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Ominous Challenge
To the Editor: Higher educa
tion in Oregon is facing a most
ominous and foreboding chal
lenge, one likely to culminate
in a crisis of far-reaching pro
portions. The dilemma of Spe
cial Tax Measure 1 will be re
solved at the polls in a referen
dum set for Oct. 15. A YES
vote on Tax Measure 1 will add
$60 million in revenues to the
state treasury and balance the
forthcoming biennium's propos
ed budget. It will also insure
the present level of quality in
Oregon's higher educational sys
tem. A NO vote will deprive
the state of that vitally needed
$60 million and force drastic
cutbacks in the proposed budget.
Higher education in our state
will suffer financial losses of
some $11 million to $24, million,
monies essential to the main
taining of the present quality
of higher education.
Cutbacks as radical as the
ones expected to occur should
this referendum fail are unpre
cedented in Oregon's history.
These inevitable reductions will
serve to minimize the opera
tional efficiency of our colleges
and universities, visiting upon
them a crippling shortage of
monies. The damage incurred
will be substantial and could
lead to a disastrous retrogres
sion in higher education. Ore
gon's ability to educate its
young men and women will be
seriously impaired as oppor
tunities for advanced studies
will be severely limited.
Opponents of Tax Measure 1
espouse arguments that are
specious and unrealistic. They
contend that defeat of the refer
endum will lead inevitably to
the framing of a more equitable
and practical state tax structure
and eventually make recompose
to higher education for the un
avoidable grief it must suffer
now. Actually, the realization of
a more functional tax structure
is contingent upon innumerable
imponderables that are beyond
the logical speculation of any
group of prognosticators. It
should be painfully obvious to
everyone in Oregon, though,
that a massive cut in operating
funds augurs a bleak and very
uncertain future for higher edu
cation. Certainly there must be
an efficacious alternative to
achieving more accurate taxa
tion aside from inhibiting the
process and effectiveness of Ore
gon's colleges and universities.
The day of reckoning is fast
approaching and both propon
ents and opponents apprehen
sively await the fate of Tax
Measure 1. And from the effu
sive equivocations and rational
izations that have punctuated
the arguments of both sides
there is starkly emerging one
unalterable reality: the young,
capable mind that will be de
nied the chance to develop
through higher education. To
day's voters are in a position
to insure that for them by a
YES vote or to deny them an
opportunity by a NO vote. The
students of Oregon State Uni
versity urge and support the
Oct. IS tax measure as a means
of perpetuating quality educa
tion in the state of Oregon.
Grant Watkinson,
President,
Jud Blakely,
First vice president,
Anne Taylor,
Second vice president,
Associated Students
Oregon State University,
CorvalliS, Ore.
Brainwashing
To the Editor: After reading
your editorial dated Tuesday,
Oct. 8, it seems to me that for
a person who has pointed his
poison pen at others and has
used the word "ignorance" so
many times in one day, you
should pause for a moment and
wonder if you haven't put your
self in the same category.
I notice that you are on the
Committee for the Personal and
Corporation Income Tax Bill
which will come to a vote on
Oct. 15. I think it is a fine
thing for a person to work for
something he really believes in,
such as you have done on this
committee. It is also a horse of
quite a different color to try
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
continuously, in the only local
newspaper of any size, to push
this belief on others who are
quite capable of reading the
pros and cons in their Voters'
Pamphlets and making as intel
ligent a decision as you are,
and I might add, without your
one-sided brainwashing tactics.
I for one signed a petition to
bring it to a vote of the people
whom you apparently feel have
no right to a contrary voice in
this matter, and for lack of
good sense, should be herded
through this like a band of
sheep. I highly resent your in
ference that the many many
people like myself are "lined
up" with the John Birchers.
You seem to have a fear your
self that the citizens of Ore
gon may not go along with
your committee on this tax
measure. Well Mr. Editor, to
quote from your own editorial,
"Fear compounds ignorance;
ignorance compounds fear."
Shirley M. Madden
1902 Houston rd.
Medford.
Ied several times, but he would
not enter.
I think his nrohlem is a nor-
sonal one, not a public one. He
can solve it if he will.
Sincerely, Errand Boy, Gar
dener, Butcher, Carpenter, En
gineer, Teacher, and Adminis
trator. Clarence E. Howell,
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Requirement
We live by Faith: but Faith Is not the slave
Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's,
Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.
