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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.
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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
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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¢
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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.