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HERALD ANT) NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Thursday. August 22, 1963
"Go Away Boy, You Bother Me!'
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. 6. S.I
Tax Cut Almost Certain
' The longer the congressional hassle goes
on over a new tax bill, the more New York
Republican Congressman Paul Fino's 11-year-old
proposal for a national lottery will look
like the only solution.
The situation is so bad now that a lot of
congressmen are saying there won't be any
tax bill this year.
Sen. Albert Gore, D.-Tenn., said it first.
But it took the two minority leaders Sen
Everett Dirksen, R.-Ill., and Rep. Charles
Halleck, R.-Ind. only . a couple of days to
latch onto the idea and make it theirs.
At about the same time Dirksen and Hal
leck were telling a press conference that the
only way the President could get a tax cut
this year would be for him to cut his budg
et, the House Ways and Means Committee,
under its indefatigable chairman, Wilbur
Mills, D-Ark., was voting 19-to-4 Id accept
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon's latest
proposal.
This is for a tax cut, fully effective Jan.
1, 1965, lower than President Kennedy had
asked for originally in his tax reform mes
sage last January.
At first glance, it might seem that the
President and Dillon had changed the rules at
the end of the game. Actually, that's what
they did. But they had to do it.
The reason was that the House Ways and
Means Committee has taken so long in acting
on the President's proposed tax reforms
finally rejecting or changing most of them
that the whole tax bill formula had to be
changed to bring in more revenue.
This was a matter of practical politics
in taking what Congress is willing to pass
while still keeping the budget deficit within
manageable size.
But tentative approval of a tax cut, any
tax cut, by the House Ways and Means Com
mittee is a pretty good indication that there
will be a tax bill passed this year.
Tax bills normally go from the Ways and
Means Committee to the House floor under a
closed rule. This means that no amendments
can be offered by individual congressmen.
They-have only the choice of voting for or
against the bill after limited debate.
It will be a whopper of a bill "300
pages of new complexities," Rep. John W.
Byrnes, R-Wis., ranking minority member of
the Ways and Means Committee, calls it.
But the demand by Byrnes that the Pres
ident withdraw his requests for new spending
as a prior condition to Republican approval
of a tax cut is an act'of last minute politi
cal desperation which probably will be re
jected. Byrnes, who also is chairman of the
House Republican Policy Committee, frank
ly offered this proposal as "a deal" in a
speech before the American Bar Assn. in
Chicago.
If the Republicans persuade enough anti
administration Democrats to join them in vot
ing against a tax cut, they may be risking
their own political futures.
Business and individual taxpayer de
mands for tax reduction on this year's income
are so heavy that Congress can hardly dare
go home without granting some relief.
If the House Ways and Means Committee
completes action on the tax bill before Aug.
24, it probably could be passed by the House
before Labor Day. Hearings would then begin
before the Finance Committee under Sen. Har
ry F. Byrd, D-Va.
The prospect is that every provision of
the House-passed bill will be scrutinized
some being rejected.
Senate debate and floor action, followed
by conferences with the House to compro
mise on differences, may mean final action
in late October or even early November.
But Congress has to pass some kind of a
tax cut this year, even if it does nothing else.
We Can Keep America Beautiful
It's a fact, we are not keeping America
beautiful.
It's a fact that more and more products
wrapped and packaged in containers of glass,
paper, metal, and aluminum are littering
America's cities, roads, waterways, parks,
mountain retreats and recreation spots.
The vacation season is here. Constantly
on the move over their hundreds of thousands
of miles of roadways and streets, Americans
derive much pleasure and recreation from
their beautiful outdoors.
But it's a fact that this pleasure is
marred by the litter which careless people
leave in their wake. Not only is it unnecessary,
it's revolting.
Litter is offensive to sight and senses.
It costs the U.S. taxpayer an estimated $500,
000,000 annually. Urban communities spend
about 300 million of that amount for street
cleaning each year. Some 50 million more is
spent annually for de-littering primary high
ways. Additional millions go for litter removal
1 from city streets, parks, beaches, streams and
other public places.
Litter is also a menace to life and health.
It creates breeding grounds for disease-carrying
insects and rodents. Littered waters 'are
often dangerous for swimmers', fishermen,
boats and drinking.