What asks our Father of His children, save
Justice and mercy and humility, '
A reasonable service of good deeds,
Pure living, tenderness to human needs,
Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see
The Master's footprints in our daily ways?
No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife,
But the calm beauty of an ordered life
Whose very breathing is unworded praise!
A life that stands as all true lives have stood,
Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.
John Greenleaf Whittier
O
From: Sedge Songs
By the secret forest pathway
Now at eve I gladly flee
To the reed-grown lake where I may
Think, my love, alone of thee.
When I part the sedge asunder
Rushes murmur secrets deep;
And they sorrow and they wonder
That I weep oh, that I weep!
And I think I hear thee grieving
. In a sad lament and long,
As thy cherished tones are weaving
A most lovely, haunting song.
The sun goes down and black clouds race;
Moaning sultry winds give chase.
Across the heavens lightnings break,
While thy face gleams from the lake;
How clearly by their light I see
Thy storm-tossed tresses blowing free!
Nicholas Lanau
Translated from the German, by Elizabeth Olsen, Portland,
Ore., frequent contributor of her own works.
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Hawaiian Haiku
Petals, stained-glass red,
vibrate, in wind and sunlight
against a blue sky.
Dawn gives flaming life
to hibiscus for a day;
night brings folded death.
Wind and swaying fronds
elude the artist's brush, and
try the poet's pen.
Waikiki at night . . .
a constellation's fire
between sea and sky.
For you a Haiku:
my "Aloha" distilled to
few words and kind thoughts.
Lloyd B. Halverson
Medford
The haiku is a Japanese poetic pattern restricted to 17 sylla
bles in 3 lines: 5-7-5.
O
Tomorrow Is In the Sky
Tomorrow is in the pink and black clouds
playing over the mountains,
paradoxical promise in shreds
of haze that sprays like fountains
in jagged spurts toward the south:
Pale-rose to bring fun-weather,
heavier blackness to heal the drought.
Tomorrow is in the sky
waiting for winds to comply.
Helen Orhardt Russell
Los Gitos, Calif.
New Committee
To the Editor: The National
Committee to Repeal the Mc
Carren Act has been formed,
with offices at 431 S. Dearborn
St., Chicago, 111., 60605. The pur
pose of this committee is to ac
quaint Americans with the mean
ing of this act. Many otherwise
well informed persons confuse it
with the Walter-McCarran Act
which shares a common author
ship and a common distrust of
democratic principles. Ultimate
ly, it is noped, proper legisla
tion will be introduced in Con
gress calling for its repeal.
The committee affirms that
the act is of dubious legality,
that its operations do and can
increasingly subvert the Bill of
Rights, that its provisions le
galize procedures which attack
the traditional and honored right
of free association.
Over a hundred years ago
Tocqueville, apparently in con
siderable astonishment, observ
ed of the people of our wonder
ful and free land that " . . .
Americans of all ages, all con
ditions, and all dispositions con
stantly form associations. They
have not only commercial and
manufacturing companies in
which all take part, but asso
ciations of a thousand other
kinds, religious, moral, serious,
futile, extensive or restricted,
enormous or diminutive. If it
be proposed to advance some
truth or to foster some teeung
by the encouragement of a great
example, then torm a society.
We realize that we are launch
ing a new national organiza
tion which deals with a highly
controversial issue. The handle
of liberty is always hot. Who
ever eets hold of it in times
of national anxiety will be open
to charges which the McCarran
Act makes difficult to refute.
He will be called Communist,
Communist fellow - traveler, a
protector of subversion, a friend
of rascals. That chance of the
loss of prosperity and private
tranquility we must take, if we
are not to let slip away the in
stitutions and procedures of a
democratic state.
The Rev. Prof. Joseph Sittler,
Chairman
Dr. Harold C. Urey,
Vice Chairman
Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn
Honorary Chairman
Bishop Edgar A. Love,
Vice Chairman
Chicago, 111.
Letter From Governor
To the Editor: I would much
appreciate the publishing of the
enclosed letter from the Gov
ernor. If a really large ma
jority of the people vote "No"
in this referendum election, it
should show the Governor one
important fact, and one impor
tant hope.
1. The people are very much
displeased with tax law.
2. The people will stand back
of the Governor in a possible
difficult struggle with that un
wise portion of the Legislature
that voted in this foolish law.
