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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Fallt, Ore.
Frldaf , March 22. 1963
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
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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.
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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
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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
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8 Fquals
9 Soviet stream
10 Get un
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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.