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I PACE I HERALD fcdihftxoL (paqsL Who Controls Our Schools? General federal aid to primary and sec ondary education seems an unlikely prospect for some time to come. Congress will not consider it this year. Yet it is still high in the realm of public debate. A principal argument against it, of course, is that such assistance inevitably means U.S. control of education. With countless opponents this fear is ob viously genuine, though others evidently use the argument to cloak other objections they do not care to voice. Often the problem is expressed in this kind of question: "Do we want to turn control of our schools over to federal bureaucrats in Wash ington?" There are perhaps few educators who do not share concern that the federal government might become too assertive, once established in the field. Nevertheless there is an opposite side to this coin. It can be stated in the question: "What kind of control are we getting at the state and local level? And who asserts it?" The query is pertinent because in recent years, in many places, a whole host of people of dubious qualification have attempted to dictate to school boards, administrators and teachers what should and should not be taught in our schools. A university like Stanford, can, as it re cently did, refuse such "guidance" in the form of strings attached to money gifts. Pub lic schools, dependent on public funds, are Don't Did you ever hear of the Poultry Products Section, Inspection Branch, Poultry Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of Agriculture? It's hardly like ly that you have. But the Mione Packing Com pany, in Newberg, certainly has. Mione sells chickens packed in glass jars, and It has found a market which it pleases. But a while ago an inspector from the Poultry Products Section, etc., etc., etc., found that it was guilty of illegal labeling. The labels said the jars contained a pound of chicken. IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOI.F.DANO Having torpedoed the Cuban Revolutionary Council and, in ef fect, forced (lie resignation of like Washington picked Jose Miro Cardona. the administration teems determined to make sure that no strong coalition of exile groups will rise from the ashes. This, certainly, would appear to be the only explanation for a se ries of moves by the State De partment and Uw Central Intelli gence Agency. WiUiout determining what the Cuban exiles want or what would be most effective in building up an anti-Castro force In this hem isphere, the administration plan ners have decided unilaterally who the new leaders should be. The Job now ts to Impose these lenders on the exiles and this may lake some doing. Tht man chosen to take Hie place of Miro Cardona never exactly fireball in popularity among his compatriots is Ma nolo Kay, former Public Works Minister under the Castro Com munist regime. Manolo Ray broke with KkIcI and escaed to the United States. He boasted of a large underground In Cuba w hich could arm at his signal to topple Fidel Castro. lie gave the signal during the Bay of Tigs invasion, but nothing hapficncd. Among the Cuban exiles, Ma nolo Hay Is considered the man len.it likely to achieve unity. He preaches a doctrine of "Fkielis mo sin Fklcl" (r'idelismo with out KideD. As such he repre sents the small extremist left wing of the exile group. He has said that if ever be achieves power in Cuba, be will continue tin socialization begun by Cas tro. He differs from his former leader only in his protestations of friendship for America and suspicion of tile Soviet Union. To iome, he is known as the Cuban Tito, but a Tito without power. The exiles believe that the administration hopes to give him Utat power. It Is tenoned that Attorney General IJobert F. Kennedy s AND NEWS, Klamath Falli. Ore. unhappily less able to resist often serious pressures from militant outsiders. Many of these outsiders have very strong notions about history, politics, economics, so ciology and other practical matters. The question we in Klamath Falls and in any community should ask with regard to such complainants is this: "What are their true credentials? What do they know of the subjects they want taught in their particular way? Is there any support, in the objective evidence, for such teachings?" The classroom is not the courtroom. There are no strict rules of evidence. But a school, if it is to lay any claim to the name at all, must offer its students as much solid, verifiable fact as can be brought to bear on any topic under study. It also must be a place given over to the free interplay of ideas and opinions. It ceas