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Editorials: Free enterprise The difficulty encountered by the promoters of the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair in getting their project off the ground in Thurston County shows their almost total lack of knowledge concerning the guidelines governing the American free enterprise system. They are thoroughly familiar with the first rule, however, since they have lined up 30,000 sucker ... souls, that is, who are willing to pay ten to twelve bucks apiece to be jammed together cheek-by-jowel in a pasture in Outer Thurstonia for three days of head-splitting music performed by such contemporary groups as "Interstate Freeway and the Access Roads" and "The Electric Zipper." Their egregious mistake was made in the selection of the sheep to be shorn, a seemingly insolvent collection of shaggy members of the Pimple Generation with a penchant for pot, a taste in clothing that runs from early war refugee through cigar store Indian to late bindle stiff, and a reputation for alleviating sexual tension at its immediate onset regardless of the location or time of day. This has not only caused Macy's to post guards around its display windows at high noon, but has created such a fear in the average American that he runs into the house, locks the door and pulls down the shades when he spots one of the these glandular emancipates walking down the street. It has also made it practically impossible for rock festivals to find a place to rock, no matter how far out in the dingweeds the promoters place them. If one of these musical marathons were planned on the moon, there would be at least a dozen public officials smitten with apoplexy and some citizen would file an.injunction against Smokey Bear citing the fire hazard of such an event. We therefore suggest that these promoters, who are obviously talented if they can sell instant discomfort at twelve clams a head, turn their attention to socially-accepted forms of entertainment. We offer the following hypothetical events for a starter. Choose a lake in a heavily-populated area, Arrange to bring at least a dozen of the noisest boats in the world to the lake for a week of time trials, climaxed by a big race on Sunday. Hire a crew of pretty young girls to coerce or cajole a dollar out of 200,000 citizens tbr a plastic button that costs four cents, (You begin to get the picture?) then invite them to the big Sunday race. They'll come flocking to the place, some of them arriving on Saturday night to set up camp in lakeside dwellers' yards. They'll bring enough beer to float the twelve hydroplanes and before the sun has set Sunday night they will have left most of it, after processing, on private shrubs, lawns, driveways ,and rose gardens, along with enough litter to last Yellowstone Park for a decade. The beauty of this type of promotion is that you don't have to pick up the garbage. The city will do it for you, and / The Flapdoodler: Red.blooded " wants to keep it resulting outflow. OeN "Pretty thin, pretty thin," the old b iddyl muttering. But eventually they took a chance "Look at the outfits on those kooks!" me. little ntie ''  They strapped me to a rack aud a . #ts, I[ -', " tap into nay jugtdar. Then they drew a couple q | me with smelling salts, and turned me loose. -n Capitol dome: as they, turned their backS O  about my ice cream cone? -the I#i:'t Governor Evans wouldn't bar rock festivals "We're all °ut'" they sakl" "We just gaV" --Iti a little ninc-year-okt boy wlio was here with htsv" il.? By STEVE ERiCKSON They're after nay blood. This morning's avalanche of mail in my mail box (one letter) was from those 20th-ee the Blood Bankers. Alias, the Red Cross. That's Red Cross.  .... of blood. Pretty sneaky, too, the way they solicit Their letter looks more like one of those greeting cards than a wunpire's gambit. It pictures funny little caricatures of s politician, a jet pilot, a tycoon, and a dowager.  Y' "'What's your type'?" it says there on the card. Y'tl, pictured ! a little closer. All those quaint little people ,l!It,_ have something in comnaon, you notice, bottle 0f They're all hooked up to a ten-gallon Full. ,L%: Inside. the vampires get even cuter, bl , "Whether you're an aristocratic b oratorical hot blood, a billionaire with olulgt0li ' able-bodied, red-blooded defender," they s caricatures. "it all comes out as radiant ,, devotion to those who need your blood to live. lice JlL',. Need your blood to live? l need my bloO:° i" boss said anybody who'd "roll up Iris...