September 19, 1963 (16 pages)

SMALL TOWN : S u@ © EDITORIAL. MR. TAXPAYER AND THE SIERRA COLLEGE BOND ISSUE "We vote to joina junior college district, andthe next year they hit us with a bond issue." Taxpayers, generally, are expected togripe. And Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer would seem to have his gripe based on fact, as he commented on the Sierra College bond issue vote due next Tuesday. . We hope that by new Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer has had time to study andto judge the college bond issue on its merits, andto judge the bite it proposes to take in light of true comparables. With student population booming, Sierra College has an acknowledged need for more classrooms. The bonds would furnish money for an addition to the Science Building, an Engineering Building, a Lecture-Theater Building where one of the three rooms can be usedasa theater after the day's classes are over, an-addition to the -Music Building, an Industrial Technology Building, an Administration Building thereby freeing the administrative space in the college library for its intended use, and landscaping and lighting on the new campus. Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer real-izes, we are sure, that the need for these improvements is urgent. But what about taxes? ‘Well, let's take a look at the junior college taxes in Nevada County. Up to the time that western Nevada County voted to become a part of the Sierra College district, this area paid "tuition" for its students to attend any of several junior colleges. The last full year of tuition taxation showedataxrate of 54 cents, in 196263. This tax rate was the highest on record in Nevada County for junior college tuition, but the trend indicated that it would go even higher each year; and this assumption would seem to be borne out by an increasing number of local students heading for junior colleges. More students were heading for junior colleges for three reasons--~-a greater interest in college education, more restrictive entrance” qualifications at four-year college and university level, and an increasing number of high school graduates qualified for college education. So Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer hoped to stabilize or lower his junior college tax rate by joining Sierra College district. MALL WORLD Now, Sierra College District's base taxrate is 36 cents per $100 assessed valuation. In addition, there is a bond redemptionrate of 13 cents. And if the current bond issue passes, the district estimates that the latter rate will peak at 20 cents---in other words, a total of 56 cents per $100 assessed valuation. . It would seem, therefore, that Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer can pass the Sierra College‘bond issue and still have his junior college tax bill "stabilized" at a figure barely above the tuition he was paying, and probably at a figure below that which tuition would have required. Ofcourse, Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer could refuse to pass the bonds, in which case he would have seen a drop in the college district's rate as compared with his old tuition rate. But Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer would then be forced to admit that the saving of sevencents per $100 assessed valuation was more ‘important to himthanthe education of his children. We can't believe that this would please Mrs. Nevada County Taxpayer; and we urge thembothto go to the polls Tuesday and.vote "Yes" on the Sierra College construction bond issue. SIERRA BYWAYS . INTERNAL REVENUE THWARTED IN TIMBER TAX PLAN TIMBER TAXES...Congressman Harold T. Johnson passes word along that the Ways and Means Committee refusedto make changes in the corporation tax structure which would have relative to timber, and actually improved tax laws in the eyes of some individuals are concerned...The Internal Revenue Service had proposed the elimination of capital gains treatment on timber and hoped to tax timber sales as regular income... The Congressman estimates this could have cost individual timber owners some $15 million each year... During * the committee hearings, Congressman Johnson joined with industry and urged no change. “Altering the capital gains treatment on timber would destroy incentives for maintaining investments, discourage reforestation and conservation practices, cause a decline in employment, and damage seriously the tax base of local county government and school districts, " he told the committee.. ..And Nevada County's tax base has already suffered heavy blows this year, too. It's carrying an 18 cent overloadnow... But Ways and Means actually changed the rules on taxation of timber sales to make them more favorable for the individual. CALIFORNIA “A SCIENTIST HAS A LIMITED EDUCATION’ The most thankless: job in the world has always been that of the informed critic of the weaknesses of his society. Heis likely to end up either with a severe case of _ hemlock poisoning or, if he is lucky, without friends. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, is such a critic, but so far asI know he is in excellent health and has a good many friends and admirers. Hutchins persuaded the Fund for the Republic to set up the Santa Barbara Center, where for several years a working group of scholars, occasionally augmented by outside authorities, has been carrying out well-publicized discussions aimed at “clarifying basic questions of freedom and justice, especially those raised by the emergence of twentieth century institutions. " The guiding spirit of the discussions is usually Hutchins, who presides’ at a long table in an old mansion high in the hills above the city. Out of the discussions emerge publications, conferences, and a public stimulated by new ideas. The latest Center publication, “Science, Scientists, and Politics," is a-collection of: papers delivered at a Center conference on the responsibilities of science ex~ecutives. Inthe lead paper, Hutchins says that scientists are educated to do nothing but collect facts and are so specialized they have “no general ideas. " “A scientist has a limited education. He labors on the topic of his dissertation, wins the Nobel Prize by the time he isthirty-five, and suddenly has nothing to do.. While he was pursuing his specialization, science