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IIKRAI.D AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Sunday, June 16, 190
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Astound Scientists
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Good Intentions Not
The May 13 issue of the Saturday Eve
ning Post featured a long article by Dwight 1).
Eisenhower which is of the utmost importance.
Us title is "Spending Into Trouble."
The former President writes: ". . . my
sense of duty as a citizen demands that I
speak out bluntly regarding what I believe to
be a clear danger which could threaten our
free way of life and our security as a nation.
That threat is the determined effort of our
current political leaders to commit the United
States to a risky, highly experimental fiscal
adventure, based on a questionable theory
which I call 'spending for spending's sake.'
That policy, which fails to heed the plain les
sons of history, now has been unveiled in
what I consider a vast, reckless scope, calling
for a larger-than wartime budget, a deep tax
cut and a deliberate plunge into a massive
deficit." '
General Eisenhower is not opposed to a
tax cut indeed he believes that a substan
Strike
(Oregon Statesman, Salem)
"All for one, one for all," the pledge of
the Three Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas,
was Invoked by four big Northwest lumber
manufacturers who shut down operations
when two of their labor negotiating group
were struck. These are the Big Six. When the
International Woodworkers the one-time
CIO union called a strike on U.S. Plywood
Corporation and St. Regis Paper Co. the other
four Weyerhaeuser, Crown-Zcllerbach. In
ternational Paper Co .and Rayonier suspend
ed operations in plants where the 1WA has
held worker contracts.
The six had been bargaining with the
union but came to no agreement. The strike
call followed. Concerned lest the "whipsaw"
tactics would succeed, the employer allies of
the struck companies closed down, loo.
Labor negotiations are in progress with
Georgia Pacific Corporation, which bargains
independently; and with a Council of smaller
mills in Oregon and Washington, which bar
gains with the old Af'L union, the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers Union. Still unsettled is
a new contract for pulp and paper mills. The
workers rejected an agreement which had
been negotiated, so negotiations will be re
sumed. The two questions arc: Will the lumber
strike spread to the other operations? How
long will the one now in progress last?
No one has the answers. The hopes arc
general, however, that the current strike will
be of short duration and that other mills
A Way To
lly A. SYDNEY IIKULONG Jit.
Florida 'onnr'sniHn
Neither you nnr any patriotic
American would want lax rates
reduced if it would deprive your
rjivertiment of funds needed lor
defense or essential purposes.
But there is a way to reduce
your tax rales without rutting off.
or limiting lunds for military and
other needed programs, or throw
im; Hits budget out of balance, a
way (hat is sound mid realistic.
It will provide relief for you.
Tin matter which tax bracket you
are in.
It will moderate both individual
nnd corporaio tax rates gradually
over a live-year eiiod.
It will defer taxes for you. as
nn individual, on lonn-tenn capi
tal gains until such limes as you
sell your holdings, receive a cash
profit and do not reinvest the pin
feeds. H will reduce the rate of lax
on yuiii' estate nnd on your nilts.
U will make it caMer for your
business to replace worn-out and
( !'e!e equipment.
It will work tins way:
1. 'Il,e fut In iu ki t of personal
I, ix rate will Ik- reduced from
2; to l per cent and (Iks top
rat brought down to 47 per cent
trom HI per cent, in five easy
stages wild correponHin reduc
tions in ;tl! interim rates.
2. '1'he t p corporate late of M
p; r com will be udmed to 47 jht
cent. u1m in live stages, etiins
the tup r.de-i ot individual and
corjtorate tax at the .same level
rightfully puts the owners of on
ineorj vu ;ited businesses which
amount for KV jkt cent of all
hi: iuicssesunt members ot pro
fess.ion.-s on an even tax keel with
corporations as opposed to the
lurber rates they now pay,
3. Kstnte tav rates will be re
duced from a top of 77 per
cent to 47 per cent and tlw top
ra'o. ot pirt tax fioin 57.75 per
cent to ,V25 per cent. All lower
Mtes of both taxes will he re
duced in proportion. This com
prises oitotlicr important easement
tial one is essential, along with tax reforms
to eliminate inequities, if the economy is to
be invigorated. But he believes, too, that this
must be accompanied by heavy reductions in
spending and he finds item after item in the
federal budget where this could be accom
plished. Equally important he is concerned with
something beyond the dollars and-cents prob
lem. This is that massive spending, and the
resultant deficits, can only lead to the concen
tration of more and more power in the gov
ernment. Then more and more of the decisions
will be made by bureaucrats, all thirsty for in
creased power, rather than by the workers,
businessmen, farmers and other producers.