There is plenty we can do. We can keep
our homes and property litter free. We can
dispose of trash in proper receptacles and
carry a litterbag in the car or boat. We can
leave camp sites, picnic grounds and beach
areas clean cleaner than we found them. We
can urge public officials to provide adequate
collection and disposal facilities.
By encouraging less litter we can keep
America clean and beautiful, we can save our
lax money for other and more important
uses, and we can eliminate one hazard to
health.
It's a fact, we can keep America beauti
ful, if we want.
'.f, - Ay
HOLMES ALEXANDER'
A Tear-Apart Treaty
By HOLMES ALEXANDER
There is more political fission
than fusion in the Nuclear Pact.
Politically speaking, it scatters
and divides a lot more than it
collects and coalesces. H has al
ready separated Russia and Chi
na; and the United States and
France. It Is separating this coun
try into regional divisions along
old. historic lines the North, the
South and tlie West. It is split
ting the Government itself.
We should not, I think, jump to
any fast judgment here. One of
the most statesmanlike remarks
that I have come across concern
ing the treaty goes to the credit of
a new Senator, Edwin Mcchem
lit.. New Mexico). He told his
constituents in a newsletter:
"I suspect that those who find
the answers easily have devoted
little time to investigating the
ramifications of one of the most'
complex subjects in history."
Instead of releasing a nose-count
on his mail, as the White House
did to show an 11 to 1 favorable
response, Mcchem has studied the
content for Its quality. His state
has an extraordinary numlier of
atomic facilities and scientists.
Mechem has requested, in effect,
expert advice only. He says:
"I should welcome still more
correspondence from the many
persons In New Mexico who are
knowledgeable in such matters."
To ether Wt stern Republican
Senators, both former governors
like Mechem, are waiting to hear
from the military-scientific experts
before taking a position on the
treaty. From talking with them,
I surmise that Lcn Jordan (R.,
Idaho! Is more inclined to sup
port the treaty than Is his West
ern colleague, Milward Simpson
R., Wyoming). But Jordon's mail
already shows a state torn asun
der by polemic opinion One con
stituent is so against the treaty
that ho vows to start working
against Jordan's reelection tho
moment the senator votes for
ratification. Another constituent
says a vote against the treaty is
a vole for two-headed babies. Mil
ward Simpson, getting a prepon
derance of letters against the trea
ty but waiting (or solid evidence,
seems inclined to vote on the ba
sic principle that Russia cannot
lie trusted. Roth Jordan and Simp
son arc in for hard, conscience
testing decisions.
Hie South, like the West, will
be furious with its Senators who
give the treaty their support un
less there are safe-guarding res
ervations. Senator Russell (D.,
Georgia), chairman of Armed
Services Is getting inflammatory
mail, but will make up his own
mind, probably on the side of
the administration.
Conversely, the Northern Stales,
usually in the internationalist bloc,
are urging their senators to back
the president. Senator Saltonstall
R., Mass.) tells his Republican
colleagues that this is the con
census of his mail. Aiken (R.,
Vermont) and Kuchcl (R., Cali
fornia) will be in general concert
with their communities if they
support the treaty.
So, good or bad in other re
spects, the treaty is divisive. R
will tear one section of the na
tion apart from another and sena
tors apart from the electors in
many cases. It may rip the Leg
islative branch apart from the
Executive in one instance, for
Senator Hickcnlooper has served
notice that he will demand all
the written material that went
into the negotiations, including the
privileged Kennedy - Khrushchev
correspondence. It will certainly
make a rift between the Presi
dent's political and military ad
visers, since it is known that the
generals and admirals in the Pen
tagon are far from being in agree
ment with the diplomats in Uic
State Department.
Again, lot us assert with Sena
tor Mechem that the easy an
swers arc the Ignorant answers in
"one of the most complex sub
jects In history." Yet, let us be
warned in advance that this treaty
not only divides our international
enemies and our international
friends. It also divides Amcri-
DISPATCH FROM THE FARM . . .
