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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Monday, January 7, 1963
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Rockefeller Heads The
List Of Possibilities
The
America's economic superiority over
other nations can be ascribed to many things,
not least its abundant energy sources and its
ability to convert these remarkably into work
accomplished.
This is why we have to be concerned
when the Soviet Union puts itself into a head
long "power race" against us. If we were to
be outpaced, for example, in the production
and use of electric energy, our economic laur
els might be seriously threatened. And they
represent the strength which is our security.
Interior Secretary Udall, reporting on a
late-summer tour of Soviet power develop
ments, says the United States delegation he
headed was much impressed by what it heard
and saw in this field.
He thinks the Soviet Union may well rea
lize its 1965 goal an electric generating ca
pacity slightly more than half what the United
States has today.
Yet he suggests that the Russians may
find it much harder to reach their 1970 and
1980 objectives, since these demand very
steep Increases in the pace of power develop
ment. If his skepticism proves justified, it
could turn out to be an important stroke of
luck for this country. Growth of our electric
energy capacity has slowed somewhat In re
cent years. We, of course, rely heavily on
coal, oil and gas as direct energy sources.
But we could hardly be happy if the Russians
were to tap soon their immensely superior
hydroelectric power potential.
(Oregon - Statesman, Salem) i
A Benton County tax study group rec
ommends a three per cent sales tax, with
the money to be allocated to counties to re
lieve property taxes. Exemptions on the sales
tax would extend to agricultural and industrial
materials, medical prescriptions and food
oilier than restaurant meals. The committee
called the ad valorem property tax unfair and
as "old-fashioned as the horse and buggy."
This is the season of the biennium when
sales tax ideas start to circulate; and this
year there is a little more soil for them to
strike root in, with property taxes high and
the state Income tax not yielding enough to
enable the state to live in the style to which
it has become accustomed.
But Rep. Eyniann, who probably will head
the House committee on taxation, came up
Thursday with another idea; local income tax
es to offset local property taxes. This poses
a choice; but it is doubtful if the Legislature
will find either palatable.
It may be that when a sales tax conies
it will arrive as an offset to the property
tax. That was the way we got an income tax
THESE DAYS .
Farmers Resent Controls
liy JOIIV CHAMBERLAIN
It's big news when a pressure
group says that il would like a
1 it t le less paternalistic help (rom
Washington. D C, Yet Uiat in just
what the huge and prestigious
Anieriran Kami Bureau Federa
tion has gone and done. Meet
ing in Atlanta, da., the Farm
Bureau bigwigs served notire on
Secretary of Agriculture Orville U
Freeman that they intend to op
pose the Kennedy program in ISM
for stricter "supply management"
in wheat and other agricultural
products.
The Farm Bureau Federation
has not taken Its man-bites-dog
stand because of any noble deci
sion to stand by an abstract eco
nomic principle evrn though It
causes a painful inflammation of
the average farmer's pockctbook
nerve. Manifestly, the Bureau still
favors a floor under prices. Just
for once, however, a big pres
sure group has balanced long-term
advantages against the lure of
immediate gains, and has made
a decision in favor of freedom in
the far future. What President
Charles B. Shaman of the Faun
Bureau has firmly grasped is thai
control of any one part of a mar
ket drives Inexorably toward con
trol of all phases of that market.
The first step in the suspension
of free market principles has ils
totalitarian potential, and the point
comes where if you don't turn
back, you go the whole way.
As one who follows the news in
Race For Power
Many economists say that the mechanical
or electrical "horses" an individual worker
can bring to bear on an industrial task are
crucial in determining economic superiority.
For instance, in 1961 the United States
consumed more than three times as many
kilowatt hours of electric energy per person
as did the Soviet Union. This obviously is no
small factor in explaining our heavy industrial
advantage, though the stale of our technology,
the inventiveness of our economic organizers
and the priceless freedom of our system play
big roles.
Our highly developed energy sources
show up as key elements, too, in comparisons
between the United Slates and such advanced
industrial nations as Japan and those in West
ern Europe.
If United Slates pcr-nian output in steel
were no better than Japan's, we would need
900,000 steel workers instead of the 400.000
we have. We likewise surpass the whole of
Europe in this regard.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev understands
what power sources have to do with such su
perior performance. He told Udall in a pri
vate talk last summer: "Whoever has the most
mechanical robots will be the richest." The
Red leader forecast that ultimately Russia
would perform its work more cheaply than
America.
Few things are more important to us than
to make this particular Khrushchev predic
tion fail.
