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ERXEST V. JOINER
Employing "selective" statistics and quoting people out
of context are often means whereby a man can bolster his
argument or try to prove his point. Frequently the
oul-of-context material conveys the exact opposite meaning
its author intended. A good example of this type of truth
subversion is found in the inscription of the Jefferson
Memorial in Washington. It reads: "Nothing is more
certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are
to be free." Jefferson was, of course, referring to the Negro
slaves in this country. But that sentence was torn out of
context. Here is now his complete statement reads: "Nothing
is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these
people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races,
equally free, cannot live in the same government." If
Jefferson were alive today and made that complete
statement he would be branded a racial bigot and he would
not be the patron saint of the Democratic Party.
Jefferson in his Autobiography has even more in this
vein: "Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of
distinction between them (the white and black race). It is
still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and
-deportation peaceably, and in such slow degree as that the
evil will wear off insensibly and their place be, part passu,
filled by free white laborers. If. on the contrary, it is left to
force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect
held up."' That statement is not taken out of context.
Jefferson wanted to free the slaves and deport them.
Abraham Lincoln also had an elaborate plan to remove the
freed slaves to Africa at government expense. But their
words on the subject are as hard to find these days as the
police record of Ralph D. Abernathy, successor to Martin
Luther King.
Generations of Americans have been nourished on the ,
famous statement. "The power to tax is the power to
destroy." That statement was never made, at least not made
by the man who is supposed to have uttered it. Nicol V. Ames,
before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1899. Actually, Mr. Ames
was pointing out the absolute necessity of taxation. Here is
his complete statement: "The power to tax is the one great
power upon which the whole national fabric is based. It is as
necessary to the existence and prosperity of a nation as is the
air he breathes to the natural man. It is not only the power to
destroy but also the power to keep alive." The mischief of
quoting out of context or "editorially revising" needs no
better example than these.
JOINER'S DICTIONARY. Good American A person
who wants honesty in government, honesty in business,
honesty in private lives, honesty in advertising, honesty in
dealing with foreign nations, truth in product labeling,
accuracy in news reporting then celebrates George
Washington's birthday on Feb. 18. Bulldozer A man who
sleeps through the Watergate hearings. Hen's Teeth what a
hen is as scarce of as girls in dresses these days.
I am doing this story for Ms Magazine, the women's lib
oracle which is pressing for elimination of language that
differentiates between the sexes. It's called the neuter word
game. Well, this story concerns a young huperson being who
was once chairperson of a debating team and who later gets
into trouble for violation of the Person Act that eventually led
to personslaughter. A giant personhunt was ordered by the
chief of policepeople for this individual, an expert in
penpersonship. and who is also engaged in writing a
personuscript based on George Bernard Shaw's classic,
"Person and Superperson." It will have a foreword by
Horace Person, American educator. Warner Peoples Studio
is dickering for its movie rights for a musical comedy, with
Henry Personcini of Personhattan Beach, Ca., writing the
lyrics. There is a hilarious sketch concerning Robinson
Crusoe and a Person Friday. Both were rescued from a
desert isle by a British Person -of -War, the Persondarian,
which later struck a mine off the Isle of Person. That's when
the captain gave the famous order, "Person the lifeboats!"
The characters in this story are well personipulated by the
author. But the whole thing is a crook of personure, if you ask
me.
Supt. Ron Daniels was in Monday to set the record
straight about how his successor will be chosen. The
committee of one teacher, two principals and seven board
members composed a screening committee, not a selection
committee, heexplains. This screening committee, will meet
and review all applicants, and based on its judgement the
field will be narrowed down to four or five applicants. The
school board will be the only persons involved with the
finalists, and will pare the field down to applicants. After this
has been done, the board will visit the hometowns of the
applicants to talk with people in their respective
communities and visit the schools where they were formerly
employed. The final hiring will be a board action. There are
now 19 applicants for the position, and the finalists should be
selected by July 19.
"Off The Record..."
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DEAR EDITOR:
I see where government,
labor unions and other weight
throwers are continually
whooping it up for higher legal
minimum wage rates for jobs
of work.
The politicians and the.
professional worker-bleeders
who run the unions make
money and hay out of laws to
raise wages because there are
more voters who draw wages
than there are who ha ve to pay
wages.
