HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Thursday, October 3, 1963
It's An Entirely Different World
Like Birmingham'
Heron
WILLIAM S.-WHITE
Historical Political Shift
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How far bureaucratic insolence has
etched its way into the federal offices and
into some of the personalities employed by
the federal government has been amply dem
onstrated In Brookings, S.D.
... Here's the way we get the story. A few
months ago an agent of the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service came to town on official
business. He parked in a meter zone and
went about his business. His allotted time
expired. The Brookings Police Department
slapped a ticket on his car.
Hearing nothing from the agent, the po
lice department notified him, as is customary
with police departments the nation over. He
was reminded he owed a parking ticket.
Back came a letter from the U.S. Comp
troller's office saying, you can't fine an em
ploye of the government. "Parking meter
fees constitute an unauthorized attempt to
tax or burden the federal government in car
rying out its function," was the word.
Well, Editor C. A. Mitchell of the Brook
ings Register didn't like the word. In an edi
torial he asked: "Are federal employes a mas
ter race apart, exempt from petty annoyances
that beset the rest of us common mortals?"
Another editor, Alan C. Mcintosh, of the Lu
verne Star-Herald hopped on the matter, too.
"We do not want," he said, "any super
state in America although we are growing
steadily in that direction ... We do not want
any government employe, federal, state or lo
cal ever to get the delusion for one moment
that he belongs to a 'master race' and is not
Students
Congressman Robert Taft of Ohio is urg
iiljj the government to lower the boom on
eager beavers who are enthusiastically pro
moting additional trips to Cuba by U.S. "stu
dents" who yearn to revel firsthand in the
glories of the Castro culture.
The congressman is making sense.
X These freeloading junkets by American
youngsters to soak up Castro hatred of their
country go a little beyond good, clean fun.
They come uncomfortably close to being field
(dps in rebellion.
:: What kind of a misguided kid is it who
joyfully latches on to a free ride offered by
one of the loudest enemies America has?
How much more disloyal to your own
country can you get than to woo unsubtle
vl WASHINGTON CALLING
": By MARQUIS CI10.DS
WASHINGTON There's a lion
In the streets and his name is
Edwin P. Ncilan.
While he has been president ot
the United States Chamber of
Commerce less than five months,
Ncilan has stirred more ot an up
roar than Utt staid chamber has
heard In many years. He says he
fir going right on regardless of
How heavy the barrage of brick
bats aimed at him by Congress,
fhs roar of the chamber
ajiinst government is so familiar
a; sound that it has come to be
taken for granted. What Is new
about Neilan Is that he seems to
be genuinely shocked at the Iniqui
ties of big federal spending and
its effect on the vote-getting pro
cess. And he reacted with hurt
surprise when leading members ot
Congress attacked him for his Ini
tial blast.
! 'That was his National Press
Club speech in which lie said that
foto buying and selling in this
Country was Infinitely more im
tribal than Brltish's call girl and
seeiirity scandal. Apparently It
had not occurred to this Delaware
banker that he would be de
nounced fur such a sweeping ac
cusation. But the denunciations
began on the floor of the Senate
and the House, on the basis of
advance texts, even before he had
made the speech.
It Is to be reprinted in Hie
Reader's Digest which will give
extensive additional circula
tion. And Ncilan has been going
ground the country making the
setae charges and lecturing his
audiences on the wickedness of
Congressional "bagmen" who
rib for their share of spending
area redevelopment, accelerat
ed public works and other federal
programs.
; Thus far Neilan has made only
glancing references to the bene
fits that business gets from gov
ernment In the form of huge cost
: (this contracts in defense and
itpac. This type of spending Is on
a far larger scale and a pattern
has grown up in the Department
of Defense and the spies agency
Down Bureaucrats
We Can Do
Congressional 'Bagmen'
of giving Senators and Congress
men I ho right tn make the first
announcement of new contracts
going to their areas.
Even when he spoke in Seattle,
Wash., one of the principal bene
ficiaries of defense contracts, Nei
lan made only a passing reference
to the cushion of defense contracts
supporting a sizable segment of
American industry. But he says
he intends In future speeches to
tell business that It's Ume to end
the subsidies and regain its inde
pendence. Nor has he so far talked about
what Is perhaps not only the big
gest federal grab bag but one that
cuts directly across the author
ity of the states and local com
munities. Til is is the $41 billion
federal highway program. The
federal government pays for no
per cent of the construction
cost. But for this carrot states
and cities surrender Uie right to
say how and where their high
ways will be built. The program
has the backing of autos, oil and
cement which is a powerful chunk
of private Industry.