¢jt rest of the day off. v,-,1,,m,. Also, he said, the Red Cross eerie will giveY P [ crealn colle. That did it. i raced down to the blood bank f0w- jlpe,  offering my veins, my arteries, my all. i# lt They jabbed my finger with a pin and ex# ][i i Which was no way to treat a donor. By: ROBERT C. CUMMINGS abuse problem is more thall that. lk'spitc appearances, this isn't a Though the door to a clearly So, althougla the needles don't bother Just because "rock festivals It will try to close the obvious gerrymandering move. Not that gerrymandered bill on legislative although nobody's blood is redder thai1 rrlile',i have a history of some drug gaps now existing in the the Republicans wouldn't reappointionment is closed tolhe abuse, Guy. Dan Evans doesn't coordination, funding and gerrymander it' they could. But Republicans, it still is open to the agree that plastlla is a woFlderful thing, i DeJ consider this any reason to bar direction of existing state this can be done only when one l)emocrates, this current blood drive. them. programs. Most of the task force political party controls both Assured of retaining control of Can't have one of you running around He made this comment the members come from various state houses, the Senate, they also have a blood. same day he announced agencies. No realistic Republican chance of wresting control of the Blood may be thicker than water, but ice appointment of a 14-member task The program also calls for a seriously believes his party has House. from the Republicans next i: force to try and resolve this bow three times from the waist while doing it. The traffic state's arowinR drug oroblem !hove in either direction on any Street within five square Festival is scheduled to be held miles. This will make everyone happy because it will prove some 15 miles south of the state that the event, which you can call the Waterfair Trophy Race, or something equally as appropriate, is a huge success. You might even add a little color to the affair by appointing prominent leaders of the community as Waterfair royalty, dressing some in Horatio Hornblower costumes and the rest in pirate garb. These costumes don't seem to scare the hell out of the man on the street, so no one will call the cops or file an injunction. If this type of operation is too small for you, here's one that will really bring in the loot. Pick a large city and blast $25,000 out of the powers-that-be with a promise that you will bring 100,000 members of a national organization into town for a week of heavy boozing and indiscriminate bottom-pinching. This isn't as hard as it sounds, because any shrewd pillar of the community can see that 100,000 hootched-up celebrants will spend millions of dollars for lodging, meals and firewater, plus hundreds of thousands more for souvenirs such as inflammable ash trays, satin pillows dedicated to mother and plastic replicas of the city's architectural abortions. You won't have any trouble with the cops on this one, either. The salesman whose blood pressure rises twenty  points if a rock festival is going on within 100 miles of his home, will just roll over and go to sleep with a smile on his face after a 40-piece band has broken into his hotel room, played "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and finished off the last two-thirds of his bottle of Old Crow. You can also pick up a few bucks selling balloons to the celebrants, which they can fill with water and drop from fifth floor windows, or electric cattle prods which are a must for fun-seekers to use on unsuspecting salesgirls and well-endowed dowagers. The highlight of the week - remembered at subsequent meetings for years to come - might well be the sight of a 200-pound matron propelled three feet straight up in the air on a downtown sidewalk by a playful electrical shock. It's a million laughs and adds to the spirit of the affair. Those are just two things you might try to ease the problem of community resistance to your attempts at free enterprise. You've got the right idea, men; you've just got to change your cliental. 00dlen00enntal Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412 Published at Shelton, Mason CountY, Washingion. evew VhursUay. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office, Shelton. Wash. Member of National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.00 per year in Mason County, in advance -- Outside Mason County $6.00 EDITOR ANO PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay PLANT SUPERINTENDENT ........................ Jim Shrum NEWS EDITOR ' .Alan Ford capital, on a 200-acre ranch near Tenino, with some 30,000 people expected over theLabor Day weekend. He observed that it is illegal to consume alcoholic beverages in public parks, and a considerable amount is consumed at Seattle's Seafair Races, yet nobody would suggest seriously that this event be banned. He said it is a public duty to see that such events are controlled by those responsible for it, and by law enforcement authorities. GOV'T BY COMMITTEE , Any problem that arises at any level of government these days seems to trigger the appointment of another committee, but the governor's task force on the drug review of state facilities to ]provide criminal ssistance t q :I: enforcement agencies, plus a drug testing laboratory at the University of Washington for the assistance of local