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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1963)
. . . From Our Readers PAGE- HERALD AND NEWS, Klamalh Falls, Oregon Friday, December V, 1963 The $1.5 billion dollar vocational edu cation bill signed by President Johnson during the past week will be of no appreci able value to Oregon Technical Institute ' the Herald and News was told by Sen. Harry :Boivin. "It isn't going to do very much," Boi ,'ylu, one of OTPs greatest boosters, ex plained following a telephone conversation with Roy E. Lieuallcn, chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Sen. Boivin said the bill, which author izes new spending to aid vocational training 'schools with emphasis on training workers :in new skills, provides money for buildings. "The slate puts up $2 for each $1 of federal money. However, our science build ings have been taken care of here. We need ' money for sidewalks, paving of parking lots and landscaping at the new OTI campus," I Boivin said. "There is nothing in the bill to cover such an expenditure." : The senator explained also that the bill will provide money for student loans. Cut Where It's Needed President Johnson's recent move to close some 33 military establishments and thus save $108 million a year for a three year period, or about $318 million in all is a good move. It was indicated that about 8,500 civi lian employes would be cut from the defense department payrolls and that over the next three years, the total personnel of the de fense department would be reduced by about 25,000 persons. These economy moves are generally applauded by ,thc American public. We have been screaming about the cost of fed eral government, and crying for a slash in federal spending. What does disturb us, however, about the picture is that there Is talk that the up coming budget of President Johnson will surpass the $100 billion mark, perhaps run ning as high as $102 billion or more. While the slash in military spending is good, It is only a drop in the federal bucket. In general, the American public is not averse to paying what is necessary for de fense, a good adequate defense. The nature of this defense changes, of course, and as it does, some bases and weapons become Succession ny noitis 1 I.EKSON WASIII.NGTO.N-Tllis is Wash iuglnn and, therefore, the Presi dential succession i.s being dis cussed in terms of Ihc person alities involved instead of the principle. Thai was precisely the trouble when the present ait was prowsed by former I 'resident Truman. Tlie Truman change is serv ing the country badly now in that neither of the two men next in succession tlie Speaker of the House and the Presi dent Pro Tempore of the Sen ale is qualified ill the field of loreign policy. Also, there is no Vice President. The most consistent and con tradictory demands uon the President today are in the field erf foreign policy. That is why tlic political comtminily is plain ("cared of what might happen. The fact is. too. that Presi dent Johnson has a health prob lem as did his two immediate predecessors. Tlie President's doctors proclaim him in excel lent health but lie had a severe heart attack in I'JSj. The pace enjoined upon heart patients is not to be taken lightly when the demands of Uie Presidency are considered together with t h o President's own driving and ag gressive personality. A much more relaxed type, former President Kisenliow er. also a heart patient, delegated authority gladly. So did the late President Kennedy outside the field of foreign policy. Presi dent Johnson does not. The Kennedy lieallh program was chiefly a lame back but he was never as robust as his round and courageously smiling face suggested. Both Kisenliow er and Kenne dy had Vice Presidents to whom they gave on-the-job training in foreign polity. The liistury of the Truman Succession Act slied light on hoiv politicians arc prone to act and not to act in maltcrs of this kind. In common with most elected politicians, Truman did not like the liooscvelt Cabinet, then in lino to succeed luni when in F Vocational Aid "This might help the situation here," he said. Another piece of new legislation, the College Facilities Bill, will help OTI, Boivin explained. "It was designed to assist com munity colleges like the one at Bend, and schools such as ours " He didn't elaborate further. The vocational education bill will expand federal aid and place a new emphasis on training in skills that arc in shortage. Some of these skills are essential now as a result of automation. An amazing number of changes are oc curring in our society today because of elec tronic devices which have been placed in industry. But it takes trained people to