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Those dmgbats of tile liberal Eastern establishment press
have really torn it this time.
Their contention that the elected president of a
democracy should level with the people is now being taken
up by the conservative middle-American establishment press,
a sure sign that a few rotten apples will, indeed, spoil the
barrel.
The vehicle for this Constitutional heresy is the Watergate
case. Editorialists across the nation are demanding that
Richard Nixon clarify the part the White House played in this
pre-election affair to squelch the speculation and suspicion
that surround the case.
This is ridiculous. President Nixon has already said that
no pre nt employee of his administration was involved in
the Watergate break-in. His reputation for veracity should
end the matter there. You don't get to be President of the
United States by misleading the people.
The critics, however, are attempting to build a case
around the following l]imsy facts:
I. Three of those convicted in the Watergate break-in
and bugging at one time had connections with the White
House or the Committee for the Re-election of the President.
G. Gordon Liddy, a former White House employee, was a
counsel to the finance committee for the Committee for the
Re-election of the President at the time of the break-in. E.
Howard Hunt is a former White House consultant and
20-year veteran of the CIA. James W. McCord, Jr. was
security coordinator for the Committee for the Re-election
of the President at the time of the break-in.
2. While the FBI was looking for Hunt on the day
following the break-in, a White House staffer went to Hunt's
office, removed the contents of his desk and took his locked
safe to a fifth-lloor office where it was drilled open in the
presence of Fred Fielding. an assistant to White House
Counsel John l)ean the man who eventually ran President
Nixon's personal review of the case. Two drawers of papers, a
gun, and a black attache case filled with wires and electronic
equipment were brought to Dean's White House office. The
contents of Hunt's White House office files have never
been disclosed.
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3. Acting FBi Director L. Patrick Gray 1Ii told a Senate
investigating committee that Presidential Counsel Dean
probably lied to the FB! when he said he would have to
determine if Hunt had an office in the White House when he
had had Hunt's safe opened only three days before.
4. Dwight L. Chapin, President Nixon's former
appointments secretary, told the FBI that he directed
Herbert W. Kahnbach, President Nixon's personal attorney,
to pay Donald tl. Segretti for alleged spying and sabotage
activities against Democrats.
5. Hugh W. Sh,an, Jr., former treasurer of President
Nixon's re-election finance committee, testified at the
erJl , .lirial that former Attorney C,¢n rai John Mitchell
ad l Commerbe" Secfi tary MauHee Stank approved
payments the proseculi,,n said went to political espionage
against Democrats.
There is more, and it is all the same picky-picky-picky
stuff, it's a wonder President Nixon can get any work done at
all with another couple members of his staff being tied to the
Watergate affair with each passing day.
All good Americans should urge the news media to quit
harassing the President simply because he hires employees
who'exhibit anti ,'ocial tendencies.
By ROBERi t.. CUMMINGS
Use of referendum to avert a
veto may result in the current
legislature submitting a record
number of referenda to the ballot.
~One referendum, launched
after Governor Dan Evans had
vetoed part of an election bill
providing for deputy registrars, is
already well on its way.
Numerous others are either in
the process or hanging in the
wings.
One measure being considered
for the referendum route is the
bill which would increase the Port
of Seattle commission from five
to nine members, and require
them to be elected from each of
the present county commissioner
districts.
Rumors Fly
The bill passed the House
with ease and appeared well on its
way toward passing the Senate
when Representative King Lysen,
Seattle, heard rumors the
governor might veto the measure.
Rumors fly rapidly in the
legislature and Lysen at last
reports still was checking this one
out. If he thinks there is danger of
a veto, he will be ready with an
amendment which would refer
the issue directly to the people.
Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler issued the
comment that should guide us all when he said: "I am not
going to comment from the White House on a third-rate
burglary attempt. -Ftlis is something that should not fall into
the political process."
Right on, Ron. A first-class burglary attempt engineered
from the White House might warrant a little concern, but a
third-rate job is unthinkable. Third-rate bungling in this
administration is reserved for economic matters.
It is time to forget about the Watergate case and get on
with President Nixon's favorite project - the fight against
crime.
In its continuing series of public service editorials, this
newspaper is pleased to outline a practical way to defend the
sanctity of your home in these troubled times.
When police in a California city recently entered a house
with a search warrant the first thing they discovered was a
paperback copy of "'Practical Ways to Prevent Burglary and
Illegal Entry."
Further investigation turned up numerous M-60 machine
guns, M-16 rifles, hand grenades, "baseball" grenades,
canisters of tear gas, cans of ammunition, a silencer for one
of the M-I 6 rifles, various caliber handguns, loaded gun clips,
electric blasting caps, operators' manuals on machine guns,
transceivers and police monitors.
A study of records showed that the house had never been
burglarized or entered illegally.
