HERALD AND NEWS. Klamith Falli, Ore.
Thursday, Frbnury 21, 1M3
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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