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Benson's Position Sei AdmSnistraf Ion
Cabinet Appears as Somewhat Wobbly
Washington - (UPD - Where
does Ezra Taft Benson go J
here?
It is obvious that the secre
tary of agriculture does not
see eye to eye with Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon on
farm policy. Nixon is almost
certain to be nominated for
President at the Republican
National Convention in July.
Assuming this, how secure
will be Benson's position in
the cabinet? To long time ob
servers, it seems far too late
for the controversial farm
chief to change his concept of
what is best for American ag
riculture to mesh with that of
Nixon. Benson is a strong
party man. So, in order to
avoid embarrassing the pros
pective candidate, will he re
sign, or will he sit out the
campaign, conducting merely
a holding operation until the
Eisenhower administration ex
pires next Jan. 20?
Not Enthusiastic
It was clear to reporters at
a Benson news conference last
week that he is not enthusias
tic for Nixon as the Republic
an nominee. He withheld en
dorsement of Nixon's candi
dacy. But he said that he be
lieved Nixon would make a
good President.
Benson noted that Nixon
now is the only candidate for
the Republican nomination
He said "It would appear
that if there was no other
candidate "he would have my
support." Later Benson modi
fied this somewhat by say
ing "It would appear that
will be in support of the vice
president because he's the
candidate that seems to be
the one that will get the nom
ination."
Sharp Words Reported
The differences between
Nixon and Benson apparently
began in 1955 when the price
of hogs dropped sharply. Nix
on called Benson to his Capi
tol Hill office and reportedly
there were sharp words be
tween them over Benson's re
fusal to support the price of
live hogs. The idea of sup
port of livestock prices was
and is entirely foreign to the
Benson-Eisenhower farm pol
icy. "Pork chops were served,
and they were good."
Then, last Dec. 31, after
New York Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller had withdrawn from the
Republican presidential race,
Benson held a news confer
ence in which he attempted
to identify Nixon with the ad
ministration's farm program.
At that time, Benson en
dorsed Nixon's candidacy.
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i . "Yes. he is mv candidate.
of course," Benson said. "He
appears to be out in front
and I feel he would make a
good President."
"I see no reason why he
wouldn't support the farm
program he supported and
helped develop."
Acts Without Advice
Nixon said nothing. But
shortly after the first of the
year he began delving into
farm policy on his own, with
out Benson's advice.
The Family Council
Editor's Note: The Family Council consists of Judce, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers.
Each article is a summary of an actual ise history The Council reports
on problems that have been dealt wife bT responsible agencies and
counselors.
Horace J. I want my own
home and family.
Lucy y. What's mine is
his.
Horace J. -1 am a bachelor
of 39. Recently I met and fell
in love with a widow two
years younger. She has two
teen-age children.
I want to marry as soon as
possible, but two problems
have arisen. Lucy wants to re
main in her home and I want
a new one. Also, I would like
to have a child of my own
and Lucy feels her childbear
ing years are behind her.
Lucy seems to think her
children should be enough
family for me. I'm fond of
them, but I know I'll regret
it if I don't have one of my
own. Many women of Lucy's
age have children. She thinks
it would be almost ridiculous
at her age.
Lucy V.-I hate that phrase
Horace has come to use - "a
child of my - own." What's
mine is his and what's his is
mine. I want him to be a real
father to my children. I've
been a widow five years and
the kids have missed a father
dreadfully. It's one reason
I'm so keen about getting
married.
I think Horace has been
ridiculous about this home
business. I've lived in the
house for nearly 20 years and
both the children and I are
so attached to it. There isn't
corner we haven't worked
on. If we sold it, we'd have to
pay so much more for another
that probably wouldn't . be
nearly as nice.
Why can't Horace be rea
sonable?
The Council: Lucy makes
the unreasonable assumption
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At his March 17 news con
ference, Benson answered
testily when he was asked
twice if he and Nixon had
conferred on a farm program
that Nixon might espouse.
"This whole discussion is
wearing pretty thin," Benson
said, his face flushed.
