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I PAGE TWO TEE CEStALO PALLAfclUM, Bcitoa BrlwrSt. Jscpfc, Michigan FRIDAY, JUNE 2, H78 Who Would Ever Guess It? IS- EDITORIAL PAGE Editor And W. J. Sonyon Maaaalafl Mlrr, Mrt LlninhM It's Loyalty, Not Ability Were it left to me to decide whether we should have government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to prefer the Utter. Thomas Jefferson.

tab Opinion Polls" Mirrors Or Beacons? The American Association for Public Opinion Research opened its annual two-week conference at Roanoke, Virginia, on Wednesday. The Association is a New York City based group of, private and government officials engaged or professionally interested in polling. The Roanoke session will discuss such topics as questionaire wording and design-, personal privacy, and public opinion research, matters which are regularly examined in its journal, the Public Quarterly. The questions are of intense interest to the membership because an organization developing a reputation, for bias or inaccuracy is not long for this world. The specter of the 1936 poll showing AtfLandon would defeat FDR for a second term Speaker Defends Tax Limitation Amendment gubernatorial campaigns a failure fn 1966 and a success in 1970 and in the 1976 presidential contest.

Political observers and media experts in both major parties are virtually unanimous in- their assess- ment of Rafshoon's 1976 television advertising on Carter's behalf as uninspired if not inferior. Carter won the election, but the superior advertising campaign was waged by the Washington-based political consulting firm of Bailey, Deardourff Associates, working for the Republican nominee, then-President Gerald R. Ford. Perhaps the most successful GOP commercial portrayed the nation's strength and diversity, with a background audio track of a catchy tune "I'm Feelin' Good About America." Equally compelling were the Ford "spots" that featured men-on-the-street interviews with -Atlanta residents criticizing their former governor But can anyone recall a a memorable Carter commercial produced by Rafshoon? Nevertheless, Rafshoon came to Washington as the media wunderkind of 1976. His next major client was Mario Cuomo, an attractive candidate in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.

Cuomo lost, and the New York Times subsequently quoted a leading supporter as saying of Rafshoon: "He had the best candidate, the best issues and a million and a half dollars. He didn't know anything about New York He killed Mario." If the President of the United States must have still another media advisor, he certainly deserves the. best in the business. Rafshoon's record suggests that he falls far short of that standard and Carter may eventually rue a choice based on loyalty Instead of competence. The prize for the year's most inept political proclamation surely belongs to Hugh Carter for his explanation of the need- to almost double the authorized number of high-paying senior staff-positions at the White House.

"We wanted to have plenty of flexibility for the future in the event of an emergency like World War III or something," young Hugh, a cousin of President Carter, said recently. Fortunately for the Republic, a) World War III is not yet upon us, and b) the bill to increase from 55 to 100 the number of White House jobs paying between $42,500 and $57,500 annually remains to be approved by the But the Carter family faces, to paraphrase the the political equivalent of war: Uncle Jimmy's, ratings in the national popularity polls continue to sag and each passing day brings him closer to the 1980 presidential election. Existing legislation provides the authority to make somewhat more modest increases in the size of the White House staff, and in the five weeks following Cousin Hugh's- pntmijuWement, two senior staff, members were added political operative Anne Wexler and advertising executive Gerald Rafshoon. These moves are disconcerting because they have produced the spectacle of an issue-oriented president beefing up his staff not with policy advisers but rather with a political agent and a public relations expert. The selection of Rafshoon is bothersome on other grounds as well.

Like most other members of the president's inner circle, he owes his elevated status not so much to innate talent but to many years of dedicated service to Carter. The president of an Atlanta-based advertising agency bearing his name, Rafshoon handled Carter's campaign advertising in two Georgia is increasing almost twice as fast as workers earnings. In the same period, the population in Michigan has increased 6.7 percent while the of State weighs heavily upon the men and women engaged in this highly introspective business. The Literary Digest which conducted the survey EDITOR'S MAILBAG people are Opinion is equally divided on the reliability of polls for policy making. Richard M.

Scannon and Ben J. Wattenberg, two recognized election analysts, are most affirmative. "The advent of the accurate and speedy public poll," they noted a few years ago, "has probably done more to advance the responsiveness of the democratic process than any invention since the secret ballot and the direct primary." Winston Churchill who in his stormy political career was not always lauded as the Prime Minister who carried England through World War II, disagreed. "Nothing is more dangerous than to live in the temperamental mosphere of a Gallup poll," he once wTote. "There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not fear to do or say what you believe to be Because they measure controversy, polls themselves are con- -troversial.

the person coming in at the bottom of the totem pole (no pun intended) always disputes the accuracy and the motive of the poll taker. la an effort to counteract this reaction, the poll takers go to con-siderabble length today to issue comparisons in time references to what the public seems to be thinking today and its view was on the same or similar issue months or a few years earlier. As Lou Harris, one of the nation's leading pollsters, emphasizes, polls can be disturbing if they are viewed as a permanent fix oh American public opinion. Ideas change, just as people do. What was taken as Holy Writ a year ago can turn into apochyphra today.