has gone past him. He has no alternative but to spend the rest of his life making a nuisance of himself.” Hutchins thinksthat problems of bureaucracy, nationalism, and technology facing mankind do not lend themselves to “scientific procedure. " “Our essential problem is what kind of people we want to be and what kind of world we want to have. Such questions cannot be solved by experiment and observation. But if we know what justice is, which is not a scientific matter, science and many other disciplines may help us get it.." The solution of our main problems, Hutchins writes, “depends on moral and intellectual virtues rather than on specialized knowledge. " He recommends a “reorganization of American education and a redefinition of its purposes. A liberal education, including scientific education, must be esta+ blished for all. “ But Hutchins admits that "this cataclysm is not likely to occur in the lifetime of the youngest person reading this." He proposes, therefore, that there be an "immediate program. .to build intellectual communities outside the American educational system. " At least one such community is already in existence-Hutchins’ own Center in Santa Barbara. ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING — ; LIKE THE FRENCH, WE: MAKE MISTAKES, TOO WASHINGTON---Towinthe war and lose the peace-that isthe pattern in Viet-Nam threatening to repeat the unhappy precedent of other “victories” achieved by American military and economic strength. The events of recent days seem simply incredible in light of the great expenditure of American manpower and money insupport of the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Not the least fantastic is the intervention of President Charles de Gaulle. For if this does nothing else, it recalls some of the © most painful history of the tragedy of Indo-China. The French made almost every mistake possible. The end > wasa partition of Viet-Nam that narrowly averted catastrophe and a blood bath overwhelming the thousands of French planters and business men for whom the colony had long been a source of profits and jobs. In March, 1946, the French engineered a deal with the wily Communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, After months in Paris, Ho went back to Saigon expecting that he would preside over a united and neutralist Viet-Nam. But opposition French elements in the Viet-Namese capital succeeded in killing that deal and Ho retired to the North or organize the Communist guerrillas. For eight years the flower of the French officer corps fought with courage and desperate futility in the ugly . jungle war. As head of a so-called independent government, the French were backing a puppet emperor, Bao Dai. While he had personal bravery, charm and a sense of humor, Bao Dai lacked the one absolute essential -~ support of the Viet-Namese people. He took long holidays in a luxury villa on the French Riviera, where he currently lives in grand style. During the last two to three years of the French war the United States was pouring in support at the rate of Ly "9 aBeg ‘E961 ‘6I Joquicidag’* ‘1088nN ou’ 9 o8eg*' . Page 7 .The Nugget,. . September 19, 1963. Page 7.

SMALL TOWN : S u@ © EDITORIAL. MR. TAXPAYER AND THE SIERRA COLLEGE BOND ISSUE "We vote to joina junior college district, andthe next year they hit us with a bond issue." Taxpayers, generally, are expected togripe. And Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer would seem to have his gripe based on fact, as he commented on the Sierra College bond issue vote due next Tuesday. . We hope that by new Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer has had time to study andto judge the college bond issue on its merits, andto judge the bite it proposes to take in light of true comparables. With student population booming, Sierra College has an acknowledged need for more classrooms. The bonds would furnish money for an addition to the Science Building, an Engineering Building, a Lecture-Theater Building where one of the three rooms can be usedasa theater after the day's classes are over, an-addition to the -Music Building, an Industrial Technology Building, an Administration Building thereby freeing the administrative space in the college library for its intended use, and landscaping and lighting on the new campus. Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer real-izes, we are sure, that the need for these improvements is urgent. But what about taxes? ‘Well, let's take a look at the junior college taxes in Nevada County. Up to the time that western Nevada County voted to become a part of the Sierra College district, this area paid "tuition" for its students to attend any of several junior colleges. The last full year of tuition taxation showedataxrate of 54 cents, in 196263. This tax rate was the highest on record in Nevada County for junior college tuition, but the trend indicated that it would go even higher each year; and this assumption would seem to be borne out by an increasing number of local students heading for junior colleges. More students were heading for junior colleges for three reasons--~-a greater interest in college education, more restrictive entrance” qualifications at four-year college and university level, and an increasing number of high school graduates qualified for college education. So Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer hoped to stabilize or lower his junior college tax rate by joining Sierra College district. MALL WORLD Now, Sierra College District's base taxrate is 36 cents per $100 assessed valuation. In addition, there is a bond redemptionrate of 13 cents. And if the current bond issue passes, the district estimates that the latter rate will peak at 20 cents---in other words, a total of 56 cents per $100 assessed valuation. . It would seem, therefore, that Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer can pass the Sierra College‘bond issue and still have his junior college tax bill "stabilized" at a figure barely above the tuition he was paying, and probably at a figure below that which tuition would have required. Ofcourse, Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer could refuse to pass the bonds, in which case he would have seen a drop in the college district's rate as compared with his old tuition rate. But