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Editorials:
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A malignant growth
The cancer is spreading.
The nasty, malignant growth known as the Vietnam
Conflict has divided the American people to a degree
unparalleled since the Civil War.
The invective generated by Wednesday's moratorium
demonstrations has widened the gap between loyal citizens on
both sides of the issue. We have now reached the ludicrous
point where a sincere congressman has accused some of his
equally sincere lawmakers of being "agents of Hanoi" because
they question our involvement in a foreign civil war which has
cost us more than 100 billion dollars and 40,000 lives.
A growing number of Americans of unquestioned loyalty
are joining the chorus that says: through ineptness and bad
judgment, four administrations have involved us in a mess we
shouldn't be in.
Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy made the decisions
that laid the groundwork for President Jolmson's holywar.
Like a figure from the Old Testament, he barged into Vietnam
with a sword ifi one hand and ointment in the other. He truly
believed that a country as powerful as America could kill all the
bad guys and heal all the good guys in short order.
When this judgment proved erroneous, he was put on the
defensive and spent three years trying to justify his boo-boo.
The American people were fed a succession of reasons why we
were in Vietnam, none of them acceptable. President Johnson
then solved his personal problem in a most un-Texanlike way -
he dismounted in the middle of the swamp.
The country's problem continued, however, so the people
elected a new commander-in-chief to lead them out of the mire.
President Nixon does not have to explain why we are in
Vietnam and he has spent little time doing so. What he has done
for nine months is give us a succession of reasons why we
cannot get out of Vietnam.
These are proving unacceptable to more and more
Americans, and President Nixon's final argument has turned
out to be identical to President Johnson's. If the United States
is involved in a war, we are told, it must be a just war, and
anyone who questions that belief is unpatriotic.
This desperate appeal to unreason has bolstered the
conviction of many that patriotism is the last resort of
confused politicians.
It is particularly distressing for responsible persons who
have opposed the bloody, undeclared war from its inception to
find themselves lumped with the butchers of North Viet Nam
and pimpley idiots who run through the streets shouting "Ho,
Ho, Ho."
The attempt by two administrations to squelch honest
dissent with such primitive condemnation reveals the true
depth of the problem.
Capitol dome: ,
Unemployment compensation still the hi9 issue
By: ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
The key to what everybody is
hoping "for - a short legislative
session next January- is
unemployment compensation.
A deadlock on this issue could
throw the entire session wide
open, and at the moment the
hope of an agreement seems as far
removed as it was last May 12.
That is the day the legislators
gave up and went home after 120
days of deadlock.
What had been hailed' as a
Americans, including those who bitterly oppose our
involvement in Vietnam, love their country, warts and all. But
drafted by the Legislative
It is too much td:ask Americans to embrace a spreading Council's labor committee,
caqcer that could destroy them. headed by Rap. Robert L.
Let's talk books:
Crooks, politics, and Mr. Carver
Rex goes, an attempt is made to
bribe him off the case. The agent
is a Mr. Alakwe, an African. On
the way to Cannes he stops at a
hotel where the girl has stayed.
He discovered that she had made
a phone call from the room of a
Max Ansermoz. What was this
fellow to Zelia? Had he stolen the
car? On the boat he talked with
her but came up with nothing of
By LLOYD A' COOK
THE MELTING MAN. By
Victor Canning, Morrow, New
York, 1969.
Who, out there, has read Victor
Canning? Any of his 17 novels,
four in the Rex Carver series?
Canning is a Londoner, among the
top two or three English writers
of racy, erudite espionage tales.
Rex Carver is all set to go on a
holiday, bags packed, when he is any use. Her amnesia had been
talked into taking a case. The job • complete.
is to find a stolen car, a red On learning where Ansermoz is,
he visits him. He won't talk, the
men fight and the Russian is
knocked out. After coming to, he
admits that Zelia has stayed with
him and a friend, Otto Libseh,
who had stolen the Mercedes.
Carver sets out to track down
Otto but finds that he himself is
under surveillance.
Much later he is able to
identify these agents. One set are
lnterpol men, another represent
two political factions in a small
African state, and a third may be
tails put on him by Mr. O'Dowda,
his employer. He guesses that the
ear itself counts for little. There is
something hidden in it, something
of great value.
