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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore em Sunday, July 21, lsfij NOTHING SPECIAL Man's Reach Should Exceed His Grasp- (W. B. S.) Q ; That a new Federation of Malaysia now exists in Southeast Asia is a healthy and hope ful sign. Any kind of solid offset to Indonesia 3s welcome in the free world. s It is too bad that the Borneo territory f Brunei, rich in oil, chose at the final hour if stay out of the new federation. But evi dently the prospect remains strong that it will ;soon join. A dispute over finances lies at the root of its present delay. No one may pretend that in size, resourc es and people the Malaysian federation will prove a true match for mighty Indonesia. Yet it can hardly fail to act as a brake on In donesian President Sukarno. & Indonesia and Sukarno, taken together, Scpresent one of the great failures among the emergent peoples of the postwar era. ej i This sprawling island nation is one of the most naturally blessed in riches of any land on earth. Under proper guidance it should have been a thriving place, a model of . what a "new" people can do, a bulwark of inde pendence with a people wholly hostile to ty- nnntnn1 rfw yv 1 1 n 1 r rvi ICIlllallCll lUlllillUliiai I. In fact, it is probably one of the most mismanaged countries on the globe. Fantastic resources are inadequately developed. So bad is the situation that this lush tropical terri tory has had to import foodstuffs. Sukarno has set an example as an irre sponsible wastrel. And when he has not been seeking his own pleasure in other lands, he Jtas outraged international political morality Letters ?.Phoners" : i Tlie phone rang and the answer (o the question was salt. So, I Hon ($100.00) one hundred dollars Jrorth of merchandise. Can you believe It? ;.' Itn to have a lube job and all Ijiy.'tires switched around and six doughnuts. One place offered to let me wash all my laundry if ft didn't go over ten lbs. There is a 4ree hamburger with french fries even. Two places said I could have a two dollar and fifty ien..$2.50) dinner if I brought a friend who could spent two dol lars and fifty cents for their din ner. We could get in free. ;Then there was a gift of six doughnuts. ;'Four very nice coupons said we pjuld see the show free it we went out of town to see it. IDid I mention the grab bag? Something free every time if we jjayed just once. CSome one wanted to look at our Ijmse wiring. Thai's real nice of Ihem". Did I remember to mention all those doughnuts? Well, it was fun. I truly received nine dollars and ninety-five cents worth of laughs. Next time per haps I'll win one hundred dollars worth of salt. Polly Hope. j Fallacy ;tAn economic fallacy has (t ipped our nation. Unless its jjrip is broken we will soon be living in a bankrupt United SUtes. '.The fallacy with which we and our government are enthralled is deficit spending. Better known as the "Spend Yourself Rich Phil osophy." Despite federal deficits in 27 of the last 33 years we are still not rich and we have a national debt of $300 billion. Still our government persists in deficit i)cnding and plans anotlier deficit next year. You and I who elect the government must bear the hjame for this. We elect men to office to do what we desire and so Ave must tell them that we want the' government back on a 2i ne fiscal policy. I . will now pause so our lib erartriends may say, "It's not so bad, we owe it to ourselves." But we don't ask your liberal friends how much they have loaned the federal, government. The answer is, usually, nothing. And you, sir, how much have you yourself loaned the federal gov ernment? Again nothing. So you see. we don't owe H to ourselves. We do owe it to banks and mon ey lender both here and abroad. Wicse people expect to be repaid. tiosie pay them? No, we a r e Syen forced to borrow money to ffciy them the interest on what fe already owe. f I pause again so our liberal fr..u n my at UU wilit w. A Failure And A Promise by undertaking such adventures as the cam paign for seizure of West New Guinea. Because he. unconsciously plays East against West, Sukarno gained West New Guinea. The United States and other West ern powers pressed the weary Dutch to yield this once colonial land, even though it has no racial and cultural but only the thinnest ad ministrative ties with Indonesia. That was a victory for Sukarno's rampant immorality in Southeast Asia. It was prime evidence that even a newly emergent nation can be "colonial" in the name of anticolonia lism. For a time Sukarno appeared to buck also the new federation of Malaysian peoples, But somehow or other saner counsels man aged to prevail and he stopped short of ac tion which for all practical purpose would have aligned him with the world's worst mod ern aggressors. For Malaysia is a fact. If Brunei copies