The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 180, Ed. 1 Monday, July 29, 1963 Page: 4 of 12
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free. It may be, al Aldous Huxley fears. that our time
Is short; but let us use that time ia rebellion. ‘Perhaps
the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to
be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do
whatever we can to resist them.’"
fou formulated a group decision as to what
be our interpretation of the problem of that
newspaper columnist who needs a new shirt?"
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The Pool measure calls for a
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What this country needs is a new bunch of bureau-
crats with nothing to do except sit around and try
to decide what the members of Congress had in mind
when they wrote the federal tax laws.
At least the Texas congressman at large. Joe Pool,
believes that’s what the country needs and has intro-
duced a bill to provide us with this new bunch of
bureaucrats. An identical measure has been tossed
into the hopper of the Senate by Sen George Smath-
ers of Florida.
In the present practice, says a news release by
Rep. Pool announcing the introduction of his bill. “the
Treasury Department serves as the rule-making body
for interpretation of acts of Congress in the tax
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school teachers are taking examinations to determine
their eligibility for competency rewards, which "ill 20-
title them to an additional $400 pay annually . . . this
sort of thing should develop a greater sympathy be-
tween teachers and students."
lavatory seats is a thief. The man who walks out with
a lamp or a television set to just proving to the man-
agement that it can be done.
It isn’t just the profit-making outfits that suffer the
ingenuities of the system-beaters. In one large city,
the public library loses 200,000 books a year—a tenth
of its whole stock.
Where hotels, motels, restaurants and night clubs
are concerned, beating the system consists mostly of
taking things that don't belong to you. A line has to
be drawn here. The fellow who backs up a truck or a
station wagon and deans out a room right down to
Tak to factory managers, store meagers, con-
struction supply bosses almost anywhere and yes’!
got a well filled out picture ef what "beating the
Those who use things, without either buying or
stealing, are really oa the fringes of the game. They
lack nerve. Typical, at the petty level, are the folk
who read books, magazines and newspapers at the
stands without laying out a nickel. Some muster just
enough defiance to toss the wrinkled product care-
lessly back on the pile.
Generally, these varied efforts are brought off with
a smile and a jaunty air. The idea seems to be that ia
a society which has the size and weight and pace of a
glacier, it can be positively therapeutic to dash about
slashing at it with an icepick.
Luckily there are dll# millions of Americans who be-
lieve. however, that beating the system doesn't mean
robbing it, that vibrant individuality can find defiant
voice by means wholly honorable and decant.
The ORANGE Leader
MONDAY, JULY 29, 1963
EDITORIAL PAGE
indude Canadians and Japanese.
Together, these OECD countries give the U.N. 80
per cent of its funds and M per cent of the people doing
its work. The desire to to secure as united a front as
possible in handling these important issues in the com-
ing months.
Orows Legder Puenhing C. (Ime)
MI Fourth St. P.O.Bexu Orwes. Tews
samas a Qutgtey. Presieent aw aamaw
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three would be of the same political party, and terms
ot office would be 15 years "to insure independence
and the benefit of experience in a complex field.”
In my bumble opinion, a simpler, more direct and
far less expensive way to accomplish this would be
to pass a law requiring that Congress substitute plain
English for gobbledygook in the tax legislation it
approves.
But that's not the way they do things in Washington.
The simple, direct approach to a problem is verboten
and I guess us taxpayers may as well accept the fact.
Which I am doing in this instance by reconciling
myself to the appearance on the Capital scene of a
new bunch of bureaucrats to whom I shall have to
address questions such as can I claim as a deductible
item a replacement for this raggedy shirt I'm wearing
on account of the cuffs got frayed from shuffling papers
across a metal desk top in the course of trying to
appear busy while at work?
And I comsole mysek with a Bale m satai exereise
on the quratiea at what would take place during a
meeting at the Fad Tax Law Interpretatios Cena
misson at which that qutstion would be discussed.
The chairman would dear Ms threat aad say,
"Gendlemen. There's this newspaper columnist down
to Texas who wants to deduct the cost af a new
shirt to rapiers one be ware out la the course of
perferming fee dudes at which he earns his liveb-
baud. What’s your feeling about the mutter?”
There would be several little side conferences be
tween pairs of the committee members. After this, all
of them would sit quietly in deep thought for a few
moments and finally one would say, ”I think the issue
would be no Texans on the commission. Texans are
never of the same political party from one presidentiel
election to the next so no citizen of the state could
qualify for appointment under terms of the Pool bill.
This of course would cause some discussion as to
whether or not the commission could PRESIME that
newspaper columnists in Texas are REQUIRED to
wear shirts while at work. It would be interrupted by
a lunch break.
Following the noontime reews, the chairman would
again clear his throat Mad say, "Well, gentlemen.
