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PACE S-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday, April II. 1963 NOTHING SPECIAL Side Show (W. B. S.) In an informal conversation with one of Oregon's most astute Senators last week-;-end, he expressed the thought that the people ;6ughl to have an opportunity to vote again 7; :jn the sales tax issue. We agree. In the House, Rep. Joe Rogers has been '-' 'fading a rather futile effort to get the sales 'i-tax question to a vote of the people. In a .recent editorial, the Eugene Register-Guard ' presented some of the historical background of a previous attempt to vote in a sales tax. The editorial also presents some logical discus sion as to why the 1944 situation and our present situation are so different. HOW DO WE KNOW? "Rep. Joe Rogers of Independence is about as independent as anybody in the Leg islature. He doesn't go along with the folklore ;,-lhat Oregon voters are always turning down sales tax. He suggests we be given a chance - to vote on the sales tax idea in 1964. With that suggestion he likely will get nowhere. v.But it's an excellent suggestion. "In 1964 it will have been just 20 years since a general sales tax bill was on the Ore gon ballot. Four cigarette tax measures have been turned down in that 20 years, but no general sales tax has been on the ballot propaganda to the contrary. "A 1944 vote is hardly meaningful. In ; 1944 everybody was working. Incomes were Review (From the Milwaukee Journal) As long as the United States must keep . f:'2.7 million men under arms, " probably will be needed to provide sufficient manpower. Extension of the Draft Act beyond its June 30th expiration date is therefore necessary. Viewed superficially, the selective serv ice system labors much to produce little. Ac cording to Norman Paul, assistant secretary :;lof defense, only 90,000 young men will be : drafted in each of the next four years, all of them for the army. Filling up the army's ranks is only one service rendered by the draft, however. It is lalso the "hot breath" that sends young men "; into the air force, navy and marines as volun teers. And it is a symbol of 'America's de termination to stay militarily strong. Might the armed forces get along with out the draft? Maybe, but it would be risky , to try. The draft was suspended for 15 months (via 1947-48. In spite of expensive efforts, re cruiting fell 600,000 men short of meeting fjtlie services' requirements, which then totaled only 2 million men. $ What troubles many persons about the ?:':draft, including those who concede its tie r ':cessity, is the inequity. Up until now, say the selective service people, "most" young men IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLKDANO jl; In the United States, the labor jl-fnrce adds up to nearly 70 mil ;5ion persons. Of these, some 14 I;inillion arc members of the AFL t;i'10. Yet President George Meany !;!and Vice President Walter Rcu tllier (whose UAW has suffered a ' steady decline in membership) claim to speak in the name n( every American worker. In de fining compulsory unionism the law of the land except in slates which have voted for ; "'right - to - work" legislation Mr. 'Meany, Mr. Heulher, and Jheir colleagues insist that they ;tj.peak for the "majority." ;tj To listen to the AFL-CIO ly jljgoons, American labor is clam 'flring to sign on Hie dotted line and to pay its dues to the labor '. bureaucrats. The exact opi J site is true. In fact, llic hysterical J. demands of the labor bosses lor ; compulsory unionism aie based on the steady decline of union membership. At every turn, po tential union members have thumbed their noses ot the la bor leadership, declining to kick in their dues in order to keep union officials in luxury. If every u dues-payer took an excursion Z. through Washington, visiting the S marble palaces that union (unds have built on Capitol Hill, there 5 would be little need for arguing J with Mr. Meany, The rank and Jj file would tako rare of him. s The question of compulsory tin Innsim, however, cannot be rcrk- I oned in terms of what the labor '; bosses have gained In plush liv ing, trips to fancy conventions, and expense accounts. In a five enterprise system, it can be ar How Do We Know? Of Draft In Order? compulsion Union Practices gued that they are entitled to everything they can get. It is not, moreover, a matter of majorities and minorities. This is something for the college professors to de bate. But for the man who pays his dues, there is a far more impor tant dollars and - cents issue. Do labor union members actually profit from it? If they did, then the cynic could say, "You pays your money and you takes your choice." Rut