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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1963)
PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday, February M, 1961 fcdihhioiL (paqsL ' Strange Switch In Rules "While Air Force personnel maintained 24-hour alert deep within their underground ICBM complexes, Army infantrymen streaked through the skies to carry out a surprise strike against enemy forces. . . ." This anomalous situation has never taken place. It is not, however, a crazy episode out of some latter-day Alice in Wonderland. It could, in theory, happen during some crisis only a few years from now, or sooner. One of the paradoxes of this age of mis siles and "brush fire" wars is that at least a part of the Air Force, which controls our intercontinental missiles, has been forced to dig In at missile sites and that a part of the Army is considering going completely air borne, i Largely as a result of lessons learned in the hop, skip and jump war In South Viet Publicity And Juvenile Offenders (Park Rapids, Minn, Enterprise) For many years law enforcement authori ties have debated the question of giving more publicity and press coverage for juveniles charged with felonies, or crimes that call for penitentiary sentences if committed by an adult. It has been argued that the prospect of publication of full details of the crimes, in cluding names of the juveniles involved, would serve as a deterrent to crime. In Minneapolis last week the Minnesota State Sheriffs Association conducted an an nual convention and had as one of the prin cipal speakers District Judge Lester Loble of Helena, Mont. The fact that so much crime currently is being traced to teen-agers, prompts us to repeat here the experience of Judge Loble as he told it to the sheriffs at their meeting, reported by Herm Sittard, a staff writer for the Minneapolis Star: "Major crimes committed by juveniles In the Helena, Mont., area have dropped 49 per cent since the 'woodshed was restored' in handling teen-age criminals there. . . "After 40 years as a trial lawyer in Mon tana courts, Lester Loble was named to the Helena district court bench six years ago. He was concerned because more than 47 per cent of all serious crimes in the United States are committed by persons under 18. "'I came to the conclusion,' he said, 'that secrecy in handling juvenile court cases was the trouble with our system.' " So Judge Loble drew up a legislative bill that requires public trial with press coverage for all juveniles charged with felonies, or crimes that call for penitentiary sentences if committed by an adult. After the Montana legislature turned him IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO President Kennedy's proposal or a program of tux reduction and tax "reform" has opened up a Pandora's box or as they say at tlio Pentagon, "a can of worms" for the Administra tion. People who had suffered In relative silence over the mani fest inequities of our tax struc ture now see an opportunity to sound off. And Congress, which is at the receiving end of all the suggestions, has begun to feel that Die best thing would be to scrap the contradictory and con fusing setup of our tax statutes and start form scratch. That wouldn't be such a bad idea. Things have gotten to such a pretty, as Groucho Marx used to say, Uiat they are Indeed. Re cent efforts to help widows of veterans by increasing Ueir pen sions have already led to cuts In their income of hundreds of dollars, simply becauso the new regulations ran afoul of Social Security regulations. A provision in the President's tax proposal, knocking off the first 5 per cent of itemized de ductions, will cost homeowners in the medium-to-lower-range of income far more than they will receive from a tax cut. It has been estimated Uiat if you own your own home and earn $8,000 a year, you can kiss away MOO that you are now able to deduct. There is general agreement that a tax cut Is necessary and It is possible that Die AKL-CIO and the National Association of Man ufacturers could come to some compromise as to who gets what Nam, the Army wants to experiment with a new, airmobile unit called the air assault di vision. Defense Secretary McNamara, who calls it "revolutionary," has asked Congress for an additional 15,000 men this year to test the idea. He wants a tripling of Army aircraft purchases, mostly helicopters. The basic functions of the services will not be changed, of course. The Air Force will still handle the major airlifting and long-range flying jobs; the Army, despite the air assault divisions and "air cavalry brigades," will still do its fighting in the mud. The hit-and-run airborne soldiers will