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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath FaJU, Oregon
Wednesday, January I, 1063
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Farm Bureau Argues
For Less Controls
Herald anb3!?Urj$
"Relax, Maybe It's Nothing Serious!"
Zoninq Hassle Needs. Clarification-
Among the confused points at hand in
the proposed zoning issue is the allegation that
there was no opportunity for discussion prior
to the hearings now being conducted.
While we do not have the exact schedule
at hand, our recollection is that considerable
newspaper publicity was tended the several
area meetings held in schools and other public
buildings during mid-and late-1962. We do not
know the degree of attention given the topic
by other communications media, but assume
that it was ample, by their standards.
In addition, notice was sent by students
of the various schools to their parents of the
proposed sessions, which had as their objec
tive a detailed explanation of what was to be
included in the proposed zoning regulations.
It is obvious that not all persons affected have
children in school. However, we consider the
other efforts at publicizing the meetings as
adequate in most circumstances.
It is regrettable, as much as it is a fact,
that most persons affected did not take the op
portunity to let themselves be heard at these
important pre-hearing conferences conducted
by the Planning Commission. Had the proper
persons taken advantage of this opportunity to
inform themselves and be heard, we are cer
You Have No Social Security Reserve
(The Corvallis Gazette Times)
While the nation speculates on the chanc
es of a tax reduction in 1963, most people
are overlooking a whopping $2 billion tax
boost that is already on the books. It will
get almost every working American and every
employer. It is, of course, the boost in social
security taxes voted during the 1961 session
of Congress.
The rise in payroll deduction is from
three and one-eighth per cent to three and
five-eighths per cent on the first $4,800 of
earnings. This is matched by the employer so
the total increase is one per cent. The maxi
mum tax for the year thus goes up from $150
to $174, or 16 per cent.
This is the ninth boost in Social Securi
ty rales since the system became a law back
in 1935. It is a tax boost of $24 for everyone
working who makes $4,800 a year as well as a
tax boost for every employer for the same
amount for each employee. It should also be
noted rates are scheduled for another hike in
1966 and again in 1908.
If Mr. Kennedy's medicare plan, which is
wrongly tied to Social Security, goes through
this session of Congress, it is anyone's guess
what it will do to the rates paid by employers
and employees. No one can make a good esti
mate of the increases because no one knows
how much the program would cost.
Millions of Americans live under the il
lusion they carry insurance by virtue of their
payments into the Social Security fund. Noth
ing could he farther from the truth. Actual
THESE DAYS
What Are
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
When it comes In civil liberties,
or the "hVrul" definition there
of, we seem to have a double
standard.
To begin, when the supporters
of desegregation invaded lunch
rooms and chain stores in the Car
olina last year, civil libertarian
students in far-distant Providence,
R.I., started a scholarship fund
for Negro hoys and girls who
had the misfortune In be ex
polled from cnllcse (or taking
pail in the Southern sit-in demon
strations. And there was a rash
of sympathy picketing in the north
of chain variety stores which had
been following segregation poli
cies in their branches below the
Masnn-Dtxon line.
For alt sincere civil libertarians,
the author of this column, who,
happens to be the staunchest sort
of believer in the free iecch pro
vision of the first amendment, has
a great deal of sympathy, peace
ful picketing in defense of free
expression of opinion sliould al
ways be supported. But why is it
that the passion for civil liberties
is seldom extended to those who
fall afoul of the local police be
cause of anti-Communist demon
strations? The double standard in the de
fense of picketers by civil liberta
rian groups has been very much
in evidence ever (.incc "0 right
wing demonstrators were pounced
upon on Dec. 15. 19fi2, for invading
Klein's Store in Vonkers, N.Y..
with signs that called attention to
goods on (he slielves lhat had al
legedly been manufactured in
countries east of the Communist
lion Curtain. Among the invaders
tain that many of the areas of the present con
troversy never would have developed.
