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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1963)
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamith Falli, Ore. Thursday, Frbnury 21, 1M3 f II Before I Decide, I'd Like to Know I IfcrattlanilJteUrjs NOTHING SPECIAL the FULL Price" (W. B. S.I PACE -K This is the season of the year when we .: hear a great deal from our politicians about ; some of the nation's foremost heroes George : Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jef ': ferson, Andrew Jackson. To Invoke the greatest of the historic past is not only natural but ought to be a highly inspiring exercise. Yet with too many politicians it has become automatic, per- - functory, unthinking. The real purpose of this annual winter- time festival of party speechmaking is to - belabor the opposition with full force. No one can sensibly object to highly charged political debate. We must have it. But there is more : than a little artifice in conducting it against I a backdrop of our past greatness. ' Most of the nnlitirians who disoort them- selves in front of this rich canvas probably know very little of American history, though tt - JiUW JliailV, 1UI IJinillllll., lhat George Washington, during and Indian War years before the was once briefly under suspicion for treason? How many know that at least three times he narrowly missed death during lhat same pe riod? How many know how strongly governed Washington was in his public duty by his deep sense of pride, his concern for his honor and repulation before the world he moved in? Who among our wintertime speakers on (Register-Guard, Eugene) Dick Eymann is proposing that Oregon crack down on use of the telephone for questionable business soliciting purposes. And whether the hill he plans to introduce in the House of Representatives is adopted or not, his espousal of a get-tough policy in this area of public inconvenience is already winning him favorable notice. However, Rep. Kymnnn's thought, of re quiring telephone solicitors to gel $100 li- Mtnvfti frrm i.niilu I'lnrc ,voVi rri lift Win Viest approach. Kly-hy-nighV operators, who spt up telephone "boiler rooms" with batteries of phonos manned by crews of fast-talking sales men and saleswomen, might simply laugh off a $100 fee. They often deal in big-profit, if not almost fraudulently profitable, sales games. More power to Rep. Eymann, hp say knowing full well that this thought Is echoed by thousands of housewives who keep being summoned up from the basement or down from the nursery to answer unwanted calls from solicitors who may, or may not, be of fering them fair deals. More power to him, we say knowing, too. that those who use the telephone for legitimate htisiness solicit ing also are on his side. But we do hope that Rep. Kymann doesn't intend to rely upon the license fee alone to accomplish the good purpose he has in mind. A waiting period between the time of ap IN WASHINGTON f Quarantine Won't Work ny H M.I'M He TOI.KDAMl In tho nl inning dchali. mer Cuh.in policy. the Administra tion lias relied heavily nn Hs argument that shipping orders is sued on Feb. A would hiinc Fi del Castro lo his knees hy elimi nating hi fnreiijn commerce For lhns who rurne In Lilr, those nhippinR nrders on the liner of it bar ships that engage in trade with Cuba In be ut in ti (iii-ni tine I' S. (oif ign a i H cargo In reality, the orders are me.tninlrss. Tim is how they work Company X has ,vi esels It uses ten of th'ise to tr ;nnsort civilian and mihtaiy supplies In Cuba Thnvp ten vessels, there fore, t .oinoi tian-xirt American aid r.ti zo from I' S ports But Company X's other 40 vrssrls ran continue to make a handome pint it Irom the t'.S And the ten presrntiod vessels, though I h e v cannot rairy aid caigo horn am t'S. rl, ran be usM In tian shipment of aid caigo from one foreign port 1 another .Since M per rent nl all aid shipments fall into this second ralegoiv, Company X stands to lnr Intle 'if anything i by President Ken