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PAGE 16-B 1IKRAI.D AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, March 17. 13 Every Now and Then I Throw Him a Bone!" NOTHING SPECIAL IW. B. S.I Robbing It is an ancient political axiom that a tax reduction program almost any tax reduc tion program is dear to the heart of elected public officials, particularly those in legis lative office and most particularly those in the national Congress. Here is one major legisla tive area, the reasoning runs, where it is pos sible to win the gratitude and allegiance of multitudes, while alienating practically none. Yet President Kennedy's ambitious tax reduction plan became bogged in the Con gressional mires from the word go. The rea sons why that is so are varied and in some in stances opposed. And there's small doubt that discussions of the plan, pro and con, have fallen into the well of oversimplification. To begin with, the President coupled tax reduction with what, in his mind, is need ed tax reform the closing of certain tax "loopholes." The cuts were to run to $13.5 billion, while the reforms were to pick up $3.5 billion, for a net reduction of $10 billion. But one man's loophole is another man's necessity, and there was grave doubt as to the Administration proposals in this area. The President has since said that he is willing to abandon the reforms, for the time being, if that is a price of gaining approval for an immediate tax cut. But Congressional minds are pinned on an overhaul of the whole tax system, and many members think that should be step one. Then, there Is the matter of where the emphasis on tax reduction should be laid that is, to what income groups, and what part of it should be applied to industry. One school, led by the major unions, holds that the bulk should go to the smaller income earners on the theory that the additional spending power would move at once into the channels of com merce, buying goods and services. The oppo sition takes the view that increased industrial investment and expansion, a major Adminis tration goal, can only be achieved by a marked Call Before World War II, tiny Belgium, stand ing in the shadow of the growing Nazi war machine, insisted on neutrality and refused all offers of military help from France. The moment the Germans broke across the Belgian border, the Belgians cried franti cally for assistance. It was too late, of course, to protect the frontiers. In fact the hastily summoned French and British armies never could establish a line. Belgium surrendered in less than three weeks. Wc are getting some of the same these days. A discredited Indian politician, Krishna Menon, can make fresh hay out of foolish In IN WASHINGTON By UAI.P1I de TOI.KIUNO All "imago" Uiat lovely Mad isim Avenue word so dear to the New Frontier is like llumpty Dumpty. Once broken, nil the. kiiiR's men can't put it together again. (The Greek word for "im arc" is "ikon," (ram which we Ret our weird iconoclast, or im-ago-hustor. I Well, I he image ot Defense Sec retary Hubert McNamara seems to lie shattered. In the words o( the old pop lune, it "fnw down an ro boom." Until recently, Mr. McNamara was a symlxil on Capitol Hill of just about everything Rood ex cept mothcrhmxl. He was IhoiiRhl to be elliciciit, hard-driving, ac curate, not ooled by those nasly generals, determined to eliminate waste at tlx.- Pentagon a real executive who would give us a dollar's worth of defense for a dollar spent. It would lie difficult to find a corporal's guard on Capitol Hill who would subscribe to this to day if given a lie-detector test. (What they may cay while nig Brother and Utile Brother are listening may he something else again although some promi nent Democrats like Senators Henry Jackson and Stuart Sy mington arc leading the anti-Mr-Namara band.) What brought about the change'' The TKX, a great new experi mental plane which will cost us nome $6.5 billion. To compan ies bid for the job, Boeing o( Washington Slate and General Dy namics of Texas. Hie Boeing bid for the overall job was some where over $400 million lower than that of General Dynamics it's harjL, lo tell f xactjp'. because Peter Not The Answer lightening of the tax burden now borne by high-income individuals and by business. Rec onciling these two camps is no simple matter. A further confusion was recently added. The President said, at first, that the tax pro gram was needed to make a good economy a still better one. Now he says that it is needed as antirecession insurance. Many members of Congress regard these positions as being op posed, and want further enlightenment. More important is the question of tax and fiscal philosophy. The Administration now offers what is called a "planned deficit." Past deficits, the story goes, resulted from accident or emergency or faulty forecasting