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1A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon Thursday, Decengyr I, )9fi I Can't Help Thinking How Much This Looks Like the Old Frontier, Jack" NOTHING SPECIAL i (W. B. S.) Q We're not too hep on our Oregon history :and politics as yet, so we can't help but wonder 'at the recent news stories about the action of iacting governor Walter Pearson in pardoning :'a criminal serving a life term for murder. The news stories didn't come right out and say so, but there appeared more than the ; usual Interest In the political ramifications that surround the event. Historically, we would guess that the case is more than a little significant, too. Of considerable significance to us is that this case again highlights the cheap cost of murder. A seven-year "hitch" for murder hardly seems like punishment at all. And this case is even more unusual, because the crimi nal did not maintain the most savory record even while he was in prison. We're puzzled, too, by the fact that the tate board of pardons did not recommend Dissidents we have with us always and President-elect Kennedy was no exception while he was conducting his campaign. In Louisiana and Mississippi Kennedy ran into opposition from five hard-bitten Democratic . t ...i . . ..ifi -House memoers, veieiana ui many a vaiui Hill battle. These defectors campaigned against his election. .. Behind the scenes in Washington a move . is afoot now to purge the quintet from posts of legislative power for not seeing eye-to-eye : with the rest of the party. : Discipline for party, disloyalty is given yas the cause, but the roots go deeper. The (five are In posts of influence on powerful House committees and close supporters of '. Kennedy fear that the defectors could erect ' major roadblocks to the new administra l tion's legislative program. Whether or not the purge finally comes . off rests with House Speaker Sam Rayburn : .of Texas. He recently was in conference with Kennedy and Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson at the latter's Texas ranch. Principal objective of the purge is re ; 'moval of Rep. William M. Colmer of Mississip- ' f i ji. 11 T . . 1 0-:4l TUi . pi irom me nouse nuius iiuiiuiuuet;. una - mtAim Mti m -.ivf ft lnrl Yt a t-tnatif inn nf frill r Republicans and two southern Democrats and Program ; We have noticed in several news stories rln the Herald and News that the Red Cross is : ' about to conduct a campaign for whole blood donation. A "bloodmobile" will be in Klam ' ath Falls Dec. 5, 6 and 7 to implement the : program. ; We are hopeful that area citizens will respond to the request of the Red Cross and I send the campaign over the top to a large de- gree. The success of the program is assured ;'to a degree with groups at Klngsley Field ': and OTI pledging their support. But, we citizens of the area should not fail to recognize our duty here. As Individ ;:uals, we should donate our blood and help V-the Red Cross achieve the distinction of ex ceeding their quota in this area. Their re ;j QUESTIONS i AND i ANSWERS Q Who was the inspiration for ..Robert Browning's poem "Rabbi Ben :'.Ezra?" A Ezra Ibn, Jewish author. ;j Q Why was ammonia water once referred to as spirits of hartshorn? 0 A This name originated in the ancient method of making ammonia - stags, In closed vessels. Q What kind of a tree is a banyan ; tree? A A native Indian species of fig tree. Q Whet breed of cattle holds the milk producing record and what breed the butlerfat record? A The Holstein Fricsian cattle produce much more milk. The milk of tho .Tnrcnu rmu mint nine i iiinlmt kul. terfat conte Murder Comes Cheap release of the murderer, but the acting gov ernor went ahead anyway which is his right, of course. Had the hoard recommended pardon, we would have considered it just another Instance of our muddle-headed approach to criminal punishment. We have laws imposing heavy sentences for criminal acts, but our penal in stitutions are hardly more than private clubs for inmates. And the people who operate and control them are more conceded with starry eyed "reform" than they are with dispensing justice. Murderers, rapists, known sex deviates, hardened criminals nowdays hardly hear the prison door clang shut before they are out to resume their nefarious ways. We are hopeful that the recent case does not fall in this category. But we are not encouraged. In fact, there is a bit of a smell about the whole incident. O Recipe For A Hassle has almost dictatorial powers to clear orlock House bills. Rayburn had difficulty controlling this0 committee in the last session of Congress, and he is reported determined to change that. Others over whom the ax is poised are Rep. Otto Passman, Louisiana, head of the House Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommit tee; Rep. Jamie L. Whitten, Mississippi, chairman of the House Appropriations sub committee which handles farm funds; Rep. John Bell Williams, second-ranking Democrat on the House Commerce Committee, and Rep. Arthur Winstead, Mississippi, member of the House Armed Services Committee. Williams says he doubts a purge will take place, but added: "We realized we were taking a calculated risk." Disciplinary action, if any, will come when the new Congress convenes in January. If committee assignments are stripped from these five, it will be the first lime in 36 years (Progressive Bob LaFollette's campaign of 1924) that cilher party in the House has brok en the cherished seniority rule on which