Mercedes 250SL. His employer is
several times a millionaire,
involved in the politics of certain
new African states. He is a
powerful man, icy, devious,
unscrupulous.
On the first day Carver is shot
at, almost killed, and all he can be
sure of was that his assailant was a
dark man. That night he is visited
by Julia, younger of the two
O'Dowda stepdaughters, and
quite a dish. They talked about
her sister Zelia who was driving
the Mercedes. She has had a loss
of memory so cannot account for
some 48 hours.
The next move is to visit Zelia,
on a yacht off Cannes. Before
Carver finds the Mercedes - in
twenty feet of sea water - and
Otto in it, dead. With a snorkel,
he searches and uncovers a small
parcel sealed in oilskin. This
proves to be a film strip and a
tape recording. When he can get
the equipment, he sees that the
film is a record of the intimacies
of an African "head of state and
the wife of his foreign minister.
The tape reveals a secret bargain
made between this same man, a
general, and a highly placed
Russian.
What should Carver do with the
film and tape? Hand them over to
)'Dowda and collect his per diem
pay? Give them to the general, or
to Interpol? Destroy the lot in the
public interest? Put them up for
bids and take the best offer? At
the moment he is inclined to sell,
taking whatever rakeoff he can.
It should be said that Julia has
popped in and out of the case.
Each time she looks more
attractive to Carver. At first cold,
suspicious, but now kindly,
decent, and trustful. In a
midnight scene she persuades him
to burn the stuff; say nothing
about Zelia, draw his pay, go off
on his holiday. Before he can act,
his hand is forced. Julia has been
taken by the Alakwe faction and
the price asked for her release are
the documents in question.
I like the fast pace of a Canning
script, with action piled on
action. Also the international
flavor, the mixture of danger and
romance, and even - of all things
- the meticulous dinner menus.
The elegance (or opulence) of his
settings is impressive - mink,
diamonds, Facel Vegas, yachts,
champagne, caviar. Surely his
young women must be the most
gorgeous in the literature.
One suggestion may be made.
With the James Bond tales so
widely read the world around,
writers who seek this market tend
to grow more and more
"bondish." So with Mr. Canning.
Too much derring-do, too much
reliance on chance and luck, too
much soft dream stuff. The
"credibility gap" between reader
and writer would he reduced if
this trend were held in check.
Christian Science Monitor
Paoe:4' Sheiton.Mason' County' Jour'nai': Thursday, &lobar 16, I969
Charette, D., Aberdeen. It is
scheduled for an airing at a public
hearing in Seattle Saturday
(October 18).
Even before the hearing,
however, David Gordon, president
of the Association of Washington
Business, who has studied the
measure, has described it as
"completely inacceptable."
If lines remain drawn as they
were in the 1969 session, there
to look into the handling of
investments for the State Finance
Committee was established when
the State of New York asked the
SEC to stage a similar inquiry and
the request was granted.
Besides having subpoena
power, the SEC has facilities and
a trained staff of experts which
wouldn't otherwise be available to
the state.
The 1969 code of ethics law
Implementation of the federal
law has been delayed by
provisions which permit
manufacturers to request, besides
a public hearing, appointment of
a scientific committee to review
the cancellations.
No Hurry on Lobbyists
Changes in the 1967 lobbyist
registration law which Atty. Gen.
Slade GortOn is recommending to
the Legislature probably will be
won't be any bill until somebody gives the Governor subpoena deferred until the 1971 regular
comes uo with something which power, but there is some question •
..... ses 1on. ,
both industry and labor*are, whethe.r it would: apPlY .,tQ thq)., verw effort is' being a'ade to
willing to accept. :?' ' ' current case. --
keep "must" legislation for the
If it can't be done in advance
of the session, it won't be any
easier after the law-makers arrive
in Olympia and start getting tied
up on other matters.
Political Grab Bag
One of the problems of a
special session in an election year
is the fact that virtually every
legislator will be wanting to take
something home to prove his time
in Olympia wasn't wasted.
And the way things are shaping
up, it looks like there won't be
any shortage of Christmas trees.
