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o 0rrULAX, JAM UAH l 20, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNj), MEDFORD, OREGON WEDFORDv!lTBIBUNg "Everyone in Souliiern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MKurunu I'nin i io l-u 33, North FU Jl,Ph SP 2-6Ml. ROBERT W RUIIL. Editor HERB CREV Advertising Mana(a GERALD T LATHAM Bua Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR , Mng Editol EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor mruAnn IP.WRTT SoorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ircuiawuM iT'"TniiBnndent ttewsnaner Entered as aecond class matter at Medford. uregon. unnci v, March 3. 1807 oimcrmpTinN RATES Hy Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally ana aunaay i yr.u ', Dally and Sunday 6 mo s on '. Daily and Sunday 3 mos. Sunday Only One year 1 20 m.. 1 Tn AHwnnre Mcdfcrd Ashland Central Point .Eagle Point. Jacksonville, corn nil, Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue Riv ... T.in a.nt nn motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year 110 "0 Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo I SO 1 Carrier and Dea;w copy 10c All Terms Cash inAdyanci! rlclarPapef of'Cltv of Medlnrd Official PiP'.l of Jackson County United "Press International Full Leased Wire H P 1 Telephoto Kewspictiirei -MEMRER OF AUDIT BITOT AlT OF C1RCUT.AT1QNS AVveiriTsine Re"rteni,lv,v: , WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC Of floes In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland Sl Louis At ' ,r-M Vancouver B ( ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL LllAc6T,tN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Trlbun. 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 years afjo. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1951 (Salurday) Immediate and enthusias tic response to a plea for sofe- ty and courtesy in me upum tion ol logging trucks was given here by log truck oper ators Saturduy. William Albert Luman, prominent Medford business man, died this morning at his home here. He was 60. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1941 (Monday) Medford is serving as the base of operations for an ex tensive search by the U.S. Army Air Force for a missing bomber from McChord field, Tacoma, believed down in the louthern Oregon area. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge" Pot column: "The world will never know what Mr. Hitler said to Mr. Musso lini, when they held a confer ence Sunday, and it does not matter much. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1931 (Tuesday) The city council passed an ordinance yesterday declaring that the city park shall always be a city park. , The humane society has taken over the collection of dogs taxes in the county. 40 YEARS AGO. Jan. 20, 1921 (Thursday) Final steps have been tak en bv the county court to pur chase land along South Paci fic highway for a county fair grounds. A bill providing for regu lation of fishing In the Rogue river will probably not be presented to the stale legisla ture this season. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1911 (Friday) The department of Interior is reported to be considering a proposal to turn over 126 square miles of land in Cra ter Lake park to the Army for a training ground. The city council is giving consideration to an ordinance that would more strictly regu late saloons in the city. Whal's Your 1,0.? Nina or ten correct is suoarfori selen or oight Is oxcellent; flvo or six is good. 1. Name the husband of Pocahontas. 2. How many pieces of sil ver did Judas get for betray ing Christ? 3. What is the motto on all U, S. coins? 4. Who was commander-in- chief of the U. S. Armed Forc es during World War I? 5. How many baseball teams arc there in each major league? 0. The Vice-President of the U. S. may vote in the U. S. Senate only in case of a lie' true or false? 7. is a child born In a for eign land of American par enls a citizen of the U, S.? 8. Name the second largest plane). 9. "The Spy." "The Path finder," and "The Last of the Mohicans" were written by Whom? 10. Are there more women In the Unlled States than men? Answers! 1. John Rolft. 2. Thirty. 3. "In God Kt Trust." 4. Woodrow Wilson. 5. Ton. 6. True. 7. Yes 8. Sa u r n. 9. Jamas Fonimor Coop.r, 10. v.. I ifAflV' NEWSPAPER ik&XnGK PUBLISHERS New FAA Boss , With a few minor "nays," most of them voiced from obvious prejudice, it has been amaz ing to see the degree of acceptance which has greeted the selections of John F. Kennedy for high office in his new administration. Criticisms, of course, will come later, and will be based on specific acts of commission or omission. But as of today, Inauguration Day, there have been remarkably few. Mr. Kennedy has shown a remarkable talent for seeking out talent and attracting it to federal service. Time after time he has announced an appointment, and whether the name is well known, the individual, on examination, appears to have outstanding qualifications for the job he is assigned. HTHE man he has picked to succeed Elwood P. Quesada as administrator of the Federal Avi ation Agency is a case in point. He nas the unusual name of Najeeb E. Halabv. We'd never heard knowledgeable