op erate them. And to service them. The wise young man in commerce and industry today will develop skills being demanded by auto mation. He will have a better job as time goes on. The person who sidesteps this chal lenge may find he has a problem. Plain manual labor is almost a thing of the past. obsolete. These should be eliminated or cur tailed, just as has been done in the case of these 33 bases. However, over the past five years, de fense spending has remained pretty static. The budget increase has come in non-defense spending. This area has yet to feel the Presidential axe. Expenditures in the space race continue to rise. These, again, the American public feel are justified as we move deeper into the space age. However, the areas of federal govern ment that need the sharp-blade treatment have thus far remained safe from the spend ing slash. Spending for many government proj ects continues at an alarmingly high rate, and unless curtailed will lead to economical disaster. It is this type of non-defense spending whjch is leading the nation down the social istic path. We commend the President on his econ omy moves in the military, but until he moves to slash the non-defense spending of the federal government, we refuse to be lieve that his sole interest is economy. Is A Serious Concern April, 1JV13. he inherited t h e Itoosevelt mantle. It was not thought becoming in wartime to find fault with the President, and the restless Congress heaped its obloquy on Secretary of Slalo Edward K. Rletlinius. Treasury .Secretary Henry Morgonlhau, and others. Truman, fresh from Ihe Sen ale, promptly replaced Stoltin ius, though it Is interesting that not long afterward be fell out wilh his chosen Stettinius suc cessor, James F. Byrnes, who had been Ti nman's Senale sen ior. Tlie real grievance: Byrnes was usurping Truman's foreign policy prerogatives. Other Itoosevelt Cabinet choices were promptly axed. Truman then sent Congress suc cession proposals which he said were more in line with the idea of the first Congress, ideas which lasted until 183,1 But his sense of history got lost because he did not like the then Presi dent Pro Tempore of the Sen ate, the late Kenneth McKcllar The Making Of A Presidential Successor Bill of Tennessee, who came first in Uie early law. He loved anil admired t h e then Speaker Sam Kavhurn so he calmly put the Speaker Inst. This was the more plausible be cause Kavburn was obviously qualified as McKcllar was not. A Democratic Congress still refused to make the change hut it was palatable to the licpub , lican Congress elected in PWl by the war-weary voters lie cause it gave llieir leaders the nod. The irony was that Truman had liltle use lor those licpub hcan leaders and by that tune bad handed llie Stale portfo lio to the I. ile Gen. George C. Marshall, whom lie thinks the greatest American ol his time. Probably only a great wave of public awareness of the grav ity of the problem as it exists lod. iv will spur Ihe Congress to forget its lun and games long enough to consider the mutter with the seriousness it deserves. Letters To The Editor . . .' Challenge Not Gone It seems it has become fash ionable in our society to ridi cule rather than appreciate our neighbor, our community, our government and in so doing our wonderful country. More and more we have heard criticism, condemnation and even hatred of the men and women whom we have elected to the highest positions in our land. Seldom do we hear praise for a certain in dividual's achievements. These public servants are constantly belittled and maligned by peo ple who know little or nothing of the issues upon which they take such strong stands. I'm certain good, upstanding citizens are by far in the ma jority and yet these same citi zens will listen to any radical's opinions of our officials. Off col or stories are all too frequently circulated about our presidents and oilier members of our gov ernment. We sit and listen and dutifully smile or laugh even though we don't appreciate them and know they are of the poorest taste. In this atmosphere of toler ance, hate groups are born to ' K9m . s IN WASHINGTON By BAI.I'II de TOl.EDANO Buried away in a recent mag azine poll of opinion on Presi dent Lvndon Johnson versus all lie publican comers was one sig nificant statistic. If it marks a trend it proves what supporters of Senator Barry Goldwatcr have been saying ever since the assassination of John F. Ken nedy. That is, that by the time the 1W4 election rolls around President Johnson will be as unwanted by the South as was his predecessor. The poll gave Mr. Johnson considerable strength around Ihe country and showed a de cline among all the licpublican potential candidates. But