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Pay attention now, children: it's time for your geography
lesson.
Jane, if you were to pick a spot in the United States
where politicians from throughout the nation could gather
for a meeting with the least amount of travel for all
concerned, where would it be?
Omaha'?
You were guessing, weren't you, dear? If you'd pay
attention during current events class, you would remember
that politicians don't use the same method of computing
mileage that the rest of us do. If you were to plan a family
reunion and wanted to spend the least amount of money,
you would probably pick Omaha. However, 1 told you this
was a meeting of politicians; with the tab, incidentally,
picked up by the taxpayers. Dick, what would your answer
be?
Miami Beach?
That's closer, Dick. But the correct answer is Puerto
Rico. That's where the recent National Association of
Legislative Leaders Conference was held, and 15 legislators
from Washington state attended. Let's see, there was Senator
AI Henry of White Salmon. •.
Isn't White Salmon an awful long way from Puerto Rico?
Yes, it is, Susie; about $806.50 worth of miles away.
That's the bill submitted by Senator Henry• Then there were
Senator John Stender of Auburn, Senator Frank Atwood of
Beilingham, Senator Reuben Knoblauch of Sumner, Senator
Perry Woodall of Toppenish ...
You mean THE Perry Woodall? The Perry Woodall we
learned in current events class is Conservative Watchdog of
the Senate'' The Taxpayers' Best Friend? The Archfoe of
Irresponsible Spending?
That's the one, Johnny. And then there were Senator
Robert Greive of Seattle, Senator August Mardesich of
Everett, Senator James Anderson of Bellevue, Representative
Thomas Copeland of Walla Walla, Representative Margeret
Hurley of Spokane, Representative Gary Grant of Seattle,
Representative John O'Brien of Seattle, Representative Irving
Newhouse of Mabton, Representative Hal Wolf of Yelm and
Senator Harry Lewis of Olympia.
Would those last two be the same Hal Wolf and Harry
Lewis who are known as the Belt-Tightening Twins of
Thurston County?
The me. Now, class, 1 hope you'll remember that
Puerto Rico is the political center of the United States of
America. The State of Washington has a $12,000 bill to prove
it. And now we'll move on to the spelling lesson...
Mary, how do you spell boondoggle?
new
Your friendly, hometown Journal, constantly striving for
improvement, is ready to unveil a striking new concept in
news coverage.
We're going to jazz up the weather report.
There is no reason newspapers should take a back seat to
television in weather coverage, and we plan to hit them where
it hurts. And we are going to do it in black and white with no
help from barefoot ridgerunners wielding felt-tip pens,
big-bosomed undulators in mini skirts, magnetic snow storms
that glow in the dark, or red, white and blue smudgepots.
After an exhaustive study of television weather reports,
we have deduced that two things are responsible for their
success: (1) A full five minutes must be taken to tell the
viewer that it might rain, and (2) There must be a full
complement of indecipherable charts.
Keeping these two requirements in mind, we hereby
present the first of what we hope will be an exciting weekly
experience for our readers.
THE JOURNAL'S EXCITING
WEEKLY WEATHER EXPERIENCE!
lti. all you out there in newspaperland! Well, it got cold
last night In fact. it got so cold it is reported that a
saloon-keeper at First and Railroad had to put alcohol in his
whiskey to keep it from freezing. But enough of frivolity,
let's get to the weather for Shelton and vicinity, including
blizzard warnings for the Great Plains and a cold front
menacing Okinawa.
You will notice on our weather map above, rushed to us
direct from our fisheye camera atop a tall fir in Kamilche
Valley, that the front which had been advancing slowly from
the outskirts of Satsop has now moved rapidly away. The
behind, which accompanied the front as far as Lost Lake, is
now drawing.
Arrow No. 2 points to the Rain Forest, which is one of
the major tourist attractions in the state. Arrow No. 1 was
blown away by 70-mile-per-hour winds which arose suddenly
in Oakland Bay and deposited Simpson Timber Company's
Mill 4 on Cota Street between 1st and 14th Streets.
The little ziggy lines near the vortex of the krampfortz
where it bisects the microdorsatt are worms. The tiny specks
at left and right of the vortex are fleas and the larger spots
are ticks.
Watch this space next week for all the weather that's fit
to print.
__pitol dome:
=rmers
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Greeting drawn by Kurt Stacy,
6th Grade, Evergreen ID~
from those who bring you the Journal each week: v
Lodema Johnson
Mary Kent
AI Ford
Jim Shrum
Don Adolfson
Ron Kunkle
Jan Danford
Lee Doyle
Laurie Kellogg
Jayne Look
Mary Brotche
Vivian Linn
Adella Dwyer
Barbara Nelson
Charles Gay
Julie Gay
Fern Gay
Steve Gay
Ju!ie Pitts
Lorraine Fox
Paul Rogerson
Jim Rogerson
Scott Miltenberger
Carmen Yates
Frances Catto
Dora Hearing
, Mary Valley
Mrs. Ray Kratcha
Sigrid Crabtree
Corky Dorn
Vivien Olson
Nancy Bloomfield
Henry Gay
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
More taxes may be necessary
to balance the next Legislature,
but they won't be easy to come
by with the new committee
chairmanships. The committees
on revenue and taxation in both
houses will be headed by farmers.