it is not so simple as that, not by far. A guod case can be made that under certain conditions, union membership hurts the average American worker. Let us say. lor example, that you and 1 belong to n corrupt union. The treasury of this union is being systemati cally robbed and its olficers are signing "sweetheart contracts" which lower pay and make wink ing conditions worse hut which bring graft into the pockets of the leadership. The normal reaction under those conditions would be for ou and lor me to resign from the corrupt union and to organize an honest union. Rut if a union shop or compulsory union contract has been signed, we cannot quit. If we do, we automatically lose our jobs. I'ndor a union shop agreement, we are entitled to our jobs only as long n we remain in Hie union. If your union decides In spend Its funds in support of candiil.ilrs you are against, then It's loo bad. If you resign, you are fired. So you must pay your hard-earned cash to elect candidates jou arc high. The income lax rate was low. We had almost nothing to spend money for. The high er education establishment was largely de serted. Welfare was a very minor item. There was no basic school support program then. Building was out of the question. Oregon was at war, and Oregon got along fine that bien nium on an appropriation of only $24 million. This Legislature is talking in terms of a $400 million budget, sixteen times the size of that for 1943-1944. "By 1964 one of two things will have happened. The income tax will be really hurt ing, if the Legislature digs up as much money as we need. Or state services will not be up to the standard Oregon residents want. Possibly, the two factors will combine to make Oregon voters realize we can't go on this way much longer. "So politically sensitive is this question and so determined are some politicians to use their anti - sales lax positions for po litical grandstanding, that a test of popular sentiment seems to be the only way out. And why, by the way, do so many legislators op pose Joe Rogers' suggestion that the people be permitted to express themselves? There is no sound reason right now for thinking that Oregon is wedded forever to our present pat tern of taxation." over and above the distressingly large num ber who don't measure up mentally or physi callyhave discharged their military obliga tion through the draft, by volunteering, or in the national guard or reserve. The big exempt group has been young fathers. Now young men are coming of age who were born in the war and postwar "baby boom" years. Many will still serve but the an nual classes are so large that an increasing number will avoid military service. Perhaps service to the nation ought to be universal, with young men not fit or needed for the armed forces discharging their obli gation in other appropriate ways. There is little possibility that congress, or the people, would accept such a system. But isn't a thorough review of the draft in order? The present act has been in force with little change for eight years and the Pentagon now pro poses a four year extension. Rather than four, why not just a two year extension, with a civilian commission created to study possible improvements and alternatives? This is in line with a proposal of Representative Kastcnmcicr of Wisconsin. Young men who must serve deserve every assurance that they are being chosen in the fairest, most democratic way possible. Harmful strongly against. If subversives in filtrate your union and take over its leadership, you still can't quit. And if you try to dislodge the bosses by publicising: their acts, they can toss you out of the union and your job for "disloy alty. " Rut make it less theoretical. New York City has just ended a disastrous newspaper strike in which a handful of printers kept almost 20.000 other newspaper workers out of their jobs and cost the city n conservative eslimaled $200 million. A city of over eight million people-was deprived of Its news, merchants suffered, and every phase of mu nicipal life slowed down. The printers, let it be noted, have one of the tightest unions in the world. In a healthy climate, compul sory unionism is not necessary. Workers join and remain in the union because they believe it is to their advantage; This keeps Ihe leadership on its toes. H pre vents the signing of contract which are not to the advantage of (he workers. And it makes the union leadership responsive to the will of the membership. Years ago, as vice chairman of a Newspaper Guild I'nit, I reported to some of my "supe riors" that several members were dissalisfied and wanted lo resign. I was informed that if they did they would have a hard time in the future. "We