that is, from wars, depressions, recessions, and failure of the economy to reach predicted levels of output. But the proposed planned deficit is exactly what the term implies. Even though it is very large, the argument continues, it need not be dangerous nor inflationary, and, in the long run, by stimulating business and solving the unemployment problem, it will lead to' a balanced budget. This proposition has found plenty of skeptics both within and without Congress. Another difficult element is found in the overall tax picture which is the total take of government, by whatever means. Federal tax es, by way of example, went up substantially this January 1, because of the increase in the Social Security assessment. Every worker and employer feels that, immediately and direct ly. And it is difficult to find a state, or any other body with the power to tax, that isn't in search of more revenue. It's a case where we can rob Peter to pay Paul. Finally, great numbers of people, and some of the leading members of Congress, hold that tax reduction is desirable and neces sary but that it must be accompanied by off setting cuts in nonessential spending. The Ad ministration shows small appetite for this, and the conflict may be the cause of a major show-down. We shall see what we shall see. The Firemen dian fears that Western air aid offered in case of renewed Red China attack might be imposed against India's will. What is India's will? That a proper air de fense bo discussed only when the Chinese are driving across the Indian plains? Actually, the Indian government official ly has requested an air defense study. That ought to be an answer to those like Mcnon, who toy irresponsibly with that nation's safety, for their own political gain. Freedom already has had too many last minute rescues. India's independence of spirit hardly requires it to go to the final brink be fore seeking help. McNamara Image Falters the Senate Permanent Investiga tions subcommittee keeps on find ing mistakes in Mr. McNamara's arithmetic. The high bidder, however, got the contract. According to some unpleasantly cynical people in the Senate, this came alxiut because Texas will lie mighty important in the 19fi4 Presidential cam paign, and $ti.5 billion can make a lot of voters happy. Air Force Secretary Zuckert, however, in sisted that the contract had gone to General Dynamics because the specifications of the Texas com pany were for a superior plane with a greater range. But what do you know? 11 develops that four military eval uation boards, having put in 770. 1)00 man-hours studying the Boe ing and tile General Dynamics speed ical ions, unanimously rec ommended the Boeing TKX lie cause it was cheaper and lielter. They were overruled by Air Force Secretary Zuckert and Defense Secretary McNamara. It lurther develops that Mr. Zuckert, in describing the performance of the more eiensive plane, had used tlie specifications of tile cheaper plane Senator John MeClcllan. chair man of the subcommittee, has been looking into the question of political favoritism in the award of the contract to the Tex as company. He has avoided the insinuations of some of his Dem ocratic colleagues who tend lo drag in tlie name of a promi nent Texan in the administra tion. And lie has repeatedly asked for all Die evidence in tlie case nut what will favor the McNa mara decision or support the Early charges ot Democratic Senator Jackson, who, by coincidence, comes from Washington Boeing's home slate. Close lo a hall-billion dollars is a good deal of money and would help in cutting the budget. To toss it into the Pentagon hop per for a plane which carelul military authorities find inferior to what the low bidder olfcrcd lo produce raises interesting questions about Secretary McNa mara's executive secretary. It should In- noted that the ci vilian side at the Pentagon, whose slide-rules and IBM machines are considered better than military know -how. has been privately ar guing that the contract was nut awarded lo Boeing because it "lacked tlie experience" to pro duce the TKX. Because of this supposed inexperience. Mr. Mc Namara and his Whiz Kids felt that the Bticing bid was "oer optimistic " Si far most of the testimony before the MeClcllan subcommit tee is classilird The press re ceives heavily-censored reports ol what is said plus whatever facts it can pry loose from witnesses and investigating senators. It may turn out that the criticism of Secretary McNamara is un lair, that there are sound rea sons for paying n hall-billion more lor the General Dynamics plane But this will not put the Mc Namara image together again It i; not tlie charge of political lav oritism that has hurt hint. Tlie Senate is accustomed to this What has left him looking like a shorn lamb in a cold wind has lieen the ineplness of the Defense Department's