Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 4

Cei-vallis, Oregon, Tuesday, July 38, IHt THORN OUT APPRECIATE IT (1 Robert Insalls, Editor Publisher Bruce K. Myers, News Editor. Arthur I Lowe, General Manager OreccnGOP Paffcrn election. You seem to Interpret the Kennedy vote as being for Humphrey. Surely at least some Kennedy supporters were expressing dissatisfaction with Humphrey, i You say that the delegates are available for all candidates to woo.

But you also speak of the power of the administration over state and local officials. You advise us to address ourselves to John Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, John Bailey Is also Democratic State Chairman for Connecticut. Al the Connecticut State Convention, Abraham Ribicoff, a Humphrey supporter, was so disturbed by the strong-arm tactics of the machine that he -offered -his ST Y. 7 'Tis the season to write platforms and the Oregon Republicans are home with one of the first. We recalled at Gearhart this past weekend why party platforms are, for the most part, filled with platitudes and don't really offer directions for a bright new world the participants disagree on what constitutes a bright new world.

Builders of the Republican platform at Gearhart represented every hue political thinking. There were the way out liberals, the liberals, the middle-of-the roaders the conservatives tha conservatives They were really a cross-section of American political philosophy and as such, they wrote a platform which reflected this divergence a platform of compromise.5 The only place they really stuck out their necks was a condemnation of the 1.5 per cent property tax restriction which will appear on the November ballot This came after the fiscal committee writing this particular plank decided 6 to 7 to ignore the matter. But Gov. Tom McCall gave the convention delegates such a tongue-lashing on the subject that a later proposal to include it was passed almost unanimously by the approximately 173 voting delegates. Another problem with this particular platform is that it is so long and covers so many matters that very few Oregon-lans will ever see or read the whole thoughtful production.

Topical matters included were economic development, education, human concerns, natural resources urban affairs and fiscal affairs. We. 1 I IIT1 Wn Is: maw ANDTHC UOM no choice but to send him to Salem. The plank would have boosted the penalty, also at the judge's discretion, against the users of dangerous drugs. These people could have been sent to the penitentiary, whereas now they cant.

The plank was voted down primarily because it was poorly presented and the delegates didn't understand it. One interesting innovation was a plank attempting to create a better organization of law enforcement It recommends the assignment among state, county and city police .1 spw forcenient tasks. For instance, state police in a particular area would be responsible for all traffic control, county police for all crime investigation and city police for control of disturbances and routine matters. This would result in a reduction of duplicated costs and create specialists at each type of police work. An especially good plank relates to senior citizens.

It recommends the limitation placed by the Social Security on earnings of those between 65 and 72 be removed; that local property taxes on the first $20,000 of value of dwellings occupied by persons over 65 be frozen no higher than the level that exists at the time that person reaches 65 and that double personal exemption be allowed on state income taxes. For the younger generation, the plat-. form recommends an additional $1,000 exemption on the state income tax for students. This would cover personal income earned while going to school and or working during the summer. The.

entire platform is much too long to print here. There are specific planks on election revision. Constitutional revision, legislative revision, Vietnam, pollution, agriculture, recreation, transportation, job training, education civil rights, law enforcement riots and civil disorders, juvenile delinquency, traffic safety, welfare, population growth etc etc We have these various planks available if anyone is interested in wading through it all or who wants to find a particular area of concern to them. The late Wendell Willkie called party platforms "fusions of ambiguity." But this one, at least is not all that manageable nor all that meaningless. Inaccurate Cartoon To the Editor: Your editorial page cartoon of July 26 is grossly Inaccurate: 1.

It omits the machine. guns and other gangster weapons which the Supreme Court recently said need nee be registered and thus nullified a portion of the EXISTING federal gun laws. 1 It omits ZIP guns and other home made firearms, particularly those described in Communist publications. (A Sunday Oregonian about three months ago carried a full page report by a retired Army of- fleer on Communist instructions for making cheap but effective IMS NW Hayaa "Return Our Party" To the Editor: You astonish me. Are you seriously suggesting that tha Corvallis McCarthy supporters are people who "remain aloof from all party responsibility, then when they suddenly decide to back a particular candidate, moan and cry foul' If the party makes contrary Surely you have recognized among the McCarthy workers the names and in some cases even the faces of your old antagonists from past elections.

