Pago 2. THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 23, 1975
Horse sense
KRMK.HTV.JOINKK
The government has reacted typically to the current
inflationary depression (depressed inflation? . It will, as
IVesident Ford triumphantly announces, put $200 in income
tax rebate into the average taxpayer's left pocket and
extract an estimated $250 per year in additional gas costs
from the right pocket. This is trumpeted as a means of
bringing prices down, putting everybody to work and
insuring tnV domestic tranquility. It will, even as any
amateur economist knows, do nothing of the kind. Nothing we
consume or produce is unaffected by the cost of oil. With
gasoline going up. so goes everything else. It takes a lot of
fuel to make and deliver a loaf of bread, a hairpin or a
combine. The added cost of fuel will be added to the cost of
. producing and distributing all consumer goods. That means
higher prices. Rising prices contribute to inflation, right?
Higher costs lead to consumer resistance to spending, is it
not so? And inflation makes the natives restless, correct?
Thus we are headed for more of what we already enjoy.
There is no need to discuss further President Ford's plan for
w hipping the economy problem. But we do stand in need of at
least one responsible statesman who will suggest that we do
not send another $10 billion to India, another $6 billion to the
Mideast, and another $50 billion to Southeast Asia: that we
not pay any more Turkish farmers not to grow poppies: that
we cancel the $1 million cockroach study; and that we lop off
one government employe out of every 10 ... Ah, but there I go
dreaming again'
0 The same day President Ford solved our economic and
energy ills, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission found a
siiluiion to a cost -price problem: adulterate the booze.
Beginning Feb. 1.10 brands of whiskey will be reduced from
i pniof to Wi. but the cost will remain the same. If a food
manufacturer adulterated its product the USDA would
prolxibly prosecute. Anyway, it will now take more booze for
the buzz. But few will complain. The average American
believes that Demon Rum deserves all the hell we can give it,
which is why a fifth of whiskey would cost about $1 if all the
taxes were removed from its manufacture and sale. I doubt
government will be completely happy until it forces the
public back into the business of making its own.
0 I am amused and bemused by the hue and cry raised
against the Central Intelligence Agency, accused of spying
on to.tKio Americans. The people, and Congress, are pretty
mad about it. Frankly. I am in favor of surveillance of
American citizens believed to be engaged in criminal
activities against the government. My complaint is that there
are probably far more than 10.000 assorted schnooks in this
country whose so-called "private lives" need public
attention. There is a strong feeling in this country that crime
and subversion is allright as long as it is done secretly and
under protection of the constitutional right to privacy of one's
person and papers. Any government has the right and the
duly i to protect itself from subversives. If a revolutionary
'illegally plots the overthrow of the government, then the
government should be entitled to "illegally" ferret them out
and bring them to trial. A government that doesn't protect
itsell from its enemies w on't last very long, w ill it? And we do
want this government to last, don't we?
9 I am not against changing the government. It needs
change. But ours is among the few that provide for orderly
and bloodless change. It takes a little longer, but nobody gets
killed in the process. Big changes have been brought about at
the ballot box. and if anyone attempts to subvert this process
wrought to be aw are of it. Extraordinary circumstances call
lir extraordinary measures, w hich is w hy a man may legally
kill another in sell-defense, thus violating the deceased
noricd civil rights and ending his "pursuit of happiness."
And this government is also empowered to act in
sell -defense, even if by so doing the dissident 's civil rights get
cancelled. The constitution guarantees an individual's right
privacy in most matters. The same constitution provides
for the punishment of those who seek to overthrow it by force.
There is a conflict here, and logic and decency demand that
in such conflict the right of the republic to survive prevails.
9 I am delighted that the CIA and the FBI have tapped the
phones and "invaded the privacy" of such people as Angela
Davis, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation
Army. Students for a Democratic Society. Communist Party
memlicrs. university student revolutionists and their equally
revolutionary professors who use the freedoms granted by
the constitution to destroy it. and the nation. I hope the CIA
has compiled a dossier for college professors like Herbert
Mart-use. who openly advocates the violent overthrow of this
country. I feel safe knowing that government is keeping a
close ey e on the National Lawyers Guild, the Klu Klux Klan.
the Rand School for Social Science, the Very Right Reverend
Mr. James Abernathy. and all persons associated with the
radical left and right. It pains me not at all to know that the
phone of the enemies of this republic have been tapped or
that they have been under surveillance at radical gatherings.
