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? LI Some anonymous soul, in his infinite wisdom, presented us with a subscription to the Christian Crusade Weekly, an eight-page tabloid edited by the eminent Oklahoma theologian, Billy James Hargis, LL.D. While reading the good doctor's writings for the past several months, we have noted a strong recurring theme, to-wit: there are only 13 persons in the world who are not communists and Dr Hargls is not too sure about the other twelve. He has a lively style, readable without moving the lips since it is written at about a nine-year-old mentality level. You needn't subscribe to check out our assessment; just listen to a speech by Spiro Agenew, who aims for twelve-year-old minds, and deduct three years. The style is sirfiilar, but Spiro tacks on an additional syllable now and then. Dr Hargis chews out the same television commentators who are on the vice president's list, then adds Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett and Merv Griffin to the roll of those who favor "anarchy, lawlessness and revolution in the United States." His revelations will afford all Americans a modicum of solace when the moment of truth arrives. It will be comforting to be able to point to Merv Griff'm's "sly, left-wing propaganda" as the cause of this country's downfall as you are led away in chains by a Red Chinese. We suspect, however, that the Oklahoma crusader may he a bit biased in the case of Griff'm, since both are competing for the same nine-year-old mentality market. "l thought from the title it was about Attorney General John Mitchell and his staff." Dr. Hargis is a bulldog when he clamps onto a subject, but sometimes his zeal leads him down the wrong path. In his latest edition, for instance, he lambasts the Southern Baptists for inviting an employee of "Playboy" magazine to sit on the panel at a sex education seminar. You do not have to read many of Dr. Hargis' weekly offerings to know that he has a definite hangup about sex. What he does not realize, however, is that the creators of Playboy suffer from the same affliction. If he truly wants to make sex as dull as a game of canasta, he should encourage lus readers to subscribe to the magazine. For if ever there was a sexless publication, it is Playboy. Unless, of course, the reader has a penchant for making love dome: By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS Gov Dan Evans' use of his veto pen attracted the most attention with his veto of the Viet Nam bonus, but escaping notice was the skillful way he used it to correct deficiencies in many bills passed by the Legislature presumably to let distributors set wholesale prices to retailers. They presently are set by the wineries. The governor has said he was asking the board to consider changes "where appropriate." This was the bill which, was reported last week, had the gallonage tax to be collected at winery for the present 26 percent tax levied at the retail level, it probably was the least understood of any bill in the Legislature. Even the governor said in his veto message that because the out-of-state wine law had been in effect such a short time, it wasn't yet "possible with any degree of accuracy to measure the overall fiscal impact." A dollars-and cents view of what the bill would have done Partial vetoes eliminated roughest trip of any to pass the to full-color, printed pictures• If sex is merely a matter of ambiguities in a couple of Legislature, being killed at least abnormal glands and the absence of_pimples and moles - measures, scratched out a- twice before it finally passed both which is Playboy's stock-in-trade - then Dr. Hargis hasduplication in another, "erased" houses, only to die on the nothing to worry about, an incorrect reference in still governor's desk. another, deleted sections of S u b s t it u ting a 90-cent When the magazine starts printing pictures of unclothedquestionable constituti~)nality ...... s to from others, and also cleaned up ...................................................................................................................................... average American housewives, It will he time for Dr. Harg# some faulty bill drafti ........... ~i;i~i;~:i~ii~:i::~i::~::::~!~ii::~i::~::i~ii:~i~:~::~::~:~!~i~:~:i~!~i:~i~i~;iiiiiiiiiii~i~i~i~:!!i::i~i!~i~i~:~"~:ii~:!;~i~ blow the whistle. 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Anyone with the stamina to try to wtpe out sex, must be vetoed in toto or ] iIIKl iili communism and Merv Griffin all at the same time can't be all permitted to become law. ~ [ ~k=~_~ ~ ~ I ~[!i~!i!iii!ii::::: bad .............. Though a few of the partial ~ /~/{-~('(~"~_...-~:~], --'-~-- [lll[/~'~ ...... .... : ..... ~ ........... ~-~--,.~.~. ........ ~ ................ ~-vetoes may be controversial, ~:1~. !" ,:, ge, era, overnor ot red 1 ink to straighten out faulty ~:] ~'~ ~____~~ \ ) legislation should have the general effect of squelching efforts to ~ • take away this power :!iiii!iii~iiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiii! ..................... .!!ii!iiiiiiiii -- .