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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon Monday, December 16, i
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
Necessary For GOP
To Try New Attack
I t
it
County Court Commended
Our hals off lo the Klamath County
Court for its recent school proposal.
We're withholding judgment in the
controversy at this moment, but do think
that the court is to be highly commended
for performing the job of trying to bind
together the split that has divided the two
school forces, and for coming up with a pro
posal that appears to be as feasible as pos
sible. It would take more than a "Philadel
phia lawyer" lo be able to sum up all the
problems and provide solutions for them
that exist in the confused school picture in
the county. However, the court has digested
practically all the information available on
either side of the fence and put together a
plan of action that should now be carefully
pxamincd and analyzed by all persons.
' They have weighed the financial factors
Involved, completed a comprehensive study
of the assets of each district, and, as far as
possible, have dealt with some of the more
controversial aspects of the situation.
Their approach to the matter of assets,
for instance, deserves special comment.
The two districts had split over the
question of manner of appraisal of the values
of their two districts in regard lo plants and
facilities.
The court hired an accounting firm to
appraise the insurable value of the KUHS
district. Then, as a double check, the court
asked the same firm that had made the in
surance appraisal for the county lo do so on
. the KU district properly.
: In both cases, the firms came up with a
value that was only a few thousand dollars
Boost
The lumber industry in the Pacific
Northwest lias felt the painful cut of Ca
nadian competition at the market place dur
ing the past several years when, for one
reason or another, our neighbors north of
the border have been able to sell their wares
oh the Eastern seaboard for much less than
We have been able to deliver.
For one thing, the Canadians have had
the advantage of using foreign freighters
to carry lumber East. Cargos from our side
of the line had to move on United Stales
vessels.
Canadian lumbermen, a group which
incidentally includes a good many Ameri
cans with interests on the north side of the
international border, have been able to pro
cess lumber at less than we have simply
because the men in the woods and null
hands make less money than their counter
parts in the Northwest Stales.
But word has come out of Washington,
D.C., stating that a House-Senate confer
ence committee has approved a lumber mark
ing requirement which is described as a key
factor in the drive to reduce Canada's $2!!0
million a year softwood lumber sales to the
United States.
Under terms of the requirement it
would be necessary for all sawed lumber
imported to the United States to be marked
Russians
By run. newso.m
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Under (tie leadership of Ni
kita Khrushchev, the Soviet Un
ion has had but otic standard
of comparison, United
Stales.
For the people of the 15 So
viet republics, living on broken
promises, it has been a tragedy.
For Khrushchev, first secretary
of. tho Communist party since
1953 and premier since lifts, it
hqs been an example of personal
indestructibility.
For example:
On July 30, 1961, the Soviet
Communis! parly announced its
third program, a milestone in
tiie history of communism.
The first program had been
drawn up in 1!KI3 and called for
"Die overthrow of tho Czurist
autocracy' and tlio "establish
ment of the dictatorship of the
proletariat."
"Socialist Society"
The second program, drawn
up by Lenin in 1919, had for its
goal the "building of a Socialist
society."
he thiid, drawn up under
Khrushchev, declared:
?'In the current decade 1961
1S70) the Soviet Union Mill sur
pass the strongest and rieliest
capitalist country, the United
different. The accounting firm came up
with a value of $2,293,590 for KU exclusive
of the administration building facilities. The
insurance appraisal group came up with a
value of $2,275,790, or a difference of about
$18,000 or less than one per cent.
Most of the negotiations had been hung
up for the moment on this question of fig
uring total value of assets.
The court's solution appears to be equi
table and should prove acceptable to both
sides.
Now, the proposal will be studied by
the three school boards involved to deter
mine whether or not they can support it.
Hearings have been set for the proposal
for the 6, 7 and 8 of January and if no se
rious objections are found, it will be sub
mitted to the State Board of Education for
approval, and then face a vote of the people
in each of the two proposed new districts.
Both districts would have to approve
the plan before it is effective.
The school dispute has been with us for
a number of years now, and has been accent
ed the last year by the necessity of employ
ing extended scheduling at KUHS to ac
commodate the student overflow.
It's obvious that something must be
done to correct the situation not for the mo
ment, but for the future.
Let's all study the plan put forth by the
court in a constructive, critical way and see
if it will adequately meet the need for order
ly, constructive school growth in the county
for the future.
