Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 8

DAILY SCR VINO Ail MARIN COUNTY Est. 1861 EDITORIAL PAGE Jan. 8, 1963 San Rafael, Calif, TODAY'S EDjTORIAL Democratic Big-Wigs Going All Out To Beat Clausen If there was any doubt that the Democratic bosses are going all out in their efforts to push Clem Miller's West Coast errand boy down the throats of the First District voters, that doubt has been thoroughly dispelled. On Sunday the first official came to Marin County to speak on behalf of field representative. It a trip here for any usual purpose, with a plug for the local candidate thrown in besides.

Instead, it was publicly acknowledged by the Grader For Congress Committee, that Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall had his expenses here paid for by the committee's campaign fund. That is only the most recent manifestation of the ram-rod job which is being attempted. Item: William Duddleson, the congressional administrative assistant who is supposed to be keeping Washington office open so the residents of the district will have some representation there as Congress convenes, isn't in Washington. out here still accepting his $1,142 per month from the taxpayers.

A Marin official who wanted some help in Washing- ton was told that Duddleson wouldn't be there until after the election. Item: The candidate, William Grader, who lives in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, recently sent a letter to Republicans in Marin County. In it he described himself as the field representative of Clem Miller and sought credit for some of Miller's programs. The word Democrat wasn't mentioned in the letter and its return address was a box number in San Rafael seemed an attempt to give the casual reader the impression he was a Marin resident and knew something about the county. Item: publicity handouts are calling him a name coined by the public relations boys to promote a district-wide image.

The correct title of is more nearly descriptive of the job in which he collected information for Miller, arranged meetings, carried out instructions from Washington and passed back ideas he picked up. The notorious letter the Democratic bosses circulated over the signature of three nominal Republicans the day before the November election, was warning to expect other acts of expediency without reference to political integrity. And just what's happening. Raccoons And Crab Shells As most folks know Raccoons are animals which live on the banks of streams and eat crayfish, shellfish and snails. Many Marinites also know them as garbage can midnight rattlers of bottles and tin cans.

As crab lovers know, crab shells become quite redolent after a day or two in the garbage can. Perhaps caught by some instinctive taste for crustaceans, Raccoons seem irrestibly drawn to a garbage can with crab shells in it. And they will dig them out even though they seem to be wrapped air-tight in the bottom of the can. While picking up the Raccoon-strewn garbage, the unhappy householder likely to think kindly of the ancient affinity between Raccoons and crabs. MARIN LOOKS AT POLITICS Marin Attorney Sweating Out Appointment Of Customs Judge By CHAPIN A DAY A Marin attorney is shifting back and forth from one foot to the other these days waiting impatiently the announcement of whether or not he will be the first westerner ever appointed to the United States Customs Court.

He is Sydney P. Murman of San Anselmo, who has just retired from his firm of Hadsell, Murman and Bishop, which has its main office in San Francisco and a branch in San Rafael. DAY The story behind his present situation is rather interesting. The national Customs Court, which usually sits in New York City, has nine judges. Last May one of them, Irvin C.

Mollison, died, leaving a vacancy. Although there never has been a member of the court from west of the Mississippi River, it was suggested to Murman that he allow his name to be put up for the job. not exactly right either, because Murman know then just what job his name was being put up for. As a result, he include some background which might have been helpful had it been included. In any event, a total of about 40 names were submitted for the vacancy and when Murman did learn what job it THE CYNIC'S CORNER By Interlandi might be one of those who think they can fight communism by putting stickers on the Polish WONDERFUL WIZARDS OF WASHINGTON YOU THINK YOU GO ALONG WITH THfe UNION REMEMBER, WE CAM MALLOW YOUR ADVERTIZING AS EXPENSE FOR TAXES.

IT'S OUR WAY OF GIVING MORE CONFIDENCE TO BUSINESS MEN! WHAT OUR READERS SAY was, he was not optimistic. But he got fine backing from his friends and associates on the West Coast. As an assistant U. S. attorney for the Northern District of California from 1933 to 1940, Murman had represented the Collector of Customs at the Port of San Francisco.

In his private practice he has often been involved in customs law. As a result collectors of customs in San Francisco, Los Angeles and as far away as Honolulu. Hawaii, have written Washington and alerted custom house brokers all through the area. And been coming to his support. The vacancy is expected to be filled shortly after Congress is tomorrow.

Then know whether to be Murman or another Easterner. DEMOCRATIC congressional candidate Bill Grader is complaining that Republican congressional candidate Don Clausen is not accepting invitations to face-to-face debate on radio and TV. He charges that Clausen is also cancelling scheduled joint appearances before non-partisan groups like Leagues of Women Voters and Chambers of Commerce. Personally, I like to see the candidates get up on the platform together. not sure in this case which candidate will and which will not appear jointly, but I do notice one thing.

