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Qfte Chronicle Dr Max Rafierf RICHARD LAFROMBOISE, PUBLISHER, 1966-1968 Thursdoy, March 2, 1972 Jock Britten, Publisher Vick Gould For Governor? Teen-Age Pollster Poses Some Questions "I promise you that if elected governor of. the State of Washington will: 1 Cut 2 Cut tax spending; 3 Pass no new tax I barring war, continuing riots, or rebellions) or resign my office." This is the announced platform of Vick Gould, Bellevue, who is reeking the office of governor as candidate of the "Taxpayers Party." Gould released an impressive set ot credentials the other day impressive to the suffering taxpayer, that is. 'Under the title, "Record of a Tax Fighter." Could listed the following: "1968 Defeated extravagant billion (dollar) bond issues i would have become tax liens on your home 1SG9-- organized "the Tax Limit League: 1 9 7 0 of Limit Tax Initiative 251. Helped defeat state income a County Charter Review Committee. Ad- save (axes by consolidation of info King County Council: 1972 Cast only vote against income tax on Fax Policy Committee'." Gould declares a state income lax unnecessary and a booby trap; it's not necessary to replace one tax with another; "cut taxes by cutting spending." As further proof he is the taxpayers' friend, Gould cites the following as part of his "basic and consistent philosophy: 1 The first arid proper function of government is: to protect your person, your property, and your liberty.

In short, Law and Order. 2 'That government governs best that governs and, 3 We hare more government than we can pay for." Gould provides statistics in- dicaling there are 112,000 adults on welfare in the state, and there are over 255,000 lax paid employes (federal, state and, local not i military or social security). He maintains that Ihey not only vote for more taxes as a bloc, but they can control or influence at one additional vote for a total of 700,000 votes for taxes. He concludes 60 per cent of the populace voles for more taxes, and the remaining 40 per cent can elect a governor. He reasons the 60 per cent "tax oriented" will split their governor between Republican and Democratic candidates.

It's also Gould's opinion lhat the governor's office is the most important in the state because "the governor has the power to line item veto all appropriations and thereby control spending." Gould's approach is an interesting one, and one sure to arouse a sympathetic reaction. More and more persons are realizing that the state government spending of recent years has brought more problems than solutions. We are beginning to doubt that more taxes and more state government spending will solve those problems. Perhpas we need a Vick Gould or someone like him to lead us from the past errors that our elected officials and bureaucrats have committed and seem determined to repeat. "At a meeting of our teen-age club, Ihe members wanted to ask yoj some questions.

Will you answer them?" St. Louis, Mo. A I'll M- they did. And are (he questions, with my answers in parentheses: 1 Is abortion immoral, thouqli legal? (I think so. it kills living human beings.) 2 Ihe Vietnamese war right or wrong? (It's cerliinly right for the South Vietnamese.

They were brutally Invaded.) Did we have any business getting into this war? (1 think we had a mora'l right to help an invaded little country shen it asked us to. but 1 agree with both MacArlhur and Eisenhower uho warned us solemnly against committing large American armies in Southeast Asia.) 4 Why don't you like Dr. Spock? (Because lie advises young people brejk democratically enacted laws.I Don't Break Tht Law 5 Was Cassius Clay right or wrong in refusing induction? (1 don't believe it's ew to break the law. II a laic bad, work to get it changed, but don't break it.) 6 Would you drop a load o( bombs on a village if you were in the military and were ordered to do so? (Of course. So did our Air Force at Berlin.

Dresden, Tokyo. Hiroshima and a hundred other enemy concentration points in World War II You sec, 1 would know that the only What The Readers Are Writing SECOND CHANCE FOR CHILCREN sympathize with R. J. Smith in his. letter to you February 25.