You advise people who have served on the Democratic Central Committee or have been local campaign managers for Democratic candidates to "get Involved in party politics." Just the members of the executive board of our committee represent a total of 148 years of experience with -party politics. Four years ago many of us helped to elect a man we thought would work toward the goals of our party. His disastrous response to the situation tn Vietnam affected every aspect of our national lite and diverted our party from its alms. Abhorrence of his mistaken actions came mainly from within the President's own (arty. We rejoiced In lcCarthy's courage In challenging the President We do not think an apologist for the Vietnam policy represents our party.

Yours Is the first denigration of McCarthy's achievement in New Hampshire I have seen: McCarthy made his showing In New Hampshire when he was practically unknown, running with no organized backing against an incumbent President. Here and abroad, his vote was regarded as an achievement and as a repudiation of the administration. You report that In Oregon McCarthy polled less than 50 per cent of the Democratic vote, but you neglect to give the combined percentage received by Humphrey and Johnson in that ROSCOE LERNERi Ml The trouble with any presidential campaign Is that by this time each candidate has become an almost unrecognizable caricature of himself. It is bard to remember that Richard Nixon is neither as treacherous nor as gallantly chivalrous, Ronald. Reagan neither as reactionary nor as charismatic, Eugene McCarthy neither as naive nor as virtuous, Hubert Humphrey neigher as lickspittle a loyalist nor aa creatively Hammurabi.

like a lawgiver as they are all made out to be by foe or friend. For all the hot hates, loves and urgencies of a constantly changing contest the truth is that these are complex and vulnerable human beings, neither beasts nor gods. One may see each of them to borrow Edmund Wilson's phrase as a "triple thinker." There are roughly three broad levels (some might call them issues) on which we must appraise bow each candidate thinks. The first is the power level, dealing with the density and quality of their thinking on global policy in war and peace. Of the last four Presidents Harry Truman, I Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson General Eisenhower was the only one who didn't let American power get Involved In war, and Mr.

Johnson let it get bogged down. On the spectrum of the candidates. Governor a would probably use the massive American power most openly as a "threat system" In diplomacy, Nixon somewhat less so, Senator McCarthy least so. I should guess that Governor ANDROCLES One of the big rhubarbs was over the inclusion of a plank to recommend the abolition of the emergency clause on tax bills passed by the Most delegates, (including us) favored doing away with this restriction (the only one like it in the United States) but many of those voting though it would hurt their candidates too much if the party recommended its deletion. One place we thought the party goofed was in the rejection of an excellent plank on the use of marijuana and dangerous drugs.

The recommended plank would have left it to a judge's discretion whether a first time user or an experimenter should be sentenced to the county jail or the state penitentiary. Now, he has -tr'-k it -tr ir McCarthy-supporter and ad vised another Humphrey sup- Eorter to tell the Vice-President Is forces were "going after It like a Chicago alderman," We do not really expect who seems to resent the efforts of. the electorate to be represented by their delegates, to be sympathetic to our appeals. Of course we shall write to him. We are determined to return our party to the people.

Merger C. Wllley 1505 NW Grant Checking Up By M. BOYD THt WOMEN OF what nation," asks an Indlanan, "generally tend to possess the most expansive bust measurements?" My, my. Overcame a bashful embarrassment long enough to check this out with our Ladles man, and he specified the women of Denmark and their female descendants. A FRENCH NATURALIST named Father Cuvler Insists no society can civilize Itself without the help of its dogs.

Maybe so. Know the only tribesmen who never kept dogs were the Tasmanlans, and they didn't get beyond stone hatch- CIS. AAM UI. ISNT MARY STILL the most popular name among 10-year-old girls? So Inquires one of same. No, our Name Game man says Mary now Is second.

First Is Linda. Deborah is third. Am acquainted with a young lady approximately that old whose full name Is Linda Mary Deborah Moriarity. She is at the zenith of given name gamesmanship in her grade. OUR LOVI AND WAR MAN contends the years when a woman is most apt to be profoundly smitten by the temporary Infatuation known as the crush are the late thirties.

Not all such crushes are squeezed Into extramarital affairs, however. Only one tn three. DRUMMOND, Rockefeller should be the Republican nominee. The only circumstances that would Inject the old Vietnam Issue Into tha campaign would be the nomination by the Democrats of Eugene McCarthy. J-The evidence Is accumulating that the U.S.

share in the Vietnam war Is declining and will continue to decline. It began when, In the wake of the Tet olfenslve, President. Johnson resisted pressure for a big accretion of American troops; he sent about 11,000 though some In the military were urging more than 200,000. The U.S. has cut back the area of bombing over the North by nearly 90 per rent.

