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Newspaper Page TextPAGE fc-A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Fallt, Ore. Frldaf , March 22. 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON dubtiaL (paqsL Envy Knows No Boundaries Michigan's Gov. George Romney, who has a demonstrated record of tolerance, has more :than once used an interesting word in de scribing his early Mormon boyhood in Mexi ' co. The word is envy. The Mormon colony of which his family was a part was engaged in farming. Their success, the product of hard work, contrasted sharply with the unproductive efforts of neigh boring Mexicans. Finally, says Romney, the envy of the Mexicans was stirred to the point where the American Mormons considered it no longer wise to remain among them. They crossed the border into the United States. Now, curiously, the word envy crops up again In a not dissimilar situation. It appears in a dispatch by NEA's correspondent Ward Cannel, writing from Kenya in Africa. With Kenya heading for independence at an early but still undecided date, some of the successful European farmers there expect either that their farms will be subdivided among Africans or will be subjected to pilfer ing, harassment and, as Cannel puts it, "the other marks of envy." This is not a word which seems to attract rrroat oHnrWinn Viif nnvhanc Sr mitflif in fnv there is so much envy In the world today. flnn mau nrrim with rnnrl snnca that it ic a wholly natural response for millions of im poverished, underprivileged people living In the sight of or with knowledge of so much unevenly distributed plenty. (Th Medford Tribunal A large brown paper sack hangs against the wall in the utility room at our house. Into it, day by day, are dumped the odd bits and pieces of the trading stamps given out with the groceries and other purchases. The glove compartment of the car usual ly Is cluttered with the little squares of col ored paper, oftentimes stuck together so they are difficult to separate. Once every so often, the glove compart ment is cleaned out and the stamps dropped into the brown paper sack. And, every few monins, a great pasting Dee is put on, 10 paste the elusive little things into books for redemp tion. We don't like the stamps. They are a bother and a nuisance. We'd just as soon have lower prices as the trading stamps. But, since the Family Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare is an eminently prac tical and realistic individual, and since they are offered, why not accept them, and take IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO Whether deliberately or not, the Defense Department has been fanning the flames ot the TFX fighter plane controversy, Assist ant Defense Secretary Sylves ter accused every member but one oi ine senate t'ermanenl investi gations subcommittee of represent ing the financial interests of his home state in lighting after a defense contract that will stick the taxpayer with an estimated extra $400 million. Then Mr. Sylves ter admitted he had been wrong and apologized to the Senators. Now Secretary Robert McNa mara has attempted to draw I lie subcommittee's fire with a stato mcnt which attacks Uie investi gating Senators and makes decla rations at wide variance with sworn Pentagon testimony. . The question Is, "Why?" Two reasons are being advanced and there may be truth to both. The background facta: All the testimony indicates that the Pentagon awarded a contract (or the TFX (ultimate cost of $6.5 billion) to the General Dynamics Company of Texas, even thouuh Boeing of Seattle substantially underbid. Despite Mr. McNa mara's passionate declaration, there is almost unanimous agree ment that the Boeing specifica tions wcro for a TFX suerior to the one the Pentagon contracted for. It should be noted that the TFX wlU be used by both t h e Air Force and the Navy. Which gets us to possible rea son Number One. The Secretary of the Navy is Fred Korth, a prominent Fort Worth businessman. At the time he joined the government serv ice, ha was president of Fort Envy breeds desire, which can be distin guished from need. And desire stirs impa tience. We live in an age which has a su preme distaste for waiting. What is wanted is wanted now. Of course, you cannot tell subject peo ples who have been under colonial rule for decades or centuries that they must wait and wait and wait. Nor can you tell them they must be trained better for independence, when they too often can answer truthfully that their colonial masters put off making them ready. But if there is any wise man among their leaders, he must tell them again and again that they cannot have the fruits of this life for the taking. To come by them without learning how Ihey are created, without earning them, is to take a short cut, but one full of pitfalls. Those who steal the substance of the earth are still impdverished. They have learned nothing. With their victims gone, there will be no new substance when the im