friends But we'll hear more, for he is in an exceed ingly sensitive spot; a position which President Kennedy himself calls "one of the most chal- lenginp- iobs in the administration." He has much to do, not much time to do it in, and the built-in opposition of some pretty powerful forces. DUT, even though he isn't listed in "Who's Who "in the West, his record sounds impressive. . He is 45 years of age, and is secretary-treasurer of Aerospace Corp., a private research firm which is the main technical adviser for the Air Force ballistic missiles and space programs. He has been active in aviation since winning his pilot's wings as a teen ager in 1933. He was a Lockheed test pilot from 1941 to 1943, and a Navy test pilot from 1943 to 1946. As a Navy pilot, he flew the first transcontinental jet flight, From 1948 to 1954, secretary of defense for and in 1953 received the as the outstanding young PRESIDENT KENNEDY called him the "most competent" man available for the job, and he sounds as though he may well be. With a background of business, private fly ing, military flying, and of government admin istration in a responsible position, he seems uniquely equipped to take over from General Quesada, who must have been hindered more than he, was helped by his military background. One hopes he is more successful than Quesada in bringing to the FAA new energy, new direc tion, and a new sense of urgency and mission in making the nation's skies safer and air traffic controis more enecuve. many, sometimes conflicting, needs and demands of commercial, military E. A. Who Pulls Another attempt is legislature to abolish Oregon. Measures to do this fore by a vote of the people. But there are those who believe that taking a life is just as wrong when done by the state as it is when done by a murderer. And they'll keep trying. The present proposal, of course, must first get tnrough the legislature (somewhat dubious) and then go to a vote of the people again, t , THE average citizen, we suspect, tends to think about capital punishment emotionally, rather than dispassionately. Either he feels it satisfies a need for retribution (in was a particularly nasty to furtner capital crimes, or, on the other side of the fence, does no good for society, and repre sents nothing but legalized, state-endorsed, cold blooded killing. (Our own most serious objection to capital punishment is the possibility of an innocent man being executed. Better that a hundred "mad dogs ' (see communication this page) be allowed to live out their lives in prison than one innocent person die unjustly. Ana it has happened.) Even at that, the average citizen, when read ing about an execution, tends to feel a certain detachment. It can't happen to him, and he isn't directly responsible, and he isn't called upon to perform the execution, personally, which is done in the name of society. Perhaps if the last were changed, feelings would change too. COR instance, suppose the legislature were to pass a measure and refer it to a vote of the people, which went something like this: "If this measure shall be approved by a majority of the voters, the maximum penalty for any crime within the Stale of Oregon shall be life Imprison ment. "If this measure shall fail to be approved by a ma jority of the voters, the maximum penalty for a crime within the Slate of Oregon shall be death, to be In flicted In the following manner: "Condemned felons shall be executed by a firing squad composed of 38 persons, one from each county of the slate, to be drawn by lot from among '.!. reg istered voters of each county." It's a moderately fantastic notion, we'll Grant. But we still wonder how each voter knew he stood a chance of having to pull the trigger himself, factually, rather than symbolically. E.A. of him, and neither had in aviation circles. ' he was deputy assistant international security, Arthur Flemming award man in federal service ana in Daiancincr me and general aviation the Trigger? being; made in. the state capital punishment in have been defeated be cases where the crime one), or is a deterrent the vote would tro if Dennis the Menace He got tough. So i knocked 7m COID!' . . Communications . . . I.BiiBi-. to ih Editor must certain circumstances the use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often me case. Ignore It To the Editor: This world does not have an unlimited amount of space for an un limited amount of people. We do not even have an unlim ited amount of fresh water. There are those who seem to think the answer lies in ig noring it. William R. Sullivan 1116 South Flower st. Los Angeles 15, Calif. FPA Now Suspect To the Editor: On Jan. 17, 1961, the Mail Tribune car ried an article announcing the beginning of this year's "Great Decisions" program. This program, part of the For eign Policy Association, is under attack across this coun try. People claiming to be patriotic rank among groups opposed to FPA, as well as those supporting it. One group of the opposi tion, an American Legion post In Georgia, claims, in ef fect, the Foreign Policy As sociation is a fraud perpetrat ed on un-suspecting good American citizens. A serious charge to be sure, arid cer tainly not one to be ignored .without prudent investigation. pa, through "Great oecis- tons" oners American um- zens the opportunity of be coming both foreign policy experts, and of influencing history. Surely one must not pass over this lightly, for if FPA is a fraud, this influ encing the course of history could be destructive. If there fore, FPA and Great Decis ions, is a fraud, wa who inno cently take part In It will, or could Influence history to our own downfall. What could be more pitiable? A booklet, "The Truth About the Foreign Policy As sociation," is composed of 111 pages of documentation sup porting the claim that FPA is a hoax. If each member of a dicussion group feels it worth while to spend a dollar for the FPA booklet, then perhaps each group might further jus tify spreading the cost of the booklet published by the Americanism Committee, among the group members. This latter investment might prove to further cement the individual's dedication to FPA, or it would be a small price to pay to keep us from committing an intellectual blunder in the name of patrio tism. Send for the booklet to: American Committee Waldo M. Salton Post No. 140 The American Legion 3005 Powers Ferry Road, N. W. Atlanta 5, Ga. Price postpaid $1. Robert J. Howard R28B West 14th Medford Wasn't That Somep'n? To the Editor: It is a coarse, brutal world - unendurably coarse and brutal. for anyone who hasn't the least dash of coarseness or brutality In his own nature to enjoy it with. I was thinking in all this wonderful land of ours, would it not be great if all elected of fices were filled with honest officials. The honest district attorney docs not worry about the underworld. It s the over- world that puts him in labor, the untouchables, the favor pushers, the gift wrappers, the back shipper, the sin in fested trader of you-do-for-nie. There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves: that is the fear of God. The fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut off from them; that is the fear of man. So hniH'Sly Is back slapped, wrapped and gifted to the overworld. Why not have the elected man- before he takes bear tho nam and address of . office, show a record of his worth, have this recorded and filed. When he leaves office do the same. The honest man would welcome this. For is it not harder to look after number two-than num ber one, for how do you know what number two wants? I'd hesitate to abolish pov erty myself. Too much good has come of it. So let the overworld do it. When I get to the next world they'll ask me: "Did you live honest?" I'll answer-"Somewhat," and hasten to add, "I sure loved George Washington." And then someone will ask me, "Did you smoke the right cig arette?" And 111 say, "Sure: because I did not trade with anyone." If honesty gets us there, we'd say to each other, "Wasn't that somep'n?" Grady Conner, 723 W. Jackson St. Medford Fishing Complaints To the Editor: In the Fish and Game article Jan. 16, law makers saw no more bait fish ing from an anchored boat. What goes? Jesus was the best fisher man of all fishermen, next came Mark Twain, a great heritage in our history book of all time. Now, take me, and many like me. I . have three boys, anchored in a boat in a safe manner with life jackets, lunch box, etc. Putting out the boys' lines is a chore with an inexpensive bait hook and leader, worms or eggs, and I surely cannot afford the upkeep on a troll ing motor, let alone buy one: plus $1.10 up to $1.95 for trolling fenders and all of the flatfish, etc., tagged on be hind. Diamond lake has been a bait lake since the first trail was blazed into the lake. Are we, the people of Oregon, still the cleanest in the 50 as of now, going to let an appointed commission go against our wishes? Probably uncles, nephews, and cousins in ap pointive offices. We the peo ple are letting commission after commission push a lot down the throats of the pub lic. Buying boats for the sher iff's and wardens of Oregon so they can arrest or cite you for any little infraction. They claim it is for safety. Safety is a wonderful word. It should begin at home. Did you read about the young boy last summer that fell out of a trolling boat and the father could not save him, because he had trolled too far past the boy. I cannot con demn the trailers because they are sporting people in all fields of sports that have the know how. I never did have any luck in trolling, but these experts in their type of fishing are really good. Oh, yes, the Savage Rapids fish ladders are a disgrace to the fish commission's educa tion. One ladder turns back and empties against the dam. The other ladder on the high way side, where the salmon jump Into the white water and bang themselves up even to death. The tributary head ing up to this ladder is about 200 feet back of the dam. The flow of this water is some times 2 Inches deep, other times 6 inches deep, 6 inches deep on week ends so as to show the tourist the salmon. It takes the world's greatest ingenuity to find this small inlet to the ladder. Salmon are amazing! A 13-year-old boy in Can ada devised a fish ladder in a dead river. Description of a dead river-one in which the salmon run has vanished. The first year the boy put 21 sal mon over the dam, four years later 700 and some, five