Neilan is speaking next week lo
the Defense Transportation Indus,
try convention in Chicago. This
offers, as he is well aware, a
splendid opportunity tn talk alxmt
the dependence of Industry on vast
defense spending.
A novelty In Die Ncilan ap
proach Is the way he bends over
backward to try to be fair. In
his Seallle speech he said, al
most wistfully, "Although I am
relatively new in Washington I
have the impression that things
today are not far diffoivnt Uian
they were when the Republicans
were In power."
As he noted in his first attack,
the constant demands on mem
bers of Congress from back home,
coming both from state and city
governments and from Industry,
take more and more of the law
maker's attention. He has less and
less time, said Neilan, to give lo
our real national Interests and tlie
national problems Involved.
As the tourist to Washington dis
covers from a visit to the Capi
tol, only on rare occasions are
there more than scattering of
subject to the laws the citizenry must abide
by."
In Sioux Falls, a local businessman had
his two bits worth to say and he said them in
the right spots. He sent a letter to the Brook
ings Police Department urging it to stand its
ground and collect that parking fee from the
great big income tax man. He sent copies of
his letter to Sens. Mundt and McGovern and
Reps. Berry and Reifel. The Washington del
egation was quick to act.
They asked the U.S. Comptroller's of
fice how come? First, back came the usual
bureaucratic replies; that a city had no right
to levy a parking meter fine against a fed
eral car. One reply was in the form of a three
page typewritten letter and contained the
usual gobbledegook from a Washington bu
reau. South Dakotans did not let the matter
die.
Now the Comptroller's office has backed
down and said it is "recommending new pro
cedures which should minimize recurrence of
this problem in the future."
We hope it will mean federal employes
will get the idea out of their heads, if it
is there, that they are special characters,
and put the thought in that should be there,
that they are paid by the taxpayers and
should act like anyone else.
There's "another little moral to this
event. It's what can happen when an aroused
public has its say. Remember this when you
feel like writing a letter to a public official.
Without
brainwashing by such a host and then come
back to sneer at American democracy as a
poor imitation of the real thing as practiced
by Castro in Cuba?
And how can you be much more contemp
tuous of your government than to storm into
the U.S. Congress and scream profane insults
at our lawmakers?
Sure, this is a land of freedom. But we
like to think it is also a land of loyalty, pa
triotism and decency.
If these "students" haven't learned this
in their studies, then they had better shave
off their beatnik beards, scrub themselves
inside and out, put on some clean clothes
and go to a different school.
members on the floor of either
house. You can be sure a num
ber ot the absentees are scout
ing around the agencies, as like
ly as not on the prompting of the
chamber of commerce back home,
tn nail down funds for a new
sewer system or a defense plant.
This may lie a battle against
the windmills by a Don Quixote
come at a late hour to the full
centralized government. Much of
the Ncilan target area Is the old
familiar ono covering all govern
ment spending and invoking the
familiar fetish of a balanced budg
et. But, windmills or no, tlie bat
tler shows no signs of calling it
off.
Al
manac
By I'nllrd Press International
Today is Thursday, CkL 3, the
276th day of 1963 with 89 to fol
low. The moon Is full.
The morning stars are Mercury
and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those born today Include the
American novelist, Thomas Wolfe,
in lino.
On this day in history:
In la, Mrs. Rebecca Felton.
a Georgia Democrat, was ap
pointed to the V. S. Senate and
became tlie first woman to serve
In that body.
In li5, Italy, under dictator
Benito Mussolini, launched an un
provoked invasion of Ethiopia.
In I960. Soviet Premier Nikila
Khrushchev wrecked a Paris sum
mit meeting when he said he
would meet with President Eisen
hower only it he admitted Ameri
can V-l flights over Russia were
sets of aggression.
In 15. 20 persons were killed
and 93 injured when a boiler ex
ploded In a telephone building in
New York City.,
A thought for the day Form
er President Eisenhower Mid
"Sim this century's beginning s
time of tempest has seemed to
come upon tlie conUnents of the
earth."
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n SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
To justify our dislikes, we gen
erally say that what we dislike is
contemptible or valueless; it takes
a rare and large character lo
acknowledge that what he dis
likes may be admirable but he
is incapable of such appreciation.