Benson has been a whip
ping boy for Congress. He has
been criticized, sometimes
harshley, by members of both
parties, by innumerable farm
ers, and by all major farm
that reason must necessarily
work toward her convenience.
She shows strangely little
sensitivity to her prospective
husband's feelings.
Lucy should recognize that
a man who has waited until
he is 39 to marry has suffered
loneliness and regret at his
lack of a real family life.
Now he has come to the point
where he wants to express
his manhood in the fullest
sense of the word."
The house issue is not a
trivial matter. Horace is say
ing in effect that he wants to
establish his own way of life,
his own household. The mem
ories Lucy cherishes are not
dear to him.
Lucy also lacks imagination
when she thinks that Horace
can simply take over her
teen-age children as his own
and feel fully expressed as a
father. Of course, he can
love them and enjoy a pa
ternal role in relation to
them, but he is being honest
with-himself when he. admits
this doesn't quite fulfill all his
desires.
We get the impression that
Lucy has too much the atti
tude of using Horace as a
convenience to satisfy her
needs and those of her chil
dren. We don't think any" person
should have a child simply
to please a mate. It takes the
desire of two individuals to
create the proper atmosphere
for rearing a healthy child.
If, therefore, Lucy feels she
cannot share Horace's desires
in this respect she should ac
cept the fact that they are
probably not for one another.
Probably Horace's relation
ship with Lucy has clarified
many things for him. He now
knows exactly what he wants
and he . should make every
effort to get it. His love for
Lucy may open the road to
love for a woman who will
return the feeling in full mea
sure. (Copyright I960,
General Features Corp.)
What Is The Law?
This column is prepared as a public service by the
College of Law, Willamette University. Salem, to
explain basic legal principles, not i provide legal
advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases
to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for
differing facts may change the outcome.
Payment for Certain Benefits
Not a Legal Obligation
In Missouri, almost twenty
five years ago, a woman filed
a petition asking the court to
adjudge that she was entitled
to all of her brother's proper
ty. She made this unusual re
quest on the basis that she had
bestowed a great benefit on
her brother and he should pay
her for it. She claimed that
she had saved his life by tak
ing a bottle of chloroform
from him to prevent his sui
cide. She claimed, in addition,
that she had advised him to
go to a doctor for treatment
when he was insane and as a
result he had regained his san
ity. She took credit for saving
her brother's repuation by
persuading certain persons
not to slander him, and she
advised him to live an honest
and upright life.
Court Not Sympathetic
The Supreme court of Mis
souri was not sympathetic
with her case. The court indi
cated it would not listen to a
sister making claims of this
nature on her brother. The
court said: "Any good citizen
would do that much for . a
stranger without hope or ex-
Mormon Church
Eyes Oregon Land
Portland-CPU- The Mormon
church was reported Sunday
to be negotiating for about
300 acres of land southwest of
here for eventual use as a
college or junior college cam
pus. The land is one of the last
sizable tracts near Portland.
It was reported valued at
around $2,100 per acre.
The Oregonian-Journal said
no building on the land was
expected for 7 to 10. years and
that the church was seeking
additional sites to relieve
overcrowding at Brigham
Young university.
organizations except the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
His neck has been on the
chopping block often, and
many times it appeared the
ax would fall. At least one
congressional delegation of
Republicans asked President
Eisenhower to fire him.
Benson weathered all
storms. He has said that either
of his presidents of the Unit
ed States and of the Monnan
Church could get his job at
any time. Neither ever asked
for it.
. But things have changed,
and- will change more. After
the July convention Eisenhow
er, his powerful friend, will
become more of a lame duck
President. Eisesnhower's
voice in the Republican party
will become less loud than it
is now. It might not be loud
enough to save Benson's job
as it has many times.
If Nixon develops his own
farm program, and it is at
variance with Benson's, where
can Benson go except back to
Salt Lake City to resume his
duties as an apostle of the
Morman Church?
