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Newspaper Page TextPAGE S-A HERALD fcdihftiaL (paqsL The There has been a great deal of discussion ; of late over the use of pesticides and their in ' fluence on agriculture, wildlife, and human ljfe. And It is certainly important that this ,. problem be placed in its proper perspective. Pesticides, which come in both sprays and dusts, are essential to modern agricultural production. They prevent pest damage of po tentially staggering dimensions. Yet like so many other valuable things they can be harmful when misused, a truism that could be applied with equal force, say, to automo biles, power saws, alcohol, guns, etc. The National Agricultural Chemicals As sociation, in cooperation with other interest ed parties, has established a code, of safe pro cedure. It stresses that the labels on pesticide containers should be read and followed before 'each use; that all cautions and warnings ' should be rigorously observed; that the pesti cides should be stored under lock and key, The nation's liberals like to think that they, better than most others, apply history's lessons to the present. But often they seem forgetful of differences between the past and today. From the moment President Ken nedy took office in 1961 many liberals began chiding him for not shoving Congress around or going "over its head" to the people in dra matic appeals for action. Now liberal journals like the New Repub lic are after him afresh. Uncomplimentary parallels are drawn between him and such "ac tivist presidents as Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, the two Roosevelts. The F.D.R. era of the radio "fireside chats" Is of course a great bench mark for the liberals. But are the parallels valid? Earlier presidents, even Franklin Roose velt, operated in times when major problems, whether foreign or domestic, stood above thee horizon like mountain peaks. Today Americans are drugged and dulled by problems. Soviet soldiers stand In Cuba. Governments totter In Argentina, Syria, Iraq. Communists push hard in Laos. Nuclear test talks wither again. Riots flare in Birming ham. High unemployment lingers in many places. Not only are the problems numberless, but their shock if any Is absorbed by a na tion whose basic tone is prosperous well-being. Thus again is the impact deadened. To mil lions, the difficulties do not quite seem real. Furthermore, the problems develop in the context of a government, an economy and a social structure so massive and glacial that moving any part of these more than inches seems often nearly impossible. IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO Six days before President Ken nedy admitted to the American people that tlie Soviets had Im planted medium and Intermediate range missiles in Cuba, White House aide McGeorge Bundy (con sidered by many the real Sccie tary of State) told a TV audi ence that "there Is no present likelihood" that the Castro Com munists and the Kremlin would "altcmpt to install a major of fensive capability" on the island. Hie Stennls Committee, in its re cent report on tlie Administra tion's failure in Cuba, has listed other damning instances ot Inac curate reports to the American people. This is a small preamble to new evidence, as well documented as the nnccrid!culed reports that the Soviets were sending troops, mis siles, submarines, and heavy wea pons to Cuba. This evidence comes from thoroughly reliable sources such as the Cuban Information Service, the Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba (with offices in Washington's Albee Building), and the Intelligence community in general, it is an ncauy men ai Central Intelligence Agency head quarters which will sent It on with a prayer to tlx Slato Detriment and the W hile House. If past ex perience Is any index, the prayer will not be answered. As I reported some eight months ago, hundreds of Russians have been working along a 12-mile stretch of coast north of Banes Bay where a "fishing port" (read: submarine peni ' being construct ed. Construction materials are un loaded at oighi and transported AND NEWS, Klamath Falli. Oregon a Proper Perspective Mountain-Moving Chore Cuba Buildup Continues to areas so off-limits that no Cu ban, whatever his rank, is per mitted access. At Nipe Bay. which is so deep that a submarine can enter with out surfacing, there is consider able activity. Anti Castro agents report "building which has re quired much material, and heavy machinery all kept covered with tarpaulins, transHirted at night by trucks which vanish into under ground tunnels." Photographs have been taken of Soviet suli marinca at Nipe Bay. One mile away from the Banes B.iy off-limits area is the Cuntro cicntas Riuas cave one of Cuba's largest. Tlie cave has