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By Paul Hornbeck
; UNCLE SAM. M .D .
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Ole Sam has been serving his internship since 1933. T o -
‘ tnorrow he takes over as the boss pill-pusher and sawbones.
• His training has been varied— just about a ll-inclu sive. If any-
oae doubts that statement, one should try to think of some
phase of one's life which is not restrictively or dotingly touch
ed by the federal patrone. And now, whether we like his bed
side manners or not, we w ill take Sam's prescriptions to the
corner drug store.
•> ' From Smith to Jones
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H e 'll set our bones
And read our concensus in his stethoscope.
H e 'll be our wet nurse
Then order the hearse
W ailing "N a il on the lid; I gave the wrong dope."
;<• For the record, some of us oldsters want it strictly under
stood that we did a ll we could to prevent our national legisla
to r s from making this monstrous mistake in the name of social
Compasaion. But the boys in the driver's seat insist on change.
.No matter bow good a custom or service or commodity, it must
make way for change. To the modern Intelligentsia, change
is progress, regardless of where we go from the point of change.
Amusing side of it is the doctrine that no change must be a
turning back. Anything that has been tried before, or used be-
;fcre, or practiced before--that is totally passe. Y et in the
face of this, we progressively modernistic Americans split our
^britches getting ourselves involved in an entire system of m e-
'dicinal paternalism from which the Swedes, the Belgians and
the Britons are trying just now to extricate themselves after
■years of failure and distress. Oh, we are progressive.
Beginning tomorrow, there w ill be a terTific demand for
Sew hospitals a ll over this country; and we w ill build a lot of
¡A iem . I f we the people don't build them, Papa Sam w ill.
I-And where w ill Papa Sam get the money? You take a long
..Breath and guest. But of course in a case like this we mustn't
-consider monetary cost, so we won't consider monetary cost.
^•toit • plethora of hospitals demands nurses and doctors and in-
■ femes and technicians and dieticians, to say nothing of thous-
*.<nds of other service personnel. Where are they coming from?
•A few yean ago when private health insurance began to blos-
available hospital beds began to be occupied by the fe l-
IJLnv who needed a rest cure and a ll of a sudden had to blow his
■hose two times in a half hour. Now that the taxpayer w ill be
jjje k in g up the tab, medical men estimate that the increase
.among older folks who sign in at the hospital for medical care
W ill see July conservatively up 4<X over June. Great Society
legislators w ill progressively lower age lim its as quickly as pos-
Ifib le .
• • T im e was when it took several yean for s doctor to get his
,M D . Going to have to reduce that to a few months. Same for
tones and technicians.
Knowledge and experience and e ffic i-
eht training and surgical skill are an extravagance of the past.
Sam is going to take care of our physical shortcomings in
i l l own NEW way.
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We oldsters are presumed to rejoice that the widow down
Ute Itreet who irons and tends kids for a living w ill join our me
chanic who cares for our late model car and the grocery man
-who sells us our high-priced bacon in helping us pay our doctor
and medicine bills. Old Doc himself w ill contribute his "dis-
• ofl
count. "
Our electrician and T V man w ill have to chip in,
tod.
Good old American companion. Only it's a little hard to
think of compassion as you listen to the curses of the taxpayer
<s he writes his April 15th check.
During Britain's eighteen years of nationalized medicine,
.thousands of English doctors have moved to new fields of prac
tice in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and
South A frica.
;400 per year.
They are leaving England now at the rate of
Doctors' strikes in Europe are becoming common
W A S H IN G T O N
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By
C. W I L S O N
One of the most interesting prices they pay are due to the
things to watch for in this era very programs their union
of mounting consume« puces heads worked to bring about,
is to see how rapidly a sub these workers are going to be
stantial number of the mem very unhappy.
bers of labor unions realize
• • •
the primrose path their lead
Actually, to employers, prln
ers have led them down.
elpally the big corporations. It
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makes little difference If they
For It must be borne In mind pay an employee $3.13 per
that much of
hour, or if they pay the em
the increased
ployee <3 per hour and then
coat of living
pay government another 13
and the close
cents per hour aa payroll tax.
gap between
It still figures out to a S3.IS
Income a n d
per hour labor coat.
living costa
a a a
have b e e n
And it is this figure that
created
by
goes into the determination of
welfare mea
cost of production. This cost
sures promo,
is figured in the cost of pro
led by union
ducing raw materials, in the
leaders.