The Magic Of Machinery
By JOHN GOULD
In The Christian Science Monitor
With something of joy, it came
to me of a sudden that another
10 or 15 minutes in the schedule
of our mailman wouldn't upset
the day beyond endurance. I cite
this as a minor premise, for I'm
not sure where we go from that.
What I think, mostly is that lh
great midcentury, new frontier
let's-go-boys spirit of the Edge
of Space has made a kook out
of our Postmaster General. He
has just sent me an official no
tification that my Zip Code num
ber is 04252.
Since my automobile license tag
number of 5,452 sort of matches
my telephone number of 4542, and
both seem to relate to my Zip
Code, I'm in a mess. Some hide
ous perversion of numerology has
set up a good one for me for
all this good fortune came to
me strictly by what Chippie Gal
braith used to call "jumpin'
luck." I would be the last breath
ing creature in the whole wide
world to plunk down extra money
for a special license tag number,
as some do. I assume the tele-
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Thanks .
We want to thank the fire chief
and Slewart-Lenox fire staff for
their wonderful help on Aug. 3
when our grass fire got away,
also everybody that helped.'
They were most wonderful.
It is so wonderful to have such
a good staff and such quick re
sponses. Thanks again.
Jim and Ruth Novolny,
1105 Riverside Drive.
Success
We would like to take this
means of expressing to you and
your staff our appreciation for
the fine support you gave in
helping to make our 15th An
nual Shrine Circus a real suc
cess. Without your fine advertising
and publicity we (eel that the cir
cus would not have been the suc
cess it was again this year.
We are looking forward to the
Itith Annual Shrine Circus anil
hope that we can again have your
support in helping to make it an
other success.
Van S. Mollison,
General Chairman;
Avis O'Donnell.
Shrine Circus Director.
Virginia Conrady.
Secretary. Shrine Circus.
Thanks
1 wish to thank the gentleman
and ladies that helped me two
weeks ago Saturday to my (eel
when 1 fell on tlte corner of Fifth
and Main Street and into Mil
lers store, where 1 was brought
home by a friend. They were so
nice to me, I want them to know
I appreciated It so much.
Mis. Gillette.
phone company, and the emulat
ing Post Office Department, se
lect and assign numbers unemo
tionally, I would doubt that Uncle
Sam looked up my phone number.,
or the license bureau foresaw
my Zip.
Well, out here under the assuag
ing shade of the turnips, this
general infatuation with systema
tized uniformity oftentimes looks
a little askew. Some years ago
when the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture-decided to re
duce its usefulness to the infinite
multiples of one to zero, my card
went into the works w'ith all the
rest, but to. the everlasting glory
of happenstance it must have had
one little hole in the wrong place.
Consequently, four times a year
with faithful repetition, I receive
a coded inquiry as to my acreage
of sorghum, peanuts, cotton and
tobacco. I am asked to estimate
my crop, report acres in produc
tion out of total acres operated,
and supply the yield per acre.
As you may well expect after
knowing me all these years. I
ignore these inquiries partly
because here in Maine we grow
potatoes, sweetcorn, dry beans,
and squash. But after a suitable
interval, I receive the follow-up
card (also full of little holes) which
says that I have not replied. Since
I know this, and now have proof
that the USDA also knows it, I
ignore the follow-up as well, and
nothing else happens until the next
quarter when the machine cycles
again. I am, naturally, all of a
twitter to see how the new Zip
Code of the Post Office Depart
ment will speed this gigantic ef
ficiency of its sister department.
I'm in a similar bind with the
State Department of Labor and In
dustry, which also has a ma
chine. Every year I receive a
fat envelope with a questionnaire.
The law, it says, requires that I
furnish full information about my
industrial activities, and if a cor
poration, the names and address
es of the principal officers. I
must tell the floor space of my
manufacturing establishment, cost
of raw materials to be processed,
annual payroll, number of hands,
value of manufactured goods and
distribution of products. The first
time this came I bemusedly wrote
across it, "We make nothing but
friends, and they arc all over
everywhere," and returned the
whole tiling. I thought some high
priced state employe getting
this back would smile at an oitice
goof, pick my card out and throw
it away, and there would be an
end. But it isn't that simple.
Once a human error goes through
a machine, it becomes truth.