The third candidate, Democrat John C. Stuart is never mentioned. It seems to me that if Clausen and Grader get together on TV and radio, which I hope they do, that Stuart will have to be there too, under the equal time provisions. His name will certainly be just as large on the ballot as the other two on Jan. 22 and the voters should be allowed to evaluate him too.

Ball Point Pen Carries Good Will EDITOR, Independent-Journal: Some cynic would say does it amount only a ball point pen. But to me it shows a little courtesy and good will to the customer. This week included with my delivered I-J, was a pen. I certainly appreciated the kind thought, and the time it took to process the delivery of same to your many customers. In thanks for the same, may 1 say that the I-J news so ably put out, covering the county and nation, is a part of my pleasure.

Also I would like to express my enjoyment of the feature articles, so well written by your staff. GEORGE W. THIERBACH Corte Madera Students Need Big Tax Exemption EDITOR, Independent-Journal: College students need another tax exemption! The burden is upon us once again. Many of us are collecting our last pennies in order to fulfill our obligation to Uncle Sam. Yes, tax time is here.

It seems rather ridiculous when one looks at the present tax exemption policy and notes that same figure of $600 per dependent is still being used despite the fact that the cost of living has literally sky-rocketed in the past few years. Included in the various costs of living today for many people is one very important one, one that has to do with the future security of the United States. This particular cost is that of education; specifically, higher learning or college. The average family man today has a difficult job of supporting a family plus sending the children to college. In many cases and perhaps most, the student is able to help by summer employment.

But is this enough? Surely most of us are familiar with the cost of state The Country Parson things worth saying if somebody would rather you The Independent-Journal welcomes contributions to Our Readers Letters must be signed and must not exceed 300 words in length. The editor reserves the right to delete malicious material. and university college education. The cost ranges from $500 per year to $3,000 depending upon the respective situations. My point is this, in order to insure a future educated America in these troubled times, the college student needs help.

Why the tax deduction policy be changed to the effect that the college student would be able to take a education deduction instead of the antequated 600 dollar exemption? This would serve three very important functions: more students who are capable of a college education, but lack the funds, could achieve one; it would ease the family burden, thus maintaining a higher standard of living for his family; and lastly, it would insure a more dynamic and educated future America. MARC MEZZETTA San Rafael College Student Firemen Thanked For Assistance EDITOR, Independent-Journal: I wish to acknowledge publicly my gratitude to the Kentfield Fire Department, and to the assist from the Larkspur Fire Department, on the occasion of the serious fire in our home on the morning of Dec. 29. Especially, I wish to call attention to the skill of Kentfield Fire Chief REMEMBER WHEN 20 YEARS AGO Point Reyes rancher Frank Labruckerie was arrested and taken to Marin County jail after disobeying five warnings by military authorities to turn out ranch lights in compliance with coastal dimout regulations. County Clerk George S.

Jones announced he had cancelled voting privileges of 5,865 of the around- 25,000 registered voters, since they vote either in last August primaries or the November general election. Duplex houses near the Marin City Community Hall were suggested as improvised schoolhouses to ease congestion in Sausalito schools. Samuel Jacobs, rent control representative in Marin and Sonoma Counties, gave out detailed regulations concerning what happens when one buys a home, wants to evict a tenant or rent new property. REPORTER'S 1 NOTEBOOK By THERON NEWELL Was Hangover Extra Large? Look What You Celebrated! McLeran, who works with a minimum number of professional firemen, and to the devotion of the large band of volunteer firemen who turned out so promptly at such an early hour. Our sympathy is with Fireman Robert Mariani, who was painfully burned in the course of his duties.

We thank our many neighbors and friends, who turned out promptly with offers of accommodation. Naturally, we could not accept all of them! Everyone concerned was most kind and helpful. Thanks to Chief McLeran and his men, most of our furniture and clothing were saved, and the fire extinguished before too much of the basic structure was destroyed. LURA CROSSLEY AND FAMILY Greenbrae School Expansion Plan Boosted EDITOR, Independent-Journal: Monsignor McAlister has sent me a copy of your editorial of Saturday, Dec. 29, in which you give a wonderful boost to the proposal of greater Catholic high school facilities in Marin County and, consequently, to our present campaign.

I wish to thank you for this help, and at the same time to wish you a New Year filled with happiness and blessings. JOSEPH T. McGUCKEN Archbishop of San Francisco San Francisco Did you have an extra big hangover to begin this year? If so, maybe you were celebrating more than the New Year. After all, there are many things to celebrate on that day besides the new year. Did you know that it also marked the ceremonial dances at the Indian pueblos in New Mexico? Also the Indian turtle dances are held at Taos Pueblo.

If that enough, it was the annual parade in Philadelphia and the New Day swims in Newport, R. Chicago, 111., and San Francisco. It was also International Take-a-Deep- Breath day. And if that enough, it was Independence Day in Haiti. Some week-long celebrations also began on that day.

