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i WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 18, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON li it Mexico-Ill Mexico's Stable Political Structure Patterned on United States By HARRY FERGUSON Mexico City-fflPU-Thcre was a time when a man who took the oath of office as president of Mexico automatically be came a poor insurance risk. Assassination .as such an ac cepted way of changing ad ministrations that one chief executive, with a sharp in stinct for self preservation, sized up the situation and quit after a tenure in office of 47 minutes. The measure of the fast turnover is that, while John V Konnpdv In the 35th ores! dent of the United States, Adolfo Lopez Matcos is the 66th president of Mexico. The revolving door stopped spin ning early in this century and today Mexico has a stable po litirnl structure patterned roughly on that of the United Slates. What happened was that Mviliun. finally sot the army under control. 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DEC 22 1- 5- 8-214 P7-68-75-88 SEPT. OCT. 3-44-48-371 to-66-73 CAPBICOtlM DEC. JAN. 52.54.56.64, P7-78-83 &l AOUAttUS MN. 21 1-13-40-43. t,0-76-79-S4 MAR. 21 P41-47.49i 62-69-74 ' 7,- Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1963) Fairyflies Are Wasps, And So Tiny They Can't Be Seen Even though we have never actually seen them, most of us accept the fact that there are uncounted numbers of tiny organisms swimming around in various liquids, much too small to be seen by the unaided eye. Too, we admit the fact that these minute specks are really llv ing things, but at the same ' time we know they are much less complex In their make-up than those animals that warn, swim, fly or crawl. Even a meager knowledge of microscopic creatures as sures us that the bacteria and the microbes arc single celled and a great deal less complex than an elephant or a mouse, a bird or an insect. Too, we have been told on the very best authority, these speck like organisms multiply by division. ...they are too small and too simple In structure to lay eggs, much less give birth to living young. Another Shock So, alter we accept the smallness of things that are still alive, but are classed as bacteria or microbes, we can get another mild shock when we learn there are Insects so small they cannot be seen; little, complex things that can walk, run, fly, cat, mule and lay eggs. Insects so small they arc actually unbelievable, yet with all Hie behavior patterns, instincts and characteristics of all the members of their species, all endowed with the ability to seek the very best place to lay their eggs and with the "bug-knowledge" to accomplish their purpose. Wo have all seen the so called "frultllles." Wo de scribe them as tiny and admit the fact they lay eggs, react to outside stimulus, and contri bute considerable to man's knowledge of genetics. If we examine one under a strong magnifying glass, we may be surprised to find they are about as complex, in a small way, as a rabbit or a giraffe. So, it'st rather surprising to learn there are other insects much smaller, Just about out ofthlsworld and out-of-slght, but insects nevertheless cap able of flying, selecting a mate, laying eggs and hunting up the one favorable place to lay those out-of-sight eggs. Seems ridiculous to say these little things arc small or tiny, for that's the way we describe a frultfly and these arc much smaller. They arc "fairyflies" and are about as much smaller than a frultfly as a rabbit is smaller than a shepherd dog. You Just can t measure the length of a fairyfly with a ruler-there s no calibration to fit the little guy. We have to measure him in millimeters, and a millimeter just doesn t mean much to most of us. To impart some sense to real smallness of the fairyfly, we might say he is smaller than a dot at the end of a printed sentence,' but to get any sort of an Idea we must select the very smallest period, for there Is a difference In the size of periods. About the best we can say is that a fairyfly is less than lOOths of an inch long. With the fairyfly, Nature demonstrates pretty graphi cally her ability to organize life on a minus miniature scale. Actually the fairyfly is misnamed for it is a wasp and the female searches out the egg of some other insect In which she will lay one of her own eggs. Once Inside the tiny egg, the even smaller egg hatches, and out emerges grownup fairyfly-a fairy- wasp so small you couldn't see it If you looked right at It. That s smaller than the tiniest. Bill Planned To End Death Penally Salem-IUP1I -One bill io abol ish the death penalty in Ore gon and another to stiffen murder terms were promised today by two Democratic senators. Sen. Don Wlllner (D-Port-I ii lid) said he will introduce a constitutional amendment to end tile death penally. It also would require persons sentenced to life to Flay In prison at least 15 years. A similar proposal was de feated by the voters In 1II5B. Winner's bill, if passed, would be presented to the people In 1084. Sen. Thomas Phoney ID Portland) said he will intro duce a bill to make I' harder to commute life or leath sen tences tor murder. Miihoney said his proposal would provide for Supreme Court approval before a gov crnor could grant a pardon or commutation. It also would prevent parole for a person sentenced to life. Mahoney said the aim would be to make the life sentence mean something and to take pressure off a gov crnor. himself a potential president. Little dictators sprang up all over the land and Mexico broke up Into cells of govern ments making their own laws and levying their own taxes. It was not considered unusual when the municipal District of Cuernavaca seceded from the state of Mexico and the District of Yautepcc then se ceded from Cuernavaca. Checks and Balances Today the army