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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.
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1 I 1'
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Essential
The problems of the railroad
workers are many and an in
formed public will not be so
quick to believe the accusations
of featherbedding made by the
railroads. This is one of the ma
jor issues at stake.
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.