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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.
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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¢ .
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to cooperW ''-'" :'
rol inflali ' o ":,ii0
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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