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Newspaper Page TextPAGE -A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Wednesday. Mav SI. 13 EDSON IN WASHINGTON President Outlines Ideas On Business "I Stand on My Constitutional Right To Knock Your Block Off!" I; i: ; The ; The New Frontier unleashed its broad domestic legislative program with not only vast enthusiasm, but total confidence. It was felt that the masses of the voters would rally to the cause and make recalcitrants in Con gress bow to their wishes. Opposition was. of course, expected. But, the anticipations ran jn the Kennedy echelons, this would be over come by the Juggernaut. All the massive po litical resources and skills of the Administra tion were organized with the utmost care and .'attention to detail the same kind of care that mado Mr. Kennedy's nomination and election an actuality in order to get the machine :jpovihg. , What has happened, after months of debate, argument, controversy, wheeling and idealing? As more and more informed com ipientators including some who are person ally favorable to the President and his ideas are writing, the machine has blown a gas ket. If it's moving at all, it is at a limping, one cylinder pace. The reason can be quickly explained in a single word, and that word is apathy. As Paul Duke of the Wall Street Journal puts it r-and his view is typical "New evidence of ; Widespread public apathy toward President : Kennedy's legislative proposals is darkening prospects for the 1963 New Frontier program, :lhe evidence has been unearthed by lawmak ers who communed with the folks back home during the 10-day Easter recess. . . . With remarkable rcpetitiveness, House and Senate members report most voters in an aloof, couldn't-carc-less frame of mind toward major measures pending in the 88th Congress." And he quotes a Democratic Congressman, who is solidly back of the President's program, as saying, "We seem to be at a plateau where people are satisfied with the status quo." Oddly enough, the President's personal popularity, according to the polls and to what Iricmhers of Congress learned talking with '.jtheir constituents, remains high much, much Jiighcr than his domestic welfare program. This has happened before Presidents Roos evelt and Truman found themselves, at times, Jn (he same fix. In any event, at a rough esti mate, here's how things look now: IN WASHINGTON . . . C-By RALPH dr TOI.KDANO ,-f!The Sentatc Preparedness In-'-vesication subcommittee, has finally issued printed copies of Its report on the Suviel missile mess which led to the Prcsi dent's very temporary show of spirit and the shortlived "quar antine" of Cuba. It is an inter, eating document, for Uie honor able Senators of the majority ;have really struggled to rational iio conscience and political ex yedienc y. ; - The 18 page reprise attempts lo ;&y Uie blame for not being fully aware ol tlto Soviet aims build--up and the smuggling of mis siles on the "Intelligence com munity" a vague enough phrase lo spare the feelings of the Cen tral Intelligence Agency and oth er groups. Yet it is repeatedly forced to admit that a great deal of pertinent and vital infnrma iioit was gmlieml biiu st-iit up ward to the Secretary of Defense ami the While House. - Most interesting alsout this re port is the careful way in which .it fails lo give credit lo those '.Who were saying in July, August, .'a;nd September of l;3 what we I read from Senator Stcnnls'a sub ; corrtmitlee today. In some cases, moreover, the facts as staled in Ihe Slcnnis report do not quite match w hat w as public know ledge In the last days of Summer lata. For instance, tlio report states that this government did not have confirmation of the presence in Cuba of M1G lis and 11-23 bomb ers until September 5 and Oc tober 10 respectively. Tins creates something of a problem in chro ?nology. For before Septcmlier S, IPresident Kennedy told a group ;if congressional leaders about 'Oie.MIU 21s and live 1128s ind even cited the number al ready on the Island. JvThe report also does some fan ;cy Ice skating on Ihe dates when ;lhe Intermediate flange llallislic - Missiles and the Medium Kangc -Ballistic Missiles were first "dis- covered." A good deal of playing about with language Is done. The "Intelligence community" learned of these llin.Ms and MltfiMs. but it was not "established" that they Public Is Apathetic Hindsight On Cuba really existed until Ihe U-2 over nights produced Ihe pictures. There is a considerable amount of all around Uie - mulberry bush on the failure of U.S. In telligence lo discover that the So viet "technicians" were in reality army units, in division strength. Well. I must be very small I do not have a billion dollar CIA lo brief me or a G-2 lo conlide in me. I have, in certain areas, good sources. And during the crit. ical period. I was writing regular ly land perhaps boring my read ers! in very specific terms ol troop concentrations, where