He quotes the late Justice Brandeis as
saying: "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk
in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding." In
sum, good intentions are not enough. They can
be a road to disaster.
In Woods Industry
and woods work will not suffer from a work
stoppage.
The case for the workers is that they
have gone along now for many months without
any wage increase. The case for the employ
ers is that profit margins are still so thin that
they can't lake on a substantial cost increase
through higher wages.
The outside public is concerned with the
work stoppage, but powerless to do other
than wring hands in despair. The halt in work
hurts the economy of the region, since forest
products make up its biggest industrial seg
ment. There is added worry this year because
of the urgency in salvaging blowdown 'from
the storm of last October. The schedules called
for selling of public timber in these areas by
July 1st and getting the logging done by June
of 1964. A long work interruption will wreck
this schedule, and leave the door open for
beetle infestation of the woods. Federal and
slate bodies thus have a stake in this stale
mate and are anxious to have the issues re
solved speedily.
It is hard to say' how and when the break
will come. In the past one mill or group would
reach an agreement which would set a pattern
for the industry. This might come this time
through a G-P deal; or the Big Six and the
1VA may get together. Whether the other
mills will await settlements by the big units
or not we do not know.
When picketing starts and mill gates
close, a stale of siege often sets in. We hope
that this one is of short duration; and some
how have a feeling that it will be.
Reduce Your Taxes
of the impact of capital taxation.
4. There will be a reduction of
approximately 25 per cent, out
the tive-year periinl, in the time
during which business will le al
lowed to charge tilt the cost ol
plants and equipment before fi;
urinn their taxable profit.
This will Kive you, and every
one, at least ,i il.i per cent cut
in taxes. It will do this without
shilling lax burdens from one set
of taxpayers to another. Almost
(it) per cent of the total savings in
individual taxes will W to those
in the taxable brackets up to
$t;.(HH.
The proposed cuts in tax rales,
oer the five-year jKTiod, will not
reMilt in red-ink sin-mlim by the
government. Slated reduction wi'l
Ih potoried when thorp is d.uv.:or
that the federal budeel will be
(biown out of balance.
The money to provide for the re
duction of your tax rates will
come from a simple change in the
way the pivernment Ojvrales.
Here is bow it will come about:
Since b'") the yield to the )m
eminent fiom personal income
luxes alone has grown from $;
billion to about $i:t billion, with
no chaiute in rates. Purim: that
period, personal incomes in dollar
teims rose by a thu-d, so that the
government received on a silxer
platter an increase in revenue of
$13 billion.
Oilier taxes ;dso yield larger
revenues as the economy grows,
ii'thoueji not to the ame extent.
Holf o any increase in corporate
profits Automatically (low s b;u k
to the e,oe!umeiit. The more you
buy. the more you pay in ex-ee-e
(axes.
I'Mimaies (or tile next fiscal
year that begins in July Tire that
total revenue may be up as much
as $15 billion over the fiscal ear
leccntly ended, simply because of
lite growth in our national interne
Tach sincle percentage (Hunt of
pun in the growth rate means $1
billion in additional revenue, which
is why the added money coming
in from economic growth is
Mich a very Uve sum.
Enough
At present, the government
lakes the added money enminu
in from economic growth and
svnds it.