Voting a gam on an issue once defeated is like winning the toss of a coin then having your opponent demand 2 out of 3 tosses Obviously when one is satisfied with the results of an election, be doesn't wast to nsk having it changed by giving it a second chance. I wouldn't like a new vote either, if it turned out ia my favor time around. fl do object, howerer, to his calling it iin-American. Submitting a special levy twice is no more un-American than requiring 60 per cent for approval The American way is ''majority That's a simple majority of those voting sod not 60 per cent of those wto voted in the last general election. The majority won the last election but lost the levy.

With "un- American" requirements like these v.ouldn't you say the in our school cSstricls deserve .1 second chanee? If Mr. Smith doesn't tike the idea of resubmilting special levies, he should be that the American way is to change it through hij elected representatives to our state law-making body. And while he's at it, he might want to ask the RMO rule be changed to a simple ma)ority to make it fair for everyone. James C. Currey, 'UN-AMERICAN? HOOWASHI' Just what is American or un- American? I refer to R.

J. Smith's letter published iz your newspaper on Feb. 24. have been uncounted presidents, governors, senators and representatives who have re-run for office after being defeated and who have won election to office the second or third time they ran. For example.

President Nixon. Our own representative Warren Smith ran for office several times before his electioc. Un-American? Hogwzsh! 1-ast year the voters of this state turned down so-called tax reform. Look hovr much time was spent on tar reform legislation in this last special session of the: legislature. Since when is it un- American to be allowed to change your mind? "vVhen we talk about special school Icvits, one thing everyone should remember is that two "no" votes equal three "yes" votes.

The recent levy in Centralia carried by a 59 per cent majority "yes vote. The levy could not be validated because it needed (by law) a 60 per tent- "yes' 1 vote. The Centralia School Directors can (again by law) call for another vote. What is un-American about following laws our legislators have passed for us "iv We da think that so" 5 of the limes a. J.

Smith suggests in his letter should be examined for American and un-American content. It is certainly his right to write letters Jo the editor This is Americanism at its best To suggest thai every voter should vote "no" on a levy (no matter how he or she feels) just because it was submitted once is not very American. 1 would rather suggest that everyone should make up his or her mind how they want to vote and then go vote as they desire. Harvty W. time I would be ordered to bomb populated jrea would be if it were a military base.) 7 Do you Ihink that most U.S.

pilots will be filled with remorse whoa they think of the people Ihey have killed? (N'o. They nil! be too busy thinking happily of the millions they have helped save from communist slavery.) If L.B.J. had it to do over again, would he do the same thing? (V'oo'd have to ask L.B.J.) Someone has to be lo blame for the horrors of Ihe Vietnamese Who is to Uame? (That murderous lilile mandarin Ho Chi Minh, who started it all.) No OFfict 10 the Pentagon destroy the earth? (If jt does, itse if the problem ef where to find office, space for its employes.) Now that I've answered your questions. Bill, you can answer one of mice: "How come none of your club members' questions dealt with the real problem facing the world namely, wuy the major communist powers are starting wars all over earth by meddling ia their neighbors' affairs?" "Can you please explain what the black people really want? I just read where a small group in the state university Is disrupliin: th by demanding it leach black and so forth. Why they be wnlm'.

just lo K1 fJuMliwi: C.A.M., Mem. Ark, Error In Category A First, who are "they All "black people" or just the "sma The word emr we into as a nation these days is lumping all black Americans in a single category. It's as fallacious to say that all blacks want to disrupt a la the Clack 1'anthers as lo say that all whites want lo bomb police stations a la the Weatherman. Second, there's nothing wrong with a university teaching courses in black history, more than there is anything wrong with the same university selling up courses in oriental art. I-atin American literature or Indian folklore, for that matter.

This is the sort of thing which unversilies exist to do. itecent developments in California and elsewhere, however, indicate that the "black studies" programs are having a hJrd lime surviving io the Seventies, despite all the veiling and fist-shaking that got them established in the first place back in the Sixties. Reason: After they are set up, nobody sectib to want to enroll in Ihem. Not even blacks. Joseph Alsop It Appears Poor 'WASPs' Haven't A Chinaman's Chance CONSUMER REPORT Dear Abby Should Children Be Invited? By Abigail Van Buren -WE NEED TO STAND ON OUR OWN FEET' Our representative.

