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appleton Post -Crescent Friday, August 24, 1962 Under the Capitol Dome Sales Tax or Income Hike -We'll All Pay BY JOHN WYNGAARD MADISON" If the state's in-come taxes are raised arain, as the Democrats are proposing in their current platform and the speeches oi me canai- a dates, the re- VSf, Across the Berlin Wall The latest crisis in Berlin, instigated by the murder of an East German youth who was trying to escape, should bring about a review in the West of its policies toward the Wall and the increasing East German Eggressiveness. Secretary Rusk's request for a meeting to "ease tensions" is far too gentle a prodding. In retrospect it seems probable that the West could have succeeded in preventing the erection of the Wall a year ago. Firm action in taking down the bricks and mortar instead of the loud shouts that it was a breach of an agreement might well have resulted in second thoughts, explanations of mistaken intentions and attempts by the Reds to find some other way of keeping the East Germans from fleeing to the West. Also, as a second thought, it seems that East German police would have hesitated to shoot down American medical corpsmen had they gone to the aid of the wounded to be a tax rate for the moderate earn of Wisconsin that will be boy as he lay bleeding to death in the street.

The Russians are not interested in lessening the tensions in Berlin. They want to raise the pressure to force Western troops out of West Berlin. The Red commander in the Eastern sector ignored the request of the American general in West Berlin for a conference on the problem. Now the Russians have announced that the functions of the Russian commander in Berlin will be turned over to the East German regime. This may well be a prelude to further Red attempts to keep the pot boiling.

It is high time that the West took up the chant of the rioting West Berliners that the wall must come down. We do not want to instigate a war. But our caution has brought nothing except increased dangers and death and certainly a growing lack of confidence among freedom loving people that the West really has the courage to stand by its principles. Wvngaard little different in burden than the three per cent sales tax that the Republicans are espousing. The voter contemplating the current campaign scene may therefore ask himself: Wrhat is all the fuss about? What's the difference? The difference is that there are other earners involved in the argument, there is a difference in the productivity of the two systems, and there is the matter of a reasonable conformity with the taxation practices of economically competitive states.

It may be stipulated that for the man, or family head, with an income of $3,000 or thereabouts this dispute about kinds of taxation that the stale will be levying in the future is academic. But if there is a new layer of income tax liability, say one or two per cent, it won't be confined to the lower or middle brackets. It will be levied on all the brackets of taxable income The VFW Is Mature in Convention lrT '9-X When Headache Strikes He's Eating Humble Pie Ryskind Criticizes Pigeon English, Then Discovers Error in Column as specified in the present law, precisely as the last legislature added one per cent to each bracket of liability. COMPETITION The question is whether the state will find it safe, given the comparatively high top rates of income taxation that already exist, to raise them further. The committee of the School of Commerce at the University of Wisconsin which recently concluded that the 1961 tax revision act was a contribution to the Wisconsin economy put it plainly when it observed: "Despite the need for more revenue the line has been held on the top rate of individual income taxation, in which respects Wisconsin was seriously out of line with other states." There are other considerations, appealing at least to those who feel that the sales tax is preferable to a more burdensome income tax.

The sales tax is an efficient revenue collector. There was a time when the income tax advocates argued that the income tax administration was efficient too. But thoy tossed that argument sway in their anxiety to enact the withholding law last year, holding that it would be a way to catch up with the tax cheats. Not all of the income taxpayers, by any means, are within the withholding system. Presumably the same proportion of cheats exists in those outside the withholding umbrella now.

THE ARGUMENT The sales tax will yield revenue dollars from many persons who do not now feel the pressure of the income tax collector. The common illustration here is the itinerant, the man who travels Wisconsin for business purposes, the tourist seeking relaxation and pleasure, and many others. There is no very reliable index to the sales tax liability of such traffic, although the naked eye can judge it will be substantial in a state which entertains millions of holiday visitors. It is only far to say that the sales tax advocates probably tend to exaggerate this factor, however, and that the income tax champions tend to minimize it, for their own debating purposes. Once upon a time there were Wisconsin citizens who had their doubts about the morality of taxing non-residents for public services the benefits of which are largely confined to those who live here.

But that is an old fashioned concept today, with the tax department busily dunning some thousands of persons living in border communities who happen to have jobs here and demanding a slice of their pay in income taxation. BY MORRIE RYSKIND Sackcloth and ashes are not my usual costume, but it's certain the mail will be heavy this week with de rejected a resolution demanding an end to diplomatic and trade relations with all Communist nations. It backed the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and constitutional amendment to permit prayers in public schools as well as a reappraisal of our membership in the United Nations including the possibility of our withdrawal as a last resort. We do not agree with all these resolutions. But the VFW, in national convention, has shown a mature recognition of the validity of differing viewpoints and the dangers involved in characterizing any opposition as subversive and suspicious.