es to be a school when outsiders can inter vene to limit it to only those ideas and opinions they approve. The natural response then must be: "Who are they to say?" Many are ignorant amateurs who want to repeal a history they do not like and to warp the present to their own unsupportable views. Their assault on the schools already has gone a long way. Klamath Falls and every community in the nation should be making sure that knowl edgeable, balanced, fair-minded persons de cide what is to be taught in its schools. And no one else. Give Too Much! But, when weighed, it was found that there was more 17V4 ounces. A Mione spokesman explained that the Jar supplier hadn't been able to provide a container holding a precise 16 ounces. So the company was giving the buyer more than was claimed. And, boy, that's illegal! Mione has changed its label, showing that there are 17'4 ounces of chicken inside, not just 16, and the trouble is apparently over. Such are the ways of bureaucracy. Write your own moral. Another Blow At Exiles good friend. Enrique Ruiz Wil liams, is serving as a kind of in termediary m negotiations to in stall Mnnolo Ray as head of an exile coalition. Ruiz Williams, a Bay of Pigs veteran, has con ferred at length and secretly with Mr. Kennedy in recont weeks. Wliether the maneuver will suc ceed remains a question. Its ef fect so (ar ts to convince Cuban exile leaders that tliey can ex pect no constructive help from the United States now or in the (irt ur. Tttcy are still upset over what they consider Icll-talc Indications that Washington hopes they would just fade away. The cur rent issue of the Cuban Informa tion Service newsletter, an excel lent compendium of anti-Castro news, says: "Marshall Wise, di rector of Uio Cuban refugee pro gram In Miami, was quietly eased back to his former post in Social Security. He was re lieved of his position immediately following his public declarations which praised Cuban exiles . . . coincidence?" The exiles, moreover, can sec no signs of administration urgen cy in cutting free-world trade with the Castro regime. The British are sending two shiploads of spare parts to Cuba to rcjxnr tlw rapidly disintegrating public transport system. The Chileans are negotiating (or shipments of food and manufactured goods in exchange for Cuban sugar. U.S. Coast Guard vessels are being used to block the small-boat tral fic to Cuba which supplied men and arma to the underground forces and ferried hack Cuban freedom f ighters w ho had to Irat e the island in a hurry. Time, the exiles say. is run ning out for them and for the United Mates. It is already ad mitted that up to 10,000 French speaking Africans were being trained in Orienle province, wry close to Haiti. I The State De partment continues to deny it. but Adolf A. Berle, head of one of State's task forces, cannot be brushed aside as "an unreliable Sunday, June t, 1963 exile" when he reaffirms this dis closure. ) Cuba can be re-won only by strengthening the Cuban exile or ganizations and allowing them to build the kind of coalition they want. Dictation from Washington may simplify the administrative work of those who like simple solutions to complex problems. But it weakens Uie will to fight among the exiles. As a matter of fact, most Cultans would settle now for benevolent neutrality on tile part of the administration. If a man like ' Manolo Ray is shoved down the throats of exile leaders, it can be the end of any possibility for concerted action and a tremendous gain for Fidel. Almanac By InUrd IYtm International TtuHdV is Sunday, June !. Uw InOth (toy of HHvl with 205 to Inl low. The moon is approaching it Inst quarter. Tho morning stars ait Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1W2, Selective Service offi cials i!ihH. new order placing men with children last on con scription lists. In UH3, Congress pased an act providing (or "pay-as-you-go" in come tax deductions, authnruing employers t withhold income tax pawnents from weekly salary checks of their employes. In Wt President Harry S. Tru man touched off a contruvcrsy when he labeled the &Xh Cnngre! "lire worst we he ever had." In IM9, the firt ballistic mis sile mihmarme. the nuclear pow ered George Washington, was launched at I i rot on, Conn A thought for the day Novelist Victor Hugo id: "The sublim ed song to he heard on earth is the lisping of Uw human soul on tlw lips of hildren 'Those Fellows OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS He Knows (Beaumont Enterprise) Dr. James R. Killian Jr., chair man of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology corporation, speaks with authority when he says