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Newspaper Page TextPAGE HERALD AND ditoimL (paqsL Not Buried But Bored It is astonishing how often the word "boredom" pops up in efforts to get at the ills of our scientific-industrial society. Educators say the school dropouts are bored. : Specialists say boredom is a big factor in juveniles' search for "kicks," a quest that sometimes leads them Into crime so vicious that it staggers veteran criminologists. : Scholar Erich Fromm comes along now and says it may be that 20th-century man has helped to construct a civilization whose cru cial elements largely bore him to tears. Countless factory and office workers find little interest in their work, which often is so beautifully organized and routinized that the juices are squeezed out of it. Untold numbers of Americans are dulled, if not irritated, by tedious hours of commut- i i !, i i i . :..... ing Dy ran, dus or uumpei-iu-uuinijui jjuviue car. T All this is not a new problem, except per haps in magnitude. Many people feel they make no personal imprint on life. They are engulfed, bowled along like chips in a mill race. There is little they can conquer. , The experts on life adjustment tell them, anA fhnlf ifnitnrrcf ore in nnf hitcv HnvnnI 4hn school ground or the office. Develop a hobby, take a trip, engage in some enterprise, create something. For some people this works. But for many Path j From the taxpayer's point of view, which agency collects his taxes, or what way it does It, Is of comparatively small Importance. The total tax bite is the big thing, for that deter mines what he has left in his pay envelope to' spend or save or Invest. This pinpoints an aspect of proposed federal Income tax reductions that deserve a great deal more attention than they have so far received. This year, for instance, the social security lax was increased again. The tax has collected more than $100 billion in the 20 years since the program began, according to Oregon Tax Legislature Wastes Money (Gazette Times, Corvallis) There is a saying to the effect that war Is too Important to be left to the generals. More frequently this should be rewritten to the ef fect that government Is too important to be left to the politicians. The case in point this time is Oregon. We wonder how many people realize that, when education at all levels in the Stato will suffer because of a lack of money and a lack of determination of tho State Legislature to face the problem and do what should be done about it, the Legislature itself is one of the biggest boondogglcrs in the Stale. There isn't any money shortage when it comes to running the Legislature. First they vote for themselves more salary for their services than the people of Oregon would have given them had they been permitted to set the pay scale. But that isn't all. Because of promises and commitments of various legislators, the Senate in partial Jar is so far overstaffed with clerks, door-keepers (they now have one on each side of :the door and other similar employes) they tjre almost stumbling over each other. BlfS WORLD "zai if "My buihanit claimt tb,it if you put an Infinite number of Kennettyi in an infinite number of pnlit. ical jobione of them, toonrr or Inter, bat to lt Cold ualer Conttrvatiit." NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore. it does not. They cannot quite reconcile them selves to the tedium of working and getting to and from work. It takes too big a slice of their day. Efforts to stir interest in active, creative sidelines seem to many a patch on life that does not stick. So, as the kids seek "kicks," the adults chase excitements. They collect experiences, to offset the dullness and fill out the day. They move about just for the sake of moving. They congregate for dinners and parties, at which food and drink abound. They stare transfixed at a television screen rerunning last year's excitements. It is no wonder some of the sturdier and more energetic plunge into politics. There a man conquers, gets a grip on something solid power. He can make an imprint. Reward is personal. The question is big. Have we gone far to ward removing the drudgery from scratching a living on this earth, only to leave man with out the hard stimulus, the test of soul, which that effort provided? Have we mechanized and automated ourselves into a condition of physi cal and mental freedom that we don't know how to use? We'd better turn up some answers. The hobbies and vacation spins are not enough. It is work, with the hands and the brain, that must be creative and fully challenging. To day too little of it is. To Bondage Research. And in the next six years alone it will take in its second $100 billion. Prac tically every state is looking for more reve nue, to be gained from sales taxes, excise tax es, income taxes, property taxes, business tax es, hunting and fishing taxes, and so on ad infinitum. You name a tax and someone, somewhere, is advocating it. The same thing is true of the other governmental entities mu nicipalities, counties, school districts, etc. The moral, certainly, is plain. A cut in federal income taxes will do little or nothing to stimulate investment and consumption if it is largely offset by increases in taxes elsewhere. Compounding taxation is the path to bondage. And how are these people paid? Strange as it may seem, they are paid by the day for seven days a week. Usually there are no ses