in, the federation surely will not be poor. It has a golden opportunity to help stabilise fluid conditions in Southeast Asia. Not only can it serve as balance wheel, but it can offer itself as proud example of how a new coun try can marshal its resources and people to serve its independent destiny. The embarrassment of comparison might even leadIndonesia one day to seek new, re sponsible leadership which could realize its amazing potential and set it on the same high course. To The Editor may say, "It's really not so bad, our grass national product is $500 billion and our debt is $300 billion." Another fallacy, the gross national product does not belong to the non-profit federal govern ment, it belongs to the business firms and their stockholders. The only claim the federal govern ment has to the gross national product is the taxes on it. And de.f ito what our liberal friends may say the federal government does not have an unlimited claim on the earnings of business or individuals. So we still have a $300 billion debt and compara tively little income to pay it. We all know what happens to a family, a business or an individu al who lives beyond his means. The same fate awaits the na tion that does so also. Even it .lohn F. Kennedy himself should tell you It isn't so, don't you believe it. Write your senators and rep resentatives, tell tlicm to get the government back on a sound fi nancial footing or we'll elect men next time who will. Remember, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." .lames K. Shafcr, Rle 2, Box 2I0x, Medford, Ore. Turnabout A news item from Sacramento tells of a man who is barbcring being sentenced to spend HO days in jail and fined $1,632. His of Icnse was in attending a barber school while drawing this mon ey (or unemployment. Some slates allow those attending schools to draw unemployment, so long as in oilier ways they arc eligible, but most of them do not. Are such laws in line with what we need to promote here? Are they even in line with our claim of wanting to raise the general educational levels, and to raise mm people to wik performing abilities of the kinds modern pro duction Is coming to demand? Most of us know of cases w here the young fellows who had worked on the same jobs some were drawing unemployment while merely lying around, dry rotting at best, but more apt turning themselves into winos or worse, while others of them were going to school, often forced to neglect school work because of time spent on jobs at half pay to secure the wherewithal! of fi nancing themselves, unable to draw unemployment. Would it not be more in line if H were Just reversed? And made so those out of work, and for vhom the employment offices could not (ind work, would have to attend some schools or take some training courses, to quality for receiving unemployment. If that were the case it would put an end to those cases where yotUjila, wilA bad fluua wail dowu the roads of dry-rot and of be coming winos, deliberately lay off and qualify for unemploy ment for that. I hold there are fewer who do this lian some would have us believe, either to receive un employment or county pr state re lief benefits. But I think the situ ation is such that it makes the stale putting a reward on people staying out of school and train ing classes, as most of them now do, in connection with unem ployment benefits, as stupidly ridiculous. O. O. Womack Protection On the night of June II. my husband and I and our three chil dren stopped for an overnight at a motel on Second and Main Street in your city. Klamath Falls appeared to be a fine place for travelers to spend the night. It could have been except for n group of noisy, beer drinking, foul-talking young men who hid away their beer supply in the men's room of the Standard Oil Station next to the molel. Per haps up to a dozen cars, most ly "souped-up" recent models, in cluding one Cadillac, hot-rodded in and nut of this station from about 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. As the night wore on and the beer sup ply diminished, these rough necks became more boisterous, more foul-mouthed and more ped al happy. Our accommodations were di rectly above the parking area of this Standard station so we and our children were spared nothing in the way of noise or profanity. I wondered where your local police force kept itscif. I learned next day that this is a common occurrence that while the kids arc whooping it up on tlie main street, the police are out on the highway chasing tourist offenders who might I exceeding the speed limit by five miles an hour. Next morning at breakfast I watched' two police cars patrol ling an empty Sunday morning street. Why weren't they there Saturday night preserving the peace of Klamath Falls' main thoroughfare? I also learned that complaints to Standard Oil l'.