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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1961)
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Sunday, January 0, 1M No Such Thing As 'Surplus' Probably nothing will wax of it. but the proposal of Rep. Robert Elfstrom to use $10 million of Oregon's $40 millwa "surplus" for state debt retirement appeals to us. ' Others who go along with the idea of fiscal Responsibility in government think like Rep. Elfstrom, and the idea might have a ghost of a chance of realization although to many such economy pleas fall by the wayside ' to offer much encouragement in this instance. ': " Elfstrom's plan would, in effect, cut Gov. Hatfield's $359 million general fund budget, and Elfstrom makes no bones about the fact that it is just what he is proposing to do. Another state officer, treasurer Howard Bel ton, has urged that the whole $40 million be used for debt retirement. Legislators on both sides of the aisle have expressed opinions that the budget could be cut. If that is true, the budget should be cut regardless of the false "prosperity" gener ated by the thought of a budget surplus. In fact, the whole idea of a "surplus" is absurd. There is no such thing as a surplus that money belongs to the state's taxpayers. It is not feasible to return it, so any plan that will relieve future taxation is a logical one. Bludgeons The Middle Class ' Prof. C. Northcote Parkinson has institut ed "Parkinson's First Law" (the work load ex pands to fill the time of all persons employed) and "Parkinson's Second Law" (expenditures rise to meet income) which have caused the ;-nose of more than one businessman to jltwitch. In a portion of his book, Prof. Park inson points up the ridiculous situation that .'is forced by our income tax laws. '. An extremely wealthy man underwent an ; -extremely serious operation at the hands of an .'extremely distinguished surgeon. Ten days afterwards the surgeon asked how his patient :was progressing. "Doing fine," said the nurse. "He has already been trying to date Nurse tAudrey, a sure sign of convalescence." ; "In that case," said the surgeon, "the .patient needs something to steady his pulse. 3 shall tell him what the operation cost." I The patient sobered down under his treatment and did some rapid calculations on the back of his temperature chart. : "Your fee of $4,000," he'.finally conclud ie 4, "represents the portion I retained from the Oast $44,500 of my income. To pay you with jout being worse off would mean earning another $44,500 more than last year; no easy task." i "Well," replied the surgeon; "you know how it is. It is only by charging you that much ;that I can afford to charge others little or rothing." , ,i "Nd doubt," said the patient. "But the, "fee still absorbs $44,500 of my theoretical in come no inconsiderable sum. Might I ask ,what proportion of the $4,000 you will manage to retain?" t: It was the surgeon's turn to scribble cal culations, as a result of which he concluded Jthat his actual gain, after taxes had been paid, would amount to $800. "Allow me to observe," said the patient, "that I must therefore earn $44,500 in order to give you $800 for spendable income, the entire balance going to the government. Does that strike you as a transaction profitable to either of us?" "Well, frankly, no," admitted the sur geon. "Put like that, the whole thing is ab surd. But what else can we do." "... Come closer so I can whisper," said the patient. "Why don't I give you a case of Scotch and so call it quits?" "Not enough," hissed the surgeon, "but if you made it two cases . . .?" "Yes?" "And lent me your cabin cruiser for three weeks in September ..." "Yes?" "We might call it a deal." Well, there is only one example of how the things works if only theoretically. But it does show that someplace along the line our restrictive income tax plan is simply destruc tive. 2300 years ago, when the Greeks adopted this tax, it was accompanied with a prophetic comment from the leading scholar of the day Isocrates. He said: "It would appear that success is to be punished: that exorbitant tax es have made it a crime for a man to prosper. The end result of such an order c?n only be removal of incentive, the discouragement of our people, and the destruction of our free' sdciety."' And, lest the reader say that the income tax soaks the rich (like the doctor and the businessman, in this parody) let us hasten to add that the income tax does not soak the rich it