patient ones have consumed what they stole. Impatience is gaining millions of people around the globe the independence they yearn for. It is also thrusting upon them a responsi bility they little comprehend. They must learn now to wait in a new way to put off important rewards of free dom while they learn, slowly, to govern and use the land they now rule. Unless they have leaders who can tell them this, they may de stroy the thing they fought to gain. Trading Stamps advantage of the premiums they can provide? That, we suspect, is pretty close to the philosophy of a lot of individuals. They're a bother, but they're there, so . . . With this unenthusiastic but practical attitude, one inight be expected to support legislation now under consideration in the Oregon legislature which would, in effect, out law premium trading stamps. We do not, however, support this bill. We think it is a discriminatory measure, and just one more restriction of fair competition; and freedom to do business in the way one wishes. Trading stamps, as such, harm no one. No merchant is forced to give them away; no consumer is forced to accept or save them. We never have, and never will, trade at one store in preference to another because of the stamps. We question their value as a trade stimulant. We don't like them. But to outlaw them, in effect, by the po lice and licensing power of the state is bad legislation. The bill should be killed. Fighter Plane Politics Worth's Continental National Bank and a director of a number of important Texas corporations and organizations. He has been an ac tive booster of his slate. He Is also active In Texas Democratic politics. Though the military strongly urged the 3oeing TFX. lite civilian secretaries awarded the contract to General Dynamics of Texas. Is there any connection between Secretary Korth's loyal ty to Fori Worth and tlie award of the TFX contract to a com pany which will bring in a great deal of business to Texas? At least one Senator will ask this question of Secretary McNamara when lie appears in person be fore the Senate investigating sub committee. The same Senator might ask Air Force Secretary Zuckert if he approved the con tract on the direct order of his superior. The second possible answer to tlie "why" is far more worri some. For out of the tumult and the shouting on Capitol Hill over the very dubious TKX contract, certain facts have been estab lished. And they demonstrate Sec retary McNamara's determination to run tlie Pentagon like the "Dictator" he has been called. The TFX controversy is a perfect case in point. Defense Secretary Ni'Nam.ira decided that a fighter plane be designed which could meet the needs of both the Air Force and the Navy. The Navy argued Uiat it must plan in terms of carrier based planes whose requirements are far different from those of Air Force pursuit craft. The Air Force was equally opposed. Nev ertheless, Mr. McNamara insist ed slide rule in hand on the grounds that "his" plane would save "a billion dollars." Alter the expenditure of considerable sums, the TFX was designed. As it is being produced by General Dynamics, turnover, it Is neither fish, fowl, nor good red herring. In other words it falls short of both Navy and Air Force needs and it costs more to build. Boeing, on the other hand, in its designs for the TFX included certain modifications for A i r Force use and for Navy carrier use. The Boeing TFX is not "two planes" as Secretary McNamara claims. It is one plane with var iants for each service. And it costs less. Rut Mr. McNamara has set out to show tlie military that papa knows best, that they must do as he says. The result: Mr. McNamara. former president of tlie Ford Motor Company, has presented the nation's first line of defense with a high-flying Ed sel. And he will defend his de cision to the bitter end. The De fense Secretary has admitted that the General Dynamics plane was accepted because it offered "min imum divergence" from tlie one plane concept so dear to his heart and so senseless to military ex perts. Chairman McClellan has said that lie will cross-examine Mr. McNamara and ask him about failures to mention in his rebut tal certain embarrassing cost es timates. Senator McClellnn would also like to know why Pentagon witnesses "evaluated Boeing's de sign as superior in operational ca pacity . . . more than 50 per cent greater weapon-carrying ca pability," ami other matters, tie might ask Navy Secretary Korth to step into his parlor, too. 