ap- pointments are based. In any event, the "calculated risk" is cer tain to stir acrimonious discussion in the leg islative and executive hierarchy from now until inauguration. Deserves Support quests are modest, and the need Is great. , As a matter of fact, more blood is shipped into the Klamath area from outside sources than we furnish the Red Cross. That is one important 'reason why we should respond and take up some of the slack at this time. Many people think that the Red Cross charges a fee for the blood administered through their program. Not so. There is a slight service fee that actually is nothing but a charge for gathering and processing the whole blood. It is only a fraction of what such a charge would be on a commercial basis. The important thing to remember here is that whole blood is always desperately need ed by the Red Cross. Certainly, the least we can do is lend our individual support to the program. 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WILLIAM L. LANCER Professor of History, Harvard University One of a series of cas -In-read condensations from chap ters written by eminent Ameri can aulhoritics for book publi cation by Prentice-Hall with the report from President Eisen hower's Commission on Nation al Goals. Edited by Ray Crnm-. ley for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Copyright 1960, the Amer ican Assembly.) In Africa it has been the policy of the United States to recognise the preponderant role of the for mer colonial powers who. because oi Ihe magnitude of the tusk, should be encouraged fo continue and even increase (heir contribu tions. -But Ihe lime has clearly come for the United Slides to assume a larger responsibility, either di rectly or through the United Na tions. It should be the goal of the United Slates not only to fore stall military aggression against the African slates but also to supKrt them in resisting undue pressure of a political or econom ic kind. The Communist slales have al ready established footholds and are exerting their influence wher ever possible. It therefore be hooves the United States to for mulate without delay a compre hensive, long-term olicy, the purpose of which would !e to as sist the African slates in organ izing an effective system of gov ernment and administra! ion and to give adequate technical and Other Editors' Opinions Hoffa's Lives (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) Not long ago. James Riddle (loffa. boss of the sprawling Teamsters Union, seemed to be on the run. Some of the most unsavory goons in American un ionism then were passing bclore an aroused nation during Ihe tele vised Congressional hearings. But lloffa has k"pl his grip on Ihe nation's largest union. Indeed, the roles of ur8 are reversed: THEY SAY... The Iron Curiam has been lifted to some extent. If Khrushchev lost his job tomorrow, who would we get in his place? The experts know of no other man m Russia who would be as moderate Inward the West as Khrushchev. . . , We could get a lot worse than this man H, Roger Tatarian, managing editor of I PL If high olfici.il of Ihe U. S. government are st'cgesting. im plying or slating generally that Ihe Soviet Union is encaged in nuclear testing now, ilion the American people have a right to know of any evidence ol such testing. en. Hubert lliimpitf ID Minn.). o o o Report Urges Bigger U.S. Role In Africa Situation financial aid so to enable them not only to establish a reasonably sound economy, but also lo make some progress in education and social well-being. In the uncertainty that is bound to persist for some time, the Unit ed States should try to foresee and mitigate territorial and other dis putes between the new states and if possible negotiate internation al agreements regulating the sup ply of armaments so as to obvi ate the need for huge and dan gerous military outlays. It should also encourage the formation of regional groupings which would eliminate or reduce territorial claims and counter claims and at the same time pin vide for sounder economies through the creation of larger communications systems and broader markets. In those pails of Africa where there has been large-scale settle ment by Europeans there is an ever-present danger of violent race conflict. The whites are ev erywhere in a minority, being only about one-fifth of Ihe total population even in the Union of South Africa. It would appetir hopeless in present world condi tions for such minorities to con tinue their discrimination against the majority and persist in their attempt to keep it permanently in subjugation. Racial war is cer tain to ensue and would surely have serious repercussions throughout the world. The United States must there fore use what influence it has In encourage and support such ra cial readjustments as may seem essential. With understanding and a readi- he is in the saddle today and his opponents arc in disarray because of the inadequacy of the nation's labor laws. He has accomplished this turna bout, ironically, by using the law to his own advantage. A suit against him by a group of rank-and-file Teamsters, charging that his election to the union presi dency was rigged, resulted in a consent decree in January. I!i"i9. Hoffa agreed to clean up Ihe Teamsters under the scrutiny of a three-man board of monitors appointed by U.S. District Judge F. Dickinson Letts. No sooner had Hoffa made this agreement than he sought ways around it. A battery of Teamster attorneys lied the monitors in knots, fash ioning an appall.ng snarl of ap peal