There seems to be a popular miscon
ception that property owners were not accord
ed the opportunity to be heard, and that they
were not asked about their feelings in the mat
ter. As a matter of fact, at all of the meetings
held by the Planning Commission, much was
made of the attempt to obtain attitudes and
ideas both pro and con on the matter and
degree of zoning.
Another misconception comes from the
allegation that zoning will increase taxes in
the suburban area, or areas affected. The
subject of taxes is always a fuzzy area. But
it is not possible to say that zoning, per se.
is the cause of any increase in taxes. Taxes
in Oregon are determined by the market value
of the property involved. In Klamath County,
property is assessed for tax purposes at 25
per cent of the market value. The fact that the
land is in one zone or another makes no dif
ference in establishing the tax base. It can
reasonably be argued that an increase in the
market value of a piece of property can in
crease the tax base. The two might not be re
ciprocal, but certainly it can be agreed that
, there is an area of consonance that cannot be
overlooked.
ly, there is no guarantee you will ever get
back the money you and your employer pay
into your Social Security account.
Benefits are not paid out of an accum
ulation of reserves, as they would be by a
private insurance company, but are financed
almost entirely out of current tax income. No
reserve is accumulated and no element of pre
payment is involved.
If a private insurance company ran its
finances the way the Federal government
runs this program its officers would be jailed
for the next 2000 years.
From this little dissertation we don't
want people to get the impression we are op
posed to Social Security. Not only is it a vast
welfare umbrella, protecting to some extent
those people who are not able to or won't
put aside money for their old age. but bene
fit checks are cashed and the money is quickly
spent. Its effect on the national economy is
akin to that envisaged in the old Townsend
Plan. The system keeps money in circulation,
contributes heavily to consumption of goods
and indeed has become a major prop under
the economy.
We do object to its not being known as
a tax, which it is, we object to the illusion
created in the minds of the people that they
have their own fund set aside for their old age.
Benefits will he paid only so long as the
Federal government is able to pay them out
of current taxes. If this is no longer possible,
we presume the whole economy and perhaps
the government will he kaput anyway.
Civil Liberties?
of Klein's were members of the
New York Conservative Party.
Although the anti-Communist dem
onstrators were, by all reports,
dignified and orderly in their
march on Klein's, detectives failed
in a couple of instances to han
dle the invaders gently. Eight of
the demonstrators were held
tor an hour and a half and ar
raigned later in the day on charg.
es of disorderly conduct. A cou
ple of days later the charges were
amplified to include allegations
of prolanity and molestation of
the Klein shelves, although on
lookers had failed to note any
evidence of such unseemly be
havior. Well, the trial of the anti-Corn-mumsl
demonstrator. w a s
set lor Jan. 7 in Vonkers.
Although we live in hopes, we
doubt very much that the new
national student movement, a co
alition of college civil rights sup
porters who are busy planning
boycotts against companies which
discriminate against minority
groups in their hiring practices,
will take any part in the delense
of the eight antiCom.ounists
There is. of course, a legal
doubt that tlie first amendment
guarantee of the right o( dee
speech can be used constitution
ally to cover the invasion of pri
vate properly. As the late Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes once
said, nobody has the right lo
slmut "fire" in a crowded the
ater unless there really happens
lo be a fire. The right to control
behavior in a theater belongs lo
the owners of the premises, who
make tlie rules governing the us
ago of their own property, P r e
sumably, the owners ot the Klein
Slore in Yonkers have a compar
able righl lo lay down the "rules
of the road" for traffic in Iheir
aisles.
Rut if the case for Klein's in
Yonkers be conceded, the same
Constitutional dispensation should
be accorded the owners of ham
burger stands and drug store soda
fountains in the South. If there is
(o lie a limitation on the reach of
the provisions of the first amend
ment, that limitation should lie
the same everywhere.
