anaheim-bulletin 1959-04-02

The Bulletin Editorial Page Thursday, April 2, 1959 Anaheim (Cal.) Bulletin—B Tolerated Tyranny When Americans hear of the brutality, the beatings, the terrorizing, the killing of individuals by which totalitarian police states maintain their power they are properly indignant: But are they indignant enough about the beatings, the terrorizing, the killings by which a police state operating in their own midst maintains its power? We refer, of course, to the increasingly visible "invisible government" of the underworld. The ordinary citizen is inclined to think of racketeering as merely an unpleasant excrescence on American society. He is not overly disturbed if one mobster "rubs out" another. He doesn't feel himself directly touched. But Senator McClellan has just said: "Unless this can be successfully stopped there is danger to this country." . . . Why isn't this stopped? It is easy to say, "Why don't the prosecuting officials and police clean it out?" The answer really comes back to each of us as citizens. It is because we tolerate this tyranny that it exists and grows. And here is a second great danger to national security. A society which "learns to live with" gangster rule is insidiously corrupted and made more vulnerable to other tyrannies . . . The great essential is to break public apathy. An aroused sense of justice can find ways to deal with this danger to the nation. (Christian Science Monitor). YOUR LEGISLATOR AT WORK! the people are saying NAY. What is more, they are expressing their dissatisfaction with wilfully, tax increases by this unique manner of the tea party. YOUR LEGISLATOR AT WORK! By JOHN A. MURDY, JR. Perhaps it is just as well that tea bags don't weigh as much as sandbags, otherwise the Orange county delegation in the legislature might be getting King-sized headaches. For the last two weeks our mail has been flooded with tea bags, sent to us as part of a spontaneous effort to prevent the levy of new or additional taxes. Of course, we are not the only legislators to get this novel method of legislative persuasion. Most of the members of both houses have received them by the hundreds. My own mail has contained upward of 200 such missives. Most of the tea bags carry a message somewhat like this — "Don't give us another Boston Tea Party. No new taxes." and "Remember Boston? Don't increase our tax bill." The odd thing about the messages, of course, the fact that the present tax situation is an almost complete reversal of that which existed at the time of the famous Tea Party. Then, the tea was dumped as a protest against taxation without representation. Now the voters are sending us, their elected representatives, tea bags to persuade us to vote against increased taxes. Without prying into the political maze that enfolds the subject—in fact, at the legislative level, any subject—it has become clear that the administration's proposed tax increases are running into some heavy opposition from, of all places, the people. At long last, it is now apparent, the people are saying NAY. What is more, they are expressing their dissatisfaction with willy-nilly tax increases by this unique manner of the tea bags' Boston story, or in other ways that I hope is making the legislators sit up and take notice. The people are joining some of the economy-minded legislators in a basic philosophy. Instead of raising taxes to get us out of our financial messes, why don't we take the other alternative and economize, cut down, eliminate some service? Bills introduced early this week would do just that. A series of bills thrown into the hopper in the lower house will reduce state costs by an estimated $189 million. The authors of the measures say they believe the cuts can be made without injuring state services. They also propose to use $100 million of the $192 million investment fund to help balance the budget. As has been said many times, we members of the legislature are not in a very enviable position when it comes to consideration of new and increased taxes. Whichever way we vote, we are certain to be unable to please all our constituents. But the responsibility to vote under such circumstances is one we assumed when elected to office. And speaking of voting and the budget, it must be noted that already some legislators have introduced additional spending bills which, if enacted, would necessarily boost our taxes another $375 million. These measures are in the form of special appropriation bills—not contained in the budget. They undoubtedly stem from the requests of constituents who wish certain additional state services, and the legislators have put them in the hopper to allow the legislature as a whole to be the judges of their merits. I have attempted to answer carefully each "tea bag" message that comes to my office—and believe me—it's a task. However, I am glad that some of our people are becoming aroused to the tax situation and are willing to assist me—and other legislators—who have historically done everything possible to hold the expenses of the state in line. THURSDAY, today you are vidual. You make careful follow through efficiently. There is of minor upset but you can omit ficulties and wider horizons. You have as well as there have a quick times can be b you enjoy more wits with some you a good flight fund of knowl that retains its