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Let's All Play 'Find The Mandate' HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Dregon Wedaesdiy, De. II, IK The Old Philosopher ' m We missed it, and we shouldn't have. The occasion of the observance of the Bill of Rights Day last Thursday, Dec; 15. It was so declared by Gov. Hatfield, and a few conscientious persons throughout the state sought to make every citizen aware of this precious docu ment, and its historical and social significance. In part, Gov. Hatfield said in his procla mation: "... It is my hope that Oregonians will commemorate the sacred principles which are embodied in our Bill of Rights. In this commemoration we should pledge ourselves to a continuation of our efforts to secure these rights as a living reality for all Ameri cans and for all peoples of the world." . Better late then never, we say. So we are presenting here today the Bill of Rights, as provided in the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and be coming effective Dec. 15, 1791. We invite your study of this remarkable document. 1. Right to freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition. Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of re ligion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peace ably to assemble, and to petition the Govern ment for a redress of grievances. 2. Right to keep and bear arms. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the se curity of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, -shall not be in fringed. ...... .' 3. Rights on quartering of soldiers. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. . 4. Right against unreasonable search and seizure. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describ ing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. a 5. Right to protection of persons and property. No person shall be held to answer . for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, M Which Proves The J. T. Orange was far out. There wa tea. And sky. And the boat. We had run north out of the Jack Tar Marina in Grand . Bahama early. Now it was noon nd there was nothing. No fish. No life. Under the boat was a . million square miles of blue Ink with a parade of white feathers cross It. There was' a sky full af lumpy sculptor's tlay. - Far to the south there was a thin gold band of sunlight on the sea and, in the west, three chif fon curtains of rain ,hung still. Cuba Rolle slit the little bally-' hod and inserted hooks and sewed the fish so that they would drag behind the boat like live fish. He sewed two big hooks inside a half mullet and tossed the steel wire line, over the back. The en gines snorted and bubbled slow ly and Cuba said he would have to find a woman at the Blue Mar tin Club that night. ' Steve Hollingsworth laughed. He was at the wheel. There is something amusing about ro mance to Bahama Negroes. When it is mentioned, they laugh and llap their thighs and throw their heads up and the whitest teeth come from the darkest skin. Steve Is a good boat captain and he has a fleck of gray on his side burns. Cuba is a bigger man and he is a boat captain too, but he was serving as a mate to sail with ,me. He got the outriggers out and . ran the clothespins up and then ' he weighted the inboard lines to run deep. Bill Armstrong, an old friend, was sitting in the star board fighting chair and he asked Cuba how ho approached a Ba- hama girl. "Like fish, mon," said Cuba. "You play dem all differ ent. Osk for a donee. Mebbe a drink. Tell ber 'You look so.'" "Van leek at what?" I aaid. , Remarkable Document unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any crimi nal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, with out due process of law; nor shall, private prop erty be taken for public use, without just compensation. 6. Rights of persons accused of crime. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which districts shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assis tance of counsel for his defense. 7. Right of trial by jury. In suits at com mon law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. 8. Right to protection against excessive .fines, bail, punishment. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. 9. Rights not enumerated retained by the people. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny qr disparage others retained by the people. I 10. Rights reserved to the states and the people. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor pro hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. There they are. One of history's ambitious undertakings. Too many of us read them for the last time in school, and then go through the rest of our lives wondering just what they are every time we hear them referred to. We suggest that you clip this list and keep them for future reference. JIM BISHOP: REPORTER ... s 'Poorest Fish' Steve laughed fit to fall over the wheel. Cuba grinned. "Long time back we had a mon he not all dare. Talk funny. Somebody say hello. He say 'You look so.' De whole town laugh. Now when I dance with woomon I say 'You look so and she get to laughing and this is a good sign. Make woomon laugh first. Very good sign." There was a snap and Arm strong's reel sang out. It was on hard drag and whatever had hit the little ballyhoo had hit hard. He tried to reel in but the line kept paying out. Steve stopped the boat and began to back it toward the fish. Cuba put his canvas gloves on. "Hit like wa hoo," he said. ' "Give him line, mon. He fresh." Armstrong has snowy hair and deep dimples and he and the fish fought each other all over the sea. When the fish tired. Bill brought him close and Cuba bit the fish with a big galf and brought him aboard. He was a 38-pound wahoo, the fastest fish in the sea. He runs underwater at SO miles an hour. I was making movies of it when my clothespin snapped and I jumped in the fighting chair. We were using Penn Senator 9-0 reels with 80 pound test lines, so we weren't afraid of losing big fish. The ire bin was already half full of big barracuda and kingfish and Spanish mackerel, but this thing, whatever it was, leaped high out of the sea far behind the boat and almost tore both arms from my sockets. The fight between man and fish was joined. We were on opposite ends of 400 yards of line, and I had 200 left to argue with him. I tightened thr drag. He ran west from the boat, then raced toward it and I reeled the slack ,: Which and Cuba kept yelling "Shark! Shark!" This