Harris calls a poll "a single snapshot at one point in time of a constantly moving picture, a subtle kaleidoscope of people reacting to their national crises and challenges." In a word, anyone relying upon a poll as the answer for all time is apt to find himself suffering dearly that disease of showbiz! "Here today and gone tomorrow." Editor, response to a recent letter in the Editor's Mailbag from TMr. Bradley Bolin regarding my comments before the Twin Cities-Rotary Club on the proposed Tax Limitation Amendment. Mr. Bolin credited me with being "one of the most revol ing speakers that the Rotary Club has had yet." It seems quite apparent by his letter that Mr. Bolin has not had much experience in dealing with government or paying taxes.

There are many good reasons why the Tax Limitation Amendment is needed. Over the past 25 years, State revenues have almost doubled to 9.2 percent of personal come. During the past tn years, personal income 'has increased 140 percent while State spending has increased 235 percent. Put another way, it means that State spending employees has sky-rocketed by more than 50 percent. The principle of Tax Limitation is that State Government should only grow as fast as the earnings of workers in the State grow (which is a true measure of the taxpayers ability to pay).

Tax Limitation will give State Government a stake in new plants and some real motivation to face and solve the problems of economic expansion and job creation. Mr. Bolin claims that people went by the board only weeks after Roosevelt' resoundingly thumped the hapless Kansas governor. Jimmy Carter may likely take more than a passing interest in the Association's deliberations sTrite at the moment he in an uncomfortable frying pan of chicken-egg inquires. One is whether sagging ratings on his conduct of the Presidency has stirred the press to give him an equally hard time.

Another is if his performance in office has influenced the people sought out for interviews by the poll takers. Officeholders display two instant responses to polls. They lean upon them heavily in shaping campaign strategy and framing legislative programs; and they express a natural delight when the polls show a'preponderance of the public agrees with their activities. Let the polls turn unfavorable, the reaction is to dowplay their importance. A number of Carter aides regularly assure the reporters to that effect these days.

Robert Moses, now retired as the most opinionated boss of New York City and State highways and park systems, asserted three months ago in a talk at Washington', "Polls only ask what 100 people think a million Do You REMEMBER? such as myself "are too concerned with their own damned pocket money to have an ounce of passion for the nation's poor." In regards to Mr. Bolin's comments, I urge readers to remember that "Hell hath no fury like a vested interest parading in a moral principle." Taxpayers work well into May of each year just to pay for government at all levels and all segments of society are hard hit bv confiscatory That' why wcneed the Tax Limitation Amendment. James Barrrrett President Michigan State Chamber of Commerce 501 S. Capitol Lansing HOLOCAUST CALLED A HOAX Editor, Now that the misinformed and Uninformed public is saturated with the fictitious Holocaust (Hoxacaust), a fiction admitted by the author, G. Green, will the networks also show the.

merciless bombing of Hamburg and Dresden by the Allies? Dresden, a city of culture and art, non-military, where, thousands of refugees flocked for safety from the oncoming Red hordes not held back by stooge General Eisenhower, Many Jews lost their lives there, too. Or let us go back to 1917, the Russian Revolution. Let the people know who financed this "Holocaust" where Christians by the millions, including the Tsar and his family, were gunned down in cold blood. Yes, this bloody Holocaust was, according to the Overman Report, 1919, Hon. Senator Lee S.

Overman, financed with U.S. dollars by New York bankers Kuhn and Loeb and delivered by Lev Trotzky (alias Bronstein), himself a Jew.1 Yes, it is now about time the news media shows who is behind communism, or is the majority forever kept in the dark? Ye shall know the truth. Katherine Yukic Grand Junction M-J I IV I O. fjV -7 ours i ruiesi How Lower Taxes Produce More Revenue 10 Years Age BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) Two-year-old Brad Haines swallowed Myrtle, his pet turtle earlier this week. X-rays showed the turtle was alive in the youngster's stomach.

The boy-'s mother, Mrs. Russell Haines of Bountiful, said a child specialist advises that Brad's stomach probably will dissolve the reptile, shell and all. Ivan "IKE" Muhlenkamp, head football coach at Albion high school for the past three years, was named today to the head football coaching position at St. Joseph high school. In three years as head coach of the Wildcats, Albion won 22 and lost only three times.