The July convention action
could make his political posi
tion untenable.
Two Injured as Car
Leaves Highway 99
Two persons were injured
in a one car accident Sunday
on Highway 99, just south of
Gold Hill, state police report
ed, y
Sidney Milo Jones, 49, of
route 2, box 210, the driver,
was reported in fair condi
tion this morning at Sacred
Heart hospital suffering from
cuts on his head and possible
chest injuries. His wife,
Helen, a passenger in the car,
was treated for cuts and
bruises and released, hospital
attendants said.
The car was rounding a
turn when it left the road and
hit a telephone pole, throwing
both occupants from the ve
hicle, state police said.
BLAME ROCKSLIDE
Paris-(UPD-The collapse Dec.
2 of the Malp'asset dam with
a resulting death toll of 384
in the flood of the Riviera
town of Frejus was caused by
a rockslide and not because
of weak construction of the
dam. This was the conclusion
of a preliminary report pub
lished by . a governmental
committee investigating the
disaster.
London -(UPD The Market
Research Society has prohibit
ed its 600 members from us
ing hypnotism on persons
they question.
pectation of reward. It is ap
parent without further discus
sion that such sisterly acts do
not furnish a consideration
for the property in question."
It is a generally . accepted
rule of law that one person
cannot force a benefit upon
another against his will and
then seek to hold him liable
to pay for the benefit. A per
son bestowing such a benefit
does so voluntarily and is not
entitled to relief in court. The
Missouri case was an easy one
to decide, and there will be
little disagreement concerning
whether or not the decision is
right.
An earlier case, from New
York, presents a much more
difficult situation. Here, a
farmer had informed his
neighbor that he planned to
burn the stubble from his
field and asked the neighbor
to remove a stack of grain
that was in the farmer's field.
The neighbor said he would
do so. At the stated time the
farmer set the field on fire
and then discovered that his
neighbor's grain had not been
moved. The farmer and his
son moved the grain and then
sought fifty cents for their
services. The neighbor would
not pay so the farmer brought
an action seeking the reason
able value of the benefit he
had bestowed by moving the
grain to a safe place. The
court denied the farmer's re
quest, saying, "If a man hu
manely bestows his labor, and
even risks his life, involuntar
ily aiding to preserve his
neighbor's house from de
struction by fire, the law con
siders the service rendered as
gratuitous, and it, therefore,
forms no ground of action."
Courts will frequently point
out that they believe a moral
obligation rests upon the per
son benefited to pay a reason
able value for the benefit.
However, they usually adhere
to the position that there is
not a legal obligation that can
be enforced by court action.
Quotes From the News
By United Press International
Maryville, Tenn. An exhausted state policeman, describ
ing the seven hour chase after a 200-pound bear cub that
had escaped its cage at a gas station:
"We had quite a time with him. Every time he came down
a tree the dogs nipped him and he'd climb another."
Detroit Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and John
F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), clashing in the Wisconsin primary over
campaign tactics: , .. '
. Humphrey: "We're trying to choose a candidate for
President of the United Stales, not the lead for a Hollywood
drama."
Kennedy: "Hubert will learn that running for a Holly
wood part is not my purpose." ' .
Durand, Mich. Engineer Harry Wix, Jr., stepping down
from the cab of one of the nation's last regurlarly scheduled
steam locomotives, which chugged into retirement Sunday:
"I really thought of them as beautiful. Not monsters,
beautiful."
Hollywood British actress June Wilkinson, lamenting
the theft of $4,100 worth of furs from her apartment:
"Today was my birthday, too. My 20th. Without furs,
what's a girl to wear?"
Israel Transforms
Desert, Mashlands
Into Blooming Farms
New York, N.Y.-(Scientific
American Feature)-Within a
decade the people of Israel
have transformed more than
a million acres of desert waste
and brackish marshlands into
blossoming farms.