there is a national determination to support educational institutions. MIT concluded a three-year fund raising campaign with the an nouncement that it had received the whopping sum of 98 million dollars in gifts, grants and pledges, with all contributions coming from private sources. Surely the future of our schools is bright when this can happen. Success of the campaign is even more impressive when one learns that the total exceeded by 32 mil lion dollars the original goal of fiti million dollars. Unprecedented In private education in this country, it surpassed the record $82,300,000 collected by Harvard College in a fund raising drive that ended three years ago. QUESTIONS AND ' ANSWERS Q Which federal department w ith cabinet status has the small est number of employes? A The Department of Labor with approximately 8.500 em ployes. Q In astronomy, w hat is meant by "parallax"? A Tlie difference in direction that the same object seems to have when seen from two differ ent points. 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WASHINGTON (NEA) First test for the new era of improved relations between the United States and Canada may come over a proposal now before Con gress to require that all U.S. lumber imports be labeled to show country of origin. This is a hangover from the U.S. Tariff Commission's unani mous decision of last February, finding that imports were not injuring the U.S. lumber industry and denying requested relief through increased customs duties. This was the first case heard under the new U.S. foreign trade expansion act. Rebuffed here. American lum bermen sought redress in Con gress. Over 40 bills have been introduced by congressmen with lumber interests in their states. They call for import labeling, inclusion of lumber as an agricul tural commodity which would en title it to AAA protection against imports, restrictions on the use of foreign lumber in federally fi nanced housing and construction projects. The proposal that has advanced furthest is an amendment to the Tariff Act of 1930, introduced by Senators lan N. Jordan, R-ldaho. Warren Magnuson, D-Wash. and others. It would include "sawed lum ber and wood products" with "now packages of imported ar ticles" which would be required Answtr to Previous PutiI, H35C 3 O Is up 4 Matruline nickname n UHicacy It Curved molding 7 Kpnhe 5 Mal rat 9 Concord IS Surrtv .1:1 Spr arfish .-14 Drv .is Rank worker .17 Ijinrca .16 AttMains from food 40 Rational mraning 41 Simplr 44 Handle rraicMy 4.S t nibt of enfrgy 4a Sarafan's mound SO Manner's 10 Cuddle U Onaccra 19 r'annralion 2li Harshest 3.1 Kserlaslint; I perl I "5 Kmhellnhed It.Miral na How to Integrate!" EDSON IN WASHINGTON Lumber Import Bill Questioned By Morse to carry a label showing country of origin. Hearings have been completed before the Senate Fi nance Committee and a report is expected soon. But the always original Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore. who has consistently supported his state's considerable lumber interests in the past recently took the floor to question the Jordan-Magnuson approach. He argues that the re ported declines in domestic lum ber production and employment are not caused by import competi tion. He blames a combination of new building materials and a shift from sawed lumber to ply. wood and other wood products which bring the mills higher prices. Morse calls for a conference of northwestern U.S. and British Columbia lumbermen who c u t from the same Pacific Coast for ests to find new markets. As a member of tho Senate For eign Relations Committee. Morse goes even beyond this to line up as an internationalist supporting the best possible relations with Canada. In this stand he backs up the Kennedy administration, in which not only the Tariff Com mission but also the Departments of State. Treasury and Commerce have opposed lumber import la beling. Practically all the attention to President Kennedy's Hyannis Port conference with new Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pear son was focused on the Dominion's acceptance ofr United States nu clear warheads for mutual de fense missiles. Also discussed were trade, shipping and other economic issues. And the desir ability of giving Pearson's new government strong support is con sidered important at this time. A further argument presented is that if the Jordan amendment is favorably reported by the Sen ate Finance Committee, it will make more difficult the negotia tions of the President's special as sistant on trade relations. Chris tian A. Herter. Most of Canada's lumber ex ports formerly went to the Brit ish Isles. But the postwar in crease of Russian