-~ A constitutional" " " amendment ::;:~:i:~:~:i~:~:~:~:~:~:i:~:~:~:~ ::~:~:::~:~: • to restrict the governor s veto powers was recommended by the beglslauve t.ouncu only a year I'[.I-0b4ELL ~-~'~' ago. \ The only fair way is to be charged for what one actually uses, kilowatt for kilowatt. Even our National Income Tax surcharge is based on income earned and not the same surcharge to each tax payer. If you want those who can afford recreation property to pay more, charge them and not the needy and people of low income brackets. I am willing to pay my share but very unwilling to pay for someone else who doesn't have to economize? This is truly a "squeeze" on the "little guy". Protestingly yours, (Mrs) Cecil M. McKinney Editor, The Journal: I have sent the following letter to Public Utility District No. 3 of Mason County: When we were first notified of the surcharge to be added to our electricity bill each month, I tried in vain to reach someone at your Shelton office for an explanation. After many unsatisfactory telephone run-arounds, I knew you had no intention of explaining anything to anyone. Just for the records - I feel this to be a very unfair charge. Why should a family with one small income be taxed the same as a big company like Simpson or Rayonier, customer for customer? large user as such is against the law as we cannot discriminate between classifications of customers. It was the unanimous opinion of the board of commissioners of the district after several months of thought and consultation that this temporary measure would be more equitable than increasing rates which would more than likely be permanent. The district has had to make tremendously costly line improvements the past three years due to winter storms which has: depleted all reserves and has to be replaced. AI~, ff the bond market were not as it is with the high interest rates, I am positive that the method of the temporary surcharge would not have been the route taken. I sincerely hope that with this explanation it will answer some of your questions. If not, please advise. G. D. Samples Manager Public Utility District 3 Editor, The Journal: The following letter has been sent to Mrs McKinney: Dear Mrs. McKinney: Your letter of February 26th has been referred to me for answering. 1 am very sorry to hear that you have been unable to contact anyone in the office to answer your question in regards to the Surcharge In checking with the Clerks, 1 find that no one seems to have any knowledge of you calling it is their responsibility to refer these calls to the auditor or myself. in reference to the large industrial customer such as mentioned in your letter and comparing with a small user, I might say that when the Bonneville Power Administration raised the power rates to the PUD in 1967, the increase which amounts to a substantial amount was passed on to them and not the residential user. As for having a separate rate for the small residential user and a EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ......................Pkmry G. Gay Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wash~ 98584 Phone 426-4412 Policy.Shaping Veto The governor also used a little red ink to establish policy when he vetoed a portion of his executive request bill establishing a Department of Ecology The measure establishes an ecological council and as passed by the Legislature specified that three members should be selected from nominees selected by recognized labor, business and agricultural organizations The governor agreed these groups should be represented but took the view that gubernatorial appointments shouldn't be dictated by any private organization. is consistent with the method of appointing judges. The appropriate bar amoeiation always presents three nominees for the appointment, but the governor's choice isn't restricted to the three names submitted. Governors usually appoint their judges from the bar lists, but. occasionally they depart from this practice. Saving Clause Clipped Producers of electrical energy may be unhappy about elimination of a section of the thermal plant siting bill Vetoed was a provision that if two sections of the bill were declared unconstitutional, the entire act would be voided One of the sections referred to preempts for the state all authority for certifying location of thermal power plants The other is a "finality" section It specifies that once the governor has certified a thermal power plant site, the act can't be challenged by any state agency or political subdividion. Both sections had been insisted upon by power producers This was a departure from the usual severability clause, and its consitutionality was questionable. The governor said it was unnecessary. Red Ink For Wine The governor's veto of the wine tax bill, which