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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1963)
PAGB-6A Art The scientific revolution, like any oth er, is not' a total blessing. There are many signs that it distracts us too thoroughly from other values in living. In this country artists and architects often have complained of being consigned to too small a place in the nation's life. Many thoughtful men find the complaint hard to answer. The other day a new complaint was ;r'egistered by Walter Gropius, celebrated architect who has been in the vanguard of modern design here and In Europe. Said he In a speech at Williams college: ; : "This is the century of science. The art ist is only a luxury member of society. True art is doomed to languish as long as science ;is supposed to have the only answers for our predominantly materialistic period.'.' i What Gropius is saying is that there is too much attention to the mere function of 'things, too little to the look of things. 1 When men build, or otherwise shape rtheir environment, they usually do this for eminently practical reasons. They are put ting up houses, stores, offices, factories and so on. But human beings are lovers of beauty, ,Doth natural and man-made. They like to be ;surrounded by things that are more than just practical.' A man-made environment that Is strictly utilitarian can be deadening. Gropius complains that much of what ;man builds fails on this test, and he adds ., Get set for a rough winter. ; That's the 1 a t e s t weather advisory, straight from the squirrel's mouth. And if you say "Nuts!" you've got the message. That's the key word in the long range forecast and from what we gather from news stories around the nation. ', Even before the Old Farmer's Almanac Is off the press, our furry friends are squir reling away acorns like crazy sure sign of a long, hard winter if you belong to the squirrel school of meteorology. -. Furthermore, the acorns themselves are extra big another sure-fire omen. EDSON Bv TETER EDSON : WASHINGTON Seven - card peek with a double deck and everything wild. That's tho kind of poker game U.S. trade "czar" Chris tian A. Ilerter is preparing lo play In negotiating free world tariff cuts and nontarlff trade barrier reduction so that In ternational commerce can ex pand. First hands for this game which will run for over a year will be played In Washington beginning Dec. 2 before the U.S. Tariff Commission under Chairman Ben D. Dorfman and tho U.S. Trade Information Committee under Chairman William J. Ilodd. In public hearings that will continue until tJie end of March, thty will be looking at lists of some 7,500 Items in U.S. for eign commerce to see which tariff!) might be cut and which should not, under the Trade Expansion Act of 112. Any American manufacturer, exporter, importer, trade asso ciation or labor union repre sentative who wants to leant which products are going to be considered for tariff reduction will luive to get the official 600-pago list. II is printed for the first time along with notifications on the hearings and procedures in the Federal Register for Oct. 22, J!ii3. It costs $5 a copy from tho Suierintendent of Docu m e n t s. Government Printing Office. Washington 25. DC. Anyone who then wants to protest consideration of his products orally or In writing must then apply by letter be foro Nov. 20, m, to the Sec rclaries of the U.S. Tariff Com mission or the U.S. Trade Infor mation Committee, Washington 25, D.C. Otherwise, he won't bo dealt a hand in tlic big game. In general, the Tariff Cm mission will hold hearings on U.S. Import duties proposed for reduction. The Trade Informa tion Committee made up of representatives from govern ment agenciet concerned with foreign trade will examine for eign tariff rates and trade barriers U.S. exporters want changed. ; No one has the slightest HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon For Man's Sake Zeroing In On Winter IN WASHINGTON Tariff Cuts Under Study idea how many manufacturers and distributors will want to testify in person, or submit briefs. In 10 some 2,500 items were considered for tariff re ductions, and there were 500 witnesses. With a list of 7,500 Items now being considered for tariff adjustments in the so called "Kennedy round" of negotia tions, there may be 1,000 to 1,500 witnesses. If all tlic evidence can be re ceived nd analyzed by the end of March 1964, rite Tariff Commission and the Trade In formation Committee hoc to make recommendations to the President by April 22. He Is then charged by law with compiling Ute final lists of items on which tariff reduc tions should be negotiated be fore the 53 nations in the Gener al Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. It Is scheduled to begin work in Geneva, Switzerland, May 4, 