Hubert Donohue, Dayton
wheat rancher, has been
appointed chairman of the ways
and means subcommittee on
revenue and taxation in the
Senate, while S. E. Flanagan,
Quincy cattle rancher, heads the
House committee on revenue and
taxation. Though Donohue is a
Democrat and Flanagan a
Republican, each is considered an
arch conservative on taxes.
The new chairmanships
represent virtually a 180 degree
turn from the previous session.
Donohue replaces Mike
McCormack, liberal Democrat
from Richland who was elected to
Congress. Flanagan's predecessor
was Mary Ellen McCaffree, who
was more liberal on tax matters
than most Republicans.
Something For Everybody
The Democratic majority in
the Senate increased the number
of standing committees for the
1971 Legislature, in keeping with
the policy of the majority leader,
R. R. Greive, of providing
"something for everybody."
Under Greive's policy, every
Democrat who isn't a member of
the powerful rules committee gets
a chairmanship.
The Democrats realized a net
gain of two seats in the last
election. That gave them one
more seat on the rules committee,
so to reward all of the deserving, a
new chairmanship had to be
created.
Liquor Down The Drain
When the Democrats
increased the number of Senate
standing committees from 16 to
17, they created two new
committees and abolished one.
Eliminated was the liquor control
committee. Starting with the
1970 special session, the
Democrats haven't been able to
find anybody willing to take the
chairmanship. Liquor legislation
~Qnscquen~tl, b(, will probably go to
the committee on commerce and
regulatory agencies.
The new committees are
manufacturing and industrial
development, and public pensions
and social security. Both
chairmanships were assigned to
Senate newcomers.
The Changing Scene
For many years, right up until
the 1963 session, the Senate rules
committee was
"graveyard" by many
was the tightest commit
either house. With the
life and death over y
the Senate, it was
impossible for any irresp~
legislation to get
Without question, some
legislation also was killed
committee.
But during the past
the membership on the
rules committee has
Little by little, it has b
more and more loose. No lc
bottleneck, it can be expec
resemble a sieve in the
session.
As for the House, it
had a tight rules committee
past eight years.
Luck or Ingenuity?
Maybe it was excellent
Maybe it was just pure
the State Finance
picked the proper time to
$25 million in general
bonds for constructi0
institutions of higher
These were part of
issue on which the voters
to repeal the 6 per cent
ceiling in the last
who needed it? The
sold at an effective interest i
only 4.5689 per cent.
however, conditions on
market changed again and
rates started edging
Some $23 million of
remains to be sold, but
any hurry. They don't
sold until December 31, 19'
Deadline Repeal
The committee on
day also sold $10 million
of water pollution control
at 4.5689 per cent. The
approved repeal of the
ceiling on these bonds,
important, they also
deadline for sale. If they
the entire issue would
have been sold
January 1. Now they
offered until the
needed.
Gov. Dan Evans'
environmental legislation
he will offer to the
Legislature will be alrn
heavy as the packet he
to the 1970 special session.
Some of the
bolster some of the bills
into law last time. One
increase the present
fine for industrial
waters to a maximum of $I
The Governor believes the
$100 fine affords
industries with a "licet
pollute."
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(Following is an excerpt from a lecture delivered in
October at San Francisco State College by Kenneth
MacDonaM, editor and publisher of the Des Moines
(Iowa) Register and Tribune.)
FmEYD of mine is fond of quoting Dickens. He
likes to start debates by reciting those opening
sentences of "Tale of Two Cities:"
"It was the best of times, it was the worst o[ times, it
was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
• .. it was the season of Light, it was the season of Dark-
P ess, it was the spring o[ hope, it was the winter oJ
despair."
My friend doesn't find many persons who contend
that these are the best of times, although it is possible
to cite statistics to indicate that in some respects, at
least, the world is a considerably better place today
than it was a few generations ago.
Life expectancy in this country has increased approx-
imately 50 per cent in the last five decades. People work
far fewer hours now to provide the basic necessities el(
life than they did a couple of generations ago. The
number of families at the statistical poverty level has
been reduced by nearly half in tim last decade. Higher
education, although by no means universally available
vet, is a possibility for millions now where once it was
thd privilege of only a limited number from the most
prosperous families. A number of once-fearful diseases
have been eliminated or tamed. We no longer have epi-
demics of typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever
or polio.
Most people, however, are too con-
cerned about today's problems and the
prospects for tomorrow to find much
comfort in yesterday's accomplishments,
and there is little optimism in the country
today.