answers. Si By SYDNEY J. HARRIS At the bridge table the other night, we were performing a post mortem on a hand, and someone mentioned that his partner had made a "tactful" bid rather than a truthful one. Then we began to discuss how far truthfulness should be modi fied in the interest of tact both at and away from the bridge table and it was generally agreed that, of all people, the French are best at this delicate task. One of the players recalled the story about the time Marshal Foch was in this country on a mission during World War I. and was buttonholed by a loud West erner who began sneering at French politeness. "There's noth ing in it but wind," he snorted. "There is nothing but wind in a tire," the marshal answered with true politcsse, "but it makes rid ing in a car very smooth and pleasant." This reminded another of the time Talleyrand, 'the French statesman, sat at a dinner be tween the reigning French beau ty and Mme. dc Stael, who was as homely as she was brilliant. She turned to Talleyrand and asked: "Tell me the truth if you, this beautiful woman, and I were in a boat together, and it over turned, which one would you save?" "Ah. madame." Talleyrand shrugged, "you swim so well." Even French bureaucracy has its own form of graciousness. Sec retary Lansing was fond of tell ing about the French government Russia ACROSS 1 Soviet teider, Khrushchfv 7 This nition's rspital . 11 Speaker 14 PnntinK mistakes IH Hinders lSTakas at' one's own 17 Mariner's direction 18 Tnene w ina measures 20 Soak up 21 Nimrods 24 IVimeslirales 27 Kleclrual quanlltv ?S Direction .1:' tdolne M Ked 3S Recourse .17 I'limbing plant M Aeainst so Musical nolo 41 Mud volcano 42 Strait 45 Indonesian of Mindanao 4R Icelandic saga 49 Lincoln's nickname 52 Cratity M Stanzas S7 Talented SRIlenelits St t'losed cars 60 Woollv DOWN 1 Complication 2 Angers 3 Miss Smith 4 follower 5 Rocky pinnacle 0 Malicious burning 7 Lowest 8 f onimimt 1 Rroaduav slcn 10 Head coieruifis 11 Masculine appellation 12Sitnc.inR insect in Rome lab.) ?l Kniral 1 12 13 ji 5 5 I 17 18 9 110 11 12 15 16 17 f''"Pl8" 19 T"! 21 22 23 24 125 26 -p !fzT 29 130 131 32 33-34 33 3tTi 37 38 r"39 40V - 41 42 43 44 ' 4T4T4TQ4S "' JT" "' 49 52 S3 j " 34 66 66 58 59 60 I 1 I i STRICTLY PERSONAL official whose job it was lo issue passports. One morning he was confronted with the task of making out a passport for a rich and eminent ly respectable lady who had only one eye. Not wishing to hurt her feelings, the gallant Frenchman filled out the description: "Eyes, brilliant, brown, and expressive, only one is missing." Often the literal truth can give a falser impression than a tact ful remark. Billy Phelps, the pop ular English professor at Yale, used to tell the story about the captain of a ship who wrote in his log, "Mate was drunk today." When the mate recovered, he was angry and chagrined, and requested that the notation be stricken because this was the first time he had ever been drunk on duty. "Sorry," said the captain, "in this log we write the exact truth." The next week the mate kept the log. and in it he wrote: "Cap tain was sober today." The exact truth, of course, but how does it read to the official eye? QUESTIONS -. AND ANSWERS Q Who started counting time from the birth of Christ? A In the A D. 500s the monk Dionysius Exiguus introduced the, present custom of reckoning time by counting the years from the birth of Christ, w hich he miscalcu lated four to six years later than the actual dale. 22 Kmploypr 23 Continued story 24 Ancient Irish capital 25 Arabian gulf fi lirratest quantity 29-Awatic sea in thm nation 30 Male offspring iplt .11 l-arse plant .14 Otherwise Rarterert 40 Final 4.1 Mim Keller 44 It has a large force 45 Circle parts 46 Far ofC (comb, form) 47 Old 49 Part of it ii In Ml Sah M K5entiat being 53 Hawaiian appellation Sfi Operated Answer to Previous Puzzle ill LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Discipline To the parents and polentia' parents of KUHS and the KU School Board: Last year our "staggered ses sion of classes" was clouded with the cry of not enough class rooms! This year the "split ses sion of classes" is being cloud ed by lack of discipline. Next year something else will be brought before us to "cloud" an other issue for irregularity in this high school schedule. I have a few suggestions to submit both to the parents and the school board: 1. Student control in the halls: How docs it work: Select a boys' club, such as the "K" Club which this particular one consists of the athletes of KU who have the su pervision of one or more of th? faculty. Authorize these boys to observe different halls during the noisy hours. By traveling in two or more they certainly can con trol any offensive action in the building. Give them authoriza tion to issue violation summons lo offenders. 