As an assistant grid coach, Albion teams won 14 of 19 games. Benton Harbor high school's Tiger baseball team members gave their best for departing coach Al Ratcliff when they walked off the Muskegon field Friday as Lake Michigan Athletic Conference toffice, will be widened by four feet immediately, the city commission decided last night. The additional pavement will be secured by cutting down the sidewalk at the Hopkins' drug store corner. Plans for the largest summer school yet held in Benton Harbor were announced today by Principal Charles A. Semler.

He and Mrs. Mabel Heilig will be the teachers. 75 Years Age Street talk has it again that the rigid disciples of Sunday closing will enforce the Sunday law with a vengeance" again next Sunday, and tie up the street cars, the livery stables, the water works, the electric light plant, and the drug stores and restaurants. It is stated that all these things can be brought about with a petition to the sheriff's office and the course of the sheriff's office in the Sunday ball game is cited as evidence. Economists are going to have a great time' in the approaching congressional campaign.

They are going to be busy debating among themselves and anyone elsewho will listen under what circumstances lower tax. rates produce Berry's World 1 But objections to his'reign at ACTION are also focused on practices and policies that may violate the law, raise suspicions of conflict of interest, and are not always subject to good budgetary controls. An internal agency investigation completed last month, for instance, uncovered difficulties in the' community organizations, research ACTION project, which has been operating since Septemper 1977 on an ACTION grant of nearly one-half million. The project is supposed to train and provide organizers lew-income groups in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida and South. Dakota to involve them in "a broad scope of local problems." The review found that grann administration was "confused," three volunteers, in New Orleans were trying to organize a household workers union, a training manual contained discriminatory racial references, and reading materials urged political involvement which might violate the Hatch Act, a federal law prohibiting federal employees from active politicking.

ACTION'S mandate specifically forbids spending funds directly or indirectly to finance labor or' anti-labor organization or related activity. The manual instructed volunteers to concentrate their initial efforts on whites, and only recruit blacks later. "Only go black first if you never want a white membership in the area, or if the area is all black," it said. WASHINGTON Wearing a symbolic brown leather cowboy hat, Sam Brown came to the nation's capital with Jimmy Carter to teach confrontation politics to the poor. A year and a half later, the former anti-Vietnam war activist has handed out millions in federal-funds to New Left buddies, prompted a congressional investigation, drawn criticism from his career staff, infuriated conservatives, and failed to accomplish anything substantive for the poor.

Brown is the head of ACTION, the federal agency that-runs the Peace Corps and some remnants of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty. The agency was downgraded during the Nixon years, and Brown has been trying to use Jiisroughly $200 million budget to pursue new methods of organizing poor neighborhoods and communities to demand their rights. What' Brown is doing, however, does not appear to be what the federal government had in mind when it created a vehice to encourage local volunteers to work on local problems in low-income areas. He is reportedly interested in returning to Colorado next year to run for mayor in Denver, a move which would be quietly welcomed in the administration and on Capitol Hill. Brown's problems are partly ideological; he scares officials over 35 who think his ideas for social change a bit too' revolutionary to be financed by the U.S.

Treasury. more tax revenue. If that sounds like a contradiction, that is one of the points to be debated. What is bringing the riddle to the front of the congressional campaign is a two-edged sword: A growing rebellion among taxpayers against high income tax rates (especially when compounded by inflation) and the argument that lowering tax rates will, create new consumer thus expand--ing the economy and producing more tax revenue. Some call the theory of lower tax rates and higher tax income the Laffer Curve, after the economist who.forrhally proposed iLOthers-call it nothing more' exotic than the law of diminishing returns.

Whatever it is called, proponents of tax reduction now cite an historical example to back their argument. In 1963, President Kennedy signed into law a reduction in personal income tax rates from. a range of 20 to 90 percent to a new range of 14 to 70 percent. The corporate tax rate was reduced from 52 to 48 percent. In estimating the effect of the lower rates, the Kennedy adminis-' tration said the government would lose about $89, billion in revenues over six years.

Instead, tax revenues rose by $54 billion. That experience is the basis for the current move to pass another reduction. In economics, proponents argue, it is possible to produce more from less. (A daily newspaper published regulir- ly except Sundays and certain holidays at 0. Box 128 3450 Hollywood Road, St.

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Elizabeth II took time out on her coronation day today to send congratulations to the British expedition that planted We L'nlon Jack atop Mt. Everest. The feat man's first successful attempt to scale the world's highest peak was announced last night by Buckingham palace. The party, headed by Col. John Hunt, reached the top oh May 29.

A palace spokesman described the dramatic news as a "coronation gift." Britain crowned Elizabeth II today in a magnificent sepctacle of ancient pomp and pageantry, before the wondering eyes of her little son Charles, heir to the throne. It is the first coronation of a woman since Victoria 135 years ago. 51 Years Age The Water street pavement on the west side from Main street to the alley at the pos- 1978 by HE Inc. "Another unmarried couple Is having a terrible time with the legal tangle over their separation. I'm GLAD!".