it also showed that between ihe time ot the assassination and the poll. President Johnson's strength had slipivd 4 per cent south of the Mason-Dixon Line. That amount of slippage in a period of alwut two weeks is rather startling. And it belies ihe argument of those who sa that (he South will remain on President Johnson's side he cuuse it believes that lie lavors civil rights legislation only out of necessity and not conviction A corollary of the Southern statistic is the gams he has made in the urban northeastern section of live country. Some of the Kcnncdv image at leas! political!;. has begun lo attach to the energetic man in the White House. The sigiulicancc of tiie 4 per cent slippage is less in the nu merical decline than in what it savs of the South s feelings It is significant, too, in (he context ol President Johnson's dilemma as he tries to win over tlie lib erals in his party and still hold on to the conservatives In tlie lirsl davs a. tor the Kennedy assassination, thee e was a widespread teeling among many SoutlH-rners that Mi. Johnson would represent a sum; to the right This, pin- the nor mal shock at the terrible crime sotlened Southern anlagoniMn 10 the national Dcmoci.uic P.uiv But flic President's" ..... to Congress s W O " e O u thrive and grow and spread the venom we are all too well ac customed to hearing. The mem bers of these groups are all too frequently unhappy individuals who have nut matured enough to realize happiness is earned by oneself. These misguided misfits of society glory in prej udice of all kinds and in gronos they band together to spill the twisted thoughts of their sick minds out to a gullible public. Today a nation and world grieves for a beloved President and a man whose only fault was his unquenchable desire for the betterment of man. Is it wrong to want peace on earth'.' Wrong to want our el derly citizens to live out their few remaining years in security and dignity, wrong to want hope for (lie mentally ill so they may someday be free of the hope lessness they now experience, wrong to want the stigma of mental retardation erased, and wrong to want all men to be equal no matter what his race, religion or color'.' These people who lean to the far right or to the far lclt are 1 Shape Of Future Events rights and resuscitating the moribund federal-aid-to educa tion and medicare measures came as a shock. So, too. did Ihc retention of some Kennedy aides whose names are anathe ma lo the South. But this was to be expected. And it has now convinced those Southerners who tended to sup port Mr. Johnson that he-is Ihe prisoner of his party machin ery. The n o r t h c r n liberals, though most on his side, remain suspicious. Kvery moVt he makes will be scrutinized wilh care. Among the Harvard intel lectual group, there is some overt hostility, drummed up by such men a- Professor John Gaihraith. who was President Kennedy's ambassador to India. The dialectics of the situation as our left-wing friends used to say conqvl President John son to swing ever more strong ly toward the liberal-labor-ietl to maintain his position in the industrial Ninth. Where Mr. Kennedy had the trust and de votion of the liberals, intellec tuals, and civil rights propon ents. President Johnson must fight continually to hold their support. Where Mr. Kennedy could make compromises on the civil rights issue ami carry them off without loss of the de votion he engendered President Johnson must hew undoviating ly to a tough line This is a matter of political logic that lew can deny It is .1 matter of experience that as lie develops bis program after the first of tlie vear. Ihe ideo logical clashes that drove the Sooth into the Goldwatcr camp will resume and increase in in tensity. This is what the Goldwatcr forces have been predicting. If it is true, then there can be no doubt that tlie Arizona Senator will win the nomination and the election. For President Johnson w.ll emerge as another Kenne dy without the charm and the manner which won feminine he.ii t and stilled liberal vocabularies. the Lee Oswalds of our nation and we in our complacent alti tudes are guilty of Uieir very existence. At a lime when paUiotism seems passe, our forefathers would certainly feel that their efforts to give us a land of plen ty were not worth the sacrifices they so gallantly made. Tlie tragedy of President Kennedy's death has restored, momentar ily, that patriotism that so many have fought and died to pre serve (or us. Where on this earth is there a government of the people, for the people and by the people so well defined hut here? Let each of us who have felt a personal loss in our noble President's death cast aside pet tiness and dedicate ourselves to