Horace W. Thompson,
3642 Hilsinger rd.,
Medford
o
The letter follows:
Dear Mr. Thompson:
Thank you for sending me a
copy of the letter you sent to
the Editor regarding the tax
referendum problem.
You mention in your letter to
the Editor that I am vested with
power to call a special session
of the Legislature and to out
line a good tax law, telling them
clearly that I will promptly veto
a bad law. Four years ago, I
proposed a thorough overhaul of
our tax system. Two years ago,
I urged it again. Last January,
I did the same and recommend
ed that the Legislature refer
new or increased taxes to a
vote of the people while the Leg
islature was still in session.
The Legislature turned down
my proposal and now the peo
ple will decide whether to ac
cept the tax increase they pro
posed. With well over two-thirds of
the General Fund budget going
for education and welfare, it is
obvious that opportunities for
savings In other programs are
limited. For example, the budg
et I submitted called for small
er appropriations in 1963-65 for
ten agencies. We are making
every effort to reduce expendi
tures, but the growth of the
numbers of our school children
make this difficult. (22 per cent
increase in college students and
33,000 more school children ac
count for most of the budget
increase.) Whatever the out
come on Oct. 15, you may be
sure that expenditures will be
held down to match the state's
income.
I have written a long letter.
but I did want you to know some
of my thinking, too. I do thank
you for your kiiid words regard
ing my performance in ofnce.
My prayer is that I will always
continue to merit the confidence
you have placed in me.
Mark O. Hatfield,
Governor
Example 1: You are retired
or a student and have an oppor
tunity to earn an extra $5. You
then must file an income tax
return and pay $5 for a filing
fee. You can't break even. It
will cost you 5 cents to mail the
return. The tax rate is 101 per
cent. O.K. You don't believe it?
You earn $100; again you pay
$5 filing fee plus 5 cents for
postage; tax rate is S per cent;
the same rate as if your income
was over $2,000 per year.
Example 2: Taken from the
Editorial page of the Medford
Mail Tribune of Oct. 8: You
earn $600; your State Tax is $16.
Right: Your Federal exemption
is $600. No tax. Right? How are
you going to save 20 per cent
on your state tax increase?
Mr. Editor, with all the col
lege degrees, high-priced educa
tors and electric computors
available, you should be able
to come closer to the correct
percentage than this article
gave. Figure it again, and see
if you come up with a 20 per
cent saving on the state tax
paid.
In your Oct. 9 issue you have
articles written by University
of Oregon and Southern Oregon
college students. I would like
to inquire if these articles are
the profound studies and con
clusjons of the students on this
subject, or the ideas promul
gated by the faculty? And just
how much experience have you
students had in earning your
own living and paying taxes?
I grant you the right to ex
press your opinions, but it is
just a little premature to set
yourselves up as tax experts,
I recall reading someplace this
statement: "A wise man can
change his mind, a fool never
does."
Phil Motschcnbacher,
P.O. Box 265,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Have Had It?
To the Editor: Since we here
in Oregon are soon to vote on
a tax referendum, it seems that
it might be of interest to know
what the voters of North Dakota
did in a similar situation re
cently. By a margin of better than
5 to 1, the people of North Da
kota defeated their referendum.
All the tax increases passed
by their 1963 legislature and
submitted to the voters were
rejected by a margin of more
than 5 to 1.
Swept into discard were three
state income tax measures, a
special urban renewal tax for
the city of Fargo and a higher
ceiling for school district prop
erty taxes.
Could this possibly mean that
Americans, not only in North
Dakota, but in every other state
are getting fed up with the
insatiable demands of the "big
spenders in every unit of gov
ernment for more and more tax
revenue, without seeming end?
Is it possible that the tax'
payers "have had it?"
Catherine G. Lynch,
139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford
cations were misleading Oregon
vaters on this point. Senator Ma
honey, Portland, said addition
al revenue Isn t needed if the
fat is trimmed.
Senator Pearson said that it is
a misrepresentation to say that
reduction of the state basic
school fund appropriation would
automatically bring an increase
in local property taxes. There
is misrepresentation also in fig
ures showing per capita tax
paid by citizens of different
states.
"In the last 20 years," said
Pearson, "the Oregon school
census has increased 102 per
cent. Basic school fund support
has increased 792 per cent, and
the local property tax has in
creased 1,058 per cent." The
average salary of teachers in
Oregon, excluding admmistra
trators, has increased from
$3,000 a year in 1952 to $6,200
in 1962.