Uiey were located, and other sundry items suddenly discovered by the Slcnnis subcommittee. I was warn ing of the presence of intermed iate range missiles. Some days, having gotten my information to gether and written my column. I would ask myself. "Can I be right? Why does Ihe Adminis tration say It isn't so." Of course, 1 wasn't the only one. A Cuban exile. Carlos Todd, in Florida, had his own private Intelligence group llinl systoma t:cally gathered Information, which was then denied but later confirmed to Ihe last item. Oilier newspapermen wrote about the build-up. though perhaps not as naggingly as 1 did. Frankly, we weren't so small Tlie Central Intelligence Agency had every scrap of information before we published It. Hut the "Intelligence gap" was yawning wide. By this. I do not mean a gap In our ability lo collect and evaluate evidence. The "gap" manilestcd itself in two ways U the full Impact of what had been gathered was never allowed to reach Ihe top brass or disturb Its equanimity, and 1 2 1 the wat ered - down version which I h e lower cclielcms prepared was not taken seriously by the White House. Point l is one of Ihe great dangers of too large an Intelli gence organization like CIA. Too much of the raw files is evaluated by too many people loo far from those Ih must make Ihe final Judgment. Small, tightly Integral ed Intelligence groups eliminate this difficulty, so that Use top Foreign aid a heavy cut, of about a billion dollars. The medicare plan for providing cer tain medical services to everyone within the Social Security System hardly a chance of passing. Extensive federal aid to the public schools no foreseeable chance. Still tighter regulations on the pharma ceutical industry extremely doubtful. Further increases in the minimum wage equally doubtful. So the story goes. This leaves out of ac count the tax-cut, tax-revision program, the most ambitious of all the Administration's domestic proposals. It, too, is in profound trouble. For one thing, the new rules recently adopted by the Internal Revenue Service, even though somewhat cased after waves of angry protest, make it tougher than ever on the individual taxpayer, and particularly on the man whose income comes totally from sal ary and who can claim no deductions other than the very limited standard ones. And there has been an important change in the rules covering other deductions. The burden of proof is now on the taxpayer, where it used to be on the government. The keeping of records has been made more, not less, com plicated. On top of all this, no one yet knows just how tough the IRS will ultimately prove to be in its audits, and this doubt and con fusion hardly contribute to optimism and a go-ahead spirit on the part of the individual taxpayer. Moreover, the proposed and possible tax cuts would mean little to the family in the average-income bracket, hardly more than the increase in the social security tax that be came effective on January 1 of this year. Finally, there is a widespread fear that tax cuts without compensating reductions in spending would be exceedingly dangerous and administration spokesmen see no chance at all for reductions of any substance. t Administration leaders press ahead, as they must, on behalf of the program. But, to repeat, the public response in general is just plain apathy. men are that much closer to the raw file. And since Ihcy are aware of strategic matters, what may be meaningless to a clerk becomes significant to them. That Is the way British Intelli gence, in its heyday, worked. The Soviets have another meth od. They use the "vacuum clean er approach" sucking up all information in Ihe pallia of their agents. But they have fiercely competing apparatus and this compensates for the unwieldy size. It also allows cross-checking to a degree not known lo West ern Intelligence agencies. Tlie Stennis subcommittee lias a great deal of needed hindsight Hut w ill the lessons of Cuba lead to just a little more foresight" Al manac Rv I'nilrd Press International Today is Wednesday. May 22. the U2nd day of I'.Xvt with 22:1 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star Is Mais. Those born today are under the sign ol Gemini. On this day in history: In IR07, former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial for "tieason" in Ilichmond, Va He was acquitted the following Au gust In PMt. Soviet liussia an nounced the dissolution of tlie Communist International i Comin tern', founded in 1!)19 to promote world revolution. In in.Vt, President Eisenhower ncned tlie controversial lidelands oil hill, guaranteeing coastal stales the rights to all minerals in submerged lands within thru' historic boundaries. In I9ttf, a Continental 707 pas senger jet carrying 4fl persons clashed in southeastern Iowa while en route from Chicago to Kansas City. A lone survivor died Itours alter Hie mishap. A thought for tlie day-Plato said "Human nature cannot know the mystery of an art