don't have a Guild shop contract, here." I was told, "hut if they should leave this magazine and try to get a job where there is a Guild shop, we'll take It out of their hides." RY SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: It is easy for us to believe, with Donne, that no man is an island; but each of us privately believes, at the same time, that he ought to be a peninsula, jutting nut ahead of the rest of the mainland. No person has a right to scorn the pomp of the world until he has tasted it and rejected it; the premature cynicism of the young is so unattractive because it has not yet been exposed to the temp tations it dismisses with such ar rogant idealism. The only trouble with "enlight ened self-interest" as a guiding rule of personal conduct is that in any real crisis the self-interest extinguishes the enlightenment. Ifciw blessed are the comfnr lahle bromides of the Ignorant after listening to the stridrnt pronouncements of the half-educated! When we are forced lo ask about a man, "What does he real ly believe in his heart of hearts?" it is conceivable that he has no heart of hearts, that he cut it out and threw it away early in life. For while we cannot live with out a heart, many find a heart of hearts an embarrassing en cumbrance as they trudge up the mountain path of success. Nothing gives one such genuine superiority over another as not having that other's needs; the one Farmer In the Dell ACROSS 1 Farm animal 5 t-'emale. sheep 8 Animals kept in sties 12 Athena 13 Wife ot Aegir 14 Karm'l extent . 15 Soar .17 Doctors tab! 3R Mineral rock 39 Outstrips 40 Regret 41 l.ogger'1 boot 42 Walkers in water 45. Speaker 49 Love cod 1A Unusual SO Female hoe 17 Blow with open 52 Roman emperor hand S3 Smooth IB Penetrates 20 Natural fits 22 Service charge 23 Mimic 24 Fish 27 Three times (comb, form) 2fl Devotee 31 Genuine 32 French cily 33 Farm meadow 34 Atr (comb, form! ! Grit (slanfi 30 Measure of 54 Before 55 Ancient Irish hall 56 Misplaced 57 Drone bee 58 Banc DOWN 1 Cast lead casement rods 2 Wolfhound 3 For fear that A Ominous IN Irregular fl Soft mass 1 2l3 p I S 6 7 I 8 5 110 111 12 13 H f5 16 17 B IT" 2021 ' 22 23 24 25 126 hr I29 P 3i rj2 H 35 TlTr "tg-ZOZ 42 143 144 j5 46 147 148 g "sFbl ""32 " 54 Zb 55 5l 58 1 IK STRICTLY PERSONAL who does not need status or pop ularity or luxury is basically freer and higher than those who des perately covet such things; and is not what we call "sainthood" pre cisely the superiority of happily doing without what the rest of us so anxiously contend for? You're not really middle-aged until the prospect of a good short midday nap is more entic ing than that of a long night's sleep. The greatest (and last) skill in playing bridge is knowing when in pass; only the experts have mastered the art of saying noth ing at the right time; and so it is in every human pursuit and relationship for the duffer in variably fails by neglecting the rule of silence. One of the basic flaws in our national temper was succinctly expressed by Santayana when he remarked, "The American looks upon life as a feast or a spectacle; he has not yet begun to regard it as a predicament." (Even the nuclear age has scarcely changed this view.) The older I get, the more I become convinced that everybody is either an egg or a chicken that is, the world is divided into those who are still encased in the shell they were born in, and those, who have painfully pecked their way out and look at the world with their own eyes, unblurred by the ancestral casing. Answer to Previous Puzzle EM HE 5W1 a Hurry 9 Shield bearing 10 Machine part 11 Knervales 19 Rot (lax J I W hirl 24 British street car 25 Ramboolikt. Brass ; raddles 27 Polynesian god 28 Seine islets 2!) Chair 32 Toddled 35 Unpleasant .16 Retracts 39 Legal profession 40 Set anew 41 Horse 42 Water source 43 Martian tcomb. form) 44 Puts on 4B River duck 47 Odd (Scot.) 43 Wander so Scottish caps SI Old (Sp - eHea iNieiai giots s lOIVlAl 1M M M fc. iOM L Sit OTNSLJN T IMIAITIT1 ion Bit ten iqi ie InIIA'Sji Ic WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK White House Guard Gets Told Plenty By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise ' Assn. WASHINGTON INEA)- Guards Mere prodding the usual line of White House tourists to speed up so early prep arations could be m a d e for President Ken nedy's evening diplomatic re ception. A woman in the line bridled at being told to hurry: "I came all the way from Al buquerque," she said. "If you think you're going to run me through here, you're mistaken! I came to see the White House and I'm going to see it." A slightly stunned guard could find no words to reply. Adm. George W. Anderson. Chief of Naval