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PAGE 6 D IIKRAI.D AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Sunday, June 16, 190 EPSON IN WASHINGTON ; . . 'Instant Pictures' Astound Scientists TO THE RESCUE! fM& is w Good Intentions Not The May 13 issue of the Saturday Eve ning Post featured a long article by Dwight 1). Eisenhower which is of the utmost importance. Us title is "Spending Into Trouble." The former President writes: ". . . my sense of duty as a citizen demands that I speak out bluntly regarding what I believe to be a clear danger which could threaten our free way of life and our security as a nation. That threat is the determined effort of our current political leaders to commit the United States to a risky, highly experimental fiscal adventure, based on a questionable theory which I call 'spending for spending's sake.' That policy, which fails to heed the plain les sons of history, now has been unveiled in what I consider a vast, reckless scope, calling for a larger-than wartime budget, a deep tax cut and a deliberate plunge into a massive deficit." ' General Eisenhower is not opposed to a tax cut indeed he believes that a substan Strike (Oregon Statesman, Salem) "All for one, one for all," the pledge of the Three Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas, was Invoked by four big Northwest lumber manufacturers who shut down operations when two of their labor negotiating group were struck. These are the Big Six. When the International Woodworkers the one-time CIO union called a strike on U.S. Plywood Corporation and St. Regis Paper Co. the other four Weyerhaeuser, Crown-Zcllerbach. In ternational Paper Co .and Rayonier suspend ed operations in plants where the 1WA has held worker contracts. The six had been bargaining with the union but came to no agreement. The strike call followed. Concerned lest the "whipsaw" tactics would succeed, the employer allies of the struck companies closed down, loo. Labor negotiations are in progress with Georgia Pacific Corporation, which bargains independently; and with a Council of smaller mills in Oregon and Washington, which bar gains with the old Af'L union, the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union. Still unsettled is a new contract for pulp and paper mills. The workers rejected an agreement which had been negotiated, so negotiations will be re sumed. The two questions arc: Will the lumber strike spread to the other operations? How long will the one now in progress last? No one has the answers. The hopes arc general, however, that the current strike will be of short duration and that other mills A Way To lly A. SYDNEY IIKULONG Jit. Florida 'onnr'sniHn Neither you nnr any patriotic American would want lax rates reduced if it would deprive your rjivertiment of funds needed lor defense or essential purposes. But there is a way to reduce your tax rales without rutting off. or limiting lunds for military and other needed programs, or throw im; Hits budget out of balance, a way (hat is sound mid realistic. It will provide relief for you. Tin matter which tax bracket you are in. It will moderate both individual nnd corporaio tax rates gradually over a live-year eiiod. It will defer taxes for you. as nn individual, on lonn-tenn capi tal gains until such limes as you sell your holdings, receive a cash profit and do not reinvest the pin feeds. H will reduce the rate of lax on yuiii' estate nnd on your nilts. U will make it caMer for your business to replace worn-out and ( !'e!e equipment. It will work tins way: 1. 'Il,e fut In iu ki t of personal I, ix rate will Ik- reduced from 2; to l per cent and (Iks top rat brought down to 47 per cent trom HI per cent, in five easy stages wild correponHin reduc tions in ;tl! interim rates. 2. '1'he t p corporate late of M p; r com will be udmed to 47 jht cent. u1m in live stages, etiins the tup r.de-i ot individual and corjtorate tax at the .same level rightfully puts the owners of on ineorj vu ;ited businesses which amount for KV jkt cent of all hi: iuicssesunt members ot pro fess.ion.-s on an even tax keel with corporations as opposed to the lurber rates they now pay, 3. Kstnte tav rates will be re duced from a top of 77 per cent to 47 per cent and tlw top ra'o. ot pirt tax fioin 57.75 per cent to ,V25 per cent. All lower Mtes of both taxes will he re duced in proportion. This com prises oitotlicr important easement tial one is essential, along with tax reforms to eliminate inequities, if the economy is to be invigorated. But he believes, too, that this must be accompanied by heavy reductions in spending and he finds item after item in the federal budget where this could be accom plished. Equally important he is concerned with something beyond the dollars and-cents prob lem. This is that massive spending, and the resultant deficits, can only lead to the concen tration of more and more power in the gov ernment. Then more and more of the decisions will be made by bureaucrats, all thirsty for in creased power, rather than by the