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In the plethora of regulatory boards and committees given life by the State of Washington, the funeral directors and embalmers hand down opinions on funeral directing and embalming, the lawyers pass judgment on fellow barristers, and the barbers keep tabs on the head-shearers. We have a sneaking hunch, however, that when the legislature gets around to authorizing a state gambling commission there won't be a gambler on it. Following November's approval by the voters of legalized lotteries, Governor Dan Evans appointed an ad hoc committee to study and then report to him what types of gambling the constitutional amendment would entail. He named as chairman of the group the president of Seattle Pacific College, David L. McKenna, who describes himself as "a non-gambling man of the cloth and a politically-naive educator." A perfect selection in a state where all insoluble "little bit pregnant" problems are given a righteous coating before they receive official blessing• The state, for instance, will sell you enough liquor to drink yourself to death, but, heaven bless, it won't sell you the fatal dose on Sunday. There is one small problem for the taxpayers if the gambling commission is composed of non-gamblers, according to Red Parsons, the Sage of Hood Canal, who was on intimate terms with a pair of dice before he lost his baby teeth. "If dose guys on da gamblin' commission don't know nuttin' about gamblin', dey will probably have to go to school while de're on da job, like dose guys in social and health services who were gettin' eighteen tousan a year while goin' to da university. An da only place dey can go to school is in Las Vegas, which will coss the taxpayers plenty!" You're a born pessimist, Red. As if there weren't enough alarums to keep the American people in a perpetual sweat, the headshrinkers are now warning us that something should be done to ferret out ding-a-lings in high public office. The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry urges the creation of a panel of medical experts to examine government officials to help resolve the question of competence to serve. We suggest that before lawmakers waste time considering such a panel they talk to Professor D.L. Rosenhan of Stanford University. Dr. Rosenhan conducted an experiment in which eight "fake" patients displaying mild symptoms got themselves admitted to 12 psychiatric wards. Seven of the group, which included Dr. Rosenhan, were diagnosed as schizophrenic despite the minor symptoms they indicated. Furthermore, the doctors and nurses continued to treat the eight "'patients" as seriously disturbed even though they reverted to normal behavior as soon as they were admitted to the hospital. "The only people who weren't fooled," said Dr. Rosenhan in describing the experiment in the magazine Science, "were some of the patients." This suggests that what is needed more than a panel of psychiatrists to examine government officials is a panel of mental patients to help resolve the question of the competence of psychiatrists. l H~~H~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~l~~ll~~~~~~~l~l~~H~llll~l~~Hllll~~~~~~~l~~~~~~~ll~m~l~~~~~~l~~l~~~~~~~~l~~~~~l~ll~~~~~Ill Mack McGinnis' ~lHm~HNuHul~~l~~~~~~Hu~~~~~~~l~~~~~l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~l~~~~~~l~~~~~~~~l~lllll~~mIll~~~IllHIl~~l~~~~ Around 200 doctors were attending a medical convention in one of the city's older hotels. After finishing his speech, one of the physicians sat down - and crashed to the floor when his chair collapsed. As he lay amidst the wreckage, a voice called out from the rear of the room: "Is there a carpenter in the house?" (Baltimore Sun) A culturist reports he took his 5-year-old daughter to the Kent State University Opera Workshop for the first time and the child was fascinated by the conductor flailing about with his baton as the soprano went into her aria. "Daddy," the girl asked, "why is that man hitting that lady with a stick? .... He's not hitting her," came the reply. "He's just conducting." "Well, then," the kid reasoned, "why is she screaming?" (Mickey Porter in Akron Beacon Journal) it's easy to have a successful small business today. All you have to do is start out with a successful large business. (Bob Goddard in St. Louis Globe Democrat) By HARRIET BARNETTE Gone are the days: Young boys lined up on the curb saying, "Gee, they're going like sixty!" as they identified the passing cars like Pierce-Arrow, Hudson, Packard, Stutz Bearcat. The good old days when you said, "Look at the gas and put in oil." and going from Tacoma to Seattle on the old road when' somebody had to get out and guide you through the fog as the curtains of the Model T touring car waved back and forth, chilling you to the bone. Champagne or carbonated drinks will keep their bubbly if you place a piece of sterling silver in the bottle after opening. (Donno what it does to the sterling.) Handwriting: if you cross your T's with an upward stroke, you are an optimist. (Downward, you are a pessimist.) Lady Elsie Mendl had this embroidered on her personal bed pillows: "Be pretty if you can, clever if you must, but be agreeable if it kills you. "' Editor, The Journal: Your editorial on the ERA, . ,Fantasy and Fact" makes good :reading and I appreciate the humor, but two points should be noted: 1 ) I agree with your "fact" :in each case and do not support '- the "fantasy." I oppose the ERA • for valid reasons while supporting 'the objectives of the ERA proponents. 2) You printed Section 1 of the ERA; most people have overlooked Section 2. 