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OTHER editors say the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS President Conceals Federal Spending ^resident Johnson lias hit upon one of the most usual devices yet for conveying an “economy” image to the public, "while simultaneously raising ex penditures to record heights. The method is, in essence, sim ilar to that of the man who buys everything on credit and tells himself he doesn’t have a thing to worry about because the bills won’t be due for a month. The difference is that Johnson isn’t kidding himself; he’s kidding us. Consider, for example, the de vice seized upon by Johnson when he Was only a few months in office. In his first budget, he asked Congress to give him something called “new obliga tional authority,” $5.9 billion charged to fiscal year 1965, and another $4 billion spread out ov er the years ahead of that. By this technique, Johnson asked for almost $10 billion in new spending power, not reflected in the budget figures for election year 1964. Then came the “tax cut,” whereby withholding rates were reduced by a healthy four per cent, giving people the impres sion of a vast decrease in their tax burden. When tax time roll ed around this year, after the election, many taxpayers found they owed the government mon ey. The great windfall was in large part taken back — after the election was over, of course. Now we find the same techni que in the so-called “medicare” bill recently passed by the U. S. House of Representatives. As it emerged from the chamber, “medicare” will alter the pay roll tax for Social Security only slightly over the first three years. By pushing the wage base slight ly upward, and the tax rate slightly downward, it will result in a payroll tax of only about $50 more, for employer and em ployee, than that presently be ing paid. Thus, during its first three years of operation, “medicare” will be dispensing benefits at an apparent cost of only “a few cents a month,” as its sponsors are fond of saying — a situation which should serve to consoli date it in public esteem. But OTHER EDITORS SAY NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE The American Indian The Association on American Indian Affairs, at its annual meeting (recently), made an in teresting suggestion: that Presi dent Johnson, having toured needy regions as Appalachia and the natural disaster areas, ought to make a personal inspection tour of impoverished Indian areas. There are, of course, limits to the number of “inspections” a President can usefully make. But some are more useful than others. And a first-hand tour of areas not already tagged for ma jor Administration attention could be among the more use ful. Not as rewarding politicial ]y, perhaps; the plight of the American Indian has come, over the years, to occasion more bad jokes than good works, and with only some 540,000 Indians of all ages the vote potential is lim ited. , But as long as the original Americans remain, in terms of national attention to their needs, the forgotten Americans, the consciences of the rest of us •— prospering on the land from which the Indians were driven — shouldn’t rest once this shake-down period is over, the tax rates will sudden ly zoom upward. In 1969 (after the next presi dential election, naturally) the payroll tax will jump to $492.80 for the employer and employee combined. In 1971, it will go to $580.80. In 1973, it will skyrock et to $633.60. In that year, the cost difference of the payroll tax-with-medicare over what it would have been without medi care will be almost $200. In short, all the heavy expens es incurred by the program will be conveniently put off until after the 1968 election. Then the taxpayers, as with last year’s “tax cut,” will get hit, and hit hard. A lot of people fell for it last time around. Will they do so again? OTHER EDITORS SAY RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH Muzzle the Muzzlers! American newsmen in Viet Nam have been protesting that their news sources there are vir tually muzzled. Information on the war often is limited to mere lists of selected facts and fig ures about the latest air raids. They say it is nearly impossible for a correspondent to talk free ly with many of the soldiers, air men, and sailors on the scene because of restrictions. Curious ly these restrictions were not set up by a security branch of our military mission. They were established by a civilian bureau, the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is sup posed to have the relatively lim ited job of promoting a “good image” for the United States abroad. But instead of remaining with in its assigned province the USIA apparently has muscled in on other areas in order to muz zle domestic American news. The correspondents in Viet Nam are our only on-the-scene source of information about the war there. Yet that information is filtered through a political propaganda bureau. If our lead ers goof, if they commit us to needless courses that jeopard ize our future, the American peo ple cannot except to learn of it through the USIA. A propagan da bureau which is responsible to the White House isn’t in the OTHER EDITORS SAY FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE COUNCIL FOR BASIC EDUCATION Cliche Quiz for Teachers rne scene is* the Dean’s office at Grassroots State Teachers Col lege. Dean Percy Pedaguese is interviewing a prospective stu business of spreading unvarnish ed truths about our leaders. Normally in wartime the press gets its combat news directly from the military. The armed forces usually do all they can to help newsmen get to the front and cover the war as it really is, and the people back home get an accurate and color ful picture. The newsmen stay within the bounds of security, and usually all goes well. A civ ilian agency does not come be tween the fourth estate and the fighting man, as the USIA has in Viet Nam. Someone in power has made the USIA a Vietnamese news czar which decides what the American people can and can not know about one of the most crucial and far-reaching crises of the decade. Beyond the re quirements of security there is no excuse for this news muzz ling. There is no excuse under any circumstances for this con trol of the American press by a government propaganda bureau. dent. Dean: Miss Jones, after look ing over your transcript I am sure you will fit in nicely at Grassroots, but I always like to have a little chat with candi dates to test their professional vocabulary. I might begin by asking you what the curriculum of the modern school is design ed to meet? Mis* Jones: The child’s inter ests, needs, and abilities. Dean: Fine. Now can you tell me how such a curriculum is determined? Miss Jones: By what research tells us about the development al needs of the child. Dean: Here at Grassroots we like to think we are pioneering in presenting new knowledge. What is this called? Miss Jones: It is called work ing on the frontiers of knowl edge. Dean: And what is this knowl edge aimed to meet? Miss Jones: The new demands of our times. Dean: The trust of the pro gram here is dirtced toward what? Miss Jones: A major break Continued on page 4 New Chevy custom camper a pickup specially equipped for camper service! lust add a camper body and head for the hills! 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