There are no slgnt that there will be an American Initiative to escalate the fighting. The South Vietnamese army, In process of being flipped with more modern weapons, Is taking over more of the war and Present Thleti sees major U.S. withdrawals by IDfii. An of this meant that the IsKues which most lacerated the nation the steady buildup of troops, escalation, bombing far to the north are simply no longer present. McCarthy continues to belabor the ral and would almost rertalnly do so In tha ramnalgn.

rite the wisdom of Winston Churchill: "If we open a quarrel between the pat and the resent, we shall find that we ave lost the future." fatherhood Tms Over Politics Vieinam Issue-Old And New The Candidates As Rockefeller and Vice President Humphrey, both temperament and philosophy, would use it very much alike, flexibly but with a residual strength. This runs counter, I know, to the current assessment of Humphrey by many. But Walter Lippmann, with his usual sanity, feels that Humphrey in his recent speeches has broken with the A I i ation position, although he wonders how credible the break will seem to the people, and supports Rockefeller. As for McCarthy, be clearly means to end the war quickly, if not unilaterally. But I suspect that if he were nominated and elected, he would frustrate many of his present critics by being tougher with American power than they expect and disillusion and embitter many of his True Believers who see him as liquidating America's whole power strnctnre.

McCarthy's whole record is at once liberal and realist and will survive his present deification. The second level is legislative-administrative, and deals with the whole range of domestic policy, especially on racial conflict and the cities. This is the level on which General Elsenhower was weakest and Lyndon Johnson, strongest It is where McCarthy has thus far failed to define himself sharply enough, and Nixon seems nebulous. On general legislative achievement Rockefeller and Humphrey seem strongest in terms both of temperament and record. I am sorry to say that none of the candidates la wholly adequate in the area of raca tensions and city problems as compared with what Robert Kennedy brought to it The late senator saw it aa an innovative field.

Only Mayor John Lindsay today seems capable of the same style, although Rockefeller would be Innovative In his style, and Humphrey and McCarthy would work hard at It without a special flair. The third level to linked with the other two but makes even harder demands of lis own. It la that of the sheer presence of a President, as communicator, educator, unifier, conciliator and symbol of the meaning and purpose of the nation as a America today Is tragically split -on -the war, between the races, and between the generations. The Kll5fW3etS10 Tji-c ce www -to Oit aw am Wll 4 Wf- 1 1 it a fy One of Tom McCaU's traits that scores points with the public but frustates his political advisors is the Governor's proclivity for acting human. Sunday night at Gearhart, McCaU's father glands got the better of him.

His son has recently graduated from the Coast Guard Academy and is on his way to a dangerous assignment in Vietnam. After McCall had presented a gift to speaker Gov. John Volpe at the Republican's wind-up banquet Oregon's chief executive impetuously sounded off. He let go an emotion-based blast at those at home who are not supporting our fighting forces in Vietnam. Included by name in the indictment were Oregon Sens.

Wayne Morse and Mark Hatfield. The Governor was not arguing the philosophy of whether or not we should be in Vietnam, military strategy, peace negotiations or any other facet He concentrated on his conviction that our men fighting there should be supported at maximum level of our resources. He's right But letting go a grenade at a Senator of one's own party at the state convention of that party, is Just not done. Except that it was and it brings into focus how human our Governor really is. Triple Thinkers war will somehow ba ended after the elections, one way or another.

But the other splits will remain. The whole question of a frame of order in the' cities, which is today being exploited by George Wallace, will not yield either to coerclveness or to rhetoric and permissiveness. It needs someone who will catch the Imagination of the Negro and be able to communicate with the young, again much as Robert Kennedy could do. True, he had to pay the penalty of every controversial figure by becoming a polarizing one, but as President be could have overcome it The remarkable fart, which Mr. Kennedy Illustrated, Is that a strong civil rights position and a strong frame-of -order position are not only compatible they reinforce each other.

But neither is possible except for a man who can make his presence felt On each of these three levels, a President must not only think: he must understand, teach, feel, do, dare, be In short, lead. WASHINGTON The next Big Surprise tn this surprising election year Is In the making: Vietnam will not ba an Issue in the Presidential campaign In the terms it has divided and embittered the nation during the past two years. This view runs counter to prevailing opinion, but It la a judgment that, I am confident will become Increasingly evident In the next few weeks. It Is a welcome development It will be good (or the nation. It will Improva the prospecta of a political aetllement In Taris.