The right of priv acy is not absolute, and we can sleep better
kncming that this is true.
What is vital to us all is that government must itself be
prevented from abusing that power it has to protect itself. If
innocent citizens are spied upon and their civil rights violated
for reasons other than those w hich do not constitute a direct
threat to the nation, such activities must be halted and the
offending: government agency or official punished. An
innocent individual should have the right to bring criminal
charges against any government agency or public official
who abuses him. Such incidents are legion. Government has
been just about as subversive in harassing innocent citizens
as some revolutionaries have been in attacking the
'government. There have been instances where the FBI, the
Internal Revenue Service and a hundred other government
agencies have illegally invaded the individual's right of
privacy and hav e never been held accountable for the crime.
Property has been illegally confiscated. Citizens have been
beaten, threatened and terrorized all in the name of
government . These atrocities are as illegal and despicable as
the revolutionists' undermining of the government. Both
deserve punishment, and the niceties as to how the evidence
against them is obtained is of secondary importance short
of torture.
9 Sen. Hubert Humphrey has urged that the federal
government create jobs for all the unemployed which is one
reason why Hubert isn't president. I, too. have a plan. How
about the federal government requiring all the unemployed
to accent iobs the business community needs filled right
now? Those who refuse to accept available jobs in the private
sector would then be put to work in our federal penal
nclifutiAno afiIv until that a rtroo tt onianf inkc in
iinuiuiiviiat vui viiij win ii unj "b1 vv w ov-vvyi jwo in
business or industry. And that is just one of the many reasons
why I'm not president!
0 People who enjoy the thought that Americans are greedy
and selfish will be pained to learn that private giving to
charitable causes in 1974 is expected to exceed the all-time
record of private giving set in 1973 $24.5 billion. All this in
spite of serious economic woes.
Tiger By The Tail
County schools
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Rauch and Pauline Winter
reported to the board on an
inter-district, meeting they
alleuded to explore the possi
bility of cooperative programs
between districts. The meet
ing was attended by repre
sentatives from Echo, Stan
field, Hermislon, Umatilla.
I'mntilln Intermediate Edu
cation District, and Blue
Mountain Community College
and the Morrow County dis
trict. This was a preliminary
meeting to explore the possi
bility of cooperation, especial
ly in meeting curriculum
needs in specialized areas.
Mrs. Winter told the board
that the Irrigon and Board
man areas would most benefit
from possible programs:
howev er, she felt participation
in the talks was a good idea.
The hoard favored her opin
ion. School board member Jack
Sumner was not present;
Board member Don McKlli
goti arrived at the close of the .
meeting, The next meeting of
) arA fi to ?. ",
quoteunquote
"China iTuivvani has no idle
hands because China has no
uncmpinymciu insurance.
Every eiiien markets a skill,
a trade, or becomes a profes
sional There are no slack
nines If a M is not available,
then the industrious Chinese
will pick flowers to sell on the
sidewalk. he will take a job
digging a (Inch, harvesting a
crop, or sweeping a
snoot " 'Robert II. Rowland.
Oklahoma Christian College,
Oklahoma Citv ,
Church fakes
IRS to court
The Church of Scientology
has been granted its request
for a temporary restraining
order commanding the Inter
nal Revenue Service to refrain
from fleotrming any of its
Mvi-j.il serv ice stall files on
:in Church of Scientology in
the I'niied States or its
supporters
The order was signed Dec.
D! in i he I'niied Stales Federal
District Court tor Hawaii by
Jin lye Martin Pcnse.
Tin- Church of Scientology
wa one of w organizations
named in recent l released
ilociimenis describing the
oier:iiions of the IRS special
service si.if which gathered
intelligence on so-called
"iciivisi organizations" dur
int. the Nixon administration.
The Scientologists' move
Minus a recent public an
nouncement by IRS Commis
sioner Donald C. Alexander
lli.it all SSS records would bo
de-iroxed following a study of
the tiles fi (lie Senate Sub
committee on Constitutional
Rights
'I li'si nicl ion of the records
would eliminate possible in
criminating evidence." char
ged the church's national
spokesman. Rev. Liwrence
Wilbur. "If has been well
documented In congressional
investigations that IRS has
been secretive about its
operations, many of which
have been abusive and ilk-gal.
