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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore. Friday. March 1, 1961 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Kennedy-Khrushchev No Strings? V i) Meeting Considered ft,;, ' PACK t-k s 1 r Nobody is getting noticeably excited by all the talk in Washington about a tax cut. There are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which are thr. indications, tbst the slates will move in on the taxpayer if the federal government moves out. Tax Foundation, Inc., a private research group, reports that about 30 states are con sidering tax increases that would add $1.5 billion nation-wide to total, taxes. Many of these increases are keyed to reductions in the federal bite. Commerce Clearing House, another priv ate group, reports the same picture, which varies from Maine's proposed sales tax in Increase (The Band Bulletin) -' While Washington and the nation . ' are rife with speculation about a tax cut in 1963, a $2 billion tax rise is going through with a minimum of publicity. It will mean a considerable difference in take-home pay for most families. The boost is In the form of Social Security tax rates voted at the 1961 session of Congress. The rise in payroll deduction is from three and one-eighth per cent to three and five-eighths per cent on the first $4,800 of earnings. This is matched by the employer, - so the total rise is one per cent. The maxi : mum tax for the year thus goes up from $150 v to $174, or 16 per cent. The effect of the rise will be felt most by employees earning substantially more than the base of $4,800. They will have paid up their 1962 lax early in the year, so the re sumption of Social Security deductions amounts in a sense to a double cut in take home pay. For self-employed people, the rate will i . 1. 11 L I - ft 1 rise Dy seven-ienms per cent. 10 nve aim four-tenths per cent. Their maximum tax goes up from $225.60 to $259.20. This is the ninth boost in Social Securi j,ty ta" rates since the system was voted into jlaw in 1935. As rates have increased, of course, 1 so have benefits. The maximum benefit for a worker retired at age 65 will be $127 a month in 1963. As the law now stands, further rate rises for employees, employers, and the self-employed are scheduled for 1966 and 1968. And although the rate is approaching the limit the taxpayer will stand for, further rises may be -I IN WASHINGTON . . . W By RALPH de TOLEDANO There Is nothing sacrosanct about Uie American press and it can be demonstrated that the na tion's newsmen often have feet of clay. The American press can be prejudiced, and reporters can sometimes forgot the difference between crusading and cditorializ ; Ins. They can be taken in by the blandishments of the Kcn'edy Ad J jninistrntion, as a veteran corrcs Jjinndent has shown in a recent .-Kortune article. : : But there is one thing that the American press is not and re peat: not. Unlike some of the European press. It is not corrupt. You can win a newspaper man's sympathy or support, but you had bettor not try to buy him. I can count on the fingers of one hand, with a couple left over, the newsmen I have known to . be "on the take." So tough is '. the press corps on this subject ! - that a famous woman correspond ent was expelled from the House ; Senate press galleries because :-f.ho had sinned a toothpaste ad ; I yerliscmcnt. -S it has taken a Jack Paar, a ; comedian so neurotically sensitive : that he will cry on the air if a harsh Word ft said to him, to accuse the American press of cor ruption. A mailing piece from Es quire, which hat made a consid erable profit by combining sex and phony liberalism," bears the . glad tidings: ; . "You can buy the editorial in tegrity of a large proportion of Y-Uie prss for a bottle of Scotch ;vt column inch. Jack Paar ' JKiund on w wquire. O There you arc. A "large pro atlon" of tin American press Into The Vacuum Makes Little Charge 'Way Off Base is made up of corrupt lushes. That such a charge should come from Jack Paar is no surprise. Though he makes more in an hour of chatter than most newsmen make in a year, Jack has been out to punish the press for not loving him enough. He is a glib, some times funny, performer whose reputation was made by the wit and talent of guests who were paid the bare minimum allowed by the performing unions. Mr. Paar achieved considerable fame when, on a junket to Cuba, he gave Fidel Castro to the Ameri can people. Castro, if one accept ed the Paar testimony and mil lions saw Fidel on the show was a lovable, idealistic, anti-Communist whoso most earnest desire was to live In friendship with the United States. And Mr. Paar grew eloquently indignant about those who questioned his word and ac cused Fidel of having Communist sympathies. Since Uien. Jack Paar has con sidered himself something of a public figure, When ho was on nightly, he would deliver