boon do humidilicd. and great quantities ot bulky "equipment" unidenti fied is being slored tliere. At llol guin, near Banes, tremendous truck convoys have been mining in and out and thousands of Rus sians are quartered. Underground sources quite casually rcler to llolguin as a "missile base " Near tlie U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. at Ballom, the Sovi ets are constructing a tremendous subterranean staging area. More than ten radar antennae can be seen jutting out of caverns In the area, and Soviet military units have imposed maximum security measures. Salvador I-ew. one of the first Cubans to report the arrival of missiles last August, cnnlirms tlie existence of a long-range missile base at Cienfuegns. Other mis sile bases completed or under con struction are reported at La Can tera and La Cranja. In Havana province, at Jibaeoa, tlie famous lura caves have been converted into missile installations. Accord Monday. May 27, 1963 and kept out of the reach of children, animals, and irresponsible people; and that empty con tainers should be carefully and safely dis posed of. Also, the Association urges, users should learn the basic ingredient in each of the dusts or sprays used, along with the phone num-. ber of the local Poison Control Center. There are 497 of these centers in this country, aided by an office of the U.S. Public Health Serv ice. Pesticide manufacturers supply the center with all medical information concerning their products and the proper treatment in ease of accident. And, 'to say the obvious, if over exposure to a pesticide does occur, a physician should be contacted at once. The point is that the pesticides 'should be used in the manner intended. Then their vir tues will be maximized and their dangers minimized. In F.D.R. 's first years, there were some 125 million Americans. His fireside chats were not needed to stir people, but served to reassure them. The people hardly needed arousing, what with 16 million jobless in a 45-million-man work force. Today's America holds more than 185 mil lion people, and 94 of every 100 employables are working. Most are caught up in family life and personal economic betterment. Liberals say Kennedy should create com motion and tension to move the big glacier. Yet they admit it has been largely immobile on the domestic front in the 18 years since World War II, and has moved in foreign mat ters only when war (Korea) or its threat (Cuba) appeared. The truth is, since the "great engine" or postwar America took shape, no president has known how to spark it to action in the full sense. And in 1960 almost half the nation's voters, opposing Kennedy for president, said in effect that great action is not needed. In these circumstances no one, liberal or whatever, truly knows what condition short of war would arouse Americans massively today. Liberals guess wildly when they say urgent words from Kennedy would galvanize millions into pulsing effort. The America of 1963 is a phenomenon no activist president of earlier times ever dreamed of. None tried to move so great a mass. None gained big action when half or more of the country wanted Inaction. When Americans again want strong lead ership, they will get it. But that guidance will have to be something altogether new befit ting a hugeness thus far not really mastered by anyone at all. ing to reliable estimates, more than 2.0(10 cubic meters of concrete have been poured into just one en trance of tliese caves. A rancher in Pinar del Rio pro vince, quoted by the ultra-reliable Kree Cuba News, stales: "Itockols that American reconnaissance planes phnlographed on the farm of Uiis l.oH't . . . were moved during the crisis last October and hidden in Iis Portales cave on La Guira farm . . . When the missile site on Luis lipri's faim was dismantled, peasants in the area saw huge trucks, covered with tarpaulins, traveling by night to tlie La Guira farm . . . Los Portales cave is a military zone occupied exclusively by Russian forces." It should lie noted here that tlie Stcnnis Committee report on tlie Soviet arms buildup in Cuba sharply criticized llie "Intelligence community' for disregarding the information brought out by Cuban exiles "The analysis." says the Slciiius irport. "were strongly in fluenced by their philosophical judgment that it would be con trary to Soviet policy to introduce strategic missiles into Cuba." This same kind of "philosophical judg ment" is still Winding the admin istration. Tislay, Republicans like Repre sentative James Bnttin and Rep resentalivc John Rhodes almost hopelessly point out tlie dangers of this wishful thinking. Sadly enough, when those new and never-removed missiles are pointed at tlie heart of America, those who warned 'most earnestly ot the dan gers w ill be as menaced as Secre tary of Defense McNamara's slide rule brigade. 