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PAGE- HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon 6unday, November 3, 19S3 'We're Sure Overcoming That Old Reputation For Being The Colossus Of The North' EDSON IN WASHINGTON Allies Dragging Feet Self-Defeating Expedients A number of bills now before Congress would shorten the standard workweek of 40 hours. This has long been a goal of many leading unions. The argument is that it of fers a solution to the vexing unemployment problem. At the same time, under current pro posals, pay for the shorter week would be as much as for the longer week now in gen eral effect. This, say union spokesmen, would be necessary to maintain purchasing power. The net result, obviously, would be to force up the prices charged for commodi ties and services. That always happens and must happen when wages outrun worker productivity. So, in a word, the net result would be price inflation, at a time when It is not too surprising to find that the Internal Revenue Service put the electronic bloodhounds on the trail of 7 million income tax returns and came up with, now get this, ONE cheater. The Atlanta district processed the 7 million returns with the new IRS computers. Lots of errors were found but only one case of fraud serious enough to prosecute came to light. American people have a way of being law abiding. Tragedy has ensued, in one case, when motorists automatically waited Skull One of the blossoming mysteries of cur rent history is the speed with which heads of government can communicate thoughts. Burdened with all the complexities of intergovernmental relations, our foreign friends come to Washington. There may be a luncheon, which we must presume is ac companied ' largely by social small-talk. Afterward, there Is a face-to-face dis cussion "for a full hour," usually. As the foreign guest departs, a statement Is hand ed out that the meeting resulted in a "full and frank exchange of views" or that it was a "useful meeting." And they were talking through inter preters, yet The 'Do-Nothing' Congress Acts Who says this is a "do-nothing" Con gress? For 40 years it has been illegal to sell ice cream in cones or on a stick in the Dis trict of Columbia. The House has given its approval of a bill regulating the size of milk and ice cream containers. Previously, the law said it was illegal to sell it in a cone or on a stick un - less the volume was at least a half pint. As soon as approval is official, the Constitution By Initiative (Gautta Timet, Corvallii) The 1963 Legislature, which has now been so soundly repudiated by the people for its tax measure, also failed to permit tho people to exercise their judgment in regard to a sales tax or a new state con stitution. Consequently, citizens groups are taking things into their own hands to recti fy both oversights. Two groups seem to be working on the sales tax with the Kami Bureau heading one and a Portland attorney the other. Maybe they can get together and thus present an even stronger front. The Citizen Committee for Constitu tion Revision is behind tho movement to permit a vote on tho Constitution. This group was active during the session but failed to get the Senate to see the light. The Revision Committee called on the original august Constitutional Revision Commission which drafted the proposed new constitution to make some changes in their original version. The two most significant recommen dations by the Commission would require the Governor and the Secretary of State to bo elected as a team with the latter taking over first in line of succession and a reapportionment provision which very price stability is an urgent national need and goal. Another result would be to impair the ability of U.S. industry to meet foreign com petition which becomes tougher and tougher, with its advantages of lower wages and other basic cosls. So, in the long run, there is an excellent chance that a shorter workweek accompanied by higher hourly wage rates would increase, not decrease, em ployment. People would buy less of higher priced products. President Kennedy, who is certainly no foe of labor, and who is as deeply con cerned with the unemployment problem as anyone, has described proposals to arbi trarily reduce the workweek as "self-defeating expedients which can only restrict the economy, not expand it." That covers the case succinctly and accurately. The Non-Cheaters for a traffic light to change while rising waters engulfed their cars. As for taxes, the average person takes what the W2 tells him and pays it. That doesn't mean a lot of people don't try to cheat on their income taxes, but when you realize the very ones who need the money most are the ones who are most honest, it does something for your estimation of that old phantom, the "common man." And when the IRS proves it, brother, you've got to believe it. Session Pros It would be helpful all around if our good and wise government would pass along this secret of fast action to the rest of us. In our office, the guys sit down for an "ex change of views" and by the time it's over, the morning is shot. So they continue at lunch and then come back for an afternoon session. Once in a while, it even goes into the second day. At PTA, any meeting which could pos sibly be called "useful" goes on until those little chairs get so agonizing that the group revolts and walks out on the officers. No wonder those guys who meet so fast in Washington are heads of states. page boys in Congress will have another type of errand to perform, running out to the soda shop to bring back a hunky. Legal or otherwise, the products have been sold in the District right along. But of course, no member of Congress has eaten one of the illegal things. We may even see a Senator voting "aye" with a mouthful of vanilla and chocolate and the stuff melting off a stick down on his chin. slightly