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Many Things Learned
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partment of Waste: Understand that fee Department
of Health, Education and Welfare is spending millions to
a research program to determine the cause of illegiti-
macy. How ridiculous can we get?”
A chamber of commerce, like a business
or an industry, has certain fixed costs that
must be paid in order to keep the doors of
the place open, the utility bills paid, and the
payrolls met when due.
Income received by the chamber over and
above the amount needed for fixed costs is
used for specific projects in its program of
work. And this is the productive income—
the part that makes it possible for a chamber
of commerce to accomplish the objectives
set for it by the community it serves.
Tomorrow’s one-day revenue campaign of
the Orange Chamber of Commerce will be
for the purpose of adding to its productive in-
come. With new members, increased invest-
ments by some of the existing members, and
Ethiopia.
The alternative to expulsion would be the application
of economic or political sanctions to force South Africa
and Portugal to change their policies. This will also
be a difficult move to put over, for there is another
issue at stake.
The question of whether Soviet Russia can be de-
prived of its vote in the United Nations for failure to
pay assessments in support of the U.N. Emergency
Force peace-keeping operations in the Congo comes to
a head in 1964 The U.S.S.R will then be two years to
arrears. France will elso be two years in arrears to
IMS if it continues present policies.
Neither country would want to vote for sanetioms
against South Africa sr Firings! I that would set a
pecedent for action to deprive Russia aad France of
their UK. votes later on.
Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland, ia
charge at United Nations affairs, has just returned
from Europe where he discussed strategy for the ceas-
ing Security Council and General Assembly sessions
with British, French and Organization for Economic
EVERETT, WASH.. HERALD: "Too many people
in this administration have placed faith ia a belief that
the only important thing is to avoid a major war be-
tween the United States and Russia, and if that can be
forestalled. communism, because of its own structural
weeknasata and theseducation of its people, will slowly
turn away from didtatorship and enslavement and
move toward the Western position. No dictatorship ever
walked off the stage of human affaire.”
Moment of Meditation
He shall eat curds and honey when he knows
how to refuse the evil and cheese the good—Isaiah 7:15
THE ORANGE LEADER
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fee chairman elearing his threat and inquiring.
"Well, gentlemea, have you yet arrived at a group
decision about feat cottonpickim’ columnist’s shirt?"
A commissioner would respond. "I move we refer
the question to Congress and ask for clarification of
paragraph (f). subsection RA. section 34 (IP)6ir.
Acts of the 93rd Congress applicable to columnists'
shirts."
Another commissioner would object on the grounds
that it was the duty of that group to determine the
intent of Congress in such matters. This point would
be discussed right up to the cocktail hour without
arriving at agreement
By that time I would be at home relaxing and
Mama would be giving me a bad time for wearing
a shirt with frayed cuffs to work. And she wouldn’t
believe me if I told her I was waiting for word from
Washington as to whether or not I could afford to re-
place it with a new one.
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Americans indulge with a fair de- self is seldom satisifed with oth-
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payment of past-due accounts, the chamber
will provide itself with money needed for
some projects that cannot otherwise be
undertaken.
The goal is $5,000. The portion of it which
is raised (and we sincerely hope the cam-
paign goes over the top) will be added to -
the sum already being invested by this com-
munity in its economic and civic develop-
ment through the chamber of commerce.
We urge therefore that if you are not a
member of the chamber (and individuals as
well as business firms are welcome to. the
roster), or if you can increase your invest-
ment, that you do so during tomorrow’s caf.
paign even though you may not be contacted
by one of the workers contributing time to
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troversy the federal government has become
not only the star but the whole show. And the
railroads, the unions and the public have
been reduced to the status of stage hands.
This of course is due in large part to the
unyielding positions taken by the railroads
and the unions. Their stubbornness has made
a compromise of the differences impossible
and forced the government to take over cen-
ter stage.
Congress is now in the spotlight as it con-
siders under the pressures of crisis a bill that
would make the star of this show a federal
agency which was not created for that kind
of a role and is not qualified to play it.
In essence, such a law would be ex post
facto and legislation of that kind violates
both the letter and the spirit of the
constitution.
But the purpose of this discussion is not
to suggest that the proposed bill should not
be passed. Something has to be done to ward
off a nationwide transportation tieup Ind if
this is it, then so be it. r
The point is that whatever happens with
respect to the rail labor dispute. Congress
should get seriously to work on a set of laws
providing for something besides federal in-
tervention in such controversies when the
principals are unable to agree. A system of
labor relations trial courts is one possibility
that definitely should be explored.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Things a
columnist might never know if he
didn’t open his mail:
When a dog bites you, he also
takes a nip out of your pocket-
book. America’s 600,000 dog bite
cases a year cost about $5 mil-
lion in medical expenses.
Incidentally. 76 per cent of the
victims are under the age at X
One study showed nearly two
thirds admitted the dog’s attack
was not entirely unprovoked.