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay
I
By STEVE ERICKSON
Potter was snoring through his globular red, white and blue nose
when a neighbor's bottle rolled off yonder bench and shattered on
North Park Blocks blacktop.
The dozing derelict was sprayed with green glass. An aluminum
twist cap rolled under the soiled folds ot his tweed greatcoat. He came
to, opening one itching eye.
Potter perceived that his head was now resting in a field of
breakage, some of it entangled in a label. "Ripple," he appraised,
wishing it were full.
He rolled the operative eye around in its watery socket, although
that hurt, and considered opening the other.
Everything seemed much as he had left it. There was the giant
rhododendron bush looming overhead like a fluttering canopy; the iron
statue of a hero on a horse; and manicured lawns where panhandlers'
prey would play later today.
But what finally arrested Potter's attention this spring morning
was the banner headline on page one of the overnight coverall under
which he had comatosely spent the night. The day-old daily newspaper blared :
"'ALCOHOL RATED NUMBER ONE U.S. PROBLEM DRUG."
Potter read it twice, then reverently murmured, "Recognition at
last. Status." He glanced about for his friend Winefish, finally locating
him propped hard against a willow, weeping.
Potter waved the newspaper under Winefish's nose but Winefish
waved him grandly off.
"Does Mr. Potter wish to approach the bench?" he said, wiping his
dribbling nose with a shirtsleeve that once had known cuff links. The
flow from his oozing eyes eased.
"Yep, yet honor," Potter said, humoring his old friend. "Jest looks
here. Drunk is Number One now. Says we're sick."
"Ah," remarked Winefish dryly, "a news item. But I could have
told you that years ago, Mr. Potter."
"Now, l don' mean sick in the mornin', Winefish. ! mean, the
guverment sez we ain't immoral and degenerated no more, we're jest
sick."
"Hmmm," Winefish said. "Well, it might ease pursuit of the
well-known loose change, l suppose."
"Yep," Potter said, reading, "we're even sicker than them guys
what eats marywanna cigarettes."
"As bad as that," mused Winefish. "And how was this rather
remarkable - albeit obvious - conclusion reached, Mr. Potter?"
"Dunno. Lemme look." Potter resumed reading.
" 'The findings,' " he quoted, " 'were issued by the National
Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, which spent $1 million and
visited 36 nations in a two-year investigation of drug use for Congress
and the President.' "
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Lysen is confident that if it
went on the ballot the people
would buy it. The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce trustees
have gone on record against it,
but chambers in numerous other
cities in the county are supporting
it.
Law-makers' Only Weapon
In practice, the referendum is
the only weapon against a veto
which the legislature has.
In theory, the legislature can
override a veto. But this takes a
two-thirds majority vote in both
houses, which makes it virtually
impossible when neither party has
that many votes in either house.
Even Republicans who
disagree with the governor
violently usually are unwilling to
vote against him on a veto.
But Republicans in both
houses were quick to use the
referendum route to avert
gubernatorial vetoes on two bills
dealing with lobby regulation and
campaign financing in the 1972
session.
Though the referendum
process has been in the state
constitution since 1912, its use as
a detour around the governor's
desk wasn't discovered by the
law-makers until 1965.
Winefish spat. "You," he said, "are making that up."
"Oh, now," Potter protested. "Sez right here -"
"Tommyrot. Does it also say 'Gee whiz?' "
Potter placed the newspaper aside. His head ached and his mouth
crawled with dead life and his stomach was giving him trouble.
"Huh?" he said.
"Thirty Ymrs ago," Winefish began, talking now to the trees, the
sky, the balmy breeze, to Potter, "l knew a professional man who beat
his family black and blue.
"Twenty years ago," he continued, a catch in his voice, "I knew a
poor excuse for a man who went to work drunk and talked like a punk
and spent every dime on whiskey and wine."
"Yeah," Potter said, "but -"
"And 10 years hence," Winefish interrupted, "this pathetically
addicted bum tried to quit but he couldn't. His job and family had quit
but he still couldn't. His liver was shot and his brain full of rot and he's
turned into alcohol's pawn."
"Whaddya gettin' at?" Potter asked.
"Just this, my friend. That lavish presidential commission could
have consulted me cons ago for accurate data, ground4evel and
bird's-eye. As you well know, Mr. Potter, I'd have spilled my guts for
tokay.
"Where have they been, these politicians?" Winefish asked
rhetorically. "They could have sought out any boozer's wife or boss or
friends or kids and reached the same conclusion."
A businessman strode by, heels clicking on the city floor. Potter
offered a palm and begged for bus fare. He was impaled with a gaze.
"Aw," he complained, "he looked at me like I was an animal."
"Yes," Winefish agreed, "didn't he though. Well, Mr. Potter, read to
me more of You ' "
.... r journal s remarkable revelations.
r~ay
• Sez here that The commission reasoned that society
shouldn't prohibit drugs merely because they injure the user.'"