Warren Smith writes that he, too, is concerned with the tax situation and is voting to hold the line on money bills. But he says unfortunately the people are constantly demanding more sen-ices. Are we getting so far away from our basic upbringing that we cant take care of ourselves anymore? Are we looking to someone else to solve things we could best do ourselves? Our legislature has things that need their attention. They don't have to be burdened with things we should do for ourselves. Session before last there was be Bacon Bill.

Do we need the legislature to check and regulate our morning breakfast? Didn't we karn from mom or the home economics teacher the whys and wherefores of bacon? Are we next going to ask (he legislature to have windows put in cans so we can see our vegetables nd fruits? That's what brand namss are for. If a certain brand displeases us there are others at our disposal. We need to stand on our own feet more to learn, help ourselves and each other Mn. Larry Ethel. A The way some folks stay away from church, they should call it "Shunday." People who miss their calling should paid their telephone bills on time.

Hypochondriacs are folks who aren't content to leave well-enough alone. Congress, IRS New Regulations Applied i To Estimated Tax Return By RAY DE CRANE Thousar.is of persons who in the past have been required to file estimated federal income tax returns will be relieved of Hat requirement this year. 'Last-minute changes both by the Congress and by Internal Revenue Service regulations alter much of the earlier tdvrce on fix filing that had been That includes instructions on estimated filing contained iq the ''Cut Own Taxes" series and booklet available through this newspaper. the revised rules, the filing of an estimated return is required only under these conditions: Ii your estimated tax for 1972 (beyond your withholding tax credits if any) is $100 or more and the gross'in- come expected for the year includes more than, J5CO in income from sources olher than wages. In addition, if you fall info any one oi tne following categories you must file an estimated return: Are a iiogle person, head of bouse- hoW.

a surviving spouse and estimated icccire exceeds KO.KO- Married, entitled to file a join SPOUH has HEAR ABBY: When people make expensive weddings or Bar Mitzvahs I can undersiand why they might not want small children. But when they invite friends who have children in their late teens (or even older), living at home 1 think it's an insult to the parents and their children to exclude them. I am a widow with a 20-year-old daughter aco a 21-year-old son at home and I will never again accept an in- allon Weh 0 5 Delude them. should I have to come alone? Do you agree with me? BURNED UP IX BROOKLYN- DEAR BORNEO: No. mvitn (widow, widowtr, divoreet, etc.) lir flirj thoughtful would lo indicift lint an escort (or pirtntr) would wtlcome.

If rht (Hrtrnr happens to an adult offspring, But grown children shouldn't automatically in- vittd just becaust they art still living at home. If art wanted, they should receive tfptnte invitations, but Ihey shouldn't "shleppalongs." DEAR ABBY: My boy friend has dark wary hair which he wears down to his shoulders. He's rather slight and has delicate features, so it's not surprising that he gets mistaken for a girl a W. He doesn't like to be mistaken for a girl, so I suggested he cut his hair a IntJe. but he doesn't want co Anything ebe he can do? DANNY'S GIRL DEAR GIRL: could grow a mustache.

DEAR ABBY: have friends who have an only child, cighl cars old. He was born long after trie parents had given up all hope of ever having a child. (I mention this only so you will know why they dote on This boy never known discipline, so he is spoiled rotten. He is exceptionally brignl, so his parents hang on his every worn ard permit him to dominate adull Worse yet, this child is never left home Even on New Years Eve his vM raBged to an adult art This child was allowed to stay up until the party ended at 2:30 a 1 111 A dub to TMTMZ fv- plannmg a charter fl'ght to Europe this summer, and these friends have signed up with the boy included. not a family type trip, Abby.