1M. But it may be de layed. The President is not required to make public his final list. This is confidential Information used by the trade negotiators to drive the best bargain they can for the United States. i--t'-t -.1' Thursday, October 31, 1963 that "modern man has developed a kind oi Gallup poll mentality, a mechanistic concep tion of relying on quantity instead of quali ty." He thinks that if we are to find a prop er life balance we must rely upon better ed ucation which somehow will draw out the "creative potentialities of every individual." Out of this, he says, must come new im portance for the "form-giving artist, the creative architect or designer whose task it is to control the visual manifestations of our productive life ... of our whole physical environment." Gropius states the case perhaps too strongly. One would think America is pro ducing no beautiful buildings at all, when in fact it has a good many stunning struc tures to exhibit. Yet anyone who has examined the en vironment made by our present-day cities from coast to coast must conclude with him that there is far too little really worth look ing at. Zoning ordinances, building codes and building economics seem to play a far more basic role in design than does attrac tiveness. Americans always have justified their predominantly utilitarian structures by say ing they were "too busy" to do more with them. Men who understand the rich re wards of a more balanced outlook would contend this amounts to saying people are too busy to live full lives. Still skeptical? Then consider the fact that groundhogs are gorging themselves to three times their normal side, fuzzy cater pillars are extra fuzzy, hornets' nests are closing up to shut out wintry winds, fish are diving deep for winter-proof water, and even dogs are growing extra coats to meet what's coming. If you don't like acorns, it would be prudent to invest in longies, put on extra shot of anti-freeze in the car, check the snow shovel and weatherstrip the windows and doors. Fifty million squirrels can't be wrong. The only Hems that can be excluded from consideration are those on which exemptions already have been granted under peril point or escape clause procedures. This exempt list now covers only a score of trade classifi cations, including codfish, gar lic, hatters' fur, cotton velve teen, screen printed scarves, ceramic tiles, violins under $25, scissors, bicycles, safety and ordinary pins and spring clothespins. Otlier countries presumably are compiling lists of their products on which they would like to see U.S. tariffs reduced, and determining how much they are w illing to reduce their tariffs against U.S. exports. Fortunately for them, these countries don't have to go through the long rigmarole of hearings required by U.S. law. As far as the American gov ernment Is concerned, unrav eling all the tangled threads of tariff rates and then re weaving them into a fabric that will adequately protect Ameri can Interests is about the big gest and most complex job of bureaucratic detail that has ever been tackled. 'But, I Campaigned For You In 1952 . . Even Though I Didn't Know What Your Position Was On Anything' , WASHINGTON CALLING . . . '. Mississippi Primary Election Is Bitter By MARQUIS CHILDS NATCHEZ, Miss.-In this old town that venerates its ante b e 1 1 u m shrines the sense of fierce resistance to the tide of change is perhaps stronger than anywhere else in belea guered Mississippi. The outsider, the Northerner, who comes to the state, how ever briefly, cannot mistake the emotion that is running so strong. The riot at the Univer sity of Mississippi over the ad mission of a Negro student that resujted in two deatlis and many injured may have seemed to the world outside the South as a tragedy, a dis grace, a shame. But it has an entirely different look here. That drama of a year ago was for Mississippians a delib erate provocation by the Ken nedy Administration. It was an act designed to subjugate a sovereign stale and by military force alter its ancient ways. The blood passions of a hun dred years ago are boiling. The hatred of the Kennedys is a pervasive force. Tills re porter was told by one who has stood up to tlie ruling passion that in his opinion the safety of the President and his brother, the Attorney General, could not be guaranteed if they came into the state. This would not be due to any laxity or indif ference on the part of the au thorities but because fanatical hatred is so deeply rooted. And, moreover, you hear dis quieting reports of how wide spread is the distribution of arms that can be readily pur chased. Tile emotions of this troubled moment arc expressed with na tive vigor by Lieut. Gov. Paul B. Johnson, the Democratic candidate for governor, as he makes an impassioned attack on tlie Republican