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PAGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, October 28, 1960 Mm fcdiisftial (paq& Obscenity Law Stands We are happy to see that the Oregon Su- preme Court has upheld the constitutionality ; of the 96-year-old law banning sale or dis- - trihution of obscene matter. ;: The majority opinion of the court ; pointed to a definition of the term obscenity : as established by the American Law Institute. "A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its dominant appeal is to prurient in terest, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of can dor in description or representation of such ; matters." The law is fine as far as it goes in that - respect. In too many states, however, there ; are so many loopholes in the laws that it is : practically impossible to convict any person charged with action or illegal procedure in . ; matters pertaining to obscenity and dissemi- jiation of obscene material. There is no valid argument against the ' claim that we need more stringent laws : against obscene material in practically every .state of the nation. But, all too often, the laws we have es- (ablished against "obscene" material encom jpass such a wide range of material that they :jre practically unenforceable. Too many in terests, not concerned with obscene material .'ire affected. :' Oregon's law ranges too far afield, as recently pointed out in the editorial columns of the Eugene Register-Guard. The law speci fies: (4) Prints, publishes, advertises, sells, lends, gives away or shows or has in his pos session with intent to publish, advertise, sell, lend, give away or show, any book, paper or other publication that purports to relate or narrate the criminal exploits of any desper ate or convicted felon, or any book, paper or other publication that contains accounts or stories of crime or lust or deeds of blood shed; or (5) Presents or exhibits in any public place, by way of show or drama or play, what purports to be the criminal exploits of any desperado or convicted felon, shall be punished upon conviction by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months or by a fine of not more than $500 or both. As the Register-Guard observed: "Those two paragraphs cover a lot of ground. They cover crime news. They cover many movies and plays and stories. The cover 'Treasure Island,' and 'Lee's Lieutenant' and 'Macbeth.' Unfortunately, from the "reports of the court's deliberations, the court stopped reading too soon." We agree that there is a point where regulation of obscene material becomes noth ing less than censorship. And that is the weak ness of most state laws in this regard. We are hopeful that we shall see stronger laws deal ing with obscene material that will not stray too far afield. Added Stature For.OTI ::: Of all the measures on the ballot No Jvember 8, people of Klamath County should ; take a special interest in No. 6 titled "State ' Bonds for Higher Education Facilities." This measure increases the constitution ; al limitation on the amount which the state system of higher education may borrow to construct buildings which pay for themselves. ; The measure does not provide for any increase , in taxes or, tax bases for raising this money. ; "The money would come from revenue bonds, ", on a self-liquidating basis. ; -; So much for the measure. It is evident that Oregon Technical In Institute is coming in for a great deal more of 'consideration in the state's educational pro-:- gram and planning. This was stressed when .:,Gov. Hatfield Wednesday pointed out that :f DTI would play an important role in attract ing new industry to the state by training workers for industry some of them in highly technical fields. A project to provide a new site and new facilities for OTI is well underway. Naturally, it will be some years before" the project is completed. In the meantime, however, it is . very important that citizens of the Klamath area and of the state, for that matter do everything to insure the continuity of pro- . grams that will provide necessary and ade quate facilities for our higher education sys tem. ' , Measure No. 6 is a step in that direction. Again, we state our hope that people of the Klamath area will vote favorably for measure No. 6. And, again, we repeat our hope that voters will not confuse No. 6 with No. 8 when they mark their ballot. Direction Needed -: Advocates of our free enterprise system In America face new and continuous prob lems in their efforts to perpetuate their philosophy. This fact is brought home forcefully In : 'n description of some of the attitudes of high J .'school students toward the American busi : ness system, as revealed by various polls. ;'. Substantial numbers of these students ;; well over half in' many cases think that increased productivity is not the way to im ;jprove national living standards; that better .tools mean fewer jobs, even in the long run; : that it Is better for a worker not to produce ' more than the average of his fellow workers; that the profit motive is not essential to American business; that dividends are a bur den on wages; that there is practically no competition in many basic industries. So it goes, down a long and dishearten ing list of misconceptions. We can only hope that these misconceptions are not deep rooted; that they are based on wrong infor mation, arid distortion of simple truths. But these misconceptions, if left uncorrected, will breed a deep-seated feeling of suspicion against all private business and industry. Too, it is rather frightening to think that this feeling could be carried to the voting booths a few years from now. It Is time for action a lime to drop apathy if