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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-
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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.