PAULHARVEY
Ytmng-Peóple^Are^lder
Toesday. Sepłember 19. IW Al WtiUcgr#*. Mdhker
PHONE 733-0931
Oir^łftlCIlyAAdCAuMr **■«%**»* * Mamb* *4 Audi «*J UPI
ta Idei** (dlhfl CwJ*. Thu*u)»y ll h*«ty ótiipr »*»0 II (*• 4*r Of »•* wk •* w*\0>
1*001 HMIC04 wsi N 0U«łllW*d dtlir 0*4 kmdry. 0 «(•<>' •» 1)9 TMrtf Dr. *4 V/Ml,
T*4* *011*. ty M*olc VHlyMMt«Nri, Uc CAl«r«d M w<e*e cmi mołf* A**-M I.
ifil.ftjtfttetwowcou T** roni. Idaho. •nai.Midtr HM Midi I. II*
Sirgcrft Shrtter*# campafgn -cóurttng yóung voler«, but And evcn ktjm dr th* sCayf emp hasła Itas bcen on lnvolvlng young peopło aro oldcr thnn pat, "howotd liold cncugh?" U young people. Whst wtll that they uscd lo bc. * ' • moot guestlon.
tako? Vc< łnconslstcnt state Inws Harfa a girl wrłting to mc
Poltbdnns of bolh pnrticj aro confoand th* ycung trovcicr. from Detroit. Mlii R.S. uyi
L o op koleśBenefit
Ąs_candidntcs lukę to the stump lo advocu(c thoir cuuścs. much Is boing soid ubout Ihc greot virlue <rf -closlng-^MOK kłopltólefir-— It-^ls-o-
politicnl codc phraso thnl raises Iwo visions in our mlnds.
We firsl thlnk of loopholcs as the traditionnl tox refuge of big business, nnothcr fpvorite politica! Uirgcl. Second. wc belicve Chat lax loopholcs ore- on udvanlage (hot accrucs to K»body-oteo. oot-UŁ--:-
In rcallly, with the possible cxccption of the vćry póor, the lnx fobpholcs that orc be Ing discusscd tooch ncarlj^evcry Citizen of the United State of America.
For examplc, the bcarcsJimulcs arc that if oll inc6n\e tox deductiońs for big Effijrneśs”wcre' climinated, the • total incrcased revenue would be something less than $25 bllllon. The cost in Tost Jobs would be many times tbnl nmount.
TRTsmś nnothcr wńy of saylng
that .in JhelaadJUtllha—aigtt.
dcduction8such items osTnsun\hco that cmplóyers purchaso for cmploy.cs, the exclusion' of the $6,000 cmploye dcotil benefit from taxcs, and $100,' divłdcnd cxemplions gronted individuols, fnvorcd tox treatment of employe stock options, tax cxcmption of credit union and mutual insurnnee funds and deductiońs for farm
loEses. ----
By 1970 the measures would
carncr, the buleher and the baker. who would suffer the most if the so-' called loopholcs arc elosed. He is the biggest s our cc of income to all • T{ovćmmchts.
This is brought home by the best definition to dutc of the lux udvantagcs that doexist — the bilLs introduced in Congrcss by Sen. Mlkc Mansfield and Hep. Wilbur
Mills.'--------------
By 1974, the Mansficld-Mills bills would climinatc as income Uix
sick pay, intcrcsl and insurancc • payments,' joil and woler conscrvation expenditurcs, land clcarancc, rcscarch ..and ex-pcrimental spcndjng.
By 1976 Ihc meosures would rcmove the lost of the deductiońs that most or us lakę fpr grantcd each April 15;’ including-those for retiremenl income credit, rental value of parśónages, goins in salcs by persons ovcr 65. choritablc contributions. mcdical expenscs, scholorship ' grant* and " contributions io poliiicol candidntes.
* 73,
BRUCE BIOSSAT
»he'ł 14. WVn her parrnli iake her to Uio drivo-tn thealer. Uiey h#v« to buy an adult tlckft for hor. Hut when th# morfo being ahown U X-r»ted, tho law ukMctiI) ronsldtra her a dilid Ogaln.
Sto aaya tho dow not par-Ucularly want to go lo tho X-rated them; aho Just wanta to lenow wlileh aho la. “Am I an odult o* »»t?" ihc atk».
Mim R S., I donH know.
Hot I aliare >hat ihoold bo yout furU.cr tndignation ot the obiurdity óf tluitra'tinK oyłtem' What Dw lyitom sayi li Uial tt'a
U'e lic, dcery, deny Ihe numbor of candleo on tho całce aecklng (o itop Ihe clofk.