use. You havematic and find lives of all abo good person t any "cause," to promote it larize something is not popular. Since you are ecutive, you work to others your subordination est of skill, you have dele as well as you have to ex yourself. Guar of time and er Among those are: Hans O poet and author son, miner Nicholas Murray and president Zola, author; an and biographer To find what store for you your birthday corresponding birthday star Strange As It Seems By Elsie Hix THE PARDVAKK DIGS WITH ITS POWERFUL CLAWS AND USES ITS TAIL AS A SHOVEL! JOSEPH JEFFERSON—ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST ACTORS, AS RIP IN IN RIP VAN WINCLE, PRESENTED THAT PLAY EVERY SEASON FOR 40 YEARS DEAF-MUTE CHILDREN LEARN TO DANCE! THEY ARE TAUGHT TO DISTINGUISH AND TO INTERPRET THE DIFFERENT VIBRATIONS THAT REPRESENT THE MUSICAL TONES! THEIR TEACHER IS SISTER IRENA, THE WORLD'S ONLY CHOREOGRAPHER IN NUN'S CLOTHING — St. Michielsgestel Inet, The Netherlands— I have attempted to answer carefully each "tea bag" message that comes to my office—and believe me—it's a task. However, I am glad that some of our people are becoming aroused to the tax situation and are willing to assist me—and other legislators — who have historically done everything possible to hold the expenses of the state in line. ARIES (Marry active, ene you should tant goal. W TAURUS (Ap up for any This is one catch up on GEMINI (Mari contracts, b future plan your final a CANCER (Julect any m especially o plished. Ma LEO (July 24 secure th with every ahead with VIRGO (Aug stepping u you can m today. Get project. LIBRA (Sep new oppor t a calculate for it can o SCORPIO (Oct is a day f ment. See are taken SAGITTARIUS — A full-s have the pro ject you CAPRICORN Employment ising. Push Advertising also favore AQUARIUS It Could Happen Here WHERE IS EVERYBODY? U.S. BUSINESS HIGHER + HIGHER PRICES HIGHER + HIGHER WAGES WORLD MARKETS Alexander Farmer McCabe Your Birthday Your Birthday by Stella THURSDAY, APRIL 2 — Born today you are a tenacious individual. You are ambitious and make careful plans, and then you follow through, diligently and efficiently. There may be a series of minor upsets, early in your life, but you can overcome these difficulties and forge ahead toward wider horizons and larger goals. You have a gift for the written as well as the spoken word. You have a quick wit, which sometimes can be biting. There is little you enjoy more than a battle of wits with someone who can give you a good fight. You have a wide fund of knowledge and a memory that retains information for future use. You have a sense of the dramatic and find the drama in the lives of all about you. You are a good person to have enlisted in any "cause," for you know how to promote it and can ever popularize something which at first is not popular. Since you are basically an executive, you often leave detail work to others. Unless you select your subordinates with the greatest of skill, you may find the jobs you have delegated are not done as well as you had hoped—and you have to end up by doing them yourself. Guard against a waste of time and energy in this regard. Among those born on this date are: Hans Christian Andersen, poet and author; William B. Wilson, miner and union leader; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, educator and president of Columbia; Emile Zola, author; John Foster, historian and biographer. To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. Friday, April 3 ARIES (Mar. 21-April 20) — An active, energetic day in which day for achievement, so get an early start and keep going at top speed. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)—Wind up the week's work advantageously. Your efforts should show a fine profit today. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Farmer McCabe An electronics expert predicts that within five years automobile drivers can drive out onto the highway, turn a knob, open up the glove compartment, take out a magazine - and curl up in the back seat and read while his car goes on down the road controlled by electronic waves . . . while overhead and on all sides are folks who are in an awful hurry - all dressed out in Buck Rogers Flying Suits. Farmer McCabe (all rights reserved) Assignment: Washington by Ed Koterba WASHINGTON — The man from Russia's Tass News Agency stopped into the House press gallery and picked up a copy of the defense appropriations secret hearings. It was a 1,017-page book of testimony by our top military brass, from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy down to mere Chiefs of Staff. The testimony was marked for release to all press services after Congress would be dispersed to the four winds for Easter vacation. Supposedly, all information that may give comfort to the enemy was blanked out. That Tass man is probably still sitting up nights trying to fill in the blanks. The curious way the testimony was censored must have left him in a state of mystification. At one point, Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker talked openly about the location of our present and proposed Nike-Hercules batteries — from Greenland to Okinawa. Yet, when Representative Daniel Flood (D., Pa.) wanted to know something about Russia's version of the missile, this is how the testimony came out: Flood to Gen. Nathan Twining, An electronics