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PAGE-4 HERALD The progress of President Kennedy's $11 billion tax cut measure through Congress has been curious at almost every stage. It never really has had the popular steam behind it that one might expect for the most sweeping tax reduction plan in a generation or more. To be sure, it has passed the House. And it would very likely win a favorable Senate vote if it could, in 1963, get past the road blocks of hostile committee chairmen and time-consuming civil rights legislation. But if the public clamor had been great enough the tax bill could well have become law long before this. It never developed. One can hardly believe that the idea of having more money in the wallet has lost appeal for the American citizen. If he is as money-hungry as often pictured by his detractors at home and abroad, why did he not beat on the lawmakers' doors to demand passage of the massive cut? The answers can be only tentative. :., For one thing, the real administration argument for the tax reduction is subtle and complex. The citizen, acting through his rep resentatives, is asked to approve cuts which will materially increase the federal deficit in order to Increase prosperity and thereby multiply jobs. But in the ordinary mind deficits and prosperity do not go together. There is no sign the Kennedy administration has sold this notion effectively. It is easy to believe the opponents of the bill made real headway with arguments that reduction has to be linked Shorter (Or Any) Work (The Christian Science Monitor) When President Kennedy in California remarked that as a result of automation "we're going to find the workweek re duced," he was observing a trend at var iance with his administration's own official policy. He has resisted demands of organized labor for a less than 40-hour workweek, feeling that this is not the way to solve the nation's production problems. Yet he and qUiers iiave seen the 35-hour week intro duced in certain special situations with out adamant employer objections. ;j And last week there came from the United Slates Labor Department a study which indicated that rising productivity, through mechanization and other technol ogical change, is eliminating nearly 200, 000 factory workers' jobs each year, be sides others lost through declining output. WASHINGTON CALLING J By MARQUIS CIHLDS WASHINGTON - To a friend and long time associalo w h o called on him tho oilier day President Kennedy unburdened himself with considerable bit terness on tho subject of top bracket taxpayers and tho lax exemption they use to spread propaganda of the o x I r c m e right. The President, as tho friend recalled Ihe conversation, talked about two men, each of whom is often referred to as "tho richest man in tho world." Ono was J. Paul Getty, an oil man who spends most of his time in Eng land whero he owns a largo es tate and gives lavish parties. According to the President, Get ty's net worUi Is over a billion dollars. The second was the Pallas, Tex., oil man, H. L, Hunt, who is rated In tlto billionaire class. Both, according lo tho Presi dent, paid miniscule amounts In federal Income tax last year. These arc Uie men. the President went on, w h n through various forms of tax exemption and special tax al lowances are able to subsidise the ultrn-right on television, ra dio and in print. However exact the President's figures may have been Income tax returns are by law a close ly guarded secret there Is no doubt that the right-wing view is heavily subsidized. On radio and television stations across the country free taped programs are run daily assailing the Unit ed Nations, attacking tlie gradu ated Income tax, foreign aid, So cial Security and Uio other fa vorite hates of the extreme right. One of the biggest lax benefits oil men enjoy is tlie I7'i per cent allowance for a wasting as set. In the tax message he sent up in January the President AND NEWS, Klamath FaJIs, Oregon Tax Cut? - Ho Hum! wilh comparable cuts in federal spending. Sophisticated specialists in public finance keep saying that a government budget is nothing like a family budget, and therefore that it is foolish to insist that the same kind of careful balancing is required in the public sphere. Here again, however, the feeling grows that this idea is not widely accepted or per haps understood by the general public. The fine-spun theories of public finance experts seem apart from the everyday budget reali ties of the average citizen. It is possible that among those citizens and lawmakers who can follow the ad ministration argument without difficulty there are some who just, don't think it is realistic. They may believe that the cut won't stimulate the economy as suggested. Or they