Property Tax Relief
in 1929. After the war, after the state had
taken on the basic school support burden,
the offset feature, which by that lime had be
come a bookkeeping procedure, was dropped.
And it may be that not until the property tax
rally becomes oppressive that the people will
approve of a sales tax. As far as the ad valo
rem property tax is concerned, as applied to
real property it is not unfair, especially if
property appraisals are kept current. The
complaint now is more about ils amount than
over inequities.
As for local income taxes, communities
will be loathe to apply them. They are used
in some largo cities but they excite a lot of
controversy with those who reside outside
the city but work inside.
Property tax relief may come by increas
ing stale grants to enmities, cities, school dis
tricts, rather than by adding new locally im
posed taxes. As for a slate sales tax, it has
been defeated so many times that it is usual
ly rated a dead duck whenever it is suggest
ed. Rut legislators recall that the last tax to
be referred and defeated was one raising the
income lax. Memory of that raises a "caution"
sign on adding to the income tax.
farm publications, I have often
wondered how anyone can believe
that you can hope to tic a farm
er to a restrictive program with
out eventually taking all of his
decisions out of his hands A little
item in tlie January. I!vl, issue
of the "Farm Journal'- should
help to illuminate the point. In
Washington, PC, they worry
about the general problem of over
production, with its attendant stor
age difficulties. But out in Indi
ana they go blithely ahead with
contests to sec who can raise the
most corn on a given acre. The
"Farm Journal" tells the story
of Paul E. Morse, a Vigo County,
lnd , farmer who is a part-time
railroad worker. Filtering a corn
growing contest. Mr. Morse pro
duced 24.1 bushels of No 2 shelled
corn per acre on five acres pos
sibly the biggest yield ever re
corded in that part of the world
How did Morse do if He took
a chance and spent Jl.V) extra
for fertilizer. For M vorlh of
plxwphatc and potash and other
soil ingredients. Morse got loo
bushels more corn per acre. Right
behind him in the contest came a
17-year-old boy, phihp Wilcox of
Tippecanoe County. Ind.. who grew
241 bushels an acre Elsewhere
in Indiana 175 other Hoosu rs went
over live Jon-bushel mM
contest, which was sponsored by
the Purdue University extension
Service and the Indiana Crop Im
provement Association.
The strange thing aliout in
creased corn yields this past year
is that they have been extracted
Irom the soil without benefit of
particularly good weather. The fe
cundity has hecn achieved Im
planting lienor hybrid sml and
by a more artful application of
chemicals to the soil.
Thus the local university agri
cultural extension sen iccs. the hv
hnd seed experimenters, and the
big chemical companies, work to
increase yields while Washing
ton. DC. strives to keep overpro
duction in check. It docs not take
am one skilled in Aristotelian logic
to see that crop control, under
such ell ciiiiistatu es. is an iiiihi.
.xihihly. To make controls eliec
live. Washington would have lo
stipulate the amounts and the
kinds of teitiher a farmer is
permitted to u It would have
to confine new hybrid seed de
velopment to gncnlniuse laNua
tones And, finally, it would have
to establish a culolf point for rain
fall Having achieved all this, and
having taken out an insurance pol
icy with the Almighty against, any
interruptions of the plan by coin
borers, grasshoppers, or a plain,
oiduiaiy diy spell, the Washing
ton planners might hope to keep
supply and demand in balance
at a parity price
Where would the f.umer be in
all this'' He would he reduced lo
ploying the role of a routine cleik.
That is what the American Farm
Bui can Ft deration has seen at
tin- end of the road.
"Heel, I Hope!" -
Letters To The
Respect
In a recent editorial published
in a Portland newspaper, discuss
ing the Oregon State Patrol and
the Washington State Patrol,' the
following statement is made, we
quote in part: "That an officer
wearing an impressive uniform
commands more respect than one
dressed like a Greyhound Bus
Driver." We would like to have
the following letter published in
the Herald and News for the
benefit of the people of this area.
The original copy of this letter
with 46 names signed to it is being
sent to the Portland newspaper
that wrote the editorial.
We. the undersigned Greyhound
drivers take exception to this re
mark: Wc do so for the following
reasons:
It is our belief that an "im
pressive uniform" is not the in
gredient which demands respect.
It should be the officer, the one
wearing Uie uniform. who
"warrants" the respect of those
with whom he comes in con
By SYDNEY J. HARMS
As 1 write these lines, the
House Un-American Affairs Com
mittee is questioning members of
the "Women for Peace" move
ment, trying to snilf out any pos
sible Communist influence or di
rection within the group.