expert predicts that within five years automobile drivers can drive out onto the highway, turn a knob, open up the glove compartment, take out a magazine - and curl up in the back seat and read while his car goes on down the road controlled by electronic waves . . . while overhead and on all sides are folks who are in an awful hurry - all dressed out in Buck Rogers Flying Suits. Farmer McCabe (all rights reserved) ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) — An active, energetic day in which you should reach some important goal. Work for it! TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)—Make up for any time lost recently. This is one of those days to catch up on your schedule. GEMINI (May 22-June 21)—New contracts, business projects and future plans may come up for your final approval today. CANCER (June 22-July 23)—Collect any money owing to you, especially on past work accomplished. Make a good profit. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) — You can secure thorough cooperation with everyone today so get ahead with an important job. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) — By stepping up your production you can make a good showing today. Get the green light on a project. LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) — A new opportunity is offered. Take a calculated risk and accept it, for it can open new doors. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)—This is a day for personal advancement. See that your own affairs are taken care of now. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) — A full-speed ahead day. You have the green light on any project you may select. CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)—Employment matters are promising. Push a selling project. Advertising and promotion are also favored. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)—A FROM The Mail Box Dear Sir, What was the matter with having a picture of the lovely setting in the Greek Theater right here in Anaheim. It was lovely and should have been told about. Easter is a wonderful season. Yours very truly, Clara Isaacs Secretary McElroy: Yes, the Russian fighters. Flood: To date? McElroy: Today. Flood: Wait a minute — today? McElroy: Today. Ironically, whatever it was that was so incredulous about the Russian fighters and the missile, is obviously known to the Soviets. Here, the Russians could capably fill in their own blanks. Then came this weird discussion on our capabilities in limited wars. This is how the testimony came out after it was blue-penciled: Twining: It depends on how big the limited war is. If you have one in — I think — is about all we can handle. Then you mobilize. (Discussion off the record.) Rep. William E. Minshall (R., Ohio): We had Lebanon going — Twining: We can handle three or four — easily. That is it. ON GUARD ALWAYS! CO. "B" 161st AIB 600 S. Brookhurst, Fullerton Phone TROJAN 1-1705 Capt. Ralph E. Comstock Commanding Capitol Dispatch by David Lawrence WASHINGTON — There seems to be joy in some quarters that the budget is going to be unbalanced. Judging by some of the comments from Democrats on Capitol Hill, this proves that President Eisenhower was all wrong and that, since the budget is going to be unbalanced by more than a billion, it might as well be unbalanced by three or four or five billions. When Congress comes back from its recess, the drive to spend more and hence make the deficit bigger will take on momentum. It seems to be taken for granted that only the prestige of the President — not the pocketbook of the American people — is going to be hurt by the failure to reduce the deficits. It's hard for the average man to realize just what is involved in budget balancing and in the increases in treasury deficits. At the National Press Club luncheon the other day for Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman of the President's council of economic advisers, this question was asked with reference to the drop in the purchasing power of the dollar from 100 cents in 1939 to 48 cents today: "If I have only a 45-cent 'buck' in my pocket, haven't I got 48 cents more than I had in the depression?" Dr. Saulnier replied that nobody now is much concerned with 1939 except historically, and then added pointedly: "I'd like to protect your 48 cents, you see, from now on." This is a simple statement of a dilemma that faces the American people. Do they want to see the dollar decline still further in purchasing power so that the 48 between now and the close of the 86th Congress, call for increased government spending for fiscal 1961 and for later years, too. The prospect of another deficit — for fiscal 1961 — coming on top of a deficit for fiscal 1960, and all those that have preceded these, could produce some substantial, unstabilizing, psychological repercussions. The nonchalant, fiddling attitude of Congress — as a whole — toward a balanced budget for 1960 may be building a base for explosive developments later on." These are significant words from one of those persons who normally speak in the most restrained phrases about government finances. Lanston's concluding advice to the public might well be pondered by those members of Congress and others who have been ridiculing the idea of a balanced budget. He said: "Here is the way I look at the picture. I can see no point