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You think you've got troubles? Consider the plight of Charlie Savage. He's got a problem that sounds like the plot of a short story in Cosmopolitan magazine. A curvaceous Republican has come to Washington from the land of the Dixicrats to try to take away Charlie's seat in the state legislature. You've guessed it Gini is back. Gini Clocksin is the Port Townsend florist who, as a neophyte politician in 1966, beat Charlie by seven votes for one of the two 24th district seats in the House of Representatives. It took two recounts to determine the winner. Charlie didn't work too hard during that contest. He not only didn't think he had to, he really didn't know how to, combat his pulchritudinous adversary. He was on the ugly end of a beauty-and-the-beast contest. Charlie hasn't got a bad build - for a logger - but it is nothing that will turn-on a mill hand. We doubt that one timber worker in ten would turn his head watch Charlie walk down the street. Gini, on the other hand, is a work-stopper of the first magnitude. When she appeared at the mill gate in stretch pants and a sweater, Charlie could have promised three-hour coffee breaks and a 10-hour work week and gone unheeded. So, for two years, Charlie sat in the back of the crew bus while Gini decorated the back row of the House chambers. When it came time for re-election, however, Gini had to withdraw from the contest because her husband was transferred to Louisiana. Charlie won the election in a walk, spent two years in Olympia's marble zoo, and has announc- ed he will file for re-election. He was contemplating a nice, quiet campaign against the usual competition - a couple non-descript Democrats and a John Birch Republican or two - when his gorgeous nemesis reappeared out of the bayou country. There is now a creditable race in the 24th district. We suggested, during the 1966 Savage-Clocksin campaign, that Charlie resist the urge to turn it into a beauty contest by shaving his legs. We repeat that suggestion. We see tlothing wrong, however, with a discreet touch of after-shave lotion and a bit of eye makeup. "°°"i;;~g "1 can remember when a working woman with fifteen daughters was treated with some respect in Seattle." Mason County Engineer Cash Bridger doesn't mince words when it comes to delineating his phobias. When Seattle P-I reporter Jack Jarvis asked for reader comment on a beard he is growing, Cash responded with the comment that few older men and no young men can wear a beard roperl . . , i ltketli Dash rigt ,,"r a ] [191oyer i would not hire one: if I were a girl I would not marry one; if 1 were a wife I would not tolerate one; if I were in business I would avoid dealing with one; if I were you I would shave!" That's laying it on the line, Cash. The question now is: what can you do to stop the proliferation of jowl hair that is walking the streets of our country? As a minor employer, you can't turn down enough hairy applicants to make much of a dent in the supply; since you're not a girl, you can't refuse to marry one; as a non-wife you have no chance to be intolerant; you're not in business, so you can't snub non-shavers, and you're not Jack Jarvis, so you can't serape off the offending bristles. What is needed is legislation with a good stiff penalty to discourage beard-growing. We don't' need Attorney General John Mitchell's help on this one, Cash. As an engineer, you should be able to come up with something suitable. By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS Twenty-nine cities and towns now preparing their current expense budgets for next year could have their revenue projections upset or at least slightl'y~ bent by the counties in which they fire located. These cities and towns currently are levying the local sales tax authorized by the 1970 Legislature, but each is located in a county which isn't levying the tax. Cities and towns in such cases get 98 per cent of the local sales tax revenue collected within their corporate limits, with the other 2 per cent going to the state to How about boiling in hot asphalt? ~~~~~~l~~L On two occasions now, we have left a million dollars worth of equipment on the moon, not for scientific purposes but simply as jettisoned weight left behind to increase the margin of safety on the return lift-off. Two million dollars is less than a drop in the bucket-it is hardly a damp spot on the account book-in our total space effort, and no one begrudges any additional protection to the astronauts who make these voyages into the void. But the process is a telling symbol of the waste that enjoys acceptance in most technological contexts as opposed to the paucity of support available in other circumstances. To grasp the point, one only has to think what two million dollars would mean to a symphony orchestra, a predominantly black school, a ballet troupe, an Indian reservation, a college scholarship fund, or an imaginative museum. Typically, we devote only the most uncertain resources to t.hese latter categ.ories of our culture, but we willingly, even proudly, leave Hasselblad cameras and expensive television gear to the solar winds and lifeless silence of the lunar landscape. E. J. Shoben, Jr. Executive Vice President Evergreen State College u~H~B~~~u~~u~~~ Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412 Published at Shelton, Mason County, Washington, every Thursday. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office, Shelton, Wash. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 23, 1970 By LLOYD A. COOK I can well recall, 23 years ago, when Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" made its way into my community. To say that it caused a stir is much too soft a judgment. It was read like scripture, quoted to stop or start argument in homes and classrooms. Unlike many child care manuals then and later, it was simple and it was clear, and at times it was very funny. It seems to me now, as I think back, that the hand of John Dewey had fallen upon us, that his words of wisdom-via Dr. Spock-pointed the way. And behind this great man was the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The key to it all, some of us thought, was in "Emile," a book that appeared to say: "Watch the child, see what he is like. Get out of his way and let him grow." The first Spock, after various revisions, was revised again in 1968 under title of "Baby and Child Care ;" paperback by Pocket Books, hardcover by Meredith Press. Of the studies I have seen, those comparing issues, the most oetailed is by Katharine Davis Fishman in the NY Times Book Review for February 16, 1969. The big thing about the first Spock, an emphasis slimmed down year by year, was the stress in season and out on "permissiveness" in child rearing; "child-eenteredness" as school people then called it. I recall one P.E.A. speaker, a wellknown educator, who ended an address cover collection costs. But if the counties in which they are located should decide to start levying the tax, 15 per cent of that now going to the cities automatically would go to the counties. Working In The Dark Cities and towns must adopt their budgets for next year by this coming October. As they operate on a calendar year, these budgets become effective next January 1. But the counties could adopt local sales tax ordinances after city budgets are adopted, and still qualify for their share of the tax by January I when the new budgets take effect. ;g with the words: "Abandon any idea of educating for adult life. Let youngsters live for today-follow their own interests, express their own purposes. Today is just as important in their life as any day can ever be." The new 1968 Spock is, as Mrs. Fishman notes, far less permissive; in fact I am inclined to say that he has made almost a complete about face. Adults should meet the young headon in talking over questions in an open, honest way. As persons and in groups, the young should be "civil" to their elders, and, to parents, teachers and others they should be "cordial." They should keep clean, well bathed, and wear clothes that are attractive in their group. As to hairdo (and other styles), that can be left to choice, assuming it is not "provocative" to parents and others. The young should have "chores" in the home, feel "obligations" to help out. Up to the age of 16 or 17, they should not have dates or go steady with anyone. So much firmness may be a bit upsetting to oldtime readers of Dr. Spock. Why such a change in basic views? Mrs. Fishman remarks that the doctor is getting older and, like most of us, "grows crustier with age." Further, his new outlook is perhaps "a reflection of the times." As we look about us, the behavior of the young in homes, on streets, in schools, is it not time for one and all to cry uncle, to say that yes, indeed, the young do need some rules? The present inability of universities, as self-governing bodies, to defend themselves City governments can be depended upon to contact county governments before projecting anticipated revenue for next year, but they still are working in the dark to some extent. A county government mightn't have any plans to enact the tax at this time, but could change its mind later. Counties also must adopt next year's budgets in October, but if they elect to enact the sales tax later they can always include the added revenue in a supplemental budget. Scattered Statewide There are some counties where the tax isn't being collected where none of the cities and towns are against disruption is a case in point. Dr. Spock's opposition to the draft, and to the war in Vietnam, are well known. It is, of course, the privilege of anyone to applaud or to condemn these views if the person so desires. For myself, I do not see how the author's stand has any bearing on the worth and quality of his child care book. The volume has been translated into 29 languages and sold some 21 million copies. I had meant to end this column with a study, made under my auspices, of changes in child rearing practices in the U.S. as seen in the writing of experts, 1730 to 1960. There is space for only a few general conclusions. First, expert advice on child care and education has changed many times in the past, at times swung in circles, and is likely to keep on doing so. Old ideas are replaced by new ones, more and more people consult experts, the human Condition is forever different than it was. Second, the young are not little imps or devils, born to be bad (or good), nor are they small adults. They are, in a word, not unlike seedlings, destined to live and grow, and change and mature, if the milieu permits. Third, the best expert advice today is often put in terms of variables. Children are different, homes are different, so are schools, etc. The task of bringing up the young is an adaptive, creative process, as individualized as it can be made under conditions of mass living. collecting it, either. But cities collecting the tax in counties which aren't levying it are scattered statewide. The heaviest populated county which isn't levying the tax is Snohomish County, but eight of its cities and towns are levying it, though Everett, its largest city, isn't. Wrong Target State Director of Revenue George Kinnear says people who heap abuse on their county assessors because their reappraisals have boosted property values are shooting at the wrong target. The assessor doesn't levy taxes and neither he nor his reappraisals have any connection