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Jourrla!l OPINI0100
Reminder
Don't forget the going-away party Friday at Sea-Tac
International Airport.
Be there in person to see your tax dollars take wing as
Lieutenant Governor John Cherberg and his Junketeers
leave for a tour of the Far East.
The Flight of the Boondogglebees is Northwest 007,
which leaves the Evergreen State for Tokyo at 1:50 p.m.
Get there early and don't interfere with the
photographers who are taking campaign pictures for future
use.
taw and no iusti©e
How many attorneys are on the federal payroll?
Only God and the Treasury Department know, but it
must be in the tens of thousands.
A citizen of the land of the free and the home of the
brave might suppose that all those lawyers are working for
his benefit since he pays their salaries•
A look at the way lawyers are used in two government
departments, however, shows that this is not always the
case.
Claims for millions of dollars in costs beyond contract
figures have been filed against the Navy by conglomerates
which have moved into the ship-building business. They
have collected because lobbyists have held down the Navy
budget for the department which contests claims.
Only one attorney represents the Navy while scores of
lawyers represent the companies. Result: The treasury is
raided at the expense of the individual taxpayer.
The situation is reversed at the Internal Revenue
Service. When Philip and Sue Long of Bellevue initiated
their celebrated decade-long struggle against the IRS, they
reported that one of its officials told them, "Go ahead and
bring in your lawyer; we've got six hundred lawyers."
The Longs refused to be intimidated by these tax-paid
bullies and eventually won their case.
The attorney in the Navy claims department is window
dressing. The IRS legal army is an instrument of coercion.
Both are used to thwart, rather than serve, the interests
of the ordinary citizen.
Say it isn't so
The arV, of the leolale' has,inalliccumbed te
'good life. ' '
In years past, it has been the custom of Senator Henry
Jackson to spend his time, when the Senate was not in
session, wherever rubber chicken and votes are served.
Looking for Henry? Try the union hall, the senior
center, the Grange hall, the junior high school, or the
dedication ceremony at the new sewage treatment plant.
This year, however, the Pentagon's favorite errand boy
has followed the sun to Palm Springs, the only city in
America where the fat cats outnumber the stray dogs.
There's nothing wrong with this. It seems perfectly
natural for a man who makes $57,500 per year on the top
line and has a three-month vacation.
Our Henry should watch himself, however. Palm Springs
is not Everett. The easy life can get to you faster than you
can say "Garcon."
He may find himself playing golf with Gerald Ford and
rolling dice with Spiro Agnew tcr see who pays for his glass
of buttermilk.
The good old days
The writer of this column's mortal prose has often been
accused of using colorful language in describing politicians
and other public frauds.
God knows, he tries. But he is a Victorian pussycat
compared to journalists of an earlier era whose vitriolic
sketches curled the newsprint on which they were printed.
The following personality profile of a New Orleans'
politician was written in the early 1930's by the Rev.
Andrew Allen Veatch, publisher of the Leesville (La.)
Leader.
"Why here in Vernon Parish, which he condemns for
supporting (Huey) Long, we have school boys who are
better scholars, ruffians who have better manners, outlaws
with more patriotism, libertines who are more moral, and
natural fools who have more seqse than this brisk New
Orleans coxcomb, whose language would lead one to
conclude that he was born in a brothel and reared in the
slums, and that his mother was a street woman and his
father an insane ape."
That man of the cloth did know how to turn a phrase.
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay
NEWS ITEM -- Lieut. Gov. John Cherberg will lead
members of The Junketeers., a leg!slative fun group,
on a tour of the Far East which begins January 13.
Now's the time to say goodby to all our company.d/00
L-E-G I-S-L A-T-U-R-E.