People In villages are both
kinder and crueller than people
In cities: They are kinder tn
those who suffer misfortune
through no fault of their own,
hut crueller to those who violate
the rigid canons of the communi
ty. Each class has its own "key
words" which must be decoded in
order to be fully understood: for
instance, when the upper class
calls a man "civil," it doesn't
mean merely that he Is polite it
means that he tacitly accepts the
superiority of those born above
him.
All genuine progress depends
upon not more than a dozen indi
viduals in each generation; and
the best argument for democracy
is that wo can never tell from
which segment of society they
will arise therefore, that sys
tem which most encourages tal
ent to come to Uie surface is best,
despite the clumsiness and abuses
and dangers inherent in the dem
ocratic process.
Tlie self-righteous person who
Is secretly proud that he does
not need to ask God to forgive his
sins should, from time to lime,
remember to ask his neighbors to
"forgive my virtues." As Santa
yana once acutely remarked,
"It is easier for a libertine to
become a saint than for a prig."
Very often the woman whose
' ambition Inspires a man In
great deeds is the same one
whose limitations prevent him
from enjoying the fruits of his
acopmpllshmcnts.
The barbarism that precedes
civilization is never as vicious or
coiTupt as Uie barbarism that fol
lows it; for real bestiality, prim
itive societies can't compete with
those that have rebelled against
the restraints of civilization.
Speaking of this, it would lie
wise to keep in mind Ortega's
astute warning: "In history, as
soon as the 'man of action' puts
in an appearance and is dis
cussed and pampered, it means
that a period of rebarbarization
looms."
Tlie greatest fallacy that most
people make is in assuming Uiat
by opposing tlie "wrong" they
are guaranteed of being in the
BERRY'S WORLD
" buy f&if, Ktnnriy won't b tht only on uilb
'BaUnc of Ptymtntt'Jrtbltm,"
STRICTLY
PERSONAL.
"right;" but most wrongs are
opposed by different kinds of
wrongs, and it rarely occurs to
ordinary minds that two conflict
ing principles can be false at the
same time.
Letters To
Spenders
On Oct. 15 we go to the polls to
vote on tlie $60 million tax bill. I
certainly will vote against it. This
bill has been cussed and dis
cussed. We have been led to be
lieve if we vote against it, disas
ter will be the result.
The only disaster is to the big
spenders. Why don't they tell the
truth about education? Why don't
they admit that they have known
all the time the governor couldn't
take one cent of the basic school
support fund. The truth Is the
big spenders have always wanted
tn scare people into voting. Yes.
They are mad as us who signed
the referral petition and not giv
ing them this $60 million. All
of a sudden the heads of several
state departments now admit that
I hey can reduce their budgets.
None of them seem to have any
doubts but that they can cut their
budgets and reduce waste and ex
travagance in departments. Never
before have they admitted this.
People by supporting and signing
the referral petition, so we could
vote on this $60 million dollar is
sue have made the big spenders
stop and think. A good healthy
condition.
People are paying too much tax.
It's run out our ears. Too much
weight on one end of a board
soon upsets it, and it's a grand
tiling to know people are tired of
being pushed around by people
we vole into office on a platform
nf "I will keep taxes down," and
they are the first to raise them.
As for schools, they have be
come like a horse with a bit in
its mouth. It's time the people
handled the reins for a while. The
schools can hold down their
spending too. And it will hurt no
one.
I have always been under the
impression all poliUcians were en
dowed with humanitarian prin
ciples, hut after reading the pro
visions in the $60 million income
tax bill I realize how badly mis
taken I was. The filing fee es
pecially is designed tn take from
those that haven't and give tn
those who have.
Mr. Editor, if it doesn't violate
political etls'cs, I will appreciate
it if you can get the names and
home addresses of each ot those
who opposed this bill, then come
next election time I will know
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
WASHINGTON Increasingly it
appears that the South and West
but notably the West, with its
vast leap in political power in
the years since the war will be
the great battlegrounds in the po
litical campaign of 1964.
For the first time in our his
tory the real center of gravity in
a Presidential contest will not be
in the East. Both parties are
pitching their campaign tents on
the westward slopes as never be
fore they have done.
Two major reasons underlie this
historic shift. The one is the root
act that the West now encom
passes our biggest state in popula
tion, California, and, in general,
now measures our fastest growth.
