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While lesser talents are "wallowing in Watergate,"
i. :sident Nixon is using his prodigious expertise to cure the
,ation's economic woes.
He has been especially effective on the food front, where
his incisive moves have strengthened the good old American
pastimes of poaching, rustling and shoplifting, a
heartwarming sign during these days of changing values.
Every power at the chief excutive's command is being
used to bring food prices up to the level where they belong
and helpful advice is issued from his departments in a steady
flow.
The consumer can expect the following news story any
day now:
WASHINGTON - (API) There is good news this week
from Virginia Knauer, President Nixon's consumer aftairs
advisor.
Mrs. Knauer's office began distribution Tuesday of a
booklet entitled "Don't Be A Food Hog," which outlines
how a family of four can eat for $1.32 a week.
"This is your President's answer to the gluttonous
dissenters who are claiming that food prices are too high,"
said Mrs. Knauer. "It just isn't so, and this helpful booklet
proves it."
She also pointed out that eggs sold for a dollar apiece
during the gold rush in Northern California in 1849.
"These chronic complainers fail to point out that today,
with President Nixon fighting for the consumer, the price of
eggs has been held to only 40 cents apiece," she said.
"Don't Be A Food Hog" outlines exciting ways the
consumer can cut corners on the food budget.
Chapter 12, for instance, is entitled "Nostalgia," and
suggests the entire family set aside one day a week for a
return to the pleasureable days of childhood.
"Your food budget will be zero for the day if, once a
week, you gather your loved ones around you and make mud
pies," reads the copy. "You will be amazed how the fond
memories of childhood return with your first mouthful of
the warm mud. The experience will not only help you cut
down on food costs but will improve family relationships
with its spirit of togetherness."
Chapter 23 deals with "Breakfast, The Superfluous
Meal," and points out that "millions of Americans,
particularly those with get-up-and-go who get things done in
this country, have found that a cup of coffee and 10 or 12
cigarettes are all they need to put them on the move in the
morning. Join the in-group; you will be amazed at the change
it will make in your life."
] he final ci~al)ter. "'W:fl~', Your Weight," is probably the
most helpful.
"Remembe, "" it cautions, "to pr~tcct your health you
should ke~p :y,:~ s~.igl~t as clo~c a, possible lo the new
Height & Yveight Standards prepared by the President's
Committee on Keeping The Old Turn-Turn Under Control.
The new standards call for a basic weight of 73 pounds for
the first five feet of height and an additional pound for each
additional inch. If you are 6'4", for instance,
wetghl~ would be 89 pounds.' :!~ watching your diet~ ~O~T~i~7'
easily stay close to your perfect weight."
Reactions have been varied to the overwhelmin
success of the furniture salesman from South Snohomish and
his 700,O00-signature whim-wham.
The most obvious was the screech of the Chuckleheaded
Votegetter, that bird who is returned to the legislature term
after term by constituents who apparently feel that the main
qualification for public office is a string of cliches uttered at
a Grange meeting, a VFW picnic or a fireman's ball.
A splendid example is the whining of Senator Reuben
Knoblauch, whose highest work of statesmanship as a
legislator is the introduction of the Daffodil Festival court to
his colleagues in the marble zoo.
Senator Knoblauch says he thinks that Bruce Helm,
Initiative 282"s papa, didn't give the legislators a fair deal.
"Instead of the five and a half percent increase, it should
be five and a half percent compounded since 1965, in order
to bring us up to date with pay raises in other fields,"
complained Knoblauch.
Pray tell, Senator Knoblauch, what other field? In what
other calling can you receive $3,600 a year plus $40 per diem
for interrupting a $40,000-a-day operation to parade a bevy
of busty beauties before your buddies?
Senator Knoblauch also proclaimed that the smaller pay
increase called for in Initiative 282 will hurt the government.
Younger people, he says, will be more and more disinterested
in serving in government.
If Senator Knoblauch possessed either the brains or the
curiosity to find out what is going on in 1973, he would
know that today's young people are more interested in public
service than past generations.
If many of them are disinterested in government as a
form of service to their fellowman, it is because of the
actions of politicians and the masochism of the electorate,
not the rate of pay in government jobs.
If there is anything that astounds and disenchants a
reasonably-bright youngster, it is a politician who rigs a
backroom pay boost and pension grab for himself and then
wins re-election by appearing at a church smorgasbord and
telling his constituents he is a veteran of World War II, a
member of 43 service and fraternal organizations, and voted
for a resolution asking God to lower the cost of living.
