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PAGE, t 1IKRALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Friday, Juna 38, 19M .THE GLOBAL VIEW. fcdikrdaL (paqsL Wastebasket Materia ': As a group this country's newspapers try very hard to present the news in good balance. Generally they are credited with airing all sides of important issues. Yet in this age of rising clamor from ex tremists, many conscientious and conservative journals find themselves under attack. Schools, colleges and other disseminators of information also fall under this attack. t;: Invariably the complaint is: "They don't present OUR side." ', Now, to the listener who did not know what the extremists' stock in trade is, this complaint might have the ring of plausibility. ; ' But a very great deal of what passes for "solid information" among the ultras is a tapestry of untruth, distortion and imagina tion. Except as an oddity representing this kind of thinking, no newspaper could print such stuff without abandoning its standards of reliability and opening itself to charges of slander and libel. No school or college could teach such things except, again, as curious examples of a phenomenon of the times. For example, no self-respecting purveyor of information would assert that a high Rus sian officer commands a U.N. world police force. There is no such force. Nor that foreign troops are training in the American South in preparation for con quest of this nation. These are the fancies of the far right. The far left deals in equally sinister delusions. Conscientious Americans have enough to do trying to fathom the difficult issues of the age without wasting their mental energies on fabrications and foolishness. That is why the responsible press gives them their proper place the wastebasket. New Idea On Education (Tha Bulletin, Bend) One of the hardest-working groups in the Oregon legislature is the education sub committee of the joint committee on Ways and Means. Ways and Means must decide the amount of state government spending for the next couple of years. The sub-committee works on the largest single classification of state expenditures. During this session, and for the previous three, one of the hardest-working members of the sub-committee has been Rep. Stafford Hansell of Umatilla County. Hansell is a large scale hog farmer at Ordinance, near Hcrmis ton, when he isn't legislating. A political and financial conservative, Hansell is intelligent, articulate, and blunt. But even those who dftcn vote against hirn rate him as one of the most valuable members of the legislature. Hansell works hard at his jpb, as noted before. He has made a real study of education at all levels not from the standpoint of teaching methods, etc., but from the viewpoint of the state's responsibility, and how to best go about financing and carrying out that re sponsibility. 1 His views have not been universally pop ular. Even In his home county. He and Bud Forrester, editor of the East Oregonan at Pendleton, have clashed a number of times on education matters, as is perhaps inevi table when two dedicated persons, each strong minded, take different views on the same subject. Hansell realizes full well the Ways and Means group of which he is a member is not just planning the needs of education for the coming two years. H must, and it has, study the pattern education is going to take in other years still ahead. . He, along with the other members of the sub-committee, has arrived at some pretty baste conclusions. Hansell discussed these te other day in an appearance before the Hendlcton Chamber of Commerce. His views on the form higher education should take in Oregon agree pretty closely with those we have held and have advocated before the legislature for a number of years. But, let Bud Forrester tell the story, as he told it in the East Oregonian: Mr. Hansell tlien revealed aome more (if Hie thinking lie has been doing in this immense problem. He has been searching for the least expensive way of educating tlie vast numbers of Oregon high school graduates who will want college training and he sug gest that he may have found It in a plan that is commonly known as the California plan. Ry adopting this plan Mr. Hansell would limit enrollments at University of Oregon and Oregon State University to approximately 12,000 each and he would have those institutions concentrate on upper division junior and senior years' and graduate education and research. Lower division (freshmen and sophomore' students at those schools would come from the upper levels of their high school graduating classes. He would not place any enrollment limitation on Portland State College. This, he said, is because it is not necessary to provide housing for students at that institution. Beyond what Portland State is of fering now he would permit it to offer the fifth year of teacher education. He would permit enrollment at Eastern Oregon College (La Grande', Southern Oregon College (Ash land), and Oregon College of Education (Monmouth), to go to 7,000 each. He would not alter the programs at three other in stitutions in the state system of higher education where special education is given University of Oregon Med ical and Dental schools and Oregon Technical Institute at Klamath Falls. He would concentrate on the community college program bringing more students to those institutions and upgrading the formal education courses in them. He would want to be sure that a student could get freshman and sophomore courses there that were com parable in quality to those he would get at a four year