The other is that the struggle
for the Republican Presidential
nomination is so undeniably and
so strongly centering around a
Westerner, Sen. Barry Goldwater
of Arizona.
More and more it looks that if
he is to be stopped for the nomina
tionand the "if" is a large and
formidable one the task will re
quire an incomparably greater co
hesion of purpose among the anli
Goldwater Republicans than is
now either in motion or in sight.
And even should the party at last
turn to another in the Republican
National Convention next sum
mer, the G.O.P. will in any event
have been Western-flavored and
The Editor
' for whom to vote. What would this
$3 filing fee do to old people when
some of them only receive $57 a
month? If people who wrote up
this $60 million tax bill wanted
to do some good why not make
these old people tax exempt, and
their property too, instead of try
ing to add more tax to the al
ready burdened taxpayer.
People who have worked hard
all their lives deserve far better
than being forced onto welfare,
and living on so little.
I feel that the $60 million tax
. bill could be easily forgotten if
some of the gold bricks were
kicked out of the county and state
offices and work those who are
left.
Another thing, Mr. Editor, have
you noticed all the cars on the
highways with the Oregon State
seal on the side? People out on
vacation use the state cars. And
what about the $1,000 a month
for Mr. Hatfield's guards? Isn't
this carrying things pretty far?
Seems to me a lot of slicing
can be done. AH I can say is,
Mr. and Mrs. Voter, vote "No"
Oct. 15, don't be scared and
threatened. The fight against the
"big spenders" is just the first
one to save Oregon people from
being taxed to death and losing
their hemes.
Mrs. B. J. Squires,
2804 So. 6th St.
Cake-Walkers
To anyone who has been con
cerned about the lack of law en
forcement in Klamath Falls as I
have been for the past 17 years,
there are some encouraging signs
that this is in the process of
change.
The first indication of this was
one afternoon recently when I
parked my car downtown and
found that I had no change for
tlie parking meter. I entered a
store directly in front of the me
ter to obtain change. This took
about 45 seconds, but I was much
too slow for one of our meter
maids. Slie already had her book
drawn and was preparing to write
the citation for this violation of
the law.
I pleaded with her not to con
tinue and quickly jammed a pen
ny into the meter, but she was
not to be deterred from enforc
ing the law.
The same afternoon I picked up
my copy of the Herald and News
and read of District Attorney
Dale Crabtree's intentions to wipe
out all gambling in Klamath Coun
ty, bar none, and nobody is ex
empt from the state's gambling
laws, not even tlie cake-walkers.
Now these cake-walks are a vi
cious form of corruption. They
even take place at our county
school carnivals and worse, they
have them at some churches.
Here is a scene I am sure all
those in Klamath County inter
ested in good law enforcement
are eagerly awaiting stainless
Steel Crabi ve leading his crime
busters in a raid on one of the
school carnival cake-walks. May
lie a little tear gas tossed in to
subdue those who would resist,
and tlie confiscation of the cakes.
This is the way lawlessness and
disrespect for the law gets started
in a community such as ours,
right in the schools and churches,
so let's all get behind our dis
trict attorney's oflice ion per
cent in this movement.
It has been nearly impossible
to get a murder conviction from
that oftice and thereby discour
age that sort of thing in Klamath
County, but here's hoping can
do something with these other
law breakers.
Bobby T. Jones
Western-oriented as it has never
been before.
And there is a third and lesser
hut itself still significant reason
for this new emphasis on the great
stretches beyond the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers. This is the
circumstance that here also is the
one best hope of the Republicans
to make important gains in the
battle for Congress. At least seven
presently Democratic Senate seats
are now quite plainly up for
grabs in the West. This is at once
the area of greatest Democratic
vulnerability and of greatest
Republican opportunity in all the
country.
To see how poignantly "the
West" lies upon the minds and
plans of the politicians in both
parties it is only necessary to
note that for months now the most
basic of the political news has'
consistently been made there. The
most recent illustration is the
speech delivered by Sen. Frank
Church of Idaho, a liberal Demo
crat more or less in the Kennedy
model, at the Western States
Democratic Conference in Salt
Lake City.
Here was an ostensibly regional
party meeting which was in truth
a strictly national effort to begin
to break both the Goldwater move
ment itself and the surge of con
servatismin both parties which
nearly every independent observ
er has found out beyond the mid
dle of the country.