sions on Saturday afternoon or Sunday, but the pay goes on anyway. And, at the end of the session, if any of these people have worked during a night committee meeting, they can file a claim for extra pay. We have no idea how much wasted money tills amounts to, but it might be enough to hire an extra college professor or to add a few cents to basic school support. Why is this practice permitted to go on? Recause tho legislators who are offended by it arc apprehensive of objecting because it is the responsibility of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate. The legisla tors think if they object their committee ap pointments might be affected or the bills they favor or are sponsoring might get lost in com mittee somewhere. Another one of the handicaps of demo cratic government! It probably wouldn't do much good for the voters to object but at least it might pinch a few consciences. Al Friday, March IS, 1963 manac Hy r lilted Press International Today Is Friday, March li. the 74lh day of lw'vl with 2;H to follow. The moon Is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Vomis. The evening star is Mars. Those born on this day include. Ihc seventh president of the Unit ed States, Andrew Jackson, in 1TD7. On this day in history: In lR-V. Maine was admitted as Hie Hid state of the Union. In 1I5C, New York became tlx first state to autlKiiic voting ma chines. In 1319, about Loot) veterans of the American Expeditionary Force in World War 1 met in Paris to form the American Legion. In P.3, a landslide in Peru lulled -II persons. A thought for Ihc day: Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin said: "His tory shows that there are no in vincible armies." -And .J By SYDNEY J. HARRIS "Hypocrisy.'.' said La Roche foucauld a long time ago, "is the homage that vice pays to virtue." And so it is with lan guagefor those groups which are the most ruthless in their acts are also the most devious in their speech. Totalitarian governments do not "kill" dissenters and heretics; they "liquidate" Ihem. Goering did not speak of "gassing" the Herman Jews; he spoke of "the final solution" to the Jewish prob lem. The fine art of double-talk has been raised to Ihe ultimate de gree by modern communist and fascist governments; and I h e more vicious their policies, the more they seem to feel the need to use the soft word. If one carefully examines a speech by a totalitarian official, it will be filled with words like "truth," "peace," "liberty," and "the will of the people." And all these words, on further examina tion, turn out to mean something quite different, and much uglier, than their accepted definitions. "Truth" means (lie dogma of the ruling clique; "peace" means acquiescence in the parly line; "liberty" means the right to stir up sedition; "the will of the peo ple" means exactly nothing. In a sense, such euphemisms arc customary in all diplomatic and political expressions; but the unconscious sense of guilt that seems to haunt the totalitarian com)cls them to find the most tortuous and abstract phrasing to conceal their grim and single minded intent. We find this same psychological Miscellany ACROSS IBuj S Concludes 9 In place of 12 Halt UGolfer's cry 14 Uncoln or Burrows 15 Surgery 17 Unit of weight lHPimsol 19 Wore nctpnlallAixlv 42 Ruy Dial de Blvar 44 Torn 4rt Announce 4 Indian tent M Palm leaf 64 Tea containers 56 Cooking utensil 57Achail and 58 Check 59 Abstract being oil uenomination 61 Rriiish princess DOWN 1 Dilatory 21 Partner of Kaith and Charity 23 Sturgeon eggs 14 Kdge 27 Miss Bonheur 29 Preposition 32 Awaken 34 Military lore 36 Musical instrument 37 Vindicate, 3fl Node 39 location 41 Fish 2 Recording material 3 Prognostic 4 Kish 5 Xct 6 Clamors "lot (all a Mexican title o( courtesy t Knnchinc 1 12 13 14 I li 16 17 18 I 19 110 111 T5 13 Ti is it r? 21 22 L 24 26 26 "127 2Bj"j!! 30" 3T 32 33 """ IT" 36 36 37 52 43j"jH 53 '64 65 66 57 53 65 6Q in i You Takes Your STRICTLY PERSONAL tendency among criminals: the more heinous the crime, t h e more reluctant they are to call it by its proper name. A thief will cheerfully admit he is a thief a burglar, a pickpocket, a safe-cracker. But a killer is never called a killer, by himself or by his con federates. There are a dozen eu phemisms for this, the currently most popular being "hit." A man who is murdered is "hit" by a "hitter." Some nagging vestigial conscience prevents even the pro fessional murderer from uttering the true name of his occupation. The worse the deed, the more the need to dress it in taffeta phrases. An aggressor never goes to "war"; he "defends the boun daries of the fatherland," or he "takes preventive action." Like wise, it is the awful enemy who "brainwash" our soidiers; what we do is "indoctrinate" theirs. The more a person has to con ceal and the more he is ashamed of whether he is aware of his shame or not the more pressing becomes his need to find another word for the right one, the plain one, the true one. Simplicity of speech is always the enemy of injustice. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Why is the city of Basra in Iraq famous in literature? A Because it was the scene of many of the adventures of Sin bad the Sailor, a hero of the Ara bian Nights. Answer t Previous Puiila lOMuaic maker U Tear asunder 16 What Trigger is 2 words! SO Cosmetic 22 Bards 33 Occurrences 40 Peaceful 43 Cyprinoid tishes 45 Kour-Mrted (como. form) 46 Opiate (slang) 47 Knlhusiastic ardor 48 Chest rattle 50 Hammer head 51 Ireland 52 Theow 55 Oevolee 24 Knsme ot torture 55 Press 2tl Casahlancans 28 Winged 30 Roman garment 31 Heavy Mow .13 To the time of Choice y 1 GLOBAL hi VIEW. . . USIA Polls Necessary? By LEON DE.NNEN NEW YORK (NEA) - "Pres tige" polls just released by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) report among other things that many Europeans consider Amer ican women not only lazy and frivolous but also oversexed. This will come as a surprise to ever hopeful but frustrated Euro pean males. For years they have complained to this writer that the "typical" American female in vading their countries is too pre occupied with culture, too busy visiting ancient monuments and churches to devote much time to affairs of the heart. No doubt the USL pollsters encountered Europeans with a dim view to American woman hood. One can only wonder from whom these particular males get this particular image of the U.S. female. They certainly did not get it from the American men who work in our steel mills, or from our farmers who produce the world s greatest food supply or from the automobile workers who are busy turning out cars at a rate never known before in his tory. Surely the European cannot see a lazy, frivolous, domineering and oversexed woman in the American housewife trying to make ends meet and with a great deal of ingenuity and dex terity. They could hardly get this im age from the well-scrubbed Amer ican girls who go to Europe to study or from the hard-working women attached to U.S. embas sies and other agencies abroad. Are the harassed school teach ers and tourists eager to catch all Ihc sights of European "cul ture" in the shortest period of time likely candidates for lazy Americans? If the Euroeans questioned by the USIA pollsters read the ac counts of intellectuals throwing themselves fully dressed into swimming pools, they probably came to ' the conclusion that America is a nation of playboys and playgirls. The third-rate movies shown in Europe, are also not likely to brighten our na tional image. But what has all this to do with the real America? Unfortunately, many USIA em ployes seem to think that Paris is bounded by the Boulevard St. Ucrmain and the Cafe Dome or that London is Piccadilly Circus and Rome t h e beat joints of Via Veneta. They are generally shamefaced about America and manage to put the wrong foot forward when they try to reach the European mind This writer recalls a USIA per formance in Venice where be wildered Venetians were shown film strips of endless cars com ing off the American production lines This in a city cut up by ranalv Such stupidity, alas, seems to be endemic and is not neces sarily the responsibility of the Kennedy Administration But the question thoughtful Americans mut ak themselves is: "Are these I SIA polls necessary?" EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Both Parties Push Civil Rights Aims By PETER EDSON Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - It will have to be shown whether Presi dent Kennedy's civil rights mes sage and the civil rights legisla tion introduced by nine Republi can congressmen are mere win dow dressing just (or the rec ord or whether they mean business. What the two programs indicate, however, is that if the liberals in both parties really want some civil rights action, they should form a coalition of their own to buck the conservatives. The least such a coalition could do is cause a few convulsions in the House Rules Committee and force the Senate into another dandy filibuster, now that limi tation of debate is dead for two years. Both the Republicans and Amer icans for Democratic Action hav ing been needling Kennedy ever since he took office for not send ing Congress a comprehensive civ il rights program. Now he has met this challenge with an eight-point legislative pro gram in the most sweeping civil rights message since President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclama tion 100 years ago. Three bills covering new rec ommendations in the fields of vot ing rights, integrated education and a four-year extension for the Civil Rights Commission, with broadened powers, will be in troduced in Congress in the near future. CRC will go out of busi ness Nov. 30 unless given a new lease on life. But this last is believed to have the best chance for congressional approval. Kennedy's program is far broad er than the Republicans' although their plan would be administra tively tougher. The GOP calls for making Civil Rights Commission a permanent agency and setting up a new commission on equality of employment opportunity, giving it broad enforcement powers to replace the voluntary compliance now sought by the President's Committee on Equal Em ployment. Finally, 1 the GOP would em power the Census Bureau to make a national registration of voting statistics in every state by race, color and national origins. There is nothing like this in the Kennedy program and it is doubtful if this proposal would pass. Most affirmative declaration in the President's message is prob ably the first sentence in his sec tion on "public accommodations." He declares that "no act is more WASHINSTON s Early Start n Election Gags By WASHINGTON STAFF . WASHINGTON ( NEA I - If the Republicans nominate New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller for the presidency in 19(14. with Gov. James