Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 10

MONDAY MAY 22 1961 I fi IL IE TT IE HQ From Our Headers Priority for Higher Education Editor the Caller: We speak of our children needing higher education to be able to cope with the apace age that we are now In Instead of having kindergarten for five-year-olds to learn how to slack wooden blocka and count to a hundred which their own mothers should certainly without much strain be able to teach them why not if people think we should support another The months ahead thus will be touch-and-go ones for policy toward Colombia About the only thing that now seems clear Is that our interests as well as Colombia's and the rest of Latin lie with the Lleras Camargo element the apparent majority and progressive center US Aid Cannot Sustain Unpopular Governments What is the lesson to be learned from Laos? It is this: We cannot hope to succeed in maintaining a government that does not rest on broad popular support Perhaps we should have learned that lesson 10 years ago in China when we unsuccessfully supported a corrupt and unpopular regime Wo made a somewhat similar mistake but have so far managed to escape the consequences by continuing to support the regime of Syngman Rhce in Korea long after he had lost popular support We barely escaped the immediate consequences in Cuba by our support of Fulgcncio Batista only to have the final revolution taken over by the Communists Surely we do not need any further instruction in a matter so vital to our national Interest We cannot maintain client governments indefinitely in the face of popular disapproval To do so Is to delay the final upheaval while contributing materially toward the final violence of that change It is simply not enough to blame Communist infiltrators for our failure in Laos Communist infiltrators could not alone have taken over the country The fact is that those infiltrators were not opposed by the people who wanted a change almost any kind of change and were never offered an acceptable alternative School Drop-Outs Face Most Uncertain Future Sometime after the local junior and senior high schools close here for the summer hundreds of their students will determine not to come back in the fall to continue their way toward graduation Some of those may not have what they or their parents consider a tolerable choice but tliose who need only to be convinced of jtho need to strive and perhaps sacrifice to continue their schooling should consider the following facts Chronic unemployment has Increased in the United Slates as our technology has outrun readjustment and improvement of labor force skills For the forseeable future unemployment will run highest among unskilled laborers Seymour Wolfbcin US deputy assistant secretary of labor reports: have found that the unemployment rate among young people who dropped out erf school before getting their diplomas Is on the average about double that among those who finished high Ford Motor vice president for labor relations warns that uneducated worker is a capped worker in the truest sense of the It should be added that a community with an uneducated labor surplus also is a handicapped community when it cones to promoting the industrial development needed for economic and social progress The Labor Department estimates that 26 million young people aged 14 to 24 will enter the labor force in the 1960sor 40 per cent more than in the 1950s The proportion who are high school graduates or better will increase from 60 per cent to 70 per cent but the expectation is that million will not have finished high school and 2Vs million will not even have an elementary education These will provide the bulk of the chronic unemployment of the future Even now while chronic unemployment is aggravated by a high rate of recessionary unemployment many good jobs all over the country are going begging because adequately educated personnel cannot be found to fill them It is too late for millions of the adult unemployed to cope with this problem unaided but it is not too late not yet for those hundreds of thousands of young people over the nation who are now doubtful that they can or will return to school next fall Curious Political System Under Strain in Colombia United States public opinion is now being repeated Jy and wisely cautioned that wide variants from our own image of democracy must be condoned and even encouraged in underdeveloped lands if they are to achieve stable non-Communist government reasonably responsive to the popular will First Pakistan then Indonesia and now South Korea exemplify the problem in Asia In Latin America the most curious' and at present a most precarious experiment in deviation" is approaching a climax in Colombia When the Rojas Pinilla dictatorship was overthrown there the major Liberal and Conservative parties agreed to an unorthodox to forestall civil war Under the agreement the Liberals and Conservatives formed a bipartisan system ratified by national popular vote whereby control of the presidency would be rotated every four years and all other national provincial and local offices would be split equally between the two parties The arrangement was to run from 1958 to 1974 when it was felt the country would be ready for a normal party system The Conservatives could not agree on a candidate in 1953 so the Liberals were accorded the presidency and elected Alberto Lleras Camargo an able and progressive statesman His term is up in less than a year It is then the turn but again they have no candidate who can enlist nationwide respect A left-wing splinter of the Liberal Party teamed with Communists and Castroites is threatening to break up the National Front If that happens rightists and even moderates warn a military junta may have to take over to prevent a Communist coup In the wilder areas of Colombia civil war that has degenerated into