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k 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. ~l~lL,,-_ t.,,,~p Lqmm~ 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. 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 Shelt0n, Washington• Member of National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.50 per year in Mason County, in advance -- Outside Mason County $6•50 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.' " Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday. April 5, 1973 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. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiii Mack McGinnis' IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUlIIIIIIIIII 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!"