-.,e not been heeded. I have put a letter in the mail to the president of that company today. I know there are many respec table families in Klamath Falls who resent such black marks on their city's reputation. Better these people insist that their po lice enforce tlicir laws before Klamath Falls becomes a by passed city. I have sent a copy ol tills let ter to the Klamath Falls Cham ber of Commerce. Mrs. S. F. Christoflerson. 570.1 Princeton Ave. N.K. SaaUla J. li. U.S. Encourages Impatient Act By ARTHUR KROCK (In The New York Times) WASHINGTON, July 11-Newly independent governments which are members of the United Na tions got sound advice at Geneva from Adlai E. Stevenson yester day. Speaking fft the Economic and Social Council of the U.N., he warned these governments that their "acts of impatience" toward the South African Repub lic and Portugal would undermine the U.N. if they were imposed in the form of policy decisions. But the Government of the United States, of which Stevenson is the U.N. spokesman, has great responsibility for stimulating these "acts of impatience" to the point where newly independent countries in Africa and Asia are moving pre-emptorily to expel South. Africa and Portugal (but not, of course, the U.S.S.R.) from , the organization. The responsibil ity was first incurred when, in seeking to demonstrate a sweep ing policy of "anti-colonialism," the Kennedy Administration in structed its U.N. Representative io vote for one of the most ir responsible and biased resolutions ever offered in that body. This resolution, addressed lo the native revolt against Portugal's colonial regime in Angola, en dorsed the principle of "immed iate" self government for all the African peoples, regardless of their capability for it. And. though calling on Portugal to "show due respect for human rights and fun damental freedoms," the resolu tion made no mention of the An gola terrorists who were violating these by widespread rape, pillage and murder among the white co lonials. Nevertheless, the United Stales Representative voted for this slanted text. On other U.N. occasions, some times after "registering a pro test." the vote of the United States was cast for proposals by the newly independent nations that were travesties of the prin ciple of U.N. neutrality in keep ing the peace of the world lo whicli all members are commit ted by the Charter. One of these proposals initiated the use of force lo put down the secession in Katanga but excluded from its scope a concurrent secession in another province by tlie follow ers of Lumumba. Stevenson pro tested that the pro-Lumumba se cession could develop into a greater threat to world peace, but "V'bo tier beard of a prickly BERRY'S WORLD on instructions from Washington he voted for the resolution. By "going along" with such pro cedures, and sometimes vying with the new nations in shows of "anti-colonialism," the Kennedy Administration not only general ly encouraged their "acts of im patience," but became less and less influential in restraining their excesses. One day, for example, after the U.S.S.R. had vetoed a Western motion for a ceasefire in Goa that India had seized in vio lation of the Charter, Stevenson, noting he had been present at tlie birth of the U.N., exclaimed that "tonight we are witnessing the first act of a drama that could end with its death." The U.N.'s "peace-keeping" in the former Belgian Congo which developed into three separate mili tary expeditions to Katanga and a full-scale war against Tshombe, was equipped, financed and trans ported by the Government of the United States on the very dis putable ground that this was nec essary to avert a "confrontation" with the U.S.S.R. In addition to that support, without which the U.N. war could neither have been conducted nor won, the Adminis tration lent the pressure of its envoy to compel Tshombe lo By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: People who frequently feel they are being "insulted" are highly insultable they unconsciously provoke situations in which they can feel rebuffed and rejected, in order to justify their deep sense of grievance against the hu man race. Nothing in the world is as use less as a moral generalization that everybody believes: its very unanimity allows us to give it complete verbal assent without bothering to put it into practice. The happiest marriages are those between a husband who knows how to listen and a wife who knows when not In talk. third bast coach tilth beat!'' sign an agreement with the cen tral Government, which had him under arrest at the time. To stave off the insolvency of the U.N., largely created by this "peace-keeping" operation, this Government has purchased most of the $140 million in U.N. bonds that have small chance of redemp tion. Moreover, the State Depart ment competed w ith the U.N. Sec retariat in a successful vendetta