Pearson said that an inves
tigation of the State System of
Higher Education would uncov
er wasteful, scandalous and pos
sibly illegal spending. Appling
confirmed that his office is ex
amining some of the financial
procedures of the state system
ot higher education and has
requested them to either cor
rect or justify them.
Millions of dollars were allo
cated by the 1963 legislature for
pay increases, most of it going
to those in the higher income
brackets. The State Board of
Higher Education received
$1,781,627 for pay raises for
academic personnel. This mon
ey in addition to automatic
merit increases. Citizens are
rapidly losing their homes by
a system of government that is
taking from those who have
less and giving to those who
have more.
The voters got something in
their eyes when they voted our
lawmakers a blank check to
fix their own salaries. Here's
hoping they will not get croco
dile tears in their eyes when
they go in the booth Tuesday.
Alice I. Black,
812 Newtown St.,
Medford
more property taxes if neces
sary rather than have a sales
tax. Second, all the pressure
groups are taken care of
through their increase in wages
and other fringe benefits, high
er prices for their goods and
services. This group is the one
which enjoys the highest stand
ard of living and should be the
one to pay for what they get
rather than to leach off of the
underprivileged.
Where was Mr. Francyl How
ard when Ike give the offshore
on to me on producers and
when he gave the Al Serena
timber away. The revenue from
the above could have been used
for education the same as the
revenue from Telstar given
away by President Kennedy and
which was the biggest eiveawav
of all, and to cap it all the Pri
vate Communications Sattelite
corporation expects the govern
ment to finance its research in
a continuing giveaway of our
tax dollars.
Not a cheep from Mr. How
ard or in fact not a cheep from
any of the no voters. Why hasn't
Mr. Howard protested any or
all of these gifts to the private
enterprise system. Without
either a war or heavy taxes the
private enterprise system would
fold up like a paper bag, and
since the whole economy de
pends on tax money, either state
or federal, the ones who enjoy
the highest standard of living
and the most benefits should be
more than willing and truly
thankful for the blessings that
they receive.
John R. Schumpf
Route 1, Box 312
Central Point, Ore.
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Personal Problem
To the Editor: I followed the
advice of your Sunday editorial,
and read the letter on Page 5
from a boy who dropped out of
school.
To my mind this letter points
up the attitude of too many J
young people. While he admits'
his failures in school, and that
his teachers gave him every !
chance to succeed, his letter
seems to fairly drip with self-
pity, and criticism of our social
structure for not correcting con
ditions which are his own crea
tion. He is getting an education out
side school which the school was
unsuccessful in trying to pound
into him. Perhaps he should
have dropped out sooner, to be
gin his education at an earlier :
age, instead of wasting the time
of his teachers, and the money
of the taxpayers. But why cry
about it now?
His letter, unless written or
edited by someone else, indi
cates a (air ability to express
himself intelligently. The doors
of our social structure are not
closed to him. Correspondence
schools, night schools, and sim
ilar agencies are available if he
has the guts to go on. Many
men have dug in and succeed
ed by means of their own deter
mination and industry. The
world is full of such examples.
His big fault, compounding all
of his earlier self - admitted
errors, is in assuming that "it is
too late."
He should realize that the tax
payers' "hard earned money"
has already been spent in try
ing to persuade him to see the
light, probably more on nim
than on the student who really
wanted an education.
Let's not cry about the school
hoard not opening a door which
by his own admission, was open-
Figuring It Again
To the Editor: Before
personal and corporation
come tax bill was referred, the
Governor of the state of Ore
gon, as well as several Legis
lators publicly announced
through the press and other
news media that it was a bad
bill. They should know better
than anyone.
Since the hill has been re
ferred, a number of these same
people have come forward with
innuendoes and half-truths; that
it v.ild be a catastrophe, and
lead lo chaos if this same bill
were defeated. Does this change
of attitude make it a good bill'
How many of the supporters
of this bill have ever looked
in other than their own income
brackets to see just how bad
this bill is to the people in the
lower income brackets?
Alternates Listed
To the Editor: Let's pass bal
lot measure one. The alterna
tive is no tax bill, doubt and
indecision, a likely recalling of
the legislature, a probably fu
tile attempt in writing a better
bill, and finally a new measure
to be voted on which will have
as many sore points as the pres
ent one.
Let's save time and money;
vote ballot measure one a yes.