workers, businessmen, farmers and other producers. He quotes the late Justice Brandeis as saying: "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." In sum, good intentions are not enough. They can be a road to disaster. In Woods Industry and woods work will not suffer from a work stoppage. The case for the workers is that they have gone along now for many months without any wage increase. The case for the employ ers is that profit margins are still so thin that they can't lake on a substantial cost increase through higher wages. The outside public is concerned with the work stoppage, but powerless to do other than wring hands in despair. The halt in work hurts the economy of the region, since forest products make up its biggest industrial seg ment. There is added worry this year because of the urgency in salvaging blowdown 'from the storm of last October. The schedules called for selling of public timber in these areas by July 1st and getting the logging done by June of 1964. A long work interruption will wreck this schedule, and leave the door open for beetle infestation of the woods. Federal and slate bodies thus have a stake in this stale mate and are anxious to have the issues re solved speedily. It is hard to say' how and when the break will come. In the past one mill or group would reach an agreement which would set a pattern for the industry. This might come this time through a G-P deal; or the Big Six and the 1VA may get together. Whether the other mills will await settlements by the big units or not we do not know. When picketing starts and mill gates close, a stale of siege often sets in. We hope that this one is of short duration; and some how have a feeling that it will be. Reduce Your Taxes of the impact of capital taxation. 4. There will be a reduction of approximately 25 per cent, out the tive-year periinl, in the time during which business will le al lowed to charge tilt the cost ol plants and equipment before fi; urinn their taxable profit. This will Kive you, and every one, at least ,i il.i per cent cut in taxes. It will do this without shilling lax burdens from one set of taxpayers to another. Almost (it) per cent of the total savings in individual taxes will W to those in the taxable brackets up to $t;.(HH. The proposed cuts in tax rales, oer the five-year jKTiod, will not reMilt in red-ink sin-mlim by the government. Slated reduction wi'l Ih potoried when thorp is d.uv.:or that the federal budeel will be (biown out of balance. The money to provide for the re duction of your tax rates will come from a simple change in the way the pivernment Ojvrales. Here is bow it will come about: Since b'") the yield to the )m eminent fiom personal income luxes alone has grown from $; billion to about $i:t billion, with no chaiute in rates. Purim: that period, personal incomes in dollar teims rose by a thu-d, so that the government received on a silxer platter an increase in revenue of $13 billion. Oilier taxes ;dso yield larger revenues as the economy grows, ii'thoueji not to the ame extent. Holf o any increase in corporate profits Automatically (low s b;u k to the e,oe!umeiit. The more you buy. the more you pay in ex-ee-e (axes. I'Mimaies (or tile next fiscal year that begins in July Tire that total revenue may be up as much as $15 billion over the fiscal ear leccntly ended, simply because of lite growth in our national interne Tach sincle percentage (Hunt of pun in the growth rate means $1 billion in additional revenue, which is why the added money coming in from economic growth is Mich a very Uve sum. Enough At present, the government lakes the added money enminu in from economic growth and svnds it. Now. follow this carefully: You will pet the cut in your tax rates by the government Inking this spillover each year and, through tax reform, making it available for grow Hi in the private econo my, The freed money will gi into consumer purchases and plant expansion and research and development of new products which, in turn, will cause added employment, so that, even though nur taxes will be cut by at least 25 per cent, the government will receive more, not less, in Iota! taxes. When this is done, there is no reason why our economy should not move lorward as last as five per cent or more a year. Any growth rate a hove. -I's ikm cent will lake care of a Mop-by-stop cat-back in your taxes over a five-year period and sltll provide the government with ample binds lor other poroses. The needed legisl.it ion to ac complish all of this is already drawn and in the hands of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Hepiesentatives, in the- form of identical bills. H it. 2o.ti and U.K. 2ti:tl, introduced by Kepresentatne Howard H. Baker, liepubhcan of Teunes.sec, and nn.'. Known as (he Herlong Baker bills, this proposed legislation has received expressions ol commen dation and supivrt from members of Congress, editorial writers, col umnists, business groups and oth er organizations, etc, aeioss the i --Hin try. The most constant theme ot these expressions has been the pat Heal, commonsenso nature ol lle legislation. 