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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1963)
.'l't''l'"Ml PAGE 6-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Wednesday. Mir 1, 1963 ED30N IN WASHINGTON The Ambidextrous Lover Business Upturn Hikes JFK Chances Swat there liave to he taxes and everybody has to pay theirs. But did you ever stop to think how they are growing and that the tax payers themselves are largely responsible for their growth by demanding more and more handouts from government? You get nothing , "free" from government. It first takes from you the dollar of which it returns you a part. Every bit of government extravagance, 1 waste, and pork-barrel spending that you per mit by failing to object when you vote, turns more and more of your earnings over, to poli ticians to spend. Particularly is this true in i regard to domestic affairs, both local and na- ; tional, on which you can inform yourself. ' A local example which is probably pretty j general throughout the country is shown by ' figures published by "Oregon Tax Research." t They show that the property tax bill in Ore gon for the fiscal year 1962-63 now averages $520 for a family of four. Schools take 67 per Check Violence To Curb Crime The prevalence of violent behavior in ' this country is seriously disturbing. Places once cherished for their whole some innocence the park, I he zoo, the baseball park, the picnic ground today are .often the scenes of fighting, of unprovoked attack upon the young, the old, anybody at all. In some cities, Easter Monday outbreaks are so much a "tradition" that extra police are assigned to zoo areas. Despite the pre cautions, Baltimore's zoo this year sa.w a battle involving 2,000 young people. Two were stabbed. : Many major league baseball teams have "long encouraged youngsters to attend ball games free. These "knothole gangs" were a "feature even decades ago. But in Washington jon a recent Saturday, 15 to 20 knntholers ''swept through the stadium in vicious, random assaults on other youngsters. Hardly good 'clean fun. ' When the allackers were apprehended, one schoolmaster said that to those young sters "playing is fighting." , It is frightening that violence is either above or just below the surface in so many human beings today especially the young. Of even more concern Is the seeming half-acceptance of this in many quarters as .apparently inevitable. : The Baltimore authorities who com mented on the zoo riot explained it by saying .."there were thousands of people miiling WASHINGTON , WASHINGTON NKA - Presi dential press secretary Pierre Sal inger really atirred newsmen's curiosity when Iw announced one iiKiming that he would have a utoment of maior importanc e at S 10 pm. (hat day. tn both Washington and Palm J'-each, where President Kennedy Vai vacationing at the time, the frumori flew. Then, at the Florida end. a vet- eran correspondent sidled up In a group of butting reporters and. with a solemn, all-knoomg air, said flatly "lie's meeting Khrushchev " That seemed tn he that until S 30 pm.. when Salinger an nounced at the White House that Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy as ex Heeling another hahy. v A Washington girl repniler im personating Caroline Kennedy at the Womcn'a Press Club annual stunt night declared that her dad dy sltould have been a plumber. The punch line was: "Then he'd know what In do hmit all those leaks that bother him so much " At the same function, where their bosses and other members of the American Society of New par'' Editors went guests of hon or, two newspaper gals were cos tumed in men'a clotjies tn repre sent .Secretary of State Dean Husk and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Ste venson. They sang a parody on "Rill Failey Won t You Please Come Home?" casting presiden tial assistant McGeorge. Bundy in ilia till role: Won't you go noma MiBiindy. Won t you go home? We've tried the whole year long Keeping Macmillan happy. Soothing I (iaulle, Put somehow things went wrong. Mm The Tax Playboys around with nothing to do." Obviously, fight ing was the only answer. Occasionally, men in high places ration alize rising crime rates by noting the incidence of broken homes, joblessness, school dropouts In the affecteii areas. They stop just short of phrasing the question: "Wouldn't you steal under these circumstances?" Even if you should improperly answer such a query with "yes," the related matter of accompanying violence is left unanswered. What element of economic need compels a boy or man not merely to steal a woman's purse, but to knock her down and kick her senseless? Rationalizations