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By SYLVIA PORTER
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WHAT TAX CUT DEBATE ACHIEVED
Several significant pluses for the United Slates have come
nul of this summer's extraordinary debate over a tax cut
now to spur our sluggish economy-even though on the sur
face the result of the whole argument appears to be a flat
"nothing now." Here are four of them: .
(1) The debate focused the nation's attention as never
before on the extent to which the huge tax load being car
ried by businessmen and individual taxpayers is retarding our
expansion - and this new public awareness that our tax
rales are, as the President said, "so high as tn weaken the
very essence of the progress of a free society" marks pro
gress indeed.
Not in memory lias there been a debate on our tax sys
tem's defects so frank, so objective, so informed-and so
widesprcad-as this summer. When this past January in his
Economic Report, the President declared, "Later this year,
I shall present to the Congress a major program of tax re
form" which "will re-examine tax rates" and be aimed "al
strengthening of incentives for individual effort and for pro
ductive investment." few people heard his promise (and prob-
ably fewer remember he made the promise that long ago).
Bui when in June he said, "Our lax structure . . . ex
erts loo heavy a drain on a prospering economy" and
pledged lo offer lo the next Congress a program for "an
across-lhe-board reduction in personal and corporate in
come lax rates,1' millions got the message. And when in
his address lo the nation August 14 rejecting an Immediate
lax cut, bul repealing he would offer a 1963 bill to "in
clude an across-the-board, lop-lo-bollom cui in both cor-.,
porate and personal income taxes." the entire nation and
. free world was listening. After decades of piling lax on
lax and then cuttinq in a most haphazard way, we are at
last on our way lo basic reform.
(2) The debate has created some startling new lineups
among business and labor leaders, among "liberal" and "con
servative" lawmakers, and shattered alliances that seemed
unbreakable - another good omen for positive action on tax
reform in coming months.
On the same day-June ZR-that (he U.S. Chamber of
Commerce called for a tax reduction, Waller Rcuthcr of the
United Auto Workers came out for lax cuts loo. Their pro
grams are different, but their objectives are the same-stimulating
the economy. While the president of duPont was urg
ing Congress to give top priority to personal lax ruts, a De
troit union leader was saying, "business should have some
relief too.
As for the shattered alliances, the most spectacular is
the break between Senator Byrd, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, and the Chamber of Commerce. Never
before has the Chamber been denounced for "fiscal irrespon
sibility in the highest degree" and rarely has the Virginia
Senator been so shrill as when he denounced the business
group's program as "untimely, dangerous and panicky."
13) It has forced thinking people for the first time in
years to ask some of the right questions about our economy's
unsatisfactory rate of growth in recent ycars-again a great
plus, because only when we ask the right questions will we
come to the right answers for ourselves.
Why is il thai our growth rate has slowed while other
industrial nations have been pushing ahead? Is one key
reason that we have saddled ourselves with an intolerable
tax burden io finance our worldwide operations? Is tax
relief a sound way to stimulate the creation of jobs and
pay checks? Is it not time for us lo reappraise all our fis
cal (lax, budget, debt) policies and consider lhe formulas
which have worked with such superb success In Europe?
We asked many of the right questions in the lax dobale;
lhe right answers are in lhe making.
(I) finally, lhe debate paved the way for 1 lie rediietinn
rrforin bill in 1 a hill which would slash the lop 91
per cenl rale on individuals, cut the 20 per cenl bottom rate,
scale reductions in between and reduce the 52 per cent cor
porate lax rale loo.
The debate over "whether" to cul tuxes has been finished;
the answer is yes. The debate over "when" also is finished if
the President's staled timetable is accepted. The cuts will
be effective Jan. 1, or Kit) days from now. The question is
down to "what type" and even this is partly answered by
the words "across-the-board, top-lo-botlom "
This tax-cul-we-flirin'l-get may turn out lo have Ihnmi a
turning poinl in our efforts lo get our economy growing
powerfully again.
"" ' ' Vi t i i". F v a t
HOME LOOKS GOOD-C-rinning and glad tn be home, for
mer Army pilot Ldward Shore, who was held captive for 15
months by pro-Communist guerrillas in Laos, greets his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shore Sr. of Gallaway, Tenn.,
al the Memphis airport. (UPI)
Missing UN Charter
Causes Big Stir in
State Department
Washington --IIJPII- The scare
is over now, and lhe story can
be told. But for a panicky
moment the State Department
thought it had lost the orig
inal copy of the United Na
tions Charter.
It was a lady school teacher
visiting from out of town who
started it all. She called up
the Slate Department one day
last week in a huff.
"Listen," she said, "I've
been telling my students the
original UN Charier is kept in
Event Discontinued In Rogue River
Rogue River - The Man of ;in 1059. Niquclte said, adding r0ilcjs
4-1! News
Lake Creek Grange
With vacationing and visi
tors, our attendance is small
during the summer months.
We hope to have more mem
bers out since the heaviest of
summer work is lessened.
Master Clans Charley re
cently reported on an article
given by a U.S. economist
comparing prices in the Mid
west and on lhe Pacific coast,
Egfis and grain are being ship
ped here for selling, he noted.