may feel that the steadily rising cost of gov ernment makes a climb out of a projected deeper deficit though very unlikely even after several years have passed. On top of all these conjectures must be added another. The hurt to the economy from persisting unemployment is neither great enough nor sufficiently widespread to affect personally more than a fair percent age of the American people. Millions and millions have steady employment. To them the whole tax cut plan may seem not only un wise but unnecessary. Somewhere amid these speculations lies an explanation for the oddity that in 1963 the biggest tax cut proposed in many moons has stirred almost no popular excitement. It is a tricky question whether short ening of hours would result in automatic spreading of jobs to more people. In many cases it gives impulse to more automation and further reduction of employment. For many among the more than a million new workers coming into the Ameri can labor force each year the question is not how many hours a week they will work but whether they will have a workweek at all. Thousands of youths, some with fami-' lies, would like not only to get on the seniority ladder but to be hired long enough to qualify for compensation if laid off. Automation and productivity unquest ionably are booms in the long run. But a high order of invention is called for in de vising education, management, and per sonnel policies that will distribute their benefits to a widening rather than nar- rowing proportion of the population. Extreme Right Subsidy proposed a sharp reduction in this benefit, which has been ex tended to cover a long list of minerals. Tho lax bill passed by I lie House makes a minor change in tho calculation of a wasting asset. Hut Ihe reform tho President proposed was largely jettisoned and along with it most of tho other reforms included in llic Presidential t a x package. Whether the tax hill will lie passed at all this year is in creasingly doubtful since the House took until the first of Oc tober and Chairman Harry F. Myrd of the Senate finance committee is an adroit delayer. Willi Ihe 'M election at hand the right wing is prepared to go all out to defeat Kennedy, The question of where "education," as dclined by the lax law, slops and political propaganda begins becomes all important. T h e most persistent critic of Ihe use of lax exemption for political propaganda has been Sen. Mnurinc Ncubergcr ID., Ore. I. Slie has inado Hunt one of her principal targets, charging him wilh anti-Semitic. anti-Catholic and "even anti-Protestant thc National Council of Churches i propaganda." In a Senate icech Ihe soft-spoken lady from Oregon put Hunt's wealth at $3 billion and bis annual in come at "around $50 million." "You would llink." she said, "that a man with $.1 billion at his disposal and on active spleen would be willing to finance his own propaganda warfare.' But Hunt prefers lo let the ledcial government assume a substan tial portion of his political cru sades. "Hunt has simply packaged his propaganda network under tlie head of the Lifeline Foundation, Inc., and then had his business corxrations Uie Tuesday, October IS, 1963 Week? ? Hunt Oil Company and its food processing and canning division, the HLII Parade Company commercially sponsor Lifeline propaganda throughout t h c country. Of course, commercial advertising: expenditures are healed as a business expense and deducted from the compa ny's income before laxes. Hunt's expressed goal is lo see the $11 billion which American business sicnds on advertising annually devoted lo the sponsorship of right-wing propaganda." At Senator Neubcrgcr's urg ing tlie Bureau of Internal Rev enue has begun an investigation of tax-exempt foundations to de termine whether they are stray ing from the "charitable and educational" limits of tax de ductibility into political propa ganda. While this is a difficult undertaking, particularly since Ihe lists of organizations rated eligiblo for exemption is as thick as a medium-size tele phone book, several foundations have already been told to show why tlinr exemption should not lie removed. They have been found to be spreading propagan da ralhcr than education. Is It propaganda to agitate ev ery day for tlie goals of the ultra-right and to intimalo that anyone w ho disagrees is a Com munist or the next thing to it? Docs this help a political parly or a particular candidate? Or is it in fact "education?" Congress has directed several invest igal ions al Ihe foundations, one aimed lo show they were sources of left-wing propaganda, another more recently suggest ing tliey were tax havens. Enor mous benefits to Ihe nation How out of philanthropy ground ed in lax deduction. A tragedy would be If this were perverted and destroyed' for selfish. jvhW. cal reasons. 