bludgeons the middle class. Every Day A Holiday? It was somewhat shocking to learn that state employes enjoy the privilege of paid holidays on Washington's and Lincoln's birth days. How silly can we get? The information came when Gov. Hatfield proposed that the birthdays of our national fneroes snoum no longer be observed as. non jdays. Instead, he asks that Feb. 14 be declared kas a legal holiday, because that is the date of .'Oregon's admission to the Union. In our opinion the governor should have Recommended abolition of the two holidays rand let it-go right there. This holiday thing js overdone already. We can observe import ant historical events and occasions without the formality of a holiday. s It is doubtful that business and industry would go so far to observe the date of admis sion to the Union, and public employes would be the only persons enjoying the privilege of a holiday. The incident brings to mind another thought: At a time when this nation apparent ly needs greater production, .an attitude to ward harder work, and tougher discipline, we seem hell-bent the other way. More and more pressure is applied for shorter work weeks, more holidays, and greater vacations. Every body wants to work less, and still draw bigger pay. And there is a concerted howl when prices go up to pay for this laziness. BARBS ; Nobody ever enjoys pipe smoking when it's the one that leads from the furnace. Canadian Province Aniwer to Previous Puzxl I Women's gloves are what a hus band goes back to look for after he has left a movie with his wife. ACROSS 1 New Brunswick is one of the province! of Canada I It on Quebec. Nova Scotia and Maine 13 Transferee 14 Dormouse DOWN 1 Auricle 2 Nautical term 3 liOcation 4 Symbol for tellurium 5 Conclusion . 6 She epfolris 7 .Salamander! 8 Visigoth king 9 Waccr 10 Soviet river Heating' systems in some apart Tments are commonly known as flat 'failures, f Half a peanut is said to supply en ergy for half an hour of mental work. Eat more and you shell out more. ' . i . ' , i A loose tongue often is a good in jiication of a man being tight. , , :? A double chin, develops when a vbouple of women meet. i ' ; Any time a kiss will change a pout Jnto a pucker we're for it. ; When a woman's age starts telling on her is when a woman stops telling iher age. 1 . . . , 19f.n,"1 12 Mix Mil JiiS-i ie tia i-iID T T es5 IJ e o 6 p? a r -4iB5ieiD? i a n i c H v g n 5 e as 8. u m 5US 2. ti 2D iikDI 2 i.E.E.O.Ny.iL cma.5r.&Qma. pAIm H. AT Hi a a m A . h " o P a ul ALTO N oInIeI : A blotter is what people look for While the ink is drying. v - moisture 17 Japanese ' watering place IB Appear 20 Asterisk 22 Brythonlc tea 23 Hawaiian bird 23 Slide 27 Armed licet 31 Dung beelle 35 1'ortugueie India S Bewildered 88 Proportion 39 Hodgepodge , 41 South American rodent 43 Peruse 44 Sign of the ' zodiac 4s But 4B Knlica 50 Da; break (comb, form) 51 Tides of the of Kundr cause Moncton's tidal phenomenon 54 Nevada city M Essential being MRangea 62 Wine cup 64 Mimic 63 Wash tightly 64 Fradertcton it Un provincial Mrarilltatea eBarterer 19 Extinct bird 21 Vrench region 24 Harem room 26 Colter's terra 27Kager 28 Play part 29 Mutilate 30 Tower 32 Speed contest 33 Above 34 Twisted 37 Hahylonian god 40 Lubricant 42 Cutting tool 45 Doctors' assistants 47 Mine shaft hut 49 Make into law 31 Unclothed 52 Operatic solo 53 Longings (slang! 55 Persian tcntmaker 57 CHut 53 Ship mast 59 Congers 61 Peer Gynt'a molher 63 Rratilian wallaba 67 Hypothetical structural unit I" IJ 15 U IS Is 1 I It Is hi hi III n n ra nrs r? tip!Zi:pd 2? pi 154 STf-l 31 M p 3 155"- ja a b" na iT 1 1 1 q mV-b-- bi p p r- 5T ST- 5T iJ p p a li sr-in-a i ! i lj r i i 1 1 1 1 "Look Uh You Fellows Are Using the Wrong Technique" Letters To The Editor In The Club Welcome to the club, Mr. Vost. Your letter to the editor, printed Jan. 16, will be read and appre , dated by present and future mem bers. ' . The club grows daily. Initiation fees come fast. Monthly dues are paid by many. Cash receipts are issued promptly. Believe me, Mr. Yost, they do unto us as they do unto you. Ninety dollars and three tickets later leaves one broker and wiser. The ulcers boil and the blood pressure goes up, but one must give credit where credit is due. It isn't easy to hide a patrol car! Please don't feel too badly to wards our law enforcement boys and the judicial agencies. The fault is ours. We elected a young boss who had many ideas. The secret weapon he sprung back there a spell raises lots of