of crime which ignore the violent aspect arc the purest rubbish. The truth is, as some scientists pointed out in a recent national meeting, violence is frequently the key clement in the crimes of this age. Scholars in human behavior may argue that violent instincts exist within us all. But is not the great wonder of man supposed to be his supreme talent for putting himself under the disciplined control of his mind? The real root of the problem is thai, more and more and more, self-control is neither taught nor practiced. This is a time of indulgence, laxity and high disorder. Worst of all, there are far too many among us who neither revere order and discipline nor perhaps even understand what these are. NOTEBOOK Joh nson Quote Should you go hack to Harvard And leave us here. To meet these crises on our own. Thcre'd be. a lot less talk. Thore'd be a lot less squawk. McRundy. won't vnu please go home! ' In philosophizing on lus job, In tense Secretary Robert S. McNa mara told the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washington: "You can't even be sure your self, much less prove to others, l M J"".ir decision was precisely right to tile last dollar even to the last one billion dollars." Rep. John Byrnes, i RAN is I has come up with some definitions which he hoes will solve any confusion over the various "youth corps" ami what they're supposed to do: The Peace Coi ps reel nils Amer icans and sends them to live among the underdeveloied abroad. The National Service Corps will recruit Americans and send them to live among the underdeveloped loople in America. Tlie Youth Conservation Corps will recruit underdeveloped Americans ami send tliem to me among the trees. The Home Town Youth Corps will help members of other corps with packing and unpacking lor all Ihose Uips. Quote of the week: How 's that ac.mr department- "The presence of Communist lorce in Cuba is I think, testimony tn the ultimate failure of commu nism in (his hemisphere." Vice President Lyndon R Johnson Air Force Sec. Eugene M Zuik ei( recently received a letter and questionnaire from Hie Naval lie sen addressed lo lormer Nnw cent of the total property tax bill. In the last five years Oregon property taxes have in creased 40 per cent and school levies have increased 45 per cent. The point is that you as a taxpayer should check your property tax bill as carefully as you do your grocery bill. Jt is only one tax. Then come state and federal income taxes and various other taxes which when totaled take the biggest bile out of the average family income. Think about taxes as your money that someone else is spending and see that the public servants you elect don't waste your money. They can't reduce taxes except by good business management, but they can in crease them every year by extravagance and ask you for more. Reward good officials who conserve your money, and get rid of the tax playboys. Amusina Lieutenant (J g Zuckert. The questionnaire asked Zuckert to tell w here he now lived, asked w hat he had done In update his qualifica tions (or naval command, quer ied what he was now doing. Zuckert sent his reply directly hack tn Navy Secretary Fred korth, listing his present job as Secretary of the Air Force and his previous experience on Ihe Atomic Knergy Commission. In a special note he politely asked Korth if tlie Navy was so short of men Ihat thev needed him. Al manac By I ailed Press International Today is Wednesday. May I. tlie Ulsl day of 1!Xv1 with 244 to follow. The moon is approaching full phase. Tlie morning stars are Venus and Saturn. Tlie evening stars are Mercury and Mars. On this day in history: In 1RS4. construction crews in Chicago started work on a Hi story office building tn he called a "skyscraper." In I Ml, the Kmpire State Build ing. Hie world's tallest skyscraper, with KB floors was dedicated by former Gov. Alfred K. Smith in New York. In t0. the Soviets sM down an American ( 1 p'.ane en a spy mission over Russia. A thoucht for the day Ameri can novelist Willa Catiier said. "I like irees because they seem more re.vigned to (he way thev have to In than other things do" O!' " .:,M(il LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Contact Yesterday our family pet dog came home with a bullet wound made by a .22. Wc do not know if he will survive. Several months ago, our cat was killed the same way. We would like to ask the per son in Shady Pine, who is re sponsible, tn stop and think be fore turning a deadly weapon upon another family pet. If you lind someone's pet annoying, please make an effort to air your grievance with tlie owner be-' lore resorting to killing or maim ing. I , I The Leavitt Family,, Rle. .1. Box 1132. OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Let's Go Fishing (The Denver Post) We are very pleased lo note that the day of "do it yourself by the male segment of the human race seems tn be drawing to a close. It cannot happen one day too soon for us. First, let us recall how we got into that do it yourself kick in the (irst place. It began, really, alter World War II. result of in flation and shortages of skilled workers. It became too expensive tn hire painters and carpenters, we all had more leisure than be fore, and the little woman was al ways after us to fix that gutter or paint that wall. So ue did. And then one thing led tn another and pretty soon we had home shops and more tools than we would care to think alvout and were Uioroughly stuck wilh Ihe do it yourself kick. W'rll. gents, relax because sal. vat ion is not far off. !o it yourself is not about lo die out don't let us give you the wrong idea. Rut do it your self done by us weaker males is about to die out because the little women of the nation are learning that they can do it better. A research tiim employed by a panelboard manufacturing com pany has surveyed 20,000 families in SO states. The researchers dis covered that more than half of America's married women are mote skilled than their husbands at home impi-nvement projects. Some 74 per cent of the ideas for home improvement come from the women. They pick most of the designs, too. At least half the time they at least woik on the do it yourself joh. At th moment, we are" sad tn relale. the men still lead in skills at carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, and furniture repair and metal work But the women a: best at wmyf finish ing, plastering, painting, wall papering, and repairing me chanical devices. Wilh a little good work. men. we can change all this. All we have to do is teach our wives those skills of ouis and it will not be long uot:l we shall all be free, and can go fishing on Sunday afternoon ome again. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS We speak about the "attraction, of opposites" in marriage and oth er relationships, but I have never seen anything written about the same kind of attraction in the lit erary and artistic field. It has fascinated me (or years that so many of the men who become "experts" on a certain writer are diametrically opposed to the writer, in temperament and taste and outlook. This may explain some of their weird in terpretations. I have met men who are ex perts on such literary figures as II. H. Law rent e, James Joyce and -Dylan Thomas. Almost without exception, these men would not have been given the right time of day by the writers they have chosen to "interpret" to the world. Tlie Thomas expert is a prissy soul, at whose pretensions Thom as would have hooted in derision. The Joyce expert would not have been looked at twice by tloyce. The D. H. Lawrence expert would have been dusted off by Lawrence in a few moments of conversation. What attracts such dry. dreary and pompous scholars to such vi tal and iridescent writers is the familiar moth - and - flame syn drome, so common in love and in letters. These drab littl literary insects love to singe their wings around a glow they can never possess. It is also possible, if we may dip into the Freudian armory tor reinforcements, that a lusty, gus ty and unconventional author appeals to tlie repressed parts of their own nature. They secretly vearn to be as iconoclastic as Joyce, as uninnibited as Thomas. Drinks ACROSS 1 Beverage 4 Brew inured ie nl t Muicatel, for instance 12 School tubjert 1.1 Froater 14 Bewildered 15 Bridle prt lUSaddlei again 18 Sowers 20 lvntf and Jl Mtr 22 Female iheep ipl ) !4 Ampere b 1 W Operatic fnlo 7 Witch porttt 10 Blackguard 12 Venial ihock M Wae top Ifi HTmnbook tft AIM 17 At 40NVTM 41 Drr, U win 42 Glossy fabric AS Tmpats 49 Guard 41 MascuIiM nickname 52 Land meawrt MTrwtte vin mrasur M Girl s nam 65 Nors tod of thunder tiH ?trt 67 Kind of liquor now 1 Small flaps 2 Iroquotan Indian 5 Tried 4 Stuck ta the mud 6 Genui tf waplM (t Smaller tmmtnt 7 Musical ftllahlt 5 Walks m water 1 'i 13 I 14 15 16 7 I H 19 110 11 12 13 14 f5 16 !7" 18 19 H2(5 mm hJmIm 21 iHP a IT E I jlt " Tj 2T 33 31 r" 12 33 W J37 3a 2 43 44 r"j4b 40 4 7 43 is tr si si " 53 5l X 57 i STRICTLY PERSONAL as preemptive as Lawrence but the only way they can achieve such postures is in the vicarious thrill .of writing about these men. Someone of the stature; of T. S. Kliot. whatever his other failings, never falls into this psychologi cal error when he is writing about other authors. In