we are to maintain the economic system and business philosophy that has cre ated the greatest nation in the world. : QUESTIONS AND ;; ANSWERS Q What causes lemmings to ml- grate periodically? A Mass migrations apparently re sult from exhaustion of their food supply. Famous Names Answer to Previout Puzzlt Q What does "Minoan Art" sig nify? A The art of ancient Crete. Q Is the Disarmament Commit ; tee a branch of the U.N.? A It's a special committee created ::to function outside the U.N. but to ;make reports to the U.N. Disarma J.'ment Commission. BARBS It seems that about the only sure way to make it rain is to drag out the garden hose. Vacation trips broaden and flatten people at the same time. A good sport is a fellow who thinks any kind of fun is worth the trouble. ACROSS 1 Good Queen 5 Comedian, Jack t Favorite animal 12 Medley 13 Italian river 14 Actress, Gardner 15 Assigning military lodging 17 Permit 18 Drawing room 19 Hunters 31 Bark of the neck 23 Legal matters 24 Ballad author 27 Franklin and Alexander 19 Famous English school 32 Bird 34 Explosive 36 Hunting dog 37 Peaceful 38 Possesses (Bib.) J9 Vended 41 Superlative sulllx 42 Lamprey 44 Vegetables 48 Tell 4V Rome- Is Its capital 6S Malt beverage 84 Steeps in seasoning 56 Assent 67 Enthusiasm 68 Was borne 69 Place Q Writing table 61 Mast DOWN 1 Hope and Crosby 2 Pen name of Charles Lamb 3 Windcw part 4 Law maker 6 Boone of TV 6 Ascended 7 British princess 8 Williams 9 Holy Land 10 Always 11 Makes lace 16 Make possible 20 Surname 22 Equals 24 Nonsenscl 26 Region Era: 26 Most unpleasant 28 Fence crossing 30 Elevator inventor SI Nectar (nb.) 33 Different 35 Decree 40 Musical dramas 43 Crippled 45 Featured performers 46 Negative vote! 47 Nautical term 48 Story 60 Upon 51 Castor's mother (myth.) 62 Belgian river 55 Willing fluid I li li U I lb Is It 14 I ID 110 111 TS 13 i4 ft iT 17 il jTjl M 24 us i p j RiV is srpr Ua Wj4 T nr n"r a 44 53 54 55 U si 3 55 a si I I I n li Gentlemen, Speaking for the Neutral Nations . . . Gold Price Speculation Stirs Market . By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK (AP)-Gold gam blers have been allowed to have their own way on the London free market. ' The U.S. Treasury has kept hands off while speculators bid the price as high as $41 an ounce $6 above the official U.S. price to which our dollar is pegged. The Bank of England has stood on the sidelines, too. So have other for eign central banks. Any of these could have burst the gambling bubble by releasing a large supply of gold to London's free market, where the small amount available has let specula tors force the price up by aggres sive bidding. The hands off policy is deliber ate. The Treasury is said to feel thai is in the best long-run inter est of the United States. The treasury doesn't like to see Any assault on the confidence in the value of the U. S. dollar, but doesn't recognize any real peril at this time or any long term threat to confidence in the dollar. Why doesn't the U. S. Treasury or the Bank of England or banks of other allies move to drop the fever chart quickly? They could do so easily and profitably. Other nations have been piling tip gold in the vaults of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. This could be transferred to London at a cost ranging from 10 to 20 cents an ounce, depending on the. size of shipment. With the free market price of gold ranging from $37 to $-11 for several days, it would have been profitable for foreign banks to fly this gold to London gold they bought for $35 from the U. S. Treasury, plus an 81 cent an ounce handling charge. Such a Hooding of Loudon's free market would have broken the price. Critics of the U. S. Treasury think this should have been done. The London Economist contends that foreign banks were dis couraged from doing this by the V. S. Treasury. The weekly thinks the Treasury should reverse its stand and "positively encourage other central banks to undertake" this way of bringing "the London THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . Vascular Disease Theories Blasted By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Theories are often of great beauty. Like bubbles, all you need to launch them is a pipe, a bit of soap and a sustained puff of air. Floating free over head, they excite admiration for their grace, perfect, roundness and play of color. Facts, on the other hand, are usually plain or downright unat tractive. To make matters worse, they're hard to come by. Often buried deep in the earth, they have to be laboriously mined over the course of years or centuries. And when and if a strike is made the yield may be small in size and ugly in appearance. Spectators are prone to admire the theorists. They put on a good show. Those who prick bubbles are apt to be called kill-joys or sour-pusses. Onlookers tend to leave them to their digging and hurry over to see the bubble blowers. These simulations are by way of introducing a fascinating study that threatens to explode some beautiful theories dealing with the origins and treatment of harden ing of the arteries, our "Number One Killer" in the alarming phrase of those who ' seek to dramatize medical practice. The study has the beauty of great simplicity. Briefly stated, it consists of observations, made by Dr. E. Perry McCullagh and his associates of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, on the com parative amount of vascular dis- market back into line." The Economist argues that "the Amer ican authorities cannot ignore Hie psychological effect of the dollar premium on gold in London." Supporters of the hands-off policy argue intervention would harm rather than cure. They hold that a direct move to burst the gold price