'Just in Case -it-', i By SYDNEY J. HARRIS In his recent attack on the American education system (with which I largely agree), Rob ert Hutehins remarked the famil iar fact that European students of tlie same age and grade are far more advanced academically than their American counter parts. This is certainly true, much of the embarrassment of those of us who have met European high school or college students, and have compared them to our own native products. Yet I wonder if a genuine su periority exists in Uic European system of education or if it is simply the basic altitude of the students themselves that makes tlie decisive difference. In Europe, being a student is a privilege. School is a serious matter, since without proper schooling, the young person can not ride up the social and eco nomic escalator. It is the one feas ible method of breaking out of the more or less rigid caste sys tem that still obtains in most European societies. Certainly, the children there are no brighter; and I doubt that the teachers are much more pro ficient, if any. The chief differ ence is one of motivation: they are deeply motivated by econom ic and social considerations thai do not seem to carry as much weight in our culture. School in America is consid ered largely a bore, a necessary evil, a marking ot time until Bird and Beast ACROSS I Bird of prey 4 Auualic bird 5 KlMns mammals 12 Hawaiian wrealtl 13 Wife of r-rancKffl del toocondo lIHuil, IS llrnund tcomb. lornn IS I nclunus aiili.talue leod 211 ormhe n 21 Worm 22 I inform 24 Kind of jockey 2 Chinese dtna.lv IT Snake .10 1 himencal 32 Null if v 34 I ooked ooliquele SS Kedarled .IS V nickname 37 I'nnk. made from fruit 3D feminine nickname 40 haunter of iK-pinui and Telhys itmth) 41 uricnlal coin 42 iaNe niece 4' Crow nrd 4Ruht of sun essoin M I ima period -S2 A hove W Ma.culine appellation .'4 Last ilr i ,V, ralal Krc 9. Veditcrnneirl, for hi. lame IIOHN 1 rlirl s name 2 InuKme 3 I. arte iemale rat 4 IviU 5 II- I 12 13 I I lb 16 17 I 13 19 110 111 f! 16 w 1 ta pp 21 TpJj ' kII T!"' ' iktV ky JET 31 -S3 n V i; "HJT rrjjg 40 1 41 4i (43 44 r4546 4? 44 -- kwj Si 60 ""51 rj jo-"-" jT You Hot Shots Get Any Ideas ' i1ttWJf :S- -- ....... I 1 ...VP '.- '- STRICTLY PERSONAL tests are passed and grades are given and diplomas are Ward edand "real life" then begins. The waste that is so appalling ly evident in other aspects of our national life waste of food, waste of resources, waste of prod ucts through "planned obsoles cence'" is as shockingly obvious in our school systems. Much high school work repeats what should have been learned in the upper primary grades, and wasn't. Much college work re peats what should have been learned in the high school, and wasn't. It the academic "wa ter" were wrung out of our edu cational system, tlie eight years of high school and college could easily be compressed into six. Moreover, the boys who are now being graduated from college are being called up for military serv ice, which adds perhaps another three years lo their "prepar ation" for adulthood. It is liltlc wonder that they marry pre maturely, when the vista aliead seems so dark, so dull, so end less, and so pointless. Our intellectual and emotional approach to schooling in Amer ica is schizophrenic: on the one hand, we believe ardently in the importance of a "good educa tion"; on tlie other hand, we are impatient and contemptuous to ward the works of the mind. Until w resolve this split in our national personality, our schools will continue to be a parody. Answer to Previous Pufjle. l2aI-s.TeEia , , 'Jr T "ay ri.A.s.T si NlaRe whupers Mtooe i,oiint SI. Allians Satitiral term PaMrv oh,er,e Infolded 29 Sralle r 111 Tidier 33 Mockn 3 Inllame 40 Cuoic meter 41 Meairan ronrtcy title 4.'lioad 43 S"n of Jacob i Hih I 44 Aeierate Arademy iwlrd Climhine plants hind of pit kle Arrow poiton Hunter Kooevelt 4H Surf noise 47(.aelic 4Ka, Is i, rant receivers Ml Mil, era A P. I T.AU LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Project Let's make Klamath Kails a beautiful city by starting a dan delion campaign. If you have a sprayer, get a can of spray and contact everyone near you whose yard needs spraying. G e t acquainted with your neighbors. When they find it's free, they only have to put it on, Ihey will glad ly cooperate, and you will be well-paid when you see the re sults. I am making North Ninth Street my project and enjoy meeting the people very much. Mrs. Minnie S. Grizzle, 1127 Jefferson. OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Do We Need Chemicals? (Progressive Farmer) We feci that Dr. R. D. Turk of the school of veterinary medi cine of Texas A & M has effec tively stated the case for farm chemicals. Referring to current unfavor able publicity about the "alleged'' effects of chemicals on people, livestock, and wildlife. Dr. Turk asks, "Do we need chemicals?" In answer, he says, "If you have ever seen a mangy bull, sheep jplcsted with fleeceworms or screwworms. or a cottonfield stripped by loafworms and wee vils, the answer must be. 