Work for a better tax reform
next year.
Jeannine James,
24 Lincoln St.,
Medford
Crocodile Tears
To the Editor: The deluge of
crocodile tears that the pro
ponents of the income tax meas
ure are shedding for the blind,
the needy, the mentally retard
ed, the ill and the sacred cow,
education, are a repition of what
transpired when the voters
faced the sales tax issue.
We were led to believe that
everything would go to the bow
wows if we didn't vote for a
sales tax. Many are still around
who remember.
At a public meeting in Ash
land concerning the Oct. 15 tax
referral election last Thursday,
all four legislators Newbry,
Branchficld, Redden and Dellen
back agreed that no matter
what the vote outcome the state
would not go into financial
chaos and they regretted that
some organizations and publi-
Speaking of Money
To the Editor: If I had not al
ready decided to vote no on the
tax measure, learning that so
much money is behind it would
have convinced me.
And speaking of money how
is the average man with a fam
ily of four supposed to be able
to pay four times as much in
increased taxes as one earning
only one half as much?
How is he to pay this Increase
for this year, 1963 due in
April and not one cent de
ducted through withholding to
help cover it? Looks like a big
month for our local loan companies!
The yes people say the state
cannot afford a no vote. Per
haps the majority of the people
cannot alford to vote yes.
Steven J. Dodge
907 South Holly St.
Medford.
Article Quoted
T o the Editor: In view of all
the controversy on the tax bill,
I would like to quote several
paragraphs from an article pub
lished in McCIures magazine,
August, 1911. Some will say the
problems of that era have no
comparsion with our problems
today. But as election day nears
I can see a parallel.
Perhaps votes today aren't
bought in the same manner as
referred to in this article, but
isn't the pressure brought on
by threats of loss of funds for
education, welfare, etc., just
another method of nurchasina
votes? These old threats have
been made many times to play
on voters' sympathy, whenever
a tax issue is to be voted on.
I am not against education,
though I feel more stress on
essential subjects and less frills
would better prepare our youth
to meet me prooiems ot earning
a living as adults. Nor am I
against welfare with its broad
coverage. However, I'm sure
none will be deprived of neces
sary care, despite threats now
being made to that effect
The following is what I'd like
printed:
"Law Making by the Voters
by Burton J. Hendricks, "In the
last nine years there has been
a general transformation in po-
litical conditions in Oregon. The
public life of the State which for
nearly half a century had been
a scandal in practically every
department, has become clean
and respectable. The mercen
ary lobby has disappeared from
the legislature. The purchasing
of votes at primaries and elec
tions, which ten years ago was
an almost invariable practice,
has absolutely ceased. The cor
porations no lonser dictate the
official acts of the legislature
and the executive. In the United
States Senate and in Congress,
Oregon's representatives stand
for the people of the State, and
not for special privileged class
es. In local and state affairs po
litical machines no longer exer
cise appreciable influence; the
party voters control the party
organization and dictate party
nominations. And, comcid e n t
with this reformation in politi
cal conditions, Oregon has a
new code of laws which have
immensely stimulated the so
cial and business life of the
state,
"More remarkable than these
reforms, however, is the man
ner m which they have been
obtained. The legislature has
passed practically none of the
dishing out the tripe they haves
offered in defense of the pro
posed Oregon Tax Bill? Unless
we the taxpayers agree to bail
them out of the financial mess
they have worked themselves
into, they threaten to take their
spite out on the lame, the halt
and the blind. Our children are
to be the special objects of their
spite. And the sick and the old
can lay in the gutter and starve.
How many thousands of dol
lars do you suppose this cam.
paign in the newspapers, radio
and television cost, to tell us
what will happen if we don't
play according to their rules?
They'll tell you the newspapers
and the broadcasters donated
their space and time. But some
body had to write the junk. And
somebody had to dream it up.
In the name of common sense,
stop this thing now. It has al
ready gone too far. Vote no on
Oct. 15.
Bruce Y. KleinSmid
1719 SE Portola Dr.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Wants Know-How
To the Editor: I'm a deaf
person in need of employment,
but not having any qualification
or special services to offer a
prospective employer, I was
wondering if there is a woman
who clean motels would let me
come along with her on her
routine jobs, so that I may get
the know-how of it? I could also
do dish washing or baby-sitting
or tiny tot care, having reared
a family of four, am capable of
that.
E. C. P.,
P.O. Box 372,
Phoenix, Ore.
