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L.i PAGE ( HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Oregon fcdiitfiiaL (Pom No Wonder We're The Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee is conducting hearings on the nuclear test-ban treaty and predictions are already being freely voiced that it will have relative ly easy "sledding." This, despite the fact that treaties, in general, do not have a good record. Non-aggression pacts, especially, have us ually been but scraps of paper. As instru ments of peace they have been chimerical. That's one reason why the United States and Britain resisted Russia's move to combine such a pact with a test-ban treaty. Also, the in famous Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939, which virtually assured the beginning of World War If, will never be forgotten. In his definitive study, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," William L. Shirer calls the Nazi-Soviet Pact "one of the crudest deals of this shady epoch." Not only did the treaty promise that neither power would at tack the other but it stated also that should one of them become "the object of belligerent action" by a third power, the other party would "in no manner lend its support to this Third Power." "This," writes Shirer, "Hitler got what he specifically wanted: an immediate agree ment by the Soviet Union not to join Britain and France if they honored their treaty obliga tions to come to the aid of Poland In case she were attacked." Poland was attacked in For An (Medford Mail-Tribune) The current session of Congress, faced with such vital matters as the test ban treaty, civil rights legislation, tax reform and reduc tion, railroad strike legislation, and others of significance, has shown no hurry on doing a job on any of them. In the field of lesser legislation, too, it has written a record that leaves much to be de sired. One such measure which surely merits enactment is one to guard against needless cruelty to animals used in scientific experi ments. Several bills to this end are now in com mittee. Don't misunderstand. We are not calling for an end to experimentation on animals, for some of the most significant and important dis coveries in the past century have come from them. We are no anti-vivisectionist. But it has been amply documented that cruelty to animals which is wholly unnecessary and gratuitous does indeed exist in some scien HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER Abbe Fulbert Youlou, the easy boss of the Congo Republic, came to his balcony and told the mobs that he'd go quietly. As Presi dent, Prime Minister and Minis ter of Justice, the defrocked monk lived high on the hog, as most dictators do. Money, women and power he had, but very little job security. He got his while tile getting was good, and his successors will do the same. When you've been, as I was last December, to a country which overthrows its government by force and violence, you naturally summon up your memories and notebooks, and you ask what difference will Uie overUirow make? The DC-8 jetliner w hieh brought me that night from Salisbury to Brazzaville was cheered off by a gay group of Africans whose leader was going north to attend one of those recurring conferences on economics and self-govern-ment. Soon we were a sweltering pay-load of body heat w ith giggly French hostesses juggling cock tail trays in the aisles. An equa torial slorm cracked its fire and thunder in the midnight sky, and the big plane creaked land pitched like an old canoe. Aidrd by our prayers, the pilots over came the elements, and wo de scended in moonlight over the golden river, embellished on both banks by silvery cities. With thankful palms, 1 collected pass port, landing card, customs dec laration, immigration canls and the American Express Comiwny voucher to show I had a reserva tion at tlie Relais Hotel. The Brazzaville Airport was tasteful, commodious, but unfin ished. The concrete concourse had short order and a secret protocol to the treaty found in Nazi archives after the war showed that Germany and Russia had agreed to divide Poland between them. Two years later, when German troops were pouring into Russia in violation of the pact, Stalin would still justify his odious deal with Hitler. "We secured peace for our coun try for one and a half years," he told the Russian people, "as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense . . . This was a definite gain for our country and a loss for fascist Germany." Today the question may be asked about what gains Premier Khrushchev has in mind for his country, and what losses for the West, in the conclusion of a NATO-Warsaw Pact non-agression pact. In a dispatch to the New York Times from Bonn, C. L. Sulzberger says Bonn's experts "now see Moscow policy as aimed more at restricting West German rear mament than at gaining NATO recognition of East Germany," and as "the initial step toward West Germany's military and political neutra lization." The United Stales, France and Britain may well find common cause with the Soviets on the question of West German rearmament. But the very term "non-agression pact" is anathema to those who remember the sordid Nazi-Russian deal in 1939. End To Cruelty tific laboratories, either the result of neglect, or of simple carelessness. Great Britain has a humane treatment law which dates well into the last century, and it has not hampered legitimate animal experi mentation. Surely this country is at least as concerned over animals who cannot speak on their own behalf as is