authorities; a narcotic prescription information system, to identify the sources of large volumes of narcotics obtained by prescription, and implementation of a pilot drug abuse treatment program at Northern State Hospital. TEAPOT TEMPEST A Democratic charge of "gerrymandering," hurled at Republicans, is good for keeping interest alive between elections, but that's about all it amounts to. It was prompted by Republican Central Committee efforts to have all Republican legislators reach unanimous agreement on redistricting prior to the 1971 session. Let's talk books: inlll |uul I I IIII I II III any ctumce of gaining control of the. Sette  the 1970 elt:ctions. retain its majority in the llouse, and this is far from certain. NEAT TRICK The reason for seeking Republican unanimity on the redistricting issue is to put the Republicans in a solid negotiating position with the Democrats. If each party retains control of one house in the 1971 session, the only redistricting bill that can be passed will have to be a negotiated measure. Even so, if anybody can get all Republican law-makers to agree on this subject, it will be quite a trick. It is something the Democrates never have been able to do. It will be a chess game all the way, and the party with the most solidarity will have a decided advantage. How doctors diet-the truth of it By LLOYD A. COOK Peter and Barbara Wyden's "How the Doctors Diet" (Trident, 1968) is the best book on dieting 1 have read. No food formula, no magic health rules, no prescriptions whatever. Just a practical way of keeping trim. In a word, the doctors studied eat less, and choose foods better, than we mere mortals. All but a few have the advantage of NOT having an hereditary weight problem. The book is a record of what 89 doctors says they, and their families, eat and do in order to keep fit. These doctors are not a typical sample of physicians. They are the top of their profession, the great authorities in the diet field. They write the books that other doctors read. Sixty-six filled in a survey form and thirty (including 7 of the 66) were interviewed, along with their family members. Be it said, first, "diet" to these doctors is not a crash effort to reduce. It is their usual, everyday pattern of eating. Flexible enough to permit choice, yet requiring discipline and control. One doctor quotes Rousseau that diet is more a virtue than a science, though he believes that it is both. The authors summarize as follows: 1. These doctors and their wives (or husbands) are weight watchers, Most climb on the scales at least once a week. If weight is going up, they put on the brakes. They cut down on food, on liquor, and they exercise more. One gave up peanut butter, his favorite, another ruled out cocktails, a third began to walk more. 2. Not one doctor (and only a few wives) had what could be called three "square" meals a day. The trend was to cut out breakfast or lunch (neither a good practice) and to "defatten" all meals, that is, to eat no (or fewer) fatty foods such as sausage, eggs, cream, butter, so on. For lunch, a green salad or fruit, soup or sandwich. Only two doctors showed a high cholesterol level. 3. All doctors were very busy and seldom bored, and they held that hard work kept food cravings down. Several were "snackers," notably of evenings, though they never ate much. A shot or two of bourbon was a favored nightcap. 4-5. Fats were feared with a passion, a fear that ruled shopping, foods stored at home, eating habits in general. Wives bought less meat than might be expected, with ground round or chuck, or a flank steak, being preferred to "better" cuts. Pork was out, along with hot dogs; and fish and fowl were served a lot. Frying, no, never! 6. As for desserts, "I avoid them like the plague" one doctor said. Cake and ,ie and puddings, cookies save for plain ones. lee cream? Well, the sample split about evenly on it. Doctors do ' "P'age 4 - Shelton.Mason County Journal - Thursday, August 28, 1969 not "nibble" sweets for, as one remarked, "calories all add up." One still smoked "two packs a day" but was ashamed of it. 7. All food and liquor consumed must not cause a gain in weight, llere we are back to No. I, scale watching. Food portions served at home were modest, though there could be seconds. Children were not urged to "clean up" their plates, a still prevalent "farm home" custom. 8. While some doctors said the eating habits of the young were "bizarre," most stated otherwise. They did not regard themselves as "enforcers" of diet rules but rather the young tended to pattern on parental example. In no family were children lectured on dietary matters. 