Kaye George, educational
committee, reported on an ar
ticle in a national magazine
aboul nature having its own
way of purifying water by
snails, fish and algae.
Lloyd George, legislative
committee, reported on an ar
ticle telling that the govern
ment is trying In have author
ity lo control the use of jeeps
and trucks on government
the Year banquet, an annual, that ,P hiK resigned as presi-
rvenl nerc tram WM tnrougn . d(,n, o( niziltio ,
1(1111 line l-....,i H.'nii iinn
merit in the Idea.
i Two years ago. when the
' chamber was formed, Ni
quelte said, lhe Monsters club
Richard Niqurllp, president i
of the Rogue River Chamber
of Commerce, which sponsor
ed the event last year, said
I.... ... .......I-...! i.... I,..'rl Jn.'iAA
ril In ,.l..,-l M .n ,,f Mir- ', "'CaiHC Part (if MlP fl 1 IMTl llOf
Year" henceforth.
"I don't believe in using ;m
organization to promote the
gain of one 1111111." Niquetto
said. "1 can't see singling nut
one man while overlooking
tile deeds of others,"
The Man of the Year selec
tion was originally started by
the Rogue River Roosters club
1 lollowing which it was agreed
that last year's Man nf the
Year event would lie the Inst
one
1 The Hirer men honored by
the Man nt the Year selection
j in limit through llllil were
' Howard Norwood. John l.ryen
j and Larry Sheehan. the city's
present mayor.
Musical numbers were play,
ed by Al Humpert on the
piano. "Liza" and Gershwin's
"Tangerine." llunipert accom
panied Leland Charley on his 1 Hons Week
trombone in "Autumn
Leaves."
The next Grange meeting
will he held Sept. 14 at 8:110
p.m.
Houston - 111111 - Sign dis
played by a boating dealer
on Clear lake, near the man
ned spacecraft center and
residences n U.S. astronauts:
"Alter a hard day in space,
relax on a boat."
the U. S. National Archives.
"I read the Charter, and
Article 111 says that's where
it is." v
Article 111 of the Charter,
signed June 26, 1945, says,
"The present Charter, of
which the Chinese, English,
French, Russian and Spanish
texts are equally authentic,
shal remain deposited in the
archives of the government of
the United Slates of Amer- j
ica." J
Never Heard of II
"Well," said the school .
teacher, "I've just asked the j
National Archives for a look j
at it, and they don't have it.
They never heard of it."
A Stale Department official
checked with Archives. Sure
enough, it wasn't there-only :
two certified copies.
With visions of the whole
legal structure of world law i
tumbling down, officials ,
checked further and found j
thai the original Charter has
for some time been gathering
dust at a secret U. S. govern
ment depository al Front
Royal, Va., in the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
The Slate Department It
self apparently put it there
for safe keeping In case of
nuclear attack.
"The existence of this de
pository," an official told
UPI, "has recently been de
classified. Bul I can't tell you
any more than that."
The area is known for its
underground caves.
May Go on Display
The State Department is
now looking into the possibil
ity of getting the Charter out
again, dusting il off and put
ting il on display somewhere,
perhaps during United Na-
starting Oct. 24.
Robert H. Bahmcr. deputy
archivist of the United Slates,
said he isn't quite sure why
the Charter never was given
lo National Archives.
"We made some inquiries lo
get it in 1945," Ballmer said,
"but we got turned down."
The U. S. Constitution? A
spot check showed it's still
under glass in the exhibit
room of the Archives building.
Heffcrnan Names
Division Chairmen
Unhrrt 0. 1 rffrrnan, Unit
ed Crusade riimpninn chnir
ni.in. has arununuTd thai nil
division chnirmrn for the fall
rn 111 piii nil have bron sr-U-cU'd.
nnd are now conducting train
:nn programs.
Thr I'nitcd Crusade, which
rmns Mrdfnrd nnd (lie sur
round inn area, ha a coal of
Mfw.ri.W win i-h is divided
ainotif; IU) participating anen-
Divi-mn c I i;t i rinr n named
by Heftrrnan rue finest prod
ucts. Knbrrt K NYImui. pro
fe.smnat. John I.. Tin Hay; pub
lic employees. .1 Rus-ell Acb
rMn. retail, Robert K. Kyle',
commercial. l)arl F Karn
ham; distribution. Robert L.
Dill; service. Wynne P. Ciller;
town and country. A. Kyle
Sams; home crusade, Mrs
CI cue M Williams; special
Kifts, Jib1 Scott V. Davis: spe
cial events, l-'rank I,. Ku.sh
Member agencies of the
United Crusade aie American
Red Cross, Arlhnti- and Rhou
mat isni V o u n d a 1 i o n. Hoy
Scout.s of Ameiica. Camp Kire
Cirls, Jackson County Family
and Child Guidance Clinic.
Girl Scouts, Mental HeaMh as
sociation, Oregon Medical Re-1
x arch, Orrcmi United Appeal
( ! ft agencies). It injur Valley
Council on Aonc Salvation
Army and White Shield Home, ,
School of Hope, and YMCA. !
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