opposition. In contrast to his Republican i opponent, Jlubel Phillips, who ha? a citified look although he comes off a small cotton farm. Johnson, whose father was a governor of tlie state, has a Mississippi back - country stamp. lie is thin, intense, his words come out with a sharp, rural twang. When he accuses Phillips of having pledged to support Nelson Rockefeller. If Rockefeller Is the Republican nominee next year, he says Rocky-Feller, drawing tlie syl lables out in full contempt. As he speaks from an im provised stand at home plate in the Natcliez ball park to a crowd of perhaps 800 the rea sons for the violent opposition lo tlie first Republican bid in nearly a century are clear. This, says Johnson, means di vide and rule by the Negro mi nority. BERRY'S WORLD (P? J.F.K. ' LA THE WvTH 1 Jrf UL Wu- His political arithmetic is:" Mississippi is 58 per cent white, 42 per cent Negro. If you di vide the 68 then the minority will swing the balance. And he cites the consequences of this in Philadelphia, Chicago, Wash ington and Richmond, Va. So t h e scalawags must be buried and the one-party sys tem preserved. When the leg islature meets in January, he promises, we will see that this never happens again. He ex plained later that laws would be passed requiring fixed party registration so that those choosing to be Republicans would not be .permitted to vote in the Democratic primary and would, therefore, have little in fluence in tlie state. Trying to put over Uie Repub lican case in Mississippi, says Johnson, are these slick writ ers brought in from Texas. They ate the same slick writ ers dealing in mass psychology who put Sen. John Tower and Rep. Bruce Alger over on inno cent Democrats in Texas. And, what is more. Uie four-color Phillips posters on 1,800 bill boards came from Fort Worth. Thus the conspiracy against Mississippi and its. sovereign way of We is complete. The Republicans are the sworn enemy of tlie South. Johnson quotes from a speech ' in the House by Rep. Fred Schwengcl of Iowa boasting of GOP civil rights achievements and citing Rockefeller as a member of the NAACP and Senator Goldwater as a mem ber of Uie Urban League. To the charge that he is di viding the whites and there by preparing the way for rule by Uie Negro minority, Phil lips replies that this same di vision was exploited by the Democrats in the first primary and in the run-off. Johnson com pared his run - off oppon ent, J. P. Coleman, to Martin Lutlier King Jr. In Mississippi there could hardly be a great er insult unless it was to be compared to Bobby Kennedy. The lacerating bitterness of the primaries may produce an anil-Johnson vote benefiting the Republicans. If the Negroe can be kept an isolated minority, in large part disfranchised and in any event politically impotent, he cannot expect to begin to achieve equality of economic opportun ity. In a state seeking to at tract Nortliern industry with tiie inducement of low wages this may lie a vital factor. But the struggle has deeper roots in ancient habits that confirm the white man's belief in h i s innate superiority. The Globol View . . . For Some, . An Alliance Of Hunger By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst SAO PAULO, Brazil (NEAI When night descends on Sao Paulo the unswept streets of the darkened city become a vast dormitory for scores of homeless Bra zilians. Bare A ' IfJ foot men n men an(l ct'P pled and ema ciated women with children in their arms lie huddled in the doorways awaiting the dawn of another hungry day. Undersecretary of State Aver, ell Harriman will do well to take a look at these streets with their human refuse when he comes here to explore the fu ture of the Alliance for Prog ress with the Organization of American States. For Brazil, next to the Unit ed States, is potentially the rich est country in the Western Hemisphere. Sao Paulo is Br a zil's most important business center, as well as the largest metropolis in South America and possibly the fastest-growing city in the world. Yet with Brazil in the midst of a galloping inflation many find it difficult to collect enough cruzeiros to buy bread. The homeless of Sao Paulo beg dur ing the day, or make feeble at tempts to engage in private en terprise by selling peanuts or shoelaces. Travel guides tell foreign tourists that "With its fine the aters and first-rate night clubs Sao Paulo can offer a most in teresting entertaining pro gram." So it can. Sao Paulo is a booming city of 4 to 5 million (no one has even bothered tc find out exactly how many). Speculators and black market eers here can turn a fast buck. Its seaside resorts of oriental luxury and splendor are a hav en for these traders in the "hunger industry" and tourists with foreign currencies to spend. Some of Sao Paulo's lowering structures of steel