No doubt, a few Commies will
turn up ui the ranks and so would
a few vegetarians. Espcrantist.s,
nudists. Zen Buddhism devotees,
and a handful of Gold Star Moth
ers. But it has been my personal
observation of the group in Chi
cago that 93 per cent of the
"Women for Peace" are composed
of ordinary American citizens,
passionately concerned about pre
serving peace, and better in
formed about what is happening
ill the world today than many
Congressmen.
Bight or wrong and I happen
to think they arc more right
than wrong these women arc tak
ing their responsibilities of citi
zenship seriously: unlike the bulk
of us. whit awaken out of our
torpor once every few years In
vole, and then subside into sell
conterodness. What we desperately need are
many more group who arc as
earnestly concerned with the
world's plight, and who aie mak
ing an effort to read, study, dis
cuss and ventilate the basic
problems iacmg human surv ival.
Apathy, not "un-Americanism." is
our greatest national enemy.
The House I n American Activi
ties Committee may have grasped
a tiger by the tail this tune.
These women will not be intimi
dated, they have more moral
coinage than most men. and they
are not afraid for their johs. as
so many men are.
Peace is everybody's husmc-s.
No one is sure exactly how we
can achieve it: and. by the same
token, every viewpoint must le
explored and encouraged. It can
not be hit to that abstraction
called "the government.'' because
a representative government such
as ours is supposed to be respon
sive to the will of tlie people.
But what is the "will ot the peo
ple"? Most Americans are puz
zled and contused and frightened.
tact. By this, we mean this offi
cer must "earn" that respect. 1
In the article you mention the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
If you will analyze the reasons
why the Mounties are respected
as they are, you -will find that,
over the years, these men have
earned the respect of not only
their fellow citizens, but of
the citizens of other countries as
well. It doesn't make any differ
ence whether a Mountie is dressed
in a parka following a dog sled
in the far north, or dressed
in the plain brown uniform Uicy
wear as their regular work uni
form: that Mountie is respected
because he is a Mountie.
We know that, if one of these
men were asked this question:
"Does your uniform, by itself,
command respect?" his answer
would be: "No. it is lo be re
spected only as far as I. myself,
conduct myself as an ofliccr and
a gentleman: only as far as I
earn this respect in the perform
ance of my duties according to
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
When government officials dis
agree, when scientists disagree,
when military strategists disagree
then it is time for the people
themselves to throw open the
doors of discussion and inquiry
to all who fear for the salety and
survival of their children.
In a part of his Farewell Ad
dress that is not usually quoted.
George Washington warned us to
"Guard against Uie impostures of
pretended patriotism." Some self
styled patriots today would like
us to accept the "olficial line" on
war and peace without question
and without dissent. To do so
would be to abdicate our resjion
sihilities as American citizens.
And to suggest that such ques
tioners and dissenters are "un
American" is to make a vicious
mockery of the democratic pro
cess itself.
POTOMAC
FEVER
Ode to the Chief: Our leader's
brains, we'll ne'r impeach. When
w inter reigns, he's m Palm
Beach.
Social security taxes go up.
That may be all right for se
rarity, but It ain't very social.
Kht u.-hchcv calls for concessions
by both sides in '63, For his part,
all he wants is the concessions on
lour continents.
A survey shows it costs $123
to outlit a college football play
eror about twice what it would
cost tlie pollsters lu think up a
survey that means something.
Postage stamps go up to a
nickel. One thing about the Dem
ocrat. They're not a bunch of
cheap politicians.
upicme Court Justice Doug'as
says newspapers waste space on
unimportant items. Proving his
point, a lot of newspapers used
space to quoie him verbatim.
FLETCHER KNEBEL
Editor
the highest traditions of the Roy
al Canadian Mounted Police."
We further believe this is one
of the tilings wrong with America
today. Politicians, executives,
and many oUiers, think that just
because Uiey have a "title"
they are able to "command re
spect." They are to be considered
the "oracle of wisdom." Their
every word, their every order, is
to be accepted without quesUon.
They seem to forget that in our
American way of life, one does not
"command" respect, one "earns
it. According to their position, they
may command "obedience," but
they cannot command "re
spect." It should make no difference
whether one is decked out in gold
braid from one end to the omer,
or whether one is dressed as "a
Greyhound bus driver." If that in
dividual, or group of individuals,
lias earned the respect of those
around him, then and then only,
should that respect be given.