was designed to provide some financial relief for distributors, may lead to the same relief through changes in Liquor Control Board regulations, From The Washington Motorist The credit card swindle seems to be on the upswing again. For traveling motorists, we have long recommended the use of oil company credit cards for a variety of reasons. But we have always stressed the importance of keeping your sales slip, and comparing it with the bill sent later by the oil company. A Washington couple, recently traveling in California, had stopped in a small town and filled their car with 10 gallons of gas - on credit. When they returned from their trip, they received their bill from the company with two sales slips from the small station in the small town. They were consecutively numbered with the first showing a purchase of 10 gallons of regular gas and the second showing 11 gallons of ethyl plus some STP. And the signature on the second although the same name as on the first, was a darned poor forgery job. Our member acknowledged the 10 gallon purchase of regular, but pointed out that his car would hardly hold 21 gallons of gas and he certainly wouldn't have had it filled with half regular, and half ethyl. Within a week of receiving this members' complaint, we read of many similar incidents of this nature going on around the country and reported to AAA Clubs in other states. A quite common practice appears to be adding a fourth number to the purchase price. A person who buys $4.25 Worth of gas, may find his statement altered to $14.25. (And some stations don't even bother to try to change the number of gallons purchased.) The amazing thing about those who alter the bills, is their amateur ability. One crook was so poor at it he merely crossed out the $4 purchase with one line, and wrote $11 above it - with the $4 still clearly visible - and the member had kept the original. And therein lies our warning. Don't ever throw away a purchase slip until you have checked it against your billing. You, yourself, may be sure you never paid $14 to have your gas tank filled, but try explaining that to the oil company if you don't have the original. To be sure, it's not a practice peculiar to California or any other state. We have had complaints about stations in Washington, too, but it only takeS one, no matter where it is, to put a damper on your vacation and give you a bad impression of that station and company. So, file those slips away and check them monthly with your statement. If there's an error, you won't get stuck! Published a.t Shelton. Mason County, Washlngton, every Thursday. Ended as Second4~lass Matter at the Post Office, Shelton, Wash. Page 4.- Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 5, 1970 shows that champagnes, now taxed at $4.44 to $18.09 per case. Taxes on medium-priced and imported table wines would have been reduced $1 to $16 per case while taxes on low-priced fifths-size table wines would have been increased l0 cents per case, and very low-priced table wines, 51 cents per case. Message with Echoes The governor may hear some echoes from his veto message on the wine tax bill. His comment that the tax "would lead the state away from the concept of levying taxes on the basis of the ability of the consumer to pay" is virtually certain to be pounced upon by Democrats; also a phrase referring to "a time that the voters of this state are being asked to approve a more equitable tax structure." Democrats advocating * a graduated net income tax have charged the governor's proposed single-rate income tax also is a departure from the "concept of levying taxes on the basis of ability to pay." 'Nuff Said There isn't much need for comment on the governor's veto of the Viet Nam bonus bill. The political repercussions are obvious. Of the 104 bills passed by the Legislature, it was the only measure vetoed in its entirety. Suffice to say that it won't gain him any votes, and it could lose him quite a few, including some of those who previously had been loyal supporters. During the coming campaign there will be plenty of mention of the fact that he received bonuses for his service in both World War II and the Korean War. Overlooked may be the fact that bond issues to finance both bonuses are being retired by a cigarette tax, and the governor doesn't smoke. ,k review: @ By DR. KARL MENNINGER Viking Press. 