against Tshombe, who though he has thoroughly proved he lacks the stuff of the hcro-patriot-mar-tyr he professed to be was the only strong pro-Western leader in the Congo, and governed the only area with law-and-order and a vi able economy. The culmination of this trans gression of the U.N. Charter, abet ted by the United States, is that the organization will leave the fate of the country to a cen tral Government of dubious offi cial standards and international affiliations when the U.N. troops are pulled out of the Congo at the end of this year. What else than these "acts of impatience" of the newly inde pendent countries could have been expected by the Government which contributed so greatly to their incitement? STRICTLY PERSONAL A fine semantic definition was made by Proust when he ob served that "Everybody calls 'clear' those ideas which have tlie same degree of confusion as his own." Those discontented souls who are perpetually searching for someone to "understand" them would be most discomfited if tru ly understood; what they are real ly looking for is someone to mis understand them in a way they find acceptable to the ego. Animals react to our tone of voice, not to our words; and so do children, who rightly pay more attention In the nay we say things than to what we say. Speaking of animals, I have long relished tlie anti-sentimental remark by Karl Kraus, alter hearing about the "loyalty"of dogs. "To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an ex ample? He is loyal lo men, not to other dogs." It is a singular fact that ob scene literature arises only in highly civilized societies, and would be incomprehensible to primitive societies; rather than a vice, obscenity is a disease of cul tural old age. A philosopher in love is just as ridiculous as anybody else and even more so when he tries to philosophize about it. A servant may work in a house a month without knowing where the spoons arc. but not for a week without knowing where tlie skeletons are. It is a dangerous half-truth tn believe that "history repeats It self"; In a more profound sense, history never repeats Itself, and each age commit great lollies by wrongly applying some les son of the past lo a unique event of the present, which It only loosely resembles. I guess I am not hankering for the good old days. But. I can re member, as a kid, when we did not even have electric lights. For recreation we played baseball and hunted flicker-tails. The family household (not necessarily ours, only) was a busy, happy place. Big kids took care of little kids, mother was kept busy in the kitchen cooking, ironing, sewing and peeling and cooking vegeta bles out of the garden or the cel lar, or chopping off a chicken's head and picking it. In most in stances. Dad worked 12 or more hours a day to earn three bucks or so to keep the household go ing. For some reason, in those days (some mighty lean ones, in cidentally) people were paying their bills, the divorce courts had little business, folks were not suing each other for an easy buck, and no one was having ner vous breakdowns, and nobody knew what a tranquilizer or a pep pill was. Odd, wasn't it? Caller wanted to know the other day: How come we call for car, boat, scooter, motor cycle and bicycle licenses when we don't bother to license or impose a charge upon horses? The question ought to bring out a few warm replies from horse lovers. Of which I am not. Machines are being developed that will respond to spoken com mands. Who ever suggested that husbands couldn't be replaced? Normand Poulshock is looking for members for his Klamath Symphony Orchestra. Needed are string players, horn players and the works. If you feel that you're a good enough musician to play with the orchestra, call Bowden Music Company and leave your name and telephone number. Norm conducts music lessons there twice a week, and he'll get in touch with you. The orchestra will play its first concert of the THE GLOBAL VIEW . . . Summit Meeting Looms 'Probable' SOT MW By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NEAI W. Averell Harriman, chief U.S. delegate to the Mos cow nuclear test ban talks, is also presumably negotiating for another East-West summit meet ing. In the view of United Nations diplomats, tlie Kennedy admin istration's sudden "optimism" about Premier Khrushchev's new offer of a "partial" test ban in dicates that secret preparations for the summit are already un der way. Even Britain's liberal journal New Statesman, which seems tn have a pipeline to some of the President's advisers, now be lieves that "The road to a new summit meeting begins to look a little clearer." The British Labor party's mouthpiece frequently predicts U.S. diplomatic moves even before they are leaked tn the Kennedy administration's fa vorite newsmen. What, then, is behind Premier Khrushchev's latest