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PAGE 0-A IIERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Thursday, April 11, 1963 NOTHING SPECIAL ."Okay, Let's Throw Him a Bone" W. B.S.I A Three-Dollar Bill? There has been a great deal of edi torial criticism of proposals to eliminate or reduce the tax deductions now allowed for do nations, by individuals and enterprises to charitable, educational, and other non-profit ; causes and institutions. " The obvious result would be a massive deduction in the money given for good works. But charity is not going to stop, education is ; not going to stop, and religion is not going to stop. So, if the flood of private funds is dammed, where is the money to come from? Answer: From government. It has been suggested that some of the proponents of this proposal may want just that, in order to advance a vast Welfare State program in which ultimately govern ment would do everything, run everything, and be all things to all men. Finally, what virtue is there in any al leged tax reduction plan when it is accompa nied by other plans which would increase the tax burden, both directly, as in the case of the added social security levies that became effec tive January 1, and indirectly, as in the case of elimination of traditional deductions? If that turns out to be the situation, the nation is being sold a three-dollar bill. , Critical Days For New Constitution (Register - Guard, Eugene) The next few days may be among the most critical in Oregon constitutional history. Important legislative committees likely will make key decisions bearing upon whether they will submit a reasonable and workable constitution to the people of Oregon, chance submitting a constitution they can't defend, or submit nothing. At stake is the executive section of the proposed constitution, probably the most controversial part of it. The revised constitution provides for a single executive, a governor. Now executive authority is shared with a secretary of state and a treasurer. In addition, a labor commis sioner and an attorney general are now elect ed by all the voters. In addition to providing that the governor would be the only executive, the proposed constitution provides for a comp troller, who would be selected as provided by statute. If the Legislature wished, it could provide that he, too, be chosen by popular vote. But under the terms of the proposed con stitution, he would have no executive authori ty. He would be only a watchdog. The reasons for the single executive are sound. If another person is to share execu tive authority, he must be cither a harmless drudge or a political rival of the governor. If he's a drudge, we don't want him. If he's a rival, his presence in the state structure could so easily be disruptive. Wo saw that clearly in the Holmes administration. Governor Holmes was governor. But sitting with him on the Board of Control were Secretary of State Mark Hatfield and Treasurer Sig Unander. both of whom wanted his job and both 'of whom ran for it as soon as they could. A politically dynamic, ambitious man just must build up a political life of his own. Other wise he's going no place, and he knows it. Only a drudge is willing to sit in the shadows. This is a convincing argument to the legislative committees studying the new con stitution. Or so members say. But, they con tend, the people of Oregon will never accept a new constitution that reduces the number of elective officers. So, they argue, for expe dience another executive or more should be thrown in as a sop to the voters. Lane County's Richard Eymann sees it more clearly. First, he said, one ought to de cide what these additional people are going to do. Then, if they are needed, provide for them. But don't provide for them first and then try to find something for them to do. It is insulting to the voters to suggest that they will be ruled by some fancied preju dice in the backs of their minds, but unswayed by arguments the committee members say are convincing. Certainly, the proposed constitu tion will have its opponents, people who are always against change. But if it cannot be de fended either by legislators or by its own writers, it won't have a prayer of passage by the voters in 1964. The committees and the authors need to preserve what George Wash ington spoke of as a standard to which the wise can repair. It would also be insulting to voters to seek to keep them from voting on this docu ment. It was written by an excellent commit tee after months of work. It's the public's business. The Legislature got into the act only because the people, by vote, asked the Lpgislature to work out an arrangement for presenting such a document. Under other cir cumstances, a constitutional convention might have been called. Then a constitution would pass or fail regardless of legislative feelings toward it. Thus the Legislature has a trust to submit a constitution, and as good a constitu tion as it can come up with. Nixon Looks Like A Politician (By Gladstone Williams In The Sacramento Bre) Former Vice President Rii-h-ard M. Nixon's recent activities have convinced a lot of observ ers that he is back in politics again with both feet despite his renunciation of further political ambitions after Ills defeat for the California governorship. These observers look on the sev eral speeches Nixon has made in the past fortnight or so as In dicative of his now frame of mind. In addition ho has held a press conference, something he said he never would do again when he con ceded his defeat belatedly last No ' vember. Then too he has appeared on a nationwide television show which was given heavy political over tunes by his excoriation of the Kennedy administration. All of this has prompted one leading magazine, US News It