'igyyi? Wk By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Don Marquis once remarked that publishing a volume of verse is like tossing a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and listening for an echo. Writing a daily col umn of this sort gives one much the same feeling. One knows that it is read the many argumenta tive letters alone attest to that but whether it really changes any minds or patterns of behavior seems dubious most of the time. Yet, the rewards, when they come, are gratifying. I cannot refrain from mentioning a recent piece of mine about the pressures put on college students mostly on the boys by their parents. It was a subject I felt strongly about and was familiar with. Parents from all parts of the country responded immediately with the identical reaction: the piece made them realize that they had been pressuring their boys at college, and they resolved to change their attitudes. They had been trying to relive their own lives through their sons, and this can be done, if at all, only disastrously. By a coincidence, as these grati fying letters began coming in, I was reading the new paperback edition of the book, "They Studied Man." by Kardiner and Preble, dealing with the great scientific and cultural figures of the last hundred years, from Darwin through Freud. In some prefatory biographical material about Darwin who un doubtedly affected the scientific, social and cultural history of the world more than any man of the 19th Century, the authors devoted a wry paragraph to his youth and his schooling. "For the first 22 years ot his Hodgepodge ACROSS 1 Strlpum 4 Glut 8 Unadulterated 12 Native metal 13 Exclamation 14 Silkworm I S Tree fluid 1 Direction 41 Heart 42 Abbey head 45 Verity 49 Carry over 51 Kxirt 63 Openwork fabric 53 Feminine appellation IS Svelte M raslure 30 Shield bearinsi JjWritine. "uW Jl Yugoslav city f.V M K'""l 22 Love god 57 Weight of India 24 Interpret 26 Redact 27 Marble 30 One ot the Furies 32 Envoy 34 Excavators 35 Modified 3tl Perched 37 Helpa 39 Jewels 40 Number DOWN 1 Perdition 2 Asiatic sea 3 Retainer 4 Beaches 5 Tropical plant 6 Covered with pitch 7 Fast iTr.) 8 Fquals 9 Soviet stream 10 Get un 1 12 13 I U 15 16 7 I 39 10 U 15 16 IT" 35 31 32 33 31 33 40 4 1 42 43 (4 """ 45 46 47 48 49 50 5) 52 53 55" 56" 57 7? Tough on the Referee STRICTLY PERSONAL life." they wrote, "Darwin seemed well on his way to fulfillng the prophecy of his father that 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and your family.' "He learned 'absolutely nothing' at Dr. Butler's school in Shrews bury, withdrew from the study of medicine at Edinburgh, and was only a mediocre theological stu dent at Cambridge. His only real interests during these years were collecting insects and shoot ing." Darwin came from tlie most distinguished and cultivated fam ily, on both sides. But he was not a bit interested in the law, in medicine, in the ministry, in the humanities. The world of na ture fascinated him; and in that day. the word "naturalist" was hardly respectable. His voyage on the "Beagle," which changed tlie cultural his tory of the whole world, almost didn't take place. His father was against the plan, and even though Darwin was 22 he submitted to his father's wish until a respect ed uncle accidentally intervened and the lad made the momentous trip. The "failure" in every school and every subject finally found what he liked to do and did it better than any man before him. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Was Christopher Columbus the first white man in nwdcra times to see the New World? A No. . Rodrigo de Triana. a lookout on the Pinta in Columbus' fleet was the first to sight land Oct. 12, 1492. 1 1 Consumes 33 Lee of lamb 17 Shouted 38 Decennium contemptuously 40 Roman dale 19 Female relative 41 Quintessence 23 Vexed 42(iuilrun's 24 Male kheep (pO husband 23 lamb 4.1 Wheat chaff 2fl Dvestuff 44 Overdue 27 Substances 46 Heating device 28 Ledger entry 47 t'ntettered 29 Couches 48 Period f time 31 Characteristic f0 Permit Answer to Previous Puzzle Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday, March 22, the 81st day of 1963 with 284 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning star is Venus. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1763, the British Stamp Act became law in the American colo nies. In 1775, Edmund Burke spoke for more than three hours in the British Parliament for conciliation with the American colonies. In 1941, Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River began produc ing electrical power. A thought for the day: British statesman Edmund Burke said: "People will not look forward to' posterity who never look back ward to their ancestors." WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Drug Supplies Bring Big Prices In Cuba By FULTON LEWIS JR. On the outskirts of Holguin, Cuba, where thousands of Soviet troops are now stationed, an ultra modern hospital is being dug deep underground. A Cuban doctor who recently fled to Miami reports the hos pital is used exclusively by Rus sian soldiers. It is equipped with 200 beds and shiny new American surgical equipment donated by U.S. companies who helped ran som the Bay of Pigs prisoners last year. Exiles who came in from Ha vana earlier this month told how Fidel Castro has used other drugs sent from America. They said that 89-cent American aspirin is selling for $3 a bottle on Havana drug shelves. Other items to go on