Which also explains why
nobody gets in a lather to pass
a minimum worth law to
compel a hired hand to be
worth what he gets paid.
D.E. SCOTT. .
Crossroads, U.S.A.
QuoteUnquote
"The next time you see a
headline saying that the
Congress has voted a $1 billion
project, just figure that on the
average this is about $3 out of
your pocket and out of the
pocket of every other member
of your family ."Secretary of
Agriculture Earl L. Butz.
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
Heppner has a hospital with financial problems; problems
not necessarily brought on by its supervisory or
administrative group, although the communications between
them as a tax-supported institution and the general public
has not been good, in my way of thinking.
Because of governmental regulations it is impossible to
operate this institution anywhere near its capability. Upon
the coming retirement of Dr. Tibbies, and should Dr. Wolff
become incapacitated or die, this hospital would come to a
screaming halt, no matter how well it was financed.
We do need two new doctors. One of these should be a
reasonably good surgeon.
I am strictly against a minimum wage guarantee and a
subsidized clinic proposal that I have heard talked about.
This sort of thing was never offered to either Dr. Tibbies or
Dr. Wolff, among other reasons.
Yes. the young doctors might require financial assistance, .
and if they do, what is wrong with a few individuals or our
banks loaning money to them as individuals and taking their
present security and accumulative assets as collateral until
their notes are retired? This has been done before because
a lot of local merchants in effect did it for me, and I don't
think I was as good a risk as a doctor.
Heppner isn't all that bad a place to live and work, and
there are young doctors looking for rural locations. Mrs.
Weatherford just received the names of four such doctors.
I think with a little constructive community groundwork
and a well-organized, factual sales brochure, we could
attract a couple of good doctors who in turn might just solve
the hospital's financial problems and could even bring new
business and liveliness to our town.
W.W. WEATHERFORD,
Heppner
EDITOR:
It is almost impossible to thank everyone involved
personally, so we would like to take this means of thanking
-Stan Kemp for the beautiful splitrail fence he built; Don
Evans for the sound, lights, moving the piano, etc.; Jim
Monahan for chairs, grounds, etc.; and Suzanne Jepsen who
was so helpful and cooperative, incorporating her ideas with
mine in getting the program ready. So many helped so we
would like to say "thank you" again.
Wasn't the musical entertainment great thanks to
Sherman Murray and son, Iva McDaniel and Nola Steers and
the Leonnings. We have some musical talent in our court,
also, that we didn't know we had. You did a beautiful job,
girls. Thanks.
LENNA SMITH & COMMITTEE,
Soroptimist Club of Heppner.
Fellowship to
Lance Tibbies
Each month Pioneer Memorial Hospital receives a
Physicians Placement Service Bulletin as a service from the
Oregon Medical Association. This bulletin lists the names of
doctors eligible to practice in Oregon, lists their specialty,
age, schooling and what particular area they might be
interested in setting up a practice.
From the June bulletin, we have talked to seven doctors.
One will be in Heppner the latter part of July to visit our
facility and community; three have already made
commitments, one to Seaside, one to Bend and the other to
Klamath Falls, and three are to call back by July 15.
The wife of the doctor going to Seaside only wished we had
contacted them sooner as they had signed their contract a
week earlier. We called them the day we received (he
bulletin.
We have contacted the office of Dr. Kenneth Cudgel who is
head of the Department of Family Practice at Deaconess
Hospital in Spokane, Wn., and as this program is very new,
they have only three graduates this July and they have
already made their commitments, two to Montana and one to
Washington. Our name has been placed on their Physicians
Placement Log. which is used by many doctors and might
bring some results.
We have received a letter from Lydia Soriano Longalong,,
M.D.. a medical graduate from the Philippines. She has
passed the examination administered by the Educational
Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. This is in no way
equivalent to being licensed to practice in Oregon, but
programs can be set up such as they are to have at the
Umatilla Hospital where these foreign born doctors can work
as Hospital Based Physicians and receive a limited license
by the State Board of Medical Examiners contingent upon
the fact that the hospital's physicians staff arrange
supervision of her work and act as a consultant.