World Report of Washington, DC. to comment: "It seems plain to most observers that Mr. Nix on Is back in politics with both loet. But to what purpose? Some think he is setting out to become a Itepuhliriin kingmaker, much as . Thomas E. Dewey did after his defeat (for the presidency! in 1948." Others have taken a similar view. His private meeting in New York with Governor Nelson A. Hockefcller is cited as lending substance to the kingmaker sim ulation. Nixon Is known to think highly of the New York governor, whom he regards as Uie leading candidato for the Republican presidential nomination in 1904. For one thing. Rockefeller stepped aside to let Nixon win tho nomination without opposition In 1960. But who Nixon's real choice may be for the party prize is not known, if Nixon knows him self. After his meeting with Rocke feller, Nixon also held an extend ed session with Leonard Hall, for mer Republican national chair man and a leader in the Nixon camp during the 1960 campaign. Certainly he and Hall did not spend the timo talking about the weather. None of these activities adds up to any loss of interest in poli tics by the former vice president. As a matter of fact, It never did make sense that a man who came as close to the presidency as Nix on did, losing by fewor than 120, 000 votes out of some 68 million cast, could take himself out of politics completely. When, in his disappointment over defeat for the California gov ernorship, ho Indicated ho was through with politics it, there fore, was taken with something moro than a grain of salt. A man does not spend as many years In the political arena as Nixon did and then give It up at the age of 50. And so the only question in the minds of most observers since his statement of Inst November has been what new political step Nix on would take. Ilia deieat for the governorship eliminates him as a candidate for the GOP presi dential nomination next year. The only other elective ollice open to him In 1!M is his old seat in Uie Senate. He could run for the nomination to oppose Senator Clair Engle, Democrat. But it seems that will be too soon after his 1D)2 defeat for him to risk another race then. If he still has his eyes on anotlter W hite House try his bet will lie to run for governor again in lUMt. Success in Hut would enable him to make a strong bid lor Uie parly presi dentiul nomination two years la ter, when the second term of President John F. Kennedy would expire, assuming Uie president's reelection. Many observers feel this is in (he buck of Nixon's mind. It is natural for a man who has been defeated fur political olfice to want to vindicate himself at the polls. Hence It is no surprise to see Nix on beginning to show political ac tivity again. The way is open for him to keep himself in the picture by undertaking a kingmaker role in the next Republican National Con. vention. If he backed the win ning candidate and the Republi cans should emerge as victors in the l!Hi4 election, lie could com mand a place in the cabinet of the next administration. But even if the Republicans should lose Nixon might gallier enough political hay out of his part in tho campaign to build him tip for another try at the governor ship. Few political leaders here abouts are willing to take him at his word that lie is through with politics. Al manac 11 v l ulled Press International Today is Thursday, April 11, tlie Mist day of 1963. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In mil, French Emperor Napo leon decided to abdicate and signed a proclamation to that ef fect. In IBM, the U.S. proclaimed a peace treaty with Spain to end the Spanish-American War. In 1!M7, infieldcr Jackie Robin son of the old Brooklyn Dodgers became the first Negro to play major league baseball. In 1931. President Truman re lieved lien. Douglas MacArthur of his command in the Far East. A thought for the day: Ameri can humorist Mark Twain said: "Soap and education arc not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in tlie long run." 1 I STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: The real danger of our techno logical age is not so much that ' machines wifl begin to think like men. but that men will begin to think like machines that machine-oriented thinking will dom inate us, to the exclusion of mor ality, of conscience, .of value judgments. Ity the time a speaker says, "To make a long story short," he has already made It too long. Those who refuse to modify a system argue that modification is likely to produce disorder; but since conditions in any system are always changing, it may very well turn out that the refusal to modify the system is itself a "modification" which may pro duce disorder. (This is the para dox inherent in the conservative position, which so often loses ev erything because it is unwilling to change anything.) Hate, no less than love, dis torts our estimate of reality: as Nietzsche said of tlie militaristic spirit: "How good had music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!" The only time most people are aware of their conscience is when they can say, with more than a touch of smugness, "I have a clear conscience about that." When is their conscience unclear? Sometimes we remain faith ful to a cause only because its opiHinents are so stupid and ob noxious; In this way, blind op position generates more fervor on the other side, even when faith is lagging. It is hard lor many parents to believe this, but most children understand adults better than adults understand children that is, our unconscious and unex pressed motivations are quite clear to the child, while t h e child's unconscious motivations are not seen by us, because we have already constructed an ar titical picture of the child as we want him to be, or as he should be, but not as