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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. 00000000't°00JourrLal Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wa. 98584 Phone 426-4412 Published at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Mason County, Washington 98584, weekly. Second-class postage paid at Shelton, Washington. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $7.00 per year in Mason County $9.00 per year in State of Washington $12.00 per year out of State 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.