1 know that this legislation ts rot only practical and feasible but tuul it is urgently needed. It will In' passed if you want it passed, and if. without delay, you tell your Congressman and Senator that vou want it passed, It is as simple as that. We Need New Schoolbooks! Ity JKNK1N LLOYD JONES (In the Washington Evening Star) If we can ever cure the asi ninitics of the "look-say" method of leaching reading, which has condemned many hundreds of thousands of young Americans to word-guessing, it will be time to start in on the content of grade-school textbooks. These beautifully printed and illustrated books include texts so remarkable for their dullness that it is little wonder young America can hardly wait to get back to the TV. 'Most of them have been steam cleaned of every vestige of excitement, of inspiration and ro mance. There is no reference to God or religion. This is regarded as controversial. There is no story of war. If we don't think about it. maybe it will go away. There is nothing that would give rise to patriotism. How old-fashioned! 1 have before me a fifth-grade reader. "Days and Deeds," pub lished last year by Scott, Korcs man k Company and standard in many hundreds of American school systems. With a puerile vocabulary, it discusses such things as Uncle LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thanks The combined Veterans Memo rial Day Committee would like to take this way of expressing our appreciation and thanking every one for the fine cooperation and assistance given by everyone in volved. The staff of the Herald and News: the radio and television stations; Wayne Scott of KOTI TV. master of ceremonies: Hon. Donald Piper, speaker; Kurt Fiedler, vocalist; Marie Ohenchain, organist; Fred Floelkc and Davis Johnson, buglers: the ltarliershop Chorus; tlie 4iwth F'ighter Croup firing squad: the cily and county libraries. 'c wotikl like to thank also the people of Klamath Falls, (or their fine show of interest. The memorial services this year had more witnesses than in many previous years. A sincere thanks to you all. Earl A. Carlson. DAV chairman: Calvin 1. Shaw, DAV commander: Tom Winternnger, American l.cg:oit: Pat Shamrock. Commandant Marine Corps l.eacue: I!. (',. Motschcnhachcr. 40A8: Vein Schortgen. WW I veterans: Fred M.indella. VFW commander: Mrs. Ignore Owens. DAK vice regent. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What slates were carved out of territory acquired as a result of the Mexican War? A California. Nevada and 1 tah, most i( Ariiona. and New Mexteo, and prts of Colorado and Wyoming. I) Why are moccasin snakes called rultonmoiithsT A F rom their hahtt of open Inn their months wide and r posine the nhillsh Interior nhcn rxeiled or disturbed. lm's new outboard motor, John's lawn . mowing business, and how Wally, the bloodhound, helped Jerry, the police dog, find his missing bone. I have also before me a re print of McGuffoy's Fifth Eclectic Reader, published in 1879. Let's skip through the list of contents: "The Relief of Lucknow," Lon don "Times"; "Battle of Blen heim" by Southey: "Sands of Dee" by Charles Kingslcy: "An Old-Fashioned Girl" by Louisa May Alcott; an account of a riot in the Massachusetts State pri son: supposed speech of J o h n Adams by Daniel Webster: ex cerpts from "The Virginian" by Thackeray and from Hamlet; "Dissertation on Roast Pig" by Charles Lamb: "A Frigate Chase in the English Channel" by James Kenimorc Cooper: "The Boston Massacre" by Bancroft: "No Excellence Without Labor" by William Wirt: "Religion, the Only Basis of Society" by Wil am Channing. Blood and thunder? Plenty of it. Heroism? Of course. Moral homilies? In profusion. Religious preachments? Unashamed. Pa triotism? With pride. And, in addition, tough words and in volved sentences that would flab bergast the fifth-grader who has been brought up on the thin consomme of today's "Days and Deeds" series. On June 20. l'JM, Dr. Max Raf ferty. school superintendent of Ia Canada. Calif., made a speech that caused a sensation and re sulted in his election last fall as California superintendent of public instruction over the dead bodies of the progressive educa tors. He asked: "What happened to patriotism?" and I quote: "We have been so busy educat ing for 'life adjustment' that we forgot to educate for survival. Words that America had treas ured as a rich legacy, that had sounded like trumpet calls above 'he clash of arms and the fury of debate, we allowed to fade from the classrooms. " Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.' " 'We have met the enemy and they are ours.' " 'Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.' " Search for these towering phrases in vain today in too many of our schools. Tlie golden words are gone. Patriotism feeds on hero worship and wc decided to abolish lierocs. BERRY'S WORLD "WV decided there's mnrt to lije than jjrj uork." The quest for the Golden Fleece has been crowded out by the visit of Tom and Susan to the zoo. The deeds