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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.