The prevailing moods seem to range from restlessness
and vague discontent to outright pessimism and deft-
ance. The common posture is one of dissent and the
popular activity is the challenge of established institu-
tions.
To keep our perspective, we might remember that
defiance of authority is not a new activity in this coun-
try. When I was a voung city editor in the depression
days of the 1930s, Iowa farmers, who are usually the
most peaceful and orderly of men, threatened the lives
of public officials to halt foreclosure sales of their farms.
Violence is not a new phenomenon either• Any newspa-
perman of my age will remember the gang wars and the
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labor wars of the 20s and 30s. In a battle between steel-
workers and company guards at the Republic Steel
plant in East Chicago in 1937, for example, 10 persons
were killed and nearly 200 injured.
The distinguishing characteristic of the
current period, however, is that the re-
bellion against authority, the disillusion-
ment with established institutions is far
more widespread and cuts across the web
of our society.
The campus confrontations have drawn the spectacu-
lar headlines, but in many other areas of organized hu-
man activity there is evidence of discontent and rebel-
lion. Persons are striking who have never felt justified
in striking before - nurses, teachers, policemen, fire-
men. Industrial workers are showing their disinterest
by absenteeism or mediocre work. Priests and nuns are
defying the authority of the church. The list could go
on and on.
Every observer has his own diagnosis of this current
illness,'modified by his own age and occupation and the
state of his health and pocketbook. I shall not attempt
a diagnosis mvself, but I do want to talk about one part
of the current problem which I think has a relationship
to the practice of journalism.
It is clear, I think, that many people have lost faith
in our democratic institutions. They don't like nmch of
what is happening to them, and they don't know what
to do about it. They are no longer convinced they have
a voice, that anyone is listening to them, that they have
any opportunity to influence the clilnate in whk"h they
live.
The fact that many of those who feel most frust,'ated
make little effort to participate in the democratic proc-
esses doesn't lessen their feeling of frustration. Nor does
it prove that their feelings of futility are entirely gromld-
]('SN.
There is considerable evidence that
Emerson was right about our time, if not
his own, when he said, "Things are in the
saddle and riding mankind." "Things" in
this case means a runaway technology
plus a bureaucracy in our institutions
which responds too slowly to human
needs.
One small illustration of this, which I cite not be-
cause it is the most important but because it is current,
is the use of public funds to develoI ) the sul ersonie.
transport. From the available evidence, there arc fcw
persons in this country who want their taxes spent to
suhsidize the manufacture of this airplane. But their
taxes are being spent, nevertheless. Between $600,000,-
000 and $700,000,000 of the publics money has already
been spent on the project, and the Administration pro-
posal now before Congress would increase this to a bil-
lion dollars. The plane, if successful, would enable a
few persons - a tiny minority of our population - to
cross the oceans in several hours less time than is possi-
ble now. It would also add greatly to the pollution of
the atmosphere and produce a devastating level of
noise and a continuous sonic boom.
The arguments put forth, thus far, in favor of a pub-
lic subsidy grow out of the specious reasoning that
whatever is technologically possible must, therefore, be
done. The concept that we must do something because
it is possible to do it is, to borrow a phrase from Dr.
llen6 Dubos, "operationally and ethically meaningless,
tantamount to an intellectual abdication."
The SST is a perfect example, I think,
of Emerson's "things in the saddle."
In recent years a number of eloquent spokesmen have
arisen to say that the time has come when we must take
charge of these "things" by a re-ordering of our priori-
ties. One of the most articulate of these spokesmen is
Dr. Barry Commoner, who has been speaking particu-
larly, as I am sure all of you know, on the environmen-
tal problems.
"Discoveries which were once a thrilling promise of
comprehending the nature of living things," he said re-
cently, 'qaave been used to prepare new and terrible
plagues. This is the ominous paradox of the modern
world . . . which has, with cunning perversity, trans-
formed the creative power that knowledge generates
into instruments of catastrophe."
Although Dr. Commoner is talking primarily about
the effect of teclmology on our environment, it can be
argued that technology, because of its impact on the
giant industries of manufacturing, transportation and
communications, has also made possible concentrations
of power which affect the social and political climate
and which are extremely resistant to public control.
Dr. Dubos, the distinguished microbiologist, put it
this way:
%.. evidence accumulates that technology is [orglng
new slutckles [or hum from which he seem unable to
escape. Nuclear weapons threaten to destroy all living
things; industry and trm sport are ;:olluting the world
with waste products, visual insults and deafening
noises; mass media are conditioning and cheapening
mental and emotional responses; and microelectronics
are incading all aspects of li[e and making privacy al-
most intpossible. The prodigious achievements oI mod-
technology seem to be paving the way for a new
kind o[ totalitarianism." ("Reason Awake: Science [or
Man." Columbia University Press. )
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