and counter-appeal. The case against Hoffa hogged down in legalistic trench warfare, until just recently the Teamsters scored a breakthrough. By a vole of two to one. Ihe U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the un ion could veto appointment of a chairman of Ihe monitors "on reasonable grounds " The ruling, in effect, makes the mnnitnrship a toothless watchdog. But this victory raises a ques tion that goes beyond the fate of the monitoiship. How did Holla become so powerful in -the tust place'' Because labor union- ie specifically exempted fiom anti trust laws and Iherclore enjoy monojxily power denied husinvss and industry. Such unrestrained power inevitably breeds corrup tion. Union corruption will flour ish, and the Hofl.is will survive legal .tfsaults. until Congress strikes at Ihe root of the evil. ness to accommodate, the whites of Africa could, with their great er education, experience and re sources, still play a prominent and effective role. Difficult though the transition might be for them, they will be well advised to ac cept the racial equality towards which Ihe pressure of events is leading the slates of the new Africa. The continent of Africa is bound to be a center of turbulence in world affairs for years to come, if only because European control of vast areas is being relinquished quite suddenly and new, indepen dent states are emerging more or less pell mell. The difficulties inherent in any such precipitate transformation are enhanced in the case of Afri ca by the fact that the population, poor and illiterate, is still living for the most part on a tribal bas is. Trained and experienced leader ship is almost entirely lacking and many of the new states, as successors to arbitrarily defined European colonies, lack the tradi tions and characteristics of real nationality. The leaders almost without exception have exagger ated hopes and expectations of progress and proserity. These new states cannot defend themselves unaided against a ma jor power. They are now and will for a long time be dependent on the financial and technical sup port of more advanced nations. To date such assistance has come to the new states primarily from their former masters, the British and Ihe French, who have been providing about a billion dollars annually in public and pri vate investment. Both Britain and France are prepared to continue their programs of support, though perhaps at a reduced rate. The question is whether the newly in dependent states will accept such aid. If not, it may prove more practicable to provide the large scale economic and technical as sistance required through the Unit ed Nations. AI manac By United Press International Today is Thursday. Dec. 1. the 3.Wth day of the year with 30 more in 10. The moon Is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Mercury and Mars. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day In history: In 1873. at Fifth Avenue Thea ter in New York. Arthur Sullivan conducted the score ot H M.S. Pinafore for the first time. In 1917. Father Flanagan found ed Boys Town, the "City of Little Men'' near Omaha. Neb., with a fund of less than $100 In 1919. the first woman in the British Parliament took her seat as American-born Lady Nancy Astor was sworn into the House of Commons. In 1924. at Liberty Theater in New York, the curtain went up on the first performance of "Lady Be Good'' with music by Geish win A thought for lodav . The GrteK philosopher Plato said: "Undr the influence either of poverty or ot wealth, workmen and their work are equally liable to degenerate." Here's a headline that appeared in one of the slate's most-respected newspapers the other day: "MANLESS WORLD RULED BY SUPERWOMEN ENVISIONED" Then the story went on to re late how the British Medical As sociation's magazine claimed that the time may come when a race of superwomen will rule a man less world. Girls, this set me to thinking. And I find it hard to accept that situation. I'm thinking of the typi cal la femme fatale organization and the complexities thereof. Viz: "Girls, girls, come to order please. Please stop talking. G-I-R-L-S! I have rapped three limes. There, that's better. This is an important meeting. We have had two other meetings lo elect officers and no one will serve. We will have to elect officers or else disband this club. Is that your wish? No, I didn't think it was. I have said over and over again that I will not be president again. No. Alicia, I will not reconsider. "Now, the meeting will come to order. Do we have a report from the nominating committee? Well, of course, there was a nom inating committee. Janis was chairman. And Jean and Marta were on it, too. Oh, you couldn't get anyone to run for any of the offices? Whatever will we do? We have to do this right, that is, according to the rules. We paid $3 of the club money for a book telling us how to run our meet ings, and to get our money's worth we have to do as the book says. "I'll tell you what we'll do. Will the secretary please call the roll, and we can see who Isn't here. If we elect someone who isn't here, she can't say no not today, anyway. "Well, that's a help. Five aren't here. That's the way I was elect edwhen I wasn't at the meet ing. Let's see. I jotted down the names as Betty read them: Nan cy, Carolyn. Gloria, Kay and Sal ly aren't here. Which one would make a good president? Nancy? No, she said she positively wouldn't have it. Her husband said he would divorce her if she took the job. Carolyn? She has too many