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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1963)
PACE -A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday, May 16, 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON Still a Few Chestnuts in the Fire Education A Suspect In Jobless Problem Salute There are many portions of federal spend ing that come in for severe criticism, but mon ey spent for defense of this nation is given gladly by its peoples with the single reserva tion that it be spent as wisely as possible to build as sound a defense of this nation as is possible. , : We are all aware that all wc possess will be lost if ever we find ourselves a conquered people. : Our visits have taken us to many of the . defense strongholds that are the vital hub of "our safety across this nation. We have had '.he occasion to see these defenses in action ;' first hand, and to talk with the men that man them, from the top commanders on down from admiral to seaman, from general to pri vate. Virtually to a man, we have found these people dedicated to their task with a special zeal. Whether it was a seaman aboard one of the ships of the fleet in the Pacific, an air man bending over a radar scope in one of the blockhouses or at Air Defense Command headquarters in Colorado Springs, wc found . they were intent on performing their particu lar part of this pattern of safety for all of us , to perfection. Armed Forces Day, this Saturday, is a day in which we can show our appreciation ' for the job they are doing for us. It is a day dedicated to people like this. Jl 13 UUUIldlUU JlllC IAJ liic Jiitu vruvs aw m at Kingslcy Field and at the Hamakcr Radar site. It is dedicated to the men and The World Is Still Imperfect (Th Sacramento Bee) There Is a growing concern among Amer ica's men of letters, at least a goodly share of them, that the generation now coming into i maturity is more preoccupied with security and the comfortable life in some grassy Utop ian suburb than with building and molding to morrow with anxious, strong hands. Dr. W. Bay Irvine, president of Marietta College in Ohio, touched on this recently In a remarkable open letter to parents. Today's . Vnnfhe 1m sul1 nro In manv rpcnorfc Kllnp- flnn tn ttnnartilinnc nacf Vnf cvamntn hn (IV. v. . fct.,v. ......... . v.. v.."...,.., .... ' pressed the belief the student who graduates from a college now has been subjected to a sterner, more demanding academic discipline than was his father. But he added and this is what should concern us: Acknowledging the Improvement in performance and In the willingness to work at and for their education I often find it necessary to question the motives, the goals, of our young people. As others have recently suggested, many of these intelligent, capable young men and worn : en seem to be intent only on buying a ;.; ticket to security, to the safe haven of ,; suburbia. In the academic area, I sense their desire for the swiftest, surest path IN WASHINGTON Israel oy nni,rii or nji.ciirt.su ;wdy wins anollier four years In She While House may depend on 'dent Nasser o the United Arab Republic. It is lip lo Nasser to tickle wlieilivi' it Mii't be war or peace in the. Middle East. If Egypt and its wavering partners in Uie U.A.R. Invade Israel, Uien the (at will he in tlie fire for Mr. Kennedy. And it will not be tlie slowly simmering kind of fat, For an Isracli-U A.R. war will be swift and Woody. By the time Mr, Kennedy has finished consult ing with Ambassador Stevenson and Belling the creaking United Nations machinery lo move, the fighting may well be over. I do not mean that Israel will be defeated. But I do know that there can he no extended war In the Fertile Crescent. Israel I too small to allow for a war of move ment, of advances and retreats. The Israelis must eitiier crush the U.A.R. forces rapidly, as they did in Sinai in l!jt-or them selves lie awept into the sea as Nasser has repeatedly Utre.it ened. Tlie Israelis have the best army In the Middle East, far su perior to anything that tlie Egyp tians, tlie Syrians, and the Iraqis can put into the field. But force of numbers and tlie vast quanti ties of arm tlie Soviet Union has poured Into Egypt may more Uian counterbalance superiority In training and morale. If Israel is destroyed, President Kennedy'! chances for reelection To Armed Forces serve today in our armed forces at home and abroad. Looking back through the pages of our history we find that all-too-often this nation stood almost stripped of its military power during times of peace only to find itself com pelled to bend backwards under the blow of an enemy, rebounding to victory only after pay ing a tremendous toll in blood and sweat. We have learned our lesson from the grim past. Today, we willingly support a large military force in being, knowing also that it is the only deterrent that prevents the forces of tyranny and dictatorship from overwhelming us, depriving us of our free doms and casting us into the chains of cap tivity. Today, our physical freedom is main tained and preserved by our physical strength, and this strength is the shield fashioned by our armed forces. Let us, in gratitude for the service they are giving us, accord them special honor on their day, Armed Forces Day. We can do this in many ways. We can fly the flag proudly and visibly for all to see. We can examine the displays that will be shown at a number of business places in the community. We can visit Kings Icy Field for the Armed Forces Day program and see for ourselves that our armed forces are the forces of freedom that forge the se curity we enjoy. On this day, let us salute our flag anew, and pay tribute to those who