Inexplicably, jusl hours be
fore the initial SSS documents
were made public. IRS fried to
settle out of court a long
standing legal battle over the
status of our Hawaii church.
Thcv offered to pay our court
costs, refund any taxes paid,
and confirm our tax exempt
stains Needless to say. w e are
very interested in knowing
what's in those SSS files, and
we are very, very pleased with
Judge Pense's order."
The filing of (he temporary
restraining order is Ihe latest
in a series of legal actions by
church attorneys in Hawaii lo
prove that IRS has Urn
engaging in harassment acti
vitie toward the church
iliniiigboui the I'niied Slates
with a pnrKcnf "eliminating
or imparing Iheir church
mi'iiviers and parishioners!
rights in the frit- exercise of
n ligion . . by means of
Mm emit i inu administrat iv e
fi u-ii-.itioit, prcostire to en
gage in repealed costly lilign
hn'i without definite resolu
tion, and otherwise by tactics
n.ii consistent with due
P'ofi- of law."
"I think the flavor of this
k ..js'iiatioii is liest reflected by
tlie 'fact that the court requir
ed onk a one-dollar bond as
eiili'iitnilv against the IRS
being unduly enjoined from
ile-irov ing the SSS records."
Wilbur said.
In I'lTo the IRS assessed Ihe
church in Hawaii $749 The
Si icniologist paid the sum
ami then sued for its recovery.
Siileiiienil . during Ihe
course of litigation, IRS offer
ed to refund Ihe taxes and
siiluiiiiied a million lo have
ihe suit cancelled. Roth the
church, and District Court of
Hawaii, and an apcals court
mi ned the IRS down, arguing
thai return of ihe monies did
not negate the issue of
harassment. IRS now must
lace ihe church in court.
"The IRS has a long history
ot attempts to escape un
f.ihorablc legal decisions."
slated Wilbur. "For that
mailer. IRS has also avoided
am form of investigation. It is
a liiilc known fad lhal Ihe IRS
has mil undergone a full and
iiidcendciil audit by Ihe
(Jeneral Accounting Office for
over .V) years. In fact. IRS has
thwarted GAO audit altempts
claiming GAO does not have
this authority in spite of
congressional statutes to Ihe
contrary. It will be interesting
lo see how well IRS stands up
to judicial scrutiny," Wilbur
said in a press release from
the church in Portland.
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The mail pouch
EDITOR.
The apiminlnienl and approval of Nelson A. Rockefeller as
vice president intone; ( the grealest of all time
disapHintnienls for American voters. It is clear enough that
lite largest majority of our senators and represenlatives
have gone out on a limb to approv e Nelson Rockefeller in
direct opixisitinn lo the voters' wishes.
Paul Scott. Washington columnist, reported Oct. 12 that
mail to members of Congress was running heav ily against
Rockefeller, It w as reported lo lie anywhere from 20 lo I to 50
to I. Sen William Scoti of Virginia reported that his mail was
running Hi lo 1 in opposition to Rockefeller. According to Sen.
Jesse Helms ol North Carolina, some of the mail pouring info
Capitol Hill was even running as high as 99 per cent opposed
to Rockefeller.
Nelson A Rockefeller is not a good choice for vice
president for a manlier of reasons, such as Ihe fact lhal he
represents a powerful oil cartel, big government, huge
monooly interests, higher taxes and the centralization of
power with little liberty for individual citizens. Five other
outstanding reasons why Nelson Rockefeller should not be
v ice president are: No. I. his own party turned him down
three times orthe presidential nomination (I960, 1964. 1968;
No 2. his record plainly shows thai decisions in Ihe past have
lieen favorable lo the vast billion-dollar monopoly interests
thai the Rockefeller family share and hold (world
government would lie highly advantageous for them; No. 3.
the vast money interest of the Rockefellers have prospered
shamefully in oil and oilier material wealth during both
World Wars and especially (he Korean and Vietnam no win
wars Hie world oil cartel fueled the Communist war
machines lhal killed over ino.ouo American GIs. In the world
oil cartel. Ihe Rockefeller controlled Standard Oil of New
Jersey ' Exxon i and Socony Vacuum (Mobil Oil) are leaders
in prmluciion Ihe world over. Vast money power and
internal ional wealth for a few is a mighly poor excuse or
exchange for the likes of American soldier boys: No. 4. his
record shows thai Ihe Rockefeller interests have always been
in direct opposition to Ihe free enterprise system of America.