he really is. The most dangerous lunatics in society are those who are not committable: those w'ho would pass any psychiatric tests for in sanity, but who nevertheless suf fer from grandiosity, delusions of persecution, and enter public life to expose some "plot" that is "threatening" all of us. Both Hit ler and Stalin were crazy in this way; and yet bolh were "sane" by ordinary medico-legal stan dards. Private lunacy gets a pad ded cell: this form of public lunacy too often wins a throne seat. Some words are never used, except by those who lack the quality: just as a gentleman nev er mentions tlie word "gentle man." so the word "cultured" is used only by those without it, tlie word "refined" used only by those lacking" it. and the phrase "gracious living" implies its pre cise opposite the moment it is spoken. Indian War Dance Answer to Previous Puxziw BSE ACROSS Simian Indian Uinta Indun, for instance Iroquoian Indian Dressmaking term Courtesy title Matiirass Girl's name Note in Guido's scale Huge plant Juniper r.tnpliasil Abstract being rroe nation (ah I Selected Drives eft Dutch measure Saintetab.) r.xpire Priority tprefixl Pronoun Hostelry Vo.t v. irlike tnhe of the Five Nations 41 Fence opening 43 Female hog 44 Cartegraph 4;i Feed (or slaughter 48 Expunged 52 Nautical lerm 63 Uncle Tom's pel 5S Solicitude 58 Fly alolt 57 Dine 5(1 (Ireet 5! 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Firemen arc as necessary now as ever. They are concerned now with a different kind of fire, it's true, not one contained in a fire box which must be fed to pro duce steam, but the fire of elec tricity, generated by the diesel motors. It would be just as fair to claim a farmer or a house wife or many other present day workers are featherbedding. Af ter all their working conditions have changed, too. We no longer cook over a wood stove, make our own bread and our own soap or raise and pre serve our own food as out moth ers and grandmothers had to do and because a farmer uses mod ern mechanized methods instead of trudging behind horses or mules we don't say he is feather bedding. Changing times and methods make a job no less es sential. So the fireman's job has changed but he is still needed. Now he has to know the funda mentals of the diesel motors, to be able to locate and fix trou bles that occur while the train is running under power that is the only way the trouble can be found. He is a definite safety factor in many ways an extra pair of eyes to watch for danger where the engineers can't see a co pilot, so as to speak, for the en gineer, who can take over the controls if he is needed. After all, the engineer is human and subject to sudden illness and other unforeseen happenings as well as any oilier person. Tlie fire man is trained and able to take the controls of the train in such an event. And last, but not least, the fireman is the future engineer, learning a complex job the only way it can be learned, as an ap prentice under the guidance of the experienced engineer. Man agemenf seems to have lost sight of this Important aspect of tlie picture. The job of the railroad man may look easy when you see him riding along in the train but it is complex in so many ways. And the life of a railroad man and his family is complex and different than any other. So, please, learn our side of the story before believing the accu sations of featherbedding. Do you know what an "extra board" is? Ask any railroader and he will tell you. Here they serve the early years on a job while gaining seniority. While on the extra board they have no steady, set place to work but must go anywhere in this division to work for as long as they are needed. So they must maintain a home for their family and also pay their own expenses wherever they may be working; they re ceive no away-from-home ex petise account for this. So it goes, no regular home life with wife and chi'dren. and double living expenses until they have gained enough seniority to hold a steady run. Then when a fireman takes his examination and is promoted I was glad to see George Cal lison set the record straight for the crepe hangers and gloom chasers in his column last Sun day. Klamath Falls tand the Klamath area have sustained some severe economic hardships, but not to the extent that we are down for the count. We have many good tilings going for u the picture is not black. But. if we just sit on our collective duff and cry we can expect the worst. Leaders in the community must take Uie iniUative and howl down the detractors and moaners. 1 have a solution to all of the problems of Kt'HS: Simply clnse down the school for four - or five years or so. This W'ill enable taxpayers to accumulate a reserve; the kids will be able to go out and earn their own liv ing; teachers can find some worthwhile work, and we can quit worrying about the quality of the music and athletic pro grams for a while. 1 would sug gest the same thing for ele mentary schools in the city, but ' I'm afraid Warm Springs does not have the facilities for all those mothers of children be tween the ages of 6 and 12. Games, anyone? The Seattle Argus recently ran a brain-twister which, it said, is .a sample logic problem not at all typical one high school teacher recently handed her algebra class. You're invited to1 take a crack at it to test your own reasoning process es and reactions. Here's the way it goes: Five men, each of a different nationality, lives in a different colored house, drinks something different, smokes a different brand of cigarettes, owns a dif ferent animal. Here are the clues: There are five houses in a row. The Englishman lives in the red house. The Spaniard has a dog. The person who lives in tlie green house drinks coffee. The Ukranian drinks tea. The green house is just to the right of the ivory house. The man who smokes Old Golds owns snails. Kools are smoked in the yellow house. The man in the middle house drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The Chesterfield smoker lives next to the man with a fox. The man who smokes Kools lives next to the man who owns a horse. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice. The 'Japanese smokes Parlia ments. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The questions: Which man drinks water? Which man owns a zebra? There are no tricks In volved. There is an answer. All that's required is brains and a deductive process. I'll print the correct answer In a few days. Let me sec and hear what some of you deduce. To the first person sending in the correct answer, I'll give two tickets to the Klamath Commu nity Music Festival. Expensive driving (or, statis tics we can do without): Life insurance benefits paid in 1962 to families of policyholders killed in auto accidents totaled a record $164,000,000 or $28 million more than in 1961. The Institute of Life Insurance said about four per cent of all life insurance death payments resulted from automo bile fatalities. Here's the way government economy works: By abolishing the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Committee, which in 1962 had 49 employes, $350,000 was sal vaged from the budget. But the new Bureau of Outdoor Recrea tion in 1964 will have 223 perma nent employes and a budget of $2,462,000. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Civilian Planners Wrecking Defenses By FULTON LEWIS JR. The honeymoon is over for Rob ert Strange McNamara. Labeled the "greatest Defense Secretary in history," urged to run for President in 1968, the subject of gushing cover stories only a few short months ago, McNamara is now the most un popular New Frontiersman ' in Washington. There are few, Republicans or Democrats, who rush to his side. Paul Douglas in tlie Senate and Sam Stratum in the House are virtually alone in their defense nf the onetime Ford Motor chieftain. Neither wields much in fluence and neither is expert in Pentagon affairs. The secretary is now labeled a tyrant, a dictator by top-ranking congressional figures. Virtually every expert on Capitol Hill Russell, Vinson, Goldwater, 'Sy mington, Arends has criticized him. Republicans say flatly that Mc Namara's policies play into the hands of Moscow.' They say he has weakened America's strate gic position by cancelling the Sky boll, killing the RB-70, junking tlie Jupiter missiles trained on Soviet defense installations. Democrats have joined the chor us. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a gen eral in the Army Reserve. to engineer he can be used in either capacity as the company sees fit and Uie whole extra board process is repeated again until he gains seniority enough to hold a steady run as an engi neer. Put this together with no regu lar hours, or days olf; no paid holidays or night work differen tial: unpaid hours by the tele phone waiting for a call to work: gutting called any hour, day or night, to go to work, not know ing just when they will return; the impossibility of a planned so cial life; the tension of present day high speed, long, heavy trains, never knowing when some dare devil or simply careless mo torist may cross the tracks too late with the terrible sights that follow these are but a few as pects of a railroad worker's job. You may wonder HV anyone even warns it. But those that do deserve credit for the essential place they fill in transportation vi tal to the nation. An Engineer's Wife. ' Mrs. D. L. McCaskey, 140 Martin Street. charges that McNamara's re fusal to "expedite development and deployment of a defense against ballistic missile attack has created a very real and danger ous gap." Within the past few years, Thurmond says, McNamara has been faced with a key decision: whether or not to go forward with production of the only anti-missile system the free world has under active development. Each year he has decided, over military objections, against spend ing tlie $160 million for production of key component parts for the Army's Nike Zeus system. This despite the fact that Army sci entists have scored success after success with the Zeus in test range trials. Late last year, after the Zeus passed, its ultimate test by pick ing out and destroying an inter continental ballistic missile fired several thousand miles away, Mc Namara decided not to "rush" production of an anti-missile mis sile. Under McNamara plans, the U.S. might and then 'again, might not have such a weapon by 1970. The Russians, McNa mara admitted in Senate grilling, should have one by 1965. Thurmond feels that McNamara has adopted the policies of Prof. Jerome Wiesner, chief science ad viser to the President. Wiesner told Soviet scientists in Decem ber, I960, that possession of an anti-missile missile by this coun try would upset what he called the nuclear parity. He urged an international agreement "to ex plicitly prohibit the development and deployment of such a sys tem." The Russians took Wicsncr's view with a grain of salt. They continued massive research on de velopment of such a missile and will have one years before the IS. In recent testimony before the House Armed Services Commit tee. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, argued for the Nike-Zcus. He told House members that America will sutler a "Cold War defeat" when the Soviets announce they have developed an anti-missile missile. The first side to put such a mis sile in operation will rack up a major propaganda victorv, to sav nothing of a military break I through. "We would have had a techno logical triumph over the Soviets." said Taylor. Pentagon officials ve toed the idea as "too expensive." however.