in investing in the lowest yielding credit of all — U. S. Treasury Securities — at long-term in a background wherein the purchasing power of the dollar has been depreciating and seems likely to continue to depreciate... Therefore, the best buys in government securities are those that are short in term." But what is this going to do to the treasury, which has to sell for cash somewhere between 11 and 12 billion dollars in government securities during the present calendar year, to say nothing of refinancing the many billions of other previously issued securities which come due in the next 18 months? When will the Congress realize that the treasury department's task is of transcendent im- "If I have only a 48-cent 'buck' in my pocket, haven't I got 48 cents more than I had in the depression?" Dr. Saulnier replied that nobody now is much concerned with 1939 except historically, and then added pointedly: "I'd like to protect your 48 cents, you see, from now on." This is a simple statement of a dilemma that faces the American people. Do they want to see the dollar decline still further in purchasing power so that the 48 cents they have today would before long be cut down to 24 cents? The drama of money — the threat of printing-press currency — is not yet a subject of popular discussion. But among those whose business it is to deal in government securities — a man, for instance, like Aubrey G. Lanson of the New York firm which bears his name — the topic is very live. Lanson, speaking a few days ago before the Cleveland society of Security Analysts, said: "I think it will become plain that the people of this country will have to make a choice, sometime over the near future, either by positive action or through default. They can force Congress to administer federal finances in a responsible way — something we have urged other so-called less advanced countries to do — or we will end up, first, with selective controls of a mushrooming character and, ultimately, with a chaotic breakdown in our economy." "The financial irresponsibility on the part of the government has created a series of deficits that have been financed by commercial banks. No matter what you have read to the contrary, that is the act." Further, it seems inevitable that the commercial banks will be obliged to absorb whatever deficits develop from here on. It also seems likely that the increase in the government security holdings of commercial banks will enlarge by somewhat more than the amount of future deficits because the banks will be the only major buyers left. Therefore, the banks also will have to absorb whatever government securities are sold by others. "This kind of frenzied public finance poses a serious threat..." "We should recognize now that the number of spending measures that have been, or will be passed." THE Family Scrapbook By DR. ERNEST G. OSBORNE Using Typewriter Ribbon Spools Like so many other things which are usually thrown away, the empty typewriter ribbon spool has a lot of possibilities for homecraft. Here are a few beginning suggestions: Birthday Candlestick — Paint a spool with some brightly colored enamel. Glue beads or glitter on the upper surfaces of the spool. Tie a ribbon around the center part into a bow and place a birthday candle in the center hole. Desk Spindle — Paint a typewriter ribbon spool to match the color scheme of the room. Glue gum-ball machine (favors or other plastic or metal charms on the top of the spool). Fasten a section of a metal or plastic knitting needle into the center hole with plastic wood or glue and use the spindle to keep notes, letters or other papers from cluttering up the top of the table or desk. Hatpin Holder — Most portable typewriter spools have a series of little holes around the center. If one paints such a spool with enamel paint, decorates it with small shells or beads and glues the spool to a base of wood or heavy cardboard, one has a useful hatpin holder. The base is necessary, of course, so that when the hatpins are placed point down in the holes, they won't scratch the top of the dresser. (Copyright, 1959, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Fondle 2. Church service 3. Bespatter 4. Organ of hearing 5. Poker stake 6. Actual being 7. Fear Gynt's mother 8. Expanded 9. Begin 10. Solo 11. Proposition 12. Pronoun 13. Metal fastener 14. A month 15. Vessel 16. Look fixedly 17. Alternating current (abbr.) 18. Household pet 19. Dance step 20. Preposition 21. Take unlawfully 22. Total 23. Finish 24. German philosopher 25. Writing implement 26. Hypothetical force 27. Center 28. Get up 29. Scrub-woman 30. Bushy clump 31. Toward the sheltered side 32. Dispatch 33. Period of time 34. Beloved 35. Swiftly flowing water 36. Obstruet DOWN 1. Edible seeds 2. Direction 3. Agreement 4. Spar 5. Emmet 6. Body of water Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle POISE LEAST WANDER ORCHID AT BARN YONE IRE ROACH DIM TONG RILES EO SNAPE LANTERN TATS PROD WHETHER YOOKS RA ERRIE DENT LST REPAY SUF STOP ESAD RE TERROR ELUDED NEEDY KEEPS 30. Man's nickname 31. Baseball position 32. Play on words 33. Printer's measure 27. Appeared for print 40. Unimpaired discourse 41. Conjunction 43. Exclamation 44. Man's nickname 45. Rail bird 46. Kind of cheese 47. Small lump 48. Beverage 49. Ocean District by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. 2