himself of opinions on the stale of the world and it must be said in fairness that occasionally a few of his facts were correct. Because a number of radio-TV columnists and otiier commentators on the show business sc-ne w ere not over come by Uie Paar charm and said so in print, h mounted a cam paign against them using MIC facilities and the publicly-owned airwaves as his medium. When he allowed any rebuttal, it was followed oy hours and days of vicious commentary from him or (mm awning guests. Panr's motives can h under crease to 4 per cent to West Virginia's exten sion of its horse race tax. We seem to have reached a plateau in taxes. There is a certain percentage of the na tional wealth that has to be extracted and disbursed by government because certain things have to be done and only government national or local can do them. The percentage may be a trifle on the high side today, but any net reduction is like ly to be slight after local tax hikes are bal anced against federal tax cuts. That's why Joe Citizen is not excited about a tax cut. He sees little difference in whether the money is taken from his right, hand or his left hand. Noise expected. The medicare plan defeated at the 1962 session of Congress would have raised the rates on employees and employer by one fourth per cent each and on the self-employed by four-tenths per cent. It also would have ap plied the entire tax on the first $5,200 of earnings, a boost of $400 in the base. The Social Security omnibus measure of 27 years ago was described at the time as "more complex than any other ever consid ered by Congress" and as "the most compre hensive single piece of social legislation ever enacted by the legislature of any country." But its status remained in doubt for almost two years. The Supreme Court decision uphold ing the Social Security Act was handed down in May 1937. Since then coverage has been expanded regularly. Social Security sweeteners were en acted in five consecutive election years up until 1962. The eventual universal coverage originally intended is approaching. But Social Security is a good deal more than a vast welfare umbrella. Because the benefit checks are cashed and the money quickly spent, the effect on the national econ omy is akin to that envisaged in the old Town send Plan. The system keeps money in cir culation, contributes heavily to consumption of goods, and indeed has become a major prop under the economy. Social Security long ago ceased to be controversial, though it remains the target for occasional pot-shots as for example this one included in a recent business letter: "It (the rate rise) means a $24 tax boost for em ployeesa fact which might be pointed out to them in a stuffer enclosed in a forth coming pay envelope." stood. But I fail to see why Es quire should givs houseroom to a group libel of the press. The edi tors of Esquire have strong politi cal views, to which Uiey are en titled, and the magazine's pages have been employed for a series of attacks against those who are to the right of center. These at tacks have, on several occasions, gone over the lino of propriety but why be stuffy about that? Es quire has made false accusations against me, but I have managed to survive. The smear of a "large propor tion" of the press as "on Uie lake" drunks is a different mat ter, however. Whatever the short comings of the American press, it is the cleanest in the world. It is one thing to argue about the po litical bias of this newspaper or that group of correspondents. But to destroy faith in the basic hon esty of the American press plays right into the hands of the lotah tarians Communist or Fascist. 1 know this was not Esquire's pur pose. The mailing piece in ques tion starts out with a "como on" about a nude woman printed on Uie envelope and this, like the Paar diatribe, is designed to sell copies and make money. There's no harm in thai. The profit motive is what makes the wheels go 'round. But there must be a point of rcsxnsibility even (or Esquire. To cast nsiiersion on a large group of people is serious business and the American Soci ety of Newspaper Editors of Sig ma Delta Chi, the Journalism fra ternity, should look Into it not to censor Esquire or Jack Paar, but to take a strong stand against this kind of nastiness. Compulsory Unionism Is Issue By TULLY NETTLETON (Associate Chief Editorial Writer of The Christian Science Monitor) Is there such a thing as an un qualified right to work for an em ployer of one's own choosing if the employer's terms are satisfac tory? Or docs the very existence of terms and of worker protections which stem from collective bar gaining connote the existence of a background of labor unionism to which every employe, union mem ber or not, owes some debt? These questions pose in sub stance the controversy over what labor leaders call "union secur ity" and what some industrialists reject as "compulsory