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1IKRAI.D AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, March 17. 13
Every Now and Then I Throw Him a Bone!"
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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
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Khrushchfv
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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
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in Rome lab.)
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1 12 13 ji 5 5 I 17 18 9 110 11 12
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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
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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."