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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Friday, May 24, W63
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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WASHINGTON
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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
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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.