lumber exports to western Kurone have cut this tiadc. And the great increase in U.S. construction has created hea vy demands. Nearly SO per cent of Canada's lumber exports principally soft woods, now come to tlie United States. Though this is only about 15 per cent of U.S. lumber ue. it is an important US. dollar rarner for Canada. Over 40 per cent of Canada's exports to tlie U.S. are forest products. About the same per centage of U S. exports to Canada are iron and steel products. U S. investments in Canada and U.S. trade with Canada are now larger than they are between the United States and all six Europe an Common Market countries. Keen so. Canada has an unla titrable trade balance with the United States of over $1 billion a year. Curbing I' S. lumber imports from Canada would only make this balance worse. Furthermore, according to U S. lumher dealers, it would increase lumber puces For this reason it is also oppovd by tlie US. National Asswation of Home Builders. One thing that went relatively unnoticed in the bizarre shooting at Bogatay's a week or so ago is the rather quiet way in which the attacker was stopped after she fled the store and was disarmed by Gene Yates, a store clerk, and Kenny Gordon, KUHS senior who happened to be in the vicinity. Not too many of us are anxious to tangle with somebody who would just as soon use us for target practice. At the time, Gene and Kenny had no way of knowing whether the assailant had emptied her gun or not. It could be said, with some justification, that the most dis appointed people in the world are those who get what's com ing to them. In tlie mail, in some newspa pers and magazines, and over the air, we see and hear countless of fers for someone to teach us how to make a million bucks or so. The world is cluttered with books with titles about How To. lAmong the most disappointing for me, so far, is the one on How To Raise A Lawn). They promise to tell you How To Make Money in the Stock Market, How to Make a Fat Living As a Writer, How to Get a Husband, How to Be Beautiful, How to Be Happy, How to Main tain a Successful Marriage, and so on. Why these authors should be so generous with their secrets is puzzling. It seems that any one who knew how to make a good living on five acres, or how to handle the women, would be mighty jealous of that knowl edge and keep it to himself. Especially the latter. One also might wonder about these fel lows who know how to make a fortune in (he sUick market why haven't they done so them selves? Songs have been written about lazy rivers and lazy men, but no song has ever been written about lazy women. If you can't guess the reason, I can't help you. I've noticed that whenever a local controversy is stirred up, we get plenty of excellent let ters to the editair, pro and con. And this is good. I wonder, though, why we don't get more letters from readers who have opinions they're willing to share regarding state, national and In- WASHINGTON r-v I By FULTON LF.WIS JR. If politics make strange bed fellows, no stranger pair has ever slipped between the political sheets than Nelson Aldrich Rocke feller and Hubert T. Delaney. Last year Delaney indorsed Rockefeller for re-election as New York Governor, a move that stunned Republicans and Demo crats alike. Republican Rockefeller, a tough anti-Communist, is the frequent target of Soviet - inspired prop aganda attacks. Democrat Delan ey, a Negro, was a New York City judge until 1955. The Rockefeller-Dclaney affair continues to this day. Only recent ly the governor appointed Delaney to an important post within his administration chairman of a special five-man commission created by the legislature to in vestigate low-rent public housing. Queried by my associate. Bill Schulz, the governor's press sec retary said he did not know if Rockefeller were aware of Dela ney's left-wing record. Mayor Robert Wagner refused to reappoint Delaney. a member of his own party, to the bench in 10.V1. The mayor's decision was bitterly assailed by Benjamin Da vis, a Communist spokesman. Delaney's affinity for left-wing causes has not diminished in re cent years. Only a fortnight ago, he oficred an emotion-packed eu logy at the funeral of Harry Sach er, an Hicntiticd Communist whom he had represented in the past. His face streaked with tears, his voice choked. IVclaney said: "He was a champion for all. Many people have principles but they deviate here and there. Har ry has never deviated." That is certainly true. Sacber was identified under oath three limes, by Thomas O'Shea. Morti mer Reimer and Louis Budcnz. as a Communist. Given the oppor tunity to relute these allegations, Sacher