As we said editorially some months ago, fair play is a prime requirement for true Americanism. The new commander-in-chief of the VFW, Byron Gentry, said it even better in verse: "Invariably the first to recognize The legal and the moral rights of other men We yet remain alert to guard our own. Within these sane and realistic bounds Essential to the freedom we hold dear We dare to pursue the phantom Golden Rule." Since I'm only human, this sort of applause undoubtedly went to my head. After all, Milton didn't get five congratulatory phone calls in his whole Ufa on the virtues of 'Taradise Lost," let alone on the morning it first appeared. Comes Reafzaton So, when the postman came, it was with understandable pride and awe that I turned to road the next piece of my favorite author, forwarded by the syndicate and already on its way to about the essay, the way any writer does when he has taken a firm hand in hehalf of justice and a better world.

The way, say, Milton must have felt after finishing "Paradise Lost." On the morning the article appeared locally, I felt even nobler. By 10 a.m., I had received five complimentary phone calls, two of them from teachers in the Los Angeles school system. And one of the other billets-doux was from a gentleman known to bo a card-carrying Democrat, but whose literacy is otherwise beyond question. risive jeers, gloating over my fall from grace. And the sad part is that this time I'll have no sound rebuttal.

Oh. I could take refuge; I Ryskind suppose, in the hoary alibi that even Homer the papers that carry the column. How long, I wondered, could I maintain that dizzy height of perfection? Not very long, it turned out. For there, big as life, was a construction I had been taught never to use. I rushed for my own carbon copy in the hope of being able to blame it on faulty proofreading but, alas, the was mine and mine alone.

I was able to correct the solecism before it appeared in The Los Angeles Times, but it was too lata to catch the out-of-town papers. So, here I am in sackcloth and ashes, crying out "Mea culpa!" And it isn't only the coming mail I dread. With my luck, Dr. Bergen Evans, who goes on the theory that any time anybody, including Dizzy Dean, says anything, it automatically becomes pood usage, will pounce on the error. And cite it, in his next volume, as a proper use of English.

What a way to be remembered! 1 What's that? What was the mistake? Well, if you didn't note it, don't expect me to tell you. The 5th Amendment absolves a criminal from testifying against himself. iCopyright 1W2 What Others are Saying Groups Say Food Is Chemically Poisoned Veterans organizations have in general received and sometimes deserved reputations as thick-headed groups dedicated to the status quo of the particular war in which their members fought. But the Veterans of Foreign Wars in national convention in Minneapolis indicated a considerable degree of understanding of the fair play involved in Americanism. In a code of ethics adopted at the convention, the VFW stated "we will not re-Fort to gossip-mongering, name-calling tactics, or characterize any individual' or organization as Communist on our own authority.

We regard such actions as threatening the basic freedoms which we are striving to defend." Following the precepts of this code, the group turned down a resolution demanding an investigation of the State Department and the charge that it was serving the Communist cause. The convention also refused to pass another extreme resolution claiming that there was a gag rule in effect to balk investigations of "communism in high places in the Government." The VFW expressed some of the concern and doubts of a lot of Americans in other resolutions. It opposed sending aid to "any nation under Communist control." including food to the Red Chinese, but it Chess and Diplomacy What the Russians are doing to control international chesr; so that a Russian is assured of being world champion may help to clarify what goes on in international conferences on foreign relations. A young American chess player, Bobby Fischer, who at age 19 is a veteran of international competition, explained recently why the champion is always a Russian. Back before 1946.

the international champion decided who he would meet in a championship match. This was not altogether fair because he could always avoid a challenger he feared. Then in that year Champion Alexander Alekhine died, and there was no clear-cut procedure for choosing his successor. The Russians took the initiative and set up a tournament in Moscow to pick a new champion. Five players were selected, three of them Russian.

A Russian by the name of Botvinnik won and has been champion ever since. And since that time also, a Candidates' tournament is held Keeping Slim The fat American's struggle against obesity goes on and on. He is warned of the danger of disease. She is concerned about style and the long-legged look. Even the President of the United States has said some firm words about keeping fit.

And now at last the ultimate in diets has been announced. Women's magazines have been full of all sorts of evasions. There have been diets for bikinis, diets for fall suits, diets to fit in around Christmas feasting, diets for spring hats. There are fad diets bananas and milk, steak and scotch, prunes condemn the use of medicine because a patient doesn't follow directions. It is just as illogical to condemn agricultural chemicals because their misuse can be dangerous.

The ushering in of the chemical age places a new obligation on the farmer. r.orlded. But, as has been pointed out, it wasn't his nodding that made each of seven different cities claim to be his birthplace. In my own case, letters from some 25 cents will display an eagerness to leave the dubious honor to New York, which is stuck with the grim fact and can do nothing about it. Humble Pie No, Homer's nodding doesn't help, and I'll have to find a more applicable adage.