mon ey, but the traffic deaths continue ' to rise. We had hoped that he would be sent back there to Washington, but they must have found out about him, too. But who knows, maybe he'll run again and we can show up on election day. The members of the club can deal a body blow. And please, good neighbors to .the south, won't you please take a long second look at the "bug stations" over there. Fred Tucker 2251 Shasta Way Dear Hearis ' ' , And Genile People Malin, Ore. Jan. 17, 1960 Editor "Nothing Special" column Dear Sir: In your Sunday column you mentioned wanting material that showed the goodness of people. My wife and I are particularly aware of the good people around us at this time, and we wondered if you would put our letter of thanks as we have written it. We believe this is one of the things you were referring to. Sincerely, Charles V. Dobry, Jr. DEAR HEARTS AND GENTLE PEOPLE There may be other places like Klamath County, peopled by the kind of neighbors that we have, but it is difficult to believe that for benevolence and great ness of heart they have equals anywhere. When my wife and I were so seriously injured in an automobile accident in December of 1960, the moral, spiritual, material, and financial aid given us by neigh bors and by friends throughout the county, especially those living in Malin, Bonanza, Merrill and Henley, simply surpasses belief. For our children, who were not involved in the accident, our friends and benefactors provided a bountiful Christmas. Local business people provided us with a splendid Christmas dinner. The acts of kindness shown us by individuals were so numerous that we are unable to thank each person separately. Furthermore, much of the material aid was given anon ymously. The merchants, with whdm we do business, gener ously offered to carry us until such a time as I am again able to earn a living. There are several , organizations who extended every effort in our behalf. Those of whom we know are the Moose Lodge (Merrill), V. F. W. and Auxiliary, American Legion and Auxiliary, the Elks, and members of the Eastern Star and the Masonic Lodge of Malin. We hope to make a permanent home in this locali ty: we hope to prove worthy of the kindness shown us when even life was not certain: we earnestly desire to make Jnown to our kindly neighbors, near and far, that what they did and what their acts represent, make life worth living. We are especially grateful to the Rev. Ethan Whitman who spent many hours at our bedsides. No words are adequate to express our feelings but we thank all of you: , Doris and Charles V. Dobry, Jr. Malin, Oregon YOUR POCKETBOOK Dollars Flight Raises Standards NOTHING SPECIAL By FA YE HENLE I've been asked: When you move to another state and take another job, where do you pay taxes? v Get W-2 forms from both em ployers and attach them both to ihe 1040 form, entering the ap propriate figures. File these with the Director of Internal Revenue at the office nearest your new residence. This takes care of the federal tax. When it comes to state taxes, check the state tax office to see whether the state in which you live, or the state in which you work, requires payment of in come taxes. Among some' states there are reciprocal agreements which must be honored. Some slates levy an income tax, other;! don't. Is it true the average employe really makes $0,000 a year? This notion recently got inlo headlines as a result of a Bureau of Labor statistics report on what is considered a "modest but ade quate" level of living for a typi cal family. In the case chosen, "typical" meant a 38-year-old ciiy worker, a non-working wife, a 13-vear-old son and 8-year-old daugh ter. Probing the story for the bene fit of employers hit by sudden salary increase demands, the Re search Institute of America Inc. reports that the government's budget figures reflect a good deal more than just the cost of living, lhat it is the standard of living that has changed drastical ly during the past decade. On a national average, thoy report, the city worker's budget has increased 45 per cent since 1951. Based on these figures the larg est increase, 57 per cent, came in Chicago. In Portland, Ore., the increase was 55 per cent and in Seattle 53 per cent. The smallest gain noted was 25 pr cent in Houston followed by 31por cent in Atlanta and 36 per cent in Baltimore. ' How usual are purchases of stock for minors? Thoughts And the man Klkanah and all his house went up to oiler to the Lord the yearly sflcrifice, and