years later 21,000 and was still Increasing In the last re port. While I am blowing my O Election - Dreaded By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As a new administration takes over in Washington, there also ends a period which United States' allies dread and abhor. It is that period be tween the No vember elec- J tions and in augur ation day, in which the allies feel that United States policy drifts and that major decisions are put off while an old administration waits to turn over leadership to a new one. To be sure, firm steps have been taken in the last two months. The Eisenhower administra tion moved to slow the flight nf eold from the United States. It broke off relations with the writer, although under . lid, I might as well talk about two elective offices now, which Hatfield wants to make aDnointive. Let's make the fish and game elective. "A guy who wants his boys to get in a little of Mark Twain s fishing. James C. Martin, Route 1, Box 92F Gold Hill, Ore. Mice or Men To the Editor: Proponents of the county-built stadium plan called for comments both pro and con so here are a few of mine. One of their arguments for this stadium was to provide a centrally located stadium to be used by all schools and towns of the county including Medford, Central Point, Eagle Point, Phoenix, Talent, Jack sonville and at least five or six others, all having an equal right to use the facility. Now with the football season confined to a relative ly few week ends of the year, a very interesting situation arises. All doctors agree and deplore the fact that spectator sports provide the much need ed exercise for a handful of citizens on the playing field but none for the spectators. Now consider even six or eight teams with their thou sands of fans all converging on the stadium some beautiful Friday evening in the fall, all intent on beating their arch rivals. The ensuing battle for possession of the stadium should provide plenty of ex ercise and make healthier citizens among the survivors. Baseball was also consider ed for the summer months and also chunks of money brought in by professional football teams practicing at the sta dium - more conflict. Four hundred thousand dol lars of taxpayers' money was thought to be enough at first - but on TV Tuesday evening, the planners surmised the cost "might" go to $600,000 or so. From past experience on these "plans" we would have to cough up at least twice this much or about $1,200,000 before the "plan" is completed. We already have a beauti ful white elephant on the fair grounds - the armory - paid for by taxpayers and used relatively few times. Cost figures on this structure against income to date could prove mighty interesting right now. Many of our older and retired citizens living on small fixed incomes or even social security cannot afford to have their taxes drastically raised to provide another white ele phant for the county. The county court is elected and paid by the voters to represent all the people of the county, not a small pressure group. Now we shall see if they are mice or men. M. J. Olsen. v Route 4, Box 325 Medford. One Less Mad Dog To the Editor: After read ing the grisly account of a little girl brutally, needless ly murdered in California this week how can anyone still stand for the abolishment of capital punishments? There is never any question about an animal gone berserk. He is done to death as quickly as possible. But when man runs amuck, the "do-gooders" of this world rise to his de fense. "Don't kill him. It won't deter the next one," they say. Very possibly true. How ever, by Invoking the supreme penalty at least one mad dog can never strike at the inno cent and helpless again. Phyllis C. Blackstone 1620 East Main st., Medford. Honest Pay To the Editor: There Is a mm Inauguration Hiatus by U. S. Allies Cuba and served stern warn ing against any attempts by the Castroites to export their revolution to other Latin American nations. The United States has given strong support to Communist threatened Laos, even at the risk of a shooting war. But America's allies feel that these were steps forced by circumstances and do not n e c e s sarily represent the thinking of the new adminis tration. At the French Foreign Of fice in Paris there is fear of the consequences of the Uni ted States, go-it-alone policy in Laos. The French believe that the absence of a united policy there is just one more opportunity for Nikiia Khrushchev to drive a wedge between the Western allies. Nuclear Decision NATO faces momentous de cisions, among them one on an American proposal that NATO be armed with nuclear- tipped Polaris missiles and that NATO itself be made a nuclear power. But. while there is a dif ference of opinion on the merits of the proposal, no firm decision can be taken until the Kennedy administra tion declares itself and Con gress acts. Inaueuration day in Wash- Inwtnn sienals the start of new diplomatic activity in Western Europe, and meetings carefully scheduled to take present trend toward the idea that veterans are getting more than they deserve in pensions and other benefits, which to me is the opposite of the truth of the matter. When one joins any of the armed forces or the U.S.A. he enters into