A pollUdan nocka tho “youth vote“ by trylr^ to be one of Ihcm. Dut dcapito o glnlled mtdillc. Iramplantcd halr, face-Ufted face and an drtlfłclal caao of o cne — ho eami moro piły than reapcct from thoie ho courts.
We don't aanl to Mt our ago or bo our oge. We thlnk wo want (o be young again.
Dut tf old la leu old Uian II OMd Ł»1w;-yeohg pcople are’ InfinStcIy morę fnutrated than
■tnymowe imai yw BMłme-WłTTKirTiM’* w» wm X"ncc3Wr. fffnTmr ńirdiri. b>cj rc gr<cń or
rłpc .
The ichoolnmler aays high ichooitri ore too old to węor tHelr. Kair lit« Cćorge Washligton, )tt too young to weor a beard llko lincobt; whot ta Uda!
St UuU pay chla tri ot. Dr. E. Jamet .Anthony. aoyt. "Ado te scen u arc bccomlng oW >*ourgcr. oged by prcasurc.”
any nwe1
Oh. comc now. łf U*i "dlrf lt'j ł,dlrlM howęyęr old or yoimg yoa orc
In most yoti orc o!d
cnoaKh Ł vote whlle yau*rc oliU too >«ang ta drink
Ycu'rc old cnotiKh to pay fuli farc on publk . troraporlaUon. whlle yow're allll too youA* to dri\*e o cnr.
You*rc old mou|*h to go to war He mcan» the preuure oi Dad
bcfcrc you*rc old cnoo<h to go to itflfltcrlng łwm« dnink or.d n 'h^ńńiiy jmnyie wilhnitf %opr 'tóp[ńH Ji^iór not jo amoke'po( por en to
Yoo'rc old cnouRh to marry. whlle you*rc otlU too young to "diorgc it."
Tlilnk wi Ulew thlngs
Vou kiuJ I h»vo bren Jookin)* down from the aanctlmonious
when tticfCs not all Uiot dxf*
fereoee —-------
He mram the peeasufe of lega! ond soclol cor.trodlctiom obout when la U 11 mc to aUrt to work, lo drlvr. to amokr, to drink, to marry. anonymlty oL ou£_yciira_whilc—r Aid lklt dfl ycra to> a hen trylng to aubtruct from them Dod Jooka out from under hU wtth c\’cry lotion, p^tlon and toupce to demand: "Why don l-dtvlce known to coamctlc you net your ago?-'* * ackiirr.
GEORGE C. THOSTESOŃ, M.D.
* tn short, each one of us is hłmscłf a major lax loopholc. To climinute the loopholcs would droslically olter charitles, education. • city rcvenucs. home buying. Health spending, fooęl prices, lwuschold purchuscs, our. )obs und our very life słylcs.
Thts is hardly the picture the politiclnns paint wlicn Otcy spenk confidontly of closing - - lax loopholcs.
Cood Yesterdays
Doctor Says
No Pollution
CHICAGO — lt'a the movtng aro son. und movtng can be a • chore. For mo. helpjng herc to close a famlly home held łnorc tlinn hnlf a ccntury. It U not »o much o Ubor <ii a pulnful leorc-tukińg from an era of warm.
— brfght llYtnf*. .--
The era Ulpa a«a> as lióoka acqutrcd In lin* eurly lWOs are puilcd from the abcWrs. as lettefs from IWO are found In dresser dra wers, as hundrads of photogrupht tumbie out of cn^clopcs. as I flnd the tlckct •lub from my flrat footbnl gamę •ges ago. and my fother‘i
Urthdays and other spectal times. Chat labie was o festlee thlng lo lcc — brighfened by Howeri, wctl-oppolntcd uitb distlDcUvc coffce urns and other Ubić ple cci. ladcn with fcod Whut went on herc ut such Umca was not taviih. It was Ju*t great good fun, whlch few aho camc ever forgot l’m sming no w tn my f ather^s upiunrs atudy. where buitf-in shcl\*ei onco held hundreds of law bontu On the floor. rcady to be moved. are many pUes of old 7* KPM p^onoK^•P^ rccords -remlnders of the neirly
Anyone who has spent any timc at all in the vicinity of u pupor ipill docs not nced thc current concern for ^the ^ecology lo be madę forcefiilly owarc of pollulion os-o-problcm.