Hot weather hint: If your air-
conditioner or electric fan breaks
down, a quick way to cool off
is to soak your feat in a pan full
at water and ice cubes. Science
has also found you’ll feel better
in the long run if you pour a
pitcher of martinis over your
hood than if you drink them.
Prosperity note: There are
more $20 bills in circulation to-
day than there ware $10 bills two
decades ago.
Do you gamble? If you don't,’
you’re in a minority. It is esti-
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Federal intervention in labor relations of
private enterprise cannot change the eco-
nomic facts of life with which an employer
must struggle. This statement by the General
Electric Co. in a relations news letter to its
management: is very true.
It is equally accurate to say that federal
intervention of this kind cannot change the
economic facts of life with which members
of a labor union must struggle.
On this platform we must somehow erect
a backdrop of law against which the federal
government can elay a proper role in labor
relations of privte enterprise. Failure to
do that will lead eventually to almost total
control by bureaucracy of wages, fringe ben-
efits, working hours, work rules, and prac-
tically everything else involved in labor
relations.
Moreover, this structure must go up in a
climate free of the pressures of crisis and
the passions associated with a bitter labor-
management controversy or a strike. It
should be built at a time when the maximum
degree of sound judgment concerning the
size and shape of the backdrop is possible.
There are some who would deny the fed-
eral government any part in the labor-man-
agement performance. This is an unrealistic
attitude. It has to have a role or the cast is
incomplete. But it definitely should not be
either the star or the whole show. z
In the case of the current rail labor con-
’The Bomb?"
"No, the S.E.C.!"
Q-What pirate was once
granted a presidential pardon’
A—Jean Laffite. He aided in the
successful defense at New Or-
leans in 1919 and received a presi-
dential pardon for his past
crimes.
There used to be a television game called "Beat
the Clock.” A game in real life that enjoys great
favor today is called “beat the system.”
Viewed lightheartedly, this is a kind at sporty re-
bellion against too many Isws and rules, too much
massiveness in business and government, too great an
entrapment in the tangled thickets at modern society.
Surely this revolt hss many harmless, amusing and
even heartening manifestations. It is also unhappily a
fact that as indulged in by many individuals, it is
simply a cloak for thievery and cheating. The scale
can be grand, or it can be very small.
One of the new “sports” in the system-beating
line is limited largely to New York's theater world,
but It illustrates well the way the game is played.
It is sometimes Ealled "second-acting."
You pick a musical or stage play you want to see
badly, and then show up on the sidewalk outside the
theater to wait for the first-act curtain to come down.
When the crowd drifts back in, you go along—for free.
You take any empty seat you can find, or join the
standees.
Of course, you never get to see the whole show,
but you can hardly complain when your paying seat-
mate is putting out $7.50 or $9.90.
There are, naturally, many ways of weaseling your
way into sporting events and other costly affairs.
Where hotels, motels, restaurants and night clubs
sre concerned, beating the system consists mostly of
taking things that don't belong to you. A line has to be
drawn here. The fellow who backs up a truck or a
station wagon and deans out a room right down to the
wasn’t going to do anything. This
sudden problem, one of the most
important domestic problems in s
century. was forced upon both the
President and Congress.
Nor did Kennedy seem to fore-
see anything so sensational as the
agreement reached last week with
the Soviet Union and Great Britain
to ban nuclear tests in the atmos-
phere. in outer space and unde
the sea.
They didn't agree to ban under-
ground tests. So the United States,
Britain and the Soviet Union can
go on with them and with all the
other tests, too, If the Senate
doesn't. approve the agreement.
It probably will approve, but not
in a hurry.
What Kennedy did do in his
State of the Union message was
suggest “caution” about hoping -
for better relations with commun-
ism. He said "I foresee no spec-
tacular reversal in Communist
methods or goals.”
But he said the arena of agree-
ment could be very wide on a
“dear understanding about Bertin.
Stability in Southeast Asia, an end
to nuclear testing, new checks on
surprise or accidental attack. and,
ultimately, general and complete
disarmament.”
Since the only agreement
reached was to ban nuclear tests,
all other areas are still wide open
Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev
were delighted at this achieve-
ment but they had one thing in
common to say about it: They
both cautioned Friday that this
agreement doesn’t solve every-
thing by a tong sight.
If the Senate for some reason
blocks the treaty, even that much
won't be solved.
But from now on Congress will
have to do instead of doodle.
EDITORIAL BY BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (AP—Congress,
dragging its feet dismally all
year, suddenly got jabbed into
moving. It tried to play it cool but
the weather turned ha.
But then neither President Ken-
nedy nor Congress qualifies as a
good prophet in 1963
They didn't foresee the two crit-
ical events which overtook them
by mid-year: the civil rights fight
and a nuclear test ban agreement
with the Soviet Union.