It is inconceivable to a young person that his elders
would knowingly continue to send such patent phonies back
to Olympia.
But they do. And that is what is going to happen when
the Chucldeheaded Votegetters come up for re-election.
There will be no correlation between the signature on the
Initiative 282 petition and the mark on a ballot next to a
candidate's name.
It takes about two seconds to sign a petition in anger, but
considerably more time to study candidates and separate
those who are overpaid at $3,600 and those who are worth
$10,560 or more.
Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, August 16,
SAN CL6/~1~
KEY I6CA' N
N I XON'S ~1; I0 NULLIOI~ ,~/~J~PL EI~
sessions over
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS Even if Mardesich picks up provide a preview, but the answer
The continuing legislature another vote or two in this year's won't be known until January.
concept goes on, but there election, this plan probably won't The result won't hinge on the
probably won't be any more be revised, number ofbillswhich are passed,
full-dress, three-day committee Many of those who w)ted for but on the quality of legislation;
sessions here for the balance of it originally wouldn't w)te for it also the cost. There have been
the biennium. Those held the first again. Many are unhappy over ~he numerous complaints from the
weekend of this month wc~c the loss of summer weekends caused Republicans regarding the
last prior to the September by the committeemeetings, apparent costs of the present
session, though a few commitlees plan. These have been echoed by
will holdmeetings in various , :aal Test To Come ,umerous others.
locations. But despite the grumbling The Democratic leadership
None are contemplated that has been heard among still insists the overall cost will be
between the September and majority members in both houses, less than the previous plan of
January sessions. By agreement, absenteeism at the weekend having numerous interim
the January session will be limited meetings has been minimal. The committees. If the Democrats can
tea roaxilmma of 40~After ,final:. test,~of this plart isl yet to prove this contention~ it will carry
that~ the agreement I~tw~n ttm, cpme,,~Th~ September session will a lot of weight.
majority leadership of the
legislature and the chief executive
office ends. ~~~~~~~nl~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~~~~~n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~~~~~n~~~~~~~l~~~~I~~~~~~~~~~I~~~~n~~~~~~~~
No further special sessions are
planned for the balance of 1974. Me K " M G i i '
Neiiher are any further C C nn s
committee sessions; for two
reasons. Next year will be an
election year when all House
members and half of the Senate
will be runing for reelection.
Secondly, if the January session is ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
to be the only one held next year, First woman, "My husband plays handball and golf and swims. Does
further committee meetings
would be pointless. The following your husband exercise regularly?" Second woman, "Well, last week he
J anuary it will be a new was out seven nights running."
legislature. (Leo Aikman in Atlanta Constitution)
Original Plan Dead
The original plan, which
Greive and his five followers
blocked in the Senate, called for a
continuing session by recessing at
the end of the first special session;
then holding "mini-sessions" for
about three days each month.
A guy named Russ has to be the most frustrated man in the state.
Within a week he got two official notices. One informed him that the
tax assessment on his house has been increased 20 percent. The other
said that the building has been declared unfit for human occupancy.
(Mickey Porter in Akron Beacon Journal)
Money may not be everything, but it sure comes in handy when you've
misplaced your credit cards.
(Leo Aikman in Atlanta Constitution)
By DAVE AVERILL
Now that we have liberated
the ladies, it's time for a new
campaign.
I'm for liberating the old
folks.
My motives are selfish. 1 am
looking forward to being an old
folk myself one day, and I want
to enjoy it.
And if somebody thinks he's
going to turn me into a
hymn-singing model of
respectability to celebrate the
autumn years, it is my active hope
that he'll be badly disappointed.
By all rights, age should have
its compensations.
Great'grandfather may need
an occasional jolt of Serutan and
some extra vitamins before he
chases the widow next door, but
he is spared any need for being
polite to bores. He is not looking
for a promotion or a rising sales
curve.
He doesn't even need to be
respectable, since he is past the
years of having to ,serve as a
model for impressionable
offspring. If he looks like sort of a
blot on the family name, his
descendents are free to move
elsewhere.
What the world needs is more
rowdy old men, and more little
old ladies who carry a pint of ~in
1973
in their quaint ola-tashioned
purses.
Liberation! Let the Golden
Agers form a few picket lines, and
all of us will have a more
interesting world.