be commando-type spe cialists, designed to operate in limited-war situations, not all-out war. Hopefully, It is the continued refining of limited-war capabilities which will keep the world out of general war until it learns to disarm completely. down, Judge Loble stumped the state for two years speaking for the bill. In 1961 the leg- islature overwhelmingly passed it. Comparing court records for 18 months preceding the new law, and 18 months after, Loble said, "I've had reductions of 49 per cent in juvenile felony cases, 68 per cent in non-felony cases and 75 per cent in juvenile traffic cases. "Parents now are beginning to discipline their kids once more. We've had a restora tion of the woodshed. The parents say to their youngster: 'You're not going to drag' my name through the newspaper.' "In some cities it's dangerous for women to walk alone on the streets at night. In my hometown you can walk anywhere, includ ing the alleys, at night without worrying about being slugged by some young hood lum. "The coddlers and so called progressive thinkers say 'This will ruin the youth of the stale.' The progressive thinker says 'You're destroying the boy's initiative.' "You bet I am. I'm destroying his initia tive to commit crime." Judge Loble told of asking about a teen ager in a New York courtroom. "He stabbed a policeman," someone said. "He ought to be punished," Judge Loble commented. "We talk about rehabilitation here," the official re plied. "Who's rehabilitating the policeman?" the Judge asked. He cited the case of a doctor who asked the judge why the doctor's son was in trou ble. "I gave him a car," said theoctor. "I gave him $15 a week; and never asked what he did with the money. What did I do wrong?" "You just got through telling me," re plied the judge. Fallacy Of Tax Reform and how. But the so-called "plug ging up of loopholes" Is what caiises the trouble (or the em battled members of tho House Ways and Moans Committee. Why, It Is being asked, should the government hit tho lower in come wage earner hard but allow labor unions to pile up tremen dous untaxed treasuries? The big unions are today investing in real estate, stocks, and banks. (One of Washington's largest banking institutions is owned by Uie Unit ed Mine Workers.) Labor serves tlie special intctests of a minori ty of (lie nation's wage earners. Why should its profits not be taxed? And what of tlie foundations? Many of thorn do a great deal of social good. But at the last count, the Ford foundation bad well over $3.5 billion in the bank untaxed was accumulating funds faster than it could spend them. Can't tlie Tronsury uiffcrcntiale between those foundations set up to serve a worUiy purxisc and those which are merely a tax gimmick? Former Representative Noah Mason, the Illinois Republican who retired laiit year, has some suggestions which lie says will bring In sufficient income to off set a tax cut, yet not penalize Individuals. As onetime ranking member of Uie House Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Mason has seen tax bills come and go. He cannot understand why tax ex emption or benefit is granted if you tag the "mutual" to a busi ness enterprise. He thinks Uiat wviiigs and loan associations, mutual savings banks, cooperatives, credit un ions, and other such organizations which compete in the open mar ket with other businesses should be subject to the same taxes. The United Sharcowners of America, Inc., a private research and legislative group with a star studded set of directors from all walks of life, suggests that 120 million Americans have become second-class citizens because they have no powerful lobbies work ing for them in Washington. That figure may be inflated, but it is a statistical fact that more peo ple own sliares in American in dustry than belong to labor unions. Vet the shareholders' voice is con sidered somehow suspect, as if It came from the throat of a 19th Century robber baron. In all tlie turmoil over the tax structure, it has been suggested that instead of spending millions on a new bureaucracy to admin ister aid to education, parents who send tlieir children to college be given tuition deductions. The value or validity of these suggestions is not tho point. More important is tlie sudden convic lion among many Americans Uiat a change in tlie tax structure is possible, that present rates and regulations are not inevitable, and that Uie Jiitt-i nal Revenue Service was not conceived by tlie Lord God Jehovah. No one knows what kind of bill will emerge from the Congress. But tlie exhilarat ing effects of the debate may have an impact that neither Mr. Kennedy nor his economic ad visers anticipated. tftyafvJ;--r.,r-- v. . zrr$lSZ--i-iW. yogi, o