I next tgot a curt and rather
snappy notice that since I had
a machine, it becomes truth.
I next got a curt and rather
snappy notice that since I had
not completed the form I was
subject to a fine and that im
mediate compliance would spare
me some awful consequences. The
easiest way out would be for me
to tool up and begin making ax
handles or rocket bearings and
go after a government contract.
When you realize that your com
pletely unindustrial name has
been mistakenly added to the in
dustrial list you first feel like smil
ing, but when you learn that there
is no possible way of getting it out,
you become dispirited. The mat
ter has become wholly impersonal.
Every year I ignore it, and every
year the Attorney General cites
me for action. By that time the
machine is ready to start again.
It's like one of those dreams
where you wake up before any
thing happens. But can't you see
that a Zip Code is going to add
a great deal to all this?
You see, I can mail two letters
out here at my R. F. D. box in
the morning one to Norway
Street in Boston and one to my
next neighbor but one up the road.
The letter to Boston will be de
livered a whole day sooner. This
doesn't mean anything, really, but
it should be interesting as a plain
fact. It is intended to show that
a Zip Code number bears no
special relationship to life as it
is lived, but is significant mostly
when you fall in love with num
bers and let them become the
boss, rather than the servant.
You can set up systems by the
mile but somewhere, somehow,
some stumbling human being is
going to slip a cog, or stub a toe,
or get a Maine card in the Vir
ginia pile,, and the magic miracle
of machinery will founder in the
deep of nonsense. Like Burt Cor
ey, whose order blank got stuck
in a mailorder machine in Chi
cago six years ago, and every
day since they've been sending
him a snaffle for a bull stafl.
in spile of anything he can do
about it. and without due re
flection that a snaffle on a bull
staff is something a man needs
only one of. Without looking back.
what is my phone number?
BERRY'S WORLD
1:
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The years creep by and your
age is showing if you had to
empty the drip pan under the ice
box . . . Car windshields opened
to let in breeze . . . Men wore
BVD's instead of shorts and under
shirts . . , You carried home 24
or 12'-a pounds of ice on the run
ning board of your car . . . the
grocer sacked up beans, sugar and
rice out of a bin . . . men's
shoe strings laced half way up
through eyes and the rest of the
way around hooks . . . you put
white gasoline in your car, at 12
cents a gallon . . . radios came
in two pieces the speaker being
separate ... it was a marvel
that you could drive 35 miles
. "without getting off a hard sur
faced road" . . . Grandma shocked
everybody by getting her hair
bobbed . . . Bing Crosby had hair
and Fred Astaire danced with
his sister , . . Tom Mix and Hoot
Gibson were king of the cow
boys . . . you bought the Lit
erary Digest from kids at the
door . . . women who wore trous
ers were eccentric . . .. you could
mail a letter with a two-cent
stamp . . . men wore garters
. . . you took a can to the gro
cery store, the grocer filled it
with kerosene from a barrel
and stuck a potato over the spigot
. . . women heated their curling
irons over a coal oil lamp . . .
bloomers came down to the knees
Oh, yes I do remember doing
most of those things . . .
The United States Employment
Service is coming into some harsh
times. It has been found that
USES is devoting much employee
time to finding better jobs for
job-holders instead of concentrat
ing on finding jobs for unem
ployed which is what it was
set up for. In one instance the
USES in Ohio offered in a
newspaper ad a job that paid
$23,754 a year. It is charged
that USES seeks better jobs for
employed scientists, technicians,
doctors, lawyers and other skilled
persons whose services are always
in demand. This, while millions
go jobless, and many of them
needy.
Pelican Petunia writes a short
ode:
Who'll carve the busts of famous
men
Upon our canyon walls?
Again we have the background
The "Black Hills" of Klamath
Falls!
She wants to knpw what hap
pened to Pelican Pete. Derned
if I know. In fact, I never
heard of him. Can any reader
help her out?
And Non Compos Mentis asks:
"If you will send me the name
of the diabolical fiend who con
cocts the Coinword puzzles, I
will gladly arrange to have him
lor heri boiled in oil!"
Well, Non, if I knew, I'd help.
One point still Isn't clear:
Did Harriman. Humphrey et al
get Castro to sign that anil
nuclear agreement?