unionism." Illuminating case histories on the subject have been built up during the last year in contests between two major unions, the ma chinists and the automobile workers, and three leading aero space companies, Douglas, Lock heed, and Boeing. Two decisions are in the record and two are yet to be arrived at. Contracts have been written at Douglas and Lock heed; a strike against Boeing has been enjoined, and the United States Supreme Court may upset the agency shop provisions in the Douglas contract. Why do labor officials insist on the union shop in which an em ploye, once hired, must join a union if he is to hold his job? Long labor experience has in dicated that where a recognized bargaining organization exists, the working condition it obtains will be enjoyed by all employes on the job. To maintain such an organiza tion involves expense, and those who pay the expense (through union dues) generally (eel that the cost should be shared by all who share the benefits. Out of dissatisfaction with cases of "dual unionism" (two unions competing in a single plant or in Gems ACROSS 1 Precious stone 6 Another jewel 12 Elude 13 Wasting 14 Intellect IK I,oosened 17 Terminal 15 Time of day 20 Compass point 21 Yellowish green stone 24 Holy Roman Church tab.) 26 Made horizontal SO Other nam 32 Seldom 33 Coins of Ecuador S5 Rent 36 Church dignitary 38 Corniahtown (prefix) 39 Place for goods 42 Southern state tab.) 44 Persia 45 Aeriform fuel 48 Extremely minute 52 Retiring 54 Indian 55 Substantial 56 Paint 57 Frightening DOWN 1 Clamor, roar (obs.) 2 Flat 3 Electric catfish 4 Measures of length tab.) 8 Sierra e Prattle (Scot.) 7 Rnstle 8 Posed 9 tireek letter 10 Giant (obs.) 11 Interpret 'sal-keeping is Neither T 12 13 14 15 I IS p 18 19 l!0 III l i3 iT iTT nr IT r"ii8 19 j 155 1 1 L-J I , . I I 21 22 23 pTT25 r-JjS Z? 28 12ft so n 32 53 iT 135 35 pSrj 1 . , LaztatudU 33T 40 41 42 43 I U H43 146 K7 5 49 160 6 1 3 3 35 55 57 1 dustry), the Wagner Act in 1!)35 provided that: "Representatives designated or selected for the purpose of col lective bargaining by the major ity of the employes in a unit . . . shall be the exclusive representa tives of all the employes in such unit for the purposes of col lective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of em ployment, or other conditions of employment." This provision was re-enacted in the Taft-Hartley Act o( 1947 and is part of the law now adminis tered by the National Labor Rela tions Board. Under this exclusive bargaining concept, as was urged by the ma chinists' union in the Lockheed case, the bargaining agent is re quired to represent employes who arc not members in the same man ner as members of the union. At this and other aerospace com panies the union has spent con siderable sums in arbitration cases and other procedures where sub stantial numbers of nonunion workers have benefited from the result. Spokesmen for the International Association of Machinists point out that the aerospace industry, fluc tuating with gc Yernment contracts, has an exceptionally high rate of employe turnover. This not only makes it difficult to maintain a majority membership (which is something of a factor in responsi bility for keeping contracts) but keep up its corps of shop stew ards. Since new employes auto matically enjoy the ready-made benefits of existing contracts and see no reason to join the union un less required to do so. On the oilier hand, heads of the Lockheed and Boeing companies take the position that, as one of them staled it, "A basic princi ple is at stake American citizens possess certain inalienable rights Answer to Previous Puzzle 19 Lubricant 21 Yield of oysters 22 Elliptical 23 Rounded 24 Stigma 5S Oram 27 Shakespearean king 28 Otherwise 29 Color 30 Adder 31 Chair 34 Indifferent 40 Dutch measure 41 Fabled being 42 Urn 43 Solar disk 45 Clothing 46 Citv in California 47 Swelling on an evehd 49 Three match 50 Hebrew letter 51 Decorate a cake 37 Make a mistake 53 English river lARIMELJEiUAISI IAOE1 which even a majority vote cannot take away from them." One of these, it is argued is the right of association or nonassociation with private organizations. Concerning the "free rider" or "free loader" argument, Donald R. Richberg, a former labor at torney, says, "Fraternal organiza tions, churches, and civic and po litical organizations raise money, organize work, and carry it on for the benefit of a large number of persons who contribute no sup port." He considers it absurd to empower a voluntary organization to compel all who benefit from it to contribute support. Yet labor organization spokes men might argue that the Wagner and Taft-Hartley Acts have given them a responsibility somewhat be yond that o( the usual voluntary association. In designating "bar gaining units," within which an or ganization must represent all or none, has Congress done something akin to what a state Legislature