rtorxy'-. SI By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: In past generations, it used to be hard to be the child of a cler gyman, and have to live up to the neighbors' expectations; to day, the hardest role, I suspect, is being the child of a psychia trist and under the neighbors' continual scrutiny for signs of gross maladjustment. A woman may be candid enough to tell you her age, but she Is still vain er.ough to be annoyed If you do not pretend to feel surprise at the discrep ancy between her years and her appearance. Speeches should have three well balanced dimensions: breadth, depth, and length; and it is only when a speech lacks tlie first two. that it over-compensates in the third. Parents who think they love their own children, but find other people's children annoying or defi cient or blameworthy, don't real ly love their own, except as pos sessions or as extensions of their ego; for a person who genuinely loves trees might especially fa vor a tree growing on his front lawn, but would find all trees in teresting and attracl've, no mat tor where they grow. 'The dullest people have the greatest faith in education; but the fact remains that when a bore acquires a new subject, It does not liberate his mind or Equine Entry ACROSS 1 Equine foot fi Female horse 9 Bridle ptrt 12 Finnish name, 13Guido'i high notes 14 Expert iviltor 15 Keepers 17 Caribbean for tnsUnce 18 Schemes 19 Jackets 31 Slattern 23 Beak liool.) 24 Twitching 27 Church part 24 Feahered scarves SS Embellishes 34 Mental attitude 35 Ridicule 37 Musical dramas 38 Dispatched 39 Carry icoll) 41 Moines, Iowa 42 Horses are oats 44 Han( as if balanced 40 Moat untruthful 49 Eat away 63 Labor group tab.) 54 Falls tall first (aviation) 56 Feminine nickname 57 Son ol Seth (Bib) M Hole 59 Brythonic set iod B0 Rave 61 Gaelic DOWN 1 Stringed instrument 2 Soviet city 3 Preposition 4 Exploits 6 Miles 6 Air raid alarms ? Uncommon 8 City In I 12 13 14 1 la 16 17. 18 19 110 111 i n T5 16 T? 18 1"" 79 20 22 J J 23 p 27 28 H 2l 30 37" 32 33 nWi? 36 j3l 38 139 40 !"" ?i 42" 47j"4l 45 ' ' ' 45 j4J 48 P 49 50 51 52 -, Umi IT r 5T w 56 37 " 58 59 60 61 iV STRICTLY PERSONAL spirit, but simply gives him another area to be boring about. I have never understood how we can call anything in nature "unnatural"; isn't the so - called "unnatural" simply that part of nature we have not yet appre hended? Politics is such a dirty busi ness chiefly for the reason given, pungently and accurately, by Richard Whately more than a century ago, when he observed: "Party spirit enlists a man's vir tues in the cause of his vices." A high degree of poise is that quality which every woman de sires in herself, am! resents in other women. When the worm turns, it's slill a worm, just going in an other direction, Isn't it? Most of our problems arise from reacting when we should meditate, and from meditating when we should react; divested'of the in stincts that serve other creatures so infallibly, mankind suffers from a perpetual confusion be tween his reason and his re flexes. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What South American coun try Is larger in area than the United States? A Brazil. Answer 10 Previous Puzzle Germany 9 Wood around bottom of room's wall 10 Froster 1 1 Social eeents 16 Bodv of land 20 Thread 22 Capsite 24 Toddlera 25 nie 26 Cornstsrch :s Act 30 Winn frame 33 Ceremonies 35 Unclosed 40 Alternative 43 Hinder 45 a surrey through park 46 Pervade 47 Tropical plant 43 Capital of Yemen 50 Above 51 Low haunts 52 Italian city 31 Soap-mikinJ 55 Type of boat cVkV.- 'Set; THWMPtNAJA ' WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Goldwater Campaign Theme Set By THE WASHINGTON STAFF. Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) Sen. Barry M. Goldwater's contribu tion to capital comedy is his speech accepting the Alfalfa Club's nomination for presidency which none of its nominees has ever attained. Here are excerpts: "This is one of the most ex citing things that's happened to me since Wal- I ter R c u t h c r made me an honorary auto worker. . . .The 1 White House is now ready and waiting for me since Jackie remodeled it with 18th century decor. . . . They call me a conservative, and in the sense that the word means, 'to conserve,' it fits. The two tilings I am trying hardest to conserve are gold and water. . . . My platform for this campaign will be just five words.' 