discuss ing Shakespeare, for instance, lie has said bluntly at the start: "I do not imagine for a moment that Shakespeare was anything at all like me." Most commentators on Shake speare go so far off the track because they do assume, implicit ly or openly, that Shakespeare was very like them, and that therefore they have a special in sight into his nature. Ninety per cent that is written shout him is nonsense and it is nonsense precisely because it begins at a false psychological angle. So much literary biography and criticism consists of Uie meek writing about the bold, Uie bland writing about the sharp, the smug writing about the vulnerable, the ineffectual writing about the inef fablelittle wonder that our great artists remain mysteries for hun dreds of years after they have bared their minds and hearts. THEY SAY... I feci more comfortable in Par Is 'than in Bonn. I have only friends on the Seine, and mainly enemies on Ihe Khine. West German Chancellor Adenauer. Antwtr to Prtvku Puiile 9 Small iIrl 10 Requirt 11 Fanle 17 Doleful 19 levigates 2.10ier ti ?4 A I mi boi 2-S Dawn ipoet.) 26 Malicious burmnf 27 Kind of rail 28 Its capital it M incut 20 Hairless 3! GhMhiS hydrocarbon .1.1 Kotl resin M Masler iKr.) 40 Saltpeter 41 Leather piece 42 Petty quarrel 4.1 Principal 44 Cowf nh 46 Not any ay 4" Gainsav 48 Anglo-Saxon theow 50 Farm animal By PETER EDJSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON NEA - Begin ninss of a marked business up turn now reported in financial circles may have pronounced po litical effects-including a boost for the Kennedy programs in Con. gress. First impact may be registered on the tax bill now being written in the House Ways and Means .Committee. Profits and dividends for the first quarter of 11163 are up. The stock market is close to its W(U high. Automobile and retail sales, housing and business construc tion, new plant and equipment investment are rising. Steel demand is up. though this could be inventory buying in an ticipation of a summer strike. Anyway, selective steel price increases made without opposi tion from the Kennedy adminis tration indicate there's a little inflation in the air. These are the main lines of the spring thaw. ' It is still held back by too high unemployment, but total employ ment is rising. Increased business activity means higher tax receipts, and this could mean a smaller budget deficit than anticipated. This would give more leeway for Ken nedy programs intended to stim ulate the economy further. This year's business rise is at tributed in part to last year's changes in depreciation sched ules, the investment tax credit and other administration p r o grams intended to get the eennn my moving again. And in a business climate of this kind, it becomes easier to cut taxes. ' A forthcoming meeting of 23 or more top U.S. business leaders at Washington's exclusive 1925 F Street Club may provide an im portant stimulus to the. tax cut drive. There has been some confusion and misinformation about this meeting, who organized it and what it is supposed tn do. But Treasury officials, who inspired the meeting and have given it their blessing, insist that it is not a retreat from the Kennedy pro gram, and definitely not "news management." The meeting is strictly an in vitational, private affair. Henry , Ford II, President Mark Cro sap Jr. of Westinghouse. Presi dent Stuart T. Saunders of N. & W. Railway. Chairman Frazier B. Wilde of Connecticut Life, and Sam Fleming of Nashville, for mer president of American Bank WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Goldwater Gains Nominee Support By FCI.TON LEWIS Jll. An old bugaboo that cost Boh Taft the Republian nomination for President is beginning tn haunt Nelson Aldiich Rockefel ler. To date, only one Concession al Republican. Ohio's John Ash brook, has charged publicly that "Rockefeller can't win." But in creasing numbers of GOP leaders agree that Rockefeller has about as much chance of Presidential victory as James Eastland would have of carrying Harlem. Rocky's younger brotlier. Win throp. indicated why only last week. Insisting that he still backed his brother lor the Presidency, Wmthrnp said that Arizona Sena tor Barry Goldwater was far and owav the rnost popular Repub lican in Dixie? And Winthrop. who runs the Ar kansas GOP. admitted that even there Goldwater was prohahlv the favorite of party rcaulars and dissident Drmoirats. Dallas' Peter O'Dunncll. the M-ear-o!d political veteran who heads up tlie Texas GtiP. is blunt: "The only way a Republican can didate can win in I'.M is to carry the South. This Goldwater can do Roikeleller can't." Had he run