'Harry, I Don't Think You're Going To Like This One Any Better' 'J: II 'I IN WASHINGTON . . By RALPH dc TOLEDANO MANCHESTER. N.H. - The distance from Washington to this New Hampshire city is not very great in miles. But as the plane begins to descend, tlie flaming foliage of autumn looms up like a multi-colored sea. The houses along Uie lightly-traveled road from airport to town are prosperous-looking, with a sur prising number of two-car ga ages. The center of the city, like most of its counterparts throughout much of tlie once heavily industrialized Now Eng land area, would win no prizes for civic beauty. And the pre dominant topic of conversation as this is written concerns a municipal primary in which nine candidates seek Ihe nom inations of both parties. Yet New Hampshire may be the state in which tlie fate of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Senator Barry Goldwater can be decided. How this state, which leads the oili er forty-nine in declaring its Presidential preference, casts its vote will be of prime signifi cance to the politicians and the political analysts. The winds of March in this granitic state can blow away Uie hopes of one or Hie other of these (wo Republi can Presidential aspirants. A walk down the street in Manchester tells more of the shilling tides of population, vot ing strength, and ethnic makeup than any study of statistics. This is no longer flinty New England territory, drawing a Puritan tra dition from its English past. The names on shop windows and tlie accents heard in pass ing are as frequently as not French Canadian. In any Democratic-Republican struggle, lliis breaks tlie comfortable monopo ly so long held by the Grand Old Party. Like the rest of northern New England, New Hampshire is becoming a two parly slate a process accelerat ed by the bickering and back biting of rival factions. This influx of Democratic in fluence has had its effects on the voting patterns ol the Re publicans. Al one lime, Dart mouth was the "liberal" center of the stale, but Ihe professors buttered no parsnips where the rest of the population was con cerned. Now, with (he strong leadership of the late Senator Styles Bridges holding Ihe slate in line, what may be called "Rockefeller Republicanism" has made itself felt. Tlie Dart mouth whisper has grown loud erperhaps because "Who Else But Nelso" is an alumnus of that institution of higher learn ing. On the other hand, it should not be forgotten that New Hampshire, in 195li, cflectivcly torpedoed the "dump Nixon'' campaign by giving him a whopping and unprecedented write-in voto in Ihe March pri mary. Vice presidential candi dates are hardly the concern of the voters before convention time, but there was enough con servalive sentiment this was before Mr. Nixon bad begun to waver and organization deter mination to change a routine endorsement of President Eisen hower inlo a meaningful politi cal demonstration. New Hampshire has, Ilie ex perts believe, changed since that day, but not enough to gHe Governor Rockefeller any real hope. At first glance, and this impression may change alter further contact with political leaders, political experts, and political reporters. Senator Gold water is well ahead in this slate Governor Rockefeller's remarri age, unpleasant memories of live way be kit his eupfwWrn Wlduij th Wtsj law is vni) Goldwater Leading In New Hampshire when he declared himself out of the contest, and a ")ie doesn't have a chance" psychology have so far worked against the governor. There is, of course, evidence that Mr. Rockefeller still in tends to make the old college try. If money and poll takers can do it, he may yet rise like the phoenix from the ashes of his burnt-out political career. But he must win big here to survive, whereas Senator Gold water can take a setback and still surge ahead in other pri maries. He is aided now by the fact that he is a new face in tlie Presidential scene. Governor Rockefeller has been huffing and puffing since early 1959 without being able to set his bandwagon to rolling. The Loch invar come out of the South west, to put it somewhat coyly, is a topic of conversation and the subject of considerable in teresta great asset. All of this is, obviously, very previous. With the frost not yet on 1963's pumpkin, the weeks and months stretch out ahead before New Hampshire steps into the limelight of its Presi dential primary. Much can hap pen lo Senator Goldwater or to Governor Rockefeller, for that mailer. But it remains true that, as New Hampshire goes, so go the political pundits. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS A man I know who prides himself on being "hip" was hav ing coffee wiui me when anolh er man entered the restaurant and nodded at my companion. Tlie man I was with barely ack nowledged his greeting. "What's the matter, don't you like him?" I asked. The man shrugged. "I hardly know him." he said, "but he looks awfully square to me the way he dresses and parts his hair, and those rimless eyeglasses. Man!" "That's astrange attitude for you to take." 1 commented. "It seems to me that you're behav ing just like the squares you de test." "What do you mean'.'" he looked at me suspiciously. "How come?" "Well." I said, "what you peo ple most dislike about the squares is Ihe fact that they pigeon-hole life, they compart mentalize everything, and have smug easy answers to dillicult questions. Right?" "Right." he admitted, still gazing at me mistrustfully. "If a square." 1 went on. "sees a man with a beard, he immediately classifies him as a 'beatnik.' If a square sees a person dressed a certain way, lie allows that surface impres sion to influence his opinion and attitude, and doesn't even try to know what lite individual himself is like. Right again?" "Check," he said. "And so what?" '"And so this." 1 continued. "You're doing Uie very same tiling, only with a reversed im age. You see a man dressed a certain way and you immediate ly think of him a: a 'button down jerk.' You thin in broad categories, too. rather than in terms of individuals. To you. anybody is a square who doesn't resemble you in dress, habits and mannerisms even though such people may be only super licially conforming." "That's bad enough, isn't it?" Letters To The Editor Rebuff I wish to thank the Herald and News for choosing to believe that the article, "House Okays 'House keeping' Bills But Not Until Af ter Family Fight" worthy of front page interest. I just trust that the people of Klamath Falls took the time to read it through once and then a second Ume and that they will manage the time to sit down while it is fresh in their minds to write their congressmen. It is deplorable the way our tax mon ey continues to be squandered promiscuously by those elected to office and there, supposedly, to function in our best interests. For those of you who over looked reading this article, the House members are busy voting in $1.2 million for their trips, in vestigations and official expenses. Among items approved was an added $600 "stationery" allow ance, which boosts to $2,400 a year each of our 435 House mem bers may spend at the Capitol stationery store. This store boasts of such items as Christmas cards, leather goods and pen sets (fine Christmas gifts). Also, if our con gressman does not find a need for the full $2,400 during the year, he may draw the balance in cash! Funds were voted for inquiries into research, agriculture, inter stale taxes, banking and other matters. Extra allowances were provided for members' official telephone and telegraph bills and for stamps. Recently there were 19 mem bers of the House and Senate who returned from a trip to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where they "worked hard" on t h e Agriculture Com mittee. Let us all inform them that they need to "work hard" in cutting down each and every one of these expenses instead of continuing to vote them in with raises. I would urge you to write your congressmen today and let lliem know that you are in favor of Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa, for his views on this ridiculous con tinued spending of our money. Nat urally, the congressmen were un happy when he took opposition to all this spending. If we permitted our children to spend promiscu ously and then tightened the purse strings, they, too, would be un happy,' but it would make a bet ter, more responsible child. We have only to look at a cou ple of local issues in the past year to see what the majority of the people can do in power if they just take the time to be heard. Sportsmen were angry because of the slaughter of the deer herds, they got together and wrote arti cles to their legislators, had meet ings, signed petitions, and they are Retting results. When Oregon legislators wanted to take away our right to deduct our federal income taxes paid from our gross income, we arose in a body to be heard and forced the Oct. 15 spe cial elcclion. And how much STRICTLY PERSONAL he asked. "1 don't think so," I said. "Some people don't want lo waste their energy in rebel ling about non-essentials. But if you get to know them, you may find lliat their minds are sharp and tlieir characters are weil developed. The whole point is you can't really tell what any one is like until you give him a chance, until you get to know him." "But Uie percentage is against it." he muttered. "The percentage is always against sharp minds and devel oped characters." I suggested. "This is true in any group, in cluding the so-called hipsters, many of whom reject conven lional society for weak, child ish and neurotic reasons." "I'll give you that," he con ceded. "Give me more," I asked. "Don't let yourself become a squarc-in-revcrse. Keep open to ward people, or you're no better than he is." Al manac Rv United Press International Today is Tuesday, Oct. 15, the 288lh day of I9tv! with 77 to fol low. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Jupiler and Saturn. Those born today arc under the sign of Libra. On this day in history: In 1917. (he most famous spy of World War 1. Gertnulc Mar garete Zcllo. known as Mata Hari, was executed outside Paris. In 1W5. Pierre Laval, former French premier, was executed for betraying his country to Nazi Germany during World War 11. A thought for tlie day The Greek orator. Demosthenes, said: "To remind a man of t h e good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach." more badly our federal govern ment needs this very treatment. No matter how many pressing demands are upon us every day, let us, one and all, take time out right now to sit down and write our congressmen and let them know we are back of Rep. H. R. Gross 100 per cent in his contin ued attempts to economize the federal spending. Let us be sure and write to him and ask his continued efforts in our behalf. I feel sure this is what our editor had in mind when it was placed in such a prominent place in our newspaper. s If you are in doubt about the names and addresses of your Con gressmen, please call the Herald and News. Question: Why does Mr. Tax payer cry about high taxation and then go to the polls and continue to re-elect the "big spenders?" Just write a letter to Morse and Neuberger and see how quickly you get a rebuff from them. The reason is simple they haven't heard from enough taxpayers. Mrs. Kuhlman. Editor's Note: Addresses of Ore gon Congressmen are: Sen. Maurine Neuberger Sen. Wayne Morse Senale Office Building Washington 25, D.C. Rep. Al Ullman Rep. Waller Norblad Rep. Robert Duncan Rep. Edith Green House of Representatives Washington 25, D.C. Oh, Brother Re: Oct. 8 issue I'm just a visitor to your city and find your paper so typical of the information fed to the general public by the New Frontier. First the article by Frank Jen kins. Gold does not cost the Soviet Union $60-$70 per ounce. The mines and the people working them are owned by the govern ment. It's like the deficit spend ing in this country. Whatever the miners are paid, they are paid with paper money printed by the government, so the actual cost would only be the cost of printing the money, cost of material. I mean not the printer's salary. This could get complicated, but I think you can see what I mean. Russia (buying?) our surplus wheat and paying us in gold? Who thinks of these fairy tales? I doubt if the news information given you has mentioned it, but there has been a rumor for some time that Kennedy offered foreign aid lo Mr. K. some time ago but they had lo prepare the public to accept it before any announce ment could be made. I'll give odds that this wheat deal amounts to another give-away pro gram with the U.S. taxpayers pay ing the bill. When is the general public go ing to wake up to the fact that our government has become one big compromise with communism. Second The expenditures of the general fund arc interesUng, but they do not give a true picture of the facts. Most of these ex penditures are subsidized by the federal government. I would like to know just how much manipu lation there is in these figures, including federal aids, and leaving them out to give Ihe picture pre sented in Ihe article. The welfare costs were shown as $41,900,000. Does this include the 60-70 per cent given by the federal government? If it doesn't, this means that our welfare bill is close to $125,900,000 and the same w ith Uie other expenditures. There is no doubt that these figures show only what the public is supposed to know. Third U.S. suspended Vict Nam funds great! This is only the $12 million commercial aid payment. What about the five other "aid" programs we are still paying them? Fourth Maurine B. Neuberger, senator that is. What's so surpris ing to her that someone called her "Mr."