The pulp and poper industcy long had p śpecial reputation as a pollutcr par exccilenco. The indcficribable stcnch givcn off in
and produchon practices, ul. no llttlc cost to thcmsclves—an cstimatcd . W40 rnillion — but without sigmficanl dislocation of produotion or-employmont^-t- " If it conlinues to score goins tjI the rale of the past Iwo years. the industry could achicvc virtually 100 per cent cffective pollution conlrol by lOTS. iiccording to the council. a
grades on • scholarihlp trst. ^onUnuoui )«ii (rat! ta pi tbut
and my mfltbtf l notes about. ^ ___
the nlghl we cumę lo thls house
kn Octobrr, 1919. • in%npiii «« ■■ §
Wc arc teorlng all thcsc ANDREW TULLY
thinga from Uiclr-accurtomad- --y.----— ^ ———
' places, aiicl packlng up. becanse *’
my moOier died a llttte whflle ago. Sie was fc) and had outlivcd my fother by- 21 yeara.
A» we thruft the past Into futperbonrd boies, «a wc plant
cnllvrncd the place tlmca.
ThU hoooe wos not* Just 17)C fomlly rock; Jt was for I >furs o gatherlng place for >oung and old. attractcd by tu wannth, IU golcty. IU curious. free-atyte oflginaltty It wat a center for scngfestond Uilkfcst. n place whcrc hvlng nevcf was M
"Thls slage. whcrc our llres •nfoldcd ll) ; cliotrful compctltlon and zcstful celebr u ton, will soon be dark. Its <ra is really eve^ now. Tiw lass U not Just ours. but the world k
DcarT> Thastesoo After a hystercctorny I waa Rlvcn. In citrllcr hormonesbUtnatmctedtoontft them flve doy* each month.
Howcver. I was. complefely miserable for thosc flve da>^ and for scvcrat morę daya after
tufhce on the •'off" day* and ot&ll moro or leas foUow tho natural cydsc hormonc paltem You might ditcuss thooo tuo pofslblhtlfa. wlth your physSdan.
rtsamtng mcdication. I.urged.- _ Doar Dr. Tlioilcjon: I havo my doctor to altow_mc lo take boen hovtng • vaglnal
them evcn on lhose flvc doyi He Is rdurtant to do so bzi does not fu»y why - Mn. M L P.
- The rcoŁon you aro ghen Ihc liormoncs ts that, obttoualy. ycur ovar1n wne removed olong wlth the .hysterectomy Wlth the ovar|e» no longcr prooonl, and Ciscrcforc no ionger furnlshing you wlth thetr ac-cuitocned aupply of hormones.
J____you bepan cipcrienclrg the
uniićty ónd JUtcrYUut so often accompany menopause.
So your doctor gavt you
dlacharge ond im worrled abcut the psaiiblllty of vcncrtal dlsease. I om not able to go to the famlly doctor bccauscthra my p aren U would flnd out. Are there any cliiUca tn my ar ta? -N. N.
Twe aniwe/i to thli tyjestlon - whlch la an łDcraaatfigtr frcąuent one.
l.Ooltf a few stotes now have speclal lawa allowlng physlcions to trwt young peopk for v«ncrcal di^g^ without gettlng the pcrmlislon of
the paper-making proccss, depcnding upon varlatlons of locaT geography and prcvoiling winds, might nlso bc incscapable at distances up to 30 miles from a plant. Sludge spewed into waterways could cqual the total wuslc product of o major city.
Bul guoss which industry is now carnlng llsclf a vcry lorge *'EM for pollution-conlrol efforts7
Paper is ••years ahead** of olher major—maniifmlnring arcas._uL_
nonęrom organiźation mohitoriwj Ihc soćial impicT of business ana mdustrial activities.
•Paper Is. of course, still minor league comparcd with such Industries as Steel. power productionand mining. all massivc waslc contributors But . its cxpcnencc is evidcncc that tho pollution problem does yicld to effort - and cxpcndltute.
GiYŁU-this. one induattyls .image
“cttnlnnmdtablPJ we knowas wr • M*cil do our own facet, what orc we General Icaying?
First, o huge brlck houtc wlth a red-tiled rod. a handsome bay wtndow. troad. high ceihngcd rooms. a spprlous yurd morę rlchly grecn by far than when we cnme 33 yeara •Ko
It U truły a family fortress. a greot rock unscarred by tho bultcrtng tldca of rcccnt limes.
Jl U-Uw-vkWbU proof- that - we
Mail Service
WASHINGTON - OuaHflcd unnouncement that the hlrtng sources. wlthln the Postu! freczc would contlnuc tn-Mmo-drfinltety-iH-mo»t-weqai
bormoncaio rcplacc. tbosc Ihc -PorcnU. fib maybc jou can go lo ovartcs longcr wcr£~your famlly dactor after an. •
produclng.
