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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Thursday, February M, 1961
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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.
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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
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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
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try Is larger in area than the
United States?
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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."