and glass riv al even New York. But on the shabby and overcrowded streets thousands of Brazilians wait for two or three hours each day for the creaking street car or dilapidated bus that will take them to work in tlie morning and return them to their slums in the evening. Sao Paulo is calm on the sur face but one can sense the seething resentment of the un derprivileged. Normally pa tient Brazilians are becoming restive. The television sets which they buy on credit at ex orbitant prices have suddenly brought them face to face with an elegant life they never knew existed. "Television is the curse of Brazil," one of the many Ger man settlers who has grown rich since the inflation told this reporter. "Until television, Bra zilians were a happy people." But the ordinary Brazilian is no longer happy. Despite the op timism of U.S. officials and of the ruling cliques of politicians, bankers and black marketeers, Brazil is heading for an explo sion. Who is to blame for the Bra zilian's plight? Vocal leftist in tellectuals, army sergeants and myriads of Russian and Cuban agents have a ready-made an swer: "Yanqui imperialism." The inflation, they say, was im posed by the Alliance for Prog ress which is a scheme to en slave Brazil. It is a simple ans wer, which is acceptable to il literate and hungry people. All too frequently the Commu nists find proof to support their charge. Tlie other day, in the heart of Sao Paulo in front of the Othon Palace Hotel, specu lators were doing a brisk trade in bags of rice plainly marked "Alianza Para o Progrcsso." They did not even bother to remove the labels. Hungry residents were buying the rice like mad. At 150 cru zeiros a kilo it was a bargain. In the stores they would have to pay 180 and the next day the price might be even higher. In a moment the truck which brought the rice was empty and the Alliance received another black eve. And few Brazilians have for gotten the scandal at Recife, a center of Red propaganda, where beans and condensed milk sent by the Alliance were sold on tlie black market while tlie people wen! hungry and the children went without rmlk. These seemingly minor de tails, alas, speak louder than President Kennedy's glowing plans for building stable democ racy in Latin America. U.S. diplomats and adminis trators have not yet learned how to manage a social revolu- gtfi i I wonder if the new Inter community Hospital will be named Ullman Hospital? This being an . apropos eve ning, a poem by the boys and girls in Mrs.. Woods' Roosevelt School fourth grade class, it goes: ( ON A COLD OCTOBER NIGHT Witches with purple faces, Riding on brooms Slow down their paces To wave at skeletons in their tombs. Bats and alley cats prowl, Shriek and howl. Ghosts creep through the night And give everyone a terrible fright. After all the shrieking and screaming of people in re sponsible positions In stale government and state Institu tions claiming that all sorts of disasters awaited us if the voters turned down the tax bill, it Is reassuring to note that hardly any of those dis asters are overtaking us. When it comes right down to cases, what's so all-fired harm ful about raising tuition and other fees for college students? 1 see no reason for taxpayers of a state to provide a college education for all. I am not ar guing that a college education is not necessary or desirable. But, at what point in a per son's life do the taxpayers stop subsidizing his or her educa cation? Carrying the attitude that the taxpayers "owe" an education lo everyone, why shouldn't some extend their formal education throughout a lifetime? I see no reason why Oregon education institutions should not increase their tui tions and other fees to a degree commensurate with their needs. I am Inclined to believe the reports of people in the area that the KUHS student body this year Is much bet ter behaved than those of previous years of r e o e nt dale. So far, I've witnessed only one fight on Wall Street, and there seems to be less rowdiness all around the area. One suggestion I would have is that the boys and girls disregard their privilege of right-of-way, and halt their streaming across the in tersection of Wall and Espla nade momentarily to let ve hicular traffic through. Some times it gets backed up lo a pretty good depth at noon. Purely Personal Prejudices: What many employers fail to understand is that a subordin ate who never finds fault with his superior is either a fool or a hypocrite; if a fool, he is useless; if a hypocrite, he is dangerous. Some orators are so unremit tingly solemn for fear that if they encourage the audience to enjoy a smile at the right place, they may finally be un able to prevent the audience from laughing at them, at the wrong place. Speaking of humor, there Is a sad and sardonic quality about Old World