C.C_00pitolaDome:
Full agenda for appropriations commfftee
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS scheduled for next Thursday justice planning, all in the convene until 1 p.m. It looked
Now that the holiday season (January 19). Institutions Committee. like a busy afternoon.
is over, legislative activity is in Besides hearing subcommittee The staff reports include the Few bills have had such a
full swing again, reports on K-12 transportation, status of work of reconciling working over as the proposed
The House has scheduled 45 pensions, higher education and agency allotments to determinate sentencing act.
committee and subcommittee capital projects, it also will hear appropriations, and the status of Originally introduced by Ron
meetings for this month. The staff reports and reports on analysis of agency capital Hanna (D-Tacoma) and 12
Senate has 16. Included are four other committee issues which requests, co-sponsors last February 4 as
joint sessions of Senate-House have a fiscal impact. The latter include the HB 614, it was rewritten by the
committees or subcommittees. The latter include: Comprehensive Employment House Judiciary Committee and
While a few were scheduled Day care legislation and Training Act (CETA), welfare as SubHB 614, it passed the
for the first two weeks, most of' chore services, in the Soci',d and issues, adult corrections, a House, 79-17 on May 2.
them are set for the latter part Health Services Committee; the nursing home court case, and It was in Senate Judiciary
of the month. The first weekend state's fishing problems, Natural enrollment, transportation and when the Legislature adjourned,
of full committee meetings since Resources Committee; dam special education in grades so was returned to its original
early October is scheduled for safety, Ecology Cominittee; kindergarten through 12. committee.
February 10 and 11. implementation of the Sunset There also will be reports on Since then, however, a
Act, State Government; the status of various LEAP second substitute bill has been
Money ProblemsAreMany appropriations for a risk projects as they relate to written and a Judiciary
The House Appropriations management office, Insurance Appropriations Committee subcommittee headed by Joseph
Committee under its new Committee; adult offender activities. Enbody (D-Centralia) is now
chairman, Alan Thompson sentencing, Judiciary; and Though some subcommittees reviewing a fourth draft of that
(D-Kelso), has possibly the Juvenile Justice Act, Jail are meeting in advance, the full measure, now known as
heaviest agenda at a work session Standards Act, and criminal committee wasn't scheduled to 2ndSubHB 614.
aRea def s ' u r __ a l :
Keep your mouth
i
is what your treatment 0!
• !
story said.
it is physl
Because
impossible for a man to fa =
sexually without feeling pl..
it is very difficult for manY
to understand that this is#'
of women.
To add the humiliati0l
public description of all
details of a sexual attack
trauma of the attack it
inexcusable.
Miriam '/
st
Editor, The Journal:
There seems to be a
consensus that your explicit
description of the rape in the
trial involving a 15-year-old girl
was simply irresponsible
journalism but I don't believe it.
You have been a journalist too
long for that.
1 suspect it was a warning to
other victims of rape to "keep
your mouth shut or this can
happen to you." Whether you
did it deliberately or
unconsciously is immaterial• That
Sex discrimination
sending me your paper,
without it I would have
to bitch about and no
get my bitch printed.
Claude
Editor, The Journal:
It has been brought to my
attention that your paper has
been printing the names of rape
victims who are female. Are you
aware, that, by not printing the
names of rape victims who are '!i ''t
male, you may be guilty of sex
discrimination? (Or is that sex t
• • r
preference?, Add,tion00
I also find it deplorable, that i t
there are no facilities for
Editor, The Journal:
I would like to add
letter to" your list which I'1
you must have many
publishing any woman's n
a rape case no matter whatt'
feel is very thoughtless, and
it s a minor s name it shoed
of good judgment of bo
writer and the editor.
Nadine
battered husbands in Mason
County. I know of one poor
fellow who went home to his
mother's house only to find her
browbeating his father.
Where are the state agencies
we pay so much in taxes to
support? Why are they not
involved? What do they expect
us to do, solve our own
problems, live our own lives or
something?
Finally; you can keep
Sorry end for tree
whatnot -.and for a shol
held in high esteem.
, T.hB .th,,ee com¢,
ory * eia. The jbyful* c4hi
mood having 'disappear
cherished symbol is carted'
the waste disposal
impassively dumped, and
rot among accumulated he
putrid garbage.
What a deplorable et
such a precious resource]
"Woodsman, spare that tre!
Touch not a single bough!:
In youth it sheltered me, i
And I'll protect it now." *,'.i
Fred
Route 3,
Editor, The Journal: And so, taken into the
The Christmas tree harvest once a year, the Christmas l
has ended• Since, however, the lavished with orname
harvest is a seasonal occupation, sparkling lights, tins€
it shall resume again; and again
the quiet woods shall resound to
the bustle .05 buy :workers
stripping the land of its
immature trees.