Now. follow this carefully: You
will pet the cut in your tax rates
by the government Inking this
spillover each year and, through
tax reform, making it available
for grow Hi in the private econo
my, The freed money will gi
into consumer purchases and
plant expansion and research and
development of new products
which, in turn, will cause added
employment, so that, even though
nur taxes will be cut by at least
25 per cent, the government will
receive more, not less, in Iota!
taxes.
When this is done, there is no
reason why our economy should
not move lorward as last as five
per cent or more a year. Any
growth rate a hove. -I's ikm cent
will lake care of a Mop-by-stop
cat-back in your taxes over a
five-year period and sltll provide
the government with ample binds
lor other poroses.
The needed legisl.it ion to ac
complish all of this is already
drawn and in the hands of the
Ways and Means Committee of
the House of Hepiesentatives, in
the- form of identical bills. H it.
2o.ti and U.K. 2ti:tl, introduced by
Kepresentatne Howard H. Baker,
liepubhcan of Teunes.sec, and nn.'.
Known as (he Herlong Baker
bills, this proposed legislation has
received expressions ol commen
dation and supivrt from members
of Congress, editorial writers, col
umnists, business groups and oth
er organizations, etc, aeioss the
i --Hin try. The most constant theme
ot these expressions has been the
pat Heal, commonsenso nature ol
lle legislation.
1 know that this legislation ts
rot only practical and feasible but
tuul it is urgently needed. It will
In' passed if you want it passed,
and if. without delay, you tell
your Congressman and Senator
that vou want it passed, It is as
simple as that.
We Need New Schoolbooks!
Ity JKNK1N LLOYD JONES
(In the Washington Evening Star)
If we can ever cure the asi
ninitics of the "look-say" method
of leaching reading, which has
condemned many hundreds of
thousands of young Americans to
word-guessing, it will be time
to start in on the content of
grade-school textbooks.
These beautifully printed and
illustrated books include texts so
remarkable for their dullness that
it is little wonder young America
can hardly wait to get back to
the TV. 'Most of them have been
steam cleaned of every vestige of
excitement, of inspiration and ro
mance. There is no reference to God
or religion. This is regarded as
controversial. There is no story
of war. If we don't think about
it. maybe it will go away. There
is nothing that would give rise
to patriotism. How old-fashioned!
1 have before me a fifth-grade
reader. "Days and Deeds," pub
lished last year by Scott, Korcs
man k Company and standard
in many hundreds of American
school systems.
With a puerile vocabulary, it
discusses such things as Uncle
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Thanks
The combined Veterans Memo
rial Day Committee would like to
take this way of expressing our
appreciation and thanking every
one for the fine cooperation and
assistance given by everyone in
volved. The staff of the Herald and
News: the radio and television
stations; Wayne Scott of KOTI
TV. master of ceremonies: Hon.
Donald Piper, speaker; Kurt
Fiedler, vocalist; Marie
Ohenchain, organist; Fred Floelkc
and Davis Johnson, buglers: the
ltarliershop Chorus; tlie 4iwth
F'ighter Croup firing squad: the
cily and county libraries.
'c wotikl like to thank also
the people of Klamath Falls, (or
their fine show of interest.
The memorial services this
year had more witnesses than in
many previous years.
A sincere thanks to you all.
Earl A. Carlson.
DAV chairman:
Calvin 1. Shaw,
DAV commander:
Tom Winternnger,
American l.cg:oit:
Pat Shamrock. Commandant
Marine Corps l.eacue:
I!. (',. Motschcnhachcr. 40A8:
Vein Schortgen. WW I veterans:
Fred M.indella.
VFW commander:
Mrs. Ignore Owens.
DAK vice regent.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What slates were carved
out of territory acquired as a
result of the Mexican War?
A California. Nevada and
1 tah, most i( Ariiona. and New
Mexteo, and prts of Colorado
and Wyoming.
I) Why are moccasin snakes
called rultonmoiithsT
A F rom their hahtt of open
Inn their months wide and r
posine the nhillsh Interior nhcn
rxeiled or disturbed.
lm's new outboard motor,
John's lawn . mowing business,
and how Wally, the bloodhound,
helped Jerry, the police dog, find
his missing bone.
