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•i III How many Americans would purchase a gun and encourage someone to use it to kill a fellow human being? Not many. Murder is still considered a heinous crime by most of this country's 212,000,000 citizens. How many Americans would purchase weapons and encourage the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of their fellow human beings? Most of them. Being an accessory to mass murder has become a way of life in the land of the free and the home of the brave. For a quarter century, American voters and taxpayers have elected madmen who have planned and directed the murder of Southeast Asians and provided the billions of dollars necessary to finance the atrocities. It started with subsidization of the French in their efforts to perpetuate colonial rule of Indo-China, and has continued to this day through five changes of administration in the United States. Only once during this protracted period did Americans become aroused enough to protest the senseless killing. When they decided the pile of bodies of their own sons had reached an unacceptable height, they complained loud enough so that the politicians brought American ground troops home. But the flow of money to finance the slaughter continued, as did the lies of civilian and military officials, all of which were accepted without a peep even after Americans knew without doubt that the truth was not in their leaders where Southeast Asia was concerned. Two years ago they accepted a phoney "peace with honor" with the signing of a treaty that brought no peace. Since "peace with honor" was proclaimed, American taxpayers have ponied up 8.2 billion dollars to continue the slaughter, most of it contributed to a regime so corrupt that its leader must spend a large part of it protecting himself from his own people. The killing continues and a peaceful settlement is delayed because he can survive in power only through war. And now comes another chapter in this insane adventure. Yet another American president has asked for more money to continue the murder, and civilian and military officials are talking about the possibility that our nation may once again intervene in the affairs of Southeast Asia with direct military action. More body counts, more saturation bombings, more napalm, more My Lais, more mutilated legs and testicles, more prisoners of war, more torturing of prisoners, more collecting of ears, more falsified records, more lies, more flag-draped coffins, more drug addicts, more tearing apart of America through dissent and jingoism. When will Americans stop doing as a nation, what they abhor as individuals? Senator Barry Goldwater had lunch with Richard Nixon last Thursday and reported that the Squire of San Clemente told him he would like to get back into politics to help the Republican party. Nixon, you old-timers will remember, is the former president of the United States who resigned his office because he couldn't get along with Congress. "We discussed whether he would be accepted back into the party's affairs," Goldwater said, "and I told him I thought he would be. My mail shows there's no lessening of interest in him within the party." Of course there isn't. The loss of Nixon's expertise was a blow to the party and the news that it may once again be available is heartening. He needn't run for office. Probably his greatest contribution would be to hold seminars for Republican presidential aspirants to prepare them for administering the nation's highest office. A sample program might be as follows: 9 - 10 a.m. - How to plan a burglary during a prayer breakfast. 10 - 11 a.m. - How to corrupt the FBI in war and peace. ! I 11:30 a.m. - Coffee break doughnut demonstration. I l :30 - Noon -- How to bribe a judge. featuring bugged Noon 2 p.m. - Lunch, courtesy all corporations currently involved in litigation with the Justice Department. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. -- How to backdate official documents. 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. - How to improve private property at government expense. 4 - 5 p.m. - How to raise more illegal campaign money than the Democrats. 5 p.m. - Standing ovation and goodwill offering. Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle 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 Member of National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.00 per year in Mason County, in advance -- Outside Mason County $7.50 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay ,I By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS The bicycling fad apparently made its appearance at the right time. In the midst of the energy crunch and rising gasoline prices the legislature is paying more attention to this hobby than ever before - far more than was accorded during the depression years in the thirties. Following in the wake of a measure enacted by the last legislature to apportion a fraction of gasoline tax revenue to development of bicycle trails, is a measure for state registration of bikes. The bill, HB 185, would require registration of bicycles at the time of sale. The fee would be $4.50, with all proceeds over administration costs to be earmarked for a special account in the state general fund to be known as the bicycle account. The money would be apportioned to cities and counties on a 50 percent matching basis for construction of local bicycle and pathways along routes to be designated by the Washington State Highway Commission. The measure is sponsored by Simeon R. "Sim" Wilson, R., Marysville; Donn Charnley, D., Seattle, and Duane Berentson, R., Burlington. Motorists Oppose Tax Hikes Members of the Washington Automobile Association responding to a poll conducted by their official publication, were overwhelmingly opposed to any form of motor vehicle tax increase to meet highway funding problems. The largest response