We, sir. as Greyhound drivers,
are proud of the fact we are
Greyliound drivers. We believe
that, particularly here in the Pa
cific Northwest, we have the fin
est drivers you can find. Further,
if you will check the records,
you will lind that of the 3.100
drivers in the 11 western states
over 1.800 of them have over 10
years seniority. Also, by far the
greater majority of Uiese men
are family men. They try to
do their job to the best of their
ability, and they work hard to
warrant the respect they should
have.
Again, if you will check the
records, you will find that our
safety record is second to none.
Wc further believe that the Grey
hound drivers are (as is expected
of us', the safest, the most re
liable, the most courteous driv
ers you will find on the high
ways. By this letter we do not mean
that we arc "throwing rocks" at
these officers. No matter what
the organization is to which they
belong. We are merely trying to
say that we believe wc. too, war
rant respect. We believe the com
parison made would have been
belter left unsaid.
We repeat once again: It is not
a campaign hat or a cowboy hat
that commands respect it is the
man under the hat who must
earn that respect.
Harvey B. le,
421 North Seventh Street.
Dangerous
I note that on Alameda Ave.
between Esplanade and Main St.
it is frequently difficult, if not in
many instances dangerous, to get
onto Alameda Ave. by those who
live here on account of Uie speed
of some motorists.
Most motorists travel safely,
and at a reasonable speed, where,
as a few drive at a speed very
much into the 33 to 45 per hour
bracket, which in turn, not only
makes it difficult hut in many
instances dangerous for ones who
live here to get onto Alameda
Ave at times
I might add that Alameda Ave.,
between tlie above points, is nar
row and curves arc involved,
traffic being quite heavy morn
ings and evenings.
L E. Hubbard.
327 Alameda Ave.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What Institution serves as
New Jcrwv'j .tale university?
A Rutgers University, X e w
Brunswick.
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)-A big
sampling of Republican leaders
across the country generally sees
New York's Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller topping the 1964 GOP presi
dential list. But ideas on a pos
sible serious rival just haven't
jelled.
With Republican professionals
about to gather in Washington
to start making hard plans for
1964, this correspondent conducted
a coast-to-coast survey by tele
phone to gauge tlie early senti
ment. Their responses cannot be
attributed to them by name.
In assigning Rockefeller a com
manding front position, those
leaders who were queried tend
ed, in one sense, simply to con
firm a widely held notion in and
out of politics. But they fleshed
out the impression with interest
ing detail.
For one thing, it is abundantly
clear that Rockefeller not only
leads in -the more iiberal North
east but already has made a siz
able dent in the conservative Cen
tral, Plains and Mountain states.
The South and Southwest are, of
course, the chief legions where
the governor's name stirs expres
sions of distaste and hostility.
For another, not a single poli
tician tapped in this survey sug
gested Rockefeller had been hurt
by the fact that his 518.000-vote
margin in. 1962 fell below both the
forecast and his 1958 showing.
The matter was never even men
tioned. Not surprisingly, other names
offered as 19G4 possibilities were
Governors-elect George Romney
- of Michigan and William Scranton
of Pennsylvania, and Arizona's
Sen. Barry Goldwater. One leader
tossed in Sen. Thruston Morton,
recently re-elected in Kentucky.
The over-all view on Romney
and Scranton was, however, that
in national terms they are still
pretty much unknown and totally
unproven.
Goldwater, the deep Souths
overwhelming favorite, is
fondly mentioned in nearly all
parts of the country, but often by
men who say in the next breath
that he could not be elected and
may not be a serious candidate.
No respondent talked as if he had
yet made more than a mental
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
House Liberals Seek
Controls On HUAC
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Foes of Uie House UnAmerican
Activities Committee may alter
tactics this week in another ef
fort to destroy the Congressional
group.
In recent years, only a tiny
handful of extreme liberal Demo
crats have possessed sufficient
courage to vote against HUAC
appropriations. On the last such
roll call, in 1961, six Congressmen
(out of 4181 voted against funds
to run the committee.
Those six members (the so
called hard core feel that sever
al new Congressmen, including
three from Californ'a. will vote
against HUAC. That would make
only nine of 435 members, how
ever, who would publicly oppose
the House group.
Five of the six "hard - core"
members therefore feel Uiat dif
ferent strategy must be used this
year. They propose to make
HUAC now a standing, independ
ent committee into a subcommit
tee of the Judiciary Committee.
This would give Brooklyn's
Emanuel Celler. a liberal Demo
crat who is Judiciary chairman,
absolute control over committee
operations. It would, in effect,
completely emasculate the Con
gressional group that helped
send Alger Hiss to jail.
A sizable number of liberal
Democrats and one Republican
arc thought likely to buy the
"compromise" idea. Rep. Celler.
of course, is one.