Nobody else is taking a child We all agree that this child is a pain in the neck. But who should tell the parents? DEAR ANONYMOUS': 0 why PL anyon. them? Now that it's become obvious lhat kid" with Mamma and Papa those of ou who do not ce for airangomenl should absent youmtvis trom their company. DEAR ABBY: Around October, we begin to receive personalized key chains boxes of soap, assorted special occasion cards and a variety of other items we have not ordered. All of them are supposedly sold for the benefit of the hac- dicapd or underprivileged, and it may be legitimate, but there is a limit to now far we can go in our giving.

before Christmas, we get boxes of Christmas cards. Some of them are quite lovely, but we prefer to select our own cards. A ha is one expected to do with these Ihmgs? I know we are not lf-5 ob! iteti 'o lor anything we did not order, and don't think I should nave to spend my time and money to rewrap and mail back these things. just can't throw them into the fireplace. My Scotch instincts rebel against such waste.

And surely cannot use them. I would feel piilty. So what do you suggest? MRS. J. P.

DEAR MRS. Civ, th.m 0 people who can use them. Then send a postcard lo organiiationi thit sent them to you, telling how you have disposed of their merchindijt, rvj requesting that yeur from mailing list. (And if they send you more, repeat procedure.) WASHINGTON Pity the poor WASPs! Dr. Daniel Patrick Moymhan told us long ago that occupational status determined the standing ot individuals and groups in American society.

And both those famous white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) and their white Roman Catholic cousins DOW have a surprisingly low relative standing. The figures come from another of the papers by the University of California professor, Dr. Arthur Jensen, designed to prove his controversial thesis that different racial groups inherit different quotas of intelligence, on average. The relevant table concerns American racil! groups' proportional "contribution to American professions." High Standing If the Jensen figures are correct, Chinese-Americans stand more than three times higher than WASP and white Catholic Americans. Jewish-Americans stand over two and a half times higher.

Japanese-Americans stand close to twice as high. And all non-Jewish white Americans, combined, have a standing surprisingly little belter than American Indians! The way this startling ranking was arrived at needs to be explained. The statisticians first sorted out the numbers of each racial group ia each of 12 top professions, ranging from accountants and architects down through the alphabet to engineers and natural scientists and ending with physicians, nurses and technicians whatever the last word may mean. But the racial groups differ greatly in size. There are only about 6.5 million Jewish-Americans, for instance, and Chinese-Americans actually number only about 300,000.

Proportional allowances were made for these group differences, therefore. This gave each racial group an index of its proportional "contribution" to each profession in relation to its size. Score Some oJ the index figures are exceptionally interesting. For example, a Chinsse-American is five times as liiely to become a college professor as the average of while Americans, including Jewish-Americans. And a Chinese- American, again, is well above four times as iikely to become a natural scientist.

The Jensen figures needed lo be refined a bit further, however. Jewish- Americans have a much higher occupational standing, yet were lumped in with the rest of Ihe white Americans. Again Chinese and Japanese, with a frequent language handicap and few religious proclivities; almost never become lawyers or clergymen. And instead of entering the nursing profession. Chinese women habitually aim to get full medical degrees.

With necessary adjustments made, the rouaded average indices for overall occupational status, by racial group, were as follows: "Chinese- Americans, 323; Jewish-Americans 282- Japanese-Americans, 170; and all other white Americans. 100.7. The American Indians, it should be added, had an average index of 76, and the black- Americans were tragically lower still. Ltuon For Socialists The foregoing figures teach another WA es warnin 'he complacent WASPS to uy a lot harder if they wish to stay where they were. The lesson really, JS for American sociologists and social thinkers.