institution in order that he would be well prepared lo transfer to a four-year school in the junior year. He would not permit any community college to ex pand its curricula beyond two years. He would operate all institutions on a 12-month schedule. He did not spell out the particulars of this but we assume he would have college registrars de cide which three terms a student could attend school so that enrollment could be balanced off equally over the four terms. Very few students could attend col lege through all of the year because most students need three months off to earn enough money to pay for their educations. Mr. Hansell emphasized that he would do all possible to avoid duplication in the curriculum of ferings of the state-supported schools. We assume that he was saying that he would hold curriculum in the future to about what it is now at the various institu tions. This would require those who wanted olher than a general education or preparation for teaching to attend Oregon or Oregon State for their junior and senior years of education. Mr. Hansell's plan has been discussed many times in recent years by members of the state Board of Higher Education. We are sure that it has been dis cussed by governing boards in many states because it, the California plan, is in many respects an ideal plan. When it was first discussed by members of the Oregon Board of Higher Education there was only one community college in the slate (at Bend' and there was not much talk about a widespread community college program. The board was then talking about having the regional colleges at La Grande, Ashland and Monmouth lake on much larger lower division stu dent loads in order lo convert Oregon and Oregon Stale to Uie roles assigned to them under the Cali fornia plan. The coming of the community colleges has changed the picture only in that it has broadened the lower division education base. The Hoard of Higher Education has for some time seen the distinct possibility that this plan Is coming to Oregon but has not set a possible target date for it. One of the problems the board must confront when it sets a time schedule for adopting this plan is to es tablish enrollment ceilings at Oregon and Oregon Slate. Perhaps the Legislature, now that Itep. Hansell has opened discussion of the subject, will want to sug gest a target date, alter taking into consideration all of the factors that must be weighed, such as place ment ol students currently in the institutions, use of existing classrooms and laboratories, enrollment pro jections up to 1970, etc. Tlie Board of Higher Education will, we are sure, welcome the thinking of the Legis lator on this very important subject. BERRY'S mm Al manac "Wttt, tbrrt ion tb eU ttve-uttk vacation!" fly United Press International Today is Friday, June 28. the IVMh day of l with 186 to follow. The moon is in its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. Those born today include Amer ican composer Richard Rodgers, in iota. On this day in history: In 1!W2. 'the United Stales bought the uncompleted Panama Canal from France. In wit, the spark that fired World War I was ignited when a Serbian fanatic assassinated the archduke of Austria-Hungary. In I'll!), tlie Treaty of' Ver sailles was signed in France, ending World War I. In I94S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced the reconquest o( Lu ion in the Philippines. A thouclit for the day-French pool. Charles Baudelaire wrote. "To be a gre.it man and a saint for oneself, that is the one im portant thing." World Communist Lineup Worry To Khrushchev By LKON DENNEN UNITED NATIONS, New York (NEA) Even the feat of Rus sia's spacewoman cannot obscure Nikita Khrushchev's troubles as he girds for the July 5 meeting with the Red Chinese. The Soviet Premier is still in control of the Kremlin and fight ing doggedly to stay at the helm. But according to East European representatives at the U.N., he is facing a mounting array of problems which is playing into the hands of his bitter enemy, Mao Tse-tung. Tliey see his efforts to muzzle Russia's restive writ ers and artists as only a symp tom of a bigger political crisis in Moscow. The violence of Red China's latest propaganda campaign against Kurushchev is seen as further proof that Mao no longer believes in a reconciliation with the Soviet premier. In the view of the East European diplomats, the Chinese leader is actually lay ing the foundation of a new Red International with headquarters in Peking. The Chinese do not expect that any agreement will be reached at their July meeting with the Rus sians. They are playing for the support of revolutionary-minded Communists everywhere against the Khrushchev leadership. Albania's newspaper, Zcri i Pop ulil, which is frequently used by Mao as a sounding board, even hinted in a recent editorial that the Soviet premier must step down before there can be peace ful coexistence in the Red world. Peking's chief envoy to the Moscow conference, Ten Hsiao ping, is a tough veteran of the Chinese-Soviet dispute over the MEXICO 42kT. cHili H ry BIITAINK EAST GERMANY I U.S.S.R. "' s 0 T-$fyli NZihUhnsriI" VIFr NAM ICAMEROUNl jp 1 THAILAND LTj frl Newmop I NEW ZEALANDr A NEW RED WORLD?: Newsmap locales nations In which Communist parties might be openly or quietly sympathetic to a realigned Communist International with a Peking axis. "correct" interpretation of Marxist-Leninist doctrine. He made it clear in conversations with dip lomats from behind the Iron Curtain that his aim is to con vince "rightminded comrades" that Khrushchev is as dangerous a "revisionist" as Yugoslavia's President Tito. Who are the right-minded com rades wliom the Chinese hope to convince mat the Soviet premier has betrayed the Marxist-Leninist cause? They are to be found, in the first place, among the top Reds of Asia, Africa and Lat in America who are increasingly backing China against Russia. In preparation for the Moscow meeting, Chinese propaganda now paints Russia as a white nation which, like imperialist America, has little sympathy for the col ored people. Peking's propagan dists claim that China shares with the undeveloped nations not only a common hatred of colonialism but also a common predicament of color. Even Russia's East European satellites are restive. They are increasingly irked by Moscow's at tempt to muzzle their economic, political and cultural life. Romania, generally regarded as one of Russia's most servile satel lites, is a typical example. The Romanians just signed an agree ment with Red China that calls lor an increase ol 10 per cent -And Then Suppose It Is Just Green Cheese ' ft00" . M Vv. HI"' A n I Pi f EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Race Problem Long-Term By PETER F.DSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - Any idea that American race relations can be solved now immediate ly is considered an impossibil ity. President Kennedy's speech to the Conference of Mayors in Honolulu, telling them it was pri marily their job. won't do il. Tlie President's 15-minute cocktail-hour dial to the nation won't do il. Tlie President's message to Congress and whatever legisla tion may be passed as a result won't do it. by itself. Although the United States has had this problem for over cen tury, H may still take several generations of painful, patient work belore racial intolerance the root of the trouble can be eradicated. W hat is tliorelore considered a principal need Is for someone to come op with a long-range plan. It might set forth what should should and can be done at the end of S. 10. 20 years, or longer. For il is recognizes! that overnight 20 million people can't be educated, and trained, tor belter jobs so that they can ray lor better housing and enjoy a higher standard of living this will Uikc one generation al least. Overcoming agc-okf prejudices, intolerance, racial, religious and cultural tensions will take cou ple of generations more. For this is a major problem in human re lations education for everyone. There aren't many experts in this field. One who qualifies as an authority is Dr. Alfred J. Marrow, 195(1-60 Chairman of New York's Commission on In tcrgroup Relations, COIR. He has just been given the l3 Brotherhood Award of the Na lional Conference ol Christians and Jews at the American Book sellers convention in Washington for his big. now book, "Chang ing Patterns in Prejudice." Changing prejudices, he says, is a long-time job How to go about if Marrow thinks there are some things that can he done by law now. When former President Tniman or dered complete integration of Uie United stales armed services, that was done overnight because it could be enforced by military courts martial. Ending scsresa Uon on Pullman cars, in railroad, bus ami air terminals could be done in a relatively short time under the Constitution's interstate commerce clause. Similarly Americans of any race or color might, by law. be given the right to attend any pub lic institution, be given equal service in places of public accom modation, be assured the right ol access to decent housing, and guaranteed the right to vote in federal elections. Negro citizens miglit not use all these rights even if they were granted them by better laws, Marrow believes. That has been tlie experience in New York and other cities tliat have taken the lead in trying lo break down ra cial barriers. The mere fact people know they have these rights and can exercise them makes Uiem better citizens, Marrow has found. Peo ple still preicr to live among their own kind, if they can live tliere in sell-ropect. Marrow suggests creation of a Federal Bureau of Intorgroup Relations not to try to impose integration, but to conduct re search on its problems and to pi ov ide a place w here local com munities can go lor help if tliey need it. He puts more reliance on com munity action by local leaders as the most satisfactory method lor handling interracial and in torrrligious tensions. "II a number of neighbors can mil their energies and talents." he has found, "their influence is most salutary. Ncigliborhoods cm set up block committees that can assemble information no ol licial inquiry could ever gath er .. . 'Such self-directed socud ac tion is apt to lead fnrmei ly scp- in their volume of trade. Mao's press has given prominence to hints in the Romanian press of differences with Moscow on eco nomic planning. Russia's efforts to control the satellites' economics have also caused resentment in Poland, a country with vast agricultural sur pluses. Poland's survival depends on trade with, tlie West and the European Common Market. However, it is, the inlluence of the mighty Soviet military ma chine which, in the view of the East European diplomats, is be hind Premier Khrushchev's twists of "softness" and toughness to ward the West. For tlie first time since Stalin died, Uie Red Army once merely an arm of tlie Communist Party- is emerging as an independent po litical force. More than 10 per cent of the Communist party's powerful Cen tral Committee now consists of senior army officers. The recent appointment of Gen. Dimitry Usti nov, a leading light of Russia's military