Many of you might have seen the T.V. program Sunday
night on the Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota and
that some of their doctors would be leaving to seek positions
elsewhere. We are making contact with Berl Akers Jr.,
formerly of lone, who works on the Sioux Reservation, to talk
to these doctors and tell them of our need and what we have
to offer.
On Saturday, July 13, 1 will attend a luncheon given by the
Oregon Medical Association in Portland to meet new
licentiates, this follows examinations for licensure in the
State of Oregon. A majority of new licentiates already have
firm plans but a good portion do not.
Lance Tibbies, assistant
professor of law at the
University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, and son of Dr. "
and Mrs. L.D. Tibbies of
Heppner, has been awarded
two fellowships and selected
as a participant in a summer
institute in the medical legal
area.
Professor Tibbies has been
awarded a fellowship by the
National Endowment for the
Humanities to explore the
question of whether life should
be prolonged when there is no
hope of recovery. This is a
controversial area in which
medical advances have
strained traditional legal and
moral commitments. It is not
now clear whether a person
can willfully refuse life sus
taining devices, nor is it clear
whether a physician can honor
his patient's request that the
devices not be used.
Tibbies will conduct this
research at Yale Law School
beginning Sept. 1 where he has
also been awarded a Fellow
ship in Law, Science &
Medicine. This program
brings lawyers, doctors, ana
scientists together in an effort
to address public policy issues
in the areas of legal and
ethical issues in bio-medical
and behavioral science re-'
COW POKES
ILENE WYMAN,
Administrator, Pioneer Memorial Hospital.
EDITOR:
On behalf of the Soroptimist Club of Heppner I would like to
thank you. Mr. Joiner, for doing such a great job as master of
ceremonies for our 1974 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
Queen's Coronation. We appreciated it very much. And
thanks to Ernie C. for laking pictures of the court and
festivities.
AtanaiP
"Cause I'm feedin' these colts in your tub, you
and the kids fer the next week bathe
in the windmill tank!"
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Summer has set in fer real out here in the country, Mister
Editor, and we ain't got them air condition umbrellers to
walk around under like you folks have In town.
The fellers took up this matter of the hot weather at the
session at the country store Saturday night, and they was
agreed that nowadays folks don't Jest talk about the weather,
they do somepun about it.
Fer instant, Clem Webster brung in this report where the
Pentagon has said that back in the middle sixties we made
more than 2,000 flights and spent $27 million making rain in
North Vitnam. We dumped chemics in the clouds to keep the
ground muddy and slow down the enemy.
And Ed Doolittle reported that he has saw in his farm
journals where banks and insurance companies is buying up
all our desert land, spending millions on irrigation systems
like one on wheels that rolls right up mountains, and they're
gitting into farming and ranching in a big way with their
"artificial rain."
They use to be a saying that we'd do somepun "the good
Lord willing the the creek don't rise." Folks don't bother
checking with the Lord now, and if the creek rises, we dam it
up and make electricity, or we spray it all over the
countryside to grow soybeans to sell to Japan.
Actual, what got the fellers on the weather was Bug
Hookum's question about Sawmill, or whatever is the name
of the federal energy office head now. Bug had saw where
Sawmill come out strong agin men wearing coats and
neckties this summer, and Bug allowed that was the best
news out of Washington since they announced the end of
poverty.
But Bug said he is worried cause it looks like we're going to
have as hard a time gitting rid of neckties as we are pore
folks. Bug said his old lady still expects him to wear a choker
when they go to church, and she ain't taking no Guvernment
suggestion fer a answer.
General speaking, allowed Bug, it is a long ways between
suggesting and doing. Folks figger the suggesting may mean
them, but the doing alius means the other feller, was Bug's
words.
He had saw where the Congress has voted to raise the
national debt limit from $475 billion to $495 billion to keep
from being indebt agin the law.
Them economy experts keep suggesting Guvernment
spending adds to inflation, but all them Guvernment
agencies must figger the suggestion means all the other
agencies. So the Congress keeps hiring more people and
spending more money like a drunk trying to drink hisself
sober.