Even if a man could under
stand women, he still wouldn't
believe it.
The surest sign that summer
has arrived are the news stories
about the pro football teams hold
ing spring training and battling in
charity contests.
A Texas Congressman says if
government spending goes always
up and never down what happened
in the following story could happen
to the American taxpayer. In a
little Texas town a not very up
right character was sentenced to
30 days in jail for stealing a
ham. Two weeks after he had
started serving his sentence his
wife visited the judge and begged
for her husband's release. "Is
he a good husband?" the judge
asked. "No sir, he's pretty no
account." "Does he treat your
children well? No sir, judge,
he's mean to them." "Well, does
he stay home when he's not in
jail?" "No sir, he runs around
a lot." "Then," said the judge,
"why do you want him out of
jail?" "I'll tell you j u d g e,"
said the harassed woman, "we're
just about to run out of ham
again."
Speaking of ham, some joker
sneaked into my cubbyhole Fri
day and made me the present
of a dozen packages of Girl
' Scout cookies. Which, I assume,
means that he tor she) Is doing
something about that surplus
1 referred to last week.
Aw, now. I really like Girl
Scouts. (Especially those between
the ages, say, from I guess
I'd belter not say it.)
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
" you uant to tee me, Lyndon, limply make
apfoinlm'tnt!"
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices: The
most unrewarding task in the
world is trying to tell people the
truth about themselves before they
arc ready to hear it; and even
Aesop, who cast such truths in
fable form, was eventually thrown
off a cliff because his morals
struck too close to home.
With all kinds of weird and
improbable musical adaptations
going on in the theater today,
it seems strange that the finest
of American folk plays, "The
Green Pastures," has never been
turned into a musical.
It's a good thing for them that
the people who enjoy relating
their dreams in public aren't gen
erally aware of all the implica
tions of what they're saying.
Most of us will go to a "pre
view" of something we don't es
pecially want to see, simply be
cause we are offered a chance to
see it ahead of others; and pre
view audiences are cordially de
tested by performers.
We think of America, on the
whole, as a "law-abiding" coun
try; but reading a book on British
law-enforcement, I was mortified
to learn that (in 1954, when the
book was published) Greater Lon
don had only 19 armed robberies
all year, while New York or Chi
cago had about that many each
day.
It's a curious trick if the
mind that the day after you
learn a new word you'd never
heard before, or the name of a
person hitherto unknown to you,
the word or name pops up again
immediately.
A person has gone from social
drinking to heavy drinking when
his response to the invitation to
have another is "Why not?" Ev
ery potential alcoholic I have
known has given this laconic an
swer. One of the real paradoxes of
personality is how people in show
business can be so warm-hearted
awl so cold-blooded at the same
time.
No other book ever written con
tains so much nonsense and so
much profundity as Nietzsche's
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" the
only trouble being that by the
time you're capable of separating
the nonsense from the profundity,
you don't need to read the book
any more.
Most mother-in-law jokes, though
perennially popular, are terribly
unfunny; the only amusing one
I can recollect is about the son-in-law
who was given two ties for
his birthday by his mother-in-law;
when he appeared at her house
wearing one of them, she greeted
him with: "What's the matter
didn't you like the other one?"
Men don't have Implacable
enemies the way they did III
past ages but they don't have
as closely-welded friendships,
cither: our interpersonal rcla-1
lions have become more ten
tative and tepid as society has
grown more dense and complex.
Cynicism in the young is always
a wholesome sign it indicates
that a sensitive, idealistic nature
has been shocked and is trying to
come to terms with the folly of the
adult world: it is only cynicism
in the old that I find spiritually
objectionable.
Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Aug. 22,
the 234th day of 13 with 131 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
first phase.
The morning stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars
and Saturn.
Those born today includ
French composer Claude Debus
sy, in I8j2.
On this day in history:
In 1851. the United States yacht
"America" beat the British yacht
Aurora off Cowcs, England, and
won the silver trophy which has
since borne its name.
In inn. the Mona Lisa was
stolen from the Louvre museum
in Paris.
In 1941, Naii troops advanced
to the outskirts of Leningrad,
Russia.