It has been lhal way from Ihe beginning with John D.
Rockefeller himself, as he very much disliked competition:
No. 5. Nelson Rockefeller was directly involved in promoting
Ihe passage of Ihe 2."ilh amendment which opened Ihe door for
Americans lo lie governed by unelecled rulers. This could
lead to dictatorship. The New York Daily News about 10
years ago carried an article on how Nelson Rockefeller was
ihe originator of Ihe 25th amendment and now he becomes
one of ihe first lo benefit. Why him?or was it planned that
way?
The late Sen. Wayne Morse was right when he said we have
a lack of oil industry regulations because Ihe industry "owns
too many voles" in congress, Wayne Morse sounded this
alarm on Ihe oil industry cartel at a Rotary Club luncheon in
Pendleton. Ore., on April 22. 1974. Wayne Morse said the
petroleum industry is under no federal regulations and he
called for regulation of what he termed "The Oil Cartel" for
the public's best interest. The late senator also said,
"inflation is picking your pockets," and blamed it partly on
high gasoline and oil costs.
Don't be surprised if sometime in the near future we are
caught up in another no-win war because it does mean
greater prosperity for those holding the super-rich money
bags around the world. As the petroleum industry monopoly
closes in on independent dealers, we can expect high gas and
oil prices for this year of 1975. AH this will help weaken our
economic money syslem, which is a terrible blow to our free
enferprise system. A large number of American citizens
speaking up in protest is our only hope.
If you would like to know what's going wrong with our
American money system, then write for four free booklets
entitled. Who's Calling the Shots?, Inflation Controls
Shortages. The Official Counterfeiter and Whose Land Is it?
Write to Vic Lockman, P.O. Box 844, Anderson, Calif, 96007.
CARL M. MARQUARDT
Lexington.
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'It's Finally Happened! They Got More Bowl
Games Than They Got Football Teams!"
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Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Some good was found in some ill winds Saturday iiighl.
iltiniig the session al the country shirt. -
Kd Cionlv thai nearly alius views with alarm had u
i, ., .. V J ... ., I,, ..II. Ii lit, i j
I'll H' II e linn nux nil Mas mi M'll hi ilium mini
In some clouds. Me was joined by Me Grulib lhal said he
lavnrcd coaling Ihe pill he had to swallcr,
High prices. Kd reported, has done wonders fer folksjlial
print menus. He saw this piece mil of Denver lhal said a
.printing house (here has doubled business Jusl turning out.
melius with new, higher prices. If menu printing Is booming,
went on Kd, what do you think the companies are doing llmt
sell Ihcm ink pads and stamps they use lo slick prices on slul f
in Ihe grocery stores? They mil only m e behind in orders, IM ,
said, they probable had lo hire more people who can make ,
niiiiiev hi buy the fond Ihat grocery stores hud lo hire more
people to keeping marking tip,
Fer 20 years, broke in Zcke, the bus lines was crying to
everhodx thai left the driving to em , Now they're running lull
ev ervv here. The price of gasoline. Me said, and the cutback
i i, i' in l,n' ii hud hi'itiui it III oee cent iiiilin ill luis
III III, HI, , l, ,111., II ll. M ,"f " I-- .-, J"...f- .' ,
business In the pasi year
Six months ago. went on Me. federal was telling stale and
state was telling local liuveriiment to gu more pi-opie using
lood siamns. Now the welfare ilt'oiiitmunls all over Hie
country is pulling on new people to handle application ler "
stamps.
F.von Zcke s preacher sees the benefit of liglil times jtc ;
mid Zeke a buddy of his had look a well off church in the uty
the ouW ot (oik thai got money is just as precious in
the sight ot Ihe Uird as them lhal pay Ihe preacher in fresh
meal and canned goods. The preacher is like the old country '
docior thai told nieonct thai he didn't know why he worried
hissell sick faking care of pore folks when it weren't no iimie
trouble to cure the rich. F. erbody ha lo mold his own bullet
to lute
Kd got the floor buck to report that this feller come by his
place last week selling burglar alarms. F.d said he ain't been
iMiihered by a lightning rod salesman in years, and Ibis was
Ins in-si knowing that all I hem now is selling burglar alarms
When the economy giis bad. the burglar alarm business
giis good, Kd said Ibis feller told hint, and since all the
neighbors was giiiing a alarm Kd wouldn't want to be ihe'
oiih iinK'i iecied place around Kd said he'd lake his chances
wiih the lightning, his shotgun and the burglars
General sinking, Misler Editor, Ihe fellers still has got
great coiilidenee in this country, but they don't know where
in place it Kver lime around, pnlilieiims promise help, w hen
all ihev want is to help us mark out ballots I saw where one
new elected feller said when he took office, "I've been swore
in now I II lie swore at," That's pi illy closl. and ever lime '
von hear a xtli!idaii say he's got the answer, you learn he
loi'gol Ihe llieslton
Yours tnilv .