If that wasn't enough, they have
to try to solve the dispute between
the railroads and their unions to
prevent a strike.
In Ms State of the Union mes-
sage last January, Kennedy seem -
to think his big battle of the year
with Congress was going to be
over taxes.
He made his big pitch on tax
cuts and tax reforms. He said
there was tots to do but he also
said: “there may be a tempta-
tion to relax.” i
Congress took him at his word
and has been relaxing ever since
it has passed almost no major
""fhe tax bin isn’t near a vote.
Nor is. medical care for the aged,
federal aid for public schools, ex-
pansion of unemployment com-
pensation, extension of the foreign
aid program, increase in Social
Security taxes, creation of a do-
mestic Peace Corps, expansion of
student loan program.
Up to its neck in unfinished bus-
Ineos, Congress is saddled with the
fiery civil rights issue and the rail
problem. A long Southern filibust-
er on civil rights could drag the
session out even longer.
The Senate alone will have to
pass on the test ban treaty. Before
there is a vote on that, there will
be hearings. arguments, various
statements to the press mid on
the floor, and. probably, tong-
winded debates.
In his message, Kennedy didn t
seem to foresse anything unusual
arising in the civil rights field.
He made only two references to
that subject and, after two short
paragraphs, went on to other
things.
He said a man accused of crime
In federal court is entitled too
good lawyer, no matter what his
means, and no one must be de-
sted his voting rights. ______,
Wihin a few moeths. Negroes
demands for civil rights, burst
over the country so furiously Ken-
nedy had to send a special mes-
sago to Congress, asking action.
Congress oa its own certainly
Q-What building served as the
first peacetime Capitol of the
United States?
A-Maryland’s State House at
Annapolis.
of betting — on everything from
baseball to bingo.
Our quotable notables: "It is
easier to keep half a dozen lovers
guessing than it is to keep one
lover after he hss stopped guess-
ing.”—Helen Rowland.
Depressing news for male mo-
torists: America now hss more
than 33 million women driven.
Puzzle: If half a salted peanut
will supply enough energy to fuel
the brain for an hour of intense
thought, why is it people in cock-
tail bars don’t say more smart
things?
A survey showed that England
has die highest proportion of
newspaper readers in the world.
This is particulartv true any day
that Christine Keeler takes the
stand.
Worth remembering: "The
teen-sge conception at social se-
curity is going steady."—Arnold
WASHINGTON (NEA)—Just as if civil rights prob-
lems st home weren't bothering the American govern-
ment enough. African affairs arecoming into the Wash-
ington spotlight to complicate the international situation.
They will give the United Nations fee gravest Met
It has had since Soviet Remis proposed its "troika"
plan far administering all U.N. activities.
A four-member Africa delegation headed by Mongi
Slim’of Tunisia is due in New York soon and probably
will come to Washington to discuss ths South African
racial policy of apartheid and Portuguese colonial poli-
cieg in Angola and Mozambique. Bah at these issues
will be before the U.N. Security Council in the last
10 days of July and early August.
They will also be important items on the agenda
for the General Assembly session opening in mid-
September. The question of financing continued support
for the Congo will also be a related and most im-
portant assembly issue.
The Mongi Slim mission was set up by the new Or-
ganization of African Unity, founded at Addis Ababa
in May.
The sentiment expressed at his Pan-African confer-
ence of 11 independent countries wss that South Africa
—which did not attend the meeting and is not an OAU
member — should be expelled from the United Nations
or that sanctions be applied against her. Similar views
were expressed oa Portugal.
If the slim mission expects to have South Africa and
Portugal excluded from UK. affaire, it is probably in
for a disappointment.
The Security Council enn vote only to recommend
exclusion of n UK. member by the General Assembly.
The question is subject to veto in the Security Council.
How the Soviet Union would vote on this is unknown.
A Hety procedure to feat emough members at fee
Security Council would nbatain frsm voding to make
majortty rate ter is til I Ha to the General Aseemhiy
woudbe just as dirficult
The only time a country was ever kicked out of an
international organization was when Italy was expelled
from the old League of Nations for its invasion of
Once more there would be several little side con-
ferences followed by a period of deep thought. Then a
commissioner would come up with this: "Do we know
if the columnist has made a determination as to
whether or not the current program of federal aid to
distressed areas covers shirts for their newspapers
columnists, snd if so does the columnist live in a dis-
tressed area?”
“Yes. yes,” another commissioner would ssy. “As
s direct benefit the shirt definitely would not be tax-
able and the problem would solve itself.”
There would be disagreement from a commissioner
’who would comment that he needed a new shirt to
replace one worn out st the conference table they were
using. “It it's tax deductible for the reason given by
the columnist I would like to know it myselt, ” he
would ssy. -
By then it would be time for fee coffee break
The World Today
Congress Suddenly
Jabbed Into Moving
• By JAMES MARLOW
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