Contrariwise, if the defense of
free speech carries into the interi
ors of chain stores and coffee
shops in North Carolina on the
ground Uiat shops and restau
rants arc "public conveniences.''
then lhat delense of free speech
should carry inide tlie portals
of Klein's Store in Yonkers. In a
democratic republic, what is fair
for one is or should be fair for
all
Human nature being what it
is, it is probably unrealistic lo
expect our civil libertarians to
rise above the parochial perspec
tive, of "civil liberties for our
side " As they recall il. Voltaire
was talking through his hat when
lie said. "1 wholly disagree with
what yon sa, bill I will delend
to the death vour t ight lo say it."
They think thai Voltaire, that sly
old fellow, had a menial reserva
tion and they have consequent
ly amended Ihe Voltairean dic
tum to read: "1 may have mixed
Icelings about what you say. hut
if you can prove to me thai my
nx has Uien gored I will deleiul
lo live death your righl lo help
my side with your Insistence on
free speech for jour.elt "
IN WASHINGTON . .
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
Individual liberties are being
eroded in this country, Supreme
Court Justice William O. Doug
las has warned. He puts tlie blame
on arbitrary government acts,
censorship, and the failure of
Washington correspondents to
swarm all over the Federal es
tablishment in their search for
the facts.
i Ironically, a 90-line Associated
Press report of these charges de
voted the first 63 lines to Mr.
Justice Douglas's remarks on tlie
Fifth Amendment, then added two
paragraphs on what "much of the
interview" stated.)
That the most ultra-liberal mem
ber of the high court should so
criticize the Kennedy Administra
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Everyone knows that words
change over the centuries, and
even over the decades. But what
is puzzling, even to specialists in
language, is the way in which
some winds change to mean exact
ly their oppositcs.
1 thought of this the other morn
ing, when my little girl remarked
at breakfast that something was
"crummy." A "crummy" hat or
a "crummy" game is one to be
despised and disregarded; yet it
was not always so.
As late as the turn of Ibis cen
tury, a British word-hook defined
"crummy" as "jolly good." "She's
a crummy woman" meant a fine,
handsome woman, well - fleshed
and amiable. The crummy part
of bread is the fleshy or main
part; it is the opposite of crusty,
meaning hard and ill-tempered.
In his fascinating book, pub
lished last year, "Your English'
Words," John Moore observes that
a "casually" was at one lime an
accident, and now it is used al
most exclusively lo mean the vic
tim of one. "Painful" once meant
taking pains; now it means giv
ing hurt.
' Scan." not too long ago, meant
10 examine minutely, or lo look
at scarchingly; but Ihe word has
now turned topsy-turvy, and when
asked "Did you read the docu
ment"", we reply, "Well, 1 only
just scanned it."
One of Ihe most interesting
changes taking place right bclore
our eyes, as it were, concerns
Ihe word "literally." In Ihe past,
"literally" meant the opposite of
"figuratively"; it meant, actuallv,
really, in a quite laclual sense.
Rut nowadays people say "He
was literally burned up about it."
when Ihey mean "liguratively"
burned up about il; and I have
little doubt that a lew decades
hence, literally will have pushed
figuratively out of llie dutionarv
A "tobacconist" used to mean
Ihe smoker, and nol the seller of
tobacco, as it does today. A "type
writer." when the machine was
first invented, meant Ibe tvpist
and nol Ihe machine itself. "Port
ly" used lo mean digmhod. now
11 implies a kind of laughable ro
tundity. "Silly" meant bles-ed.
rather than foolish. And "awful"
referred to the majesty of God's
works, rather than the modern
1'ifei
Freedoms Being Eroded
tion is an indication of the pres
ent atmosphere In Washington. For
events of the last 12 months have
tended to show that when Robert
F. Kennedy told a group of Presi
dential convention delegates in
19H0, "we are a young group that's
going to take over the country,"
he wasn't fooling.