banditry and vendettas has killed some 200000 or more Colombians since 1948 It would not take much to sweep the strife into the cities laying Colombia open to the unhappy alternatives of Communist subversion or return to military dictatorship rti-rr fffe ffi ter i V1 if 7i 1 Brief Visits With the FOURTHS ESTATE GRADY STILES Butter Bosses year of schooling for our children teach them for another year at a higher grade of education in science or mathematic lielda where It might someday benefit the whole world So many of the young mothers nowadays work that it would certainly benefit them not to have to pay a litter for their flve-yearMda and alio it would relieve them from another obligation to their children by not having to teach them simple everyday little things that any mother with a eighth grade education could teach their children without paying a teacher to do these things for her The money a teacher would receive teaching a five-year-old there simple things could be put to better use by paying a teacher to teach 13-year-olds or precollege students a higher level of education that most mothers would be unable to teach them Thera are many 18-19-year-rid boys and girts with a real desire and ability to obtain a higher education who cannot because their parents are Just not financially able to send them to college I think that it would be a shame to deny these children this opportunity and give it to a live-year-old who can learn from their own parents In their own homes ELIZABETH KILGORE Kindergarten Cost Questioned Editor the Caller: Aa a property-owner and taxpayer I would like to state my objections to the school system spending money and when I say money I mean -Just that as It will take two or three hundred thousand dollars to open a kindergarten in our reboots If the school system has money to spend let them ape rid it Improving the 12 grades we now have and this is especially true in the area of truancy in our schools Truancy is the first step a child takes towards delinquency As everyone knows during the past years our enrollment has increased tremendously but has the school system seen fit to increase the number of visiting teachers who are the ones who check on the child when he takes that first step towards delinquency by being truant? The dictionary defines kindergarten as a school for young children to cultivate the normal aptitude for exercise play observation and social training I have put six through tha adjustment to the first grade (adjustment 24 hours) by leaching them to play exercise and observe at home Parents who are fighting for the kindergarten are the parents who wait for their child to reach six to get them out of the house and let someone else shoulder the responsibility of teaching them the things that should be taught at home I understand it takes only 25 signatures to force the taxpayers to shoulder this burden Well it looks like another name will go into tha hat at home to see who gets paid next month I sure hope the city water department's name drawn or my water will be shut off JOE Tough Stand on Cuba Urgetl Editor the Caller: These are times of frustration Indeed for those who served in World War I furnished a son or sons for service in World War II and who now have grandsons who will pay for appeasement by our leaders at the policy-making level The assurance given by the State Department by the foreign relations committee and our new President the other day that we would under no circumstance except attack upon us by Castro Intervene directly in Cuba must have been aa comforting to Castro and Khrushchev as was Chamberlain and his umbrella to Hitler Castro being under Communist discipline will not be permitted by Khrushchev to attack ua at Guantanamo Naval Base or anywhere else in the near future Khrushchev and the Soviets have great plana for Cuba They will not be so foolish aa to Jeopardize their plans for using Cuba as a staging area training and stockpiling base for Soviet operations In Central and South America In all too many of these countries there are corrupt gov-ernmenla which provide fertile ground for Soviet-style revolution which is lint prepared by thousands of Soviet agents operating there a tong time These countries like ripe plums will fall one by one Good governments as in Costa Rica will find themselves surrounded and be forced to surrender We will then attempt very late some kind of action with its increased ton of life or we will surrender Our policy-makers for 15 years have been engaged in Love" buying it we were told by foreign aid and appeasement We always look for somebody else to bell the cat the United Nations the Organization of American States or what have you The history books are replete with the wreck! of governmental institutions due to the failure of courage and positive action on the part of their leaders as well as the greed apathy avarice and decadence of the people God grant that before too late we profit from these lessons of history and as Americana begin to do our homework by writing our congressmen end senators and yes the President and demand that their negative suicidal policy of reassuring our enemies that we will do nothing be ended TRAVIS PARKER Training for Physical Therapy Editor tha (feller An article which appeared In your paper some lime ago dealt with the blind men who are learning physical therapy at the YMCA It has recently come to my attention and brings to mind several prints which should interest you The work of the YMCA in its many phases is greatly appreciated and its desire to help these Mind men is certainly commendable It la not fait however that it la a service to a Mind person to elevate his hopes for employment In physical therapy after he has completed a two or three months course because: 1 Physical therapy is a recognized health profession which requires not tore than four years of