The gambling situation in
Seattle and King County, the
dispute over investments made for
the State Finance Cotnmittee and
the Welfare problem, all offer
chances for law-makers to adopt
heroes' roles, and everybody will
be wanting to get into the act.
The only guarantee against the
law-makers staying here
indefinitely is the personal word
of Gov. Dan Evans that he hasn't
any intention of calling them
back at the end of 60 days.
New .York Sets Pace
Precedent for asking the federal
Securities Exchange Commission
At any rate, it didn't become
effective until last August and
wouldn't be retroactive. Atty.
Gen. Slade Gorton is looking into
records of the past five years.
Moos Pulls a Switch
It isn't unusual to call on the
federal government to step in
when a state isn't able to act, but
State Director of Agriculture Don
Moos has reversed the process.
When the federal government
faced a delay of many months in
an effort to cancel registrations
for use of lindane insecticides in
vaporizing devices, Moos stepped
in with a state law to accomplish
the same result in this state
beginning next year.
The state pesticide law requires
registration of pesticides before
they can be marketed. Moos has
notified manufacturers he will
refuse registration of lindane
insecticides for use in vaporizing
devices at the end of this year.
He has called a hearing for
November 12 on a regulation
which declares lindane a
"'restricted use" pesticide and
banning its use in vaporizing
devices.
The garbagebugs
from the Communicator
There is a disease growing in our country. It is sickening
and insidious and it is spreading. It is the disease we call
litter.
The word "litter" doesn't sound so bad. It sounds as if we
are talking about little scraps of paper that blow down the
street. Let's give it its proper name ... we are talking about
garbage. The broken bottles, fruit peelings, half-eaten
sandwiches and discarded newspapers are things we put in
our garbage cans. Why should we give them a different name
when we throw them in the street?
Those who do the throwing are called litterbugs. Litterbug
is a cute name. It indicates someone playful or mischievous.
Let's call him by his real name. He is a garbage thrower; a
distributor of filth. There is nothing cute about him. He is
directly responsible for defiling our highways and
countryside. He has made rat havens of our beaches. Children
can no longer walk barefooted through our parks. Broken
glass lurks beneath leaves and paper.
We have taken this great gift, our land and the things that
grow upon it, and we have made it into a garbage dump.
Perhaps there is nothing that can be done to stop this
dumper of garbage. Obviously he doesn't care about the land.
He surely couldn't care whether his children have a clean city
in which to live. It is certain that he doesn't care at all about
his fellow man.
He is a non-thinking, non-caring cancer on society. If we
cannot stop him from ruining our land for us, let's at least
stop referring to him with trite, harmless sounding names. He
is not a litter bug.., he is a garbage rat.
special session to a minimum.
Gorton wants the Legislature to
require more detailed statements
of expenses instead of the present
lump=sum report.
He also thinks "stiff" civil
penalties should replace the
present criminal penalties, saying
it isn't appropriate to file a
criminal charge in the case of a
lobbyist who may have
overlooked the reporting
deadline.
He added it is also difficult to
prove criminal intent in cases
where lobbyists may have
purposely filed improperly, or
refused to file.
Some 86 lobbyists had failed to
file by the July 12 deadline after
the 1969 session and on July 23
Gorton wrote them, giving them
15 additional days.
All registered lobbyists
subsequently filed their reports.
Fixed Opinions
Now that the Joint Committee
on Highways' subcommittee on
urban transportation has
inspected San Francisco's rapid
transit project, it appears the trip
hasn't changed any legislative
minds.
Those in favor may be more
enthusiastic, but those who
oppose it remain firm.
It did become obvious,
however, that Gov. Dan Evans can
depend upori full cooperation
from his new Highway Director
George Andrews, in his efforts to
develop the kind of balanced
transportation system he wants.
Fines Outstanding
Fines collected by the Water
Pollution Control Commission
represent only about a third of
those assessed during the past
three months. Fines for violation
of water pollution control laws
during the period were collected
from six firms and totaled
$1,500.
Another $3,500 in fines which
haven't been collected yet were
assessed against 10 other firms.
The fines collected ranged from
$100 to $500, with the largest
being paid by a sand and gravel
firm at Bellevue for violating
conditions of its industrial waste
discharge permit.