stronger helow the Mason-Dixon Line in IMS, Tom Dewey would have been cloilcd President. Had Richard Nixon demonstrated greater strength in TA John Kennedy would remain t'iay a I S Senator and Teddy would he unemployed If victory is possible in I'M. O IKmnell leels that Republicans must discard a tme-diprnvrn ampaiat ti ate;y . They mut re alize that voters ol New York. Pennsylvania, fl'innis. Michigan and other Northern indu-tnal states will alwavs puk the Demo cratic, not the lirpubliran, liberal (or Pre.uienl. He savv "Now 'e have a candidate lo tun on the Republican tulsrt who tan convert a pii weakness of our party into a great strenf h bv sweeping Ihe S"iith. hut this ers Association, each issued in vitations to five associates of their own choosing. The original five met with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dil lon and Undersecretary Henry H. Fowler early in April. All had called on tlie Treasury previous ly to urge a tax cut this year. Ford and Wilde had testified before the Ways and Means Com mitteethe former in support of slock options, the latter to pre sent Committee for Economic De velopmcnt lax recommenda tions. Crcsap's ideas were made known to Fowler through t h e Washington Westinghouse oilice. Dillon invited Fleming and Saun ders. Ford is not leader of the group and did not initiate the movement, as has been reported. The group has no leader as yet, according lo Treasury officials who hand picked the five to form a "Busi ness and Finance Committee for Tax Reduction in 19M" and tn draw up a broad "Statement of Principles." Main points of this statement, as sent to invited guests are: "We urge a prompt, substantial and broad cut in individual and corporate tax rates. "We recognize that revision of the tax system in other ways is desirable 'but) should not be per mitted to delay tax reduction. "At the same time, we urge in the strongest possible terms con trol over federal expenditures. ' Reports that the Committee would draw up a substitute for the Kennedy administration tax program are denied by Treasury oTficials. This is in recognition of the fact that any changes in Ihe Kennedy plan will he made only by the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance com mittees, then by the whole Con gress. Treasury officials also insist they are not abandoning tlie Ken nedy tax reform program. This is still regarded as an essential part of the long-range tax moderniza tion plan. Its purpose is to do away with special tax privileges which have become more important in busi ness determinations of investment policy than the basic tax rates themselves. It is not expected, however, that the Committee for Tax Re duction will support the Kennedy program. If the committed helps build up public and particularly business support for action by Congress on tax revision this year, it will have done all the Treasury hopes it will do. is possible only with Ihe candi dacy of Senator Go;dwater. In ad dition, he will carry most of tin border states and the dependable Republican slates of the Mid west, Rocky Mountains. Eastern Central area, and Northern New England." O'Donnell has major doubts that Rockefeller could carry many of the old "dependahles." He points to the W2 elections to demon slrale voter hostility to "liberal" Republicans. Republican candidate for Ne braska governor last fall was Fred Scaton, who served as Sec retary of the Interior during the Eisenhower Administration. In 1951. upon the death of Ken neth Wherry. Scaton was appoint ed tn the U.S. Senate. In one term, he racked up a voting rec ord classified as f per cent "liberal" by Ihe Americans for Democratic Action He did not seek election in 1M2. and Carl Curtis, a conservative Republican, won election. When Seaton did run for governor, in Hi2. the voting record proved to lie his ruination. A moderate Democrat. Frank Moirison. swamped him by more than 20.O10 votes ijj per cent of the total'. While Seatnn went down to defeat, the state's three GOP Conercssmcn were re-elected. Tlie Republican candidate for Secretary of Slate. Frank Marsh, won fi" per cent of the vote and led Sraion by more than lTn.non votes. The Republican candidate for l.t Governor. Dwight Burney. won more than ft per cent of the vole; the party's candidate for stale auditor. Ray Johnson, picked up M per cent. AH other GOP state-wide candidates wofl. all that is. but Scaton. Note: O'Donncil. who beads up tlie national draft Goldwater croup, will shortly announce tr ihairmrn of state Goldwater com mittees He plans a massive Goid water lor President rally here July 4. and Texas Senator John Tower will headline that show.