favors the sparsely settled area of Eastern Oregon and would set top maximum House membership at 65 and top Senate membership at 35. The emotional Issue of the death penalty in Oregon was left up to the Legislature. Certainly having the Secretary of State first in line of succession is an improvement on the present system. Now the next in line is the President of the Senate who isn't even elected in a state wide race. Further, electing the two as a team means an elimi nation of embarrassing situations such as occurred this year when acting governor Ben Musa appointed a friend of his to the Welfare Commission while Mr. Hatfield was out of the state. The drawback to initiating a new con stitution is that no one knows if this pro-, ccduro Is legal. This is somewhat more than a minor item. The Committee has de cided to take the matter to the courts if the Secretary of State, probably on advice from the Attorney General, refuses to accept the initiative filing. Oregon is very much in need of a new constitution. The present one, speaking kindly, is much too long, filled with statua tory provisions, poorly arranged and archaic. WILLIAM S.WHITE. By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON - The great perils of being a front-runner in Presidential politics are heavily gathering now over the head of Sen. Barry Goldwater of Ari zona. Nothing yet visible suggests that Goldwater is losing much of his extraordinary momentum among the Republican rank-and-file. There is every sign, however, that one of the most powerful "stop" movements against a Presidential aspirant ever to be mounted by Eastern, internationalist and also very rich Republicanism is now in motion. It is rising within that "mod ern" Republican faction which 11 years ago stopped Sen. Rob ert A. Taft of Ohio at the very brink of the nomination and gave it instead to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Indeed, the parallel between Taft in 1952 and Goldwater at the approach of 1964 is becom ing strikingly clear. Against Taft the crucial argument was that while he was no doubt the hero of regular Republicanism, his foreign policy views were isolationist. Precisely these arguments are being made now against Goldwater and obviously with increasing effect, whether or not they are to succeed against him in the end. Moreover, something new has been added. There never was any suggestion 11 years ago that a G.O.P. con vention decision to nominate Taft anyhow would result in widespread bolts from him on Election Day. But exactly these suggestions arc now being made within the Rockefeller wing. While not uttering an unquali fied threat to sit out the Presi dential campaign should his riv al win the nomination, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York is edging closer and clos er to just that. His most recent statement avoided an outright declaration that lie would not support Gold water. hut it amounted to say ing he would do so only if the Senator ran on a G.O.P. plat form like that of I960. And this is strictly the sort of platform, with its more or less open-ended promises on civil rights, which Goldwater has already made clear he could never ac cept as the choice of the con vention. And Rockefeller's principal Congressional backer. Sen. Ja cob Javits of New York, has gone a good deal farther, with this harshly candid observation: "As Goldwater stands now. I am not willing to commit mv self to support him, even if he is the Republican nominee." Tliis is strong stuff, especial ly within a party with a long tradition of closing ranks after the convention has spoken. If words have their ordinary meaning, it means that the anti Goldwntorites are going for hroke. They intend to stop Gold water or deliberately to chance fatally splitting the Republican party and making President Kennedy a shoo-in for re-election. No doubt some of the motive can be put down simply to Rockefeller's desperate current situation in his race with Gold water. The Goldwater Repub licans, however, would be mak ing a serious mistake to sup pose that only the ambitions of Rockefeller and the Rockefeller wing are here involved. These people quite apart from thir natural desire to cut Eastern Republicans Seek Goldwater Halt Goldwater down deeply and genuinely fear Goldwater on foreign policy. And they are capable of spreading this fear, with huge and perhaps fatal harm to Goldwater's campaign, among other Republicans and independents and dissident Dem ocrats who are not Rockefeller partisans as such. Has Goldwater really favored our withdrawal from the United Nations, as Rockefeller charges? Docs the Senator tru ly favor, in general, policies of a dangerous belligerence? Taft was not in truth an iso lationistbut many thought he was. Goldwater's refusals to de bate Rockefeller are under standable, since this would only divide the G.O.P. for his own sake. However, and for the sake of a clean, plain record for the voters, the Senator ought in his own time and his own words to state with cold precision just what line he would follow in world affairs. And Rockefeller should do the same. These issues are so vital that every man seeking the Presi dency should make himself clear upon them again in his own words and his own way. The country, and history, are entitled to no less. Al manac By United Press International Today is Sunday, Nov. 3, tlie 307th day of 1963 with 58 to fol low. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The evening stars are Jupi ter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1783, Congress ordered the Continental Army to demobilize. In 1917, Americans learned of tlw first deaths of U.S. soldiers in combat at Nancy, France, in World War I. In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected to his second term. In 1960. President Eisenhow er gave vice president Richard Nixon an all-out endorsement for Uic presidency. Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy. A thought for the day For mer President Dwight Eisen hower said: "In tho final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prison er's chains." 'I'm Not i. yc- . : 4. I ".a-.-ir 1 . A.' iT i i. - :.- By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Awn. WASHINGTON (NEA) The gag in Washington now is that the United States may have to work out a nonaggression pact and a disarmament agreement with the Russians because it's impossible to get agreement with America's North Atlantic Treaty allies on the defense of Europe against Russian attack. But the Kennedy administra tion is making still another try at getting NATO to accept the multilateral force MLF con cept for the nuclear defense of western Europe. Most notable thing about talks on this just resumed in Wash ington and Paris is that the French are not taking part. British, German, Dutch, Greek and Turkish representatives are sitting in. President De Gaulle wants none of it. The Paris talks are political and financial, between perma nent mission representatives to the NATO councD. Ambassador Thomas K. Finletter is U.S. spokesman. The Washington talks are technical and strate gic, among military experts at the Pentagon. French absence is highlighted by announcement from Paris that France now has its own nuclear striking force. It is small compared to the British force and infinitesimal com pared to the American. The French have only plutonium not hydrogen bombs. And no one is sure just how operational are the six Mirage IV bombers Governm By DR. T. G. SHUEY Pleasant View Lutheran Church Pastor, Staunton, Va. Every generation is beset with problems. We are tested by our ability to discern the trends of the time. Only as we sense the direction in which we are going can we reverse our course. There is a moral weakness growing in this country that is an affront to the past and the present. The pioneer spirit is being placed in jeopardy. "Give me liberty or give me death" Is a far cry from the servitude and submission of the public to day. An atmosphere of weak ness encloses us. The gavel is in the timid hand of fear. Today, more than anything else, we need champions of hu man rights, and a rebirth of the spirit that gave birth to this na tion. Let us remember that we are the trustees of tomorrow. No nation has the right to mort gage the future of the unborn generations and commit them to slavery, physical or fiscal. The tragic, useless waste of our tax money cries out for imme- diatc relief it brooks no delay. Neither has any government the moral or legal right to de stroy the traditions and high purposes of the past and substi tute the philosophy of expedi ence and extravagancy. You cannot establish pillars of peace when a government pursues paths that lead to national and individual bankruptcy. Today, Uie government is con fiscating the property of indi viduals, as well as their in comes. It is driving the mother from the home because of the economic stress induced by in sane spending. She is compelled to labor to save what is endan gered by the government the home. Corporations belong to the people they owe their exist ence to the frugality of those who saved their money. Cor porate dividends are, in many instances, the pay envelopes of the poor. Widows and orphaned children live off accumulated savings stored in corporations. Yet. the policy of the govern ment is to tax them to death. Interested' supposed to deliver them. This new French nuclear "force de frappe" is therefore characterized as being able to start a war but not finish it. That is its danger to the peace of the world. It is a sop to 'De Gaulle's ambitions for an independent atomic capability. It gives him a further excuse to stay out of a European MLF under NATO. De Gaulle's possession of this force is not expected to change the U.S. bargaining position on MLF. But it might influence the thinking of other NATO allies. As a result of the nuclear test ban treaty with Russia there is said to be a general atmosphere of relaxation in Europe. Also, MLF is going to cost a lot of money which some countries don't have and none wants to spend. And there is considera ble political instability in the air. Dr. Konrad Adenauer has just resigned in Germany. New Chancellor Ludwig Erhard still has to state his policies, though he is expected to continue reli ance on American nuclear pro tection, rather than French. The British Conservative party is changing leaders following res ignation of Prime Minister Har old Macmillan. British elections are likely in early 1964. If the Labor party wins, its leader Harold Wilson has said he would "de-negotiate" the Nassau agreement to accept U.S. Polaris missiles for the de fense of Britain. The present Italian govern ment favors the MLF idea and ent Confiscation wasting the money in causes both fanatical and fantastic. The founding fathers knew that every civilization must rest on justice. It was, and it is, Uie hope of the world. To this end, Jehovah God put a brain in our head, and the founders of the Republic put a ballot in our hand. The survival of freedom depends on our willingness to use both the brain and the bal lot. The establishment of jus tice involves effort; it is not a gift but an accomplishment. The founding fathers believed that the most serious of all crimes is treason. Treason con sists in levying war against the United States or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. When we blindly pour billions of dollars into Poland and other countries and receive only condemnation from them in the United Nations, one won ders if we are committing trea son against ourselves. One won ders if Uicre is any justice in bringing our own people to the brink of bankruptcy to feather the nests of those nations which hate us. Treason against the United States