It has become one of the grim
mer Washington jokes to warn
any critic of the Administration, '
"You'd better watch out whea
you file your income tax." Those
who thought it amusing to sec
Roger Blough and the steel com
panies being subjected to the
massive punishment of White
House and Pentagon pressure are
having some , sober second
thoughts. Corporations doing busi-
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
sense of "frightful" or "ghastly."
Perhaps the most complete re
versal of meaning in the English
language, however, is the word
"maudlin," which now describes
a certain sort of self-pitying drunk.
The word comes from Mary Mag
dalene 'pronounced "maudlin" in
England I w ho anointed Jesus' feet.
It is worth keeping in mind that
most words change for Ihe worst
over the years, and that a "cun
ning villain" used to mean mere
ly a peasant of honest skill.
POTOMAC
FEVER
Kennedy vows lo make a tax
cut his No. 1 goal. He's gelling
sick and lired of forking over all
his money to that follow in the
White House.
Britain has Its worst blizrarrf
In Inn years. One American
visitor reports the weather's so
had. It's aitnnst as cold outside
his London hole! as It Is In.
Things are looking up (or Ihe
Republicans. They think they may
have a 'M candidate who sounds
like a record.
In Brazil, inflation is so rousing
lhat Brazilians are boasting they
have the linesl money paper can
buy.
Politics Is Ihe art ot appear
ing to do something between
elections.
Castro calls Kennedy a "vulgar
pirate cheif." The Administration
just can't trust Castro. I'nder the
agree ment, he wa supposed to
save that kind of talk for the 'M
campaign.
FLETCHER KNERKL
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What Is a distinctive fea
ture of the cllmhini perrh. na
tive of Asia and Africa?
A It possesses special breath
ing equipment which permits il
to leave the waier and journey
overland in quest ol a new place
lo live.
'
ness with the government have
learned to keep their thoughts to
themselves. Any complaints over
improper actions can lead to
cancellation of contracts or
Worse.
Muzzling of the military
aroused a few intellectuals. It
was almost funny to see the high
brass humbled by Secretary of
Defense McNamara's "whiz kids"
and Assistant Secretary Sylves
ter's blue-pencil brigade. But now
the scientists are feeling the sharp
edge of that ax. Two eminent phy
sicists, Drs. James Van Allen
'discoverer of the Van Allen radi
ation belt in space i and James
Warwick, are complaining bitter
ly over the treatment they re
ceive from the President's Sci
ence Advisory Committee.
Reflecting the thoughts of many
scientists, Dr. Van Allen charges
that the committee has become
such "a big and authoritarian
machine that it decidedly intimi
dates" non-government scientists
like himself. He and Dr. War
wick charge that in coming to de
cisions, the President's Advisory
Committee acted "in haste" and
under political pressures which
had nothing to do with available
scientific data. They note lhat
one report of the committee ig
nores evidence to the contrary of
its position.
Although the Pentagon is
buttoned up like a submerging
submarine, the evidence grows
that the President's decision lo
scrap the Skybolt missile was
reached on the advice of Secreta
ry McNamara. Just taking what is
on the record, it seems obvious
thai had the Pentagon applied the
same kind of thinking to the mis
sile and space programs, there
wouldn't be a single U.S. satel
lite in space and tlie Soviet Union
would have a preponderant ICBM
IRBM lead over Ihis country.
Early experiments in any high
ly sophisticated weapons system
are expected to turn out a large
proportion of failures. (Think of
Ihe difficulties we had with liquid
fuel rockets.) But as openly as
anything is ever said these days
at Ihe Pentagon or the While
House, it is being pointed out lhat
the Skybolt decision was made as
part of an overall plan to reduce
drastically the Air F'orce and to
bring alioul Ihe eventual disband
ing of Ihe vitally important Stra
tegic Air Command. Against the
best military advice, the "whiz
kids" have decided that manned
planes are "obsolete" and there's
nothing anybody can do lo change
Iheir minds.
The most effective force against
Ihese efforts to make the Execu
tive Branch monolithic and all
powerful has been Ihe Congress.
