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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
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(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-
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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.
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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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and (ood fish
8 fish
8 Chevin
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1.1 Poem
14 Ai this plan
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33 feminine
appellation
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.18 Kcjuals
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41 Pinky
42 Natue of Rome
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51 Shovhonean
Indians
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53 Oriental
appellation
54 Pause
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quimper
4 Revokes
a grant
5 Jester
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7 Small tumor
8 tiladdens
9 Sheejv
10 Constellation
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20 Tercolale
slowly
22 Coad
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25 Verbal
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GOALS FOR AMERICANS
1
By DR. 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,