Britain. This is a live subject' to many people. Cleveland Amory, writing in the Saturday Re view, says a piece he wrote on the need for humane legislation in this field drew more re sponse than any other in his memory. A later article by him in the Saturday Evening Post has also drawn much attention. There is no excuse for the present situa tion, which permits cruelty either for cruel ty's sake (rarely, one hopes), or by thoughtless inadvertence or a "don't care" attitude. We hope Congress can bestir itself this year, not only to enact legislation vital to the country's needs, but also to remove a blot of shame which a simple piece of tested legisla tion could do. ALEXANDER . Brazzaville Revisited lots of counters, wicket-windows, holes in tlio floor and half-built walls. It had plenty of gendarmes and airlines personnel, but ap parently all the Civil Service peo ple had gone home to bed. 1 wasted half an hour trying to show my credentials to some one -anyone and llien gave up. An Air France hostess examined my hotel reservation, consulted a list and said I wasn't on it. She offered to get mo a room at Uie Air France iiotel, but I had engagements for the morning and insisted on my civilian quar ters where I hoped to find mes sages about the appointments. A young man, deeply disan nulled that his girl had failed to arrive on the plane, pressed his own reservations at the (irand Hotel uxin me. so I gratefully look them. Nobody was bothering with baggage checks, there were no taxis, hut 1 found my lug gage and jumicd with it into an nien-endcd bus that was going I knew not where. We were .soon among huts and semi-jungle. I had little hope of seeing civiliza tion again, but a bearded man with a knapsack assured me that the bus stopped at all the best hotels. He was right. Within an hour I was in the young man's intended loveliest a good bed under me, the rim of an old fashioned veranda showing through the open French doors above the silent street of a dark ening town. Next morning, I found what I needed most a friend, lie was .lack Hedges, U.S. Information officer at tlx American Embas sy, who brought all that a travel er needs local currency, fact sltccts, an automobile, advice and a tattle of whiskey. Turtday, August 27, 196) Leery From then on, thanks to Hedges and American Ambassador Blancke, the visit was a milk-run. 1 lived in Brazzaville and commut ed across the river to Leopoldville w here, although without a visa or any permissive papers at all, I again h;id State Department es cort and hospitality. The sub stitute for credentials turned out to be the password "Diploma tique." It would remove sentries, ocn doors and assure safe pas sage. Departure from Brazzaville, another night flight, was easy, since the airline manager drove me to the airport. Again, none ol the officials seemed to lie around to fuss over departure pa pers. My guide finally awakened, with a polite "Monsieur?", a slumbering African on tie floor of a dark office. Identification amounted to writing my name on a bit of paper and having it matched with the signature on the passport. This was all done in semi-darkness. My guess is that the changing of tlie palace guard will make no more difference in Brazzaville and the Congo Republic than the regular afternoon ran showers. The European airlines will (etch the travelers, the tradesmen, the journalists and the conference at tendants. Tlie hotels will accom modate guests. Tlie Catholic churelK'S and schools will teach the young. The Army will choose the politicians. The French busi ness community will pocket the proiits. and occasionally some body like Senator Kllrnder will blunderingly tell the unfashion able truth. Childlike Africa with out tlie visible or invisible man agement of Mother Europe would soon wander back into tlie jungle. IN WASHINGTON Russ By RALPH de TOLEDANO Nearly four million American young people are enrolled in col leges and professional schools. This say some educationists, is not good enough. And. say others, we've got to do better if we're going to catch up with the Soviet Union's educational system. At the drop of a hat. Admiral Hyman Rickover, whose "researches" in Soviet education brought smiles to the faces of those of us who accompanied him on his "tour" of Russia, will hold forth on both points. Well, I've slopped worrying. I saw the Soviet schools and col leges at first hand and they didn't impress me. Now I have statisti cal evidence, straight from tlie Soviet Union and compiled by the scholarly Institute for the Study of the USSR, which proves thai I was right. Consider first these facts: 1. The Soviet population is much greater than that of Uie U.S. or well over 200 million people. 2. The Soviet higher education system has places tor only 450.000 students and only half of thai number for daytime attendance. 3. Between 1954 and 1957, 3.3 million candidates for Soviet uni versities and professional schools were turned down because there was no room for them. That num ber has since increased, of course. 4. Only 20 per cent of all can didates for higher education arc admitted on the basis of merit. The oUicr 80 per cent arc sons and daughters of tlie new "elite," the bureaucratic ruling class which grabs everything in sight leaving only ideology and pie-in-the-sky to the working classes. The Red and pinko press may yelp about the "class" nature of American education, but a bl ight student in the United Stales, no matter how poor, has an infinite ly better chance to get into col lege than a Russian ditto. But what of the quality of So viet education? This is what we heard about almost every hour on the hour not too long ago. High praise went to Comrade Khrush cliev for improving and inspiring Soviet education. He did it, we would presume, by insisting that between the end of grammar school and the beginning of sec ondary school all Soviet students be required to spend two ears working on farm or in factory. To tlie extent that tliey are al lowed to speak up. Soviet scien tists have boon protesting this ., ,l,.iiarinie." The Journal of the Institute oilers me reason whv: "Tlw (act is that Miru.