Bui if Ihe Administration has its
way. the Mill Congress will be
come a rubber-stamp for White
House proposals. A wave of prop
aganda has been pouring out of
the Executive offices. Its intent
is to "prov e" lhat the present leg
islative process is "outdated" and
must be changed so that the Ken
nedy Administration can move
ahead with vigor. Pressure is
being put on both House and Sen
ale to scrap rules which have
grown out of many years of expe
rience, This is why. increasingly, even
the best friends of the Adminis
tration are tearful that the new
year will bring a state of affairs
in which the President's wish is
automatically father lo Ihe deed.
By PETER EDSOV
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)-Secre- '
tary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz
and American Farm Bureau Fed
eration President Charles B. Shu
man started a little argument the
other day which is worth keeping
alive for a little further research
and analysis.
At AFB's annual convention in
Atlanta. Shuman delivered a de
nunciation of organized labor.
There is nothing new in this. Be
cause the unions have made nu
merous attempts to organize farm
labor, the big commercial farm
ers are against them.
Also, organized workers in (arm
food and fiber processing plants,
demanding and getting higher ,
wages and better working condi
tions, are believed by farm oper
ators to be responsible for raising
consumer prices, while higher
wages in industry raise the prices
of things farmers buy.
The AFB convention then went
on record in a series of resolu
tions against industry-wide bar
gaining, the union shop, seconda
ary boycotts, featherbedding and
all tlie other things the National
Association of Manufacturers have
been against for years.
Farm Bureau resolutions also
asked for repeal of the wage
hour laws, opposed further liber
alization of minimum wage laws,
unemployment insurance benefits
and railroad retirement. Finally,
they asked that unions be brought
under the anti-trust laws.
But the Farm . Bureau did in
vile Labor Secretary Wirtz to ad
dress Ihem, to get his measure.
Three days later he told Shuman
and his convention that, "Sure
ly, those interests which unite
American labor and American ag
riculture are much stronger than
those which divide them." He
went on to say that while there
was little possibility of quickly
reconciling their conflicting views,
tlie subject should be explored.
One of the first fields which
might be explored profitably is
who gets the most out of govern
mentthe farmers or labor?
From the Farm Bureau's reso
lutions, there are too many laws
on the books favoring labor. But
a look at United States budget
analyses indicates that there are
far more laws on the books bene
WASHINGTON
Longshoremen Seek
Philippine Unionism
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Hawk - nosed Harry Bridges,
whose word js law on West Coast
docks, has entered the export busi
ness. He will export to (he Philip
pine Islands his own peculiar
brand of trade unionism. Ameri
can labor leaders are familiar
with that brand: his International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men's Union was kicked out of
the CIO as Communist-dominated.
Three of Bridges's top aides re
cently left the islands with gran
diose plans to help tlie "down,
trodden" Philippine dock work
ers. They returned to Honolulu to
advise that since Philippine "in
dustry is similar lo ours and
deals with some of the same peo- ,
pic." the ILWU should make an
all-out effort to organize Phil
ippine workers.
They said thai one Philippine
colleague fell ILWU aid could re
sult in 150.000 new unionists in
three areas. Philippine newspa
pers say the ILWU delegation
helped spark "politically motivat
ed" dock strikes on the Manila
watcrlront.
II is by no means the first
lime that ILWU officials have en
gaged in "politically motivated"
strikes. In 195.1, during the Kore
an War, ILWU officials brought
Hawaiian induslry to a screech
ing halt.
On June 13 of that year 50 per
cent of Hawaii's pineapple work
ers, 90 per cent of the territory's
sugar workers, and all 1.700 long
shoremen walked off their jobs
in protest against the Smith Act
conviction of Jack Hall, ILWU
regional director.
Hall, many times identified as
a Communist, was convicted of
conspiracy to teach and advocate
Ihe violent overthrow of the U.S.
Government. He remains Hawaii
an regional director lo Ihis day.