The one about watching the beam in your own eye before casting aspersions on the mote in your brother's is more like it. So, one large portion of crow end humble pie, please. No, not to take out. In all fairness, I'm going to eat it right here in public. It all started innocently enough when I wrote a column of righteous wrath about the vicious assaults on English made by illiterate advertising agencies, senators, jurists, journalists.

TV and other grammatical delinquents. Tt was an Impassioned plea for the retention of the tongue of Shakespeare, the King James version of the Bible, Lincoln, Churchill and Douglas MacArthur as opposed to the new school whose bad currency threatened, in accordance with Gresham's Law. to drive out the more valuable coinage. each year to determine who will meet the champion for the title. And in each Candidates' tournament, the majority of the contestants are Russian.

Fischer relates how the Russians, when they are playing against each other in the tournament, draw most of their matches in rapid time while non-Russian competitors are engaged in exhausting games. When a Russian Is playing an American, the other Russian players gather around to kibitz and comment, even going into huddles with their countryman during the play. And in the latter stages of the tournaments it is evident that the Russians decide which of their players has the best chance of winning, and the others start throwing their matches to him. Thus the Russian champ is always meeting a Russian challenger. In other words domination of world chess is just part of Russia's propaganda program, and it doesn't matter who wins so long as it is a Russian.

looking Backward Oshkosh Blunderbuss Speaker Progrtttlv Parmtr Well organized groups in this country are spreading the word that our food is being poisoned with chemicals, that the Pure Food and Drug Administration has sold out to greedy chemical companies which are nothing more than "poisoners for profit." A great flood of scare publicity is pouring through the urban press and spilling into the halls of Congress. A speaker we heard recently called it "sciosophy" pronounced "si-os-o-fi" the pseu-do science of systemized ignorance. Regardless of how easy and painless the path of sciosophy may be, truth is that we stand at the threshold of a great new biological frontier. It poses problems, to be sure, but the vast benefits it offers to mankind far outweigh possible dangers. Each year brings amazing advances through imaginative, controlled experimentation which is pushing back the biological frontier.

But are all these chemicals safe? Are they poisoning our food? Our government has strict laws oiij regulations which must be met. Before any new pesticide can be sold, tho company of-' ferlng the product must prove that it is useful, safe to the public when label precautions are followed, and compntable on various crops. Also, the treated crop must be. safe for use as a livestock feed or food for humans. This does not mean that the misuse of farm chemicals cannot be dangerous.

But you do not dent of the Wisconsin Elks Association. Miss Jeanette Wallenfang of Childersburg, was the houseguest of Corrine Knorr, 4U Oak Menasha. Seven young men from this area enlisted in the Navy. They were James Kasten. 803 V.

Winnebago Appleton; Farrell Braun. 760 Tayco Menasha; Gerald DcBruin, route 3, Kau kauna; Kenneth Dorn, 933' Boll Appleton; John Herner, 208 E. Glcndale Appleton; Richard Springer, route 2, Menasha: and Donald Drews, $01 Locust Appleton. Francis Heesakker was assistant county veterans service officer. Mrs.

Viola Lehman was elected president of the newly formed Bear Creek Homemakers Club. Mrs. Mildred KnucUen was vife president, Mrs. Leona Lorge, secretary, Miss Irene ill, treasurer, and Miss Lorraine Will, reporter. Mrs.

Frances Kemp entertained 37 members of Harvey Pierre Auxiliary, Veterans of Forolen Wars, and Charles 0. Baer Auxiliary of the United Spanish American War Veterans, at a birthday party at High Cliff. Prizes at Schafskopf were won by Mrs. Roi.e Rellin, Mrs. Regina Glash-eon.

Mrs. Emma Hassinann and Mrs. Claire Drfferding. Winners at dice were Mrs. Ann Flehz and Mrs.

Jennie Spaay. A treasure hunt highlighted the birthday party for Miss Rose Willis bowling. Neman. The group winning the hunt included Taul Opitz, captain, Albert Muench, Helen Arpin, George Elwcrs, Thomas Chrislofferson. Donna Danke, Marian Eskrich and Dorothy Wiherg.

Thirty-five young people attended the party. 10 YEARS AGO Friday, Aug. 27, 1932 James Schulti. past exalted ruler of the Appleton Elks lodge, was elected northeast vice presi 100 YEARS AGO Quoted from the Appleton Crescent for Aug. 23, 1862.

On Tuesday last came an individual from Oshkosh a sort of John Baptist from Col. Sweet. He was to give instructions to recruiting officers and encourage enlistments. He ished to have a ar meeting and do what he could to aid volunteering. The consequence was that a flaming bill was posted for a meeting in the College Chapel announcing H.