wit that younger (and luckier) nations like ours have not yet grown up to like that marvelous Yiddish proverb I ran across recently: "If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living." Nothing in the world is easi er than to be radical when you have little to lose and conserva tive when you have a great deal to lose: we should pay careful attention only to those whose view s seem to cut across tlie grain of their immediate self-interest, for then we may be reasonably sure that t h e personal equation is not the determining factor. The basic frustration of the statesman and politician in tlie atomic age can hardly be com prehended by those standing on tion of the magnitude In which the President pledged $20 bil lion. But it would he a distortion to blame the Kennedy administra tion for the critical slate in which the Alliance finds itself. Much of the Alliance's trouble is due to Brazil's oligarchy which does not yet grasp the hard fact that if it does not share its power and wealth with the democratic forces which kland for social progress, it will have its collective throat rut by a machete made In Fidel Cas tro's Cuba. NOTHING SPECIAL (W. S. S.I I've had quite a few inquiries as to the absence of Fulton Lewis on this page. He's on va cation for three weeks. Also, my thanks to the many per sons who inquired by letter, card and phone as to the absence of this corner of mishmash. I'd like to plead some other rea sonbut, I guess is was just plain laziness. Bill Ganong Sr. clipped ' a paragraph from Newsweek magazine, which said, among other things, that every daily newspaper in the state had supported the recent tax measure. Bill wants to know if the Herald and News is not regarded as a "daily" news paper. All 1 can say Is that some of us who work at It seven or eight days a week think it Is. The United States has more than one shrinking reserve to watch. Besides the gold at Fort Knox, there is the old age and survivors insurance trust fund. The National Industrial Con- ference Board notes that for the fifth time in the last six years this trust fund paid out more than it received in 1962. The OASI reserve fund reached a peak of $22.5 billion In 1956 and has de clined to $18.3 billion or less. It was designed to carry a heavy load at about this pe riod due to older workers "covered into" the system with relatively smalt contri butions. However, it is of utmost Im portance that a substantial buffer be maintained and that payroll taxes prove sufficient to support the rates of benefits paid out. A spokesman of or ganized labor recently urged that wages up to $9,400 a year be taxed, instead of the pres ent $4,800 maximum, in order to pay higher benefits. Though the trustees of the fund be lieve the system now is actu arially sound, some such step may later be necessary to keep it so. And, still, we have plenty of Phogbound Congressmen who will insist that the system will permit extensive additional cov erage and greater benefits without any increase in taxes, i Yes, I said taxes because that is what the social secur ity grab is just another tax.) STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS tlie outside; for the statesman has lost his ultimate tool, the threat of war (which now be comes simply the promise of mutual suicide), and his whole traditional mode of behavior is compelled to change thus, the vacillations of modern gov ernments are not a sign of weakness, but of quite rational fear. A man is always the same man and. on the whole, wants only to be the same man, with a few improvements; but a woman would like lo be a dozen different women, a part of ev ery attractive woman she sees: and therefore her insatiable need for more and more clothes can be understood not as the trite joke it has become, nor as a matter of greed, but as her way of trying out different personalities and satisfying a (however temporarily) her deep desire to assume every aspect of the Eternal Feminine. A 1 1 seeming "victories" over Nature are Pyrrhic vic tories for mankind; Nature returns In more subtle or po tent form and takes Its re venge insecticides create a stronger breed of Insects. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Rebuttal Recently there has been a let ter to the editor that has de nounced the UN1CEF program because it is involved with the Communist countries. I think that this person falls lo realize the significance of the parable of the Good Samaritan. The Good Samaritan was an en emy of tlie beaten man on the road, and yet he helped him. t'MCEF gives aid to more than a hundred countries, of which only seven are Comrnu nisL Moreover, every country receiving aid has to match this aid 2'i times in order to utilize the aid. It is improbable that UN1CEF is helping the Commu nist power structure. Andy Ragland.