C. W . H a rd e r
cost of transportation of them,
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Increased coverage by social and the cost of manufacturing
security, medicare, unemploy these raw materials into the
ment insurance, and other pro finished products.
• • •
grams are supported by taxes
Then when the finished prod
only. The taxes come from
both the workers' pay. and ucta go to the wholesale chan
nels, the mark up is on costs
from the employers.
• « •
: reflecting labor at S3.13 per
Already, according to pub hour, not at S3.M. Thus, as the
lished reports, a substantial product moves through chan
number of workers are looking "ela to the ultimate buyer this
askance a the new deduc extra cost In the form of pay
tions made irom pay checks. ro** taxes Is pyramided to raise
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consumer prices.
a a a
They are not finding the
Great Society so great when it
Thus, union members must
comes to putting meat on the j eventually wake up to the fact
table. In most cases they are that when pie in the sky is
taking less money home, but promised them in the skies
paying more for what they buy. over the Potomac, they can be
* * *
sure that the dough to make
This, In itself, is quite dis that pie is going to be sup
comforting to them. But soon plied by them.
• • •
er, or later, they are going to
come to realize an even more
And then will come the real!
uncomfortable fart.
ration that they cannot afford
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to relax and let George do it.
When they realize that a i because chances are George
large share of the increased i will do them in.
It is estimated that damage
caused by pollution to crops,
metals, livestock, defacing of
personal and public property
and other effects costs the
United States $11 billion an
nually.
Real name of Lenin, found
er of the Soviet Union, was
Vladim ir Ilyich Ulyanov. He
took the name Lenin in 1901.
diligently overlooked or played down as extremism and the im
perialism of free enterprise.
The most deplorable aspect of the matter is that we are
forced to admit the success of the program of managed news in
this free land of ours. Political lines have been obliterated.
Recent contact with fine, intelligent people of both Democrat
ic and Republican affiliation in Southern Oregon has revealed
an almost complete acquiescence to the onslaught of resurgent
socialism. One friend, a Democrat who campaigned in last
month's primary on issues contrary to the socialistic trend, was
beaten. We know of no successful Republican candidate who
permitted himself to campaign on the basis of any issue hostile
to the socialistic schemes of the Democrats in power. ”1 stand
on my record" was the persuasive argument of both democrat
and republican. And research in each instance revealed that
"m y record" was a day-by-day pursuit of "financial aid for my
constituents" from the public trough,
A splendid lecturer on A mericanism, speaking in another
state, recently said, " It is heartening and at the same tim e an
awsome thought that when the American citizen enters his vot
ing booth next November to elect an entire new House of Rep
resentatives and one-third of the Senate, the major responsibil
ity for continuing our bankrupting farm control fiasco, and the
dissipation of our wealth over the entire habitable earth, w ill
pass from Washington to him . The voter must decide which he
prefers— sanity, or continued p olitical recklessness In govern
ment. 11 Theoretically he is right; we trust that in his state the
theory w ill become actual. But in Oregon it w ill remain theory
only, for the simple reason that p olitical lines do not furnish us
any choice. From Governor down to local officials, Oregon
Republican candidates oppose Democratic socialism only in de
gree. So the only choice of those who choose to vote the Re
publican ticket in Oregon is the doubtful privilege of backing
the lesser of two evils.
Managed news has done a great job of indoctrination. For
the last three weeks the public has been saturated with hours
upon hours of radio and T V reports about the Meredith inarch
from Tennessee to Mississippi. According to the reports, while
the march went on, 4, 000 Negroes were registered to vote In
Mississippi, inference being that the march was responsible for
;that private health insurance companies are beginning to thrive
'-again. English people who can afford it are w illin g to pay ex-
>tra money to obtain personalized service fromwhat is left of
England's m edical profession.
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Y et is it doubtful that we Americans w ill ever learn. We
>have been informed by the Great Society at to what Is best for
us. Who are we to become so oldfathioned and UNJNformed a:
> td pass up any opportunity to fcQNform ? So vote for the con-
formers; anyone else is an extremist.
h iiltim illio n a ire Bobby Kennedy, who wants to give his
blood to the V ie t Cong and who goes to South Africa and not
only tells them how bad they are, but bow bad his America is,
is lavished with millions of dollars worth of free radio and T V
tim e and newspaper and magazine space in his supposedly con
cealed campaign for the presidency,
Adam Clayton Powell is chairman of a committee which is
supposed to carry on an investigation of the rottenness of the
poverty war.