witltout experience" By SYDNEY 3. IIABB1S One of Ihe most famous quota tions in the world, w hich has been attributed to everyone from Mar cus Aurelius to Robert Louis Stevenson, is this: "I expect to pass through this world but once: any good thing, therefore, that I can do. or any kindness that I can show lo my fellow-creatures, let me do it now: let me not deter or neg lect il, for I shall not pass this way again." Although praised by many as a truly scriptural senlimcnt, it is utter nonsense high-minded non sense of IhoYort that sounds good in a spceclrW means nothing in either philosophical or practical terms. For those people w hose good im pulses are in the ascendent, such a stimulant is not needed: and for those very many more whose bad impulses too often dominate. Uie sentiment is worth lessbecause they will draw pre cisely tlie opposite conclusions from it. "I shall not pass this way again." -Then why docs it mai ler what I do? Why not ruin Ihe fields, deforest the woods, litter the roads, pollute the streams, trample the flowers, and treat people as a mere means to one's , own ends? This quotation admirably illus trates, indeed, the deep difference between genuine religious feeling and specious sentimentality. II Ihe determining factor is our not returning this way again, why not indulge in any species of fraud Food Shopping ACROSS 4S.n!mC Rrw Ifg of 4ti Sacirr A'.t HitatKU? Food seasoning M Tahilun ciwl Green vegetable 5-t In-d. orient Gem omtMion llorieepodKe VI Miles Measures of S7(,tierion monkey cloth M Oracle Food dispenser SSMimt.lrM Dibble fio Coteries English stream 61 Domestic slae Ome ind m. N Urge- cupoli ' MiM'lre(1 Droon 2 I htee-handed High mountain rmanuio Demolish S Masculine Singing group 4 of inffre Barm, for Drowse 'di.il instance (1 Brinm into line Fears greatly TRrawn i.Vot.) Counsel fl Taxrs Evsnnellrst 9 Instrument to Precipitation meure Raced Milking rsnse Chinese weight If Ardor Pasture I Vipen P P F I Is fs p fa I 19 jlO 111 i2" il ' T5 15 T7 21 u 35 -J -J? 42 4J rU if-"' ' ' 6 j47 T" 49 M SI 152 L-. lt M 54 65 56 57 "58 59 60 Si I I I I I I r I I I r M.U.M'AIIR I.MIKI'Klst: ASSY STRICTLY PERSONAL or deceit or cruelty or exploita tion? In fact, only if some people were forced to return to the scene of their exploits might they refrain from selfish and inconsid erate behavior. The reason for kindness to our fellow-creatures has nothing to do with passing this way once, or twice, or a thousand times; it has lo do, rather, w ith the know l edge that we are commanded to act thus, that it is a very condi tion of our humanhood, that not to do so tears the fabric of cre ation, violates the natural law, and perverts the proper goals de signed for us and our descend ants. What most of us practice in the modern world if we practice it at all is the religion of senti mentality, of faith in faith, of good sayings and warm feelings. And what is wrong with this at titude is that il is essentially friv olous and superficial, it docs not engage the deepest parts of our personality, and most of all. does not give us (tie strength lo resist the evil in ourselves, only in others. Atheism has never been a for midable enemy of religion: but idolatry has always been. The sentimentalism. and its only dog ma is "No dogmas just warm feelings." " QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Of what order of Creek arch itecture Is the Parthenon a good example? A Doric. Answer to Prtviout Pulll 1 4 Father or nvther 'Vorn hv hon 41 .toft and horves 4" (let up i Of the shoulder 4 Italian city anal i 47 Mountain 5 ife of (tomb form) Tndareus 4fl Cry of Canopies bacchanals 4 Runs VI Periods of tim Notion f that tim I Capital of SJ Fremh vtrb ' t( Norwav he" 1 Climbing plants 55 Short nipped rn iiows ' tnrn I ORE AD SI H Shops n i. inn LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Facts I want you and all people of Klamath County to know that I am in favor of a single district county unit school system, grades 1-12. The single district is the only educational system available with equalization, that is, with the total assessed values of Klamath Coun ty as a base for financing the edu cation of alt the children of Klam ath County. The overcrowding problem at KU has to be solved. Klamath County School Board has finally admitted that they have building problems. The real qucslion is who is going to carry the load of the "suburban" area which sup plies one-half of the KU enroll ment and which is an important segment of the economy of Klam ath County. Equalization is not legally possible, except in a one county district. In Ihe one district all of the dollars will be behind all of Ihe children. The one big problem will be administration. I believe that most of the dis advantages Dr. Cliff Robinson, superintendent of tlie county schools, is talking about are the problems that he has and is con fronting and resolving in his pres ent county unit district. Dr. Robinson