sale include Alka - Seltzer, Vicks Vapo Rub, and various vita min pills. The Alka - Seltzer tablets are limited 'to two to a customer and cost ten cents apiece. A bottle of 150 vitamin pills sells for $9. These U.S. drugs are often passed off as products "Made in USSR." Other exiles report that some American medicines and supplies have not been kept in Cuba but were shipped directly to Iron Curtain countries. In a recent column, this re porter revealed that Congression al colleagues are up in arms at the efforts of Senator Ted Kenne dy to "do more for Massachu setts." Rep. John Anderson R., I1I has joined the parade in demand ing a Congressional investigation lo see if Teddy is luring contracts away from tlie Land of Lincoln. Anderson has asked his colleague. Rep. William Dawson, Chairman of the House Govern ment Operations Committee, to investigate the circumstances be hind the im(ending transfer of small arms repair parts procure ment from the Army's Rock Is land Arsenal to tlie Springfield 1 Mass. 1 Arsenal. Contracts for the repair parts have totaled millions of dollars and many have been won by Illinois turns. Says Anderson: "The junior Senator from Mass achusetts was elected on a plat foim of 'I can do more for Mass achusetts.' I want to determine if the transfer the Army is plannning if it can indeed be justified is based on the good of the service and not just the good of Massa chusetts' junior Senator." Treasury Claims No Loss In Tax Changes By PETER EDSOX WASHINGTON iNEA) Church es, educational and charitable or ganizations and many of the good people who give money to worthy causes have been pro testing volubly to Congress and the Treasury over, one part of President Kennedy's tax reform program. What bothers them most is the proposal to limit itemized income tax deductions to amounts over 5 per cent of a taxpayer's adjust ed gross income. First impression of many peo ple has been that this would wipe out all benefits from the proposed tax cuts. Treasury officials say it would not, by a long shot. This "floor" it's not a "ceiling- on itemized deductions would not go into effect until 1964. when three-fourths of the pro posed tax reductions would be in effect. People who itemize deduc tions would thus share in the tax cuts. Churches and public service foundations have feared that the proposed limitation on deductions would reduce their income by in fluencing people to give them less money, to save taxes. Treasury says tax law changes in tlie past have never worked that way and wouldn't in the future if the President's reform is ap proved. It was feared that con tributions might drop when the "standard deduction" was intro duced in the 1940s, but they did not. Much of the confusion over this issue, say Treasury officials, aris es from misunderstanding and from not sitting down with pencil and paper to see how it would vork in each individual's case. Since all U.S. taxpayers now have their eyes focused on March 15 and April 15 deadlines and have the arithmetic involved fresh in mind, this a good time to get straightened out on it. Treasury therefore is trying to answer the flood of protest mail it has received so as to save the President's proposal on this point. Major misunderstanding has been that the proposed exemption floor in the President's plan 5 per cent of adjusted gross income would apply only to charitable contributions. It would not. It would apply also on all the other deductions claimed inter est payments, state and local Joining with Anderson in mak ing the protest is Representative Robert McCloskey, in whose dis trict the Rock Island Arsenal is located. The Reverend Donald Harring ton, pastor of New York's Com munity Church, is upset over a recent column of mine. Dr. Harrington admits that it may have been a "mistake" lo hold at his church a fund-raising affair for Camp W'ebatuck, a New York outfit managed by Mike Stein, who has been involved in Communist fronts. In a statement issued from his New York office. Dr. Harring ton says that I tried to imply he was a Communist. Not so. All I said was that Dr. Harrington's record "may be found in the files of the House UnAmerican Activi ties Committee." These files show that Harrington's record dates back to 1940, when he signed an appeal for Sam Darcy. impris oned Communist leader. His statement was distributed by tlie National Federation for Constitu tional Liberties, a group later list ed by the Attorney General as subversive and Communist. Darcy was only the first Com munist that Dr. Harrington, a leader in the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, felt duty-bound to aid. HUAC files show that he signed a 1941 state ment defending the Communist Party. In 1952. he asked President Tru man to save the convicted atom spies, Julius and Ethel Rosen berg. Three days before Christ mas. 1955, Dr. Harrington urged President Eisenhower to free 16 Communists imprisoned under the Smith Act. He asked the Presi dent to "hold in abeyance" any further prosecution of Red lead ers under that act. In 1900. Dr. Harrington signed a petition asking the President tr commute the jail sentence of Morton Sobcll. convicted of es pionage. In April of last year. Dr. Harrington asked President Kennedy to pardon Junius Scales, convicted under the Smith Act of teaching the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. 