nedy's mm h touted shipping or ders. And the ("astro dictatorship remains virtually unmolested Tins example is not far-fetched. The American Maritime Associa tion poinls out that Yugoslavia, with K,u ships, "rontinues to play both ends." Of lis merchant ships, only f) havt been engaged in the Peddlers Of Patriotism ..1,1 nuuiu the French Revolution, Phonies On The Phone plication for a license and its effective date might deter some of the here-today, gone tomorrow boiler room operators. And so might the requirement of a bond which would be held by the license-issuing agency for a pe riod of time beyond the expiration date of any telephone-soliciting license. Best of all might be a carefully prepared license form requiring detailed listing of the purposes of the intended soliciting, prices to be asked tor various services or products, tonus of financing to hp offered, warranty pro visions and basic representations to be made to prospective purchasers in the proposed soliciting. With these statements on file, and open for public Inspection at any time, it would be much easier for persons dubious about particular telephone offers lo make sure of their authenticity. And II would be easier for anyone feeling aggrieved about a purchase made as the result of a telephone solicitation to initiate legal recovery action. It isn't possible to protect the gullible from ever being taken by telephone sharpies. Nor would it be right to ban telephone solicit ing completely; it is used for many legiti mate purposes, often for the benefit of the buyer as well as the seller. But if the Legis lature can follow Rep. Kvmann's lead to take the edge off the sharp practices employed by increasing nunihers of telephone solicitors, that effort will be well worthwhile. Cuban trade since Sept I, 12 The Yugoslavs can help fasti and rnnlinue In rake in the Yan kee dollar transporting t;. ,V for eign aid. In short, the Kennedy shipping onion slap down individual ships but not countries or shipping com panies using Iheir bottoms lo slienglhen the fasti n u-gimr. !1 the advance publicity on this log step touHid quarantining the Cu ban inleclion Imrntn nut to he ,moi!i er grandstand ptav which allows the Communists to hiiiiI to I S aggressiveness but gives us noth uig in return. The "image,'' oh ioul. is moie import. ml than the act lo our policy makers l the same tune, it is being Ikuntisl out heie lhat the Admin rotation is doing almost nullum: to choke nlf aid to Hie struggling Chinese Communist regime Tv shipping oiders on Cuba, how ever leehle, do not apply to main land ( hui.i The Anient an Man time Astociahnn sums it up this wav Tile aliMMie of Shipping I'ideis tesiiicling the carriage ol I S - tinsnced t hi goes li om thr-e foicign Hag veels engaged in the I oninuiiusi Chinese tiade. pet nuts these loieign carriers lo eain v aluable c ui rcncies, resulting in lower shipping rales (or Comniii ni-l China at a lime when that rnuntiy is sullrnng limn a rnti cal shoiiage of (oieign exchange funds " The caw of the Kennedy ship ping orders raises some interest. the political circuit has sampled the reward ing evidences of friendship belween Jeffer son and John Adams? This was a bond hugely helpful In a budding nation, a link which weakened in later years only to he restored as the two men neared death. With his dying breath, Adams, in Massa chusetts, was moved to say: "Thank God Thomas Jefferson still lives." But he was wrong. That very morning, a few hours earl ier, Jefferson, his great friend, had died in Virginia. How wide is the appreciation among our Lincoln-Jefferson-Jackson day orators that Adams is rated by historians as a "near great" among U.S. presidents? That James K. Polk, little heard of, is another? The truth is that our politicians generally do not know their historic past much better than do most Americans and that is not very well. Innumerable surveys of students and adults alike have made the point forcefully. Some year the politicians ought to devote (heir winter festival to a real consideration of history, with the notable aim of stirring among Americans a genuine interest in the historic roots of the "Americanism" they hear so much about. Americanism ought to be a living, breath ing thing, built from an unending stream of life in which we all can move. For too many it is a marble statue, aloof on a pedestal. ing questions as In the intent o( the Administration tlepealedly. slops are laken which seem In denote a detenni nation lo (ace up to the iralihes of the Cold War and to U'loken the will to win Mm on e.imm,i lion, these nica.