B. Jackson of Oshkosh would speak. The crowd was large. Mr Jackson commenced talking, continued the same, and did likewise for nearly two hours. To use the words of another, "such a confusion of words (for the ideas were minus) was never before heard." His manner was bombastic, vain, empty, and ridiculously silly.

Imagine a blind contraband talking Hebrew to a Greek audience and a person may be able to get a faint picture of and protein, eggs and raspberries. There are painless diets, just-cut-out-desserts diets, one-helping diets. There was the return to babyhood diet, the 900 calorie formula in several delicious flavors. There was even the refusal to accept calorics and the unsaturated fat theory. But now at last the hard fact that too much food moans too much fat has been accepted.

The diet is simple just stop eating completely, absolutely for one. two or ten days. Some people call it fasting. Maybe it took so long to be discovered because it has no gimmicks and no easy way out, He Cited Bobby The article and this took great self-restraint on my part was strictly non-partisan and did not blame the New Frontier for the decline in literacy, If I cited Bobby Kennedy as one of the offenders, it was only because of the exalted position he occupies and my fear that be might be tempted to use bis powers to uphold an untenable grammatical construction. I did not want such a blot to hltvnish the escutcheon of the highly cultural administration we now boast.

Naturally, I felt pretty noble GRIN AND BEAR IT By Llchry A What Others are Saying Editor Says Politics Kept Killer From Chair the manner in which Mr. Jackson was received by his audience. He said it was a question of whether foreigners who have not taken out their second papers for citizenship can be compelled to go to war as soldiers, and that the people better pay them large sums of money to induce them to volunteer. Further comment is unnecessary. If Col.

Sweet- really did authorize this mustachioed youth to canvass this military district, we pity his discretion and hope be will never come down on us again with such another nauseaU ing emetic. 2J YEARS AGO Friday, Aug. In. 1937 Dr. and Mrs.

E. L. Bolton, and their son, Wayne, arrived home after an extended trip to Europe. Dr. Bolton studied in clinics in the British Isles, Vienna and France.

Two Appleton girls, the Misses Louise Rossmeissl and Rita Rechner, and Miss Margaret De-Ciercq, Greenville, were graduated from St. Mary School of nursing, Green Bay. Potomac Fever by Flctchcr Kncbd Californians follow JFK into the ocean when he goes for a swim. He's really determined to get this country moving somewhere even it it's straicht out to sea. New York Gov.

Rockefeller campaigns at the beach. He fig- lues any voter who enjoys getting sand in his shorts in August is sure to have the Rock In his head in November, The Senate takes up still another farm bill. Senators are seeking a solution of farm surplus problems and It's beginning to look like the biggest problem is the surplus of solutions. Don't worry about the economy. Think of all the jobs there'll be when we start tearing down freeways to make room for houses.

First Astronaut to sky buddy: "Say. where are all them women the recruiting posters talk about?" TV is on a poetry jng. The idea! actor is the character who wears an expression as blank as the verse. Learning that a second space man had been sent up after him, Russia's Cosmonaut had reason to believe the Communist space slogan: "Whirligig brother is watching you." Crump are hailing the Governor'! decision as "courageous" since this is "the first time rehabilitation was the sole and clear-cut issue." The truth is that politics was tho issue. Kerncr joined a growing group of governors who place their personal views on capital punishment above and beyond the juries and the courts.

Kerner got "tho word" on Crump from above and I don't mean straight up. Final note: Gov. Kerner delayed his announcement of the Crump decision (our hours so that television crews from Chicago would have time to record the statement. But the Sun-Times reminds us that when Kerner denied executive clemency for Vincent Ciuc-ci. executed for murdering his son, the Governor gave out a terse statement and there as no TV coverage on that day.

Supf. Joseph Morris: "I certainly don't approve of Gov. Reiner's action. It doesn't make a police officer's job any easier. Criminals lose respect for the law.

Crump got a fair trial not once, hut twice and was sentenced to death each time. The guard he killed in the robbery wanted to live, too." Mrs. Veronica Zukowskl, the slain man's widow, says bitterly: "I think Crump is a cold man and not an honest man. How can he say he Is reformed when he doesn't even admit the crime?" But those who plumped for John S. Knight in Detroit Pre Prm Gov, Otto Kerncr of Illinois recently commuted the death sentence of murderer Paul Crump on the representation that this vicious killer had been "rehabilitated." The Governor's decision rnme after Chicago's weepy newspaper columnists had conducted what amounted to a political campaign In Crump's behalf.

Kerncr, a weak sister who takes orders from Mayor Daley of Chicago, promptly crumpled. But hear Judge Richard B. Austin: "Crump is a cunning killer, feigning goodness to escape death." And Deputy Tolice Thrn I.EARN hnw ride hounds! Your orders are to stay close to the family at ALL times, Houlihaol.