'Presi dent Kennedy recently freed Scales 1 Early in 19r4. Dr. Harrington signed a New York Times ad that claimed to tell "what is really happening in Cuba." Its sponsor. The Fair Play for Cuba Commit- taxes, miscellaneous deductible personal expenses and losses. For most taxpayers who itemize their deductions, these other expenses add up to much more than the 5 per cent of adjusted gross income. Says the Treasury: "The vast majority of families will find that every single dollar of their dis cretionary charitable gifts, as well as most of their nondiscre tionary deductible expenditures, will remain fully deductible on their tax returns" under the pro posed reform. "For taxpayers whose deduc tions do not exceed these percen tages, tlie experience of the 1940s clearly demonstrates their use of standard deduction will not limit their gifts." Tax experts figure that people with income under $3,000 a year who itemize their deductions would continue to have no tax lia bility under the proposed reform. People with incomes of from $3,000 to $10,000 a year who have other deductions of at least 15 per cent of adjusted gross in come will be able to deduct every penny of their charitable contribu tions. This 15 per cent deduction fig ure looks high. But income tax statistics show that the average deduction for incomes of $10,000 a year or less is 16 per cent of adjusted gross. For $7,000 incomes it's 20 per cent and for $5,000 in comes it's 21 per cent. This leaves ample room for contribu tions above the proposed 5 per cent floor under deductions. Over the years, the U.S. total for all reported charitable contribu tions has averaged about 2 per cent of total personal income, re gardless of boom or recession, high tax rates or low. Contributions last year exceed ed $8.5 billion. This, however, is about $1.5 billion more than char itable, educational, religious, med ical and cultural organizations re port receiving. The inference is that gifts are often padded. Under present law, donations to religious, educational, medical re search organizations and hos pitals are deductible up to 30 per cent of adjusted gross income. Other donations are limited to 20 per cent. Under the proposed tax reform this 20 per cent figure would be raised to 30 per cent to give all gifts equal treatment. Community funds, symphony orchestras, Red Cross, Girl and Boy Scouts stand lo benefit by bigger gifts under change. Other Editors Say (Oregon - Statesman, Salem) Those 10 invaluable years in a man's age between 35 and 44 apparently are his stupidest, too. Nearly 30 per cent of all driver - license revocations due to liquor accrue in that period. About 25 per cent come between tlie ages of 25 and 34 about the same as between 45 to 54. That leaves 20 per cent divided about equally between those under 25 years of age and those over 55. Only about Hi per cent are under 20. The 35-44 age total isn't surpris ing. It's about the period when many a "social" drinker finds things getting out of hand, after reaching an income level where he can buy more of the stuff than formerly. As analyzed by A. Robert Smith, The Statesman's Washington correspondent, wives really have a point in citing 40 as the dangerous age danger ous in more ways than one. And silly. It's a little different in regard to license revocations for being involved in traffic fatalities, how ever. The younger folk hold the unenviable edge. Twenty-five per cent of them are between 20 and 24, and 16.3 per cent between 25 and 29. Tlie under - 20, 30-34 and 35-39 brackets comprise about 10 per cent each. The remainder is 40 or over. Youthful recklessness, younger middleage stupidity! The former group can set forth an excuse, albeit a wry one. They haven't lived long enough though many of them won't listen to those who have, either. But in the latter group, we fail to find extenuating circumstances. They're old enough to know better. And they mu-st have learned it's no great feat to get drunk all it takes is the ability to swallow. tee. has been called a Communist front operation by the. Chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. In the fall of 1958, Dr. Harring ton affixed his John Hancock to a statement attacking the "get lough" policies of State Secretary John Foster Dulles. The statement was promptly picked up by two far - left organs, the National Guardian and the New World. Review. The former has been termed by Congress a "virtual official propaganda aim of So viet Russia." The latter has been cited as Communist by tlie Sub versive Activities Control Board and two Committees of Congress.