'Elect Goldwater! Elect Goldwater! Dit to.' " Brooks Hays of Arkansas, prob ably the best story teller in Wash ington, recites one of his favorites about tlie man and woman seat ed next to each other at a Wash ington dinner. "You're Mrs. Post? asks the man. . . . "Yes," she replies. . . . "Mrs. Emily Post?" . . . "Yes" .' . . "You're the author of the book .on etiquette?" . . . "Yes." . . . "Well, madam you're eating my salad." Photographic portraits of Presi i dent Kennedy hang in government offices all over Washington. You can't tell one from the other. But on St. Valentine's Day there was one with a difference, in an Agriculture Department of fice an enthusiastic secretary yeilded to an impulse that fit the mood of the day. She made a paper cutout of a pair of rosy lips and pasted the "kiss" to the President's check. When Sigma Delta Chi hon ored columnist David Lawrence by making him a "Kellow" of the national journalistic society. Washington Star editor Benjamin McKclway delivered the eulogy in which be said: "When David Lawrence was Sorn on Christmas Day, 1888, he sat up in his Tib and declared, 'Tlicre ain't no Santa Claus. And if the liberals continue to support this myth, the country is headed for socialism and ruin.' Where upon he demanded his typewrit er and yelled 'Copy!' "He has been doing that ever since." White House correspondents, overjoyed that the 50-mile hike with presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger in pursuit of phy sical fitness was called off. pre sented pluck Pierre with a half jeroboam of cognac and a mes sage reading "Retired Walkers' Survival Kit." v Salinger's change of heart in his originally scheduled trek up tlie tow path averted plans of his friends to be at the trail when he started out. They were prepared to present him with a huge St. Bernard dog taming a beautiful girl on his In response to an editorial re garding the fact that most of us would rather be engaged in pro ductive enterprise than in idleness, a reader sent in these paragraphs in support of our contention. They are a portion of a sermon by A. Powell Davics, who said: "The one thing that can keep a human life strong and steady when it is forced with rigorous demands or deprived of happiness is fidelity to duty. With this comes something which, though it be not happiness, is nonetheless a deep inner adjustment which sustains the individual life's resources. The dictionary has no word for it: it is not peace of mind or content ment, although it is nearer to these than to happiness; and it docs have something restful in it. Yet is not calm, not tranquil, not quiet; and nonetheless, in some very final sense, it is repose. "Duty can be done in un happincss just as well as some times better than in happiness . . . 'Duly' is not a pleasing word to modern ears but it must become an acceptable one. Belter than that, we must learn how greatly duty can transform us and multiply our spiritual resources." Also in the mail is a request that I reprint an article I had in this corner some time ago about last Easter, I think. The request has merit. DIARY OF A FAMILY BIBLE JANUARY A busy time for me. Most of the family decided to read me through this year. They kept me busy for two weeks. Now they have forgotten me. FEBRUARY Clean-up time. I was dusted yesterday. My owner used me a few minutes. Had had an argument and wanted to look up some references. MARCH I had a busy day the first of the month. My owner had to lead some meeting. , APRIL Grandpa visited us. He kept me busy. He seems to thinR more of me now than he did when he was younger. I got to go to church for the first time this year Easter Sunday! MAY I have a few green stains. Had some spring flowers pressed In me. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Executive Branch Controls Growing By FULTON LEWIS JR. Kentucky's Sen. Thruston Morton is angered by the policy of White House news manage ment. In a brilliant address to the Georgia Press Institute at Athens last week. Senator Morton told the assembled newsmen: "Your profession and mine have a problem in common these days. We are becoming obsolete. News ' and legislation are being fully automated. There is a giant new machine that grinds cut both com modities; grinds them out, serves them up, ties a bib around your neck, spoon-feeds ou, and even sends a doctor around to exam ine you if the diet happens to dis agree with you. "The newspaperman is expect ed to pass the package along to his readers. The legislator is ex pected to pass the package along to his constituents. The linotype machine and the legislative ma chine, in this grand design, can bolh be replaced by rubber stamps." The machine, needless to say, is the Executive Branch of govern ment. And one of its chief opera tors is Arthur Sylvester, a for mer correspondent who once fought news management and oow defends it. News, says Sylvester, an Assist ant Secretary of Defense, is a w ea pon