is a most able educator and administrator, and I am certain a man of his stature and calibre would have a more elllcienl educational operation un der a one district county unit Ihan under Ihe present sel-up. He could improve the long range edu cational opportunities for our Klamath County youth, county, suburban or overlap and city. In writing this. 1 am CMprcssinc my opinions as an individual and not necessarily as chairman ol the Elementary School Roard of Dis trict No 1. I feel there is no room lor dis cussing personalities or injecting emotional issues into the ques tion of what type of educational strucUire is best for our young sters. There is room for honest discussion of Ihe advantages and disadvantages of any system. W'nai we warn is lile ileal svsicm inissihle under the circumtances. and we feel the one-unit system is lust that. We in Kliim.ith County always have to work and fight hard for anything good. All I urge is that you be recep tive to acts for the single dis trict They will be forthcoming. Rolhn A. Canlrall. 2.H1 Lakcshore Drive. Appreciation Si major committees include vour two rap.thle representatives. 1 airol Howe and (eorge Klitcralt. Two veais ayo these gentlemen displaved outstanding ability as (eshman mcniliers of the House Hinr rv(iencnie and unuua! ahil ilv have m.nlr tlieir i onlribution even gicatrr dunlin this session. Hv I!h ir ailMins and by llicir vot 111.' record it is evident that both o! these li'ginUiois believe in good lin.iniial nianaci'mi-nt nf stale at tain I am sure my colleagues would join me in expressing appreciation lo 11 people of Klamalh County for providing us with tlie services of two very capable representa tives. Cartol Howe and tieorge r'htcrall r' K 'M.mir MniiUonKTy. Hnis Minoflly Leader. Hv I'KTKK KDSUN Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NKA Presi dent Kennedy's speech in defense ol his tax, spending, budget, bal ance of payments and liscal pol icy in general made a profound impression on Ihe 2m members of the Committee for Economic De velopment at their annual trustees meeting in Washington. Kor good reason. Some of Ihe ideas he espoused were theirs and he praised them. Whether or not the CED mem bers agreed with the way the Pres ident interpreted the ideas, many came out of the meeting admit ting thai he had a remarkable grasp of facts and figures and could argue persuasively for his ideas. The cliche is, of course, thai the President is antibusiness. And it is inconceivable that the Amer ican lion and Steel Institute, which will present the first Ben jamin F. Eairless memorial gold medal lo ex-President Eisenhovv er May 21, will ever award it to Kennedy. Labor leaders and the ultra liberals, on Ihe other hand, argue that Kennedy is far loo prnbusi ness particularly on tax Milicies. The President's real ideas on business stuck out all through his CKD speech. He had praise for tlie organization's recognition that "federal monetary and fiscal pol icies can and must supplement the decisions of the market place In determining the course of the economy that interest rates must be adjusted up or down, budgets into deficits and surplus, to fit the needs of the time." Kennedy made this speech be fore the CED for two reasons. One was because they asked him. The other was because this' was CED's 20th anniversary meeting and he knew he could get a fair hearing. In its two decades of public service, CED has made an out standing contribution lo econom ic sophistication in the United States. It has issued more than f0 research studies and reports on every controversial economic pol icy question confronting postwar America. It began operations in 194:1 when there was great fear of post WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Republicans Pick Up In Election Returns By KtLTOX LEWIS JR. Flowers bloom, birds chirp, people vote, and the Winter of Discontent has become the Spring of Discontent (or John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Widely scaltered election re turns of a week ago indicate that a Republican trend that began in January has continued into early ly May. In the most sensational returns nf the year. Baltimore voters ousted a Democratic mayor, re placed him with veteran Republi can Theodore Reoosevelt McKel din. McKcldin overcame a four-to-one registration edge to unseat incumbent Philip Goodman. It was a personal dclcat for the President, whose voice was broad cast countless times on election eve urging voters to support Good man and his team. Elected with MiKcldin was Hvman Pressman, a pesky Imle Democrat who denounced his par ty and ran for comptroller as a Republican. On the same day last week, voters at High Point, N C. re jreted the pleas of former Gov. IaiI'iici- Hodges and gave Renib nvaii a ncdii siii t.t iily titi tinns. The secretary of commerce ft nl his part to help the local Democratic machine, then s a w voicrs choose a Republican may or and eight city councilmcn. Also