'Yes.' "Certainly chemicals are dan gerous." he continues. "But so are automobiles, airplanes, elec tricity, and even taking a bath. Last year twice as many people were killed by aspirin as by ag ricultural cliemicals. And the few dozen people killed by chemicals generally through misuse doesn't begin lo cumpare with 41.000 people slaughtered by auto mobiles last year." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Which Is regarded as the world's most poisonous fungi? A The death cup. a variety of mushroom. Q When was the great asphalt lake In Trinidad discovered? A-ln ISM by Sir Walter Ra leigh. Q What country has the oldest working clock? A It is in Salisbury Cathedral. England, and dates from :. 4 In Greek mythology who were the Muses? A The nine goddes.es of the arts and sciences Q What substance is an excep tion tn the rule that nearly ail sol ids expand when heated and enn. tract when cooled? A Rubber. H contracts when heated. 9 What Is the sou then-most point la the I niled Stales? A The southernmost point is now Kalae 'Sxith Cape' on Ha waii Island. Hawaii, rci'lacio; Cape Sable. Kla. EDSON IN Javits Resolution Encourages Israel By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent .Newspaper Enterprise Assn. W'ASHLNGTON (NEAl Now that Winston Churchill is an hon orary American citizen, he might phrase it differently. But before the war, whenever lie visited the United States and was asked what he thought about independence for Ireland, he had a stock reply: "I never interfere in American politics." The inference, of course, was that Irish-Americans were Irish first and Americans second. But now that Ireland has its freedom, now that a McCormack and a .Mansfield are in charge in Con Kress and now that a Kennedy in the While House is going to visit Ireland, maybe the situation has changed and can be joked about safely. Tlie situation does not seem to have changed similarly with re- spect to Israel, however. For Is rael's independence is still a seri ous American political issue. And woe betide the American politi cian who has a large Jewish vote in his state or district if he does not endorse full support for Israel. This was re-emphasized the other day when Sen. Jacob Jav its, R-N.Y., introduced a resolu tion urging the President to in vite Britain, France and anybody else interested to join with the United States in a mutual defense agreement with Israel and to pro vide Israel with military and oth er assistance necessary to main tain its integrity. Javits got nine other Republi cans and two Democrats Doug las of Illinois and Pastore of Rhode Island to co-sponsor his resolution, and there may be oth ers, for it is simply good Ameri can politics to go along with it. The Javits resolution also in cludes as beneficiaries any other Middle East state willing to car ry out its obligations under such an agreement. But this is window dressing. Israel would be the principal, if not the only, benefi ciary. Inclusion of Britain and France in this resolution with tlie United WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Hungarian Policy Changed Radically By KII.TON LEWIS JR. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has been accused of gross decep tion in his relations with Con gressional leaders. His actions strike at the very "integrity" of the Executive Branch, according to Senator Thomas Dodd, influential Con necticut Democrat. Time alter time, members of Congress have been assured that Rusk planned no change in U.S. policy toward the Captive Na tions. Only last December, Dodd and four colleagues wrote Rusk asking that our U.N. delegation lie instructed to "stand tirm" on Hungary. "We are deeply concerned," they wrote, "over recurring re ports that the United States may he considering a chance in at titude toward the Hungarian question on the UN agenda." The Senators Dodd. McCar thy. Keating. Mundt and Scott were assured tlie reports were er roneous. Tnen came the f ir s-t slult in U.S. policy. Tlie United Slates agreed to dismiss Sir Leslie Munro of Aus tralia as Siecial IN represenla live on Hungary. Sir Leslie, who had performed yeoman service in his tireless efforts In win Hun garian justice, was replaced by Secretary General U Thant. a Rurmese neutralist who prompt ly made il known the Hungar ian quotum was dead as far as he was concerned. He then ab". is'hsI the special UN broadcasts to Hunuary. which often gave its captive people the only