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Editorials: Birthday guest 00a00rod Thursday is the birthday of a g- " , d , sandaled Jew who bugged the establishment nearly two thousand years ago. He had the Pharisees exceedingly uptight with his insistence that the loving nature of God should take precedence over the legalistic aspects of religion and had some harsh thinp to say about their practice of making large gifts to the temple fund instead of to their needy parents. By the age of thirty- three he had made this sect so uncomfortable they had a hand in putting him on the cross, to silence his criticism of their fancy dress and fastidious habits. , America s Christian churches will be full of persons celebrating the birthday of this dissident Thursday morning. It is interesting to speculate on what would happen if the honoree showed up to expound his philosophy during the services. Some of the comments might run as follows: Is that the Smith boy who went away to college in California? Just look at m! I feel sorry for his poor parents; they, must, feel just awful.' You d think he d have the decency to use a deodorant before coming into a Christian church!' Did you hear what he said about loving your enemies? He should be arrested for treason!" "This guy's got to be kidding. If you treat others as you would like to be treated, they'll clobber you every trine." He must be one of those bums on welfare with that, comment about the lilies of the field and the birds of the air." "Why doesn't he write a letter to the editor and let it go at that?" 6 9 * * It s bad enough when these rehgtous nuts hand out leaflets on the street; now they're invading the churches." "Maybe we should listen to him.' "Listen to him! Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone listened to him?" ". pas o ou d ask him • so wc ca g t on "I wish t rw i to leave  n e with the Christmas service." Happy birthday, Jesus. The numbers game By BRUCE WILSON in the Omak Chronicle Time magazine Dec. 12, 1969 So there you are. i have been warning you about this for years. Nobody pays any attention. Now we find even the federal judicial system endorsing the concept that names are out and numbers in. ' Few people seem to understand the troubles we are heading for. Pity the TV sportscaster: "Let's set the Packer defense for you. At left end, 9944867292. Left tackle, 3948576002. Left guard, 004799201133." By the time he's done, it will be the middle of the second quarter. Will parents be permitted to name their son after Daddy, resulting in 5542309166, Sr., and 5542309166, Jr,? Or must he be called 5542309166-2? What about poets trying to write an ode to the charming Miss 4020559711? How many words can you think of that rhyme with eleven? Also consider the plight of the poor fellow applying for an Italian passport, where Roman numberals probably are still used. "This will identify Mr. MMMCCXIIIVIIVIVIIII." No country will admit a foreigner sounding like that. The mania for identifying human beings by..numbers, promoted with equal cunning by industry and government, will lead to no good. I am all for economy in government. But I would rather have a clerk spend a while looking for the right "John Smith" card out of 50,000 than for a computer to locate 3948888432 in a tenth of a second. I think John Smith would feel better about it too. At least he would still be John Smith. Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Addrea Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412 , . , , ..... Published at Shelton, Mason County, Washington, every Thursday. Entered its Se¢ondlgss Matter at the POst Office, Shelton, Wash. , ,,, II I III I lUlll ii iii I// Ill. Drawn by Scott Oavidson, 11, Bordeaux Scho from those who bring you the Journal each week: Lodama Johnson Adella Dwyer Steve Gay Dora Hearing Mary Kent Barbara Nelson Patsy IVliltenberger Codg Brooks AI Ford Charles Gay Robin Bain Mary Valley Jim Shrum Mike Johnson Patty Sheppard Mrs. Ray Kratcha Don Adolfson Ric Coots Paul Rogerson Sigrid Crabtree Ran Kunkle Jean thrum Scott Miltenberger Corky Darn Ken Pierce Anton Charlson Louise Bittle Vivien Olsen Jen)anfortL ' - Julia Gay Carmen Yates Jess Sandvig " Toni Ruhl " " Fetl Gay Frances Catto Steve Erickson Jerri Hill Henry Gay IIII ii iii ii €_qp_ThL00npj Cut-off dates could shorten legislative session By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS Cut-off dates for the special legislative session as suggested by the Senate Republicaft- aucus would go a long way toward keeping the session short, but they would be more meaningful if the suggestion had come from the Senate majority. The Senate Republicans have suggested limiting introduction of bills to the first seven days, consideration of bills to the first 14, with the third week restricted to ironing out differences between the two houses. None of the others caucuses In either house has come up with such a prolJpsal, but there are indications