-uirs linn out lo he htile mine than sound ami bin. stgnilytiig Inile or nothing W ho, then, is tooling whom' te these measures designed to Inghlen Hie Communist bloc' (omiaile Khiuslu-hev and the laptive nations leaden can red as well as we cm re they de s glv-,1 to fool the Vioeilcan jvn pie into belies ing thai something is being done' Or is the d nmnsliation mi coniused hv its intelV, t.ial i alisllienu s that it , an no longer tell the diltfieme be Iwcen the shadow ot its ihp'o matic hosing and Ihe sub-lance of meaningful measures ' Krank!. I do not know ihe answer to Hiese questions, and I would submit t'at lew hete -n Wash ngt n would ca e to he tie io their ressnscs (,,1 am i oiihnu.illv lemmded of the old rmv saving aboui ,-eilain guardhouse law vers (Hat tnrv would lather talk than eal Sitting heie in the eve of Ihe hurricane w hi, h i. national poiitu s, I tend lo he! ret r thai a paraphiase tils I'n- Vliumisii.uion 15cl.it iv rt f'oe of siliti,al or diplomatic e liMien, e. the New Frcntiersmen aie overcome by the complexities they lace Thev would rather talk than think, lalher think than do whatever the i onsequrnces. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: To ask the right question, it is nerrssary that we already know much ot the answer: and those who do not know arc perpetually rondemned to be asking Ihe wrong questions and getting no satis factory replies. One can always tell when a criticism strikes home, lor the person criticized promptly gets angry and counterattacks: when it misses ils mark, the person merely shrugs or smiles or calm ly ignores it. Some people are incapable of assuaging their own secret dnuhls until they have persuad ed others; In the very act fif zealous conversion, they are stifling their own uncertainties while kindling the hellels nl oth ers. When Ihe Corporal ion speaks lo Ihe Kmplnye. it customarily says the things lhat ii would like lo hear, and not what Ihe Kmplnye would necessarily like lo hear. Ihus the failure of so much nlli cial communu alion designed In improve morale, increase loyally, and promote bellrr under -standing. "In the linal analysis'' is phrase only young men should use: men of middle age and over should know that theie is no final analysis. Theie is a saturnine truth, how. Girl Talk ACROSS 1 Omininp apjvllaiinn 4 Swppi 0 lirirly" 0 t'nrld fnm'i pet 12 f nn'mnfr 13 Kill flower H Arcomplthfd IS KntnmeloRy 1 ah ) IT dirl nitr IB ThmM out MChanw he pfnlil t h I 2fl Nihumlan Inrlun tnd'i S.l MjKp Ucp smbjfl i hiril ml k worm Pronnun British nrnnfy of account .to T.ikr out 4 J A-.ce nrlnt 4' (liltt-on srrii mnUmrr 17 Mix llriy .M) I'ovlpnn i)4 Km tioiri'tir me vr M-rl SS Hrai h't Ac fto ltnilffl 1 MiM Pro f2 A!mop),pre I.! (Jr k IrMrr f4 Froif n ram b.i liolf mound DOWN 1 Onti of miplrs 2 Himlft (or on 3 Mr 4 1 iliJin tapir S ("hrmiril mftit d,-rfir.n 1 2 3 " U 15 t) 17 T 1 110 111 rs T5 17 g iTt L L- 35 p""-l3r j4 35 IjJ MJ 1 3 j , IS 1 ' ' 1 , ( , jVnr.1.. !, a5 30 5? 58 5s b3 61 62 S3 5? 65 I 1 I I I I I . ? &.