? No one knows better than she that probably a majority of Ihe voters don't even know her husband is dead. And after be ing conditioned to the name "Neu berger" since he was a state of ficial, has gone right on voting for Neuberger. Her reaction to the Life Line article is a typical "New Frontier" action. Anyone who opposes them is immediately hit where it hurls the most usually in the pocket book. This is like the Negro con gressman from New York asking for a Senate investigation of (he man who ran against him in the last election. Our senators, Neuberger and Morse, have continually "rubber stamped" Ihe programs presented by the past and present adminis trations to compromise the Com munists. I doubt if either arc Com munists, but the programs they are supporting are definitely spreading this country to social ism. When is the public going to rea lize that th newspapers are feed ing them only what our politicians want them lo know and present ing only what is given them by "informed sources," "high admin istralivc sources." "high official." "official sources." etc.. etc. You know belter than I Ihe phrases used. If the name or Uie actual source of this information "given" is not important, then the article isn't news it's propaganda and shouldn't be printed without quali fication. Remember, "Big Brother Is watching you." G. L. Johnson, 630 N. E. Lawrence, Portland, Ore. Deer Raising I attended the legislative com mittee's hearings on the man agement of the interstate deer herd. Practically the only testimony that was heard were the fol lowing three: U.S. Forest Serv icewhich has no apparent in terest other than timber; Bu reau of Land Management which admitted it had only the cattlemen's interest at heart, and the cattleman. Most of the testimony came from Stanley Johnson who con trols 80,000 acres in the heart of the interstate herd and runs a thousand head of cattle. Is he interested in deer raising? None of these interests or any of the people on Ihe legislative committee cared to hear Uie real issue. 1 spoke, or tried to. When I re iterated that gentleman with 80,000 acres could not possibly have the hunter's interest at heart, they struck this from the record. When I mentioned Rachel Carson's book. "Silent Spring," and the fact that the deer need water, feed and shelter, I was stopped entirely. Now I will admit that I also have an interest. I am in the sporting goods business and be lieve wholeheartedly in the bal ance of nature. The interstate herd has declined. I have chil dren that may say, "Were you a part of this?" By their own admission they stated there appeared to be more experts than deer in the woods. There were a pitiful few hunters present. There will be more meetings, and hunters, you had better be there. These are your deer; nature is your private re sponsibility. These experts ad mitted they did not know. They are only to be pitied. I am going to demand equal time which was not even allowed by a small fraction this time. This could only be considered obtaining money by false pre tenses. The Interim Committee ob tained $25,000 to study the deer herd, not the demands of t h e BLM, U.S. Forest Service or a rancher that controls 80,000 acres. Remember there is such a thing as ecology. Every living thing is interrelated. Andrew R. Gigler, 4230 South Sixth Street. Warning It seems to me that the people of Klamath County are very in considerate concerning this anti gambling campaign by our dis U'ict attorney. 1 can remember in years past when we had district attorneys who would just wink at the gam bling that was going on. So the people wanled a man elected who would uphold the laws. The gov ernor first asked Mr. Crabtree if he wouldn't consider going to Klamalh Falls lo fill the vacancy of district attorney. Now that we have a man who is fearlessly trying to uphold the law he is met with opposition. We can expect that there will be some who will endeavor lo carry on their organizations with some sort of gambling. But when the churches come in under the same spotlight it is a very sad state of affairs. Any church that has to carry on gam bling to pay their bills will never be used of the Lord. When Christ threw the money changers out of Uie temple. He said, "Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise." The house of the Lord should be maintained only from the tithes and offerings of the peo ple. You will be held guilty be fore God how you maintain the house of the Lord. Read the word of God and sec the stern warning the Lord gives to those who desecrate the house of the Lord. Let's give our district attorney Ihe support he needs. If the shoe fits go ahead and wear it. I am not afraid to sign my name as some have done. So here is mine. M. L. Rogers, 2150 Wiard. THEY SAY... The ConsUtution is color blind, the Internal Revenue Service is color blind, Uie draft board Is color blind. We must also be col or blind when it comes lo extend ing to all our citizens their rights and privileges as Americans. Sen. Kenneth Keating. R-N.Y. My colleagues in the Soviet Un ion occasionally produce bad nov els not because they are dedicated to socialist realism, but because Ihe Lord has not given them any talent. llya Ehrcnburg.