These included the 14th Annual Arizona National Livestock Show and the University of Detroit Silent Record Week. Just in case you want to celebrate during the entire month, there are many observances that started Jan. 1 and will last through Jan. 31. Did you realize that it is National Break-A-Cold Month and also Quick-Meal-Mates Month? It is also National Colorado Beef Month, Bread Sales Month, and Louisiana yam supper season.

The Kentucky Gentleman Mobile Museums Month also began on Jan. 1. Jan. 2 marked the beginning of Shigoto Hajime in Japan, which by the difference in time, would occur here on New Day. So with all those things to celebrate on one day, take heart.

It so bad, was it? THE DUCK HUNTING season always brings out a few tales, as does the fishing season. One of these that reached our ears seemed incredible enough but as all good rumors, it is said to be the absolute truth. However, in spite of several people vouching to the truthfulness of the story, no one has come out with any names. Here it is anyway. A local angler was fishing for bass.

He noticed some ducks off to the right, but did not think anything about it. The first thing he knew, he saw something like a submarine heading toward his line. The next thing he knew was that he had a fish, but a duck. The story say whether he had roast duck out of season. WHENEVER ONE thinks of the stalwart arms of the law, one pictures a big, burly policeman, ready to take on anyone to protect the women and children.

I have always thought that policemen should be big men. misunderstand me, I am not casting any reflections on the size of the present Novato police force, or the new men they are recruiting. But I am beginning to wonder just what size of men they are planning on for the future. I wonder if perhaps they are going over to midgets, because the new individual lockers in the squad room are only about three feet tall. JAMES MARLOW Can Reds Live In Same World With West Without All-Out War? WASHINGTON The Red Chinese are practicing ancestor worship in what may be the graveyard of Soviet- Chinese unity.

The ancestors are Marx and Lenin. The Russians and Red Chinese have become like two separate priesthoods, each claiming it alone knows the correct meaning of the dogma handed down by the two patriarchs of communism. This schism looks simple but is instead profound: Can communism live in the same world with the West without war? The Russians say yes, the Chinese no. THE CHINESE in effect accuse the Russians, for thinking yes, of having betrayed the basic teachings of Marx and Lenin. In return Premier Khrushchev accuses his allies of This is where their dispute TRY AND STOP ME BENNETT CERF Nearest thing to legalized mayhem was the East-West judo championship matches staged recently in Manhattan.

300-pound behemoths tossed each other around with delirious abandon, and the reporter for a dignified metropolitan daily was so carried away by the goings-on that his story next day began, hajime to soremade, the sound of the kiai echoed through the New York Athletic Club yesterday as 24 judo players strained for the tippon and settled for the We hope as crystal clear to you as it was to us! Taken to a race track for the first time, a very conservative lady was persuaded to bet five dollars on the daily she won! As she was raking in her loot at the pari-mutuel window she shook a warning finger at the payoff clerk, and said sternly, man, I hope this will be a lesson to A bargain hunter went to a gigantic fire sale last and bought a gigantic fire. LINES TO REMEMBER: Author P. G. Wodehouse ion his eightieth birthday): thought that I shall never have to wear a paper hat again at a party is a very sustaining Walt Kelly (the well known humorist): against all extremes: the extreme right, the extreme left, and the extreme Geoffrey Bocca (author of loon can be interested in good food. It takes a connoisseur to really appreciate horrible Truman Capote: know one beautifully balanced couple.

He makes the money and she spends stands at the moment. It has turned the growing split between them into a bleeding sore. It seems certain to get worse. All the West can do is hope it gets fatally worse. It began some time back with Red Chinese criticism of Khrushchev for suggesting peaceful coexistence with the West is possible.

It became savage when the Chinese denounced him for backing down in the Cuban crisis. And now the Chinese have plastered him with a word which is unbearable in both the Communist and Western worlds. They have called his withdrawal from Cuba IN A editorial Dec. 31 in their newspaper, the Daily, the Red Chinese have made their fiercest and most public attack on the Russians and Khrushchev. It was on Dec.

12 that Khrushchev, who said he pulled his missiles out of Cuba to avoid nuclear war, used the word to describe the Chinese complaint that he have budged. The editorial in the Daily will remain not only an historic document but a blueprint for anyone in the West who is apt to forget, in the years ahead, what the Red Chinese said their real intentions are. THEIR RACKING dispute with Russia can be put another way: They blame the Soviets for looking upon the Marx-Lenin teachings as being outmoded as demonstrated by their various accommodations with the West and their suggestion that the two sides can live peacefully together. The Chinese put a rigid construction on Marxism- Leninism but the mind spins in trying to follow their tortured reasoning where up is down, in is out, and nothing is really as it is or was: They insist the source of modern war is Western and that the United States is menacing world peace. But it was the Red Chinese who invaded India and gobbled up Tibet.

And it was Khrushchev who almost started war over Cuba. i.