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Friday. April 26. 19M
"And as You File Out, Mr. Salinger Will
Supply Rose Colored Glasses."
EDSON IN WASHINGTON ...
Censorship Practice
Gets House Scrutiny
eral&aniiSeto;
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Federal Spending Should Be Cut
The Legislative Information Service,
which is published biweekly by the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States while Con
gress is in session, has done an excellent job
of summing up, in objective fashion, the pend
ing changes in tax rates and tax policy. Then
it adds some suggestions of its own which are
at variance with the Administration position.
Excessive tax rates, the argument runs,
are slowing economic growth and progress
and are a prime cause of a comparatively
high unemployment total. Just about every
one is in agreement with this premise. The
differences consist of what to do about it.
: The Administration stand is that revised
rates and tax reform should be combined in
a single bill, with the reductions taking place
over a three-year period.
, Individual income tax rates now run from
20 per cent to 91 per cent. They would be re
duced to range from 14 per cent to 65 per cent.
The rate on corporations of any size is
now 53 per cent. It would be cut to 47 per cent.
This would largely be accomplished by grad
ually reducing the surtax rate which corpor
ations in substantial income brackets now
with this, if the Administration
plan is followed, there will be structural
changes in the tax system. These, as the In
formation Service observes, are highly con-
troversial.
The Wilderness Bill
(Th Christian Scitnca Monitor)
For the second time, the wilderness bill
has been passed, overwhelmingly, by the
United States Senate and is entering into the
wilderness of committee and parliamentary
procedures in the House of Representatives.
Opponents of the bill mustered a few
more votes in the Senate this time than in
August, 1961. This may indicate that few per
sons have been persuaded Congress should
keep a little more control over the designation
of wilderness areas than the bill provides.
Essentially the contest Is between con
servationists who wish to preserve the recre
ational shall we say, inspirational? val
ues of some 2 per cent ol the land area of
(he United States and the economic interests
concerned with timber, mining and grazing
uses important to some western states.
IN WASHINGTON
We
: By RALPH it TOLEDANO
11 li I tragic irony (hat the
Kennedy Administration'! current
X'uban target Is not the Castro
Xommunist regime but the exiles
Un. Miami and Its environs. At the
:txliet of the State Department,
;British authorities in the West In
dian islands have begun round
up o inti-Communist action
groups. Cuban exiles In the U.S.,
who helped raise the ransom mon
ey (or il Bav of Pigs prisoners
tleld by Fidel Castro, are now at
tempting to gaUier together new
fansom hinds in order to buy the
liberation of Freedom Raiders im
prisoned by Uie British. The cost
'itC roughly $140 a head in the
him of fines, and if the money
Is not forthcoming soon, the Cu
bans now in British prisons will
be forced to servo eight to 10
years.
At the same time, the Adminis
tration has placed Cuban exiles
In Florida under a kind of "house
arrest." They have been confined
to the limits of Dade County
(which Includes Miami' and told
that they will be thrown in the
pokoy If they leave. The consti
tutionality of this action Is open
to question, but It is hardly likely
dial anyone will carry the case
to a Supreme Court which now
openly subslilutes political ex
pediency for Hie strict rule o( law.
Tli State Department, moreov
er, has launched what can only be
described at a terror campaign
against the exilea and their lead
ers. Many of Uiesa exiles would
be in dire poverty except for U.S.
financial help. Hie word is being
quietly spread that tlws who op
pose li Administration's "do noth
tag'' Cuban policy will find them
wives without that help and on a
blacklist.
This is not a new situation.
hcn Hie State Department and
Central Intelligence Agency want
ed to see the creation of a Cuban
Revolutionary Council, they se
lected the leadera , and hand
picked Its president, Jose Mirn
Cardona. It w as no secret that the
Cuban exiles did not want Senor
Lost A Tough Fight
Miro Cardona to head the council.
But a CIA representative, known
in Miami simply as "Mr. B."
told the exiles bluntly that this w as
the way it would have to be said
that those leaders w ho opposed tlie
selection would find themselves
cut off from CIA funds.
Senor Miro Cardona has never
been truly popular among his
compatriots. CIA would not listen
to any evidence Uiat he did not
have the vast following among
- antl-Caslroites in Cuba that was
claimed. Th., Bay of Pigs fiasco,
which was In part predicated on
a revrlt of Miro supporters against
Castro, showed that they were al
most non-existent.
