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Newspaper Page TextPAGE B HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, May 24, W63 detailed, fijaqsb No More Red Tape Needed A modern supermarket contains as many as 8,000 different items. They come in all col ors, shapes and sizes. Each producer of a simi lar or identical Item naturally attempts to make his the most attractive to the shopper. Inevitably, in such a situation, there have been occasional abuses incomplete label ing, obscure statements, dubious information. And a result has been the proposal of an ad ditional federal law Imposing extremely rigid packaging and labeling regulations. Various consumer groups and others, with the best Intentions, support this move ment. But there is more to it than meets the quick eye. According to informed observers, existing laws, properly enforced, can provide the consumer with completely adequate pro 'One Man, (Register - Guard, Eugene) One of the older parlor games for the statistically minded is trying to chop Oregon Into five congressional districts instead of four against the day when we may have a fifth congressman. The slate is just shaped wrong for an equitable distribution of our four seats, and that's what's behind Rep. John Mosser's proposal for reshuffling the counties into newly drawn congressional dis tricts. The Beaverton Republican has in mind the recent U.S. Supreme Court declaration about "one man, one vote." Oregon's dis tricts now permit some citizens to have twice as loud a voice in U.S. affairs as citizens of another district. Edith Green of Portland represents 471,537 citizens, Al Ullman of Baker, 247,383. Here's what the districts look like now: First, represented by Walter Norblad, 434,414 people in the 10 northwestern coun ties. Second, represented by Mr. Ullman, 247, 383 people, in the 18 counties east of the Cascades. Third, represented by Mrs. Green, 471,537 people, in Multnomah County only. Fourth, represented by Robert Duncan, 3(18,007 people, in the seven southwest Ore gon counties, including Lane. Mr. Mosser would redistribute the seals by dividing Portland along the Willamette River. He would set up theso districts: First, Douglas, Lane, Linn, Benton and Marion Counties, population 450,268. Second, all the 18 counties now in the Eastern Oregon district, plus Josephine, Jack son, Coos and Curry in southwest Oregon, population 437,711. Third, that part of Multnomah Counly east of the Willamette River, population 440, 499. Fourth, that part of Multnomah County west of the Willamette, plus Clackamas, Clat sop, Columbia, Lincoln, Polk, Tillamook, IN WASHINGTON New By HAI.PI1 4e TOLF.DANO Perhaps soma day, a patient and slow-speaking economist will explain to me the logic of the Administration's fiscal policies. I was naive enough to understand most thought not all of the Ei senhower economic practices. But what Walter Heller of the Coun cil of Economic Advisers and Douglas Dillon of the treasury have devised leaves me out In left field. What prompts tills small confes skin Is a mild outburst by Rep n'sent:it!ve Richard Poff (It., Va . Mr. Poff has discovered that things aro seldom what they seem In the world of New Frontier economics. And he is mote than somewhat plaintive in pointing out the contradictions he has discov ercd. For example, he holds up to the light Hie Administration's con tention that by cutting taxes, the nation's purchasing power it In creased and more dollars go into the reservoir of the private econ omy. Amen, says tlie gentleman from Virginia. So far. so good. But at the same time, the Admin istration provisos a $12 billion de ficit. Take it from tliere. A tax cut Increases purchasing power. A de ficit can be financed only by the sale of government bonds. Tins siphons off dollar! from tlie pri vate sector. That means less pur chasing power. The tax cut wit amount to $10 billion over three tections. These laws grant very broad powers to the interested government agencies to curb practices that are actually deceptive. Try en forcement instead of more red tape. Beyond this, there is a danger that we may be underestimating the intelligence and perception of the American housewife. Once she feels she has been "had," she no longer buys that product. This is a corrective of the highest efficiency. Finally, the proposed bill seems to be based on the philosophy that any and all faults in our system, real or alleged, must be met by federal action. The principal result this philosophy produces is an unbridled bureauc racy. The American consumer and citizen is not nearly so helpless nor so stupid as some people seem to think. One Vote' Can Be Silly Washington and Yamhill Counties, popula tion about 440,000. Now