Point Is Missed
To the Editor: There have
been volumes written and spok
en for and against Tax Bill
1846.
Through all this barrage o!
words, the issue, or the point
that has stirred the people most,
nas been missed.
The legislators have told us
how hard they worked to formu.
late this tax bill, they told us
how badly the money was need
ed and which services would ba
injured if this bill was defeated.
Some have suggested a ciga
rette tax as an alternative. This
would be a partial relief, a re
lief for non-smokers only. Oth
ers would increase tax on liq
uors. This would only invito
moonshining and bootlegging, as
the tax on whiskey is already
300 per cent the cost of manu
facture. Still others advocate a
sales tax. This too haa many
objections.
Think it over, Mr. Business
Man, the extra work it would
impose upon you, and listen to
this: The other day I talked
to some people at the Thunder-
bird parking lot. They were from
Northern caiuomia and the lady
told me that not only they, but
many of their neighbors came to
Oregon to do their shopping be
cause we have no sales tax.
Sure, a sales tax is collected
a few pennies at a time, but
it solves nothing for the same
people who pay property and
income tax would pay it also.
HEADACHE
meckache
Should Be Thankful
To the Editor: I am going to
vote yes on Oct. 15 for various
reasons.
First, I would rather pay
A Fair Tax
To the Editor: Why Is it that
some people can't see the forest
lor the trees? When all a fellow
looks at is his nose or "his11 tree
how does he know what the
whole thing looks like?
It's pretty obvious that people
naven t been thinking with all
tnis tax talk that never looks at
hard facts. Don't prices usually
go up over a period ot timer
Even cigars cost more these
days (and they're littler too), as
well as a heck of a lot of other
things. Why not wake up and
realize that costs of running
thing especially a whole
state also go up as things
grow. (Speaking of growing,
take a look at the cost of kids
clothes, and notice how fast
they grow out of them too.)
At least the proposed tax is a
fair tax it hits everybody, not
just a few, as older, or other
taxes do.
Stanley Petworth
Cascade D
Ashland, Ore.
It would discourage many tour-
laws that have brought about ists who would come or already
this changed situation. The peo- have been coming to Oregon,
pie have improved conditions The sore spot is, that as the
themselves by depositing slips bill now stands, and all alterna-
ot wnue paper in tne ballot- tives so far suggested, would
boxes on election day."
vera M. Jones
245 Maple st.
Central Point, Ore.
Has Gone Too Far
To the Editor: Politicians
have never been known as con
spicuously unselfish individuals,
dedicated to the interests of the
people who elect them. Nor have
they recently showed enough in
telligence to even protect their
own interests.
But the disgusting sniveling
of the Oregon State Legislators
and their favorite beneficiaries
in the departments of education
and welfare, because their ex
travagancies have finally
caught up with them, is nauseating.
How can any of them have a
shred of self respect loft after
still leave burden on the prop
erty . owner and the person
whose income is $6,000 and less.
The cost of living Is climbing,
the cost of enrolling children in
school is going up, taxes have
been raised, but if these people.
the wage earners, asked for an
increase in pay they would ba
very unpopular.
No one likes the imposed fil
ing fee and the whole setup that
leaves the burden on the lower
income brackets. Why not a rea
sonable tax on these, and if
any more is needed place the
increase on income over and
above what is needed for a de
cent level of living on the higher
income brackets in proportion.
Let it be assessed in according
to ability to pay.
C. R. Burrill,
BM'i Cherry st.,
Central Point, Ore.
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Is this the reason
Horseless carriages weren't called horseless carriages
for nothing
Gas engines may have token the place of the hone.
But the horse left its mark.
Early cars kept their whip sockets, long alter there were
no horses lo whip.
Dashboards once kept the horse from splashing mud on
the passengers.
And most cars have kept their engines up Ironl, where
the horse used to be.
When the Volkswogen was designed, it wot assumed
that horses would never be back.
most engines still aren't in back?
So VW felt Iree lo put the engine over the rear wheels,
the ones that drive the car.
That way, you don't spin your wheels getting power
from the front to the bock.
Or horse around with heavy driveshalts.
You olso get more weight over the drive wheels for
firm traction when the going gets sloppy.
Actually, the VW'j air-cooled aluminum engine would
have been a sensotion, even in front.
But the big idea was moving it to the rear.
It was a great step backward in the world of outomobiie
design.
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