Operations, is being ribbed for his opening remark in a speech to Fordham University alumni at a New York hotel. The speech was written and handed out in the Pentagon one day in advance of delivery. In this advance text Anderson spoke of some chance remark he "over heard" in the elevator on the next night that is, the night of the speech. Around the Pentagon it's now said Anderson has a secret Navy weapon called "advanced hear ing." Donald Harvey, executive di rector of Uie House of the Good Shepherd of Utica, N.Y., gave a clue the other day as to how tricky it may sometimes be to get government money. Speaking to the President's Committee on Juvenile Delin quency in Washington, Harvey said Utica requested $20,000 of the grant money available to get the city's J.D. project lolling. "We were told our request did not meet the requirements of the President's Committee. So we went back home, devised another plan, returned, and aked for $180,000. "This time we were informed we had met the committee's re quirements, but there was no longer any money to give us." Pennsylvania's Gov. William Scranton came to Washington to help urge Republicans tn pick Philadelphia (or their 1964 conven tion. He was accompanied by a short man not immediately identi fiable. Reporters cornered the man. Asked one, for reasons not clear: "Are you with the Justice De partment?" The short fellow replied: "1 am the Justice Department." He was Walter Alessandroni, at torney general of Pennsylvania and Scranton's W2 campaign manager. Rep. William G. Bray of In diana sas: "li s a shame Cap l.mi Kidd was born two centuries a;o. He could have claimed he was a Communist and been given haven instead of being halved." On President Krnnedy's Costa Ruan trip, a newsman decided In do a little in-drplli reportinj among the natip citizens on co- If the response to the brain twister that was published in this corner last week is any reflec tion of interest, there are a great many of our readers who enjoy tangling with posers. We re ceived a couple hundred or so an swers in the mail, and a few doz en phone calls with the correct answers. Which were, of course: The Norwegian drinks water. The Japanese owns a zebra. Many of the answers carried with them the proper diagrams showing the development tn the answer. Niit a few of the entries also included some com ments, and requests for more puzzlers of this type. Otto Schaffner of Tulelake dropped a note to the effect that the puzzle was "a few minutes o( fun and deductions even simpler than Form 1040." One Tulelake lady had -trouble getting her houses in order until she put her self in the house. Another fellow from Lakeview commented that if we could inject as much ele ment of logic into our Coinword puzzles, his Friday frustrations would be ended. A lady from Keno, suspecting a trap, I as sume, said in answer to the ques tion: which man drinks water "they all do." A Klamath Falls man asked some questions of his own, such as: "Is a snail considered an ani mal?" "How does anyone know t h e beverage is water rather than some other beverage?" "How do we deduce the missing animal is a zebra instead of some other animal?" Then, he went ahead anyway and got the correct answers. Well. I guess those who played the game had fun, and we'll see if some more turn up WASHINGTON REPORT . . . - Cuba Exiles Resent U.S. Help Cutoff ' By FULTON LEWIS JR. It was a tiny band of 12 men who managed to evade the sol diers of Fulgencio Batista and find their way to the Sierra Mae stra mountains of eastern Cuba where they proclaimed their rev olution to "liberate" Cuba. That was in December, 1956. Two years later, victory was theirs. The mighty Batista, with 40.000 crack soldiers under his control, had fled, defeated by an "army that numbered a dozen men at first, less than 3,000 at tne triumphant end. The 12 men who began that fight followed the strategy laid down by Alberto Bayo, a veter an Communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War. In the moun tains of Mexico they had been trained under his tutelage. They learned to fire pistols, rifles and machine guns; to make bombs; to blow up a barricade, tn de stroy tanks; to spot and bring down enemy aircraft; to march quietly through jungle brush, to see and hear without being seen m heard. Throughout Latin America there are now similar bands learning the techniques that must be utilized if another, more terrible tyrant, Fidel Castro, will he overthrown. There are now in Cuba, not 12. but hundreds of guerillas schooled in the tech niques of Bayo and Che Gueva ra, the Argentine-born Marxist whose book, "Guerilla Warfare," is considered almost a defini tive work. These men in recent months