to pay his tow. I Samuel 1:21. Let men laugh, if they will, when you sacrifice desire to duty. You have time and eternity to rejoice- in. Theodora Parker. It all depends upon what you l mean by usual. According to a study by the New York Stock Exchange of trading activity on one specific day, $815,000 worth of stock was bought or sold by cus todians for minors in some 600 transactions involving .22.000 shares. This volume is nominal, for often three million or more shares are traded in a single . day. Tne average size of each ' transaction for the small fry was 38 shares the average price per share $36.50. The exchange, however, notes increased market activity on be half of youngsters and attributes this to legislation in all states which simplifies giving gifts of securities to minors. Note to doting grandpas, grand mas and rich uncles: This is an excellent device for building funds for education. A share of stock can buy you more long-term en- doarment than a giddy toy. I guess that most of us think that we have all of the prob lems of the world. Shed a tear in your beer for Sen. Clair Englc, Cal., who dropped this pensive missive in the mail. "There are times when a Unit ed States Senator might just as well head for the Atlantic Ocean . . . and keep on going until his hat floats. "By last count, we have over 500 Californians in Washington for the Inaugural fesUvities. Tick- cts for the ceremony? 'Yes, I ' had some. This ceremony is han dled by Congress and each Sena tor gets some to distribute 11. Now, how does a Senator take care of 500 people from California with just 11 tickets?" Now, there you must agree, is a lamentable situation. But you know what? I'll just bet that the good Senator (as well as 49 oth ers) found satisfactory ways out IW. B. S.) of their dilemma(s). THE DOCTOR SAYS 'Fast Draw' Leaves Cripples In Wake By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Newspaper Enterprise Assn. In an article in the Western Journal of Surgery, Dr. J. V. Brown has described a scries of 16 cases in which gunshot wounds of the leg were caused by what he calls "The Fast Draw Syn drome." The origin of Dr. Brown's pa per is, of course, the present day ' Western, shown in the movies or on TV with, monotonous regular ity. I'm sure you know the formula for (he fast draw. Good guy and , bad guy meet in the town's main street. They approach each other as remaining members of the cast run for cover. Suddenly the bad guy pulls his gun. But the good guy is quicker "on the draw" and "fills t him full of lead." Wherewith, the villain dies with out a struggle only to be replaced after a short delay by another bad guy who pulls his gun only to meet the same fate at the hands of the "faster draw" and sq on and on and on as lonj as the sponsor sells his product. In the real life cases observed by Dr. Brown, a "young man in his late teens or early twenties presents a small caliber gunshot wound of the lower extremity, ac cidentally (clf-inflicted while prac ticing the 'fast draw.' Too slow on the draw and too quick with his trigger finger," he fires the weapon before it is disengaged from the holster and shoots him self in his right foot. , In a more serious modification of the accident, called "The Dodge City Syndrome," and apparently very familiar to Chicago as well as other police officers, a bullet of larger diameter is fired from a .45-caliber gun. Under these circumstances, the point of entry is apt to be behind the knee in the vicinity of Uie large vessels that bring blood to and from the foot. The wound is deeper and more gaping and the damage inflicted may produce per manent crippling if not amputa tion. Commenting editorially on the situation to which Dr. Brown has so forcibly drawn attention, the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that those and horror shows ought to be made to make their programs more realistic by showing the dis figurement, invalidism, laming, blinding, coma, headaches, job loss, economic costs and family miseries that follow these TV shiggings, shootings and related acts of senseless violence. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's i leaflet "Understanding Mental Ill ness," send 10 cents to Dr. Hy man, care of Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B. Radio Cily Sta tion. New York 19, N.Y. There is a legend that Satan decided to get rid of a number of his tools, so he arranged an auction. There were envy, deceit, malice, sensuality, enmity, thoughtlessness and many other tools which Satan had tried suc cessfully (priced very low). One ' piece, marked very high, was la beled: Discouragement. "Why do you want so much for this tool?" asked one bidder. "This tool," replied the old tempter, "has always been my most useful one. You can see it has had more wear than the rest. It is used as a wedge to get into a man's mind when all other ' means fail. Practically every hu man being has had this tool used on him, although very few know that I'm the one wielding it." It is customary at the year's end to review events and tot up accounts. The economic value of a man is no exception, as I see it. Tha 1960 economic value reaches $200,000 for an average man. It ranges up to $350,000, depending on his education. This is before taxes.' A male baby born in 1961 has a life expectancy of 66.6 years, in which he will . work about 41 years. His earn ings as never before will be gauged by his education. A high school diploma will raise his val ue $65,000 above a grade school one, and a college degree will bring him $169,000 more than the grade school level. Incidentally, the Census Bureau reports that half of . the males had high school education last year, and that 10 per cent, in the college age had completed four years. Men are getting more valuable all of the time. Except as a husband and as . a father. Any wife or teen ager can tell you they're bums. . Regardless of education. Now. how about the women? ' An educated man has made a survey of the expense of main taining one. (Just where, he does not say). Then he summed up all the services an average home maker performs, and figured at the going rate of such serv ices, that her value per year is $6,505. This would bring her life time economic value up to $246, 000. No comment. When Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, wrote in 1878 that some day "wires will unite different cities, and a man in one part of the country may communicate, by word of mouth with another in a distant place," people thought he was insane. Today we have 60 million tele phones and an average of 148 million "word of mouth" com munications every day. Of all of the so-called "na tional" magazines, U.S. News & World Report and Business Week are about the only reputable ones left.' The rest are trash. (Yes, I include Time, Life, Look, News week, et al). It is unfortunate that our high schools expose the youngsters to them and too many liberal minded teachers are anx . ious to impress the kids with the "validity" of the "news" that appears in them. . The wife was always antag onized by her husband going out at night. His departing words, - which especially angered her, were always, "Goodnight, moth er of three." One night when she could stand It no longer, and when he put on his hat and .started out the door, call ing cheerily, "Goodnight, moth er of three," she answered quite cheerfully, "Goodnight, father of one." Now he stays home. Nothing so brightens the day of a newspaper worker as a re quest for an article "that ap peared either in his paper, or some other paper, two or three years ago, between January and December." .The power of suggestion (I hate that word conformity) was never more exemplified than in the case of the army sergeant who was passing out apricots in small pa per dishes to the chow line". He decided to experiment. He asked the next few men as they came by, "You don't want any apri cots, do you?" and 90 per cent said no.' Then he tried a more positive approach: "You do want apricots, don't you?" and approx- , imately 50 per cent answered yes. The sergeant decided to test an other well-known technique, and started asking, "One dish of ap ricots, or two?" And in spite of the fact that soldiers dislike apri cots. 40 per cent took two dishes, and 50 per cent took one. The Justice Department finds that most people are not so smart as they think they are. At least, that would be the assump. tion from the number of intelli gent businessmen.; bankers, teach ers, lawyers, doctors, and profes sional people who fall victims to swindlers every year. The depart- ment has reason to believe Uiat between $150 and $175 mUIion an nually is dropped by these peo pie to swindlers of various kinds. A note of wisdom for the youngster of today: Cato, the old Roman, started to study Greek when he was around 80. when someone asked why he was beginning so large a 'task at such an advanced age, Cato replied that "it la the youngest age I hare left." Stiflk arowuL