refined to answer ques tions of tlie Senate Internal Secur ity Subcommittee in April, 193o. Delaney was joined in his eulogy by Louis Weinstock, a veteran Communist who is business mana ger of The Worker. Wemstnck spoke of Sachcr's role in defend ing the II top Reds ai.unst Smith Act charces in 19,0: "He understood that the Smith vet trial was connected with the Cold War. with MeCarthyism. with Pa NOTHING SPECIAL IW. B. S.) tcrnational situations or Instanc es. I'd like to see more letters along this line. With tlie month of weddings upon us. I am reminded that the father of the bride is the forgot ten man. (For instance, did you ever see a wedding story that de scribed what the father wore? I'll say not.) His responsibilities, however, show he's an ever-present part of the proceedingsto a degree that may astonish him. Duties of the father of the bride fall in two areas, official and financial. His primary role is to give the bride away. This stems from Teutonic times, when a man's daughter literally was giv en in return for land, cattle or valuables. The cuslom of giving the bride away still rests with her father as docs the financial responsibil ity for much of the wedding. A recent weekly supplement said that some "average" weddings now cost in excess of $5,000. Fath er's line of duty includes: buying the bride's trousseau and going away clothes: ordering and send ing invitations and announce ments, although it is usually the bride and her mother who make the selection. He arranges for the ceremony, including the organist, vocalist and flowers for the church. He assumes the cost of the reception, including decorations, food, wedding cake, and the choice of champagne. He pays for music for the reception, and final ly, the photographer. I made reference back there about father never being men tioned in the wedding atory. That's not always true. One time, back In Minnesota, the daughter of the community's most prominent barrister got married. I was publishing a weekly in the town. The man's wife was pretty much of a snob. So we decided to have some fun. I wrote a rather hilarious spoof of the ceremony, down to describing the father's paunch and the color of his underwear worn for the occasion, and com pletely omitted any mention of the bride's costume and that of her mother. We printed about 200 copies of the paper with this account before we switched type (or a "proper" story. We sent copies to the bride's friends and relatives. All hell broke loose. I've never done It again. REPORT . . . r-. I r 1 1 Uemnfiv. K nr. kfitp pr 'Strange Bedfellows' the suppression of 20 million peo ple in our country. He will be remembered when the J. Edgar Hoovers, the Judge Harold Medi nas and the Louis Budenzes are long forgotten." Delaney's record, which meas ures one and one-half inches thick, in government files, dates back to the IMO's. He is a wheclhorse in the National Lawyers Guild, a group cited as "the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Par ty" by the House UnAmerican Ac tivities Committee in 1950. Six years later, a Senate group la lieled the Lawyers Guild as pro Communist. Yet Delaney has since then served as a vice presi dent of the New York Chapter and a member of the National Ex ecutive Board. He won its Roose velt Award in 1957. Delaney has assisted the Emer gency Civil Liberties Committee, another group cited as Communist by two Committees of Congress. He has lent his name to the Council on African Affairs, an outfit tagced subversive by the Attorney General. He has addressed meetings of the Teachers Union, thrown out of the CIO as Communist-controlled. He has been a board member of the (ioorgc Washington Carver School, an institution described as an adjunct of the Communist Party by the Attorney General. He served tlie American League for Peace and Democracy, a croup called Communist and sub versive by official authorities. He has boen hooked up with the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, a cited organization, and its successor, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an other pro-Red group. He supported the Co-Ordinating Committee to Lift the Embargo, a cued group which sought to aid tlie Spanish Reds almost threa decades ago. More recently he has honored W E B. DuBois, the Negro leftist who last year publicly admitted his Communist Party membership. He has attacked the House Un American Activities Committee and called the Rosenbergs' execu tion "cruel and unusual punish ment." He has represented a number of identified Communists, including Sacber and Steve Nelson, convict ed of conspiring to overthrow the U S. government.