stand ready to defend it. women who to economic success. They seem to feel they have little or no time to explore those areas of knowledge that will not offer tangible, materialistic rewards. One must wonder with Dr. Irvine what these will take with them to those hours in the living room of that split level house when the day's work is done and the chil dren have been put to bed, when all of life is concentrated on bank statements and en dowment plans and paying off the mortgage. Perhaps the fault really is ours. They are emerging into their maturity, these young, in a world where status and success all loo often are measured by bank accounts and endowment plans, and the size of the swimming pool in that grass green suburb. This urge for security, moreover, may be excited too by the wispy vapor of impcr manence wheih shrouds much of the world in the debates over nuclear bombs and mass annihilation. In the youth of many of us, especially those who still can remember the model T, there was the feeling that everything would last forever and wc would outlast even the earth. Today's young have no such security and so they may be reaching for it in ma terial things they can see and feel and touch. Issue Faces JFK will be slim indeed. This does not mean that the so-called Jew ish vole is so large or so stra tegically placed in the United States. Its major concentration is in New York City and Its sub urbs, which would deprive the chunk of electoral votes. But tile President could conceivably win without New York Slate. He would have trouble in Southern California, loo but just how much it is hard lo judge. The President's major difficul ties under these circumstances would be widespread. Many Americans watched Israel's War of Independence In l!MS and ap p I a u d e d President Truman's prompt recognition of the new state. There was considerable sympathy for Israel among the Irish In this country, If only be cause Uiey were glad to see Great Britain get it in the eve. Israel was a pet of news com mentators and otliers in the mass media and still is. Hie emotional aspects of the Arab-Israeli Issue aside, any out break of war In the Middle East would do damage to President Kennedy. Tliere has been grow ing criticism of U.S. aid to Egypt aid which allows President Nas ser to purchase tbe arms he has had all along been brandishing against Israel. That the Eisen hower Administration sat Idly by while Nasser seued tlie Sues Canal can be cited in extenuation of tlie Kennedy policy. But when guns are firing, people seldom bother to read the history bonks. Mr. Kennedy's announced In tention of taking the case of a U.A.R. invasion lo the United Nations will not sit well with Ihose who have watched with mounting frustration tlie concili atory nature of liia msI-ijuiuu-tine response to the Soviet threat in Cuba. The loss of Israel if it should come would raise serious questions about the efficacy of an American foreign policy depend ent on the self-interest and ri valries of one hundred bickering countries. A categorical guarantee of Is rael's territorial integrity, cou pled to a firm commitment of U.S. military support, would end the threat of United Arab Re public invasion. Such a guaran tee, morener, would have stand ing elfect on the touchy Middle Eastern situation. War over Is rael could easily cause that whole area to blow up like a homemade bomb, with conse quences no one can foresee. Because of the Cuban fiasco, Mr. Kennedy can no longer brush aside the steady deterioration of tlie world situation or blame it. hy some circuitous reasoning, on the Republican Party. He can no longer turn to his critics and ask them to suggest alternatives. Rightly or not, conflict in the Mid dle East would be one baby that tlie public would place on the While House steps. His job today Is lo prevent that war. If he lails, not only he. but tbe world, will sutler. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: Apart from all other considera tions, the deep psychological rea son that we need someone to love us is that we can freely confess our faults and our defects only to someone who acknowledges our lovcability. When people (lee tyranny and persecution, and set up a com munity of their own, they do not permit any more freedom to their own dissidents than they them selves had been permitted in the past; with one exception, the reli gious settlers in the New World were just as harsh and tyranni cal toward their heretics as the despots they fled from. What most people want is not freedom, but orthodoxy of their own sort. The layman's Idea (if rigorous proof is to say, "For example ..." and then proceed to cite some case so exceptional and dramatic that it proves noth ing of a general nature. A woman who docs not know how to keep quiet when she is in the right quickly forfeits her moral advantage; as her Tightness degenerates into self - righteous ness she loses her superiority and permits the man lo counter-attack: for silence on the part of the woman is a much more cllective weapon of domestic combat than haranguing. Speaking of the sexes, secret lovers give themselves away more by avoidance than by engage Collegiate ACROSS 1 New Haven university 5 Colle Ke cheer 0 "Ramblin' wreck trom Geornti " 12 Selfoteem ipl I 13 Pame'i " of Reason" 14 Hodgepodge 15 River Uleli is Rnrkv pinnacle 17 Rebuke IS floweri 20. L'nWdf d 22 damp 24 Drone bee 25 DiMociatert 29 Pertaining to dower JJ Friend (Fr.) 