-'st f SCHOOL ill STRICTLY PERSONAL ever we may deny it. in the ob servation made by N. F. Simpson: "Kadi of us as he receives his private trouncinfis at the hands of fate is kept in Rood hr.irt by the moth in his brother's para chute, and the .scorpion in his neighbor's underwear." H srrm to he (hr rssrnlial hnnv nf the human condition thai up have hern given just rnmmh intelligence tn manutar inn the tool Ur our rinminanrp nf tin? enrlh, hut not quite rnmmh inRllicrnpp tn prevent u using these Inn Is to oppress, exploit and exterminate one an other. Con men and cynics, who are fend of quotinq Rarnum's famous ptua.se. "A sucker is horn every minute." to justify their behav ior, pay no attention to Rarnum's oilier remark imuch more true and profound that. "More per sons, on the whole, are humbuseed by believing nothing, than hy be lieving too much." Failure breeds bitterness, and Mircps breed disenchantment : this is the best argument fr selling goals that are unattain able, v that thp ft riving be comes an end In itself. The fiod I worship can a cept sinners and rogues, the debauched and even the Heccnerate; what Hp finds most offensive a hove all is ihe virtuous person with a mean mind. Anwr to Prpvimii PuiiIp T Netin snffn fl substitult H He.Urt lOCIimbinff plant I Hf hrew month 10 Blond money Tl JVrmil .M Bihlical omin 24 Petly prince :s OM -ft Perf oration tn Pihliral prophet 41 Simples 4.1 Rat 44 Huh 47 Mr Korn 4ft I pjtvp out 4J Vo nrtua rhettnut St Kxploit 5 Iroonotan tndisn M I ncomnion Ins M.-ure ol ciolh S-Brfw sa ohv 27 (ireet 2 Iivp god :o Appip fpntr ?l Semtinit V.R.JGAQ.A3JJilEiM li i-;iAH3' I iE. njIBj .AiUa" Net Receipts Tax Proposal Is Explained, Three times Governor Mark O. Hatfield has recommended re form of the state's personal in come tax "to broaden the base and reduce the rates." This con cept has had the approval of leg islative interim committees and was embodied in a tax bill that passed the House of Representa tives in lOfil hut failed in the Senate. This bill is again before Ihe Legislature, topether with other proposals to increase tax revenues in the next biennium. Basically, the proposal assumes thai every citizen who earns in come should pay a small portion nf that income "sucRcsted; one per rem i to the stale in reroenilion ni the services he receives with out exemptions and deductions. At the same time, it is recog nized that the tax on income should be adjusted in line with ability to pay. An amendment tn the personal income tax Jaw that would achieve these purposes has been called a "net receipts" amend ment. This terminology is criti cized on the ground that for most people earning wages or salaries. Ihe first one per cent is on their total earned income. Finding a suitable substitute titlp for the amendments is difficult because those who arp self - employed 'farmers, professional men' and older unrkintt men who must pro vide their own tools and special equipment should hp entitled In deduct their cnst of doing hum ncs. Therefore, it is a tax on net receipts for them, even though for mot of us nrt and gross may be the same. Why should the law apply the fust one per cent tax to all "net tereipts"? It is perhaps not Ion well known that while lat year, mnre than too.ooo of those filing paid no tax. it has heen estimated that another 2O0.ocm Oregon resi dents earned income but were nn required to file a return. Sure ly these people benefit from state services and should contribute to state support. One of the advant ages of this approach compared to tho sales tax1 is the fart that it collects from those who earn income rather than from Ihoe who depend on savings, Snriai .Security checks or similar sources of income The net receipts amendment would eliminate most deductions. Why? There are two major rea sons First, ihe deductions do not increase the equity ot the tax especially with a standard de duction. They merely make a higher rate neeeary to provide the same reenue. Second, the deductions imrea.p tremendously Ihe cost of preparing and process ing Ihe returns. It is sometimes aigued that de ductibility encourages chariiahle mnti ihutHin-i There ate two re plies if this argument is valid, it 11 the Federal Inmme tax de Hmtinn thai makes it so. not ihe sfare tax; and the level of chari table contributions in states with out an income tax 'and deduc tions' is not demonstrably difler rnt ftom that n Oregon tax reform that sh.vc ie cost of potprnment among thnr who have the ability income1. tH.it retains the principle of high er rates on higher income, and re ouips P'p cot of la admtniri v tinn dc.