9-10 Moderation was felt to be the key to steady dieting, and this is based on will power. Thus the most important point for the dieter is motivation, the desire to feel well, to live long, come hell or high water. To conclude, it should not be inferred that all doctors in the sample held to these or other ground rules without exception. "1 do thc best 1 can," said a nutrition expert, "and often that is not good enough." ]'he authors believe that doctors, on the average, tend to eat too much and exercise too little. They cite evidence to show that these men and women are human, too. Like us, they could do better. time around. thought of mine in another. Letter box: i Time to face economic facts 0f Editor, The Journal: If we are to preserve our American way of life, we are going to have to take some action to face the economic facts of life. Any economist knows that the only possibility of maintaining stable economy is to balance production and demand, frequently referred to as supply and demand. Demand is created by placing money in the hands of society, that is, every one of us. What we demand is limited only by the imagination of society. In other words, unlimited; if it is there and we like it we buy it. On the other hand, production, "altho complex, is subject to control. The problem arises from the fact that the producers know how to regulate production to hold the price of the product to a level that will assure a profit, and there is more than one element to production. Every step that has been taken in a so-called effort to control inflation during this current year has had and can only have the effect of increasing inflation. The June report of the consumer index shows an increase in prices of 0.8 which amounts to a price advance rate of 6½% for the first six months of this year, just about double the rate we complained about in 1968. This is inflation, and here is why. No action has been taken that remotely resembles inflationary control. We cannot hope to control the demands of the American society, therefore if there is to be control it must be through production. It is not enough to relate our efforts to production. We must tie the effort directly to every element of production. The old concept of supply and demand will not serve, because we know too much about production. The management staff of any large manufacturer forgets more'about production in one good night's sleep that was known to all of industry thirty years ago. They know their market, they know how to match it and with what to match it. They are dedicated to do a job and they are going to continue doing that job regardless of interest rates, labor costs or material costs, come heat or high water as long as there is profit in doing it. They will maintain that profit through the management of prod uction. This is only one reason why we have had nothing resembling inflationary control. More important is the disregard of the very nature of production. Production always occurs as a result of the agents in production which are: 1. Labor 2. Capital 3. Material 4. Land Rewards of production always flew to these agents in production in that order. After satisfying the first three the residual goes to land. For that reason land is the most stable, land prices will invariably follow the trend established by the other three agents in production, except that only through economis disaster does the price of land reduce. When wages of labor increase, prices increase, when the interest rates rise, prices rise, when the cost of materials go up, prices go up. To attempt to use any one of the agents in production"as a control over inflation without regard to all other agents is like trying to keep your money in a pocket with three holes in it. When you plug one hole it runs out another. the market has climbed # l!.l ladder. - s atd¢ . IndustrY lae il t "i to cooperW ''-'"  :' rol inflali ' o ":,ii0 cent .... d  and shO%i00; i business, and tt# I ; gOvmerPel%t:ltal act" , action. Industry until it action inflationary will not be employe to into all either b.y responsibiMY action. industries suffering, in a bed c the those themselVeS incomes ar It is no our limit their demands, and let the bankers raise the interest rates over 40%. We restrict financing, business finds new sources of money, the added cost is added to the cost of labor and material and prices of the end product hit a new high. Worse than this, we place the banker in the position centre of determining which business is prefe going to survive, or go broke. It is true that supression of one times f element of production will have a our temporary repressive effect upon e xchange certain segments of our economy. It is High interest rates and tight credit voters will cause a recession in obtain construction, especially so far as would private capital is concerned, some Home building is the first segment right affected, followed by all related industry. As soon as the private Investor is satisfied that he will receive a fair market return on the investment he will go ahead with his plans accepting the higher interest rates, and other higher costs, and receive the higher return on the invested capital that "We We put pressure on lab0rto- appoin life Any of us be wrong. But I that with the