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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Thursday, April II. 1963
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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
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5 t-'emale. sheep
8 Animals kept
in sties
12 Athena
13 Wife ot Aegir
14 Karm'l extent
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.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
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casement rods
2 Wolfhound
3 For fear that
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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
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10 Machine part
11 Knervales
19 Rot (lax
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24 British street
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25 Ramboolikt.
Brass
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27 Polynesian god
28 Seine islets
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32 Toddled
35 Unpleasant
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39 Legal
profession
40 Set anew
41 Horse
42 Water source
43 Martian tcomb.
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44 Puts on
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47 Odd (Scot.)
43 Wander
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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