such a study. You arc paying another $13,700 to learn all there is t'j know about the "Social Structure in Madagas car." And $13,200 to find out about "Society and Demography in An cient Babylonia." ' Another $20.0011 to discover "Bargaining Solutions (or Games." A study of "Abenaki Dialects" costs $11,600. A steal at $7 200 is a report on the "Psycholinguist ic Analysis of Consonant Clusters." More than $10,000 goes to a Canadian scien tist for discovering the "Limit ing Factors Influencing Individual and Population Growth in the Flour Beetle." A study on "Prehispanic Set tlement Patterns of Teotihuacan" costs the taxpayers $16,300. Anoth er $27,900 goes (or "Measurement o( Influence in the Dvad." The above studies help make up tlie $261 million budget of tlie National Science Foundation. They arc tiny items in a na tional budget that cannot be cut, to use the words of John Ken nedy. n O'no Congresm?n. Frank Row', has pored through that budget and discovered the following items that "cannot be cut": More than $.15 million (or the Office of Territories almost double the bu.lget lor 1059 when tlie offii? still bore tlie responsi bilities of Alaska and Hawaii. A request of $.10 million to "stockpile" food (or use in tlie event o( a national emergency. Food will he purchased at the same lime that billions of dollars worth of surplus commodities ore available. An incrca-e of 37 5 per cent in operating expenses for the President's Executive Office. An appropriation of $74 ft mil lion for the Bonneville. Power Administration, tn make up the deficit caused by selling federal power at less than cost. An increare of $;7. million, or 24'pcr cent, for programs that collect government statistics. More than $8 hilhon for Or Mile Freeman s Department of Agriculture. This represents an increase of $2 S billion ..ince Dwight F.isenhower left' town. $7 a hillion for tlie Department o! Health. Education and Wel fare, a jump of one-third over tlie appropriates lor l.vt year. NOTHING SPECIAL W. B. S.I about public servants who take ad vantage of their positions to exer cise unrighteous domination over their fellows? What If we rose up in anger and demanded better law en forcement? What if we got so excited about bad movies and television programs that we would do whatever was necessary to wipe them out of existence? What if we got so mad at the publishers of pornographic books and magazines that wo would clean them off the news stands? We would rather lit seems i see our children corrupted by vile books and magazines than make a fuss over it. We would rather let our children go to debauching movies than lo raise enough cry to keep them off the screen. We would rather read about Crime in the newspapers and make arm chair comments than to get out and make a fuss ahnu better law enforcement. In other words, we want to be complacent, no matter what it costs us. Too many of us are so occu pied with our own affairs that e allow the wicked to take over control o( tilings which aflect the intimate lives of all. Too many of us are afraid of publicity. Too many are afraid tn fight for our rights close by. But we arc willing tn fight the Rus sians, or the Cubans, and send our boys to the far corners of the earth in the military. But we are not willing to fight our moral bat tles at home. Until we are willing to take a stand for that which is right we will continue to be imposed upon by predatory interests who care nothing for morals, nothing (or righteousness, and nothing for their neighbors or their neighbor's children. REPORT Budget Study Reveals Items Can Be Slashed An increase of $2 billion to $8.6 billion m foreign aid. This includes military and economic assistance, the Peace Corps. Food lor Peace, the Alliance for Pro gress, etc. An increase of $258 million for Postmaster General J. Edward Day. He expects to handle 3 per cent more mail, wants 7 per cent more money. A request for $25 million to build a high-power electric lina from Washington State to Cali fornia when private companies have already oflcred to build it at tlieir own expense "These are places." says Con gressman Bow, "where appropri ation cuts can be made without reducing scliool lunch programs or aid to dependent children. The 'budget that can't be cut' will cost the average family $W more than the last budget of Dwight Eisenhower, only to years ago. Is there any doubt this budget can ba cut and cut sub stantially?" The fast-talking aides of John Kennedy and Douglas Dillon will have a diifticult tunc cnnvmcin; Congress that it can't. Almanac r.v Inited Tress International Todav is Monday. May 13. It 133rd day of ISiil with 232 t" follow. The moon is approaching it' last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is M-u's On this day in history : In 1607. the first roloni'ls to establish a permanent English settlement in the new world start ed to build their fortress com munity near the James River, in Virginia, which later becama .l.imcstown. In 1846. Congress declared tha' a slate of war existed between th I nited States and Mexico. In imo. Queen Wilhclrpina. Crown Princess Juliana, and key figures of the Dutch government arrived in England after fleeing .liom the Nazi invaders of the Netherlands. In 1945. Prime Minister W inston Churchill saxi in a victory address to the British Empire that Britain would throw her entire military might behind the Inited Slates in the war against Japan. thought for the day English author Jonn Morley said: "You have not converted a man because) vim have silenced him."