has only about 50,000 men, the presi dent is a civilian and gener als concentrate on military strategy rather than political tactics. There is an effective system of checks and balances which prevents any branch of the government from becom ing dominant. Mexican presidents are nominated at party conven tions, serve six years and can not run for reelection. Offici- lly, Mexico has a multi-party system but every election since 1917 has been won by the Revolutionary Institution al party. There are two houses in the parliament. Two senators are elected for six year terms from each slate. Deputies are elected for three-year terms in the lower house with each one representing roughly 180,000 voters. The president can veto a bill and Congress can pass It over his veto. The president appoints a 21-nian Supreme Court subject to ratification by the Senate. The Supreme Court is divided into separate panels of five men each spe cializing in penal law. civil law, administration and labor. The entire court meets regu- larly under the supervision of a chief justice elected by the membership. A president appoints a cabi net whose members hold the traditional offices. One dis tinctive feature of the Mexi can cabinet system Is that the secretary of the interior, a comparatively minor job in the U, S. cabinet, Is a power ful man. He controls the rela tions between the federal and slate governments, the police and the immigration serv ices and has jurisdiction over all matters not specifically given to other cabinet officers. Tough on Communists There seems to be a wide spread belief in many places in the world that Mexico is headed straight toward com munism. This misconception probably derives from the fact that the government is con stantly expropriating big farms and ranches and divid ing them up among the pea sants. It also may stem from the fact that the National Rev olutionary Party is firmly in control of the political situa tion and usually polls around 70 per cent of all the votes. There are two reasons why communism is not a serious factor in Mexico. The govern ment has moved to the left so far and so fast that Marxism has little to offer that Mexico already has not achieved. The second factor is that, while there is separation of church and state; Mexico is more than 90 per cent Catholic. Mexico is tough on Communists. In 1959 the government jailed 29 C o m m unists for fomenting wildcat strikes. They are still in jail. Two Russian diplomats have been expelled. There is no hesitancy in seizing the Soviet diplomatic pouches if the government suspects there is some monkey business going on. The Medical Roundup Emerltui Consultant In Me die In Mayo Clinic Emerltui Professor of Medicln Mayo clinic (Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1963) Mm Hemorrhoids Cured Painlessly By Non-Surgical Method The non-iutRical, electronic method for treatment of Hem orrhoids (Piles) developed by doctors of the Beal-Oliver Sandy Blvd. Clinic has been so successful and permanent in nature that the following pol icy is offered their patients: "After all symptoms of Hem orrhoids . . . have sultsided and the patient has been dis charged, if he should ever have a recurrence, all further treat- moots will be given without additional fee." I PHtients evperieme little, if i any pain. Their treatment re quires no hospitalization and does not employ drugs or in jections. Write today for a free, de scriptive booklet, yours without obligation: The Deal-Oliver Sandy Blvd. Clinic, Chiroprac tic l'hvsicians, 2026 N.K. Sandy Blvd., Portland 12, Ure. Great Changes in Character Due to Illness Sometimes people are made very happy when I remark that a big stroke, c even a small one that was not rec ognized when it came, or a h i g lily toxic goiter, or some other bodily illness, could greatly have changed I a close rcla- Alvaret tive's charac ter and personality. '. 'me and time again, I have relieved a woman's mind and caused her to weep with happiness, when I told her that her moth er's great change in behavior toward her in the old lady's last few months or years was due to a little stroke, which injured her brain but did not paralyze a muscle anywhere. I'll never forget the tre mendous gratitude a woman showed me when I told her that her formerly beloved sis ter's great change In attitude toward her before her death, was obviously due to a men tal disturbance that had been brought about through poi soning of Ihc bruin by a high ly toxic goiter. The woman burst Into tears and said, "Oh . how happy you have- made me, becnusc now I know that her awful behavior toward me was due purely to the serious poisoning that result ed from the lump in her neck." I was induced to write this column by reading a letter 1 just received from a woman who said that some years ago her mother, who hud always been so loving and so kind, had suddenly turned Bguinst her, and then until her death had kept persecuting her with a malignant type of cruelty. The unhappy daughter Just couldn't understand It, and it particularly distressed her because eventually she came to loathe her mother. Daughter Distressed After the mother died, the d iughter kept being distress ed by the thought that she Hiould never have let herself hale her mother. Then one day I remurked Hint it was not at all surprising Hint the mother had behaved so hate fully, because the change In her hud come with a "little stroke" which hud destroyed one of the best parts of her brain. With this, the young wom an said, All my old love now comes flooding back. How I wish I could sec my mother for five minutes to tell her I now understand and forgive." This is one of the sadde.it things about some deaths. I remember reading that the great Thomas C'arlyle was broken hearted when his wife Jeanie died, because he could not gel her back for even five minutes lo