a most binding contract to go any place in the world to kill human beings, destroy their property in their own home land, or even in their own homes while thousands of miles from his own home, un der conditions of heat, dust, rain, mud, cold, snow and frost bite, fear, hunger and thirst, to name a few, See his buddies killed, maimed and blown to bits while wonder ing if the next one will be his. Can anyone think of a serv ice worthy of higher pay than this? Thousands of Veterans are silently suffering deep, pain ful emotional, and mental wounds for which they have received little or no compen sation; while our Congress men and other government of ficials serve their country un ripr most favorable conditions in air conditioned offices, halls and homes under best police protection and handsome salaries. If we are beggars, then what are politicians who travel all over the country spending much time and money literally begging peo ple to vote for them, and promising more than they can deliver. Had we not done these horrifying services, our Con gressmen might not have a big, powerful Uncle Sam to serve for big pay. All we want is honest pay for our services. Ellet Hitl, 3458 Bursell rd., Medford. Lincoln Quoted To the Editor: U. S. Rep. George M. Rhodes of Penn sylvania is a champion of the Townsend Pension Plan. His article appeared in a late copy of the Townsend National Courier of Washington, D. C. According to Representative Rhodes, on the "Americans tor Constitutional Action" list of members, only 122 of the 537 House and Senate are worthy of support. "This group speaks for only a small handful who would turn the clock back to the 19th century." "They have plenty of financial backing, but fortunately they under estimate the intelligence of the American voters." Not a very high percentage of first class diplomats, ac cording to the ACA list. Abra ham Lincoln, the 16th presi dent, lived in much the same atmosphere of reactionary times. Here are a few quotations from Abe Lincoln's speeches, lest we forget what the man said, a century ago: The Capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in con cert, to fleece the people" -Speech in Illinois Legislature, January, 1837. 'The love of property, ana conscientiousness of right or wrong, have conflicting places in organization, which often make a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle." Speech Hartford, Conn., March 5, 18b0. 'Inasmuch as most tnings are produced by labor, it fol lows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has producer! incm. -Notes on Protection Dec. 1, 1847. "The right of peaceable as sembly and of petition, and by Article Fifth of the Con stitution, the right of amend- place after the world learns of President Kennedy s pol icies. In Brussels there will be a Washington Report By WILLIAM CHANGING THE GUARD Washington - Put together some things that mix very oddly - or rather do not mix at all - and you have that in credible melange, which is Washington in iT7! the inaugural Here ''there is a dollar grabbing so deter mined and graceless as to carry our good free enterprise tra- Whlte omon io a point extreme enough to shake the toughest free-enterpriser who ever lived. Here is a kind of feverish climbing - social climbing and political climbing - in the face of which men and women of taste have only two possible sources: to grind the tenth, which does no real good; or to laugh aloud, which is far from bad. The hotel and car-hire peo ple and so on are working the visiting gold lode no less industriously than did the forty-niners a century and more ago in California. And no nonresident could readily credit the volume of name dropping that goes on, from famous hostesses' tables down to the ill-lit booths in frowsy little beer taverns, about good old Jack and good old Lyn don. TlfESSRS. JOHN KENNEDY and Lyndon Johnson, the president-elect and vice president-elect, have far more friends now than they could in reason have hoped to have. They have also got an infiry itely larger number of the very closest of old pals than they could possibly have sup posed. Still, all this is only one side of the medal, that side which presents the worst of our national characteristics. (Though even to call them "the worst" is not to say they ought to be regarded as in dictable crimes.) There is the other side, which shows the best that is in us. For right along is the at mosphere of the touring car-nival-where the fast buck and the fast "operation" are all too valued-there is an aura of the highest and most unsordid of national purposes and dreams. rpHERE is a somber, steady - sense of dedication for a nation which must now re- sume-and strengthen, if pos- sible-its high mission as the leader of that part of the world which is free. For every sucker who is "taken" on the midway, in the way that is our immemorial custom wher ever large and careless crowds may gather, there are at least two sober and serious Americans who see this as the grandest passage in the Amer ican public ritual. This, to them, is our equiva lent of a British coronation; our time of cavalcade, when our past marches by in re view along with our present and future; our hour of na tional revival and national