So is California's James Cor
man. New York's Abe Multer.
and Ben Rosenthal. Others
thought likely to support a trans
fer of HUAC to the Judiciary
Committee arc several freshman
Congressmen from California.
Three of those have vowed to
support the platform of something
called Cahtornians for Liberal
Representation, which opposes
"Congressional investigative pow
er for non-legMative purposes or
in violation ol the Bill of Rights."
That literary douhletalk is a not-so-thinlv-disquised
attack upon
MAC.'
These three Congressmen are
Uonel Van Decrlm. Edward Roy
bal and George Brown. Another
California Democrat thought hos
tile to HUAC is Augustus Haw
kins, possessor of a Communist
front record
Only one Republican is report
ed to think that HUAC should be
transferred to Judiciary. He is
Manhattan's John Lindsay, who
was endorsed for re-eleciion by
the ultrahberal New York Post.
The decision to switch strategy
commitment to Rockefeller. If
that. Some said they were "open
minded" on the 1964 race, wanted
to see more of him and others,
but nevertheless felt he is today
far and away the leader.
In this connection, it is not
widely known that George Hin
man, Rockefeller's chief forager
in national pastures for the last
two years, recently wrote GOP
leaders in several major states
disclaiming any present Rocke
feller intent to seek 1964 commit
ments. In substantially identical let
ters, Hinman said the gover
nor not only is not now seeking
support but for the time remains
personally uncommitted to run
ningand thinks .the party should
keep itself free on' the subject.
This can hardly brake for long
the expected early moves toward
the 1964 nomination. These com
ments illustrate Rockefeller's still
improving position out front:
From a Midwesterner: "He Ifiis
served with ability, got his bills
paid, showed fiscal responsibility.
I can't see anyone else right
now."
A Plains State politician: "This
stuff about Rockefeller not being
popular out here. . . ."I wonder
where they're getting it. Not from
the people I talked to. Most
think he's the logical and tlie
probable one."
A Mountain State leader:
"Goldwater is well-liked here, but
I find an increasing acceptance
of the idea Rockefeller is ahead
and may well be Uie nominee.
On one visit he did a terrific job
converting a conservative legisla
tor who had threatened to boycott
his talk."
Southern leaders' disapproval
of Rockefeller is perhaps best
summed up by one spokesman
who said: "He is poison in tlie
South.1'
But, 'after Goldwater, Uie south
erners say little about alterna
tive choices. One mentioned Rom
ney, another Morton. Usually they
stop with Goldwater.
Party leaders in other regions
arc, however, just about as vague
on second choices.
Romney gets somewhat more
attenUon than Scranton, but most
seem to agree with the New Eng
lander who said: "He's going to
have to go through the fire first."
from abolition to transfer has not
yet been made. Five of the six
hard-core members favor such a
move. Only New York's William
Fitts Ryan insists upon abolition.
He told a Los Angeles rally Dec.
12:
"This is the year we can do
something about abolishing the
House Committee not just trans
ferring it to another branch of
government, but completely abol
ishing it."
Outside Congress, anti HUAC
leaders are whipping up enthusi
asm for the kill. Frank Wilkin
son, the identified Communist
who serves as Field Secretary of
the National Committee to Abol
ish HUAC. has traveled extensive
ly, setting up local chapters.
In one recent month, he
reached almost 20 Midwest col
leges. They included: Antioch.
Wayne State. Oberlin, Kenyon.
Iowa State. Grinnell. Knox Col
lege, the universities of Michi
gan. Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
A group known as the Midwest
Student Civil Liberties Coordinat
ing Committee has been formed
in Chicago. It will help bring stu
dents to Washington next week to
buttonhole home-town Congress
men, and picket th? committee.
Local "abolition groups" are
funcUoning in various cities
across the country. In New
York, identified Reds run the
show, and will descend upon
Washington next week.
Fifty six leftists in Chicaco
banded together to attack HUAC.
In Milwaukee, a similar commit
tee was set up. Tlie usual pro
fessors at major school1 have
been persuaded to lend their
names to Operation Abolition,
1MI3.
Al
manac
Bv United Press International
Today is Monday. Jan. 7. the
Tth day of !3 with 358 to
follow'
The moon is approaching its
full phase
The morning stars are M.irJ
and Venus.
Tne evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn
Those born on this day include
the nth piesident of tlie United
Slates. Millard Fillmore, in 10.
A thought for the day Ameri
can educator and writer James
Frank Dobie. said; "The average
Ph D thesis is nothing but a
transfer of hones from one grave
yard to another.''