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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
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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
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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
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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. ..