with the cost of government. If people think their property taxes are too high, Kinnear said, they should go to the people who adopt the budgets, their county commissioners and their school directors, among others. Some of the most irate complaints about property valuations to reach Kinnear's office have come from districts in which the property owners just recently voted substantial excess levies for local school support. Doing Their Job The assessors are required by law to reappraise all property within their counties every four year. This they coundn't do - because of insufficient funds - until the Legislature appropriated the money. The purpose of the reappraisals is to bring property values for taxing purposes into closer conformity with current market values. In one county where some property hadn't been reappraised for 13 years, property values had been increasing at an annual rate of 8 per cent for the past 10 vears. The reappraisals also are intended to bring uniformity into property taxation, and to end discriminati°n' A person whose property hadn't been appraised for 13 years had been enjoying a priviledged advantage over some other property owner who had recently purchased his property, which was appraised at the purchase price, Kinnear said. He added that reappraisals had found wide variances, with some property having been assessed at as low as 1 to 5 per cent of its fair value while other property was assessed at as high as 50 or 60 per cent - more than is permitted by the constitution. Editor, The Journal: It's great to be back after our trenty-two months' "tour" to Bogalusa, Louisianan. My husband, Duane, who was transferred there to behis company's timber operations manager, and I concluded we simply had to get the children "home" in the interest of their education, personal safety and overall development! Jini Linn, my "number two", 12-year-old daughter and I got home last month. We are living with my grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Ammeter, at 641 Calhoun Street, Port Townsend - actually in the same precinct Duane and I vote in so we don't even have to change our voter registration for this fall's elections. Our experiences in Louisiana have been fabulous. Comparing Louisiana politics and government, as well as people, and those in Washington State, has been fascinating. The people, as I suspect throughout the nation, are warm and friendly. They have about the same concerns for their children, their families and for America as we do. We made many Louisana friends. The system of government - and of politics - in the deep South is something else. I saw what happens where there is only one effective none of the and balances truly competitive I offer. Since the have no effective the entrenched Democratic another no way to and in made a speech November at Club. I up a little. The a describes what ro - and what they here at home 1 can't letter how home - the the green coolness of blue of our skies - where and yours, appreciat' opportunities growing up with a what we have dedication to we protect i m p rove community 1 am Ioo meeting with again soon. Editor, The Journal: What a sick economy, what a sick economic philosophy is being followed by big shot Republican Administration leaders in Washington, D.C. Millions of people need homes. Thousands of builders are anxious to build them but are forced into unemployment instead. The Simpson timber Company, for whom I work, is anxious to supply lumber and other products for building homes but people can't buy homes when they have to pay $29,680.00 interest on a $25,000.00 home mortgage. My Independence Day present was a notice from the Company that I and my fellow loggers will now have to begin an indefinite period of unemployment because of market conditions. Already our economy is sick from NIXONIT1S: I. The highest interest rates in a hundred years. 2. Scarce money policy. 3. Run-away inflation. 4. Rapid escalating unemployment. All this would indicate that the top brass in the Republican Party has not learned a damn thing in all these years since the Hoover depression. Maybe they just don't want the Republicans to stay in office too long, people might catch on. Trouble is we all have to suffer while Administration the coffee and the When a loggers, thousand are more unem income tax too and rn somebody else What a w~ into economic fast, it is think about. We all this nice if we are up in the winter, wind and When we are we can ,herd mountain thinking a working wea we will be Nixon Administ WashingtOn, But we about not yet ul Heck! accompll is not Charles Io • Editor, The Journal: answer One very important aspect of a the emergency services program calls provided by the Volunteers of the s evere Fire Protection District 5, is the eq small bvt very active and efficient t y p e group of Lady Volunteers. These ladies are trained as Firefighters I and as First Aiders. They attend these training and drill right along with only are the men. bit as Associated with the tradition Department at this time are eight Service, ladies. These ladies are added particularly important in the day what is time when a large part of the men are gone. The ladies of Allyn and Victor Fire are frequently called upon to Editor, The Journal: which I read where the State Park most Commission is thinking about countrY" buying the Nalley property on The Hood Canal for a park. with the All this land is protected by a the dyke and the inside of this dyke is lower than the high tides. Outside federal of these dykes there are salt water It marshes and mud flats which run feet over halfway across the canal,the parg. : ~ The state owns this land. It . could be dredled and a fill made "Hey, Mac, you've got a leak