Let me put the matter very precisely. The old Vietnam Issue whether we should have ever tone to the defense of South Vietnam, whether It was In our national Interest to do so, whether It was militarily prudent, politically wlM, or morally Justified that Issue Is Irrelevant to the choice of the next President of the United Stales. It la empty of meaning for today's decisions. The new Vietnam lue how to end the fighting by both sides, how to shape a Just and workahta peace and how to protect It that Utue Is rnrlally pertinent to tha rhntce of the next Preident It Is hill of meaning for today I declnlons, Campaign debate ovr tb old Vietnam lmia would be sterile, ft muld do rmthlng pfrprtuate pat divisions and RICHARD SPONG, The labor Crunch perpetuating past I I I would make It difficult to reach a settlement In Paris. Campaign debate over the new Vietnam issue would be vital.

It would leave the past to the historians. It would center the animate concern of the country on the present and the Immediate future. It would further the prospecta of a set-tlement In Paris by enabling the American people to concentrate on the real Issue of how we can get Into the peace rather than to waste our unity by debating the false Issue of how we got Into the war. These facts underline how desirable It would be to have the Incoming campaign center on the present vital Vietnam Unit of now to shape the peace and not on the past sterile Vietnam Issue of whether we should hav gotten Into the war. Rut will hirpen this way? Will the Vieinam Issue of the Ct fade from tha political adllnes after the conventions and the Vietnam Issue of the present dominate? I think It will for two reasons, l-The' two most probable nominee Hubert Humphrey and Rirhard Nlson are In agreement on the past They would hav no reason and no Incentive to hah over what lies tn the past, which Is of leat Importanct.

They would be rompletety free to renter on wbai lies abead, which Is of greatel Importance. This would be eousMy true tf Nelson price Increases. But leading steel executives hava been saying right along that a new wage package In the I per cent range or upward cannot be supported by present published prices. The Presidential Committee estimated Inflation at a continuing 4 per cent annually. Higher labor costa.

followed by price rises. Inevitably would push that rate up. Bituminous coal operators are now paying a 40 cenl-a-lon royalty Just for the L'MWA Welfare and Retirement Fund, A hefty pay boost might threalea the recuperation of (he coal Industry. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION In June rne to a record 1M 4 per cent of the 1K7 51 avnata, seaaonally adjusted, the Federal Reserve Board reports. Looking to 0a future, The' Morgan Guaranty Sumy citea the uncertainty about steel strike and the lack of hard Information "as to how much steel Inventory over and above normal levels has been accumulated." A steel strike would be the first since Die lift-day monster In which made believers out of management and labor alika.

In coat, the 1H4 bargaining was marked by rah of local wildcat strikes. About half the Induitry was Idled for nwrt than two weeks. Ttui wai the most serious clnaedown In a cmce highly contentious Industry In mora than decade. Industrial production 1 1 declined In only on month In 19f4, Strikes In alUier enal or steel would crimp that record seriously. But If Inventories were chewed up by strike, particularly In steel, the oconomy would probably bounce right back.

union headquarters tails Editorial Beaearch Report, eventually will cover about M.ooo workers. Talks between the United Mine Workers and management which are about to begin Involve im.Opo miners sod helper. The Steelworkett started from demand for a 10 per rent year trrrtaae In wages and benefits. The Induitry Is aid to be resigned to at (east I per rent As fnr coal, The Wall Sireet Journal reports; "Thti time there's a of talk about mwey." Two years aeo the miners artUed for a small waga wr II a day pun aurwtanUal benefits tn hnlidayi, varatinna, seniority right. rREsrncNT Johnsons Committee on Trice Stability hal written several hundred bu'lrvM and latr leadort aking rptraint in wage and 4, Wtlila MM tmt WITH TALKS ON WAGES romlng up In Tig Steel and Pig Coal.

President Johnson's rail tor the "utmost restraint" In price and wage lncrraes Mil from here tike a voire crying out In the wilderness. Factory workers' earning rose to an hour during June, according to the Bureau of Labor Put tlhor Ihi yaf trmt to be hiring th old demand of Anvrkan Fixfrra-llrm of Labor fnumW Conipr "Mm-!" Tb siwlwnrki-m a I a a rwgi'lialfd I II lf rrtit bxvc was and frtn prka for workrri ft rrpjTwnU tn lb aluminum to Tb? rmilrart lalks In i'h II ba'ic ciytirni invnlv 1 1 1 1 0 ln, funtrad Ktllmnu,.