reconciliation; our moment of might and majesty, of hope and glory. So, this town is now in one part a crazy, mixed-up kid, gawking like a farm lad who on his visit to the county scat pops his eyes at the am ple charms of the belly dancer in front of the tent of some dubious "repertory theater." But the other and more real and more important part of this town is something else altogether. It Is no kid, mixed up or otherwise. It may be seen as a man of adult mind and muscle, standing with his eyes gravely upon the future of a whole people, a whole nation, and half a world. TT IS only on these rare oc casions of a presidential in auguration that we can see plainly the rich mixture of our country - its possibly ment is the constitutional sub stitute for (armed) revolu tion." -Letter to A. H. Ste vens, Jan. 19. 1859. "This country, with its in stitutions, belongs to the peo ple who Inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right to amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismem ber or overthrow it." -First Inaugural address, March 4. 1861. "You can fool some of the people all the time; you can fool all the people some of the lime, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." -September 8, 1858. Bert Kissinger . 520 Boardman St. Medford. o 0 meeting for foreign ministers from France, Italy, West Ger. many, Belgium, the Nether lands and Luxembourg. President Charles de Gaulln of France and British Prims Minister Harold Macmillan have a meeting scheduled, and so do De Gaulle and Konrarl Adenauer of West Germany. S. WHITE "bad" and certainly crude side; its undoubtedly good and profoundly responsible side, that side which, as the old saying truthfully goes, is ad. er all the hope of this earth. We ought, then, to sense the depth of our good fortune, as well as the weight of our obligations and the sharpness of our problems. For the great changing of the guard -farewell to Eisenhower, hail to Kennedy - goes forward with a lofty essential decency which nothing can obscufe. The old president ' exists with honor and the people's affection; the new president enters with generosity and the people's hopes and good will. (Copyright,' 1961, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk some more today about Ike's budget for the 1962 fiscal year. It's a political clay pigeon to be shot at, ofcourse. It won't stand, as is, or anywhere near as is. Present prospects are that when the returns are all In what will be spent in the 1962 fiscal year (which will begin on July 1, 1961, and end on June 30, 1962) will be MORE than the 80.9 billions Ike suggests, rather than less. A SUM of that size is1 prac tically beyond imagina tion. It's hard enough to imag ine a billion dollars, not to mention nearly 81 billion. So let's see if we can break it down a little. The statisticians tell us that Mr. Average Citizen's share of the 80.9 billion dollar spending budget will bn $436.83. That will be your share as an INDIVIDUAL. If you are the head of an aver-, age family of four, your share will be $1,747.32. Forget the odd 32 cents and call it $1,747. ... or round it out and call it $1,750, That's quite a chunk to take out ot your income to pay your FED ERAL taxes. You'll have to pay your stale and local taxes in addition. DUT - You will say "I won't have to pay that much." Not in cash, in one lump, maybe. But don't fool yourself. Taxes are added to the cost of doing business and so have to be added to prices. You'll pay your share. SO MUCH for the total. Let's get down to some individ ual items. Of Mr. Average Family Man's share of $1,747.32, na tional security spending will take the biggest bite - 57 cents out of every dollar, or a total of $997.57. That, of course, is reason able enough. National securi ty is more important than anything else. It is more im portant than EVERYTHING else. If we don't have nation al security, we won't have anything. (TtHIS one will surprise you! The next biggest bile to be taken out of Mr. Average Family Man's $1,747.32 wilt be INTEREST on the national debt. It will take 11 cents out of every dollar you pay in federal taxes - or a toial of $192.20. That's money paid for a dead horse. It's what YOU OWE every year for what has"been put on the cuff It will keep getting bigger as MORE is put on the cuff. INTEREST on the national debt - meaning what has been put on the cuff - costs a total of about 8.9 billion dol lars every year. That's more than it cost to run the whole federal govern ment a generation ago. TjMNAL question: Why do we go on spend ing so much? The answer is quite simple The politicians think that's what YOU want. As long a. (he politicians think reckless spending is what the voter.' want, they will go on spend ing recklessly - because they will continue to think spend ing is what it takes to get votes. If the time ever comes when the politicians get around to thinking the people DON T want reckless spending, the spending will be reduced. But not until then. OFFICIALS GO TO JAIL Chicago -ll'Pli- Voters witl a yen to see city officials be hind bars can visit suburban Homewood Saturday. AI available local officials thcri will remain behind bars unti enough "bail" is raised for l!v 1961 March of Dimes. o o