blotting out prejudice, bigotry and hatred wherever it exists and let us remember that what a day gives also a day may lake away. Let us assure our children that a Nov. 22 may not take away a man of such high esteem as John F. Kennedy. Let those of us who have grieved do this as our personal living memorial to our beluvcd President's memory. Let us re new and keep the Eternal Mr. Johnson is a highly effec tive politician and an astute man, but public speaking has never been his strong point. This is one reason why he has been advised to discontinue Ihe televised press conference, and why he will probably refuse to debate his Republican oppon ent. At present, the business com munity is ready to give Presi dent Johnson every benelit of the doubt. But as the New Fron tier changes w ith Johnson, those benefits will be withdrawn. It is this belief that has brought a new surge to the Goldwatcr forces as they recover from the effects of the Dallas tragedv. Al manac By I'nited Press International Today is Friday. Dec. 27, tlie 3Slst day of 1!X3 with four to follow. Tlie moon is approaching its full phase. The evening stars are Jupiter. Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1822. the French biologist Louis Pasteur was born. His work pioneered the development of antiseptic surgery. In 1SU2. the largest indoor theater at the time was opened in New York City and was called Radio City Music Hal!. In UWl. the Japanese bombed the neutral city of Manila in the Philippines. In I'Mi. the I'nifod States. Great Britain, and Russia an nounced they would govern Ko rea ;s joint trustees (or five vears then give it independence. A thought for tlie day The French novelist Stendhal said. ' One can acquire even thing in solitude except c'vuracter " Flame of patriotism forever in our hearts. Our history records many noble men and their deeds. Let their words always live for the generations to come. In an era where we as par ents strive with such fcrvancy to give our children the mate rial substances of our times, we so often neglect or ignore com pletely the more enduring gilts of cultural refinements: of the moral or intellectual faculties of man; the arts with their pow er to transcribe the beautiful or aesthetics! qualities of nature: history wilh its ability to teach and let us relive the great and Ihe tragic moments of the past. These gifts, given to our chil dren now, can help preserve our democracy forever. The most learned men of the ages, the philosopher, the poet and Ihe historian have always re minded us that these spiritual and fundamental needs must continue to be taught to assure man's survival. The challenge of the New Frontier is not gone only the gallant man who had the cour age and wisdom to challenge it has left us. It demands that we answer its call. So let us have Ihe courage and dignity, that he so magnificently exemplified, to continue the tasks that our mar tyred President began. As the poet Horace so ably stated many centuries ago: Dare lo be wise; begin! He who postpones the hour, rightly, is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he cross es. Mrs. Albert Burns. 4:1(14 Laverne. In Whom Trust? In reference to Mrs. Thom son's letter. 'Stand Okay, Dec. lo1. I would like lo carry her thought a little farther. She wrote that our govern ment has its roots in the sanc tity of Almighty God. The Su preme Court begins each ses sion with a prayer, so does the Congress. Why then, is God be ing taken away from the chil drcn of this nation attending public school? The Supreme Court ruled that prayer in public schools is un constitutional. This is true only for the atheists, and because our country is supposed to be Christian, atheists ought to be a minority. Therefore, since Ihe majority should rule, not the minority, why deny the consti tutional rights of Ihe many Christians, so the few won't have their "rights" stepped on? Our country's motto is "In God we trust," when God is gone, in whom shall we trust then? Kathy Weaver. Begs The Question In her Dec. 15 letter, Eleanor Thomson argues that saving we Purely Personal Prejudices The child wanls all its wishes to be granted; and what those adults who remain children have failed lo learn is that if all our w ishes were granted, ful fillment would be as common as dirt, and. losing the desire to wish, we would die of boredom and satiation. If you cannot understand the opposite of your position, then you cannot understand your own position; this is why blind hate is always self-destructive, and eventually topples the very cause it presumes to serve. ' The people who want lo be both popular and right are no more deluded than those unhap py souls who believe that be ing unpopular