offer, and how far should he be trusted? Undersecretary of State Harri man is, unfortunately, a profes sional optimist. He misunder stood the Russians' imperialist aims in East Europe when he was President Truman's negoti ator in 1943. He trusted them again in Laus in 19B2. Now he ap parently believes that a ban on nuclear testing is a promising area for agreement with Mos cow. Western clfurts to reach such an agreement were so far frus trated by Russia's refusal to meet even President Kennedy's minimum requirements for on site inspection, especially of un derground tests. However, during his recent visit to East Germany Khrushchev pruposed a ban on surface, atmosphere and underwa ter tests ostensibly because they are self-policing. He did not change his mind on the crucial question of on-site inspection but suggest ed that tlie whole problem should he left hanging in the air. As seen by U.S. specialists on Russia, a test ban agreement on Khrushchev's terms ratified with all the fanfare a a summit meeting could only serve tlie interests of Russia's much-troubled premier. It would, of course, strengthen Khrushchev's hand in his dispute with Red China. It will obligate the West to recognize tlie legiti macy of the Red rcsimes in East Europe and Cuba. It will surely open for Russia increased trade opportunities with the West and enable Khrushchev lo appease tlie economic needs of his disgruntled season in August, and Norm plans to start practice sessions around the first of August. The last ward in aa argu ment is what a wife has. Any thing a husband says after that Is the beginning of another ar gument. WHICH AM 1? I watched them tearing a build ing down A gang of men in a busy town. With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell, They swung a beam and a side wall fell. I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled "As the man you'd hire if you had to build?" He gave a laugh and said, "No, indeed! "Just common labor is all I need. "I can easily wreck in a day or two "What builders have taken a year to do." And I thought to myself as I went my way Which of these roles haveV I Wed to play? The sickening Fourth fit July traffic toll a disgrace to any civilized nation is all the more tragic because It never need have happened, and would nev er had happened had enough drivers been willing to do three simple things. They include obeying traffic rules and regulations to the letter in simple faith that they have been enacted to protect the driv er. Extending to other drivers the courtesy they would like other drivers to extend to them. Substi tute common sense for frenzy and patience for wrath. And if three safety precautions are too high a price for saving human life, one safety rule alone would cut the toll in half the Golden Rule. and restless satellites. Tlie Soviet premier hinted as much when he also suggested, as part of the nuclear test ban bar gain, a "nonaggression" pact be tween NATO and Russia's coun terpart, the Warsaw Pact nations. Khrushchev is not likely to abandon the Marxist - Leninist doctrine or desist from fomenting civil strife and "limited" wars of national liberation, especially in Latin America. He will thus be satisfied with any Western con cessions, however minor, that he hopes to gain at a new summit meeting. But what can tlie Free World possibly gain except more dis sension in NATO? President Charles de Gaulle, whose ambition is to make France a nuclear power, has no interest in tlie type of test ban proposed by Khrushchev. Pro NATO German partisans of re tiring Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer will surely consider a non aggression agreement with the Warsaw Pact nations as an American attempt lo give inter national recognition to Commu nist East Germany. Thus, even if Khrushchev fails to get his pacts he will have suc ceeded in creating more doubt and dissension in NATO, already in tragic state of disarray. Ambassador Harriman will do well to remember Khrushchev's favorite proverb that "When you take an eel by its tail or a poli tician by his word, precious lit tle remains in your hand." Al manac Ry United Press International Today is Sunday, July 21, the 202nd day of 1M3 with 163 to fullow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning tars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those born today include Amer ican novelist and Nobel Prize win ner Ernest Hemingway, in 1899. On this day in history: In 1861, the first major military engaaemcnt in the Civil War was fought al Bull Run Creek, Va. In 1923. John Scopes, a biology teacher in the Dayton, Tenn., high school, was found guilty of teaching the theory of evolution, which was contrary lo state law. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was renominated for a fourth term and Harry S. Truman was the vice presidential candidate.