tell her what he hadn't told her often enough during her lifetime - that he loved her very much. Another woman I know had bitter words with her father Just before he committed sui cide, and as a result, for the rest of her life she wished she could have five minutes with him In which to apolo gize for what she had said in anger. I know of another woman who would give anything to have her husband back for five minutes for an apology. She was the president of a temperance society. Imagine her wrath when one night she heard a noise, and seeing thai her husband had left his bed, she went to the kitchen and found him there taking a big slug of whiskey. This so en raged her that she gave him a terrible tongue lashing. He said nothing and went back to bed. In the morning she found him dead. Then her doctor said, "But didn't he tell you that for weeks he had been suffering tortures with a terrible pain in his chest which had been left by a heart attack, and we found that alcohol was the only drug that somewhat re lieved Ills pain?" The wife sold, "No, he never said a word to me about any illness." For years after that death, I knew that poor woman, and how desperately unluippy she was because she so wanted to apologize to her husband and couldn't. The subtle changes which Indicate mental problems may be better understood by persons who have read Dr. Alvarez' little booklet, "When Mental Illness Strikes a Family." It may be obtained by sending 25 cents and a self-addressed, rtamped envelope with your request for it. Address Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, The Register and Tribune Syn dicate. Dept. M.MT. Box 957, Des Moines 4. Iowa. Nephrotic Children Can Live As many worried parents know, nephrosis is a chronic kidney disease in which (usu ally a child pas-rs large amounts of album!, in his urine and perhaps swells up all over with dropsy." Par cn'.o want to kno what chaiH the child has of sur vival. I recently read an abstract of an article on 124 children with nephrosis, written by G. C. Arneil of England. What is hopeful is that tliew chil dren were "followed up" for from i to 29 years. Many were treated wilh antibiotics, corticotropin, cortisone and prednisolones. The doctors came to expect a recovery rate of 75 per cent. The au thors advise that the children be kept under treatment con Mexicans enjoy freedom of speech, press and religion. The constitution has gone through several changes since 1824 and can be amended any time by a two-thirds vote of both houses of parliament. Women won the right to vote in 1953. Persons who are married can vote at the age of 21. To say that Mexico is not communistic does not mean that it hasn't borrowed some ideas from the Marxist book. The government believes in the principle of the nationaliz ation of industry and among others, now owns the rail roads, the telegraph company, the electricity and water sys tems and the petroleum in dustry. Labor laws are strict and the unions are powerful. Man agement is compelled to nego tiate with labor. Contracts run for two years and in the past the wage increases ran as high as 25 per cent on each new contract. Now they are down to around 12 per cent. There is a social security system supported by equal contribu tions by labor, management and the government, A work er can retire at 65 at 60 per cent of his salary for the last five years, and the social se curity system provides hos pitalization and medical care. Taxes Paid Monthly Income taxes are paid monthly and persons earning $40 or less per month are ex empt. The scale then starts upward from 16 cents a month to $1,952 for a person earning $5,600 per month. Corporate taxes vary consid erably according to the type of business, but usually are around 33 per cent maximum. But it is the redistribution of land that is the hot politi cal issue in Mexico. It has the overwhelming support of the nation and the government is proceeding full steam ahead. The present administration has taken over more than 26 million acres under the pro gram. It is a complicated process under which the owner of a large tract of land has an al ternative of selling it to the government or taking equiv alent amount of land else where in the nation. The gov ernment then gives the land to the peasants under the "ejido" system. Some ejidos are communal property, that is, the town has the title to the land. Others are divided and an individual title given to each farmer. Either way, the farmer chooses the crop he will raise and pockets the proceeds. There are, of course, independent farmers who have owned their own land for years. Good and Bad Overall, how is Mexico do ing under its social set-up? Like all other nations, good and bad. Her principal prob lem is an exploding popula tion which makes it necessary to provide 300,000 new jobs' a year. School houses are be ing built at an average rate of two a day, but can't keep up with the flood of new pu pils. Mexico has a hard time feeding herself and suffers from a chronic unfavorable balance of trade-she has to import more than she can ex port. On the plus side she has a stable currency, a good repu tation for paying her debts and resources that have not yet been fully developed. And, barring natural death, her presidents now can be certain of serving out the full term. Next! What the Mexican think about Americans. PRE-INVENTORY STOCK REDUCTION & SALE NEW AND USED TYPEWRITERS Underwood Olivetti Royal Smrth'Corona Re wing ton NEW ADDING MACHINES HAND 79.50 plus tax ELECTRIC 83.73 to 159.50 M.nuf.ctured in USA SEE THEM t TRY THEM AT VOIGHT'S 8th & Grape Reddy Kilowatt had a busy year serving you in Pacific Powerland DELIVERIES OF ELECTRICITY SET NEW RECORD In 1962, PP&L customers used 7.4 billion kilowatt hours-400 million more than the previous year. 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