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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
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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.
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have when seen from two differ
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By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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
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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
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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
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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.