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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 18, 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
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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. In the middle
years of the 19th century
every army officer who could
muster 100 men considered
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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.
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DELIVERIES OF ELECTRICITY SET NEW RECORD
In 1962, PP&L customers used 7.4 billion kilowatt hours-400
million more than the previous year. Reddy Kilowatt is doing more
jobs than ever before to bring you the comfort and convenience of
modern electric living.
$40-MILLI0N IN CONSTRUCTION LAST YEAR
And PP&L's long-range program calls for $58-million more in con
struction during 1963. This action program is geared to produce
and deliver vital electric energy whenever and wherever you need
it in Pacific Powerland.
ANNUAL PAYROLL REACHES $26 MILLI0N IN 62!
Operation and construction activities throughout the PP&L sys
tem provide a major payroll for hundreds of men and women who
live and work here in Pacific Powerland. Their paychecks mean
more business for the widespread area PP&L serves.
$10,825,000 IN LOCAL AND STATE TAXES!
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