I have also before me a re
print of McGuffoy's Fifth Eclectic
Reader, published in 1879. Let's
skip through the list of contents:
"The Relief of Lucknow," Lon
don "Times"; "Battle of Blen
heim" by Southey: "Sands of
Dee" by Charles Kingslcy: "An
Old-Fashioned Girl" by Louisa
May Alcott; an account of a riot
in the Massachusetts State pri
son: supposed speech of J o h n
Adams by Daniel Webster: ex
cerpts from "The Virginian" by
Thackeray and from Hamlet;
"Dissertation on Roast Pig" by
Charles Lamb: "A Frigate Chase
in the English Channel" by
James Kenimorc Cooper: "The
Boston Massacre" by Bancroft:
"No Excellence Without Labor"
by William Wirt: "Religion, the
Only Basis of Society" by Wil
am Channing.
Blood and thunder? Plenty of
it. Heroism? Of course. Moral
homilies? In profusion. Religious
preachments? Unashamed. Pa
triotism? With pride. And, in
addition, tough words and in
volved sentences that would flab
bergast the fifth-grader who
has been brought up on the thin
consomme of today's "Days and
Deeds" series.
On June 20. l'JM, Dr. Max Raf
ferty. school superintendent of
Ia Canada. Calif., made a speech
that caused a sensation and re
sulted in his election last fall
as California superintendent of
public instruction over the dead
bodies of the progressive educa
tors. He asked: "What happened
to patriotism?" and I quote:
"We have been so busy educat
ing for 'life adjustment' that we
forgot to educate for survival.
Words that America had treas
ured as a rich legacy, that had
sounded like trumpet calls above
'he clash of arms and the fury of
debate, we allowed to fade from
the classrooms.
" Liberty and Union, now and
forever, one and inseparable.'
" 'We have met the enemy and
they are ours.'
" 'Millions for defense, but
not one cent for tribute.' "
Search for these towering
phrases in vain today in too many
of our schools. Tlie golden words
are gone. Patriotism feeds on
hero worship and wc decided to
abolish lierocs.
BERRY'S WORLD
"WV decided there's mnrt to lije than
jjrj uork."
The quest for the Golden Fleece
has been crowded out by the visit
of Tom and Susan to the zoo. The
deeds of the heroes before Troy
are now passe, and the peregri
nations of the local milkman as
he wends his way among the
stodgy streets of Blah City have
taken over. Bobby and Betty pur
sue this insipid goal of a ride in
the district garbage truck while
the deathless ride of Paul Revere
goes unsung.
F'or Roland at Roncesvallcs we
have substituted :Muk-Muk the
Eskimo boy. It is, 1 think, signifi
cant that education during the
past three decades has deliber
ately debunked the hero to make
room for the jerk!
No wonder these heroless Am
erican kids often bro'te down be
fore the Red brainwashers in the
Korean prison camps. They had
no points of reference. They hod
no understanding of the tradi
tions of liberty. In many eases,
the Communists were delighted
that there was so little to erase.
It was a cinch to unteach those
who had never been taught.
In commenting on a modern
sixth reader, "Bright Peaks," put
out by Houghton Mifflin. Dr. Rus
sell Kirk says: "With the excep
tion of a poem by Sara Teas
dale, another short poem by Rob
ert Frost, and an autobiographi
cal piece by John Muir, every
selection is by a fourth or fifth
grade writer."
Why? Could it be that the fifth
ami sixth-graders can't read the
classics as they did in the days
of McGuffey? Could it be that
the bankruptcy of the "look-say"
method and the stubborn refusal
of many school administrations to
admit tlie error have required
them to pretend that t h e r c is
special virtue in extending kin
dei garlcn-stylc reading to the up
per grades?
It's time America got a new set
of toxtiiooks. It's time we quit
boring bright students to death
with the banalities of John and
Jane visiting the henhouse. It's
time we put romance and cour
age and excitement and some
frank moral indoctrination before
our children in their most im
pressionable years.