Mr. Nevada County Taxpayer would then be forced to admit that the saving of sevencents per $100 assessed valuation was more ‘important to himthanthe education of his children. We can't believe that this would please Mrs. Nevada County Taxpayer; and we urge thembothto go to the polls Tuesday and.vote "Yes" on the Sierra College construction bond issue. SIERRA BYWAYS . INTERNAL REVENUE THWARTED IN TIMBER TAX PLAN TIMBER TAXES.....Congressman Harold T. Johnson passes word along that the Ways and Means Committee refusedto make changes in the corporation tax structure which would have relative to timber, and actually improved tax laws in the eyes of some individuals are concerned.....The Internal Revenue Service had proposed the elimination of capital gains treatment on timber and hoped to tax timber sales as regular income..... The Congressman estimates this could have cost individual timber owners some $15 million each year..... During * the committee hearings, Congressman Johnson joined with industry and urged no change. “Altering the capital

gains treatment on timber would destroy incentives for maintaining investments, discourage reforestation and conservation practices, cause a decline in employment, and damage seriously the tax base of local county government and school districts, " he told the committee... ...And Nevada County's tax base has already suffered heavy blows this year, too. It's carrying an 18 cent overloadnow..... But Ways and Means actually changed the rules on taxation of timber sales to make them more favorable for the individual. CALIFORNIA “A SCIENTIST HAS A LIMITED EDUCATION’ The most thankless: job in the world has always been that of the informed critic of the weaknesses of his society. Heis likely to end up either with a severe case of _ hemlock poisoning or, if he is lucky, without friends. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, is such a critic, but so far asI know he is in excellent health and has a good many friends and admirers. Hutchins persuaded the Fund for the Republic to set up the Santa Barbara Center, where for several years a working group of scholars, occasionally augmented by outside authorities, has been carrying out well-publicized discussions aimed at “clarifying basic questions of freedom and justice, especially those raised by the emergence of twentieth century institutions. " The guiding spirit of the discussions is usually Hutchins, who presides’ at a long table in an old mansion high in the hills above the city. Out of the discussions emerge publications, conferences, and a public stimulated by new ideas. The latest Center publication, “Science, Scientists, and Politics," is a-collection of: papers delivered at a Center conference on the responsibilities of science ex~ecutives. Inthe lead paper, Hutchins says that scientists are educated to do nothing but collect facts and are so specialized they have “no general ideas. " “A scientist has a limited education. He labors on the topic of his dissertation, wins the Nobel Prize by the time he isthirty-five, and suddenly has nothing to do... While he was pursuing his specialization, science has gone past him. He has no alternative but to spend the rest of his life making a nuisance of himself.” Hutchins thinksthat problems of bureaucracy, nationalism, and technology facing mankind do not lend themselves to “scientific procedure. " “Our essential problem is what kind of people we want to be and what kind of world we want to have. Such questions cannot be solved by experiment and observation. But if we know what justice is, which is not a scientific matter, science and many other disciplines may help us get it..." The solution of our main problems, Hutchins writes, “depends on moral and intellectual virtues rather than on specialized knowledge. " He recommends a “reorganization of American education and a redefinition of its purposes. A liberal education, including scientific education, must be esta+ blished for all. “ But Hutchins admits that "this cataclysm is not likely to occur in the lifetime of the youngest person reading this." He proposes, therefore, that there be an "immediate program. ..to build intellectual communities outside the American educational system. " At least one such community is already in existence-Hutchins’ own Center in Santa Barbara. ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING — ; LIKE THE FRENCH, WE: MAKE MISTAKES, TOO WASHINGTON---Towinthe war and lose the peace-that isthe pattern in Viet-Nam threatening to repeat the unhappy precedent of other “victories” achieved by American military and economic strength. The events of recent days seem simply incredible in light of the great expenditure of American manpower and money insupport of the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Not the least fantastic is the intervention of President Charles de Gaulle. For if this does nothing else, it recalls some of the © most painful history of the tragedy of Indo-China. The French made almost every mistake possible. The end > wasa partition of Viet-Nam that narrowly averted catastrophe and a blood bath overwhelming the thousands of French planters and business men for whom the colony had long been a source of profits and jobs. In March, 1946, the French engineered a deal with the wily Communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, After months in Paris, Ho went back to Saigon expecting that he would preside over a united and neutralist Viet-Nam. But opposition French elements in the Viet-Namese capital succeeded in killing that deal and Ho retired to the North or organize the Communist guerrillas. For eight years the flower of the French officer corps fought with courage and desperate futility in the ugly . jungle war. As head of a so-called independent government, the French were backing a puppet emperor, Bao Dai. While he had personal bravery, charm and a sense of humor, Bao Dai lacked the one absolute essential -~ support of the Viet-Namese people. He took long holidays in a luxury villa on the French Riviera, where he currently lives in grand style. During the last two to three years of the French war the United States was pouring in support at the rate of Ly "9 aBeg ‘E961 ‘6I Joquicidag’* ‘1088nN ou’ 9 o8eg*' . Page 7 .The Nugget,. . September 19, 1963.. Page 7..