is a tuken of their Tightness; all the great prophets were unpopular but so were all the prigs and mis anthropes, for very good rea sons. Education in itself can never persuade a fanatic to change h;s mind; as Oliver Wended Holmes Jr. superbly put it: "Tlie mind of a bigot is like tlie pupil of the eve; the mote light you poiu- upon it. Ihe more it will contract." It secretly flatters us to read all the Faustian legends and to imagine ourselves selling our souls to tlie Devil for some im mense gratification on this earth: and it rarely occurs to us that most souls ate not boldly bad enough to interest even the Devil, who would have no use for our weak, watery, indecisive sort of self - indul gence. All the elaborate psv civ -metric tests are not nearly as ac curate a means el reading character as simp'.y observing a person walking his dog m bis attitude toward the animal, toward lawns, and toward ether dogs, one can gam an enormous knowledge of the walker's feel ings about himself and others My recent paragrarhaho't o O must slop all haling to curb such violence as President Ken nedy's assassination is harmful advice. However, Ihe remainder of her rather lengthy letter merely begs the question. I certainly agree that extrem ists who denounce all hate as wrong are in error. To conquer the evil of communism, ; Americans must not be apathet ic, but hate the doctrines of Marxism and atheism. But those who blame hale for John Ken nedy's death do not mean the usual hate of things, but the caustic hate of oilier human be ings, for all too many forget to hate the sin, but never the sin ner. Therefore, communism did not distort Oswald's mind, for as his former psychiatrist has testified, he had psychopathic tendencies from childhood. In stead, it is the hate in society that produces such warped indi viduals as Oswald. Americans surely cannot deny the ugly big otry and malignant hate which would strip the Negro of his hu man dignity. And what individ ual does not harbor petty hates, is not guilty of cruel remarks and biting gossip? It lis ft so ciety festering with such hate multiplied eight million times that is to blame for what took place in Dallas. However, it i.s easier for us Americans to deny the pres ence of any hale and lo trans fer all guilt to communism, a handy scapegoat. Yet in Amer ica, we have traditionally taken not the easier course, but the right one. And while acknowl edging Ihe need for active war fare against Marxism, we should also, ,1s President John son has urged, "banish rancor from our words and malice from our hearts: to close down the poison springs of hatred and in tolerance . . . for God made all of us. not some of us, in His image. All of us, not just some of us, arc His children." Toni Negus, Rtc. 3, Box 1051. Great Deeds Taught I am a history student of Mrs. Bucna Stone at Fremont Junior High. In our history books, Our United States, arc recorded not only the great deeds done by American heroes, but many of their famous sayings as well. In addition to this, all of Mrs. Stone's classes have a section in their notebooks reserved for the purpose of writing down famous sayings and then look ing up the authors. As we cor rect these, we discuss not only who said them, but where, when, and why. At least in Mrs. Stone's his tory classes, we students arc becoming well acquainted wilh America's hemes. Cynthia Currin, i'MO Lawrence. STRICTLY PERSONAL. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS repentance often being a kind of credit we extend ourselves for future transgressions re called that line aphorism of Josh Billings: "It is much easi er to repent of sins we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit." Speaking of dogs, it is foolish to hold up the "loyalty" of dogs as an example of what human beings should be and are nol for a dog is not loyal to his own kind, to other dogs, but only lo humans and to his master: it is tlie essence of his peculiar domestication that he prefers people to canines. QUESTIONS AMD ANSWERS Q W ho i.s considered the world's first known artist? A The Cro-Magnon Man. J What mollo was inscribed on the first I'.S. coins? A "Mind Your Bu.-inc.-s'' appeared on coins minted in ITftT. "E Pluhiius I'num" was ued in 17U5 and "In God We Trust" was not inscribed on coins until 18M. l Is the tide Prince o( Wales hereditary? A-No. Q Is the moon receding from the earth? A From the way the moon rotates, and Irom tiie gravita tional pattern between earth and tlie moon, astronomers foe! certa.n that tiie moon is nnv farther away from us than it was at an earlier time, and is drawing farther away vear by vear. r How many eggs ran an ovslcr spawn? A Five hundred million c;;i in one vear.