-ei e set ;ou consider a t!nn st a time when additional funds j:e needed By Freeman Holmer Hrad Oregon IVpartment of Finance and Admm:v ttdtinn Having somi" years ajn gotten quite a crawlull of the National Congress of Parent-Teacher Asso ciations, I'm glad to see a group of interested persons in Klamalh Kails is raising the question of Ihe worth of that pressure or ganization. Klamath Falls is not the only area where the question is being raised. Back in the east and midwest, almost 2(H) local P-T.Vs have disentangled them selves from the National organiza tion. I think there is some merit in a local organization of parents and teachars where viewpoints and knowledge are exchanged. Rut, at the stale and national level, the Associations become selfish, high-pressure agencies. (Iris, the Inwriown is nut. Over in Bozenian, Mont., Mon tana .State College has come up with a study that alleges to give the picture of the "aver age woman." Mere are some of the snlient points contained in the study. She eats lffl) pounds nf meal, Xtf eggs and 25.0110 inches pi spaghetti a year. She smokes Ml! packs of cigarettes and dumps 4(H) pounds of edihle food in the garbage. Her TV set is on five hours a day, (although the report did not say if she watches it at any time), she spends a year nf her Ijfe nn the phone and speaks 4.800 words a day. She spends half again as much as her husband for clothes hut returns 1.1 per cent nf the clothes she buys. Have you ever noticed the price tags on Ihe left rear windows nf new cars? The base price is quot ed, then follows a long list nf extra charges lor things y o u would Ihink quile essential to nor mal operation of Ihe car. A farmer in Iowa road nne nf these price tags, then inserted an ad nf his own in Ihe local newspa per. II read: "FOR SALE: I llolstein milk cow. black and white. $100. Ac cessories: l;dder. $75; two-tone color. $.i; 4 split hrinvcs. $n each; tail, approximalely 1'? leet lone. $fi; extra stomach, $15: dual horn, optional, $15. Total price m:' A news story in one of Ihe Salem newspapers tells about an em a pee from the Pasco, Wash., county jail who was heing ques- WASHINGTON ferll Castf0 Hemisphere Chaos By Ft "LTOX I.KWIS in. Sw eat rolling dow n his fare, the applause ot Communist deli cate nnaina in his ears, Fidel Castro promised to export revolu tion to every country of !atin America, to "launch Ihe masses into battle" acaint the hated im perialists. It wa a speech. drliered to the Counters of Women of the Americas on dan lfi. n nl!enie lhat State Department officials called it "a declaration of war acaint the hemisphere." One month later these same officials have yet to react to that declaration of war. This, desjnle a joint Concres-ional resolution parsed overwhelmingly last year that instructs (hem to "prevent by whatexer means may he neces sary, including the use of arm-., the Marit-lninist regime m Cuba from etendinc hy force or threat of force its aiwereie or subversive activities to any part of the hemisphere " Rep Armtstead Selden 'P, Ma ', chairman of the Ko'ein Affairs subcommittee on I-atm America, has o(ened s.ibcomrrut tee hearmcs on the subject. I're liminaiy metication has inn unced him that "the Kremlin is usinc Castro's iiand as a com mand post to uhert th West ern Hemisphere by a revolution ot terror and t rann Cons der tlier ?ocrnt examples: On November 2'. a Wi-iz Vr hnes p'jrie crashed near I. 