was on the issue of a boost in the gaUonage tax on gasoline, with 69.2 percent opposed. Opposition to an extension of the retail sales tax to gasoline sales was 83.2 percent; to an increase in motor vehicle excise taxes, 75.6 percent, and to a horsepower tax, 55.6 percent. New Boost for Highways But despite opposition in many quarters, the cause of more highway construction is receiving a boost from an unexpected source, the sagging econolny. Legislative leaders see programmed highway construction as one way to increase employment in the construction industry. The committees on transportation and utilities already are seeking means of funding an "adequate" highway program. Meanwhile, in the sanle Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 30, 1975 Ili : ! i .I i • ! vein, Senator Robert C. Bailey, South Bend, the Senate majority caucus chairman, is calling for the , funding of state capital improvement projects already authorized. While the latest statewide average of unemployment was 1 I percent, third highest in the nation, Bailey said it is much higher in some areas, 27 percent in Grays Harbor County and more than 36 percent in Pacific County. While revival of the bicycle's popularity couldn't have been timed better, the arrival of so many women in the legislature may have been a little too late. Governor Dan Evans has beert trying for a number of sessions to persuade the legislature to fund the state women's council, and give it official status. It has existed only by executive proclamation, and with only meager funding from certain federal grants. A bill to make it a statutory agency in the office of governor, THE LIFE AND HABITS OF CITY BRED EARTHWORMS INCLUDING THEIR SEX LIVES Rated PG Merton A. Hill - Author and Publisher "Material for writing is all about you," a journalism professor told his class. He related the story of a successful writer who published scientific material all of which came from observations made in his own • backyard. Merton A. Hill of Olympia, practicing one-up-manship, has written an entertaining and informative little book about happenings mostly confined to the dimensions of his community garden compost pile. Whether you call it a book or a booklet, a treatise or a treat, Hill's first production as an author-publisher, "The Life and Habits of City Bred Earth Worms Including Their Sex Life (Rated PG)" is helping fulfill his self-stated objective. It is to "encourage greater interest in earthworms by the human species." Even if one's interest is at the lowest level and one just doesn't "dig" earthworms, this amusing story of the life and love of Earth and Eartha who live among the coffee_grounds, egg shells and other materials in his compost heap, is fun to read. The introduction, describing the writer's background "credentials," prepares one for further amusement. Even the footnotes are irrepressibly humorous. "Mk.," interpreted in Footnote C is an abbreviation term employed to designate communication between the earthworms, taking the place of "said," etc. Hill feels that this area of communication is deserving of more research than it is at present receiving. Between chuckles over incidents in Hill's fantasy of the earthy existence (including their sex lives) of his compost residents, the reader is intrigued by subtly-introduced scientific information. Such as: Each individual earthworm has both male and female reproductive organs. They are hermaphrodites. You learn how they manage. Earthworms hibernate in the winter and estivate (i.e. loaf) in the summer. Earth, himself, contributes such information when he "Mk." Eartha that a full crew of worms would transfer as much as 40 tons of earth per acre from the lowest levels to topsoil. (ttearing this, the writer comments, "Wow!") You would be among the author's anticipated readers if you are a gardener, fisherman, earthworm or crop farmer. These, he declares, cannot afford to be without his "zany" publication. And to show that he is helping fight inflation, the price is but 75 cents. A second edition, with some changes in lbrmat, is coming off the press next week. The book has been available at the Evergreen State College Bookstore, Pat's Bookery and Lew's Hallmark Shop and now may be found locally at Shelton's Inglenook Bookstore. The Inglenoon staff reports that it finds not only the book, but the author delightful; a man who has discovered the secret of having fun in his retiremenl years.• FRANCES CATTO HB 251, and to provide modest funding, has been introduced by 16 sponsq g , including several men. , I:,,K¢ aura Editor, The Journal: Your front page article on Closed Versus Open Campus deserves comment. Having made some small contribution to the planning of our new high school, it is degrading to me to see the locked gates. It occurs to me that it must be far more degrading to our students on the inside. 1 feel that the citizens of Shelton and Mason County now have one of the After all, this is what all about. This brings up issue, in my opinion: gates imply that ever "bad." I hold to the majority of the "good." If our high school cm and programs are interesting, the to "escape." The trust an open campus accepted by most of the finest high school facilities in the as an expression of state, but the locked gates give respect to be returned the whole place an aura of mistrust and fear. It appears that the present "lock in" is justified by the school board and administration based on the experience at the old high school. The two situations are not comparable in any way. No one can deny the former situation was deplorable where hundreds of students ranging in age from six to 18 were thrown into a few square blocks of an already-congested downtown area. This congestion was not caused by the students, but rather by the short-sighted views of former school officials. I commend the efforts of the student senate to obtain a correction to