have received shipments of those very weapons that Guevara calls indispensable for successful guer illa warfare. Run into Cuba at night, tliese weapons include the M-l rifle, the M-14. the FAL (a Belgian automatic rifle i, and 9 millimcter machine guns. The effectiveness of the gueril la campaign can be gauged from the following plea carried recent ly in Rcvolucion, official news paper of the Castro regime: "We eNhort all the members of the Vigilance Committees to in tensify their vigilance 24 hours a day, because it is necessary tn cooperate to a maximum with Ihe authorities in order to stop the assaults, attacks and sabo tage and arrest and convict the agents of Yankee imperialism " Radio Havana reported March 20 that "saboteurs have increased their activities in recent weeks in Ijs Villa Province. Traitors paid nomic conditions. He approached one and asked: "What does your country need most?" The name knew the English for it. and his answer was qukk: "Muncj ." in pur exchanges or other sources. Maybe you have a pet of your own. U so, send it in. By 1970 the dollar bill will have its first face-lifting since llCfi. if a drive now on in Congress is successful. In 1K2S the big economy-size paper dollar was super seded by the present wallet - size bill. The proposed change would be no thing - of - beauty - for beauty's - sake operation. The purpose is to retire present $1 bills, backed 100 per cent by sil ver and called "silver certifi cates," and replace them with bills backed by a 25 per cent gold reserve and called "Federal Reserve Notes." This would free treasury-held silver, which backs the present notes, for use in making coins. Present best guess is that the color and bill size would remain the same, but design of the hill would differ greatly, to make the new bills easily distinguishable from the present ones. Now if they could just build a little more purchasing ppwer ' into the new number ... The Tongue Point hassle (into which our venerable Senator has leaped with both feet) points up a situation in Oregon that might be or might not be good de pending upon your viewpoint. Oregon ranked 47th among the 50 states in tne value ot prime military contracts received in I960. We received a total of $23,000,000, or a per capita basis of $13.24. Contrast this to Wash ington state's per capita to tal of $248.23 nearly 19 times that of Oregon, and you get some idea of what Boeing means to Washington. Only West Vir ginia, Arkansas and Nevada had prime contracts less than Ore oon's. by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency blew up the railroad lines of the San Francisco sugar mill." Several trains were derailed, causing considerable damage. The anti-Castro guerillas were adopting tactics used successful ly by Castro and Guevara. "Acts of sabotage are very important." writes Guevara in his manual, "and can be developed to a high degree." He urges the use of "tele-explosive mines, set olf by radio at great distance from the noint where they are located." Such mines, says Guevara, "were French colonial powers." Using arms smuggled from out side Cuba, anti-Communist gueril las made a recent raid on govern ment forces in Las Villas Prov ince, killing 20 militiamen. But today these acts of sabotage, these raids on Communist mili tiamen are coming tn a tragic end. U.S. agents have been in structed to cut off completely the shipment of arms from Cuban ex iles to compatriots inside Cuba. And 90 miles from the United States, hundreds of Cubans are left to die. "They are trapped." one exile leader told me. "Willi no more ammunition, they will be tracked down like dogs and killed." The Administration is convinced that the very techniques which led to the triumph of Fidel Cas tro cannot possibly lead to his defeat. And why? Because it fears that Premier Khrushchev might retaliate with a nuclear war. The policy is bitterly resented. "This is the last straw," one exile told the Associated Press. "No invasion, no government in exile, and now nn more attacks on Castro. It looks as if Castrn has won." Equally angered are U.S. law makers. "A complete contradic tion of our national goals," says Florida Rep Paul Rogers, a Dem ocrat. His Republican colleague, Bill Cramer, asks. "Have we giv en up all hope and thought of an uprising in Cuba?" Apparently we have. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What was the real name of Boston's (amous North Church? A-Christ Church. It was in the steeple of this church that th signal lights were hunc for Paul Revere s suidance. Q Did Franklin Knnsevpll unc inate the phrase "The Forfrnt ten Man"? A No. "The Forgotten Man" was the title of a public lectur delivered by William Sumner ui