establishment, as chair man of the Supreme Economic Council further underlines the growing role of the armed forces in Soviet affairs. The general, 55, was also given the high political post of first deputy premier, which he shares with such luminaries as Anastas Miyokan and Alexei Kosygin. Those are obviously the "right minded comrades" whose backing Mao Tse-tung seeks in his effort to overthrow Premier Khrushchev. STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS I am in receipt of a letter from a ladies' club in Kansas, which runs as follows: "Dear Mr. Harris: We arc a philanthropic group, and would like you to speak at our fall banquet. Unfortunately, we can not pay a fee, since our funds are allocated for various children's charities. Sincerely . . ." My reply, as always, was prompt, courteous, and H hope' definitive: "Dear Madam: Thank you for the kind invitation to address the fall banquet of your worthy group. I am delighted to learn that your funds are allocated for various children's charities, and I should like to take this oppor tunity to tell you about the Har ris Foundation. "The full name of this enter prise, which is wholly non-prnlil. is the Carolyn. Michael, Bar bara, David and Lindsay Harris Foundation (or Deserving Chil dren. It oierales at a stagger ing annual deficit. "Any funds, contributed to this project are allocated 100 per cent to tlie children themselves, with no costs deducted or overhead, promotion, publicity, mail ings, balls, banquets or bazaars. "The funds go directly for the following purjKiscs: college and school tuitions, orthodontist's fees, medical hills, clothing, shoes, chemistry sets, rockino horses. Raggedy Ann dolls, and bicycles. "In addition, a small but con stant sum is set away monthly for future contingencies, such as measles, birthday parties, falls from trees, small rings, tropical fish collections, broken windows, lost gloves 1 192 pair since 1H55 alone, as you can see (rom the attached statement of operat ing expenses for the last decade, included in the annual report ', and allowances, which grow in geometrical proportion while the children grow only in arithmeti cal proportion. "Our books have been audited and verified by the U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue. District n( Northern Illinois who. however, has persistently relused to let the Foundation lie incorporated not-for-profit under state or na tional laws. I am currently en gaged in taking this case to the highest court in the land, and have hired for this purpose an attorney with eleven children n( his own. "As you can see. the Harris Foundation is unique among all the groups to whkh you have been contributing, in that not one penny is diverted to pay the ex penses of the administrator, who happens to be a newspaper cn!- aratc groups into meaningful con tact with one another from the start. Tlie more diverse the pco p who are drawn in 'dis senters' and special interest groups' particularly the sooner oid. riiiKl modes of thinking will be replaced w ith fresh ideas The participants will he discovering tlicir world as it is. instead of as tliev imagined it to Le " umnist of the utmost probity, frugality, and self-sacrificing to the point of saintliness. His name will be sent upon request, if ac companied by a stamped, self addressed envelope. "Thanking you again for your inquiry. I remain very truly yours. Sydney J. Harris." Other Editors Say . . . ' Education Paradox (Burlington, Vt. Free-Press) The "need" for a vastly ex panding federal role in American education was stated eloquently by President Kennedy. But the President's eloquence only served to highlight a great paradox. In his commencement address at San Diego Stale College. Ken nedy made this assertion: "Edu cation is the responsibility edu cation, quite rightly, is the re sponsibilityof the state and the local community. But from the beginning of our country's his tory ... it has been recognized that there must be a national commitment and that the nation al government must plav its role m stimulating a system of excel lence which can serve the great national purpose ol a free socie ty." Later in the same address. Kennedy declared "I believe that education comes at tlie top of the responsibility of any govern ment at whatever level' It is es sential to our survival as a na tion n a dangerous and hazar dous world and it is essential to the maintenance of freedom at a time when freedom is under attack." Thus, the President accented a great paradox. He wants to give the federal government vast new powers over American education, and he wants to do this in order to safeguard American freedom. Any schoolchild can readily see the paradox. How can we possi bly safeguard American freedom by relinquishing more of that freedom to the mammoth feder al bureaucracy? The President himself musl be starkly aware of this paradox. Back in IW50. when lie was a Congressman, Kennedy made the following public statement: ' Every time that we try In lift a problem from our shoulders and shift the problem lo the gov ernment, to die same extent are we sacrificing the liberties of tlie people." A year later, in 1931. Kennedy declared that "the dol lar is a strategic material and its use lor non-defense purposes must be stopped." Certainly American education must be provided, and improved, for all of our citizens. But. also, freedom must be defended for all of our citizens. American educa tion must noi be provkled at t.'-e expense of freedom. If it is, it will defeat its purpose. Such u) tlie great paradox highlighted by President Kennedy.