-h- cIk'v's proposed reform almost completely ignored the training ol specialists essential to the intro duction of complex mcchaiHon. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Why Is solid carbon dioxide called dry Ice? A It does not return to liquid lorm when it melts but changes directly into a gas. q Where Is the Itinron dia lect spoken? A Tlie Rincon dialect of Za potoc is spoken by some 12.000 Indians in the northern part of Uaxaca, Mexico. The Middle of the Road Is Sometimes Hard to Find '4 I . r Education automation, and electronic de vices, who with the present level of technological development must pursue an intensive and un interrupted course in one narrow specialty and possess ... a thorough theoretical grounding." And Soviet Academician A. Mi nus, writing in Izvcstia, c o m plains: "During the first t w o years at a technical college, the foundations are laid the founda tions in physics, mathematics, and chemistry which must be as similated and mastered by a fu ture scientist or engineer. . . . This requires great perseverance. But it is precisely for these years that tlie students are transferred to evening courses. In the morn ing, they work in factories." By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The frightful and ignorant ar rogance of modern man is no where more clearly revealed than in his contemptuous attitude toward the words of his progeni tors. He accepts what he finds comfortable, and rejects what he does not understand. To take two of the most simple and obvious examples: Our fore fathers reminded us that "all men are created equal." Now, cvi dentally, all men are not created equal they arc dilferenl in height, weight, background, men tal capacity, moral character, and dozens of different ways. No two men anywhere on carta are exact ly equal in such ways. When modern man points this out, does he imagine that Jeffer son and Franklin and tlie Amer ican Revolutionists were s u c h idiots as to believe that men were created equal in such ways? Nobody above the mental level of eight would think that. So, obviously, the Founding Fathers meant something quite different, and much deeper, than these "equalities." But we do not both er to discover what they meant. Tlie second example comes from the Bible, where we ar,- command ed to love our neighbors and love our enemies apparently, as Chesterton said, because they are so oten the same persons. Along comes modern man and asserts Uiat nobody can be "com manded" to love anybody. Love to us is an emotion, a feeling, and it cannot be turned off and on. it cannot be directed ad channeled. Love, like the wind, hlowelh where it lislctli. and no body can be told whom he should love. How- can anyone in his right mind imagine that this is wiial the wise men who wrote the Bible meant when they informed us that Hod commands us to love our neighbors? Didn't they know as well as we that people are bundles of likes and dislikes, attraction and repulsions, affec tions and aversions'' Does any one think that tlie priests and the prophets were so stupid that tliey thought this kind of loe could bo ordered, even by Hod? Si. obuously. something else is meant. The kind of "love" we Declines This is why those who have studied Soviet methods say that the "main victim of the f Khrush chev) school reform has been education." Comrade Khrush chev's solution to the tremendous shortage of collegiate facilities in Russia reminds me of his boast to us back in 1959. "In the future." he said, "there will be no need lor kitchens in Soviet homes. Everyone will eat at a cafeteria." Today, he is applying that principle to t h e schools. Unfortunately for the mil lions in tlie Soviet Union who wait and pray for an opportunity to enter a technical or liberal arts college and for those able to gain admittance a cafeteria edu cation isn't very much. STRICTLY PERSONAL are commanded to have in tlie Bible is not (at least, at first' a "feeling" or an "emotion." It is an act of will, it is a turn ing toward the object in a way quite different from the way in which wo turn to our beloved sweethearts or sons or daugh ters. Notice that we are not com manded to "like" people; we are requested to "love" them which is both easier and harder. We can not decide whom we will like: hut in some peculiar way we learn to "love" even those we may not like. Unless we under stand this, the w hole Biblical mes sage eludes us as, in a dif ferent way, the whole Declara tion of Independence eludes us, if we fail lo grasp its meaning of "equality." II is easy to prove that I h e past was wrong, stupid and mis guided. All we have to do is to ignore the significance of what is said. Modern man has no trouble whatsoever in doing this. BERRY'S WORLD "Ltt'i let . . . tbt lot bone't eonntcled to tbt foot bont . . . tbi foot bone't , , .' EDSON IN WASHINGTON 'Protest' March On Capital Expensive By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NE.V - Wash ington is literally holding its breath until the Aug. 28 March for Freedom