carries the death penal ty when individuals avail them selves of it, and it is suicidal when nations blindly engage in it. There is a national death that comes with struggle and without struggle. Today we wit ness dangerous signs of the old Roman road that leads to bur ial. The enormous debts being heaped on the backs of the tax payer may well be the ritual of death. The dominating bigotry of the federal judiciary is t e a r i n g apart the established order of justice and leaving the states with a mythical existence, sub ject to the whims of the federal government. Justice requires a sensitive conscience and an un derstanding of human nature. Without these qualities, our courts become cheap counters over which individual ideas are peddled, to the disgust and con tempt of the average citizen. The fiscal insanity and wild spending sprees of taxpayers' money without legal redress drives a dagger through the heart of hope. When our national legislative bodies convene, their sessions are opened with prayer, invok ing the wisdom and aid of Al mighty God. We recognize God again when our Constitution sees in man a conscience an provides that he may affirm and not swear if it is at vari ance with his belief. As go the courts, so goes the nation. To take prayer away from children or adults is to play into the hands of a few fanatics and disregard the voice of the majority. A nation is dead when its people are not more sensiUve than its courts. There are un written laws that tug al the heart of a nation. Unenforceable laws hold this nation together. Unwritten laws perpetuate the laws of the home and the in fluence of the mother, after the courts have settled the material property interests. The people and our legacies must outlive and outride the passing storms of stale. Without religious experience man is not obedient to law thus we are fast becoming the most lawless nation on earth. wants in. But if a more leftish coalition takes over govern ment, this policy might be changed. Greece and Turkey want in for prestige but could not pay their way. The Kennedy administration wants to push the MLF plan for its own prestige reasons. Whether anything concrete will be ready for presentation to the NATO Council of Ministers in Paris first week in Decem ber is doubtful. MLF was originally conceived by the Eisenhower administra tion, not only to strengthen Eu rope's defenses but also to im prove the U.S. balance of pay ments position. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter at the December 1960 NATO council meeting offered to sell Europe five nuclear sub marines with Polaris missiles. At the Oslo council meeting in May 1961 Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced the Ken nedy administration would fol low through. He asked the Eu ropean countries to prepare their own plan. They were never able to agree. Subsequently the Pentagon re vised the plan to put Polaris missiles on surface v e s s e 1 it manned by multinational crews. This is still the favored plan. The hope is that if it can ever be submitted to the NATO council, France will not veto it under the unanimous approval requirement but will abstain from voting. This would allow other European countries to go ahead with it. while the highest court pets and abets the criminal and displays the low art of legal technicality. We are depending on the body to do that which only the spirit can accomplish. We are hand ing our enemies the pay enve lope with the hope they will love us. We are electing to of fice men who have betrayed us with the hope that they will re form and serve us. . We are weak and wounded with accomplishments that come through physical effort only; we are pitiable and bank rupt from those that are evolved from the spirit. This nation cannot turn its back on Almighty God, and tho tradi tions that have made us great, and survive. Religion is af fected by the atmosphere in which it exists and it is grow ing soft as it serves our falter ing society. We are consuming ourselves in a frenzied search for more pleasure. Much work needs to be integrated with honesty before we can stand before the world and become its leader. The challenge of our hour is to awaken to reality, to see clearly that fiscal insanity means the destruction of our way of life. We are witnessing a field day for dreamers, un heard of in the history of this country. If the present Congress is un willing to serve the interests of the average citizen, we have a way to replace them in orderly fashion. Beginning at the local level and continuing to the high est official, we should ask whether they serve the people or whether they serve the "par ty." Life is too complex today for party worship. It is too se rious to be saturated with self ish gain. Under the 6tress and fear of the hour, freaks and fail ures are seeking and. in some instances, securing offices. Ex igency demands that in many cases we place in office a new breed of poliucian. One who possesses the awareness of dan ger seeks to serve rather than to salvage. y Now, as never before, we must remain firm in the faith of our fathers and drive the money changers from the tem ple. The ballot gives us the handrail of the past as a guide and with it we can remove from office those who would re move us from freedom and our way of life. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Service I wish to both compliment and thank you for your excellent ar ticle in the Oct. 20 issue of the Herald and News concerning the status of judicial business in Klamath County. The article based on the annual report of the administraUve assistant to the Chief Justice was unusually accurate and informative. I think you are performing a mer itorious public sen-ice in keep ing your readers informed about the administraUon of justice in your district. Wm. M. McAllister. Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