And not merely Church was
there to sound the alarm at this
theoretically localized affair.
Weighing in was California Gov.
Edmund Brown and also John
Bailey, the Democratic National
Chairman, a "Westerner" from
Connecticut.
'You Can Stay But
It is hardly possible to ques
tion the legality of the recent ac
tion of our district attorney re
garding his ban on gambling in
Klamath County. But his judg
ment certainly is open to question.
Persons who want to gamble will
do so anyway, and there are so
many ways for the serious gam
bler to ply his trade it is doubt
ful that the DA could do anything
about it, anyway.
Admirable as his objective
may be (and some question
how admirable It is) one can't
help but hope that he would
practice the same diligence and
direct as much energy toward
control pf more serious crimi
nal elements in the county.
Such as murderers, hoodlums,
thieves, muggers, had check
passers, negligent fathers, etc.,
etc.
From the newspaper reports I
read it is apparent there is quite
a field of endeavor for our DA
and his staff to concentrate on
if they are looking for things to
do.
The Oregon Statesman conduct
ed a poll recently to see how peo
ple feel about the 1963 tax pro
gram of the legislature which will
be referred to a vote Oct. 15. The
poll showed readers opposed lo
the program almost 2l to one.
Thousands of votes came in from
all over the state in the States
man's balloting.
Response to the four questions
posed in the poll was as follows:
I'phold legislature's
YES NO
tax program ... 28 97 7103
Have governor whack
biennial budget 51 26 38 74
Special legislative
session 47 64 52.36
Consider sales tax 68 09 3191
Between them, these speakers
set up two themes of which much
more will be heard: That Gold
water, an opponent of the nuclear
test-ban treaty, is the symbol of
a bellicose "radical right" which
might get this nation into nuclear
war. That this "radical right" is
about to take over the whole Re
publican party and especially in
the West.
To the extent to which such vio
lent accusations might be said
In liava anv hacic lllpv flrp
grounded upon foolishly ultra-conservative
manifestos recently
adopted by a "young Republi
can" group in California. They
are, of course, absurdly over
drawn. They are, for example, ai
absurdly overdrawn as would be
any Republican counter-accusations
that the entire Democratic
party is for appeasement simply
because of certain equally foolish
leftist manifestos, also recently
adopted, by "young Democrats" .'
in California. All this, on both
sides, is kiddie-stuff; and every '
political adult on both sides knows
it.
But the point of the moment is .
this: The simple fact that such
urgent acuon is going on in me
West, more than a year ahead of
the Presidential election, is the
strnnnnst nnccihlA indinalnr
..0 ,
what the West has become in
terms of 1964 strategy.
For nearly 200 years the thrust
nf party maneuver and counter-'
maneuver, and even the thrust of
the news, has been from East to
West, inevitably losing both some
momentum and some power as it
crossed the plains and mountains.
In 1964, the movement may well
be reversed from West to East.
He's Gotta Go!'
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. 8. S.I
It's rather obvious that people
are not so adamant against a sales
tax as some of our legislators .
and labor union leaders want lu
believe they are.
A reader dropped a note In
which he says "SHAME on
YOU!" for the editorial about
the test ban treaty that ran
Sept. 21. In K we called the
document "A Worthless Trea
ty." Not worthless, says our reader.
And I quote, "It is very worth
while to Russia. Sections 1 and
2 provide that at any time a ma
jority of the concurring rations
can amend this treaty, and this,
or these amendments become
binding upon all parties. The
treaty is also without time limit.
"Shortly it will not he safe
lo be pro - American unless we
change those in power."
Amen.
Esquire Theatre management
people have come up with a won
derful schedule of movies this
fall. They have six wonderful pic
tures based on famed books.
They include "Captains Coura
geous" (Rudyard Kiplingi, "Da
vid Coppcrheld" (Charles .Dick
ens'. "The Good Earth" 'Pearl
Buck', "Julius Caesar" (Shake
spearei, "Little Women" lLouisa
May Alcolti and "A Tale of Two '
Lines' iDickens'.
The pictures will carry all
star casts, and will do much,
I'm sure, to dissipate some
what the Idea that movies car.
ry nothing nowadays ceepl
ft stories.
From the way things are go
ing, we can expect sny day now
the announcement that 'Khru
shchev is really a Western intelli
gence agent.