bubble would show to the world how worried the U. S. Treasury is about the value of the dollar, and thus merely encourage those who are gambling that sooner or later the United Slates must devalue the dollar by raising the gold price. ease exhibited by Trappist monks and by Clevelanders in the same age group. At the monasteries of Our Lady of Gethsemane, in Kentucky, and of St. Joseph's Abbey, in Massa chusetts, the Trappists "lead a contemplative life in silence, and eat no meat, fish, fowl or eggs, almost no butter and cheese." From their entry into the monastery until death, they live a peaceful life that includes daily exercise, chiefly in the form of farm labor. At St. Joseph's, the average daily diet of each monk yields a little more than 2,000 calories, mostly derived from sugars (car bohydrates), proteins of daily ori gin and small amounts of fat (about two ounces). The average daily intake of milk is a little more than a pint and of butter a little more than a teaspoonful (6.5 grams). In the opinion of resident monk - physicians, their brothels do not use more than the average amount of salt in cooking or at table. ( Here then are all the ingredi ents for the treatment, not the development, of vascular hyper tension. Withdrawal from world tensions. Peace. Quiet. Days given over to study, contempla tion and prayer. Retirement at 7 in the winter and 8 in the summer. Outdoor exercise. A diet low in calories and animal fat. No tobacco. No eggs. No econom ic worries. No taxes. And the results! Despite blood cholesterol concentrations lower than those of the Clevelanders, "the data suggest that arterial hypertension is more frequent in them (the Trappists) than in oth er men of the same age in the American population generally." Moreover, better than half of the monks showed significant artcri osclorotic changes in the visible vessels back of the eye. Looks like the nasty doctor may have burst some pretty bub bles! For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "What About Hardening of the Arteries?" send 10 cents to Dr. llyman. care Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B. Radio City Station. New York 19. N Y. Candidates Accelerate Name-Calling Tactics By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP)-The pres. idential candidates have followed two main themes from the begin ning of the campaign. This is Nixon's: Kennedy is a young nov ice on a man's errand. ' This is Kennedy's: Look out for Nixon. Their problem has been how to say the same thing differently. Now that the campaign is enter ing its final two weeks Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy are finding no trouble at all in expressing them selves. Kennedy started on his beware-of-Nixon program last July 15 in his acceptance speech by saying the vice president's political ca reer has often "seemed to show charity toward none and malice for all." Nixon laid the groundwork for picturing Kennedy as an imma ture and not too clear-headed youngster in his own acceptance speech on July 28. He accused his opponent then of being "rash and impulsive" for suggesting Presi dent Eisenhower might have ex pressed regrets to Russia for the U2 spy plane episode. The political conventions were hardly history before Kennedy on Aug. 1 was accusing Nixon of a "lack of basic beliefs." This may have nettled Nixon who said Kennedy was "following the low road." He said he would never "indulge in personalities" although some of the things he has been saying about Kennedy since look mighty personal. Their first TV debate on Sept. 27 was almost a study in the brotherhood of man, with Nixon politely agreeing with Kennedy (for which Republicans criticized him) and Kennedy treating Nixon like a highly respected old com rade from the Senate. They got moving by the time of the second debate on Oct. 7. Apparently stung by the com . plaints from his own ranks, Nix on's first words were, "First of all, I don't agree with Sen. Ken nedy." Pretty soon he was accusing Kennedy of "woolly thinking" on the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He must have liked the word "woolly" to describe Kennedy. Ha has repeated it. By the fourth debate on Oct. 21 Nixon went a step beyond his earlier remarks. He said Ken nedy's ideas on handling Fidel Castro's Cuba were "probably the most dangerously irresponsible recommendations that have been made in the campaign." Kennedy, for some reason best known to himself and his ad visers, contented himself with saying little beyond suggesting Nixon was being "inaccurate." This mildness and restraint was just a passing phase. With the campaign heading toward a fin ish, look at what they've been saying these past few days. Nixon has accused Kennedy of being "woolly and fuzzy" in his thinking on Castro, of making "immature, rash and dangerous" statements, and of offering "im pulsive leadership." He described Kennedy as a man who doesn't "know the situation and who says one thing today and another thing tomorrow." Just in case anyone might sus pect he was running out of things to say, Nixon predicted: "These are the two weeks in which people make up their minds. Whatever has happened up to this point, you haven't seen anything yet." Kennedy has gone beyond call ing Nixon inaccurate. He accuses him of "distortions" and said the Republican party can count on Nixon "to lead its wrecking crew on Social Security." And the senator, complaining that Nixon wanls to limit a fifth TV debate to a discussion of Cuba instead of a broad discussion on domestic and foreign affairs, said: "This is another indication of the fact that he would rather debate with mimeograph ma chines and telegrams than face to face." Other Editor's Opinions (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE) The Post-Gazette series on mi grant labor brings into dramatic focus the fact that a great and theoretically enlightened state, Pennsylvania, allows thousands of men, women and children to be exploited like beasts of burden. In a well-documented report, Frank M. Matthews, Harrisburg Correspondent of the Post-Gazette, has brought out: That between 6,000 and 7,000 Southern Negroes and Puerto Kic ans are brought North in rickety vehicles to work on Pennsylvania Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of the year with 64 more in 1960. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 16.16, Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts. In 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. In 1918, the Czechoslovak na tional committee in Prague pro claimed the establishment of the Republic of Czechoslovakia and the independence of the new na tion from Hapsburg control. In 1919, the Senate passed the Volstead Prohibition Act over (he veto of President Woodrow Wil son. In 1922, blackshirted Italian fas cists set out on their march on Rome. Thought for today: French poet Alphonsc de Lamartine said: "Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens." farms from July to October for starvation wages. They "arrive broke and leave broke," Mr. Matthews reports, wilh the pittances they earn in "stoop-labor" going into the "com pany store" operated by the la bor recruiter who brings them North. That it isn't uncommon to see an eight-year-old working in a field, his legs wrapped in gunny sacking or an old inner tube to protect them from thistles. That Pennsylvania has no mini mum wage law for agriculture workers, no minimum age law ap plicable to children working in ag riculture and no unemployment compensation for which migrants can qualify. What schooling children of mi grant workers obtain is made available by charitable funds and this source of financial aid ap peals to be di-ying up. The Stale Public Welfare De partment operates four day-care centers for migrant children up to 14 but there is nothing for youngsters of these workers in six counties. Efforts of the Slate Labor and Industry Department resulted in the closing of a number of aban doned barns and chicken houses which migrant laborers had called "home." Now they have such "luxuries" as screens, a water spigot for as many as 20 people and eight by ten-foot cubicles in which as many as eight persons live. Last year the House approved a legislative package to better con ditions of migrant laborers but tha Republican senators, ears at tuned to wishes of farmers who elect them, killed all of it except payment of $1 a day to local school districts for each migrant pupil. But what need the S?nate care, for. as Mr. Matthews concludes: "The migrant is the landless farmer, the voteless citizen, tha voiceless stoic ..." NNPOPSC LOOSE AGAIN! . . No Pollster -He Advises Christmas Shopping Early By PICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON il'IM Most of the political polls I have seen recently indicate that the presi dential contest is so close it could be a landslide cither way. This, I must say, conflicts wilh the soundings I have taken as founder and sole proprietor of the Nosey Nellie Public Opinion Poll ing and Sampling Co. My own findings lead me to predict that the election will end in a scoreless lie. I base this prediction on a questionnaire I sent out recently asking my waders to designate their choice for president. The re sponse to this request was so overwhelmingly apathetic that I was forced to conclude thai no body is going to vote (his year. As far as I know, I am the only pollster who has detected this groundswcll of ennui. So if both candidates chalk up a big round zero next month, remem ber that I had it exclusively. Hut regardless of the outcome, I intend to retire from the (Hill ing business, which is at best a precarious occupation. From now on. I plan to devote my attention to my early bird Christmas shop ping service. I take the position that Santa Clans is more reliable than poli ticians. A few days ago, in an effort to get this new venture off the ground, I passed along some gift suggestions I had gleaned from gift shoppe mail order catalogs. And now I am ready with a new report aimed at solving that per ennial problem of what to give "the man who has everything " The ideal Xmas gilt for "the man who has everything" would be something that hasn't been in vented yet. I realize, however, that this suggestion isn't entirely practical. As the next best thing, I slopped by the U.S. Patent Of fice and purchased a copy of its "Official Gazette," which lists things that have been invented but aren't on the market yet. Since you can't buy them, it's safe to assume that your "man who" doesn't have one. This ought to make your shopping easier. I'll bet. for instance, that he doesn't have a toothbrush with a water tank and faucet on the han dle. Here's how it would work: When he finished brushing, he would pre.- the handle and water would squirt into his mouth, thus combining brushing and rinsing in one operation. Or how about an electric eraser and suction machine (or his desk? It not only erases but vacuum cleans the paper afterwards. For the man who has every thing, including children. I wouid suggest a "baby walker." It looks like a piece of horseshoe-shaped plywood with two slots at the top and bottom. When both hold to the slots, lather can walk baby around without either falling dow n. Finally, I would recommend a "(iltered pillow," which is stuffed with a porous materia! that lets the air through. It seems particu larly appropriate for the man who sleeps face down.