does when it authorizes creation of "improvement districts"? In those an assessment is levied on all whose property is benefited by streets, sewers or other im provements favored by a major ity. One who does not wish to pay the assessment has the option of selling and moving out. But union activities are often somewhat broader than collective bargaining activities, even if he did not entirely agree with the way they were handled, might not want to contribute to political campaigns or social and economic propaganda also covered in union dues. Or he might deeply disap prove of the union leadership. Under these circumstances it would seem there should be some way out for the individual and the union. The Lockheed settlement provides that the company will assist the union in placing before new employes its arguments for voluntary membership. The agency shop would assess the costs of union membership even against nonmembers. On the other hand, an untrammelcd "right to work" permits "repre sentation without taxation." Is there not some arrangement by which the agency Ice would be limited strictly to representa tion costs, or by which unwilling participants could designate a charitable purpose for their contri bution rather than have it strength en an undesired leadership? Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday, March 1, the fiOth day of 1963 with 305 to fol low. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Mars and Venus. The evening star is Mars. Those born on this day include American musician Glen Miller, in 1909. On this day in history: In 1781, the American colonies adopted the Articles of Confeder ation, paving the way for a fed eral Union. In 1872, a civil rights act pro vided (or Negroes to serve on juries and guaranteed them equal rights in public places. In 1932. the 20-month-old son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh was kidnaped from his bed. A thought (or the day The Ital ian poet Dante said: "There is no greater pain than to recall a happy time in wretchedness." By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - A sec ond meeting between President Kennedy and Soviet Russia's Chairman Nikita Khrushchev may be in the making. William C. Foster, U.S. Disarm ament Agency director, gave a first hint of this in a recorded interview with Sen. Kenneth Keat ing, R.-N.Y., on the nuclear test ban negotiations. "Is there likely to be a further discussion of this betvrsw (he President and Mr. Khrushchev?" the senator asked. "I would think so," replied Fos ter. Referring to the exchange of notes between the President and Khrushchev last December, just before the 18-nation Geneva dis armament committee recessed, Foster declared: "These letters certainly indicate that they both have a deep interest in obtaining a dependable agreement to ter minate nuclear tests." "Then you would expect that?" Keating asked. Foster replied: "I would expect at some point it would occur." This exchange took place just before the Russians did another about-face and broke off test ban talks with American and British oflicials in New York and Wash ington Jan. 31. Foster is now in Geneva as head of U.S. negotiators in the disarmament talks. His aides say that he was re ferring to both further exchanges of notes and direct talks. This confirms authoritative re ports in Washington that the Rus sians have been hinting they would like to arrange another Kennedy Khrushchev meeting. Since their first and only meet ing in Vienna June 3-4, 1961, the President has given no encourage ment to holding another. The con dition laid down has been that there must be some assurance of being able to formalize agree ments already negotiated. There would not be another meeting just to talk. These conditions apparently dis suaded Khrushchev from coming to the U.N. General Assembly last fall. There would be no point in his coming unless he could also see the President. Kennedy has tentative plans to WASHINSTON REPORT . . . Commies Teaching In Camps For Kids By FULTON LEWIS JR. It was front page news eight years ago when a joint ccm mitlee of the New York Legis lature completed an intensive in vestigation of children's summer camps. The unanimous conclusion of committee members: Hard-core Communists had turned a start ling number of camps into instru . mcnts for brainwashing young kids in party doctrine. The committee probe forced sev eral camps out of business and anxious parents could breathe more easily: Security officials now report, however, that sev eral key figures in the 1954-55 investigation are back at the old stand. Subscribers to the party-line National Guardian recently re- ceived fancy brochures informing them of a "fantastic, forward looking" camp for children aged 7 to 16. located 75 miles from New York City, at Wingdale NY. Camp Webatuck, on the shores of Lake Ellis, boasts everything a child could wish