<
I f Captain Lonesome B ill Carpenter were not extremist, we
Would te ll you bow we honor and admire and appreciate him .
But his starkly extreme "Put the napalm right on us" classifies
' him . At one national writer words it i "The Captain's greatness
. »fill he remembered long after the whole kaboodle of bewhisk-
• cred, sign-carrying, filth-shouting critics of the Vietnam war
M s been forgotten." Patriotic extremism keeps cropping up In
spite of the Great Society and U . Thant, and Alger Hisses, and
; (efn H a ll, and Bobby Kennedy, et aL
’M
enaced news is a powerful non - sec r et weapon
Managed news is simply giving to the public a slanted ver
A few of the proponents, copiously blessed with
lying tongues, including the great Sargent Shriver, te ll of the
great progress of the war, hour upon hour of it . Powell then
ends the "hearings" and when asked why, says "Because I am
chairman and that is a l l . " This is reported without adverse
criticism . What was not reported by the newsboys was that the
committee minority presented the names of 65 people whom
they wanted to testify about the conduct of the poverty war.
Not one of them was heard.
The Mississippi march gets three weeks of big front page,
headline treatm ent. Almost daily race riots in Northern cities
get 1 0 -line treatment on an inside page. A ll Southerners ex
cept a few Fulbrights are bigots. Martin Luther King is the typ.
ic a l modern Moses as he urges his minions to break what he
pronounces as bad laws.
sion of those events (important or unimportant) which transpire
from dey to day which seem to the managers effectively promo
Managed News, thou art a jew el; and in Southern Oregon
thou hast so far been a success. We trust that 1966 is a year for
tional far the various causes of the Great Society. But that is
not a ll, for even that would fa ll short of the desired effect if
progressive change, when truthful education replaces managed
Indoctrination.
events unfavorable to Great Society causes were not
ECONOMY MARKET ” "ÏÏ!
HARDER^
; .iX 8 h it England for $363 m illio n . The total for 1966 w ill be
?384 BILLION, with m edical service becoming so degenerated
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a ll of th e m --a slick slanting of the news. They did not bother
to te ll that hundreds of thousands of Negroes in Mississippi were
thoroughly disgusted with the marchers and their extremist
leaders, Martin Luther King, et a l.
The responsible Negroes
realize how their cause is suffering from such antics.
'Cost to the government for the first year of state medicine in
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, I:
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Con V/e Wave The Flag Too Much?
UUIRS
ioiior
In four days this nation w ill celebrate the Fourth of
July. It w ill celebrate In many ways; with speeches,
picnics, fam ily outingi, fireworks displays. The flags
To the Editon
w ill wave. Can we wave the flag too much?
S .L . Love, the author of "The Quiet Betrayal", pres
visited a friend out Table
ident of Independence H a ll in Chicago, formerly of
the "Know Your History Hour" on radio, once received
a letter from a listener that read, "Your programs are
= wonderful- especially the no-com mercials- but you
~
are waving the flag too m uch." Love's reply, reprinted in
in fu ll as it has been in national magazines, newspapers,
radio, the Congressional Record, wasi
A few years ago, we often
Rock Road, and she showed
uz some peculiar insects which
frequented damp places id and
around her shower stall.
Since that tim e, we have
found them in or around our
home, and It might interest
readers to learn whet they ere,
in order to watch for them and
avoid them.
Is it possible to wave the flag too much? Pro In the shadows, they look
vided, of course, that you wave it with integ like small scorpions, of which
rity? Is it possible to study Lincoln or Shake there are many in this area, u
speare too much ? Is it possible to read the Bible dead wood and in cracks in
too much? ★ The great, the good, the true, are sandy slopes. They are, how
inexhaustible for inspiration, example and ever, SOLPUGID (sol-pew-gid;
strength. I believe that we are not waving our a relative of the spider, but
do not spin a web.