and Jobs by from 100.000 to maybe 300.000 civil rights advocates is all over and done with. If it comes off as tlie orderly demonstration i t s organizers have planned, it can be a drama tic and impressive example for the world of a peaceful peoples' protest. It could be reduced lo a fiasco by a little thing like a late sum mer afternoon thunderstorm. Tlie presence of sympathetic w hite marchers perhaps a fourth of tlie total is good insurance against racial disturbances. Unintentional accidents creat ing panic are the most serious concern. To the credit of the march or ganizers, from A. Philip Ran dolph on down to the bus cap tains and parade marshals, every effort is being made to keep out Communists or other troublemak ers. To the credit of Washington po lice under Chief Robert V. Mur ray and his top deputies, Ameri can Nazi party Fuelu-er George L. Rockwell and his ilk will be kept under control. The original "Big Six" organ izersJames Farmer. Martin Lu WASHINGTON Taxpayers' Money Purchases Wives By FULTON LEWIS JR. John Q. Public foots the bill for something called tlie Traders Loan Scheme, under which hard pressed Africans may borrow funds with which to purchase wives. To date, half a million U.S. dol lars have been dished out by the Ke-ya Government. Recipients are local traders who have seen better days. Kenya officials admit that more than $500 was made avail able to one individual anxious lo buy a wife. They insist, however, that the loan was made prior to U.S. participation in the program. The above story was confirmed last week by the Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, who is Congress' budgetary watchdog. He cited case after case of govern ment waste and inefficiency in a letlcr to Virginia Sen. Willis Rob ertson. Examples: The Agency for International Development spent $400.0110 to buy 1.000 batlery-operaled T.V. sets for African villages that lacked electricity. Purchased without competitive bidding. the sets were not needed. AID is now trying to recover $57,000 of (he original price. The Department of Health. Education and Welfare shelled out $18,000 lo a Columbus. Ohio doctor for a study of monumental importance. Title: "Appointment Breaking in a Pediatric Clinic." llaile Selassie, iron - fisted Ethiopian Emperor, cruises ' tlie seven seas in a $3 million, air conditioned yacht, courtesy of Un cle Sam. Explanation by the De partment of Defense: "There were political considerations involved in making this vessel available." Wisconsin scientists are busy spending more than $1.2 million in a study of the relationship be tween Hie infant monkey and its mother. Liberia, which has received foreign aid totaling $131 million, turned around and spent $10 mil lion (or a gold-plated presiden tial palace. Interested Congress men, in an on-the-spot survev, concluded that "Liberia's limit- ther King, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whit ney Young have become a "Big Ten." Tlie additional leaders are Matliew Ahmann of National Cath olic Conference on Interracial Jus tice. Eugene Carson Blake of Na tional Council of Churches, Joa chim Prinz of American Jewish Conference and Walter Reuther of United Auto Workers. All will speak at the Lincoln Memorial in a two-to-tliree-hour program. The original $75,000 budgeted to cover march expenses has proved inadequate. It has been raised to nearly 5125.000 by a $17,000 contribution from labor un ions and $30,000 from churches and civic organizations. But stiS more is being sought to pay ex penses of unemployed workers who want to march. Sale of badges reading, "March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 19i" at 25 cents each is expected to raise $50,000 or more. 11 will cost the District of Col umbia nearly $100,000 to direct traffic, police the march, provide first aid and sanitary facilities, clean up the mess after it's over. To handle the crowd will require 2,500 local police, another l.ooo in Virginia and Maryland, 2.000 Na tional Guardsmen, nearly 1 ,000 Army Military Police and 2,000 parade marshals. REPORT . . . ed resources could be better ' util- ized." More than $75,000 has been authorized by the Department of HEW to scientists who are set ting up colonics of baboons and monkeys. Sen. Barry Goldwater. who has visited hundreds of college cam puses in the last several years, appears to have sown well the seeds of conservatism. More than 150 students, repre senting 31 Ohio colleges, met re cently to form "Young Ohioans for Goldwater." It is their stale's first such group working for a po litical candidate. At an organization meeting, the students heard Rep. John Ash brook describe the importance of Ohio's Presidential primary. The president of the fledgling youth group, which hopes to enlist 100. 000 Ohioans by the year's end, is Charles London. Congressman William Fills Ryan, a vocal foe of the "radi cal right." recently paid tribute to tlie College Democrats of New York State. Meeting in New York two months ago. the college kids ap proved a platform that called for repeal of the McCarran Act: abol ition of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee; repeal of all government loyalty oaths: and advocacy of Communist views on college campuses. Al manac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Aug. 27, the 2:19th day of 1!K!3 with 126 to fol low. The moon is at first quarter. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars arc Mars and Saturn. Chinese pliiluspher Confucius was born on this dale in 5.10 B.C. 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