of the heroes before Troy are now passe, and the peregri nations of the local milkman as he wends his way among the stodgy streets of Blah City have taken over. Bobby and Betty pur sue this insipid goal of a ride in the district garbage truck while the deathless ride of Paul Revere goes unsung. F'or Roland at Roncesvallcs we have substituted :Muk-Muk the Eskimo boy. It is, 1 think, signifi cant that education during the past three decades has deliber ately debunked the hero to make room for the jerk! No wonder these heroless Am erican kids often bro'te down be fore the Red brainwashers in the Korean prison camps. They had no points of reference. They hod no understanding of the tradi tions of liberty. In many eases, the Communists were delighted that there was so little to erase. It was a cinch to unteach those who had never been taught. In commenting on a modern sixth reader, "Bright Peaks," put out by Houghton Mifflin. Dr. Rus sell Kirk says: "With the excep tion of a poem by Sara Teas dale, another short poem by Rob ert Frost, and an autobiographi cal piece by John Muir, every selection is by a fourth or fifth grade writer." Why? Could it be that the fifth ami sixth-graders can't read the classics as they did in the days of McGuffey? Could it be that the bankruptcy of the "look-say" method and the stubborn refusal of many school administrations to admit tlie error have required them to pretend that t h e r c is special virtue in extending kin dei garlcn-stylc reading to the up per grades? It's time America got a new set of toxtiiooks. It's time we quit boring bright students to death with the banalities of John and Jane visiting the henhouse. It's time we put romance and cour age and excitement and some frank moral indoctrination before our children in their most im pressionable years. We don't have to go back to McGuficy. Tliore's plenty of good writing. Hut let's give our children some literary taste, some ethical cal ories and patriotic vitamins. To hell with these sawdust sandwiches! By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON iNEAl The greatest American "secret wea pon" given to the Russians by Glenn T. Seaborg, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission chairman, on his recent cultural exchange visit to the Soviet Union was a Pola roid color camera. Dr. Seaborg took such a cam era with him on his tirst trip to inspect Russian sientific installa tions and to sign the U.S.-U.S.S.R. two-year agreement on coopera tion in the lield of utilization of atomic energy for peacelul pur poses. Every place he went shooting pictures like a tourist and pull ing off finished color prints in 5(1 seconds he was surrounded by amazed Russians particularly the scientists. These scientists had developed atomic energy on a scale which Seaborg described as "compa rable" though not necessarily "su perior" to U.S. science. But they had nothing to match that cam era. At the end of his 1 1-day visit, Dr. Seaborg presented the cam era to his opposite number, A. Petrosyants. chairman of the Rus sian State Committee on the Util ization of Atomic Energy. TI12 eminent Russian couldn't have been more pleased if he had been given a key and a pass to the AEC lop secret files. "But what will he do (or lilm?" Seaborg was asked. "I've got him there." said Sea borg. "He has to get his lilms through me." This little cultural exchange probably did as much to promote friendly relations between leaders of the two major nuclear powers as their formal agreement or all the typical wining and dining and entertaining that goes with tra ditional Russian hospitality. Seaborg soon will invite Petro syants to head a 10-man team of Russian atomic scientists on a visit to the United States. They probably will come in the fall. At that time they will begin to talk about how the new peaceful nu clear information exchange agree ment will be implemented. The discussions will involve only one or two scientists from each WASHINGTON REPORT . . By FULTON LEWIS JK. James Baldwin may be a good writer. This hardly makes him an au thority, however, on Cuba, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, President John Fitz gerald Kennedy, the Smith Act, and J. Edgar Hoover. Baldwin, whose latest book is on the best seller lists, was asked the other day about Hoover and his Federal Bureau of Investiga tion. The frail young Negro made headlines in the Communist press with this answer: "If I find myself castrated on the streets of Birmingham, which is not improbable, and the Fill moves in, which is extremely improbable, it could turn out that the person investigating the crime is the same person who committed it." It was not tire first time thai Baldwin had run off at the mouth on the subject of our number one G-man. "Get rid of him," he says. No hoslility, however, is felt for Carl Rradcn, an klcntificd Com munal who served time in fed eral prison for contempt of Con gress. Baldw in sponsored an emer gency apjieal for clemency while Biaden languished behind bars. Another character for whom Baldwin has compassion is Juni us Scales, convicted under (lie Smith Act of conspiring to over throw Hie U.S. Government. Scales, a long-time Communist oivrativc in the Carolinas, says ho is not now a parly member. He steadlastly refuses to cooper ale with lederal authorities inves-t:-.':i:r.: Communist, activities, howewr. Baldwin altixed his sig nature to a statement asking that Scales be freed. 