Due to man's propensity for
tampering, the modern Christmas
tree has been so transformed, so
machete-slashed, and labored
over, that it bears no
resemblance whatsoever to the
normal tree.
Indeed it is regrettable that
this precious conifer, which is
subject to so much time and
bother, is not put to better use
than to serve for a day or two as
a mere decorative piece.
You print garbage
Have you thought
anxiety and worry
family has and is going
tl
Through no fault of th¢.
they will have to face u
school and their neighbd
You think about thiSi!
printing another article 15
We will not buy your pal
you have made a P!
apology to the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. A 1
Editor, The Journal:
In reference to your writeup
in the Shelton Journal December
22.
We could hardly believe that
a paper such as yours would
print such garbage•
Do you proofread these
things before you allow them to
be published?
This is the first time we have
seen a minor's name printed in
such a case.
Driving the Congressional herd
By EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Just as there are more ways than one of killing a cat, so
there are more ways than one of getting action from
Congress. Yet President Carter seems to believe that there is
but one way, which is to be applied to all cases. In this he
follows Lyndon Johnson's example.
President Johnson's methodology was drawn directly
from his experience in driving cattle, and it worked quite
effectively until its final application to the war in Vietnam.
The basic technique in driving cattle is to start the herd
very slowly and quietly, being careful not to alarm the
animals or startle them. When stirring a herd to movement,
cowboys sing "Get along, little dogies" and the like. Once a
herd is started the speed of its movement can be
accelerated until, as the catllc approach the loading pens,
the drive becomes a stampede. The stampede allows little
space or time for reconsideration of one's course.
Thus in the early stages of what was to become a deep
involvement in Vietnam, President Johnson spoke
reassuringly of not having American boys do for Asians
what Asian boys should do. He asked Congress to pasS the
Tonkin Gulf Resolution largely as a wte of confidence and
with assurances that it gave no new powers to the
President. Eventually the escalation of the war became a
near-stampede; and those who opposed it were criticized, in
Page 4 - Shelton'Mason County Journal - Thursday, January I2, 1978
the language of the cattle drover, for having "cut and run."
(Cutting and running is the only way to get out of a
stamp6de.)
President Carter's farm experience apparently does not
include the handling of cattle. The Georgia experience is
largely restricted to moving hogs.
Now, the method for driving hogs is quite the opposite
of the one used for cattle. To start pigs, it is necessary to
panic them. Hog drovers beat on pens and pig troughs; they
shout at pigs in Latin, crying, "Sui, Sui... " So much for
the start, which is the easiest part of the drive. Once pigs
are started, the pace of the drive should be slowed down
flourish and great outcry: the energy crisis, welfare t
tax changes and reforms, even the Panama Canal. Btt!
the start has come the slowdown and then, wit
attempted speed-up, the scattering of the herd.
Either the cow method or the hog one, or
application to Congress. The choice depends
what the issue is and which body of Congress the
hopes to move. As a rule, the hog-driving techniqt
initial panic, with the subtle slowdown) is better f0!
•
Senate. Hogs are noted for being more mdependenL
cows or, for that matter, sheep; and they give evidea¢
their reputation is deserved. The cattle-driving tecl¢
usually is more appropriate as a way of getting acti I
very subtly, so that the pigs arrive at the desired point just
as they are about to come to 'a halt. If pigs are moved
carefully in this way, they usually-walk right into the pen
or loading chute as though they had discovered it.
A great mistake in driving hogs is to start them fast, as
prescribed; then allow them to slow down; and then try to
accelerate the drive. The attempted speed-up can end only
in disaster. The pigs go off in every direction, and even
turn and come back through the legs of the drovers. In a
large field it may take days to reassemble the herd, quiet it
down, and prepare it for the next panicked start.
Obviously President Carter knows how to start the hog
drive. He has presented every major issue with initial
the House of Representatives. ,,
There is also the antelope response, which occur
under unusual circumstances and which, once P,![
planned of
motion, cannot be reversed. It is not easily paolt._
anticipated. It happens usually when there is a
reform, as in the passage of the federal election act
late Senator Eugene Millikin of Colorado used to say
]
when the panic is at its height, there is nothing ieft
but paint a white splotch on the seat of one's pan
run with the antelope, i i
There are, of course, some issues and problems
are best presented and considered by the Congress
the range of human response and human methods.