A. Rhodes of Ohio as his vice presidential running mate, the ticket would then read "Rocky-Rhodes." There's a sign in one of the offices in the Pentagon that everybody can't help but see be fore entering a particular col onel's office. It reads: DO YOU HAVE A SOLLTION? OR ARE YOU PART OF THE PROBLEM? On the White House press room bulletin board recently was this testy interchange: First, a news item saying the Indiana Senate had passed a bill making it a misdemeanor know ingly to give false information to newspapers or broadcasting sta tions. Beneath this was typed: "We the undersigned favor stiff punishment for those who know ingly or otherwise give out false news." There followed the signatures of several prominent White House correspondents, with space (or more. Next, a handwritten note: "ImposMble to carry this out. There would be no one left on the White House staff." Then this final typed inscrip tion: "If it ais) applied to (ale re porting few would he left in the press room to complain." James E. Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has a thick green carpet in his otdec So the big status symbol (or people at NASA thee davs is: green lint on your shoes. It proves ou were up talking to the boss. In the w inflow of a Washing ton map store, there is a globe with an aeronaut's capsule, at tached to a steel rod. spinning around in orbit. The other day a passer-by sud contrary to the spirit of our de mocracy and Constitution or more rightfully resented by a Negro citizen who seeks only equal treatment than the bar ring of that citizen from restau rants, hotels, theatres, recrea tional areas and other public ac commodations and facilities." If the Kennedy administration continues its efforts to obtain equal treatment for all citizens in public places, this could prob ably have more impact than any legislation Congress will pass. The U.S. Supreme Court now has before it several test cases on "sit-in" demonstrations. De cisions upholding equal rights in this area could become as im portant as the school integration order. Just as significant as the Presi dent's proposals for new courses of action to enforce civil rights is his message inventory of some 20 moves he has made in this field the last two years. Though the voting referee pro cedure authorized by the 19t0 Civ il Rights Act was used in only one Iouisiana parish for the 1962 elec tions, thousands of new voters were registered for the first time in many states. Sixty school districts were de segregated last year. Teacher training institutes of the National Science Foundation and under the National Defense Education Act were held in integrated colleges. Beginning next September, in tegrated schools will be opened on military reservations if such facilities are not available local ly. Voluntary integration has been obtained, however, in many fed erally affected areas receiving government financial aid. Over 17 million jobs have been voluntarily opened to American workers on a nondiscriminatory basis. All government contract jobs have been so opened. The President has directed National Labor Relations Board to take ac tion against discrimination in la bor unions. Segregation in interstate trans portation has virtually ceased. AH federal recreation areas are open without regard to race. The armed forces and Coast Guarf have been fully integrated. ' Department of Justice has in creased prosecution of police bru tality cases. It is challenging "separate but equal" facilities in hospitals built with federal funds. It has intervened to open public schools in Prince Ed ward County, Va., the only coun ty in the nation in which there are no public schools. NOTEBOOK . . . denly whipped open the door and shouted to a clerk: "Hey, your astronaut's going the wrong way!" "We know it," was the apol ogetic reply. After the man was gone thi clerk added: "We can't figure out how to reverse it." In observance of the Peace Corps' anniversary, this story has come out on how President Kenne dy picked his brother-in-law, Sar gent Shrivcr Jr., to father the husky infant corps: Right after the 19WI election campaign, in which he had worked tirelessly. Shriver went home to Chicago. He had enjoyed a week's reunion with his family, whom he had scarcely seen for months, when the telephone started ring ing. It was the president-elect in sisting. "You've got to come to Washington and run the Peace Corps." Shriver stalled repeatedly, "I don't know anything about run ning a Peace Corps." he said. "Neither does anybody else," said Kennedy. "But how about all these politi cal debts you have to pay?" asked Shriver. "Why don't you give this job to a politician you owe some thing to and square yourself with him?" "Listen." replied Kennedy, "ev erybody thinks this Peace' Corps is going to be the biggest fiasco that ever was. If it is, the di rector ill get blamed for it, and it will be a lot easier to fire a relative than a politician." Economics Prof. Paid Samuel son, onetime Kennedy adviser, lectured an American Bankers As.-n. meeting here on way-out, ultra libera) fiscal policies. He told his audience he was speaking only for himself, not for White House planners and insiders. Young Professor Samuelsin, father of six children, told a Con gressional Economic Committee hearing not Ion; ago that he spoke only "(or myself and my wife" When he got back to Cambridge. Mass , his wife told him. "Speak (or yourself, John."