that House Republicans, who hold a majority m the lower chamber, migllt go along. Speaker Don Eldrldge says he would prefer a five-day cut-off, but seven days would be okay with him. It would take a joint resolution passed by both houses to establish any cut-off dates. The Democrates control the upper chamber, so support of the Senate majority would be needed. Still No Limit Establishment of a deadline for introducing bills would hold down the volume somewhat, but it wouldn't limit it completely. It would result in reams of "title-only" bills being dropped into the hopper on the fired day. There would be titles covering virtually every subject, so that the subject matter could be written into the measures more leisurely at a later date. This practice is followed in every regular session, which normally has a 40-day cut-off. - The legislators would have plenty to work with if they didn't file any bills for introduction after the session convened. There already were more than 200 bills in the bill-drafting room lut week, and that figure probalT/Y will be doubled by the Irlme pre-filing opens prior to the session. Money Unlimited, Too While the Senate majority didn't propose cut-off dates in its caucus action, it did vote to appropriate just enough money to carry the session for 21 days. The House majority has sent an estimate for a 30-day session to the Office of Program Planning and "Fiscal Management, but probably will go along with the Senate's 21-day appropriation bill when it gets it. This, however, is a meaningless gesture. When the money runs out, if the legislators are still here there is nothing to prevent them from appropriating more. When the regular session ended last March, the legislators appropriated only enough money for 30 days for the special session which followed. At the end of that period, however, they appropriated more and stayed for another 30; a total of 60 days in special, and 120 including the regular session• Court Speed Sought One of the environmental bills to be pushed in the special session is designed to speed the cleanup of air and water by reducing delays in enforcement caused by lengthy court litigation. It would require that any court challelage of an order to end pollution of either air or water be brought to trial within 90 days. Appeals would have to be perfected within six months, and would go directly to the Supreme Court, bypassing the newly-established Court of Appeals. This measure will be in addition to executive request bills being sought by Gay. Dan Evans. Prime sponsor will be Sen. Martin J. Durkan, D., lssaquah. Sales Tax Bogging A bill authorizing cities and counties to levy a ½ per cent sales tax, which appeared off to a flying start,is running into all kinds of trouble, with the special session still more than three weeks away• Latest arrier is discovery of a new law enacted by the 1969 session which would withhold the $10 million in state money appropriated for cries for fiscal 1970-71, if authority to levy a salestax is enacted. 'llie proviso was enacted after the bill to implement the Governor's tax package was amended to extend sales tax authority to local governments. The sales tax authority later was vetoed out of the bill, but the provision to withhold state financial assistance still is on the books. Unless this provision is repealed, it could spell the end of the present county-city coalition supporting the sales tax bill. Hard-nosed legislators, already looking for money for other uses, may be reluctant to change the law as it now stands. Don't Bet on Gambling Atty. Gen. Slade Gorton's anti-gambling bill has a better chance than it had last session, but don't bet on its passage; even if you have special dispensation from the attorney general. Considerable opposition is developing in numerous areas outside metropolitan Seattle where professional gambling isn't an apparent problem• Many communities which quit licensing pinball machines, punchboards etc. after Gorton issued his official opinion have since reversed their previous stands and are issuing licenses again A group of House Democrats will try to amend the Gorton bill to make it a local option "tolerance" bill if it reaches the floor. If it should get through the House (where it . died in committee last time), it will face a more serious problem in the Senate; partisan politics. Senate Democrats, who are in the majority, view Gorton as a potential Republican candidate for Governor. They are unlikely to enact a law which might further him ambitions. It will be very easy for them to "lose" the bill in some committee. More Partisanship? There isn't any evidence of partisan.ship in the High-Way Commission's action in passing over new Seattle Mayor Was Uhlman when it filled a vacancy on the Urban Arterial Board, which controls urban arterial funds for cities and counties• The position had been held by Uhlman's predecessor, former Mayor Floyd Miller, and before that, by Miller's