last week. Connecticut Re publicans scored their most im pressive victories in some time They swept eight ol nine towns, winning in Granbv, Bethany, tiro ton. Avon. Simsbury. Trumbull, Karmington and Naugatuck. T!ie lone IVmocratic victory was in Enfield, where the GOP never theless won four of 11 town coun cil scats. Si a string of GOP vutotn-s that brcan in January continues and Republicans tor the hrt time have expressed ccninne op timism alxmt I'M. Tlie Januai'v vote saw Republican Don Clan sen come to t'oncicss from Cali fornia in a special election, sue icedini; tlie late Clem Miller, a Democrat Here is how GOP an.il)! re cord recent elect inns Feb. 13: Georgia voters clcitcH n "Goldwater Rcpublu an" to ihe state Senale. increasing tlto dele gation there to three Feb. 19: For Hie lirst time sine Reconstruction, a Republic, in won eievlion to tlie Mitsisvip, i..ls. lalure. Meridian's "Mack" M.. .Master, a Goldwater conservative war depression and high unem ployment. Under ils first chair man, Paul Hoffman, CED argued rightly, that instead of a reces sion. Hie pent-up demand for goods would create a business boom. Recognizing that the great de pression of the 1930s was a con lession of failure to provide a live lihood for millions of Americans, CED set out to prove that busi ness must provide the leadership 10 preserve free enterprise. But along with this, CED also recognized that government has a responsibility in ils lax, spending, deficit and other fiscal policies to influence favorably all business, price and employment levels. From this start CED went on to support passage of the Full Em ployment Act of 1M6 as a neces sary national economic goal. The next step CED successfully advocated was removal of war time supports on government se curities by the Federal Reserve, since this shackled monetary ac tion and induced inflation. A third major contribution was CED's "stabilizing budget policy" concept. While it emphasized the desirability of balanced budgets under relatively full employment, 11 left room for a change in this standard in times of high unem ployment and business recession. Kennedy fiscal policies are drawn from this. From then on through the 1957 turning point in U.S. eco nomic history and continuing even now CED has produced careful analyses of current economic problems, and has suggested so lutions. CED's most construcliva achievement probably will come from its Commission on Money and Credit, established in 1958 with a Ford Foundation grant. One volume of its report was published in 1061 and has been extensively used by administration economists and Congress. Other volumes are in preparation. A principal goal of CED now is furtherance of economic educa tion in America. The theory is that if free enterprise and individual liberty are to survive, this will come only through greater un derstanding of what Ihe system ia and how it works. ective in the Young Republicans, was elected to the State House of Representatives. Republicans plan an all-out campaign for the state's governorship, up or grabs this lall. Former Democrat Ru holl Phillips will head the COP slate. March 19: St. Petersburg. Fla., rlei ted a GOP mav or. March 26: In a 12-counly so cial election necessitates:! by re apportionment, the GOP picked up 12 nf .14 new scats. On thai same day. live new Republicans won flection to the Kansas City, Mo., city council. The GOP candi dates for mayor came within one per cent of victory. April 2: Republicans picked up two new seats on Ihe Chicago City Council, making a total of five. A little-regarded mayorahty can didate. Ben Adamowski, came within l.TT.OOO voles nf Democrat ic boss Richard Dalev. who won hy 4fi.0cKi his last lime out. GOP hones of capturing the governor ship in 11 have soared. on the same dav. in Great Falls. Mont.. Republicans upset a long . entrenched Democratic machine, electing a mayor. Mrs. iwiies Kinmaun. anil a major ity of (iiy councilmcn. April l"i Hi-publicans raced to 3-2 vKtory in Charleston. W Va , electing a mayor, city treasurer, municipal judge, and live at large councilmcn April 22 Republic ans Hwoi wei, elected to ihe city council in North Augusta, sc.. for the lust time since Reconstruction davs A Republican won a vat in Hie Foit w,'(h. Tex. civ coun (il in a non-partisan election; an other Republican was added lo the levas House in a special elec tion hcid in Corpus chrisli. long a I"cm.Kraiic stronghold Congressman Hob Wilson chair man ot the House GOP Campaign ommitlee. is overjoved He 1 We welcome ihcse advances localise lin pjr1v b s the city and local level help, elect congressmen and presidents With n expanding base al ,,. KUle and local level. w,, t,e ,,,,lln, "id deterioration ,ho N p . Montier, we. ,i,.phl,, an. I"k forward , ,!M Wllh denre and ,est r thp ,-lh,.nm. "is flection. We are certain that "' "I"P subsist,.-,, ,w m lae H..,,.e of Rcprrenla!,ves "d elect Republican, from Ihe While House i mirthous. ..