Personal, Mister Editor, I am of a mind that guessing a
Guvernment 's reasons fer doing anything is about like
figgering why a woman buys a hat. I see by the papers where
the Russians say our rock music is driving their young folks
wild, but the Chinese say to much soft music is making their
people lazy.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
v Canadian cure
for
California cults
By LESTER KINSOLV1NG
The "Church of Scientology," a highly profitable form of
pseudo-psychoanalysis, has been investigated and exposed
by numerous governmental agencies from Australia to
England and the U.S.
In California, however, this cult, founded by former
science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, began last year to
acquire a measure of respectability.
Somehow, famed San Francisco Forty-niner Quarterback
John Brodie was converted. Then the Rev. Vaughn Young,
the San Francisco Scientology franchise holder, managed
quietly to obtain membership in the Communications
Commission of the Northern California Ecumenical Council
(formerly the Council of Churches) which commission
includes the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco as well as
the Northern California Board of Rabbis.
Yet news of this new degree of ecumenicity had no sooner
leaked out than the Council of the Episcopal Diocese of
California was asked by San Carlos Rector David Gordon:
"Why doesn't this commission invite the Satanists as
well?"
This leading question, when conveyed to Scientologist
Young, evoked a threat that if San Francisco's First
Satanists Church is welcomed into the Council's Communi
cations Commission, "I will be gone I can't tolerate any
group that reverences death."
When asked about this rejoinder, Lana Green, Executive
Secretary of the National Network of the Churches of Satan,
Inc., laughed devilishly and retorted:
"Well, aren't the Scientologists getting snobbish! We
aren't really interested in joining that Council. And maybe
it is wise that L. Ron Hubbard stays off shore!"
This was a pointed reference to the fact that for the past six
years founder Hubbard has generally remained aboard his
enormous yacht ("The Sea Org") and refused to talk to the
press.
But Scientology's most notable defector, the Sea Org's
First Mate John McLean of Toronto, recently met with
reporters and revealed that Hubbard is enjoying founder's
royalties on an estimated $60 million per annum. He looks
considerably less like the demigod which Scientologists so
revere, disclosed McLean, for he has put on considerable
weight (250 lbs.) and has lost his teeth.
It was in Toronto also that Scientology recently suffered an
even more devastating setback, when the Province of
Ontario's Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations
refused to recognize Scientology as a church.
Under Section 22 of Ontario's Marriage Act, this
government agency can and has denied licenses to cults or
purported clergy seeking the necessary governmental
authority to solemnize marriages.
T.D. Thompson, legal advisor to Ontario's Registrar
General, explained during an interview with this column:
"The denomination in which the applying clergyman is
ordained must have existed for 25 years and have such
aspects of a legitimate and bona fide denomination as a
theological seminary, a liturgy and a body of doctrine.
Unless these conditions are the case, we simply turn down
the application."
Have the Scientologists protested or threatened to sue?
"Oh sure," replied Thompson, "They're specialists is legal
threats but here they just staged a mock marriage on the
front steps. They soon got very cold, However, and went and
got a judge so the couple could get really married. They also
organized a campaign of letter writing."
Have any other applicants been turned down by this
Ontario Criterion? ( which could become something of a
yardstick for the ULS. whose Constitution prohibits any law of
religious establishment, and thus any official separation of
bogus and legitimate denominations).
"Oh, yes," recalled Thompson, "there were two or three of
those weird cults from California. One of them ordains people
and even animals by mail."
search, implications of ad
vances in genetic research,
problems relating to organ
transplants and artificial
organs, legal aspects of popu
lation control, administration
of medical care delivery
systems, and social control of
science and technology.
Tibbies will also participate
in a summer Institute on
Moral Problems in Medicine
sponsored by the Council for
Philosophical Studies and held
at Haverford College in
Haverford, Pa. The six-week
institute will address the
topics of experimentation,
eugenics, genetic engineering
and human diversity, death
and the quality of life,
psychiatry and behavior con
trol, and allocation of scarce
resources. Fifty scholars in
the disciplines of biology,
community health, law, med
icine and philosophy will
participate in the Institute.
Tibbies, 35, graduated from
Heppner High School and the
University of Oregon, He has
taught at North Dakota the
past two years, and prior to
that he was on the staff at New
York State University. Dr.
and Mrs. Tibbies have one
other son, Larry, 30, a major
in the Army Medical Corps.
By Ace Reid
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