'i'11 have steak au poivre a la creme and ¢o show my concern for food prices ... don't cook it in brandy, lust pour ketchup over it' Editor, The Journal: In a trial due to convene toward the end of this month, three men will be defending themselves against multiple ' • counts of second degree assault, allegedly committed against members of the Mason County . Sheriff's Department and Washington State Patrol. The circumstances surrounding the arrests of these :;persons, and others, last Labor Day weekend are at the least "unclear. The reports released to the press by the various police agencies vary greatly from the :" :statements made by many of the 'eye-witnesses. When the court hears the case, it will theoretically ": sort through the testimony and (thereby arrive at the truth of the -,,matter. This being the purpose of " this institution, let justice be i done. Recently however, an " '~pttempt to hold a benefit dance in :. ,the hall located at the Mason .,County Fairgrounds to raise -,money for the Vonhof-Westlund . iDefense Fund was abruptly halted ' by the sheriff of Mason County. One of the stipulations for ~?holding a dance at the fairgrounds ' ~As that two deputies be present. ;. Sheriff Robinson refused to authorize any deputies to oversee ~ this activity. When asked by me his reasons ,:for his non-cooperation, he replied that its purposes, (i.e. the to live purpose of the benefit dance to Appropriations for the •.raise money for the defense expenses of each were cut to last "fund), were "adverse to the only until January I, 1974.county"; that these people were The appropriation carries a"anti-establishment." He refused proviso that if the. legislature to discuss it further. doesn't agree to their creation by Since he refused to discuss it then each goes out of. existence.' further, 1 feel some public Law-makerltasCurve discussion is necessary. The decisionto authorize deputies If Representative .Alan (public servants) to attend Bluechel, Republican, Kirkland, ,activities such as public dances goes through with his plan for an should be based solely on initiative limiting special sessions .availability of personel, not on to 30 days, it could strike out a. the sheriff's personal value lot of other plans., • judgments as to the political It wouldn t have any effect on: ~beliefs of the persons attempting this year's special session, because if passed, it wouldn't become effective until next December. But it would kill any idea of a continuing session for 1974 or 1975, unless it were amended, and that would be hard to do. By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS Sponsors of Initiative 276 are learning that while it is possible to establish a commission by initiative, getting the legislature to fund it is something else. The Senate Ways and Means Committee has slashed the appropriation "for the Disclosure Commission created by the initiative by more than half. Governor Dan Evans had recommended an appropriation of $274,000 for the biennium. The Senate committee slashed it to $103,000. That is $103,000 mote than the law-makers were willing to give it to operate for the balance of the present fiscal year ending July 1. The legislature refused to include any money for the commission in the supplemental budget it passed last month. The commission currently is operating on a $30,000 allocation provided by the governor from his emergency fund. Hanging By a Thread Two commissions and a council created by the governor face an uncertain fate because of Senate committee action. Unless they get legislative approval, the Women's Council, the Asian-American Commission and the indian-American Commission only have six months Editor, The Journal: The following letter has been sent to the Mason County Board of Commissioners: Gentlemen: I am the owner of a piece of property near Grapeview with a substantial real estate tax Editor, The Journal: I am appreciative of Governor Evans' definite stand against the use of the death penalty in this state. Our legislators must not allow pressure from well-meaning but emotionally-motivated people to influence them to bring back the death penalty. It is especially unrealistic to apply it to certain special categories of crime victims! assessment. Since I am not a resident of Mason County, I am taxed without representation. I have no serious objection to this inequity as long as Mason County continues to be one of the beautiful unspoiled counties of the state. The late Dr. Garrett Heyns when head of our department of institutions, was strongly opposed to the use of the death penalty. His opinion was formulated through the many years of experience he had as prison warden and director of penal systems. Frances R. Catto to sponsor the activity. (Do you have to be a Democrat to have a dance?) Furthermore, the only county institution that this benefit could in any way be adverse to is the sheriff's department; and then • .0nly if some members of that department acted in bad /)judgment last Labor Day ~weekend, and it is so decided by court. If this should be the In the last few ~tears, thz~re has "7 xmtcome of the trial, then the been an explosive proliferation of " gaudy real estate developers' slgns , on the county roads. The list• these despoilers is headed by.- Hartstene Pointe, -Quadrant ' Corporation, Weyerhaeuser and " Editor, The Journal: down the line to many obscure " House Bill 791 - The posters of tigns long obsolete Washington Land Use Act - still standing and faded. ', would put all land under state Many of these signs ,are on":.eontrol. There are 151 pages property without permission ofj: which leave no loophole for the the owners. They are all more• of a) property owner. blight to the roadside than , Instead of "power of eminent caterpillars are to the trees. I urge-, domain" which makes the victims you to consider some economic., mad, they take property by action for theii, control, andS,j'' 'discontinuance of land use" if removal- ,:', local state or federal governments , think tt Resp~ullysubmltted,'~ " " should be used for U.S. Appraisal Co2:i~s°mething else. It is all worked Alfred V. Perthou; M.A.LJ )out in great detail with a hearing President , and payment as they see fit. Article 2 of HB'791 provides for • entry to your property to correct • violation of discontinuance orders There is no proof in any state and fines for non-compliance, in the union or in any country in Tirn rland"Rl-- - . • $500 for a starter with $200 a the world that the death penalty Editor, The Journal: .. • ,glond Ltbrary not '-'-day after conviction. giving up