predecessor, for Mayor Dorm Braman. Letter box: Rife with paradox , Ed'tVetTh:rJ°Urt;lssrs. Nixon, ?n:;tv. auth°red by Senate Agnew, Mitchell ad nauseamhave Vor the South Vietnamese co)nvinc" ed or cowered Vietnam people - excluding those few critics is a moot point. It is clear made rich and powerful by sir enough that the Administration's misguided nolicies - the real heavy-handed approach to dissent question is one of survi.! has at least temporarily muted whether under a communist criticism from many quarters regime, a dictatorial (albeit where opposition to our Vietnam Pro-Western) Thieu-Ky regime, or policy is lodged. , a coalition government. In tbe wake of the President s United States policy, so vacuous Vietnam policy address destructive to our natron (Nov., 3) anl Vice-president economy and domestic cohesion, Agnew s intemperate assaults on is unmitigated disaster for tile the rights of dissent have come very people we claim we are public opinion samplings showing "saving." Far from saving heavy majority support for the Vietnam, we are destroying tt President's pedestrian withdrawal with the willful assistance of an pace. intransigent regime in saigo These same samplings reveal a which has for too long dictate0 public stance rife with paradox policy options to us and Which and ambivalence. A majority, shows no inclination for making while supp,orting the the territorial and politica Administration s arcane policy, compromises with the opposition believes that policy will fail its which must be made if efforts to major objective - the assurance end the conflict are to succeed. of self-determination for the What should have been clear South Vietnamese people. By a at the outset - that the U. S. that aonthwideumargine Americans believe cannot play the major diplomatic ba p u • withdrawal of our role because substantive issues corn mts the combined force revolve about Vietnamese of the indigenous South political and social disagreena6ats Vietnamese (Viet-Cong)and the - must be brought horn e' to North Vietnamese will impose a Saigon. We must let the SalOn communist government on the leaders know that we know the South Vietnamese people, only vath to neace is earnest In effect a majority of negotiations'between the Americans now support a olic r ouu • P " Y p incipal combatants - the S they believe will prove futile - a and North Vietnamese DeOPlll policy of failure on the Additionally we must forcefuY installment plan. make the crucial point that we Having heard Nixon's shoddy not going to continue supporti and chauvanlstzc appeal for a ov r olittl • . ' ' g e nment that deniesp "' t national pattence and su art, re re arran PP p sentation to imp n most Americans then decided that elements of its own - n latiO vOrU gd we should, continue aiding a and thereby insures contin u South Vietnamese regime which conflict. -e has drained so many of our We have encountered tn resources for a policy so limits of our power in Vietna conspicuous with futility, and some of us have learned t.ha this nation cannot determine self-determination for A n Apparently it is not enough that we have equipped the !,500,000 man South Vietnamese Armed Forces, sent over 2,000,000 American servicemen to South Vietnam in a 5 year period, spent $100 billion to prop up a despotic Thieu-Ky regime which defends the civil rights of its people about as ardently as the North Vietnamese, and suffered 200,000 wounded and 40,000 deaths. Through it all, a valiant North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong force, which has never exceeded 300,000, men, has prevented the infinitely larger'"U: S'., 1 South Vietnamese and allied forces from firmly consolidating our position in Vietnam. Our sacrifice would be small if, as Nixon implies, our destiny is somehow dependent on the governmental composition in Saigon. But the absurdity of such Nixonian - nonsense makes the sacrifice a tragedy for us and the Vietnamese we profess to save. South Vietnamese civilian casualties alone, resulting from U. S. action, now exceed 300,000 accroding to a Senate committee nations. The U. S. Senate in s resolution prohibiting the expenditure of funds for IJ. S. combat forces in LaoS and Thailand has tacitly acknowledged the limits of out s power and vital security inter and in doing so implies that 0m Vietnam policy is a failure. , Majority public opinion i " this nation - ambivalent a; confused - cannot make a sucC of an administration Vietaa policy laden with error. M!no opinion agaiti that .'a'P  cannot make filolic%ai It The failure of that policy only reasonably be attributed the mistakes of its formulator the undeniable fortitude of tt enemy and the basic tls inherent in the policy. David Jubb The things that will America are prosperity at price, peace at any price, first instead of duty first, of soft living and get-rich-quick feeling of living.. _a - Arthur W. Radt0W Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 25, 1969