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F O Monday. February 25. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Correspondent's Book By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent o Citadel: The Story of the U.S. Senate By William S. White (Harper & Bros.) Most books devoted to the life and mechanics of Congress can be divide roughly into two cate gories those that purport to give the inside dope on which congressmen are in what lobby ist's pocket and which senators spend more tirr.e at cocktail par ties thafc at committee hearings and those books which essential ly are texts on the American po litical system, suitable chiefly O for students of the subject. Citadel, whose author is chief congressional correspondent of the New York Times, is neither of toese types. It is a grandly sweeping story which succeeds in portraying the power of the Senate as an institution in Amer can life today probably better than it has ever been presented before. The Senate, as White analyzes it. is not just the upper cham- 3 her of "the bicameral legislative branch of the government. It has assumed through constitutional powers and certain perquisites the authority of a separate branch, in some aspects dominat ing even the other two princi pal branches, the presidency and the courts, through its power to impeach, to reject presidential appointments aid to ratify trea- ' ties. The Family Council Editor'! no: The Family Council consist! of a Judte. a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers Each article Is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not eive advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Mri. L. M. My sister and her children belong together. Mri. M. D. I want to do what's right. Loretta D. We all want to be independent. Mrs. L. M. I am very much upset about my sister, who is a widow in her 60s.'Mathilda has three very ungrateful grefwn children two girls and a boy. They are unmried, yet they have left her all alone. The youngest, my nephew, was in the service when his father died. He came home. stayed a few weeks, and then went to another city to college although he could have gone to a college near home. Then one of his sisters took a job over- ADVERTISED o IN . PARENTS' o MAGAZINE "mifA -if -rrsv .. -. everylbniz PARENTS? MMtsUINI GOLDEN GUERNSEY "MILK For your children, buv the de licious, fresh milk with "more of everything good" Golden Guernse. which car ries the Parents' Magazine Commendation Seal! . SNIDER'S GOLD AWARD WINNING MILK "pit Such an analysis helps greatly to explain the independence of Senate leaders from domination by their party's president such as the outspoken behavior today of Senator Knowland. the Re publican leader in the Senate who so often differs with the President on foreign policy. Knowland, like many before him, is not the captain of the president's team in the Senate; he is the chosen leader of the Republican members of the Sen ate, who are a group unto themselves. View Adds Value Mr. White explains such cur rent topics as why senators, like Kefauver, who live to, become president, have such a tough time making it; and the atmos phere of the inner club, whose members are the typical and most powerful senators. And through much of the book, he reveals himself to be having quite a love affair with the insti tution he is describing. Lest the reader think this is coloring his judgment, let it be recorded that this, in the end, gives his book its impact and greatest value. For while he believes the Sen ate to be the "one touch of au thentic genius in the American political system" which "very often reflects the best instincts. and very infrequently the worst instincts with which the Anglo American race (and all its valued assimilated members now merg- seas and plans to stay two years. Now the other girl, Loretta, says she wants to have her own apartment with a friend. My sister talks blithely about going to live in a hotel. She says she wants to take courses and be a "free woman." She also I has a full-time job. I tell her all this is nonsense. Her business is1 to stay home .and keep house for her children, and as long as they are unmarried, their place is with her. Mrs. M. D. I am really very confused. I want to do what is right, but my children are adults and I feel they have a right to do as they please. I don't want to hold them back. The fact is that I like the feel ing of having no responsibility about a home. I would enjoy living in a hotel or boarding out. My children write to me regu larly and I feel I can count on them if I need them. ' Loretta D. My mother has listened to my aunt all her life and hardly knows her own mind any more. My aunt has made my mother feel both guilty about "leaving" us and rejected by us. The fact is that we all like to lead independent live. Mother j has never been a homebody and i the truth is I've kept house for hef and I'm a little tired of it. . We love our mother, but feel we are all better off doing different j things. I Th. Council: Mrs. T. M evi dently feels it is her personal responsioimy to uphold the order of the universe. She has not yet discovered that the order of the universe does not deter mine anv set Darterns fnr hu man behavior. From all accounts, nohoriv in this atiult familv is comnlainint The mother does not feel desert ed by her children and the grown cniiaren do not feel deserted by their mother. This mother says she would enjoy freedom from responsibility. She is not morally bound to "keep house for her children" when they are grown and neither she nor they desire such a setup. Neither are the children morally bound to stay with their mother as long as she is as well able to take care of herself as she appears to be. Only Mrs. L. M.'s rigid idea of what ought to be is upsetting this family. This mother evi dently has no reason to feel either guilty or rejected. She should recognize that she has evolved a happy, if some what unconventional relation ship with her children and should reject her sister's ill founded moralizing. (Copyright. 1957. General Feature Corp.) Man Reports Girl Was Attacked Friday Portland (U.R) Vearl Lee Collins, 23, Mulino, told Port land police Saturday that he was robbed Friday night and his girl friend criminally attacked by a masked man who hid in the back seat of his car. Collins, an employee at the Bremerton, Wash., navy yard, said he was visiting the girl at the home of an older sister tn North Portland. About 2 a.m. Saturday he re ported, he and the girl went to a Northwest Union avenue res taurant and when they returned to the car a masked man emerged from the back seat and ordered Collins to drive to a secluded spot where Collins was robbed of the $15 in his billfold and the Succeeds In ed altogether in the agreeably quarrelsome unity that enriches us all) has endowed the world." he also is fearful the Senate is cracking the very foundation upon which it stands. This is happening through its abuse of its power to investigate, and Its abuse of the immunity from libel or slander which the con stitution affords its members. 4 BIG FREE PARKING LOTS IN BACK OF STORI FREE PARKNG u tim fe. FOLGERS M.J.B. HILLS BROS. MAXWELL HOUSE MANNINGS 2 Pound Can $1.97 Volume 7-25' BOSCO (For ice cream topping or chocolate milk) BRUCE Self-Polishing WAX Quart 98 SWANSON FROZEN OYSTER PIES 31 -2 55 Portraying Acknowledging that witnesses have repeatedly abused the sanc tity of the fifth amendment, White argues that the Senate has been guilty of the most "persist ent extra-constitutional usurpa tions of power" through its abuse of the fifth amendment, which, as he points out, de clares: "No person shall be held to answer for a capital or other (GmTOiETriEmnA , . COIFF (m(mc SECTION NO. 1 with $2.50 in purchases SECTIONS 2-15 AND EACH PUT Of THE 2-FMT HIDES with ANY purchase On Safe Now 24-oz. 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