study beyond high school 2 Schools of physical therapy ere approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association in collaboration with the American Physical Therapy Association 3 The practice of physical therapy la defined and regulated by law in 38 states The YMCA course would not prepare persona to meet the requirements of any physical therapy practice act If these men are being trained in massage that is commendable but it should be clear that is not synonymous with therapy" JEANNE SCHENCK (Brownsville) Sunday Law Complaint Editor the (feller: I notice in your paper where a group is asking far blue Sunday I know the reason If it's for religious reasons then what about those who worship on Saturdays or those who do any task Just so they've attended church first? What day would you select aa a Sabbath? Personally I would like for all businesses to clone on Thursdays because that's my slow day and moat doctors are out of their offices on that day Why not be democratic and permit people to close when they see fit Is this a way of promoting bootlegging? Let me know and X'U change my business A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT SPACE SPAT Air Force NASA Arc In Dispute By JAMES McCARTNKY WASHINGTON A new scrap is duping up in the space program This time it'a the Air Force vs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the civilian pace agency that launched Ondr Alan Shepard Jr The battle is over UJS abili-tire to keep men alive in space In effect the Air Force charges that the public is being milled into believing that except for a lack of powerful rocket boosters the United States really isn't doing to badly in the space race The Air Force poNilioa expressed by Brig Gen Don Flick-inger chief of Air Force life science space work is that the Russians are way ahead In maintaining lifer in space too NASA spokesmen flatly dispute this They say they don't want to get into i fight with the Air Force but argue that there is no evidence to prove that the Russians are ahead of the United States in maintaining life in space CoL Charles Boedniu NASA's life sciences director says that booster power is the only problem the United States has If it is licked he says keeping a man alive will be a relative cinch Privately NASA spokesmen suggest that the Air Force is trying to undermine work in a brazen grab for new Air Force appropriations The Air Force they say is more than anxious to get a slice of space exploration and pace exploration funds FUcklngcr however told the House Space Committee that it will be JH to four years before the United States can duplicate what the Russians can already do in keeping a man alive He mid that Yuri Gagarin the Russian apace man had atmosphere" and "almost sea level on his round-the-world space flight Gagarin he laid was able to do quite a Mt ot the flight with the face piece of Ms pressure suit facto really shock a person who la currently aware of what our present state of the art he Hid Roadman Kid although the pressure in Ondr Shepard's space capsule was only half of ths pressure of the earth's atmosphere it could have been greater if more booster power had been available He Kid Ondr Shepard probably could have survived If he had opened his space suit Ml Chicago Dally Naan The Sinton Business Professional Women's Club held their annual Bosks' Night Dinner at the Colony dob THE SAN PATRICIO COUNTY NEWS It Is wise Editor Tracy never to underestimate the power of the ladies They can conceal more aces up their leg 'o mutton sleeves than a Mississippi River boat card shark coidd hide in his patent leather boots They know the way to a man's heart is via his stomach so they choose the most logical and effective way of heaping honors on the head simply plump him down to a groaning board loaded with all aorta of vlttfes and let events follow their natural course like a stream seeking the see Of course we realize tte fine ladies making up the roster of Sintan's BPW Chib were expressing their sincere regard for their bosses individually and collectively but it seems to us that such occasions as this present an uninhibited opportunity to wield the butter spreader mercilessly Naturally none of the good ladies ever entertained such a thought but they might do well to indulge In a little buttering while the bosses are in a Jovial mood are full to the gills and art more or leu helpless while putting away that second slice of pie Then Is the time for someone innocently to suggest that a hike in everyone's salary schedule would not be frowned upon end that letters and reports could wait until manana It' sort of like dipping tv on the Mind side of a mule but in the final analysis results are what count whether they wen obtained with butter spreader or an dm dub Yes Fastidious Customer Floyd Swonp manager of the Co-Op hen was advised last week that flax users in Holland were pleased with the quality of the sample of flax sent them THE KENEDY ADVANCE This is encouraging Editors Cbesnutt A Chesnult A nutL It speaks well for the top quality flu Karnes County fanners an capable of producing at the same time it points to a potentially big market for this Important South Texas crop The Dutch have long been renowned for their thoroughness their frugality and their ability to distinguish quickly between degree of quality They are fastidious about their merchandise ns they are about their food it would be as difficult to unload on them poor quality flu as it would be to serve them pickled catfish in place of salted herring It appears that Karnes County has lound a good customer for its flax The Dutch are the distributing agents for a great portion of Western Europe With two of the finest ports in the world at Rotterdam and Amsterdam they receive commodities from an over the world load the mer chandlae on bargee end distribute it to the great areas of