'ma. Peru, kil!:nc all atviard. One nf lhne passer: jer as a h jh ranking Casfro acmt, Cepero Bnmila. who had hoen in Ria.nl etenih!v to at'ei d a t ntted Na tions reMna! convrenre. Pm.; menLs discmered on his rersn disclosed lh.it B'lpfi'a er rd as liaison bet'.Hvn Casim and pp.t ant ielv!s supported hv the P-a-nlian Communist Party. Be:o; h' deatki he bad helped set up a meeM ni; for nvd-.tanuarv which Brazilian and CuKn Tnnv TTumists were to map piar-.s to topple te Brazilian cnernmen' On Dec is. the Brazilian pohre announced Uw Catto axon's Had slipped into the:r rn,;ptrv to tram tioned about a number of un solved Oregon crimes. These crimes include some horrible sex murders in Trent, Bend and Port land. The escapee had been jailed on a charge of indecent expo sure. But here's the clincher, and I quote from the news slnry. "The jail term gave police lat Newport! a chance to check Newton's (the escapee I record. It was learned he had been arrested 10 times. Seven of those arrests charged indecent exposures of. crimes against chil dren." Some day. If he hasn't already done so, this bird will commit some atrocity against a small child and the community where she lived will he enraged and outraged. But, it will he too late. The guy should go to the gas chamber now. For those guys who have been making the weekend pilgrimages to the coast area streams to pick up a steelhead or so. and return ing empty-handed, the following is offered as some solace. It is a dis patch from a newspaper in Man chester, Iowa, published March lfi, 1885. It said: "The recent frightful accident which happened to a stage in Southern Oregon cannot fail, says Ihe New York Times, lo call atten tion of the stale authorities to the necessity of protecting settlers against attacks nf salmon. The stage in question was crossing Applecate Creek when it was sud denly attacked by a drove of salmon. The slage was instantly overturned, and the hungry fish swarmed over it. while the stage driver, with great presence of mind, cut the traces nf the horses, and throwing himself across the off wheel horse a powerful animal, formerly I h e property nf Dr. Ooodi ich of Olym pia managed lo escape. The dis patch which conveys us this pain ful story says nnlhing of the fate ol the stai:e passengers, hut. un fortunately, there is every reason to believe that they fell victims to the salmon. "The Oregon salmon has long been regarded hy experienced western hunters as the most dan cerous animal infesting the con tinent. It is much larger lhan Ihe salmon nf Ihe Atlantic Coast, and, unlike the latter, which is timid and Inoffensive, this fish Is fear less and aggressive." REPORT Threatens EuernDa bands. Th policy of. fried as proof a raptured sta tion wazon loaded with arms, am munition and Castro propasanda. t.css than two weeks later, the Brazilian press carried photo craphs and descriptions of C?ah machine suns found buried in farm fields im miies north of Sao Pauio. The arms were in Cuban newspaper's, Cuban agents have hen respon sible for numerous attempts on the It'e of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. They roam the hills of Venezuela. looting sabotacinu. On Oct 27. four Mara carho power stations wore rivna mited. outline off one-silh of the country's nil production. Venezuelan officials then pie senled to the Orcamzation of American State copies of inter cepted cahle and rad'o meseace; that had been wenl to the saho leurs from Havana v ith dyna mihnc instructions Amerk an vico lat fall ar rested three Castro azents and sried a huse cache of fire romhs. hand grenade, and other weapons. Documents have hren seirrd in Ruenoc Aires mdicatirc lhat Cas tro aide Krnevto 1 Che Guevara. t centinp - born Communist, persnnal'y ri:rert;r,s a campaign to mert'iro-.c pir pinmont of his native l.iod KfO Paul K.ieis D . P,v, on of the t rst Conrevsinna' f:;ires to wa-n of Castio s vrvo! ; nn hv r-o . h;is ouilined a rorr-pre-hensive program to deal unh thu prnbm He ea'ls for a t,.-1! it-v ia' nn o( ("a-trn 1 Cjme vrap-r! - of thiS hrm.sprer to or 5 f.Viir-j nn Cuba 2 C'o-e V'.r .npor's nf p bem:sp'ir:P to a: s f! ;r.i tntft Vv.'n -1 B,-n tc ecmnn,n!-a'lon r. as nf mesa;es to and from Cub 4 Sharply curb f"e t-arl nf Castrn agents tiio tfoi:t the. hemis'-here 5 Freeze OiSan f-;rH: n-vi on deport tn U'm American finjin c:a? int!t!!t;nns.