1968• $6.95 Public concern with crime and violence has risen with the rhetoric of recent political campaigns. The failure of our penal system to reduce crime has apparently alarmed almost everyone. Yet the public resists the constructive reforms of our prisons and institutions which must come before crime can be reduced significantly• Why? An eminent criminal psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Menninger, offers some candid and perceptive answers for the paradoxical failure of our penal system in his latest book, "The Crime of Punishment•" His thoughtful presentation is the result of a generation of experience treating criminals and the mentally ill. Menninger contends that the punishment, humiliation and isolation that our prisons visit upon the offender serve only to confirm, not reduce, criminal and anti-social tendencies. Compounding the damage of a prison experience is a vengeful public stance which effectively cuts the offender off from opport'unities for emvloyment By STEVE ERICKSON He looked like a Black Panther to me. And I had a pretty good opportunity to nearly collided head-on at a street comer. I looked at his beard. He glared at my sunglasses in the whiteness of me. I tensed. As a friend often reminds me, "Erickson, you member of every minority group. All of them." "No," I sometimes try to explain. "I know they So I'm afraid of them." That's how I felt during that street comer But then the Black Panther broke into a broad "Man," he said. "Man, this mornin' ah'm I managed a feeble grin. "Well, good." "Yeah," he said, swinging into stride with really happy. An' you know why?" I couldn't didn't mind. " 'Cause ah just been up to see the thank him." We walked along in silence for a few steps. "That man," he said, "could have put me long, long time." He jabbed a couple fingers at me. traditional 'peace' sign, more's the pity. "Two convictions," he said. My tenseness turned to a cold sweat. Steady, myself. He hasn't knifed you yet. "But that judge," Panther continued, compassionate. He understands me. He knows wanna be looked up. He understands." "So," he said, "ah just went up there this told him how much ah appreciate it." "The judge is a good guy," I said. "Yeah, man." We walked along in silence to a red light. I turned l began across the street. After a few lonely seconds! corner, he followed me. "Hey, man!" he bellowed. I stopped and waited! middle of the street. I dismissed the prospects of a knife in my decided to relax and enjoy it. Hell, the guy might and safe. He might not be blasted out of his skull He might even be sane. Probably not even a Black Maybe. He glanced at the book I carried. "You know," he said, "I was reading a good night• Mein Kampf. You know, Adolf Hitler. morning ah couldn't find it. Ah think God was me not to read that book. Ah really do. What do you "Probably something like that," I ventured. We walked along silently a while farther. He jaunty for so early in the morning. He bounced. do all have rhythm. ChurolT bells .began ringing from somewhere,,: 60i isfinioii 'said, clapping his snapping his fingers. "You hear that? Ain't Listen? Ain't that really beautiful music?" "Yep," I said. "Except it tells me that it's ninel and I'm late to work." "What? Work? You work?" "Afraid so." He beat his fist into a palm. "Man," he said, going to work again." "Might help when you get hungry," I said, boldly "No!" he said, and l decided to quit being quite "Ah'm never going to be no man's slave again." We walked a half-block in silence. Again. His slowed, but pretty soon it picked up again. Can't man down. We came to my office and I turned in. get off," I said. "Oh," he said. "You work here? Well, Okay, easy then. Keep loose." "I'll try," I said. We parted then, the guy who was afraid Panthers, and the Black Panther - maybe - who to work, or who didn't need it. And I wondered how long it would he before felony conviction came along. I was glad I had him in some other kind of mood. and recognition upon his release. The public believes that punishment in prison and societal ostracism will convince the offender that he must mend his ways. But with employment and social opportunities closed to him, the offender too often has no recourse but to return to crime following his release from prison. The public then is the victim of its self-deceptive reliance on punishment. Punishment does not effectively reduce crime; it frequently prompts further crime. And society pays for that crime which it indirectly promotes via the penal system. No other conclusion can be reached, asserts Menninger, than that "... society secretly wants crime, needs crime and gains definite satisfaction from the mishandling of it ... the crime and punishment ritual is a part of our lives and we are loathe to relinquish the pleasures of punishment regardless of the price Menninger finds that, "We all need crime to wonder at, to vicariously enjoy, to discuss and speculate about, and to publicly deplore. We need criminals to identify with and stoutly. They do forbidden, illegal wish to do and, old, they bear the displaced guilt and Now those psychiatry might M e nninger's fully digesting reasonable men difficult to d Menninger's those findings are convincingly stated i the general public Even the human motivation 'for criminal be presented in a fathomable fashion. Dr. Menningef efforts to excUSe conduct. But la* documents tlte complicity in of vengeance and can begin to wilt crime. Otherwise non-criminal alike : to pay deafly for crime, retaliation.