We don't have to go back to
McGuficy.
Tliore's plenty of good writing.
Hut let's give our children some
literary taste, some ethical cal
ories and patriotic vitamins.
To hell with these sawdust
sandwiches!
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON iNEAl The
greatest American "secret wea
pon" given to the Russians by
Glenn T. Seaborg, U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission chairman, on
his recent cultural exchange visit
to the Soviet Union was a Pola
roid color camera.
Dr. Seaborg took such a cam
era with him on his tirst trip to
inspect Russian sientific installa
tions and to sign the U.S.-U.S.S.R.
two-year agreement on coopera
tion in the lield of utilization of
atomic energy for peacelul pur
poses. Every place he went shooting
pictures like a tourist and pull
ing off finished color prints in 5(1
seconds he was surrounded by
amazed Russians particularly the
scientists.
These scientists had developed
atomic energy on a scale which
Seaborg described as "compa
rable" though not necessarily "su
perior" to U.S. science. But they
had nothing to match that cam
era. At the end of his 1 1-day visit,
Dr. Seaborg presented the cam
era to his opposite number, A.
Petrosyants. chairman of the Rus
sian State Committee on the Util
ization of Atomic Energy. TI12
eminent Russian couldn't have
been more pleased if he had been
given a key and a pass to the
AEC lop secret files.
"But what will he do (or lilm?"
Seaborg was asked.
"I've got him there." said Sea
borg. "He has to get his lilms
through me."
This little cultural exchange
probably did as much to promote
friendly relations between leaders
of the two major nuclear powers
as their formal agreement or all
the typical wining and dining and
entertaining that goes with tra
ditional Russian hospitality.
Seaborg soon will invite Petro
syants to head a 10-man team of
Russian atomic scientists on a
visit to the United States. They
probably will come in the fall. At
that time they will begin to talk
about how the new peaceful nu
clear information exchange agree
ment will be implemented.
The discussions will involve only
one or two scientists from each
WASHINGTON REPORT . .
By FULTON LEWIS JK.
James Baldwin may be a
good writer.
This hardly makes him an au
thority, however, on Cuba, the
House UnAmerican Activities
Committee, President John Fitz
gerald Kennedy, the Smith Act,
and J. Edgar Hoover.
Baldwin, whose latest book is on
the best seller lists, was asked
the other day about Hoover and
his Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion. The frail young Negro made
headlines in the Communist press
with this answer:
"If I find myself castrated on
the streets of Birmingham, which
is not improbable, and the Fill
moves in, which is extremely
improbable, it could turn out that
the person investigating the
crime is the same person who
committed it."
It was not tire first time thai
Baldwin had run off at the mouth
on the subject of our number
one G-man. "Get rid of him," he
says.
No hoslility, however, is felt for
Carl Rradcn, an klcntificd Com
munal who served time in fed
eral prison for contempt of Con
gress. Baldw in sponsored an emer
gency apjieal for clemency while
Biaden languished behind bars.
Another character for whom
Baldwin has compassion is Juni
us Scales, convicted under (lie
Smith Act of conspiring to over
throw Hie U.S. Government.
Scales, a long-time Communist
oivrativc in the Carolinas, says
ho is not now a parly member.
He steadlastly refuses to cooper
ale with lederal authorities inves-t:-.':i:r.:
Communist, activities,
howewr. Baldwin altixed his sig
nature to a statement asking that
Scales be freed. 'He was. soon
afterward, by President Kennedy.'
Baldwin has just written a post
script to a volume entitled "A
Quarter Century of I'nAmerica
na." an attack tifion the Hote Un
American Activities Committee.
Tlie boi'k is published by Carl
Aldo Maivani and Alexander Mun
scll Marani was convicted in
Federal t ourt of perjury when he
denied Common;?! activity. Mun
sell's left-wing record is on tile
ui Washington.
The April IT. issue of tlie
National Guardian officially cit
ed as a "virtual propaganda arm
of Soviet Russia "tells of a mas
sive rally to abolish HUAC.