"Mr. B" had his way. how
ever. Now Jose Miro Cardona is
considered a kind o( Cuban Pub
lic Enemy Number One by the
AdministraUon. He has il com
muted the unlorgivable sin of in
sisting that this country live up
to its promise to liberate Cuba, and
stirred up Uie Cuban exiles
land many Latin Americans' by
underscoring the utter bankruptcy
o( current U.S. policy in the Car
ibbean. Until President Kennedy makes
public his long and continuing cor
respondence with Comrade
Khrushchev, the world will not
know definitely whether or not
he has agreed to allow Cuba to
remain a privileged sanctuary for
Communist depredations. But the
vigor with which he has slapped
down all efforts to embarrass the
Soviet occupiers of Cuba and, in
effect, cut off shipment of arms
and munitions to some 4.000 anti
Castro guerrillas on the F.scarn
bray "front." has convinced Cu
ban exiles and anti-Administration
legislators that some deal was
made which. II true, could blow
the roof off Itwo Pennsylvania
Avenue.
The altempls of Slate Depart
ment officials to silence Dr. Miro
Cardona and to mnke a complete
puppet of the Culan Revolutionary
Council are in strange contrast to
Mr. Kennedy's fervid words to tlie
Bay ol Pigs survivors when they
There are three main ones: 1. The plac
ing of a '-floor" on itemized deductions, lim
iting these deductions to those exceeding 5
per cent of total inome. The taxes of every
one itemizing deductions would thus be in
creased. 2. Eliminating the present credit
allowed for dividend income. 3. Major changes,
resulting in higher taxes, on the capital gains
provisions of the tax laws. These three steps,
according to Administration estimates, would
bring in about $3.4 billion of the revenue
lost through rate reductions, which is figured
at about $13.6 billion.
A great many authorities, however, be
lieve that changes such as these would be a
barrier, rather than an encouragement, to
the stimulation of economic growth. It is not
able that the Administration holds out no
promise of a decrease in government spend
ing indeed, big increases are in the off
ing. The Chamber's release urges a different
approach. For one thing, it believes that rate
reductions should be separated from legis
lation covering structural changes. For anoth
er it recommends a different approach to mini
mizing losses due to rate reductions namely,
substantial cuts in federal spending, now and
in the future, accompanied by, if necessary, .
a low-rate uniform excise tax.
This outlines the general problem, and
the broad cleavage in point of view. What will
happen? As of now, one man's guess is about
as good as another's.
Again
Last year the House Interior Committee
undertook a more restrictive bill for the one
it received from the Senate. The committee
sought a rule to prevent amendments, and the
bill never reached the House floor.
It may be that there should be careful
review of some of national park, national for
est, or wildlife refuge lands before they are
locked away where a human being can only
be a "visitor who docs not remain." But it is
also true that intrusion of defacing "improve
ments" into such an area becomes an almost
irrevocable change.
The Interior Committee has a right to
seek reasonable compromises in reporting a
bill to the House but it should he willing to
submit its product to the test of debate and
the amendment process on the floor.
were liberated. Obviously, if the
U.S. has liquidated any effective
anti-Castro policy, it becomes im
portant to silence the Cuban ex
iles and to keep them from or
ganizing for action. The Cuban
Revolutionary Council thus be
comes a liability, particularly If
headed by Uiose who (eel that
they were let down by the Ad
ministraUon. It is expected that in the days
and weeks to come, more and
more restrictions will he placed
on exile activities, new humilia
tions will be piled on exile lead,
ers. and anti-Castroism that goes
beyond lip service will be dis
couraged. It was a tough fight. Mom. hut
we lost.
Al
manac
By l ulled Press International
Today is Friday. April W. the
116th day of 19W with 24!) more
to lollow.
Tlie moon is approaching ils
first quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury
and Mars.
On this day in history:
In IH07 the first British colonists
to set up a permanent settlement
in America landed at Cape Urn
ty. Va.
In IBM. Federal troops killed
John Wilkes Booth, tlie assassin
of President Lincoln, near Port
Royal, Va., despite an order to
lake him alive
In 1!M, a nationwide test of the
Salk anti polio vaccine began in
171 districts of 45 slates.