flag enough, not nearly enough ★ It seems to who
While this is a semi-to trop
me that we are developing a tendency to he icallrucct, they are being
Hmid or even apologetic about waving the stars found in ever more northern
hnd stripes. Walk up and down the streets on areas; Nevada, Colorado, '
July 4th and count the flags. It is our nation’s Utah and now Southern Oregon
birthday, a sacred day in world history, the most In C alifornia, they are often
important day of America. Why isn’t the flag called Sun Scorpion, Wind
flying on every rooftop and from every home Scorpios or Deer K ille r.
and building? This complacent attitude is strong The Solpugid is rarely over
evidence of cancerous patriotic decay. The flag an inch long, is a scorpion
is a symbol of our national unity. It is the tan with most hairy legs and
spirit of our undying devotion to our country. head, the latter being rather
It stands for the best that is in us . .. for loyalty, drop shaped, with the two
character, and faith in democracy ★ Isn’t our dark eyes side by side on the
flag a synonym of the United States of Amer top of the head.
ica?? Does it not represent man’s greatest, They move very fast, runn,
noblest, most sublime dream? Is it not the zen ing here and there In search
of food and seeking out light
ith of achievement, the goal to which genera* which
has attracted insects it
tions have aspired? ★ Ladies and gentlemen, 1 feeds upon. It is nocturnal,
believe it is time for us . . . for the mad, rush-, hiding in the day and coming
ing Twentieth Century American . . . to stop out at night, often seen clim b
for a moment and think. Let us arrest our near ing the screen near a porch
Reverential admiration of material success and light or running about nqar a
fetum *to-the spiritual and ethical values. Let :sm p fire to catch Insects
Us imbue and rekindle in ourselves and our chil drawn out by thelight.
dren the so-called old-fashioned way of patriot* The most impressive feature,
ism, a burning devotion to the principles and giving it a fierce reputation,
ideals upon which our country was founded ★ is a large pair of plncan, at
Should not every home own and proudly display first appearing to he arms at
the colors on holidays and other such occasions? legs held in a forward position,
as it runs about. When pro
Isn’t the flag Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Frank voked,
it grasps the enemy
lin, Washington, Nathan Hale, Gettysburg and with these pincers, pulls it
Valley Forge, Paul Revere, Jackson and other self forward, then gives a
great men and women who have given us our most painful pinch with two
heritage. When you look at the flag can’t you smaller pincers at the front of
see the Alamo, Corrigedor, Pearl Harbor, The It's headfsmall, but most pow
Monitor, The Merrimac, Wake Island, and Ko erful).
rea? Lest we forget, isn’t the flag Flanders The toe of your shoe, a sock
Field. Bataan, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Babe Ruth, lying by, or your clothe» left
and Davy Crockett? The great events of our on the floor, a ll are excellent
past and present are wrapped up in our flag places for him to hide during
★It is a symbol of this blessed nation, a giant the day, so it is wise to »hake
in industry, education and Commerce. Millions garments before exposing ten
der toes or limbs to these
of fertile square miles, wheatlands, coal mines, powerful pincers.
steel plants. Our great republic, the chosen in* Undoubtedly, your readers
fant destined to be man’s last and remaining are acquainted with the very
hope for suffering humanity, a shining beacon large Stag Beetle which is att
of light, noble and glorious, the haven for the racted by outside lights at
oppressed and persecuted and truly God’s gift night, and who can give a
child (or Parent) a very pain
to mankind. ★
That is what the flag means to me. Can we ful pinch. A doctor, relately
new here, mentioned that we
wave it too much? I don’t think so.
had no worries from Black
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S .O .C . STUDENTS MAKE
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HONOR ROLL
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Fifty-nine Southern Ore-
Widow spiders, but quickly
relented when, a week later,
I brought him several In a
glass Jar that had tinned up a -
round home . We have cent!
pedes also, but they rarely
ed perfect 4 .0 grade point
July 1,1147— The first U. S.
Postage stamps were issued by
average« Spring term,
the Post Office Department in
Wayne M . Hood, Registrar,
New York City. The issue con
announced this week. In
sisted of two stamps: a 54 red-
addition, 201 students made
brown stamp depicting Ben
the boner roll by attaining a
jamin Franklin and a 104 black
stamp bearing the likeness of
grade point average o f 3 .5
George Washington.
or better.
July 4 ,17 74 — The Declara
Those from Central Point
tion of Independence was
wereiDavid M. Knox,
signed first by John Hancock
Low ana K . Rogers, Mary
of Massachusetts, President of
C . Stuart, and James R.
the Continental Congress, and
then by Charles Thomson,
Titus.
secretary in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gold H ill; John A . Jeksch.