MA, OR ROY
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freedom
campaign
Hy l.KSTKH KINMii.YIMi "
NKW YORK- From Ihe National Council of Churches up
on Riverside Drive in N YC, lo the Episcopal Churchmen
For South Alnca "Toward Freedom in St nil hern Afnca "
down in Greenwich Village. Ihe liberal I'roicst.mi
eialili-linient here seems almost unanimously devoted lo
the "destabilizing" of the governments of South Africa and
Rhodesia
This oeclosiasiiciil establishment Includes the national
he,idiiiariers of the I'niied Methodists, the I'niied
I'resbv lerians. the I'niied Church ol On isl and the F.pisi
('lunch
The Kpiscopal (lunch's Executive Council, for example
voted in December to use its stink in IBM to issue ji
resolution asking thai IBM stop selling computers to Soii'b
f nea The Kpiscopal Council even voted. 16 12, to deny "any I
cm imraiion agauisi whom resolutions are In-ing directed lh(.
right lo bav e responsible representatives present" in order to
delcitd iiself , ,U
This tolicv, of what might he called cloisteied.
deliberations, was defended by Richmond, Virginia
iiiiM.riedlv liberal rector, Ihe Rev, John Spong. Duong i,
telephone interview . the Rev. Mr. Spong told us lhal be km r .
ol no such Kpiscopal resolutions which asked IBM or Geneul
Motors ior any other corporation which the Kpiscopali.uut
have bcetmpportuning i lo slop doing business with any other;
Alrican nations. m
This policy is indeed strange, considering the racial
discrimination elsewhere in Africa (such as the expulsion of;
more than Mi.non Asians from Uganda , Or. there is the
massive slaughter of blacks, such as the more than aim ono
massacred in South Sudan, or the 75.0(H) murdered in'
Burundi, or the 2,(hki.(hhi Ihos who were systematical!,'
starved by Ihe black government of Nigeria,
Nothing in South African or Rhodesian history tun'
approximate Ihe massive proportions of these atrocities, 1
w hich somehow escaped the allention-lf not the concern -of
the Kpiscopal high command lal least regarding"
stockholders resolutions!. So have theone-party-only Arab or,
black dictatorships which exist all over Africa.
How can the National Council of Churches, as well a the "
various liberal Protestant denominations, overlook IhcW,,
atrocities all over Ihe rest of Africa (not to mention; the'
enormous religious oppression in both the Soviet Union 'mid?
Mainland China I in order to focus all indignation upon Suuth '
Africa and Rhodesia?
"Because these are white racist countries." explained
William Johnston, head of Ihe Episcopal Churchmen for"
South Africa.
A more logical explanation may lie in the fact ihat
Rhodesia and South Africa have between them the vast,
majority of the Wesiern world's known mineral resources in4
gold, uranium, diamonds, manganese, asbestos and chrpme'
(which Is essential in the manufacture of stainless steel).-
Both the Soviet Union and Peking have been intensively,
aclive among several of Africa's black governments, whose
current push for an all-black central and southern Africa is
an Ideal vehicle for eventual communist control of lhcs
strategic minerals.
In the U. S.. militant blacks have been successful in their
intent of taking over (he power structure of the National
Council of Churches, whose Interreligious Foundation For
Community Organization (IPCO) has been a leading
financier of black African terrorist groups, while the
Council's Corporate Information Center continues its
harassment of U. S. firms who do business wilh South Africa,
Yet there seems to have been little or no protest from Ihe
Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians or members of the
United Church of Christ who either work for or own stock in
these corporations. This inactivity may be due either to a
lack of organization by which to protest, or a guilt complex
which allows the unfair harassment of one's employer by the
same ecclesiastics who are using one'j chun-h offerings to
finance terorism.