isn't that about as near the "one man, one vote" as any apportionment plan could get? It sure is. The trouble with it Is that it doesn't make any sense. It sacrifices too much to the "one man, one vote" test newly set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court. And it pre sumes that the court will hold states firmly to this ideal, despite other considerations. It ignores the situation the court faced in the Georgia case. There the infamous "coun ty unit system" was in force for no other rea son than to keep the city folks, most of whom read and write, from dominating the govern ment. Strong racial overtones were also pres ent. Those things are not true in the case of Oregon's present apportionment. Eastern Oregon is a small district, in population, but It just about has to be if we keep together a district with special problems. Under the Mosser plan Brookings in Curry County and Paradise in Wallowa County would be in the same district. The distance from one corner to the other would be 460 miles as the crow flics. But people don't go by crow, they go by car. From Brookings to Paradise, via Eu gene and Clear Lake, is 752 miles, some of them tough miles. The interests of the people of Coos Bay and the people of La Grande, or of the people of Medford and the people of Burns, are quite different. And remember those 31,000 people on Portland's west side, who would be attached to a new district. Would they really be better off to throw in their lot with a congressman who also represented Newport and Astoria? Or would they be better off, numbers notwith standing, to stay with other Portlanders in selecting a congressman who had only the one county to worry about? "One man, one vote" is an appealing catch phrase. But it hardly seems reasonable that it should be imposed above all other con siderations. And we can't believe that the Supreme Court ever meant that it be the pri mary consideration. Frontier (II) years. Tlie deficit will he. as 1 noted, (13 billion in one year. Therefore purchasing power will be thrown for a loss. I'm as bewildered as Roprcscn Inlivg i,ff. Tlit-ie hiusl lie an answer somewhere, but 1 haven't been able to locate it. Another example. II is an axiom on (lie New Frontier that more government spending will reduce unemployment, lit didn't umk-r the New Heal, but that's another matter.) Mr. Polf hasn't too much hair to spare, but it's going last as he tears It out in puzzlement. As he sees It. government spend ing has been going up at a rate ol several billion dollars a year since Mr. Kennedy took over. Unem ployment, in that period, seemed to decline by only 71.1,000. Rut that figure is highly misleading. In fact, government spending was matched by an increase in private sector unemployment. If you look at the small print, you discover that between Iwt and 19M, total government em ployment Increased by 1,004,141. l)o (lie arithmetic, and you dis cover thai in private industry 264, UI more people are unemployed today than when Mr. Kennedy took olfice. Th billions spent add ed to tlie national debt, but they didn't help Mr. Unemployed unless he Voted right and got a Job at llie local post office In return. Mad enough? The Agriculture Department has a store of surplus wheat worth M.I billion dollars. South of the Logic Holder, our Brazilian neighbors are badly in need of wheat. They have a surplus of coffee. And. as Representative Polf notes, the United Stales is the greatest con sumer ot coiice in toe worid. H would seem sensible for tlie U.S. to trade Its wlieat for Brazilian col tec. Hut that's not New Frontier log ic. Instead, the U S. government is tupping its $1.9 billion forcicn aid to Brazil with a not lie r $..ii million. Tlie Brazilians arc using that money to buy wheal from tlie Soviet Union. In tlie past, the t'.SS.R. sliipe wheat to Com munist Poland, but it can't do tins now because of its Brazilian com mitment. So the U.S. is shipping wheat to tile Poles, at reduced prices. What does it add up to? Mr. Poff says agonizedly: "American taxpayers are $500 million poorer. The government still has surplus wlieat in its storage bins. The American con sumer conlinues to pay high prices for Brazilian colfoe. Communist Poland enjoys cheap American wlieat. Russia ships wlieat to Brazil and Russian consumers en joy clieap Brazilian collce " And. of course, the Administra tion asks Congress lor a big for eign aid appropriation, Tliis is what I mean when I say that I need a good cour in New frontier economics. Either Ihal or tlie New Frontier needs Mime education in kigic. vW ffr&v ,w 'At m i ' f l.n - I ' s By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Several readers have written in lately to remark their surprise