2. Student court: These offend ers must appear in student court which would consist of a judge and jury students elected by the club. 3. Punishment: The accused will be heard and the student judge and jury will make the decision, still advised by a mem ber of the faculty. Some sugges tions for offenders are detention, for milder cases or first or sec ond offenders, janitor work, yard work, snow shoveling, even recit ing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" standing on the senior bench! Put discipline on a student bas is with faculty consultation. Baby sitting? ? ? You bet! If the students behave like babies treat them as such! If they be have as teen agers treat them as such if they behave as young adults the problem of discipline has been wnn. Give troublemakers responsibil itythey usually accept their new role and are more strict about their conduct and control others better than most adults. This I feel is something to think about. Mrs. R. B. Chik-ote Inconsistent So Uncle Sam is going to send 143 million dollars to India, how nice With better than six per cent of our own people unemployed; with thousands more to be laid off by the railroads, miners barely eking out a living, and very little being done to remedy the situation. We are sending millions upon millions of dollars to foreign na tions, much of which we don't ever expect to get hack. Many of these unemployed people would like to borrow some of those mil lions, even if they did have to pay more than one per cent interest. Our forefathers fought a war to keep us from having to pay taxes to foreign power. But whc!i seems to me to have been (ouchl in vain, as we are now paying laves to almost two thirds of the nations of tlie world. And our own government is acting as their collection agen.y. I am not opposed to helping one's neighbors, but I do not be lieve one shouM take food out oi one's own children's mouths, in order to do so. Krnie Robirts, j- lit. 3, Box llh. Fellow called the other morn ing to say that judging from the contents of a recent letter to the editor, he is surprised to learn that I have a mother and father. 1 guess there's no need to climb on a stump and preach but I'm certainly hopeful that none of us will avoid our responsibility in facing up to the task of providing the community with a new hospi tal. We have several things going for us superb organization work, high esprit de corps, and under standing of our lack, a desire to get on with the work and we must work extra hard to assure that these desirable elements re main a big factor in the cam paign. Just raising $723,000 or so Isn't the end of the line. The facility w ill need all of the community support it is possible to accord after it Is built. I don't intend to single out one segment of our population, but one of the most important factors in the early success of this hos pital project has been the unquali fied support of the medical pro fession. Expert advice from qual ified doctors, for instance, has permitted an orderly and efficient development of plans. Dentists and nurses have been called on for advice and comment. The co operation should result in a facili ty that boasts the most modern equipment available and a high degree of work efficiency amidst pleasant surroundings. Frank Fleet sent this in: "This was in my Dad's scrap book. I think he wrote it about 35 or 40 years ago, referring to the Reader's Digest." (With apologies to James Whit comb Riley.) Oh, the little Reader's Digest has got a special page Where errors of the press is showd, like monkeys in a cage Per all the world tu smile about, 'n chuckle at, 'n grin WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Commie Terrorists Export Revolution By FULTON LEWIS JR. There is mounting evidence that Fidel Castro is exporting revo lution throughout the hemisphere: In December. 1062, rioting mobs inflicted $4 million worth of dam age to facilities of the American owned Cerro de Pasco mining Company at La Oroya, Peru. They were led by three Cuban Nationals, one of whom has been directing the armed attacks upon large ranches in the Andean high lands by Castro supporters. The Cubans had brought into Peru thousands of copies of books on guerrilla warfare written by Mao Tse-tung and Che Guevara. They also brought copies of a pock et hooklet, two and a half by four inches, called "150 Questions on Guerrilla Warfare." Its author. Alberto Bayo, is a veteran of tlie Spanish Civil War who now di rects guerrilla activities from Cu ba. Sitll another version, with 100 questions and answers, i based on the works of both Guevara and Bayo. and written especially for Peruvian use. Mimeographed in Peru, the book includes drawings on the proper handling of demo lition charges, and charts for cal culating the (orre of various ex plosives. The instructions tell guerrillas how