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II is relatively easy for us to detect when others are bad from good motives, and to be tolerant of them ; what is much harder is to detect when we ourselves are good frum bad motives, and lo be intolerant of ourselves for ; presenting this plausible coun terfeit of virtue. The youth's quest for self-knowledge is so tormenting and fruitless because self-knowledge cannot be obtained alone, but only with an other; we cannot know ourselves until we have disclosed ourscf to another and see our reflection in eyes that understand . . . and forgive. The moralizcr who is so scan dalized by "obscenity" every where would do well to ponder the remark by a true moralist, Thoreau, who said: "You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you." The world of politics today is a full generation behind the world of physics: the significant "race" of our time is not the arms-race between nations but the thought-race" between our political practices and our poten tialities for destruction, on both sides of the curtain. Answer to Previous Puille RullfiftMf r 9 Enthusiastic Brdor 11 Cultivated 19 Forefilhf r 21 Pi container 23 Persian fairy 2S Droops 2 Exude 27 Climbing plant Indian 42 Goes by 43 Musical (!!? 45 Attain st 47 Constellation 49 Valley (poet.) 50 Athena 51 Dispatched 53 Speed contest 54 Feminine appellation 55 Endearment term M University in Dallas lab.) Number j.n Mistier aoRihlicsl name 31 Mimicker 32 Conduct 3SUth LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Correction A short time ago you published a news account, summarizing our letter to the State Highway De partment, pertaining to tlie con struction of the interchange on Highway 97 north. Regarding the last paragraph in the news ar ticle, we do not maintain, nor did we write so in the letter, that the highway department changed the alignment in the Quarry Street crossing. The change in the alignment and construction took place in the merger of the new interchange with the regular Highway 97 north, approximate ly one fourth of one mile, short of the north end of the project, creating a bottleneck and a very confusing condition for motor ists. Carl Brnathen. Al manac Ry United Press International Todav is Thursday, May 16. the 1.16th day of 1963 with 229 to follow. The moon is at last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1868, tlie Treasury Depart ment was authorized to manufac ture and place in circulation the first U.S. five cent piece. In 1927, despite the fact that the manufacture and sale of al coholic beverages were unlawful, the Supreme Court ruled that "bootleggers" must file income tax forms. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on national gov ernments to adopt a scries of non aggression pacts. In 1962. U.S. forces began land ing in Thailand to bolster the Asian nation against any spread of fighting from bordering Laos. A thought for the day French philosopher and author Francois Voltaire said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What French painter died In poverty In the Smith Sea Is lands but became famous after his death? A Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin. Q It hat animal Is considered the mest Important foir-lcggrd fee of modern man? A The common rat. Q How many bridges span the Seine River at Paris? A Thirty three. Q With what esplnrer do yon assnrlaie the ship "Half Mora"? A Henry Hudson. Q Is there any evidence to sub slanllile the visit t Norsemen to American? A No Norse remains have been found so far on the American con tinent. Q According In legend, who painted the lint Madonna pic ture? A Saint Luke. The Virgin and Child became sjmbol! of the ac cepted Christian faith only alter tlie Councd of Ephcsus in ASl. By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEAI Vir ginia State College at Norfolk. , Va., has embarked on a combined research and manpower retrain ing project to find some of the answers for hard core unem ployment. When advertising and radiu spot announcements failed to bring in prospects, college re searchers went to the churches, the pool halls and the street cor ners to recruit men who had been out of work for long periods, had dependent children and were on relief. One hundred unem ployed finally were enrolled. There was a demand in the area for hotel maintenance work ers, auto mechanics, masonry and sheet metal workers and helpers. When classes were started, however, it was found that many of the selectees couldn't read a hotel menu, Auldn't r e a d a short order cook's recipe, couldn't read labels on cans of cleaning materials or insecticides, let alone simple textbooks on the mechani cal arts and crafts. There is no money under the Manpower Training Act to teach the unemployed to read and write or do simple arithmetic. So a special grant had to be obtained from Department of Health. Ed ucation and Welfare. A year's course is under way and at the end of that time there may be some factual information on whether the illiterate unem ployed can be trained for useful jobs. The Norfolk experiment is be ing watched closely to see if it proves what a lot of people have suspected that today's educa tional system doesn't fit young people for today's job openings in either skilled, semiskilled or unskilled occupations. This is one of the most potent arguments that advocates of aid to education can use. though it isn't a complete answer. The problem of fundamental education also involves school dropouts. That leads into Presi dent Kennedy's youth employ ment program which passed the Senate last week and now faces an uncertain fate in (he House. Republican congressmen have come up with proposals to amend the legislation to provide more vocational education, which makes sense. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Kennedy Disbands Intelligence Squad By FULTON LEWIS JR. The Kennedy Administration has disbanded an experienced, ef fective ring of nearly two score anti-Castro intelligence agents op erating in and out of Cuba. For two years, Uncle Sam has fooled the $15.000-a-month bill for .v. Cuban nationals stationed throughout Latin America to re port on Castro activities. The money, funnclcd to the agents by the Cuban Revolutionary Council, was well spent. The agents operated effectively inside Cuba. In other Latin Amer ican nations, they reported on Castro attempts at subversion and insurrection. Now all that Is changed. Tlie men have been fired. On April 27, a State Depart ment official named John Crim mins informed Dr. Antonio Ma ceo. president of the Cuban Rev olutionary Council, that all politi cal, military and economic sup port by this country would end three days later. All those Cubans receiving checks also got a short note that read: "As a consequence of the pres ent circumstances, the persons and institutions who up to now have been contributing to help the cause of tile liberation of Cuba, have suspended these con tributions, and for that reason tlii will be the last pavment. for lack of funds in the future. May 1. 1963." The notes were signed "Juan Paula. Department of Control." Congressman Bill Cramer, one of the most emphatic critics of Administration policy on Cuba, is furious. Tlie Florida Republican says: "The Revolutionary Council has established one of the mn.st ellective propaganda, information and intelligence gathering net works in Cuba and throughout Ijtm America. The continuance of such a network is vital to the security of this hemisphere." Representative Cramer learns that some hy no means all of the agents may he hired hy the Central Intelligence A g e n c y. "Their usefulness." he tells my assistant. Bill SchuU. "will be One curious aspect of this is that if the administration had proposed a bigger vocational education program, the political opposition probably would have been against it. But that's beside the point. The federal government already is spending millions of dollars on manpower retraining, area redevelopment, vocational and national defense education. Area Redevelopment Adminis tration, with $120 million allocated lor 800 projects has created 40, 000. direct jobs, 19,000 training jobs and an estimated 370,000 on site, indirect jobs. The Emergency Public Works program with $312 million allo cated for 2,700 projects has creat ed 420,000 man-months of employ mcnt. More money is being sought for both. Other new programs are pend ing. The Youth Conservation Corps would put 15,000 boys in the woods at a cost of $30 million the first year to set up camp's. The Home Town Youth Corps would enroll 60,000 at a cost of another $i0 million. The President's trade develop ment program which is supposed to build employment by increas ing exports or retrain workers displaced by imports won't be fully effective until 1966. Finally, the great tax reduction bill, if passed, is supposed to un , leash business so it can create more jobs. It is admitted that if a tax cut bill isn't passed, un employment may get worse. As of today private industry is creat ing only 175,000 new jobs a year. Private industry is retraining an unknown number, far greater than this, on the job. These are cm ployed workers being trained for higher skills. This completes the unemploy ment daisy chain, emphasizing the contention that what's need ed first is more and better edu cation. As Labor Secretary Wil laid Wirtz told a Senate com mittee: "Unless and until the education al system in this country is strengthened, two danger spots in our manpower situation are going to get worse. One is the concentration of unemployment among unskilled workers. The other is the imminent shortage of personnel in a good many skilled, professional and technical occupations." severely limited if they come un der tight CIA control. Their rec ord was nothing short of amazing while working (or the Revolution ary Council. "But tlie Administration, so in tent on curtailing all exile ac tivities, has severely cramped our intelligence operations. It is ob vious that it is the intention of tlie Administration to talk tough and act with a ponder puff on Cuba." Note: A former top-ranking Cas tro officer has defected to the free world with details of Cuba's most important export revolu tion. Noel Salas Santos fought with Castro against Fulgcncio Batista, -joining guerilla forces in the Es cambray Hills in March, 193", and continuing (he battle until it was won 22 months later. He became chief of the San Julian military base after Cas tro took power and fled In Hava na's Brazilian Embassy last year. He arrived in Brazil in Febru ary of this year and told intelli gence officials about the San Ju lian base. In one short period in 1961. he said, five groups of Latin Americans were receiving instruction in guerilla warfare: Mexicans i70, Puerto Ricans i42'. Argentines ili, Brazilians '37, and Chileans i3. All students used false names. All received training in use of American weapons. They were as sured that similar weapons eas ily available from gun runners and dealers in surplus material would be shipped to tliem when they returned to their homelands. An indoctrination program was headed by a Russian called "Bil ly." The textbooks were all those of Lenin's. A Czech instructor named "Pablo" taught students the proper use of mines. Cuban leachers showed them how to use .30 and .50 caliber machine guns: Thompson and Sten subma rine guns; the M-l carbine and M-l rifle; bazookas, mortars and anti-tank cannon. Chief of the guerilla program was Major Ernestn "Che" Gueva ra, whose signature appeared on all orders and Instructions, and who often visited the base.