During Ihe 1953 walkout, two
Korea-bound U.S. transports were
among those ships affected. Re
ferring to this incident, a Honolu
lu paper reported:
"Tlie dock areas were hardest
hit. Longshoremen stayed off the
job at Pearl Harbor' for three
days, toe longest shutdown of
civilian stevedoring operations
ever called at the naval base.
Sailors passing cargo from man
lo man worked two Korea-bound
transports at Pearl Harbor yes
fiting agriculture than benefiting
labor industrial, organized labor,
that is.
If you take everything that the
1963 budget classifies as Agricul
ture and Agricultural Resources,
funds requssted by the President
for tlie fiscal year total $5.8 bil
lion dollars, or 6.3 per cent of
the total budget.
The big item here is $4.5 billion
for farm income stabilization and
the Food for Peace subsidies,
which benefit farm producers.
Other items are $438 million for
land and water resources, $234
million for rural electrification
loans, $198 million for farm own
ership loans and $380 million for
research.
If you look at everything which
the Budget Bureau classifies at
Health, Labor and Welfare, the
total comes to $5.1 billion, or
only 5.5 per cent of the total
budget.
But $2.8 billion of this is for
public assistance, which goes to
rural as well as urban people,
$1.4 billion for health services
and research, which also bene
fit all the people. The total here
is $4.2 billion not chargeable just
to labor.
There is also an item of $291
million for the school lunch pro
gram. City and country children
both benefit from this, but farm
ers get paid for producing the
food that goes into it. So this item
should probably be charged to
the agriculture budget.
What is left is $354 million for
labor and manpower services and
$225 million for vocational rehabil
itationa total of only $579 mil
lion or a little over 'i of one
per cent of the budget, and about
a tenth of what goes for agricul
ture. The Budget Bureau makes an
other special analysis of expendi
tures which provide aids or serv
ices to special groups. It estimates
aids to agriculture for this year
at $5.35 billion. It estimates aids
to labor at $31 million, mostly for
extended unemployment compen
sation and $60 million for man
power training for a total of $91
million.
Department of Labor also points
out that its Employment Service,
which places several million farm
workers a year, is really paid
for by a lax on industrial em
ployers, not by farmers.
REPORT
terday and were to continue
working the ships until the job
is finished."
Bridges talked of another strike
in 1959 testimony before the House
UnAmerican Activities Commit
tee. He was asked by Commit
tee Counsel Richard Arens if he
would call a strike to prevent
U.S. supplies from reaching Chi
ang Kai-shek in event of war be
tween Ihe Communist and Na
tionalist Chinese. Bridges an
swered: "If I felt doing that would keep
the United Stales from going into
such a suicidal enterprise and
meaning the loss of life in the
United States, my position at the
moment would be, I think I
would."
Such is the man now export
ing trade unionism to a valued
ally, the Philippine Republic.
Administration lobbyists have
won a major convert in their
campaign to repack the House
Rules Committee, rie is Georgia
Rep. Phil Landrum who, t w o
years ago, voted against an Ad
ministration proposal to increase
that committee by three mem
bers, and give control to t h e
While House.
Landrum, co-author of the Lan-drum-Griffin
Act, will this year
go along with the President on
"packing." Reason: He has been .
offered a seat on the powerful
Ways and Means Committee for
voting "right."
Al
manac
fly United Press International
Today is Wednesday. Jan. 9.
Ihe 9th dav of 19fi.t with 35fi to
follow.
The moon is lull.
Tlie morning stars are Mars
and Venus.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 1788. Connecticut ratified tlie
Constitution.
In 1793. tlie first successful bal
loon flight in the U. S. was made
by Jean Pierre Blanchard over
Philadelphia.
In 18t;t, Mississippi seceded
from the Union.
In 1945. Gen. Douglas MacAr
Ihur's promise "I shall return"
was fulfilled as American soldiers
invaded Luzon in the Philippine
Islands.