In make Mnlntov cocktails, explosives and other incendiary preparations from materials that can be obtained easily, and sometimes openly, at home. They stress that the Guerrilla's wea pons, his equipment, and supplies should come from "the enemy" seized, that is, from local se curity forces. Sometimes, however, that is nut possible. Radio transmitters are smuggled into Peru from Cuba. So are late-model Czech rifles complete with pistol grips. Cuban-trained acents last year directed Ihe spectacular holdup of a hank near Lima, netting al most $100,000. From participants captured by local police, it has been learned tlie holdup was car ried out hy a combination of guerrillas and common criminals, who split the loot down the mid dle. All of this information was recently turned over to members of Ihe House Foreicn Affairs Committee hy John McCone. di tector of the stiper-seeret Central Intelligence Asencv. Tactics sim ilar to those used in Pen' are utilized m Venezuela. McCone re vealed. , In early February, (or instance, bandits stuck up a Venezuelan b;,nk. escaping with $25,000 They wore arm b.ijids of the FALN, I 'X mortify the editers, what when 'n put 'em in. En if a line is written up, 'at sounds like it ain't, Er if tlie i s am t doited right, er if the spellin's quaint Er if a writer makes a break, 'n sorter leaves a pun Why right away they grabs it up, 'n has the mostest fun. So ya belter watch yer p's 'n q's 'n mind what yer about Er, the Digest'll get ya. IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT. The question Is again being raised (reasonably, I think) as to why the schools don't have School Patrols at dangerous in tersections w hen school is in ses sion. Sometimes. I think educators go out of their way to make trou ble for themselves. A good friend of mine, who is a most able ad ministrator and educator, recent ly told his school board that he w as not able to buy enough books because there was no money avail able. In the same meeting, he recommended to the board adop tion of an adult course in farm management at a cost of $1,500 a year. At the time, there were 11 adults interested in taking such a course. The Klamath County school sit uation is not so desperate as ton many people proclaim it. Of course, we need additional build ings and what not. But, it should1 make reasonable people appre ciate the fact that our three school boards are working at the mat ter of solving this problem, one way or another. We may not agree with what is being studied, or with the final answer t h boards come up with. Neverthe less, we must not become engaged in name-calling and suspicious of the motives of those who repre sent us on the boards. W'e must not forget that members ot those boards are citizens just as our selves, and they're not out to sell the kids or the taxpayers short. Let's exercise some pa tience and restraint. the Armed Forces of National Liberation. The FALN was formed in late December when various left-wing guerrilla groups were unified under the command of Castro agents. Members of the FALN hijacked the Venezuelan freighter, Anzoa tcgui. They are trained saboteurs. McCone told House members: "The sabotage is the work of experts, and is being done with advanced types of explosives. The shooting has reached the point in Caracas where it is not safe to go out at night in some sections of the capital." Money talks, and nobody rea lizes that better than Comrade Castro. A Venezuelan leftist, Fah ricio Ojeda, returned from Cuba last year carrying a false-bottomed suitcase stuffed with large quantities of U.S. currency. There is no law against bringing curren cy into Venezuela, so authorities could not even determine how much was brought in. Ojeda was later captured, tried and sen tenced to prison for guerrilla ac tivity. A Nicaraguan exile, Julio Ce sar Mayorga Portoearrera. was flying from Mexico to Honduras in September, mi, when wea ther forced his plane to overfly Honduras and land in Nica ragua. Found to be carrying $3,600 in cash, he admitted the funds came from Cuba and were ear marked for Nicaraguan rebels training in Honduras. Al manac Bv I'nited Press International Today is Sunday, March 17, the 7h day of tmit with 289 to fol low. Today is St. Patrick's Day. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Venus. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 18l7. Jim Corbett lost his heavyweight boxing title to Bob Fitzsimmons at Carson Citv. Nev. In 1912. Mrs. Luther Gtilick of Maine, announced tlie formation of a new organization for young girls to be called "Tlie Camp Fire Girls." In 1942. c,cn. Douglas MacAr thur arrived in Australia to be come supreme commander in the Southwest Pacific Theater of op erations. thought for the dav: Novelist Somerset Maugham said: "People ask vou for criticism, but tliey only want praise."