this problem by working through the system. same treatment. The administration M that the locked gates there to keep coming in. This, short-sighted. Even the "closed" campus is those who really want Furthermore, if a to "rap" with one "dropouts" when theyi perhaps we could get return to school. Our high school tone for our form of government rights of the present policy is doing opposite. Bob Editor, The Journal: $$$$$ STATE OF THE UNION So... we are going to show the Arabs that we don't need to depend upon their crude oil to run our factories and automobiles. Self-sufficiency is the noble goal. By 1985 our land is to be dotted with scores of new atomic energy plants, coal mines and oil wells. Production, no matter the price. Mr. ford made the speech, but he only voiced what has been and still is the prevailing attitude among politicians in Washington, D.C. ECONOMICS is All! The industrial power-lobby has done "itself proud ;" they have engulfed With 14women in~.e House our elected officials of both and four in the Sena~~ for the parties. first time in 34 years, it would seem to have a better chance than previously. But the substantial feminine support has come at a time when the legislature is hard put to fund existing agencies. Money Needs Small It calls, however, for an appropriation of only $89,144 for the biennium. Two of the male sponsors are John Bagnariol and A.N. "Bud" Shinpoch, both of Renton, who are chairmen of the House Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees, respectively. This should give it a pretty good chance in the House, but it still could get lost in the Senate. There aren't any women on the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Another Drawing for Lottery Unless a lot of legislators have changed their minds since last April, a referendum for a state lottery will be on the ballot again next November. Measures to establish a state-operated lottery have been introduced in both houses, in th Senate by Senator Gordon Hen D., Seattle, and in the House b Representatives Paul Conner, D., Sequim, and P.J. Gallagher, D., Tacoma. Both carry a referendum provision to send them directly to the voters, and thereby bypass a veto by Governor Evans. This same method was used last April after Evans had vetoed a previous bill on this subject. The voters approved the lottery bill by a 55 percent majority last November, but under the constitutional provision permitting their establishment, it needed 60 percent. Sponsors believe such a bill may fare better this time, in view for the state's increasing need for additional revenue. The Old West Revived? Tales of the Old West are full of stories about feuds between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. But who ever heard of a feud between cattlemen and horse lovers? The two used to be virtually synonymous. But a feud between horsemen and cattlemen appears to be developing now, all because of a bill in the legislature for the identification of horses. Yes, forge ahead to 1985. Keep pushing up that standard of living (Americans should purchase a million new automobiles) even if it means breathing carbon monoxide and spreading the oceans with an oil slick from Anarctica to Greenland. The Editor, The Journal: We are newcomers to Shelton as members of the community; however, we have, for many years, vacationed in this area. I have felt a pang of pity for the unfortunate animals cooped up in such a deplorable place each time 1 have driven past the so-called pound. Now that we are members of this great comniunity, we feel some responsib-ility for surrounding conditions. I am very happy to hear of people like Mr. and Mrs. Helm taking an interest Editor, The Journal: These are changing times in the United States, and have been throughout the Twentieth Century. Great inventions and discoveries have changed the life style of man over the decades. Changing life style has caused a change in moral stature and religious beliefs. Man gets a little lazier with every new convenience; everything gets done for him faster and easier. Somewhere along the way the strong family relationship fell apart. Man isn't the only one that is affected by progress. The sting of progress is felt by nature, and nature has to carry the brunt of abuse. It took a long time for man to realize the existence of water pollution and air pollution. Usually the costs of progress are forgotten or ignored. At present the only living things on earth to increase in population are man and insects. That's a pretty awesome future. Progress always seems to get the front seat. But what kind of a world would we have then. It wouldn't be the kind emphasis is on fuels for increased only token metion was alternatives in energy, mention made of rapid and no mention of the change in life style decrease in the pollutants discharged and water. Have our q seen any of Heyerdahl's comments state of the oceans? will find time to read current non-fiction "Supership," How can we support the same attitudes and actions the State of the Union, Where is the politician the courage to tell us cars - not more cars route to follow? The today's world is that a living will mean nothing planet to live it on. Mr. and Mrs. unlm in the pound important, trying about the situation. The article by Jail quoting actual figures cumulative o ffsprin~ unaltered female cat waS! and should start pet thinking - pets that multiply excessively. I would be very assist in any way proposed committee to the situation. joa of world I'd like to live I like to fish and a walk in the woods. II find isolated lakes that haven't been or industry, and to leave their mark. Maybe if progresS:! fast, man could adjusl both wouldn't be so When man and morals and nature, himself also dies. What kind of a worlu want for you and Take a look at both fence because always so rosy, and lose sonaething in the The ancient Or lieved that ivy drunkenness.