meir f es; but I can't)" After 2 or more violations, - is a deterrent to crime.lt never has been applied l have been living in Shelton UoundbitomaksnadinWruthh. rdaflaaY? nH: n= yi!isY o !ia !a nc O di hi fairly and equally to the all of my life and 1 have been " ~J '. ' '' ' ::'~ ..... . " - convicted and is completely going to the Shelton Public t oa irrevocable when there are false Library since I learned to read. I are my triads. They aren't home. of damage done by your use of think the $7 fee is ridiculous, in the clay me. So when are they your land would have to be paid 1 am sick and tired of having to take my "out of town" friends down to the library so that they can check out books on my card. It puts a great responsiblity on me if they don't get the books back in time. 1 understand about convictions. There is no issue nearer to the conscience of citizens of Washington than that of capital punishment. It is an immoral and primitive statute, which has no place in an enlightened concept of criminal reform, which discount vengeance by society as a reason. ose to supP , .,,. booki from. by you in addition to court costs Ti benana., . .. . ..... '- ' :,., arta lawyer ~ees. we ne.eo.•theltbrary toomtmh '~ •They even provide for to boYcottt.t. ao ~must use it. I' ~: replacing'you. You might possibly O¢ in till~ h P t a ch01ee of what public l tter- :': •program or "new town" Irate Patron . you wished. ,Merry Coffey ;', They mean business! This and Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 15, 1973 All I ask is that we read Section 2: "The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." The critical point is the change from the 1970 version of ERA which stated: "The Congress AND THE SEVERAL STATES shall have the power, WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS, to enforce..." The former language has been purposes of this benefit dance would in fact have turned out to be advantageous to the county as a whole. (No county wants policemen who cannot handle the inherent responsibilities of the job.) Whatever the outcome, it seems worthy of some thought and attention from all of us. As a result of this set-back, which incidentally was not the first thwarted attempt at having a benefit dance for this purpose, an address for donations to the Vonhof-Westlund Defense Fund is available for those wishing to contribute. It is the Vonhof-Westlund Defense Fund, c/o T.R. Wingard, P.O. Box 601, Belfair, Wa. 98528. Please be aware of this trial, the implications of it are pertinent to everyone in Mason County. T. R. Wingard used in every amendment where to restrict state authority• The latter been used in a constitutional the intent was to have and federal res authority. By removing language, any court that clear remove from the stateS t in Congress the power on any issue subject. I have opposed migration of power level to the federal years, and I must grant of exclusive as a move in the wrong4 I believe that the state: are more capable legislation relating to divorce, property custody of children, etC., federal Congress. As a matter of support retaining bit of power at the people where it controlled by intended or not, the be the first power by the states to level since 1913, and massive and In conclusion, oppose equality, but 1 the negative side ratification of ERA. Washin Editor, The Journal: The Seattle P.I, states that you are a sturdy fighter against hypocrisy, phoniness, euphemisms and all forms of political chicanery. If you wrote the article quoted in the P.I., could it be you are using some of these plus extreme exaggeration to further your own opinions on highways. We are one of three contractors joint venturing to construct the state highway bypassing Shelton. We find this highway to be a beautiful piece of roadway through a beautiful area which will serve a pressing need for the people of Shelton. We have been highway contractors for many years and contributions. contributed much to of this country bypass will do much of Shelton in making place to live. The exaggeral innuendos paper do no credit paper. I would hope that take the time to visit our project learn better the ideals of the and what he is Butler En Editor, The Journal: The Spirit of '73: From reliable sources, I have information that the reason for the closure of Northern State nineteen year old to do with tax Robin Hood rich and gave to Olympia the the rich AND poor " Hospital is to make the inmates Whether it be i~ available as wage earning property tax, saleS legislators in the Olympia Looney plain tax on tax, it is Bin. Dandy Danny Boy and his Revenue sharing den of thieves all campaigned on tax reduction. Since being elected, it has all reversed. All the earth shaking news from Olympia, aside of course from the legalizing other Washington Future bills will be pushed hard because they are part of Federal Year 2000 Plan which calls for complete government ownership and control of all property and means of production - socialism. It doesn't work! Our free economy has to feed the communist countries. Who will feed us? We became a great nation under free competitive enterprise and ownership of property. We do not really own property when all we can be sure of is that we will be allowed to pay taxes. Winifred Bunker our money with The '71 le to special $6,000,000 '73 legislature is pass the income taX. wisdom from the looney bin is for annual sessions. We just can't of these tax submit the to campaign and one stipulation, STAY HOME. Now I would from our tax including how, with all this my (and everyone have talked) '73 increased at least reduction I can do Come 1974 I this letter - lest County" Founded 1886 by Grant Mailing Address: Box 430, Published at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Washington 98584, weekly. Second-class postage paid at Shelton, wasll Member of National Editorial Assoclati0~ Mefhber of Washington Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RA~IES: $5.R0 per year in in advance -- Outside Mason County $6. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ................... " __ @ :