in the hands of the govern ment. And it "is an inherent gov- back and a bottle of cognac in a soft leather carrying case slung from his neck. Pentagon officials also got into the physical fitness act by post ing this announcement to the press: "Newsmen are invited to fol low members of the Nes Di rectorate on a demonstration of walking ability tonight between 5 30 and 6:30. "Beginning at corridor 7, ' E Ring, various members of the staff will depart for such far flung areas as North Parking and SJtilh Parking, and the bus ramps below the Concourse. Older and more senile members will strut at a hardy pace to the Mall park ing area, rull packs 'brief cases, bumbtfrslwots and empty lunch bags' will be carried." NOTHING SPECIAL !W. B. S.) JUNE-I look like a scrap book. They have me stuffed full of clip pings from the newspapers. One of the girls got married. JULY-They put me in a suit case. Guess e are off for a va cation. Wish I could stay home, for I know I'll have to stay in this suitcase all month. AUGUST-Still in the suitcase. SEPTEMBER Back home again and in my old place. Have company. Two "True Stories,'" four comic books are on top of me. I wish I could be read as much as they are. OCTOBER They used me a lit tle today. One of them is very sick. Right now I am all shined up, and in the center of the ta ble. I think the preacher is com ing for a visit. NOVEMBER Back in my old place. I was looked through for some old papers today. One of tha children picked me up and asked, "Is this a scrap book?" DECEMBER They are getting ready for Christmas, so I'll be covered with wrappings and pack ages. WHAT A LIFE! About the silliest fight that could have developed in the present session of the legislature Is the squabble over the gover nor's right to have special mi crophones in the House and Sen ate lo carry assembly debate to his office. What possible wrong could there be in the governor hearing the argument on pro posed legislation? Of course, we wouldn't want the governor to have the right to "bug" cv cry office in the capitnl build ing, but that was not the point at issue in this wrangle. Legisla tors were wrong in asking re moval of the listening devices. A Portland legislator is going to lor, maybe he has) introduced a bill banning pinball machines in the state. The legislation is over due. The idea that pinball ma chines are operated "for amuse ment only" is about as amusing a situation as one can contemplate. Of all forms of gambling, the pin ball machines are about the most vicious type I know of. They should be outlawed completely and irrevocably. ernment right, if necessary, to lie to save itself." Sen. Morton pointed to a bit of news management that helped the , administration come off creditably in the November elections. In late October, just a week or so before millions of Americans went pollward, Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz released an oflicial report on unemployment. It said that more than 4.5 million Ameri cans were employed than at the start of the Administration. Unem ployment, he continued, had been slashed by 2 million since the He publicans left town. With all the precision ol a mili tary maneuver, Wirtz had helped save the Administration from po litical defeat. When the election had passed, however, the true fig ures were released. Total employment had risen not 4.5 million, but 1.2 million, noth ing more than par for the course in an expanding economy. Unem ployment had been cut not 2 mil lion, but 784.000. less than the President had promised during his successful campaign lor elec tion. Things have changed in Wash ington. Sen. Morton insists. The people cannot be trusted. Jomcs McGregor Burns, the President's official biographer, calls Congress a "stumbling block to democ racy." The President demands that committees of House and Sen ate be expanded to give him iron fisted control over the Legislative branch. The Budget Director has tuld Congress that its members can t consider the budget properly be cause they "fragment it" by divid ing it into receipts and expendi lures. Only the Present, he says, can properly view die budget. The Administration operates on the thesis of Alvin Hansen, profes sor emeritus at Harvard, that "the marginal tax dollar has a much higher social utility than the mar ginal pay-envelope dollar. The for mer goes to schools; the latter into tail fins." Simple, isn't it, asks Senator Morton. Government is wise. In dividuals are foolish. And in this continuing battle, of the enlightened against the unen lightened, a controlled press is a weapon that must be ued, in the words of Arthur Sylvester, because government has "an inherent right lo sae itself."