that I have not commented on the proposals in various states to outlaw professional prize - fight ing, following the recent deaths of a few boxers. In all honesty, I cannot get ex cited one way or tlie other about prize-fighting in our soci ety. Assuredly, as the Pope has observed, it is a brutal and de humanizing activity (not boxing itself, but its commercial rami fications) yet why waste any in dignation upon it? We live in. an extraordinarily violent society. America may be a peace-loving country in its for eign relations I though some might doubt this too), but our in ternal relations are filled with race, bitterness, hostility, and the kind of incivility that is only a hair's-brcadth removed from physical conflict. Big cities arc not safe at night. New York's magnificent Central Park, in the heart of the city, cannot be walked in after dark a fact which would shock and disgust not only every European but even members of what we call "primitive" societies. The American metropolis has become more of a jungle than Uie mod ern jungle. If people need a vicarious out let fur their repressed aggres sions, and Uiey can gratify their bloody Instincts by watching two men bash each other's brains out, I see nov reason to put an end to such spectacles. It is bar barous, but it is confined to adults who know what they are doing like professional Hodgepodge ACROSS 1 Tool, in cards 4 Robust R Aperture 12 Hail! 13 Dismounted 14 Tree 15 Dwtrf (comb, form) 1ft Uck of 39 Cry flf bicchanals 40 Drone bees 41 Collection of say infi 42 Previous 4. Singing star 4H Attract faor to M John itJaelic) ft J Oiiger entry knowlrric? ft:i Hnlish princess 1R Heavy rummers 54 Che imcal suffix 2i Storms ft, Doctors troll Feast day (comb, forml 22 Smell 24 Foretoken ftft dirt's nickname 57 Seine DOWN 1 Basins h Priority -prefix) 2 Klliptoidal 70 nting tool 3J Constructed 34 K.scorl JS Striving 36 Masculine 3 Habilatinnt 4 Susnrnds SNaultcallerm A Mexibte 7 And so forth nickname . iabt 37 Service churif 8 lm-e I 12 13 I U 15 6 17 a 19 110 111 fj 13 T? HjT.'j 1-1 1 3o ji 51 35 mdJ LJ ' 40 ryi 7T T" TT ' ij" o IT"T" i3 so "ST" 52 33 55 ; South for the Winter STRICTLY PERSONAL auto racers and are well paid for the chances they take. Indignation about the fatalities in professional boxing is as point less as asking that daredevil rac ing be stopped because some drivers are killed while at the same time, public homicide on the highways increases every year with no effective program of prevention. What is stupidly hypocritical about professional prize-fighting is the insistence by its propon ents that it is a "sport" of any sort. It is nothing of the sort. It is a legitimatized way of per mitting the public to give vent to its savage instincts; this is why everyone at a fight wants a knockout which is a temporary form of death. A "good" fight to the public, no matter how inex pertly conducted, is one in which the maximum of punishment is given and received. Those who attend fights want to witness death in the ring just as those who watch a high-wire performer are waiting for a fall. When this happens, tlie cry that goes up from the crowd is horror and delight. Until we know this, we do not know ourselves at all. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Can a whale breath under water? A-Xo. Q Is It possible for life to ex ist on the planet Venus? A Marincr-2 has determined the surface of Venus is some 800 degrees too hot for life as known on earth. Answer to Previous Ptuilt Marine (ih S3 Amphitheater One lime :t8 Hebrew ascetic Snrad s mounds 40 Condemn 7 l'reser 41 Peruvian 9 WIU :t Challenges 4 Jewel . All "I H More aced 7 Hardship R Nevada city H Hun 1 pine mountains 42 Formally neat 4.1 Plexus 44 Frosted 4fi Hostelnes 47 Chest rattle 4RDill 50 Shakespearean fnirv queen A;N;fmkIT..5T''r5J'P! WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK. ,. Solon Offers New Slogan For Papers By The Washington Staff WASHINGTON (NEA) Any body who invites President Ken nedy to dine in the future and has tlie invitation accepted shouldn't be too surprised if a government moving van drives up to the place where the meal will be served and de livers the chair in w hich t h e guest of honor will sit. That's what happened when the President went to lunch with the Committee for Economic Devel opment during its one-day annual meeting in a Washington hotel. The chair was a big black lea ther job, heavily upholstered, with a straight back and wide arms. It was placed at the head of the small table where a doz en CED and government officials were seated. White House ex plains the chair protects the President's back. At tlie big Washington dinner honoring Arizona's Sen. Barry Goldwatcr, Sen. Thomas Kuchel of California was being asked whether he'd accept the No. 2 spot on the 1964 GOP presidential tick et. As usual he said no. But in the by-play with newsmen over the question, he somehow got around to speculating on what kind of cabinet he would have if he were president. With a playful glint in his eje he asked: "How about Goldwatcr for sec retary of Health, Education and Welfare?" Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., suggests that tlie New Frontier ef forts to "manage the news" have resulted in the New York Times famous slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" being adapted by the White House (or its own use. Now it reads: "All llie News Printed to Kit." Satirist Mark Russell's own homespun definition of "News Management": "llie God-given right of every American newspaperman to get an incomplete story!" Sen. Hugh Scott. R-Pa., savs there's "no need to worry about Ted Kennedy. He has no more intluencc in Washington than any other brotlier of the President." It was a tossup as to whether the House or the Scnale Armed Services Committee would inves tigate the ousting of former Cajrt. Arthur J. Jackson from tlie Marine Corps for the alleged shooting of a Cuban spy at Guan tanamo naval base last year. Senate committee chairman Ruh ard It. Russell called the House chairman. Rop. Carl Vinson, to tell him lhat the Senate wanted to conduct tlie investigation. Vin son's reply was that he wanted to condut (lie hearings himself. Net result: Tlie investigation will be held by the House Armed Serv ice s Committee under t h e chairmanship of Rep. Carl Vin son. Gomn and Sheila MaeRae. who brought i uti nigh: chili Mm By PETER EDSOM Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., observed his 75th birthday May 6 in fitting manner. After listening to his colleagues pay tribute to his sterling charac ter on the floor of the House. "Manny" Celler quietly dropped Into the legislative hopper a bill to help keep federal judges hon est. This newest Celler proposal would make it a felony for any U.S. judge to participate directly in private business. It would not bar a judge from owning stocks. He would not even have to make a public declaration of his holdings. But for practices like serving as a corporation, bank or insur ance company director, or advis ing a private business firm on the side, a federal judge would be subject to impeachment, a fine of $5,000 and a year's imprison ment upon conviction. Ciller's idea is that this amend ment to Title 28 of the U.S. code really will be welcomed by the judiciary. Present law goes only so far as to prohibit judges from practic ing law while serving on the bench. There has been no legal ban on judges from active partici pation in private business even though it is not in strict keeping with American Bar Assn. canons of judicial ethics. No one knows the extent to which this has been done. There are now something over 400 fed- eral judges. They are appointed for life, are well paid, get good pensions and are held in high honor. There is no reason for them to take anything on the side and most of them are above reproach. In many cases of record federal judges have disqualified them selves from hearing cases in WASHINGTON REPORT . . . College Students Reject Federation By FULTON LEWIS JR. The National Student Associa tion (NSA) was founded as a con federation of student governments to deal with campus problems, but the brash kids who run it delight in issuing extra-curricular policy pronouncements in the name of several million college students. As a consequence, school after school has withdrawn from the organization. Among NSA pronouncements have been a demand for the aboli tion of the House UnAmcrican Ac tivities Committee; a persistent clamor for federal aid to educa tion; a declaration of solidarity with Japanese students who riot ed against President Eisenhower in 10; and frequent attacks upon Western "colonialists," who hap pen, by strange coincidence, to be allies of Uncle Sam. In recent months, the following schools have voted to withdraw from NSA: New York University 'Washington Square Branch), en rollment 32 465: Indiana Uni versity, 26,791: Ohio Stale Univer sity. 23.167; University of Texas. 21.465; Denison University. 1.49; Vanderbilt University; 3.721, Xa vicr University, 3.6M; Dayton Uni versity, 5.534. And the outlook for NSA next year is bleaker still. Officials of the Young Americans for Free dom and the College Young Re publicans say they will fight Vanderbilt University. 