. As a result, they have near
ly achieved the goal of agri
cultural self-sufficiency and,
indeed, have already made
their tiny nation an exporter
of agricultural products, ac
cording to Walter C. Lowder
milk, former associate chief
of the soil conservation serv
ice of the U.S. department of
agriculture, now an agricul
tural consultant to foreign
governments.
"The 20th-century Israel
ites," says Dr. Lowdermilk,
"did not find their promised
land 'flowing with milk and
honey,' as their forebears did
3,300 years ago. Instead, the
7,815 square miles allocated
to Israel in the 1948 partition
of Palestine consisted of en
croaching sand dunes, of ma
larial swamps and naked
limestone hills from which an
estimated three feet of top
soil had been scoured, sorted
and spread in the form of
sterile overwash upon the
plains, or swept out to sea in
flood waters that time after
time turned the beautiful blue
of the Mediterranean into a
dirty brown as far as the
horizon. . .
Worked Miracle '
"But today the toil and de
votion of citizens utilizing the
best understanding afforded
by modern agricultural sci
ence have worked a miracle
on the land. More than 44.000
acres of marshland have been
reclaimed. Irrigation has been
extended to 325,000 acres,
multiplying their production
by six-fold and more. On vast
stretches of uncultivable land
range-cover has been estab
lished to support a growing
livestock industry. Some 37
million trees have been plant
ed in the highlands to con
serve rainfall and to retard
erosion. Reforestation will be
further extended. Some 250
million trees, both native and
imported species selected by
the Israeli Forest Experiment
station, are to be planted in
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the next 10 years. Already
the first of the plantings are
yielding timber, poles and
fuel products - valuable com
modities in a deforested land.
"To bring much of the land
under irrigation and cultiva
tion has required strenuous
repair of the damage done by
centuries of erosion. The
slopes in stony soils are typi
cally covered by an 'erosion
pavement' made up of stones
too heavy to be moved by
rain splash and the sheet flow
of water. In many parts of the
highlands modern farmers
have been able to take advan
tage of the soil-conservation
works of the ancient Phoeni
cians, the first people to con
trol erosion by building stone
walls to convert a slope into
a series of level benches. Most
of these ancient terraces had
been allowed to fall into
ruins. The citizens of Israel
are zealously rebuilding them,
and in ways which permit ef
fective cultivation by modern
machinery.
Water Measures
"Equally impressive are
measures now Hinder way to
increase the available water
supply, the resource which
imposes the ultimate limit on
Israeli agriculture. Current
water development plans call
for the diversion of the upper
Jordan waters within Israel
to the southern dry lands and
those of the Yarmuk river to
the eastern side of the Jor
dan valley. Prospects have
also been brightened by prog
ress in the desalting of sea
water.
"Thus, on the anvil of ad
versity the state and people
of Israeli have been hammer
ing out solutions to problems
that other nations must soon
er or later face. There are no
more continents left to ex
plore or exploit. But the ex
ample of Israeli shows that
the land can be reclaimed and
that increase in the food sup
ply can overtake the popula
tion increase that will double
the 2,800-million world popu
lation before the end of this
century."
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Obscenity Laws
Discussion Topic
Portland -(UPD- A California
attorney said Saturday any
law which tries to define ob
scenity to include "playboy"
type magazines, sunbathing or
nudist publications, or even
"girlie" magazines is in con
flict with recent U.S. Supreme
Court decisions.
The attorney, Stanley
Fleishman, gave his opinion
to a legislative interim com
mitee. The committee is seek
ing to recommend a law to
replace the Oregon obscenity
statute which has been declar
ed unconstitutional.
Fleishman's opinions con
flicted with those of the Port
land city attorney's office.
Richard A. Braman, deputy
Portland city attorney, pre
sented proposals for a state
law which differed legally
from a Portland city ordi
nance but which offered simi
lar definitions of obscenity.
Fleishman said he was not
referring to "hard-core por
nography" which he said al
ready was covered by laws.
"The problem is the girlie
type magazines on the news
stands and the U.S. Supreme
Court, in a 9 to 0 decision,
has given the clearest protec
tion to these magazines," he
said.
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