Among the sponsors: James Bald
win. Government files show- Baldwin
to haie been a sponsor of the Fair
country each way in three fields
nuclear power reactor tech
niques, controlled thermonuclear
fusion and high energy nuclear
physics. Each visit will be for not
more than a year.
This will provide opportunity for
joint projects in both countries'
laboratories. Research to find
element 102 is an example. Joint
construction of a research accel
erator was discussed a little, but
nothing was decided. The Rus
sians are already way ahead in
this field, though not in power de
velopment. If Seaborg and the nine scien
tists who accompanied him to Rus
sia brought back anything moVe
than appreciation of Russian com
petence in development of peace,
lul uses of atomic energy, they're
keeping mum about it. I
Seaborg does not think his visit
will advance a nuclear test ban
agreement. There was no discus
sion of nuclear explosions under,
ground or their detection.
While tlie Russians were wide
open in showing their peacelul
applications of nuclear science,
they did not show off any of the
plants or the chemical processes
they use to produce plutonium.
Seaborg didn't ask about reports
that the Russians have developed
a nuclear-powered airplane, be
cause he hasn't given any cred
ence to reports that they have
one.
He didn't ask either, about Rus
, sian nuclear-powered submarines.
Similarly, there was polite avoid
ance by both sides on the pos
sibility of nuclear developments
in space.
In summary, it wasn't a very
revealing intelligence report.
The Seaborg Mission was in Rus
sia at the height of the recent
Moscow spy trial. There was con
siderable to-do in the Russian
press against Communists having
anything to do with foreigners at
cocktail parties.
But when U.S. Ambassador Foy
Kohler gave a reception at the
American embassy in honor of
Seaborg and his colleagues just
before they came home, invited
Russian guests turned out in
force.
Kohler commented that the Rus
sian scientists' behavior didn't re
flect the new policy. That was
taken as a hopeful sign for future
developments.
Left-Wing Writer Has
Long Record Of Hate
Play for Cuba Committee, a Cas
tro - financed ocration that is
called a "Communist operation"
by the chairman of the Senate In
ternal Security Subcommittee.
Baldwin lent his name to tli
Monroe Defense Committee, a
group set up to defend certain
leaders of the Monroe 'N.C.i
Chapter of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of Col
ored People. One of those lead
ers, Robert Williams, sought by
Ihe FBI on a kidnaping charge,
has Med lo Cuba, where lie
broadcasts vicious tirades against
the "Fascist dog, John Kenne
dy." Another. Mac Mallory, was
once convicted of fraud in New
York City. She, too. is wanted on
a kidnaping charge.
Baldwin has come to the de- '
fensc of William Worthy, a left
wing newsman under federal in
dictment for traveling lo and from
Cuba without a valid passport.
Worthy had previously visited Red
China in defiance of federal stat
utes. Baldwin was among those who
signed a statement urging the
Anti-Delamation League of B'nai
B'rith to withdraw its award,
"Democratic Legacy." to Presi
dent Kennedy "unless the Depart
ment of Justice drops the scan
dalous harassment of Mr. Wil
liam Worthy Jr."
Note: Baldwin considers him
self a protege of tlto late Richard
Wright, famous Negro author.
Wright, who left this country for
Pans, chalked up a notable Communist-front
record nonetheless.
leaders of tlie Draft Golrlwater
Movement predict a packed house
for their July -t Barry-for-Presi-dent
rally. Lined up as speak
ers: Sen. John Tower of Texas,
Gov. Paul Fannin of Arizona.
Congressman John Ashhrook of
Ohio.
Hollywood celebrities will be on
hand lo honor the senator at W ash
ington's National Guard Armory.
Guldwater. of course, will lie else
where. He continues to insist, for
publication, that he is running for
senator, not president.
THEY
SAY...
When a country like Brila.n
which has nuciear weapons
pledges support to an ally, it
pledges its hie.
Lord Home, British foreign
ecretarv.