For this must be the final equation used
to decide whether the plan is or is not workable.
For Our Lumber
with the country of origin. Such a law would
go into effect next March 31, according to
the plans that have been outlined to dale.
Compromises have been worked out by
both Senate and House committees and now
must be passed by these bodies before the
bill is given to President Johnson for his
signature.
The plan isn't without a lot of opposi
tion which centers primarily around the fact
that it would violate Canadian-U.S. trade
agreements and run counter lo U.S. efforts
to achieve freer trade.
Previously the program had been oppos
ed by the State, Commerce and Treasury
departments and a similar measure was
vetoed by former President Dwight D. Ei
senhower. We have seen what the Canadian thing
has done to the lumber economy in . the
Northwest and will go along with Sen. War
ren G. Magnuson, D-Washington, who has
hailed the conference committee action as
"a constructive step toward helping our Pa
cific Northwest lumber industry."
Not only that but il gives weight to a
feeling on the part of many citizens that
we should "Buy American," which in this
case certainly would lend aid to a lumber
market that is, and has been, in tough
shape.
Ignore Failures
Slates, in production per head
of population: the people's
standard of living and their cul
tural and technical standards
will improve substantially . . .
hard physical work will disap
H'ar ..."
This week bclorc (l.ooo mem
bers of the Soviet leadership in
the Kremlin Hall of Congresses.
Khrushchev gave his accounting
of failure.
Typically, his accounting con
tained no note of personal fail
ure nor of the fact that as he
personally guided the destiny of
Soviet agriculture he has seen
first mechanization as the cure
all for tlie ills of Soviet produc
tion, then the opening of the
virgin lands and now, finally,
the massive use of fertilizer.
To bring this about lie an
nounced a crash program lo
more than tuple the output of
the Soviet chemical indusliy in
Hie next seven years.
Two hundred new cliemical
plants are lo lie built and 500
existing ones rebuilt.
Hut, again typu-al of (lie
twists and turns of various So
viet five, seven and 20-yrar
programs, the announcement
look no notice of past failure.
"Unprecedented" Plan
The Khrushchev announce
ment called the new plan "un-
precedented" and, among other
things, called (or the production
by 19711 of 3.5 to 4 million tons
of plastics and synthetic resins,
a jump of six lo seven times
over the present level.
Ignored was the fact thai the
pie-inthc-sky program of 1961
called lor more than 5 million
Ions of plastics and synthetic
resins by 1970.
Khrushchev made Secial
note of the claim that since the
death of Josef Stalin 10 years
ago. Soviet production of meat
and milk has more than dou
bled and the production of eggs
tripled. Rut he omitted to note
that most of this gain came
from tlie small private plots al
lotted to Soviet peasants for
their own use.
He also laded to note that
while production was increas
ing, so was die Soviet popula
tion at the rate of .15 million
per year.
Willi Soviet space accomplish
ments in mind, there is no dis
position Ui discount Soviet tech
nical ability. Rather, U.S. ex
perts are inclined to attribute
Soviet failures to too much
haste and loo little planning.
Hut it is easy to see why
Khrushchev, beset by problem
on every side, has need for
haste.
Eisenhower Makes Move
By DOI11S FLEESON
WASHINGTON - When for
mer President Eisenhower
dropped down to the No. 2 candi
date on the lflfiO Republican
presidential ticket, Henry Cabot
Lodge, as his choice lo head the
ticket in 1964. his veto of No. 1,
Richard Nixon, was necessarily
intended.
Political circles rather w idely
share the view that Nixon is
not well placed for the next
race. But Ihey do not believe
that Ambassador Lodge, for all
his personal distinction and ex
perience, is electable. It would
take a concerted Eisenhower
Lodge drive of startling propor
tions to alter that verdict.
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
WASHINGTON - Henry Cab
ot Lodge, latest entry in t h e
Presidential sweepstakes, is
tabbed a long shot in the capi
tal's winter book.
Lodge was first mentioned as
a Presidential possibility sever
al weeks ago. Boston newsmen
then proposed Lodge, the 1960
Republican vice presidential
nominee, for president. A na
tionally syndicated columnist
echoed their sentiments.