population along the Rhine River The tight little country Is regarded the breadbasket of Europe: and the commodities its industrious fanners are unable to produce are bought from other countries for redistribution by the great importing firms centered around the two Mg ports Holland is a good customer to cultivate and we would suggest that Karnes County would do well not only to send samples of its fine flu tor the Dutch to appraise but also that it alio eend ever a few of Its former flax queens for the burghers to bo-hold A contingent of Queen Flaxenas bearing bags of golden Karnes County flax would comer the flu market faster than a whole pack of your corpulent potllkkere could catch a cottontail rabbit Here's an enterprise for your chamber of commerce to undertake GETTING niGIIEK AMI HIGHER WALTER LIPPMAffN US Containment Policy Failing in A Natural All of them are crumbling and in the last analysis they are all crumbling for the same reason In relation to the rising popular feeling of independence end the rising popular expectations of material welfare these American client slates are not only corrupt but they are Intolerably reactionary The fact that they are also under the protection of a foreign and non-Asian power la an additional liability The Kennedy administration did not torn the policy ot Kiting up on the periphery of Asia a semicircle of American military clients But it Is now eon-fronted with the breakdown of that policy with the disorders the dangers and the pains of having to pick up the pieces This is an experience which (he American people have never bad before and it is one for which their leaders have not prepared them They have not been told by anyone in authority that there has been a radical change in the military situation and what the consequences of that change are They have not been told that the military situation which existed when John Foster Dulles established this policy no longer exists They have not been toid that he made it work by disking the bomb at the Communists That is why so many of them suppose that Kennedy can make it work with a few Marines and by ihak-lng hi flat Our morel and InteUeetual un-preparedness for the reality of things is causing widespread demoralization among us We must not let ourselves he overcome by it We can do that best I think by recognizing that our present experience on the periphery of Asia is the American equivalent of what the British and toe French are experiencing during the liquidation of their colonial empires For what we are wit-nesting is the dissolution of the Dulles system of Asian protectorates There are diebards in France who would like to overthrow Gen de Gaulle in order as they thiiik to keep Algeria French There are diebards in Britain who are passionately opposed to Macmillan because he la liqui-' dating the colonial empire And there are dleharda here who are prepared to call Kennedy an appeaser or worse because he Is try ing to negotiate his way rather than fight his way out of thi Indochinese disorders But whatever the diebards now call De Gaulle and Macmillan and Kennedy the future will be theirs INI Hi York Morale TrlOim The revolution In Iran and the revolution in South Korea ard warning signs about the situation on the periphery of Ada They are warnings that It is not only in Laos that there la trouble for the American client states In Inn the revolution la desperate attempt at the top with the blessing of the Shah to reform the regime before it is overthrown from below The present revolution is not anti-Western anti-American or pro Communist But it may weU be all of them things in the end if the reforms wMch it has begun do not go deep enousfi The hour is late in Iran 1 In South Korea the revolution is the work of the army and It is not now anti-Western anti-American or pro-CbmmunisL But this new military government although it is not anti-American in theory is In fact defying and ignoring our embassy and the Anwrican Army commander The revolutions la South Korea and Iran following the disorders in Laos and South Vietnam are a warning that in Asia the policy of containment by American satellite states is Breaking down In all four of these countries the governments have been our clients indeed they have been our creations Corpus Christ! Caller o-oaoloo rwunii raff WMi vnsnwfiv Lower BroaOaay anO Twigs straw Car-gua Chrlstl Tana sy Iho CaUarTImti -PuMtaMna Co Sunday edition The Car-am ChrTWl Catnr-Tmos Members of the Woodsboro Chamber of Commerce are planning a weekly contest" during the sum- -mer months Although the details are scant the CofC wants to award a weekly prize for the largest fish caught in the Bayside area THE WOODSBORO NEWS A chamber of commerce-sponsored fidiing contest Is what we would put under the heading of a Editor Kennedy It would bring together two masters of the hyperbolical estimate fishermen have long been noted for their capacity of over-estimation we have yet to encounter a CofC official who was averts to stretching point or two in proclaiming the grandeur and glory of hie bailiwick So In this summer enterprise yon all have conjured up there is opportunity unlimited The chamber ol commerce can ten the world of the quantity quality and cooperativeneia of the fish that Unger in Bayside waters end the fishermen lured thence by such convincing press agentry can take it from there relating tales of the big ones that got away as well as those subjected to the official measurer's tape This ought to be the biggest boon to brobdingnagian ballyhoo since Ananias was reproved by Peter for lying about his contributions to the common fund We hope the monthly prize will be as big as the stories that are sure to develop and if they are the economy of the Woodsboro-Bonnle Vlew-Bsyside area is in for a healthy boost Bring on the fishermen! 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