tennis, swimming, boating, arts and crafts, dramatics, hunting and camping. One of the directors of We batuck is Norman Studer, of whom the New York State Legislative Committee had this to say in 1955: "Norman Studer, director of Camp Woodland, in Phoenicia, Ulster County. New York, was identified as a member of the Communist Party. "His sole occupation is teach ing children. In one of his re sponsive, perhaps unguarded mo ments, he told the committee in a way to leave no room for doubt, that his philosophic belief could not be separated from his work in training children." Studer was a little vague in defining his "philosophic belief." He took the Fifth Amendment when asked about Communist Tarty membership Manager of Camp Webatuck is Mike Stein, who eight years ago was a counselor at Camp Kinder land, which New Yurk legislators (mind to be Communist-controlled. In 1961. Stein journeyed to Mos cow as a delegate to the World Youth Forum, representing the Progressive Youth Organizing Committee, which FBI Director visit Rome and Bonn in late win ter" or early spring." The White House makes clear no firm dates have been scheduled. London spec ulation that the President might also see Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is not confirmed in Washington. A European visit would, of course provide an oppor tunity for a meeting with Krush- chev. Some American specialists on Communist affairs who are dis couraging any further Kennedy Khrushchev meetings now say that in their first conference, ' KhrusucLev gaiiMal the impression that the President was not a strong and forceful leader. It is claimed this was reflected in Russia's renunciation of the nuclear test ban and the resump tion of testing in 1961. It is also maintained that this was a fac tor in the Kremlin decision to es tablish offensive intermed iate range ballistic bases in Cuba and make that island a center for further Communist aggression throughout the Western Hemis phere. Khrushchev now may have dis covered that Kennedy is a year and a half more experienced than he was in Vienna and definitely no weakling. In any future meeting the two leaders would therefore be on more even terms and might con duct more fruitful talks. Not the least of the subjects for them to discuss in addition to a nuclear test ban and disarma mentis the Cuba situation. Both Kennedy and Khrushchev left this extremely fuzzy after their ex change of notes prior to the Rus sian missile pull-out from Cuba last October. Khrushchev promised on - site inspection of the dismantled bas es. Fidel Castro has prevented him from delivering on this prom ise. This nullified Kennedy's offer of a guarantee against an Ameri can invasion of Cuba. But now the President faces a new dilemma in getting all Russian forces and even defen sive arms out of Cuba. The President's last press con ference failed to clarify just what pressures are being applied to make the Russians get out of Cuba and stay out. But an agree ment to this effect is becoming the first test of Russia's sincerity about wanting disarmament. Edgar Hoover calls a Commu nist operation. Stein is president of Advance, a New York group against which Attorney General Kennedy has recentiy moved in an effort to force it to register as a Com munist front. Eight years ago, the New York Slate Committee found that "the Communist-dominated Internation al Workers Order was organizing, financing and supplying Uie man agement of Communist summer camps." A number of Camp We batuck's directors have been af (ilialed with the International Workers Order and the now de funct Communist - controlled American Labor Party. The camp's brochure mailed to National Guardian readers was printed by New York City's Promp Press. Here is what the committee had to say on that score: "Once a Communist gains a position of control in any phase of American life even in a summer camp for children he must by t h e rigid rules which govern him hire other Communists and use the services of other Communists as printers, cater ers, entertainers, etc. In the field of books and records, the prime camp suppliers are Prompt Press Note: A "Community Sing" for the benefit of Camp Webatuck's "Scholarship Fund" is scheduled March 2 at the Community Church in New York City. Featured entertainer: Folk sing er Pete Seegcr, who has been identified as a Communist. The Daily Worker once (May 4, 1949) referred to him as an entertainer for the party. Pastor of the Community Church is Donald Harrington, whose record is found in the files of the House Uamerican Acvtivi. ties Committee. Only last night, Harrington turned over his church to a group urging freedom for Morton Sobell, convicted espion aqe artist. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q-Whlch 1, the largest palsre In the world? A The Vatican Palace in Rome. It has 1,400 rooms, chap els and halls of whirh the oldest date from the 15th Century.