As it happens, a couple of my
formative years were spent in the
company of aged rowdies.
1 signed up as a waiter in the
Student Union at Stanford
University, but when I showed a
tendency to spill hot-fudge
sundaes on customers the
authorities assigned me to new
duties as a dishwasher.
The work was done in a
steamy little cell hidden from
sight, and most of my colleagues
were wrinkled old hoodlums who
invested a good part of their
earnings in muscatel and
budget-priced vodka.
They were a jolly and
irresponsible group, not unwilling
to supplement their incomes by
bootlegging to teenage students.
And when the dishwashing
machine broke down or the
foreman stepped out for a cup of
coffee, they were quick to hustle
out to the kitchen and pilfer a
steak or a bottle of vanilla
extract.
Perhaps the Golden Agers
would have disowned them, but
they did seem to be enjoying
themselves.
They had relaxed working
conditions, plenty to eat and
drink, and the company of
congenial colleagues. If the place
was a bit warm, it did keep the
circulation brisk.
The dishwashing staff caused
even more problems for the
Student Union's manager than did
the student waiters.
Those were the days when
students were polite and
obedient. The waiters' worst habit
was resigning abruptly just before
final examination week. The
dishwashers, on the other hand,
were forever getting jugged on
various minor charges by the Pale
Alto police. If the manager was
short on help, he would go down
and bail out two or three of them.
Such antics impressed me as
being more rewarding than the
traditional elder's role of handing
out unwanted advice and endless
homilies. If you want to serve as
an example, why not be a bad
example? It looks like more fun.
And now that 1 am sprouting
some gray hairs of my own, my
hope is that the old boys were the
vanguard of a geriatric uprising.
To my chagrin, I was here too
eady for the Youth Revolution.
Maybe I won't miss out on the
day when the elders start
shattering all the rules.
Editor, The Journal:
I'm not much of a letter
writer but I did read in your
paper the article about the home
being turned down for
handicapped children.
One day two months ago I
came into Shelton from
California. I was barefoot, not too
clean, no money and very
depressed. I was sitting with my
head in my hands, hungry and
thinking how I could get a meal,
stealing even. I'd been on grass.
I heard a chipper little voice
singing softly a church son~ I
Iourn
Editor, The Journal:
Our Journal arrives here
Monday or Tuesday following
publication, so we have just
received August 2 edition.
I appreciate your editorials,
including "Richard Nixon's
Band." I voted for him, and
would again in the same
circumstance, a fact which is
entirely beside the point.
To me, the point is that you
use the editorial dace for
editorials, as well as for readers'
opinions, the page where
thought-stimulating opinions and
challenges belong, and use the
front page and other areas for
factual reporting of news.., a
system I applaud as true
journalism.
We especially enjoyed the
article about everybody's friend,
Merritt Wingard. 1 always enjoy
the bridge club section, and
Passing Fancies.
Jane Bennett
Editor, The Journal:
It seems well to add some
explanation to the five letters in
the August 9 issue deploring the
extreme criticism of the President
of our United States. Was not
President Roosevelt forgiven for
collecting in all our gold and
loaning or giving it around the
world? Now those recipients are
reminding us that they have the
gold and we have but paper. This
is one of the inherited,
tremendous problems President
Nixon is facing.
FDR attempted to pledge the
individual property of every
American behind the paper dollar.
The nine old men on the Supreme
Court reminded him that our
Constitution protected the people
from such seizure. He could take
all our income via the income tax
but our property should remain
our own. Going off the gold
standard and depleting the
requirement that gold or silver be
deposited to support every paper
dollar' has left 6ur paper dollars in
a precarious position. The years
have brought this situation to a
climax for President Nixon to
solve.
The liberalism and big-headed
attitude of the last many years
has brought our presently-recog-
nized severe moral and spiritual
decay. This has now reached a
climax. Inflation that congress has
furthered over the many years is
devouring our assets.
With but little security behind
our dollar, with a national debt of
some five hundred billion dollars
and so many dollars in
circulation, even our friends are
questioning its value. Congress
fails to even try paying the debt.
Our president is risking and
spending his life in an effort to
solve these, our problems, along
with the threats of war and the
many other concerns. He has
named a committee of labor
leaders, business leaders and
others representing just the
people to work out the solutions
and make the needed
adjustments. Working together a
degree of success is certain,
continuous dissention can mean
disaster.