Now comes word from Get
tysburg that former President
Dwight Eisenhower has thrown
his weight behind Lodge, cur
rently our ambassador to South
Vietnam. In an exclusive story
for the New York Times, Felix
Iiclair said the general had
asked Lodge to make the race.
Ike was said to feel that
Barry Goldwater could not run
strongly against Lyndon John
son, that Nelson Rockefeller
had personal problems, that
Richard Nixon was shopworn,
and that William Scranton was
sincere in his desire to remain
as governor of Pennsylvania.
Lodge called in the Saigon
Press Corps to say that he
greatly admired Ike hut thai
he planned to stay in South
Vietnam Might he accept a
draft? Well, Lodge didn't
know.
Republican pros advise Lodge
not to lose much sleep over
Hie possibility. They say Lodge
has virtually no chance for the
nomination despite backing by
Ike. The reasons are several:
1. Nomination of Lodge would
undercut a Republican attack
against the Kennedy - Johnson
foreign policies. Lodge will have
served as ambassador to South
Vietnam for a year by the time
the Republican convention rolls
around next July.
Lodge is known to have been
a lierce foe of tlie late Presi
dent Diem and his recommen
dations led to U S polio's that
guaranteed the anti-Diem coup.
Republicans think that Viet
nam may well be a central is
sue by next fall. The nomina
tion of Lodge would make it im
possible for GOP candidates at
any level to assail the ad
ministration's Vietnam policies.
2 Tlie Lodge campaign dis
gusted many party leaders in
I960. While some have actually
blamed Lodge for tlie Nixon de
feat, this Is probably an exag
geration. Toward Ihe end of
that campaign, however, Lndcc
promised that Nixon would
IU 1
The Eisenhower contribution
does add to the interest and ex
citement of tlie changed politi
cal situation. It brings him
down on the side of those Re
publicans who believe no time
sliould be lost in attacking
President Johnson and the Dem
o c r a t s, raising money and
steaming up the troops.
It is Ihe more comforting to
Republicans that he has
eiiosen to do this because no
one denies that the romance
between Eisenhower and I h e
American people is still on and
represents a great asset to the
Republican party if properly ex
ploited. The former President had al-
WASHINSTON REPORT . .
Ike Throws Influence
Behind Henry Lodge
name a Negro lo Ihe Cabinet.
This promise, made without
Nixon's knowledge, backfired
badlyv Lodge was forced to re
tract the statement in a mas
terpiece of doubletalk.
Southerners were not satis
fied. Nixon - Lodge lost South
Carolina by a razor-thin edge
and other Dixie states, notably
Texas, by small margins. Ne
gro leaders, w ho accused Lodge
of playing politics with the race
issue, stepped up their work for
Kennedy, who carried Illinois
by a fraction of one per cent
and other northern states by
margins almost as small.
3. Lodge is a poor campaign
er. He is diffident, some say
arrogant. He gets along poor
ly with party leaders. The fol
lowing incident is typical.
Lodge cancelled out of a major
appearance at the Indiana State
Fair during the 1960 campaign
on the grounds he .wanted to
rest. Party leaders had planned
Lodge's appearance as the cam
paign's Hoosicr highlight.
Ixidge treats members of the
working press with supreme
condescension. No reporter, lib
eral or conservative, likes to be
addressed as "my dear man."
The high cost of politics is
seen in a small item in a Phil
adelphia daily. Milton J. Shapp,
a local business man. has set out
lo garner Ihe Democratic nom
ination for the U.S. Senate. He
wants to take on GOP Sen
ator Hugh Scott, up for re-election
next fall. Shapp has indi
cated he w ill spend from $5on.
noo lo S700.0OO just to get the
nomination. The price tag f o r
his campaign against Scott will
be considerably higher.
Congressman Wayne Hays,
who led junketing Congressmen
to Paris last month, touched olf
a storm of protest by bringing
along Ernest Petinaud. head
waiter in the House Restaurant.
On that same trip. Hays took
along a home town friend, a
secretary, the girl who runs his
tilt ice in Flushing. Ohio, and the
wife of a minor government of
ficial. Tile Ohio Congressman is an
old hand at junketing. In 11,
Hays took two secretaries from
Ins Washington office and a col
lege student to Europe. The
three guest spent $1,931.66 of
the taxpayers' dough.