In IW1. tlie Ranger Knur space
shot hit the moon
A thought lor today-English
essayist Charles Lamb said. "A
pun is a pistol let off at the ear.
not a leaiher In tickle tlie intel
lect '
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
One of the wire,sorvice stories
out of San Francisco last month,
reporting that Alcatraz Prison had
shut up shop after nearly 30 years
as a "maximum security" jail
for "incorrigiblcs," failed to men
tion the most significant fact of
all.
In its three decades of opera
tion. "The Rock," as it was unal
feclionately known by inmates
and guards alike, became less
and less grim and punitive to
ward its prisoners. Founded on a
philosophy of absolute toughness,
it was nevertheless learned in
practical experience that such
toughness did not work out.
When it was first opened In 1934
as a federal penitentiary, the rule
of silence was imposed upon tlie
inmates. This was dropped in
less than three years. Then, in
dustries were established, and a
two-channel radio system was in
stalled for evening programs in
each cell.
Privileges at first denied the
men. and later given, included
subscriptions to as many as eight
magazines per man: a dozen
books; considerable correspond
ence; the buying of art sup
plies and musical instruments;
movies at weekends; and three
packs of cigarettes a week.
As time went on, the inmates
w-cre permitted to take corres
pondence courses, and could earn
up to $50 a month working in
the laundry, the furniture, glove
and brush factories, or the tai'or
shop. Softball and handball weie
instituted in a recreation area
All these innovations, according
to Alcatraz ollicials, "have re
duced tensions and improved mor
ale." Many of them were insti
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tuted in 1946, following a prison
riot in which two guards and
three inmates lost their lives. It
was the last serious disturbance
at the penitentiary.
As 1 suggested in a recent
piece, those inverted senti
mentalists who are against "cod
dling" convicts could "learn from
the experience at Alcatraz that
human beings are made only
worse when they a treated like
animals and given no chance to
exercise their distinctively human
abilities.
The rigid punishment policies at
Alcatraz did not work, and they
do not work anywhere. Putting
a man behind bars is punishment
enough for anyone; any severity
imposed on top of this only turns
men bitter and desperate and to
tally incapable of being rehabili
tated. There is not a warden in
the world who is not painfully
aware of this fact.
Society still lags behind its pen
ologists: we remain punitive and
vengeful and fearful and our at
titude makes the job of prison of
ficials twice as hard. Let us hope
the closing of Alcatraz marks
the opening of a new chapter in
.American prison treatment.
THEY
SAY...
The change is good for Guate
mala and (or Central America.
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LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Reply
1 read with passing interest the
comments of Supervisor V. A.
"Art" Barr in the Mount Shasta
Herald of April 18. regarding the
Siskiyou County taxpayers' gath
erings which have been recently
held in Mount Shasta.
1 shall not argue with the su
pervisor as to whether the tax
payers are taking detrimental ac
tion to themselves or not: time
uU tell. I shall point out that
either the supervisor was badly
misinformed, or used his infor
mation badly to draw the wrong
conclusion that the taxpayers
were being wooed into bed by the
big interests, particularly by the
timber interests. Tlie supervisor's
article stated, "Your chairman
said several talks had been held
with a Mr. Jordan representing
the Northern County Timber As
sociation and financial aid had
been offered the Southern Siskiyou
Protest Organization."
I was the chairman alluded tn.
I did not state that several
talks had been held with Mr.
Jordan of the timber association.
I did not state that financial aid
had been offered the Southern Sis
kiyou Protest Organization. In fact
no financial aid was mentioned
or offered. I did state that I had
talked with Mr. Jordan that alt
ernoon. I did state that since the
timber interests were paying tax
es and had an interest in why
appraisals were being raised and
where the tax dollar was being
spent, that a liaison with their
group could do us no harm. And
I did ask Mr". Jordan to identify
himself and give his views, which
he did.
Mr. Jordan stated briefly that
those who foot the bills of the
county budget are entitled to know
what they are paying for. This
makes sense whether the taxpay
er is an individual or a corpora
tion. The supervisor seemed to he
under the impression that taxpay
ers were kicking about the lax
rate. Tins writer had heard no
protest against the tax rate. The
protests are against appraisals
which have risen 200 per cent to
1.000 per cent and even higher on
properties that are being used for
the same purpose that they have
been historically used for and
with the same income.