Only 27 years ago, please remember, Japanese-Americans were just beine released from the shameful wartime prison camos. At that time, it was also illegal for Chinese-Americans to own land on tne West Coast and to bring wives oi their own race to this country In addition, the great mass of Chuwse-Amertcans were then rigidly excluded from all but five or six of the less attractive occupations, like laundry wori and restaurant work. The old saying. "He hasn't a Chinaman chance." hsd solid meaning and a crue! bite in those days. remember, too.

that different skin color also makes Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans natural tarqets for prejudice if there is prejudice. Thus the list adds up to the suggested lesson for sociologists and social thinker' To Sunny Heights ac', have these two groups of different skm color, once the targets of bitter prejudice and the victims ot extreme exclusion, surged up in boui a quarter-century from the lowest fepfis 51 heights of American society? It is now urgent to answer that question, if American sociologists have the smallest interest in how American society actually works There will be a lot of components in ansirer, such as the exceptionally strong and supportive family synem shared by Chinese- and Japanese-Americans. Meanwhile, it is aUo nice to hat prejudice can be defeated. And if that is true and if our society can also give black Americans the tools to compete, above all by decent schooling prejudice can be deltas Personal Finance Upsetting Some Traditions On The 'Retirement Front' Married, entitled to a return, husband ard TM vork.ng ano estimated gross income of one individual will exceed Ji -Mimed, not entitled to a declaration foot living together. examplel and your own estimated grois interne $3.000.

The raising of the dollar limits Li the filing is due to the Ml rt withholding tables which more accurately deduct the total lax liability for wage earners, even ia the higher income bwclets. booMtfi by vrntmg Cut Your Own Tun, ChrenicU Chihilii), PO. Bex 4M, 0 SHIien, New York, N.Y. Thty rfirtclty rer rht In the Twin Cities and lewis County 10 Yean Ago March 2, IM2 Work lisa started on the completion Ihe wcsl approach to the new MayficM Highway Bridge, but was delayed by ba4 weather. Tuin City residents were greeted with a new layer of snow early in the moriimg when 4 i-inches were recorded.

JS Ajo March IK? MernVrs of the Centralia Chamber cf trimmcrce made a tour Ihe South- Wasiui.Kion Uicstock Association's new jsrj.ooo an on Fords us place of the regular meeting President Truman recommended lo Unless to let the draft law expire and that Ihe Army expected to release non-volunteers, 50 a Ago March 1IJ? Chchalis was to have a hi; railii in the heart of the ily across from the S). Helens Hotel according to an announcement by Ray Ihlch, one of the leading baltcry dealers in this area. A fire was started by a pacing motorist whr, ihrcw a lighlcd ciRarcllc in'o dry on Kords I'rairic. A frncc raujht fire and hurried to Ibc house before the blaze was elxinguiihed. By CARLTON SMITH NEA Busintis Much of the traditional thinking about retirement funds'and retirement income is all wrong, according to pundits in the behavioral sciences who've been taking an interest in the subject lately.

they've made a plausible case agairut the hallowed notion that you hang onto the capital you can. through the retirement years, so that when it's all over you can leave the children a nice inheritance. A number of psychologists believe that even when the expected inheritance is modest, the situation makes for u.i- whclesome family relationships. Subconsciously, (he heirs may be waitini for wiihing for the old folks to die jo the wii! can be read and the passed around. Other experts in the sociology -f agin? mainliin lhat the traditional emphasis on conserving capital casts its pall on the lift style of the retirees uho may feel it's "wrong" to spend for thejr pleasure and enjoyment.

Uttirees Ihiu lend lead restricted and inactive live-s they even when some the foregone pleasures of life ate financially fstsiblc. finally, there's the argument that the Cipcdalion of an inheritance may be no to the heirs themselves. SlihJcnti of the psychology of success, por'snnrl history ol the arhicvcf. itn.1 lo Ih's The indmOual wliv, lo make it hi.i tbcy say, jsually ha a ilronstr rlrnt tha'i one can cushion brer in Wc The traditional ru.V ifcj' invade principal" is economics of an a covered by Social Jfl exerts Point out. Rradua! After JAM for V' 1 itr i '''Kml ln V'i'ir a.