non-Com-munist news they received. AltlHiuch Dodd and his col leagues did not then know it. an other U.S. policy had undergone chance. American envoys becan to mins'.e socially with their Hun. carian counterparts. Tlie Stale Department rationale: "It served as an intelligence pipe line into the Hungarian delega tion " SiMin even that preten-e was dnp:vd Vice lreirient Lyndon .h-iiiiMin was host to Hungarian Ambassador Karo'.y Csaiorday at his Texas ranch. LBJ and Ins Lady Bird gaie Comrade Csator day the red carpet treatment, then rode w ith them and otner IN envoys in a special parade through San Antonio. The policy shut now almost complete. In a paper ptepaied lor Congressional leaders, the State Department has announced that Ambassador Adlai Steven son w ,H no longer oppose seating the Hur.ganat. delegation T':ie rcavirt KW and Com pany have pnvlaimed an amncs Iv for anti - Communist political WASHINGTON States as guarantors of Israel may also be regarded as w indow dress ing. It probably is being greeted with bitter laughter in the other Middle East states the Arab countries which lemember only too well that Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt in 1956. This aggression, begun without notifica tion was put down only by U.S. insistence that it be stopped. The necessity for the Javits res olution may also be open to question, for already on record is the Tri-Partite Declaration of 1950, in which Britain, France and the United States guaranteed the sta tus quo in the Middle East and pledged action against any state that violated the frontiers between Israel and the Arab States, now guarded by a U.N. patrol. If it is maintained that this dec laration w as reduced to the status of a scrap of paper by the British-French-Israeli invasion of 1956, this, loo, has been corrected. For on March 9, 1957, Congress adopted a joint resolution authoriz ing the President (Eisenhower at the time) to co-operate with any nation in the Middle East desir ing to maintain its national inde pendence. This was the beginning of the present U.S. declared policy to co operate with both Israel and the Arab countries and to promote their peaceful relations and devel opment. President Kennedy emphasized this policy In a recent press con ference when he declared: ' "We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors. We seek to limit the Near East arms race 'which takes resources from an area already poor. . . ." "In the event of aggression . . , we would support appropriate measures in tlie United Nations, adopt other courses of action on our own to prevent or put a stop to such aggression, which, of course, has been the policy the United States has followed for some time." Since this statement seems lo have satisfied Israel, it should sat isfy Washington, too. Anything ad ditional might only make a bad situation worse. prisoners. Hungarian refugees, whose contacts behind the Iron Curtain are remarkably good, call the "amnesty" a sham. Congressional reaction has been violent. Senator Dodd, one of the most eloquent foes of Com munism in Washington, says the shift comes close lo "destroying the last hocs of the Captive Peo ples." Representative Roman Pucin ski. Illinois Democrat, is incred ulous: "For anyone lo suggest that the time has come for tlie United Nations to accept the Kadar cre dentials is to make a-mockery of freedom, justice and human dig nity." Note: One other statement is now worth repeating: "The god less tyranny that has fastened it self on tlie great nations of East ern Euroie on Hungary, on Poland, on Czechoslovakia, on Ru mania, on East Germany, on Bul garia can never be overthrown by an America working halftime. "And it cannot be overthrown by empty promises at election time ... I say the people of East Europe do not deserve to be forcotten. And I say they won't lie under a Democratic Adminis tration. "We must make it clear to all Ihe world thai we will never accept as a final solution Soviet colonialism in East Europe. We must seek through positive action in tlie United Nations to hold the searchhcht of world opinion on Sn-iet brutality." Tlie speaker, John Kennedy. H u srar.hlicht, apparently, has burned out. Almanac By United Press International Today is Monday. May 27. the HTth day of lira with J18 to follow. The moon is approaching i'S first quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars On this day in history: In irM). Giuseppe Garibaldi in vaded Sicily with l.ono "red shirl" and captured Palermo in his drive lo take over the king d'ltn of Naples. In pit?, a one week celebration marked tlie opening of the Golden Ga;e Bridge in San Francisco Bay In r.",4. more than lfK) crewmen ere kiiled and Jul injured in an explosion aboard the U S aircratt carrier Benmncton off Rhode Island.