Tlie supervisor mentioned that
appraisals are "a mailer of law
and should be decided as p r e
scribed by law." No intelligent
persons would argue the s t a t e
ment. But there are those who
question whether the law has
been interpreted correctly This is
why an attorney was mentioned:
to interpret the law.
We taxpayers believe, as the San
Francisco Examiner puts it, that
an enlightened citizen is a better
citizen and a wiser voter. We
propose tn become enlightened.
We are spending nobody's time
but our on We are spending no
body's money but our own. which
is our privilege.
We wonder why there seems
to be such intense opposition to
our purpose.
Tlie meetings are not secret.
The supervisor is Invited to attend
as is every other citizen There
is no obligation to join our group.
Hugh B. Fate. M.D.
Mount Shasta. Calif.
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON iNEAl Chair
man John E. Moss, D-Calif., will
take his Government Information
subcommittee into executive ses
sion April 2G for closed door
hearings on what the White House
Olfice of Emergency Planning
and the Department of Defense
plan to do about censorship.
The general impression is that
such planning as has been done
is nuw pretty well out-of-date.
It is believed to be based on
World War U experience when
there was no enemy attack on the
U.S. mainland, when there were
no rockets or missiles, when
America had a monopoly on nu
clear weapons.
In the Korean war all censor
ship was exercised by field com
manders in the Pacific. Field
censorship also is being exer
cised now in Vietnam, and there
are complaints about that.
Government attempts al news
management over the U-2 and
the first and second Cuba crises
created only confusion. These
are all local affairs. There is no
established policy for dealing with
them, either.
If one of these limited wars
should lead to another world war.
it is reeogniz; that the U n i t e d
States would become an active
theater of operations.
That would mean military field
censorship right here at home,
all over.
There would have to be news
management such as this country
has never dreamed of. And a lot
of people wouldn't like it.
The Office of Emergency Plan
ning has been working on a new
censorship code since the mid
19j0s. Its Government Readiness
Olfice, now under Robert Y. Phil
lips, has drafted a plan for set
ting up a stand-by, voluntary cen
sorship code for imposition when
ever the President declares a na
tional emergency or state of war.
Bryon Price. Office of Censorship
director in World World II, has
been consultant tn OEP in this
work.
The draft has been revised from
time to time, the last revision be
ing dated February I'.Ki'l. It is a
seven-page typewritten document.
Tlie main headings covered arc
war plans, attacks on the U.S.,
location or movement of U.S.
armed forces, ships, aircraft, mis
Washington report . . .
Republican Leaders
See 1964 Success
By Kl'l.TON LEWIS JR.
November ISKV4 is the golden
opportunity for Senate Republi
cans. Kentucky's Thruston Morton,
chairman of the GOP Senate cam
paign committee, feels confident
his party w ill pick up at least six
new seats. His optimism is based
on some cold political facts.
Although 2.") Democrats are up
for reelection, only nine Republi
cans must go before the voting
populace. Most of the Democrats,
moreover, are freshmen first
elected in 195R. the Republicans
most disastrous year in recent
history.
In a nationwide debacle, the
party lost Senate seats in Ninth
Dakota. Ohio. California. Nevada,
Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota,
New Jersey. Connect icul. Wyo
ming and Utah. GOP leaders feci
tlicy have an excellent chance to
regain most of them.
One almost certain se:it is that
now held by Ohio's Sieve Young,
who defeated Republican John
Bruker in a massive upset live
years ago.
Ohio Democrats reached their
political zenith that year, winninii
Bricker's seat, the governorship,
conlrnl of the Slate Legislature
and several new House seats all
at once.
The Governor is again Republi
can. So is the Stale Legislature.
The House delegation is over
whelmincly Republican. And
Steve Young faces certain dcieat
if he runs again
Most likely GOP nominee is Cor.-gressman-at-large
Bob Taft Jr..
who scored an easy victory in his
statewide race last fall. Other
Rcpuohcan possibilities include
Congressman Ollie "olton and
former Senator Bncker.
Indiana: The GOP nominee is
not yet known, but Democrat
Vance Hartke appears certain to
have an uphill fight on his hands.