'He was. soon afterward, by President Kennedy.' Baldwin has just written a post script to a volume entitled "A Quarter Century of I'nAmerica na." an attack tifion the Hote Un American Activities Committee. Tlie boi'k is published by Carl Aldo Maivani and Alexander Mun scll Marani was convicted in Federal t ourt of perjury when he denied Common;?! activity. Mun sell's left-wing record is on tile ui Washington. The April IT. issue of tlie National Guardian officially cit ed as a "virtual propaganda arm of Soviet Russia "tells of a mas sive rally to abolish HUAC. Among the sponsors: James Bald win. Government files show- Baldwin to haie been a sponsor of the Fair country each way in three fields nuclear power reactor tech niques, controlled thermonuclear fusion and high energy nuclear physics. Each visit will be for not more than a year. This will provide opportunity for joint projects in both countries' laboratories. Research to find element 102 is an example. Joint construction of a research accel erator was discussed a little, but nothing was decided. The Rus sians are already way ahead in this field, though not in power de velopment. If Seaborg and the nine scien tists who accompanied him to Rus sia brought back anything moVe than appreciation of Russian com petence in development of peace, lul uses of atomic energy, they're keeping mum about it. I Seaborg does not think his visit will advance a nuclear test ban agreement. There was no discus sion of nuclear explosions under, ground or their detection. While tlie Russians were wide open in showing their peacelul applications of nuclear science, they did not show off any of the plants or the chemical processes they use to produce plutonium. Seaborg didn't ask about reports that the Russians have developed a nuclear-powered airplane, be cause he hasn't given any cred ence to reports that they have one. He didn't ask either, about Rus , sian nuclear-powered submarines. Similarly, there was polite avoid ance by both sides on the pos sibility of nuclear developments in space. In summary, it wasn't a very revealing intelligence report. The Seaborg Mission was in Rus sia at the height of the recent Moscow spy trial. There was con siderable to-do in the Russian press against Communists having anything to do with foreigners at cocktail parties. But when U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler gave a reception at the American embassy in honor of Seaborg and his colleagues just before they came home, invited Russian guests turned out in force. Kohler commented that the Rus sian scientists' behavior didn't re flect the new policy. That was taken as a hopeful sign for future developments. Left-Wing Writer Has Long Record Of Hate Play for Cuba Committee, a Cas tro - financed ocration that is called a "Communist operation" by the chairman of the Senate In ternal Security Subcommittee. Baldwin lent his name to tli Monroe Defense Committee, a group set up to defend certain leaders of the Monroe 'N.C.i Chapter of the National Associ ation for the Advancement of Col ored People. One of those lead ers, Robert Williams, sought by Ihe FBI on a kidnaping charge, has Med lo Cuba, where lie broadcasts vicious tirades against the "Fascist dog, John Kenne dy." Another. Mac Mallory, was once convicted of fraud in New York City. She, too. is wanted on a kidnaping charge. Baldwin has come to the de- ' fensc of William Worthy, a left wing newsman under federal in dictment for traveling lo and from Cuba without a valid passport. Worthy had previously visited Red China in defiance of federal stat utes. Baldwin was among those who signed a statement urging the Anti-Delamation League of B'nai B'rith to withdraw its award, "Democratic Legacy." to Presi dent Kennedy "unless the Depart ment of Justice drops the scan dalous harassment of Mr. Wil liam Worthy Jr." Note: Baldwin considers him self a protege of tlto late Richard Wright, famous Negro author. Wright, who left this country for Pans, chalked up a notable Communist-front record nonetheless. leaders of tlie Draft Golrlwater Movement predict a packed house for their July -t Barry-for-Presi-dent rally. Lined up as speak ers: Sen. John Tower of Texas, Gov. Paul Fannin of Arizona. Congressman John Ashhrook of Ohio. Hollywood celebrities will be on hand lo honor the senator at W ash ington's National Guard Armory. Guldwater. of course, will lie else where. He continues to insist, for publication, that he is running for senator, not president. THEY SAY... When a country like Brila.n which has nuciear weapons pledges support to an ally, it pledges its hie. Lord Home, British foreign ecretarv.