It U the usuai proctlce each month to dlsconUnuó hormonci for fłve days lor for a weekł bccau.sc that most doacly op--proechett the naturoFpottem-of-
2 I can'1 potslbly keep trock of Just whcrc all the V. D. cUnlca are locotcd tn the vortou* communlttos In whtcti thls COlmn oppeon, but you\can findoul foryoursolf uaryaallly, -
i^wUnostor Dmer T/ Kloaacirs recent disclosuro that same groupi of postoi rmployes tn ef/eci hi»ve been sobolMglng mail handhhg and drllvcry
^gut- KUtasoiw-SUU-Xac«a an outragcoui altuation tn at-temptlng to cffect further economlea In peraonneł cosls In cne of Ihe moro scandakais victorłcs_for collcctiee
Klasacn, in urmouiHtng thcrc bargidmifs^ poslul workers
cleantag up after Itsdf, reports the Council on Economic Pnoritłcs.
Most (irms in tho industry havc had marked success In deaning up plant* and reputations in Just a fcw short years through now eijuipment
only-a fcw years ago for. in the counciPs words. ". ., .foul-smelling mills belching gasęs and dischnrging sludge into streams . .who would havc bclicvcd it? ‘ '
Revived Weąpon
"This is Al Cupone rcvisited." With thcsc words, Assislanl Trcasury Sccrclary Eugonc T. Rossides dcs<-ribcd Woshinglon's efforts to pul major drug ■ diBtributoni ond puKhcrs out of business on income tax chnrgcs.
--:* Although efforts lo dotcMo-joil
siispccted narcotics kingpinś on tax charge* havb rcsultcd in ońly nlnd convictlons, the pótential cxists for wldesprend arrests and harassment. ■ ■'
Rossides soid intonslve tax return scrutiny is underwoy on 910 ~ “-ind|vldual8-iU8pecled.-of- being major drug amugglers and 789 others suspectcd ot being pushers. ■, _. In nddltlon to tho nlne convlctod on crlminol tax charges, 22 others arc under Indlctmonl and prosecutłon r^ has bocn rocommonded In 49 other
_^__csSar"' .....——-
Morę than threc decades hove possed sińce the income tox laws wcrc uscd to jail Chicugo's notorious mobster, Al Caponc. Although the arch villain. was widcly involved tn oll faccls of crimc, tncludlng murder, the courts could not or-uould not touch him on thcsc grounds/
^Only failuro to acootint for his • income propcrly under thę tax laws cycntually sent Caponc to prison.
Bccousc of the incrcased Intitudc glven 1 niema i Revcnue Scrvicc agenta todoy in the form of much —moro stringont tax laws, it
- prove o relatlvely ^imple tnsk to takc similar actlon against thosc who deol illiciUy In the mulU-. milllon-dollar narcotics troffłc.
Thl8 is one timc łhc ovoragc laxpaj?cr win fińd Jiimself rooting-
— for the^IRS;——- —---—
hwd a slabie sctUng tn whlch to «row and g*t rcady for thr world
I look at a center of the onk-punded dlnlng room and rcmember that for 32 unbrokcn yeara enormoui Chrlitmoi trees atood thftc. londcd down włih hundreds and hundretb of cruamcnla.
The tree. loitlng aomctlmei for sli werki, wis the ctnterpłece lira long eeremony which was. for us. an annoal cclebraUon of llfc ^ HcIuIUts. neighbors and frirmls trooped tn to gazę ot It.
We tn thti large famlly who* rdurncd year after yeor to sustoln thls ccrcmony wlth our fujlcst energtfs could be
would U* no need to seck u projcctcd incrcase of one cent un ouncc In fir>l<Uoa mail nites ncit ycur. nierrly sald that "many p^ople1 were op* posed" to a 33.WO rcductlcn la
;«LLbL.: \ i'
and Instłtutlon of an eorly
anlesa he choosca to rctlre. retiremenl program wcnl tnto.. KJnisen la blocneless herc. effect lint Morch, "There arc Tłie no-loyoff bit was inscrted arcas whcrc wc'vc gol into postni eon!rads al the troublcs." sald KJaurn. "We demond of members of thlnk we knuw whcrc they are." Congrcss. who l!vc in dreod «nd They do Indced. The trouble dally fcor oflhepolitlcal muKlc ipots. occordlng to Senrtcc of postał workers, who now
havc forcnl tnclusion in thetr contr acU a clauM? that prohlUU luyoffs The cłausc says any bisy. drunken or dopc-oddlctcd bum u safe on the payrol! no rnoltcr how monslrously hc
rnnlrilrjtrs UujnaKnurary -an. thnsu "nff^-dayw-wUK-4i»*
cnough to make ~you com-for lobie. P-cnse try that. In
ralaaso-of- homuMiMr and UiJuU Ulolphono-tho dopartmml avolds U:o rbk of głrtng you al hralth and axk. moro than your bc-dy rrqulres
Yoa rpay not be physlcally tn nced of IV hormones for those fcw days, any moro than you were before tho opcroUon Dut U ts possible that you have becomc psychologtcally dependent on the hormenjs, whtch may bo the real reason for being mtseroblr.