Hartke rode the national Demo
cratic tide to win election in lua.
Many Republicans feel that Con
gressman Don Bruce, first elect
ed from Indianapolis in 10.
could give Hartke the best race.
Other possibilities: Stale Senator
Russell Bontrager. Congressman
Ruhard Roudcbush
North Dakota- Democratic Sen
ator Lee Mctcalf won a razor-thin
victory oer Republican John D.i
ms in iwn. Pans has been urfol
siles and satellites, fortifications.
' defense production, military intel
ligence, and so on.
The general principles set forth
would govern al! civil news me
dia. Department of Defense planning
for military censorship is much
more comprehensive. The Pen
tagon had a censorship planning
committee at work from 1953
through April 1961. The commit
tee was then abolished after it had
made final revisions on "Depart
ment of Pcfcnse Directive 5200.1,
Safeguarding Official Information
in the Interests of Defense of the
U.S., May 29, 1959." This has been
declassified.
Furtlier planning then was
turned over to the Office of Plans
and Programs for Public Affairs,
now under Col. F. M. O'Neill and
the Assistant General Counsel for
Manpower, now Frank A. Barti
mo. This planning now calls for the
military to exercise censorship
until such time as a civilian agen
cy could be set up. staffed and
organized to issue its own regu
lations. It is recognized that this might
take as long as a year, but the
hope is that it would be done in ,)
much less time. Having a re
serve staff ready for this job is
an OEP responsibility.
Unlil this reserve could take
over, the military would exercise
full control.
The Pentagon wnuld continue
to run field censorship, postal
and travel movements and all
telecommunications, including ra
dio and television broadcasting
channels. This is the same set-up
as in World War II.
None of this planning, however,
covers censorship for emergen
cies arising from the cold war.
That is another of the great gaps
Moss and his committee are in
terested in closing.
When President Kennedy first
addressed the American Society
of Newspaper Editors in Wash
ington two years ago, he sug
gested a voluntary plan for re
straints in publishing news in
volving national security under
cold war conditions. He got noth
ing. Last month the Moss commit
tee made a second cflort to get
a panel of newspapermen and
broadcasters to come up with
some constructive answers (or
this problem, without success.
to take on Mctcalf again. Other
GOP possibilities Include Arley R.
Bjella, former Republican chair
man, and Mark Andrews, who
has run unsuccessfully for gover
nor. California: What appears tn be
a hopelessly split Republican
Party may make it impossible to
dcieat Democrat Clair Engle. first
elected in 1958. Early polls show
former Senator William Knouland
to be tlie strongest candidate,
trailing Engle by only a few per
centage points. State Senator John
McCarthy is thought anxious to
make tlie race. Conservatives and
liberals continue to brawl.
Engle has his problems, how
ever. Los Angeles Mayor Sam
Yorly. a maverick Democrat who
supported Nixon in IlKiO, may op
pose him for the nomination..
Utah: Democrat Frank Moss
won 19.V1 election when Republi
can J. Bracken !.ce ran as an in
dependent, splitting the GOP vote.
Lee may again try for tlie Senate,
this time as a Republican, but
will have difficulty getting the
nomination. Under consideration
for the race are Lawrence Burton
and Sherman Lloyd, first-term
Congressmen.
Minnesota Republican Con
gressman Clark MacGregor is
making noises like a candidate
and would be given a good chance
to unseat freshman Senator Eu
gene McCarthy. A long-shot lor
the nomination is former Con
gressman Walter Judd. who was
gerrymandered out o olfice last
year He is considered in poor
health, however, and has indicat
ed he does not wish to run.
Texas: Republicans hope to give
John Tower a GOP colleague next
year. Incumbent Ralph Yarhor
ough. who laces dilhculty getting
through his own primary, will
meet strong GOP opposition, par
ticularly II Barry Goldwater heads
tlie GOP slate. Who tlie Republi
can nominee will be is not known.
In addition lo the above states,
GOP leaders (eel they have good
chances to knock off New Jer
sey's Harrison Williams Jr.. Ok
lahoma s J. Howard Edmondsnn
and Michigan's Phil Hart. Suit
able opponents have not yet been
found, however And Wyoming
Congressman William Henry Har
rison has been asked lo tack e
frehman Senator Gale McGee.
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