July fi, 1435— The Liberty
Jacksonville Pamela J,
Bell cracked as it tolled for the
Cam pbell, Jayne D . M eri-
f u n e r a l o f C h ie f J u a tic e
ckel, and Gary L. Smda-
Marshall.
baker.
July 14. 1945 — The first
atom bomb was exploded in a
test at Alamogordo A ir Base.
The original Holy Alliance
July SI» 1771 — The first
D o c to r o f L a w s h o n o ra ry of nations In 1015 consisted
degree by Harvard College was of Austria, Prussia and Rus
sla.
awarded to John Winthrop
roach such size, that one has
to ba more than casually care*
ful to avoid handling or tread
ing on them.
T o newcomers, I wish to say
we do have rattlesMkes. Con
monly, a bit colder than they
wish, they are less active than
usual, and they rarely rgttle
until it almost too late to be
forwarned. They w ill be
found on sunny tide» of Logs,
or along trails where grist is
thin enough to permit the sun
light to warm them, hut Just
long enough to hide them frotr
the unwary hiker who won't
know of their preset*.»: until
bitten. When walking along
■ruch trails, It is wise to throw
a ball sired stone so thqt it
tolls along the tra il for some
distance, as a w arnlagu»..
I
snakes and opening the trail.
A good dog O) tw
>>i a her
of goats, w ill lit i| .
an
area of these d.,
viperi
and it has been fotx
.hat
kittens w ljl dlscovei
>iem,
tease them uqttl they are
driven to ra ttle , when their
presence becomes known.
Although "Oregon" seems I.
stand for "rain, snow, wisjtyr
land to the r»>st ot the nation,
we , who have lived here ter
many years, know that our
area is truly "the banana bei
aud lias the tropical drawback
as w e ll as blessings.
A Reader
Mrs. V irg in ia D.
Card.
T o the Editor)
The Stewart Udall, Intcrlc
Secretary, Charles Stoddard
and Kuzsell Getty controversy
seems more offensive as mors
exposed to light and more
facets observed. Perhaps 'tis
w ell for the people to kuow
more of Administrative act
ivities.
Interior Secretaries seem to
have a yen for deals that
sometimes go askew. Inter
ior Sec. Fall spent year» in
prison for his part at the Taa-
pex Dome oils case. Interior
Sec. Bellinger, after a (ew
skirmishes with Gifford Pin»
chot and Louis Glavis, found
the Alaska coal case too hot,
and himself out of the arena.
Interior Sec. Stewart Udall's
attempt to clear the political
atmoephere by firing Charles
Stoddard and trying to kick
Russell Cetty upstairs, seem»
to have ricocheted, and the
dust is not yet cleared away.
These episodes bring to
mind the Bellinger tangle
with our C hief Forester ,
Gifford Plnchot, and General
Land Office Claims Engineer,
Louis Glavis, of half a cent
ury ago. Relllnger fired
Glavis for insubordination b *
cause he differed with Bell
inger over his planned Ala«ka
coal deal. Plnchot resigned
as C hief Forester and Presi
dent T a ft let Bellinger resign.
Then came the big fight be
tween Teddy Rootevelt and
T a ft, and more Department
adjustments
My work In
National Forest Land classlf-
icatlon, and as Special C lair
Inspector of land claims wit
in National Forests of Oregon
and Washington, caused me
to be specially interested in
the Bellinger case.
What became of the Teapot
Dome oils ? Probably tucked
away in some big syndicate's
w allet, and Alaska coal
claims maybe met the same
fate.
Why do Interior Secretaries
pull such deals ? Too much
authority over too much pub
lic dom ain,— America's nat
ural resources I Too much
bribery ! Both briber end
bribed know they're both
the Ives.
Too much authority to too
few, and one delegating al
most unlim ited authority to
another ( as LBJ to A tty. Ge«
Kitzenbach, et a l,) la tor f '°
the U .S . Constttutlou, or thi
C iv il Roghts act of 1966. W
such maneuvers and blunder
our "Land oi the Free" is hs
ing dragged down to a one-
world dictatorship, a one-
churcn state, ---s la v e ry .
John E. Gribhle
139 Ki nwood Ave.
M rd fo d , Oregon