"I imagine they offer an alternative?"
"Yep. Sez here, 'Rather, individuals should be free to choose
whether or not to use a drug, unless the substance causes crime or other
behavior.,, ,____ ,.._ mclety.'that hurts s ....
hes $gbT Linefish sighed"--- - ---,. -Potter. "We must protect society. And thereto
"You see, the commission doesn't mean drinkers like you and me,
the losers. They refer in their grand survey to the beginners, the
mateurs, morn
a With much to lose and years to do it. Those individuals
curren~Yen~tl_tl~ top of the slide. We, Mr. Potter, are at the bottom and
con~inefi~YhWee appear nowhere in that report, nowhere at all."
• eared to his feet and strolled off in quest of sustenance.
,, are soclet,,
We,.... Y laltt, he threw over his shoulder•
, aamrdt ,, ,, ,
. . , he mumbled as he strode, you d think they'd at
'- st retain a ¢OU-" - • , -
ten s " Pte ot us as consultants. After all, we re the real
expert •
Editor, The Journal:
In nature, forms decay and
enrich the soil, which enables new
forms to live. And man builds
forms - that is, an educational
system, a church, a government, a
money system - all very useful at
first, which also decay with time
and change.
But instead of discarding the
old dead forms, he tries to force
the new expanding life into his
old patterns.
Then a period of trying to
control, restrain, choke the young
instead of opening doors and
giving them room, freedom to
live. When the form chokes the
life within it - then violence.
When the institution begins to
defend itself against the people,
begins to fight for itself instead of
serving the people - as the local
police defending their image in
court (covering their tracks), our
government trying to throttle the
press to cover their own lies,
school and church resisting
inevitable change - then the once
protective shell becomes a prison
and expanding life breaks out.
"ln the three thousand years
of recorded history, twenty-six
great nations or cultures have
come and gone - come up and
gone down - and ours of the
West is the twenty-seventh." So
says Arnold
English historian.
Every form haS
(man-made or
span - birth and
our institutions are
Every man, every
structure, every
organization
together, in their
serve man only for a
When the systera
was one hundred
pioneering days,
healthy men and
the center of the
faced the challenge:
the adventure
and following th
into the sunset.
was offered 160
land if he would
and improve it.
But today who
Today he is a
standpoint of the
Where can he go?
do?
In ghettos,
the street and later
into the Army or t
If and when
authorities,
young, that fact in
sign of decadence.
young are the future,
hair.
Editor, The Journal:
The people voted them into
office to make laws and to see
that they are enforced. I would
like you to tell us if you think the
lawmakers in the past were smart,
dumb, or just plain grafters.
Fifty years ago, from coast to
coast we had slot machines - or
what you know as one-armed
bandits - in the best of clubs in
the United States, also in bars,
poolrooms, road houses, hotels,
resorts and ships.
In the 1930's, an outfit in
Chicago started to manufacture
pinball machines. They sent their
salesmen to the slot machine
owners to sell their pinballs. They
had no luck. So they conned a lot
of punks into buying the
machines.
But when the punks found
out the places which had the slots
did not want the pinballs in their
place of business, the
manufacturer of the pinballs and
their punks started a drive all over
the United States - and had the
State of Nevada with them - to
stop the operation of all the slots.
They had the legislature of
the State of Washington in 1936
pass a bill which made it a felony
to own or have a slot.
When the above was
accomplished, the manufacturers
of pinballs had free sailing. They
sold to all the punks they could
f'md.
The joker was that the
manufacturers
out with a new
days and if the
the new machines
found more
Some of the
what was ha
the graft to the
started. The punkS
officials into
licenses in the cities
They then
which got the
syndicate corraled
the cities and
were not in you
The
company came
5- 10-25-cent
The player could
more before
This state was
of the gross take
machines before
outlawed. A
manufactured to
player from 5
cannot do that
machine and a slot
room and could be
Slots should be
pay the state 40
money going to
state should have
on all its ferries;
them out of the
The le
King County
happens when you
license.
J.l-.
Editor, The Journal:
There is no way I can express
my true feeling in a letter but I
would like to say thanks to all the
wonderful people in the Shelton
area for their help in assuring my
coming trip to Malmo, Sweden
for the 1973 World Games for the
Deaf.
It has been a truly
overwhelming experience for me
and I do wish I could thank you
all personally
would like
to the Key
the
they did.
I am truly
going to MalmO
best to prove
the honor, thai6
Again, my
you.
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WIND's Larry Johnson reports a new illness is
costrophobia - fear of high prices.
(Irv Kupcinet in
They send Russian farmers to Siberia for not
we pay them.
(Lou
The chief of a tribe in a remote section of Africa
visit to the U.S. and gave this report to his
people assembled in seats around a great green
men in funny costumes ran onto the field,
placed themselves in special positions. Then the
object bigger than any egg, and the miracle was
from the heavens!"