Last year. Hays rolled o u t
Ihe red carpel for three more
secretaries and Ihe same wife
of the same minor government
official. Their tab: E.tvr? 31.
ready expressed doubts about
Ihe Goldwater candidacy, so he
has not subtracted much from
it with his latest act. He has
dashed hopes entertained by
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller that in
the end all the Eisenhower Re
publicans, including their lead
er, would come lo him.
It does not appear that Gen
eral Eisenhower explained him
self lo other Republican hope
fuls before revealing that
his f i r s t campaign manager
was liis personal choice. One
has expressed annoyance that
he did not. Sen. Barry Goldwa
ter had nothing to say immedi
ately. He has left orders at the
Capitol that he is not available
to reporters until he lifts Ihe
ban. That just about means a
mute December, as he is short
ly lo do 15 days Reserve duty
with the Air Force.
The fact is that neither party
today has solved the problem of
how to appeal to tlie big states.
The vacuum left by the assassi
nation of President Kennedy
stares both parties in tlie face
and scares them hugely. They
know they must try to fill it;
they haven't figured out how .
Confused situations prevail in
key states. In New York Presi
dent Johnson sought lo identify
with a liberal Democratic par
ty by paying homage to the de
parted statesman, Herbert Leh
man, who was loved and hon
ored above most men. But it
could not be lost on so experi
enced a politician as the Presi
dent that he was standing w ith
elder politicians and that a vig
orous and captivating younger
generation which could go out
and do battle for him was sad
ly lacking.
Similarly, Rep. Robert T a f t
Jr., who will run for the Senate
next year, has calmly said it
will be difficult to carry Ohio
for the Republicans if Goldwa
ter is Uic Presidential nominee.
Party managers had been trying
to keep that argument private.
Ohio and New York typify sit
uations w here President Kenne
dy hoped to win by stoeer per
sonal magic. Many observers
felt he would.
Tliere will not be time to
work tliis one out on the compu
ters. The country will be look
ing for an intangible called lead
ership. This General Eisenhow
er understands even if he is
less adept at spotting exactly
w here it lies under present conditions.
Smoke Gets
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON NEA) - Its
a brand new ball game lor the
GOP.
Tlie Republicans had their
campaign all planned around
the theme of "Retire the Ken
nedys in !4." The trade mark
was three empty rocking
chairs for Jack. Bobby and
Teddy.
There was a regional GOP
strategy conference going on in
St. Louis on the Nov. 22 week
end. When news of President
Kennedy's assassination be
came known during tlie lunch
hour, tlie banners and posters
were hauled down immediately,
the rocking chairs dragged out
of the hotel lobby, and the con
ference folded.
GOP National Committee
Chairman William E. Miller's
30-day moratorium on politics
during the period of mourning
will probably run a little long
er. Congress will il hopes
adjourn before Dec. 22. No one
wants to talk politics during
the Christmas holidays.
But ft will be politics as us
ual only more so alter
Congress comes back lo town
Jan. 2.
Canceled Republican Nation
al Committee. Finance Com
mittee and State Chairmen's
meetings originally scheduled
for Minneapolis Dec. 11 - 14
have been reset for Washing
ton's Mayflower Hotel Jan. 8-9.
This will be largely a session
on arrangements for the GOP
national convention in San
Francisco July 13. It is expect
ed that Rep. 'Melvin R. Laird
of Wisconsin will be named
chairman of the Resolutions
Committee which will write the
l!Hi4 GOP platform. He was
vice chairman in 1960 and
chairman of the 1962 Republi
can restatement of policy
group.
The Republican '64 campaign
will be formally launched Jan.
29 without an agreed-upon can
didate. GOP National Commit
tee is holding "Go-Day" rallies
that night in 26 principal U.S.
cities.
They will be SlOOO-a-plate din
ners, only anyone who wants lo
pay more for his meal will be
encouraged lo do so. National
Committee hopes to raise $2
million, hi 1960, with 60 din
ners and Nixon, they raised $4
million.
All the 1964 candidates, fa
vorite sons' and remote long
shots will be put on tlie air by
Looking through the new cat
alog of a publishing firm. I
was tempted to paraphrase the
famous words in Ecclesiastes to
"of making many cookbooks
there is no end."