ONE DISSENTER
Numerous Democrats voiced
objection to a $51,000 allocation
from the governor's contingency
fund for the Department of
Revenue, but when it came up in
an executive session of the
Legislative Budget Committee,
there was only one dissenting
vote.
t
The Flapdoodler:
Boss contributes "
smoke and advice
By STEVE ERICKSON
Our plumber is quite a guy. He looks like a CI
Laughton-Otto Preminger blend, smokes a fat green cigat, a
plastic holder, and whipsaws his hapless assistant (!
"plumber's helper") mercilessly, and smells.l.,
He Weighs in at about 300 pounds
somebody ought to fix HIS bathtub. His busineSS carilP
old Cadillac hearse. , - ,,ala, s
He was at our house last week to replace a leaKY t7 j
job I didn't envy him. Neither did he._His ass)st d
long-suffering young fellow with a Yul Brynnc
head and the patience of Job, did all the dirty work.
There were two reasons for this. The plum. be_r,
obviously didn't like to soil his hands on toilet jooos.
beneath his dignity, j:tC, ait.
Also, his considerable girth made bending ove.r 7d
He couldn't reach all the way to the floor o ne jus ,Ja
glory work on the toilet and'left the grubly business 10
Otto operated on our toilet much as a doctor mightj
"Sponge," he said, holding out a palm as if he exp corn'-
to be filled with a scalpel.
Yul handed him a sponge. Otto dabbed leakage fr0
linoleum.
"Absorbent paper towels," Otto barked, castiJ$ t
sponge aside.
Yul obliged.
The job progressed and finally the team had rern0Val#
toilet from the floor.
"You wanna keep this?" Otto asked me.
"Any trade-in on it?" I asked.
"What, on a used toilet?"
tt ' ,, th
• Okay, okay. Throw t away. • ft0
Yul got to work scraping undesirable resime ".( he
floor where the toilet had rested since t923. Suddm
shied away from his work. . ,,
"Hey," he said, "look! It's a bug. It's a termite.
"Oh, it is not," said Otto. "It's just a sewer bug." t¢
You'd think a plumber's helper would kn0¢
difference.
Time passed. I watched with interest. Yul
sweated. Otto sat on the edge of the bathtub
smoke everywhere, offering Yul encouragemenl
"Not THAT wrench, dummy, you'll strip the
It really looked like a raunchy job, even if it
own toilet.
Otto turned to me, exhaling cigar smoke again. !
Well, Erickson, he wheezed, "think you wa
plumber?"
I smiled patronizingly. I believed Otto was jestinl
A while later Otto and Yui finished, loaded
absorbent towels and wrenches into the hearse,
me with a bill.
"Yow!" I commented. ,,i,
"Think nothin' of it," he said. ,I:
1 didn't.
All things considered, though, I suppose
Otto did me a favor, and maybe the price I'd
was slightly unrealistic. *
And it was fun knowing Otto and Yui. d#
And their work was good, too. Great, even. Stul
Uncanny.
Letter .box:
New school needed
Editor, The Journal:
A New High School For
Shelton?
Is this really a good idea? Do
we need it? Can we afford it? Can
we afford not to build one? Well,
the large group of responsible
people making up the Citizens
Advisory Committee to the
Shelton School Board feels, after
much study, that a new high
school on our forty acre site is
not only necessary and desirable,
but also economically feasible
without creating a hardship on
the district's taxpayers.
The Shelton School Board
agrees wholeheartedly, and has
placed the issue on the ballot fr
November 4th, when the voters of
School District No. 309 will have
the opportunity to vote upon it.
The Citizens Advisory
Committee also feels that voters
should have opportunities to find
out all the facts and information
relating to an issue before making
their decisions. To this end, the
committee will present a panel
discussion on Thursday, October
16th, at the Bordeaux Parent
Teachers AssociatiOn.
the Bordeaux au
p.m.
After presenting
the plan, there will
period when all
points relating to the
be raised and
The Bordeaux
pride in present
program, and
public and the
the meetihg and
discussion. It
school child's pare
voting citizen who
the welfare
its youth, 'sho
meeting to gain
to express "ideas
that an intelligent
vote can be cast
4th.
Remember the
16th, 7:30 p.m. itt
auditorium.
let's fill that au
rafters!
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