Perhopo a rtuld trnf>qulllier
other In stance a. u reduerd dosc of hormenes (say hnlfi may
De nr Dr. Thostoson: Is it tn* you cant get pregnant the firsl Urnę you have seiual la-tercoufsc? — P. A Tm getung Urcd of oniwtrlng thls ąucsUon. NO, It ls NOT true. %
Dr. Thosteson welcomes aU reoder mail, bot. rtgreta that. duc to the tremendous vohime Tee<tvad-dattyrhTrtnmafcfc-t9-answer lndtvldual lotters. Rcndcrs* qucstlcns aro tn-corporated tn his column whenevrr posslbfe
In smollcr dtlrs. but In Ihc words of one official. "The bomb throwers arc tn thosc flve dlles mentioned."
flnally admlttcd. has bćm a further deterioratlon In mail
charged. I supposc. wtth trMna atrrlct, He Kos slgnallcd o<il os to redolm the past; wtth' U king •pedał prottems parcel post refuge In the old dtadcl safc and speclal dollwry. rtmarUng
from the chaos*of tMs nger-of the Intter sendcc "IFs been
Ttuc, pfrhapa, tn oWosurc. really a <Ułgrace.M Nonę Of.thls -malU-aa-a-vlahIe means of But herrthp pist was also tho comcs aa news to cvcn the most
present We nevcr ollowed the akołn to be brokc. We came not bccause it yras tafe but bccaui* Ufo here was still .worm and K°od.
Looklng at the long dlning
mu u,Lw, L
mcmceles oaolly, of my father, a hard<harglng Lwyer. leasing my slsters, of my sensUlyt mother tr>1ng to balon co haif a doien dleU and keep a show of order amid tha. bantor ond Ulughtar.
casual mad uscr. who has had to put up wtth less froąucnt ptckups at straet mail boi os ond aays a proyer cvery Ume hc entrusts a communłeatloo to Klassen^ outfit.
ivar (hołota, Klaocon and his aldes dcwrvc a salutc for maktng a tiorl. Monpowrr custs occount forabout &S per cent o( Dłc Postoi Sorylce'! Udget, and It has takfn gula unusual In a goxcmmnel.ogency.to lop off •oma of tho deadheads. Tltcre ls
BERRY’S WORLD
communtcatlng ta wrltlng.
Many prlvate companles already arc dollwlng thdr own mali, and Ih Washington the elect/lc company last Aprtl—O began honddeUvertng its bills.
The United Parcel Sondce now handles aamtny. and prolmbly-— moce. packages than the PoeUil Scnfcc. Bul thanka lo Ihelr pals on CapUol Hlll. union barona wiU contlnuc to dlne on aucrted goodies under glass at such posh ca te rl cs As Sans Soucl and RJvo Gauche. Thafa thoLr namo
•ourcaa. aro Now York.
Washington. Chk-ago. DctroK ahd Los Angeles. Home slowdowns nnd other 9ubtle moans of - - aabotago a lao-Congr owionął ar ma. reportcdlyhavebeon uncovrred Thnl, presumubly, la whut
numbor GC7.C00 bodics cvcn ofter recent Staff redoclions. Poital anion negotlators nred not ncgottutc. they mcroly twist
tlicy will do tn July 1973. Unkm lenders nlready have glutn nottcc they Tl be asking for morę dough. plus odded frtngc
The rcsult, as Klassen f^mself benef Its. nest year, and If they
get what they want, from a puilllanlmour Congrcu Che hnrni^cd mail uscr eon czpoct nnothcr boosl In posiał rutn If nnd when thot hoppens, you can kio goadbyc to goyemment
TfóryttTarChrtHmas bat at further gooctnewrln KUasen*! “{or Uysfwrńc:
Min Weifwood, fkere#i o gróJp cóltid 4Th* Wołęr-_ .1 ----r70ofa-/<Ve'-here Ia-iaa-yoóf”- --;—