3.721; Xa on scores of campuses for with drawal from NSA. Members ol these two groups have been active in every fight where NSA has met defeat. Take the University of Texas, fur instance. There. VH ami YAF leaders set up an ad hoc Committee for a Responsible Student Government lo fight NSA. Lee McFadden. a YAF mem ber who is head of the Texas College Young Republicans, tells how the voting conservatives won tlicir fight: "Through the ad hoc enmmit- act with them to Washington, gave their interpretation ol what a coloring - book version ol Jacqueline Kennedy's television tour of the White House would be like. Tlie lines are acted out by Sheila MacRae. who dresses like Mrs. Kennedy : "This is t h e House Jack won A November nt jht Color it WHITE. This is also the House Nixon depended upon Color him GONE. Tins is the rua s.imcone tre With his spikes Color it IKE. Tins is the closet where Bess put her clothes, and jewels and all Color it AV. FILLY SMALL." EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Judicial Integrity Objective Of Celler volving companies in which they owned stock or in which competi tors were litigants. But it is be lieved there have been just enough violations of principle to warrant tightening present restrictions and maintaining the highest standards of judicial integrity. Attention was focused on this situation by Joseph Borkin's "The Corrupt Judge," published last year. The author is an attorney economist formerly in the Depart ment of Justice Antitrust Division. He made a hobby of research into judicial corruption for 10 years prior to writing his book. He found 55 cases in w hich con duct of federal judges has been the subject of congressional inves tigation. Only eight judges ac tually were impeached, four being convicted and four acquitted. This is not an alarming record, al though one corrupt judge is too many if perfection is expected. Borkin concludes from his study that the way to prevent such de velopmcnls would be to create an "office of reports" in each of the 11 judicial circuit councils headed by a senior judge. Every federal judge would be required to file an annual report on his net worth, sources of in come, business and professional relationships. Failure to file or false statements would be deemed misdemeanors. Tlie reports would not be made public to protect judges from harassment. Meanwhile. Jerry Landauer of Wall Street Journal has complet ed a comprehensive survey of business associations of the feder al judiciary. His prime case is Judge John C. Knox of tlie South ern District of New York, who earned over $100,000 in fees as a life assurance company director in a 13-year period. It was this disclosure which in fluenced Celler to introduce his bill banning business associations for federal judges. tee. conservatives pounded hard al NSA's left-wing record. Repre sentatives of the committee soke and debated before service organizations, fraternities and so rorities, wrote dozens of letters to tlie campus newspaper, put up signs and blanketed the university with literature. "Unquestionably the most ef fective single weapon used in the campaign was an article from Human Events. 'Leftist Lob bies at Student Meeting,' by Wil liam Schulz." Thousands of copies were dis tributed in dormitories and at the polls. The article, written by my associate, Bill Schulz, told the story of Mortimer Daniel Rubin, National Youth Director of the Communist Party, who was a conspicuous figure at the most re cent NSA convention, held last summer in Columbus. Ohio. Rubin, who was accredited as a delegate-observer, set up shop at NSA headquarters, addressing at least one regional caucus, ad vising delegates and distributing literature. Other well-known leftists who attended the convention: Marvin Markman. an identified Communist who look the Filth Amendment. He is Vice President of Advance, a New York group against which the Attorney Gen eral has moved. Susan Markman. youth secre tary of the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties, a cited Communist front. Burton White, an official of the. R;iv Area Student ('"ronvt'.ee to Abolish the House UnAmcrican Activities Committee and a key ligurc in llie riots against I1UAC in San Francisco three years ago. Phillip A. Luce, an official of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, which has been cited as a Communis! front. Aimed with the fads. Tcxa students voted 2-1 lo get out of NSA Al manac By Inited Press International Today is Friday. May 24. th 141th day of l3 with 221 lo follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those born today are under the sin of Gemini. i in this day m history. In .' 6. Peter Minuit, a Dutch trader, bought llie island of Min hatlan from the Indians for the equivalent of K4. In mi, H.MS Hood of Ihe Brit ish navy, the world's largest war shin, was sunk hy the German battleship Bismarck in a World War II engagement.