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o o Monday, October 3, 1955 MEDFORD (CREGOIQ) MAIL TRIBUXX FZVE President's Incapacity Points To Little Understood Cabinet By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) Presi d e n t Eisenhower's incapacity has spotlighted the presidential cabinet which is an odd and little under stood organ of government, a (anere politic?! vermiform appendix. The cabinet has no consti tutional status, e x e r c lses no Lrk C. Wilson authority and, Snore often than not, is ill-in- urn formed on major decisions and policies. Moieover, the cabinet defies the natural law that the whole can be no greater than the sum of its parts. The individual cabi net members are great figures in their fields -of activity, each with tremendous authority over some area of,, the national de fense or national economy. Seated collectively around the cabinet table these great figures are merely guests of the Presi-dent-without legal authority. The Constitution brushes off the cabinet in a few words stat ing that the President may call on the principal officer of any department if he desires to do so o ' for an opinion In writing. The Constitution says the opinion shall relate to the duties of the respective officers. That's all the Constitution has to say about the cabinet. Systsm Just Grew The so-called cabinet system by which a President meets reg ularly with the departmental principal officers and some oth ers, as he .may invite, just grew. Under many Presidents, includ ing some of the standouts, the cabinet didn't amount to much. Jackson. Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, for example, could take their cabinets or leave them alone. Former President Truman often leaned heavily on his cabi- i net. So ' does President Eisen hower. But as Presidents grow stronger their cabinets become weaker. The cabinet cannot compare 4 with the National Security coun cil as an institution of govern ment. The (Council was created by law. It has wide and specific authority to advise the Presi dent on the integration of do mestic, foreign ,-,and military policies relating d to security. That covers just about every thing. Nixon an Invited Guest Vice-President R i c h a r,d M. L Nixoa- sits at the cabinet" table as an invited guest of the Presi dent. But Nixon sits at the coun-' come of it. cil table and just new pre side because that is the law. The libraries sag with mem oirs of cabinet officers telling of tiresome, trivial sessions and of many Presidents3 who sought advice outside the cabinet cir cle, often failing tS advise mem bers. ' It is history that Woodrow Wilson did not read his 1917 war message to the cabinet be fore its delivery to cCongress. Lincoln was guilty of numerous such by-passes. There has been much talkof legislating bonecand sinewQinto the cabinet, but nothing . has Marcus Kidnaping . Indictment Sought San Francisco (U.R) Dist. Atty. Thomas C. Lynch goes be fore the San Francisco Grand Jury tonight to ask for a kidnap ing indictment against Mrs. Betty Jean Benedicto. Mrs. Benedicto will probably not accompany him. She is in the epsychopathic ward at San Francisco hospital, recovering from an apparent suicide at tempt. Last week she swallowed four Liquor Consumption In Slight Decline Portland (U.R) Oregon Liquor Control Commission sta tistics released last week end for the fiscal year ended June 30 showed a slight decline in the But despite slight drops in tax small bedspring links. Her con dition was reported as "pretty good." However, hospital attend ants said she may be held in the hospital for several more days. " Mrs. Benedicto, wife of a Fili pino rooming house operator in Stockton, confessed last week to stealing ' baby Robert Marcus from his crib in San Francisco's Mount Zion hospital Sept. 19. She was arrested last Wednesday. state's liquor consumption. and license collection and bottle sales, net revenue was up a bit at $13,393,248. Purchasers permits declined 1700 from last year to 4,897. Some $3,525,000 from liquor sales and tax collections during the three months ended Sept. 30, was being distributed to the state G general fund and census board and also to cities and counties. Only increase in consumption, was in table wines, some 1,041, 000 gallons being taxed. New York (U.R) Julius Ochs Adler, first vice-president and general manager of the New York Times, iied today at the age of 62. M (PLACE 1 IPUT DT! EASY TERMS ei Yes, We've Received A :"CARL0AD off the Season's NEWEST, SlMmTESY r- TTTTTTm Yvrrrr Rrice Cuts for Fast Sale! Here's Your Opportunity to Buy Latest Home Furnishings at Amazing Sayings! -fii i,r tmmrnm m TT- S Save (Q)n This Beautiful Set! Bookcase Headboard Mr. and Mrs. 'Dresser and Mirror . . . . MANY OTHERS TO CHOOSE FROM Free Delivery O Open WED. 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