The fact that at the time
entering the Watergate offices in
such a manner seemed necessary,
is the sad part. It is well that
prosecutors do not have the right
of conviction, the defense is
entitled to its day. There are three
unusual defenses. One is
self-defense, secondly is
justification and third is excusable
mistake. If we just recall that
President Kennedy had been
killed, the governor of Texas
wounded, Senator Kennedy
l~illed, Governor Wallace shot,
President Nixon's life threatened
and worse. Then that a group of
irresponsible dope eaters were
actively engaged in a campaign to
beat Nixon by electing McGovern
was real cause for concern. Not
the usual one burglar, but five
men went into the Watergate
offices to ascertain whether the
names of persons known by them
to be dangerous, were being given
passes and inside opportunities.
For obvious reasons asking for the
usual court order or search
warrant with its attending
world-wide publicity was out of
the question.
Whether the action of these
sincere men was justified or may
be considered to be an excusable
mistake should be decided by a
court, hearing all the evidence.
Eli Nickerson
Editor, The Journal:
It was somewhat shocking to
see on the front page of last
week's Journal that a home for
handicapped or retarded children
is being blocked in the Northcliff
area. To me it seems to be an
ideal location, wooded for privacy
and isolation, pleasant and
wholesome for children, and yet
near enough for urban services.
The tragic aspect of the
opposition is that six, eight or ten
children (whatever the number
Editor, The Journal:
1 was appalled when I read in
last week's Journal that a group
of citizens (six families, to be
exact) had signed a petition
barring a group home for retarded
and handicapped children.
Just who do these people
think they are, to pass judgment
on innocent children. These
Editor, The Journal:
It's nice to see the good
people of Shelton taking an active
interest in words and ideas
expressed in the Journal.
I was beginning to worry that
they really didn't care what went
on around them.
From the lack 6f
letters-to-the-editor following
news items and editorials
concerning Vietnam, Cambodia,
My Lai, Dita Beard and ITT,
Russian wheat deal, Watergate,
Mexican laundries, rising food
prices, energy crises, wiretaps, the
tapes, White House remodelings,
misdirected air strikes,
controversial campaign
contributions, possible
subversion, fraud and bribery,
permissiveness, robberies,
Editor, The Journal:
When we were camping near
Shelton some weeks ago we
happened to buy your local
newspaper. After we read the
"Richard Nixon's Band" we
began eagerly looking forward to
your next issue. Your "Did I say
That?" commentary was just as
great as the Nixon Band piece. I
can honestly tell you we were
happy to be able to laugh at
somethin~ in the news because
hadn't heard in years
Circle Be Unbroken)
saying to me, good
young man, are you
help you.
I couldn't believe
eyes. There before m*
lady to me the most
person in the world,
condemn me but sat
and talked about God.
She never
gave me new
said, "young man,
hungry." She gave
food and shoes for
did not follow me,
me.
Mrs. Crutcher
those shoes, I ate
I also read the book]
me - "Answers to
name was in it and
have been meant for
else. Thank God you rnel
Kids, if you have
Mrs. Crutcher and
troubles with her. I
my mother but I
Angel of Light and
been in trouble or
since our talk, June 7,
do not intend too
Someday, somehow
something to make
proud of me, by
1 say in dosing
those childreq (you
with you soon.
Jerry
Los AngdeS,
potentially involved),
particularly in need ofl
and attention such
Crutchers are so
to give them, are to I~
of it.
Here's hoping
that an equally
more desirable,
established for those
harmless children
of hostility. The
not give up.
children are not
have commited no
really ever ask for is
these people want to
that.
I suppose you
people, in your
consider yourself
Well, money can't buy
heaven.
things l~ave beela
lately.
In fact, we
editorials and
much we have
subscribe to your
year. Keep up
commentaries and
country needs a bit
this great time of
you so much for
appreciate it.
John and
Los
- • " . % - .
murders,
national security,
Agnew, I just
that the literate
Shelton didn't give J
nuts, dam.
But after all
comments last week
"Richard Nixon's
use, heaven
obscene word,
repeat here for
culture, taste and
faith in the
Sheltonites has
I see now that
just waiting for
important to occur
might step to the fore,
gap, strike a blow
and decency and
apple pie.
Good night! In 1430, Philip, Duke of Burgundy had a bed -,..--.
12% feet wide and 19 feet long. ~"