This was a catalog of books
to be published in the coming
four months only. The new ti
tles included "The Art of Spa
ghetti Cookery," "The Art of
Danish Cooking." "The Best of
Near Eastern Cookery." "The
Art of India's Cookery." "Bride
in the Kitchen," "The Art of
Fruit Cookery." "Never in the
Kitchen When Company Ar
rives." and you won't be
lieve it "The Secret of Cook
ing for Dogs."
There is a saying among
book publishers that it is im
possible to make money on a
book of poetry and impossible
lo lose money on a cookbook.
Each year, hundreds of new
ones are spewed forth by tlie
presses, to fit all conceivabie
In Your Eyes
closed-circuit television. Gen.
Eisenhower will be in Detroit,
Nixon in New York, Rockefel
ler in Los Angeles, Goldwater
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's
Gov. Scranton in Indianapolis,
Michigan's Gov. Romney at the
Sheraton-Park in Washington
D.C.
' By Jan. 29 all of Democratic
President Johnson's important
policy messages will have been
delivered to Congrees. It will
be known what he stands for
and where. If the target he
presents is exactly the same as
the Kennedy program, t h e
GOP will have something to
shoot at and will start shoot
ing. GOP assessments of Republi
can presidential possibilities
and their chances generally
concede that Sen. Barry Gold
water has lost some of his
strength because he personified
anti-Kennedyism, which is now
a lost issue.
Anti - Goldwater Republicans
maintain he no longer has a
chance. His main strength was
in the South where he had 'Mt'i
of the 653 GOP convention del
egates needed for the nomina
tion. The contention is that
southern Democrats who might
have voted Republican against
Kennedy will support Johnson.
There are all kinds of ru
mors floating around Washing
ton that Goldwater is getting
ready to pull out. fllost of this
is wishful thinking or guessing.
Draft Goldwater headquar
ters in Washington is working
harder than ever. The senator's
own office shows no signs of re
treat. And it has become
known that shortly after the
Kennedy funeral, Goldwater
had a session with Leonard
Hall in New York, asking him
to become Goldwater campaign
manager. It didn't go through.
New York Gov. Rockefeller's
stock has shown no perceptible
rise. Tlie consensus is that
most women won't vote for
him because of his divorce and
marriage to a divorcee.
Gov. Scranton's weakness is
that he isn't known. "W a 1 k
him down any main street out
side'of Harrisburg, Pa.," says
one GOP leader, "and nobody
would recognize him."
Nixon is the real dark horse.
One shrewd comment on him
is that. "If he had just known
Rockefeller was going to get a
divorce and if he just hadn't
run for governor of California
and taken such a beating, to
day he'd have it made."
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
(and a few inconceivable i
needs and tastes.
No other nation, at least to
my knowledge, has so volumi
nous a literature on cooking
and no other nation has so
many bad cooks, except per
haps the English, of whom Vol
taire justly exclaimed: "What
sort of country is it that has 72
religions and only one sauce'.'"
The poorest peasant in
France cats better food, more
tastefully prepared, than the
average middle - class Ameri
can. It is absolutely unbelieva
ble that a nation so rich, so in
genious, and so demanding of
high standards in other areas
of living would permit itself to
sulfer the indignities of less-than-mediocre
cooking in near
ly all public places.
Millions of cookbooks arc
merrily sold, but the level of
American cuisine remains de
plorably low. Our children
grow up munching hamburg
ers. French fries drenched in
catsup, and washing down this
dull mass with sickeningly
sweet beverages. To offer the
ordinary American c h i 1 d a
meal composed with imagina
tion, flavor and flair is to un
derstand the full import of the
Biblical allusion to casting
pearls before swine.
Our passion for cookbooks
must be some elaborate and
ritualistic form of expiating
our culinary sins: and has
about as much impact on our
national cuisine as placing a
Bible in every room of a broth
el would have upon the morals
of the inmates and the habits
of the patrons.
Brillat-Savann. in his immor
tal collection of aphorisms on
Ihe pleasures of the table, said.
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je
le dirai ee que tu es." 'Tell
me what you eat. and I will
teil you what you are "' It
may be unlair to judge an indi
vidual this way. who. after all,
is a ictim of circumstance
and upbringing But is it so un
lair to jud,e an entire nation
by its gastronomic I.Q.?