children. Why, she can hardly ever get to meetings. Glo ria would make a good one, but she is already president of three other clubs. That leaves Kay and Sally. Kay works, so that leaves her out. I guess it has to be Sally. Did the nominating com mittee ask her? She was away? Well, she's home now, and she hasn't said absolulley not. Will somebody nominate Sally? That's fine. Sally is nominated and the nominations are closed. All those in favor of Sally for president? Opposed? Sally has been unani mously elected. Well, that didn't take long. "Now, let's see. Who can we THE DOCTOR SAYS . . . No Such Thing As 'Biliousness' By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. The words "bilious" and "bil iousness" ought to he thrown out of our language. They're often (Used to describe conditions with which bile has nothing to do. I must have a dozen or more letters on my desk requesting suggestions for the relief of "bil iousness" and I'm quite sure that, in each instance, the writer's true complaint could be more ac curately described as a feeling of being "blue" or "down-in-the-mouth." Perhaps an explanation of what bile is and what it does will help you to sieer clear of these mis leading expressions. The human liver normally man ufactures between a pint and a quart of bile each day. When food enters the stomach, especially af ter a fat meal, bile flows into the intestines. Between meals, for the most part, bile is stored in the gall bladder which is about the size and shape of a lady's chanie purse. Thus the path of hiie flow is from liver directly to in testines or trom liver to gall blad der to intestines. Never, under any circumstances, Qfci anyone suffer from an ex cessive bile secretion i "bilious ness"1. Never, except when the flow of bile is shut off by an obstruc tion, does anyone suffer from a deficiency of bile And never, under any circum stances, does due bile get into get for vice president? No, I said 1 wouldn't run. Why don't you, Janis? Well, what if you arc on the nominating committee? You didn't nominate yourself, did you? The vice president doesn't have much to do. Of course, you wouldn't have to be president next year. Anne was vice presi dent this year, but she didn't be come the president. You will, Jan is? Wonderful! Now we have two officers. It really isn't so hard. "Now, secretary, Qon't you take it on again, Juily? You won't? What will we do? None of the rest of us can do that. The secretary has t h most work. Oh, I know girls. Dorothy Brown has been dying for an invitation tu join our club, and she would make a goud secretary. She writes for the paper. Is everyone in favor of asking Dorothy to join our club? Opposed? Dnrothy is member. Judy, will you write her a note and tell her she is a member of the club, and that she has been elected secretary. We are really doing all right. "The only office left is th treasurer. Thai's not so hard be cause we hardly ever have any money. Has anyone any ideas? Nancy? But, she can't even add. Won't you take it, Jean? You can always figure out who owes who when we go shopping togeth er. I know you are on the nomin ating committee. I'll dissolve tha nominating committee right now. Of course you can be treasurer. Did we have the treasurer's re port? $5.47. There, you should ba able to take care of (hat. You will? What a relief to have- all the officers, and it really wasn't too hard. Is there any other busi ness? Let's adjourn, then, and the hostess will serve lunch. I was in Ihe kitchen, and the des sert looked too divine." There, there, girls,. Don't taks It too hard. But I just wondered il that wasn't the kind of superwom an the British magazine had in mind. I must admit that I've tak en part in some committees of men people that would make the strongest man break down and cry. 'And that reminds me that I've heard that a committee consists of one man to bring in the mi nority report, one man to do Ihe work, and three others to pat him on the back. And just to show that men don't know it all, cither, I'm gonna tell the story about Ihe meeting that was being held at the church house in a small, rural communi ty to consider the purchase of a chandelier. Midway in the pro ceedings, an old fellow stood up and announced himself "agin" it. "In the first place," he said, "wa can't none of us spell it. In tha second place, we can't none of us play it. AND, in the third place, we need some new light fixtures a lot worse than we need a chan delier!" Who started this, anyway? the blood. Even when a person is jaundiced, the yellow colora tion is due to pigments contained in the bile. Not to bile itsell. Perhaps you will now under stand why I say that there is no pomt in trying to stimulate Ilia liver to increase or reduce tha flow of bile or to alter the char acter of bile secretion. The best way to stimulate tha gall bladder lo expel its content of bile is to include a little butter or cream with the meal. The question of gallstones was discussed in another column. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "What About Hardening of the Arteries?" send 10 cents In Dr. Hyman. care Herald and News. Box 4R!l. Dept. B. Radio City Station, New York 19. N.Y. Thoughts Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Hebrews 13: IB. What do we live for. if it is not to make life less difficult for each other'' George Eliot. A man's mind plans his way, b'jt the Lord directs his steps. Proverbs 16 9. Let each man think himself an act of God His mind a thought, hu life breath of God Philip J. Baiy,