was strange be cause the only sharks in these waters are babies. No native has ever been bitten by one, or even caught one of any size. For a halt - hour, the fish flipped his tail and whitened the surface of the sea and sounded. He went so deep that I had only a hundred yards of line left. He seemed to know that only one of us could win this thing and it wasn't going to be me. I'm left handed and the reel was right handed. The fingers of both hands flattened and reddened. And the muscles in the forearms came up rigid and remained cramped. Sometimes, he laid quiet 40 feet under the boat, thinking. I would pull the reel a couple of turns and ho would be off, swing ing the stern of the boat. The fish made but one mistake. When he tired, he decided to come up and see what his tormentor looked like. Steve had a big shiny gaff tied to one-inch manila. He leaned over the transom and hit him in the back right behind the head. The (ish took off in a swirl of blood. The manila was cinched to a stern bitt. The fish pulled the boat backwards awhile, and then came to the surface. He was through. It was a mackerel shark. He was gaffed again and a lasso was thrown over his neck. Steve towed him hack all the way to the Jack Tar Marina. At the dock, the fish was hauled up and weighed. He came to 309 pounds. Natives came from town to see him be cause they had never seen a big shark in these waters. "Clean up the boat now," Cuba said. "Got to get my suit on mon. Big donee at the Blue Mar tin and nice woomon there." "You look so," I said . . . GOALS El . By JOHN W. GARDNER President of Carnegie Corporation One of a series of easy-to-read condensations from chap ters written by eminent Amer ican authorities for book publi cation by Prentice-Hall with the Report from President Eisen hower's Commission on Nation al Goals. Edited by Ray Crom-. ley for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Copyright 1960, the Amer ican Assembly.) In seeking the most effective . ways of accomplishing our edu cational purposes, we are going to have to take an experimental view of established practices. A few examples will suffice! The Sclf-Containcd Classroom' The elementary school has been saddled with an inflexible tradi tion of the self-contained class room in which one teacher stays with the same 25 to 30 children all day and teaches every subject. It cannot survive the require ments of modern education. Division into Grades Some of the more advanced experiments in elementary education have partly or - wholly abolished the division into grade-years. One school has done away with the first three grades, divides the children into nine ability groups and allows them to proceed at the pace that suits their capacities. Utilization ol Buildings Most school and college buildings stand unused after 4 p.m. weekdays, ' all day Saturday and through the summer. Summer School The summer session provides an important op portunity to supplement Uie school . program for students who wish to take remedial work, for stu dents who want advanced courses and for courses students may not have time for in regular session. By 1970 all but the smallest uni fied school districts should oper ate voluntary tuition-free summer sessions. Every college and uni versity should hold a summer ses sion. Playtime ACROSS 1 Spinning Ctaythings led with balli 9 Child's game 12 In I line 13 Golf stick 14 Before 15 Holy Land 17 Used in badminton or tennif IS American etcher . SHoresbacfc game 4 Produced by strenuous play 5 Scrap 6 Ascended 7 Musical quality 8 Show contempt 9 Mean dwellings M) War god of Greece It Obtains 18 Traps 20 Game It Fortune teller fundaments 11 Used on hockey 22 Cleaner sticks 24 Yachtsman's 23 Alcoholic haven beverage 25 One who M Dance step mimics 27 Baseball scone 24 Parted 29 Done m track 33 First i game 34 Take revenge SS Rest 87 Man's name M Bntsh trouey 39 Rant 41 Tennis term 42 Rodent 44 How a player's muscles get 4 Baseball manager 45 Growing out 53 Head apparel 54 Home run (baseball) S Hockey eM S7Rail M Ireland 59 How losing Players feel aradise 1 Chest rattht DOWN 1 Bugle call tSpokea FOR AMERICANS Ability Grouping Latest Answer-To School Need Tclevison The educational use of television holds great prom ise. One of the challenges facing education in the 1960s is to learn ' to use it well. By 1970 every school should be equipped for in struction by television. , In the 1960s, government and education must undertake reap praisal of the public service ob- , ligations of commercial broadcas ters and of the availability of channels for educational purposes. ' "Teaching Machines" Another Innovation that seems certain to have an impressive impact on the . "teaching process is what has mis ' leadingly been called the "teach- big machine" and might better be called a self-teaching device. The best self-teaching devices ' and programs have proven re markably effective. Students seem : to enjoy working with them. Wide- . ly used, they can remove a load from overburdened teachers and 1 give each student the luxury of a private tutor who proceeds at a pace determined by the student. This frees the teacher to spend more time on creative aspects of his job. Teachers' Aides Schools should continue to experiment with dif ferentiation oi professional roles. The use of teachers' aides to car ry out routine tasks is promising. So is the suggestion that the rank of Master Teacher be established . for individuals at the highest lev els of ability, training and experi ence. ' ' Vocational Courses High school vocational programs.should be re ' vised. Too often young people who will be exercising their skills in the 1970s are being prepared for the technology of the 1950s. Most students will go through occupational lives characterized by constant learning of new skills. Vocational programs, therefore, should emphasize fundamen tal skills and fundamental ways of approaching problems. School Boards High on the list of goals for any community se Answer to Previous Puzzle Ml AIR lcS1. lajwiAig p iSD I fgu A" T e K LOO 47 m N -l ed A JE T A M Q D TN DS . A "XW m 6 Q R f Daiifi 6 ? o y c. B SiL N SiS'liN 4 I . A T JB o p e rJ oa y e r el l XT?D pip' e. Q ' x 5. S 5 S. Po JifliSE Tet l. eT" NEtTLf g it oc e R e ftlelNl iTielftl-rlft 25 Ovation for winners 30 Awry 31 Impudent 33 Wanderer 35 Swerved 40 Make certain 43 Concise 45 Come in 45 The one her 47 Worthless (Bib.) 48 Cross 50 Operatic son 51 Pluck 52 Fencing sword 55 Feminine nickname ri p u 1 rrrr Hi pi rj is-" n rs r rj n - ri s 1 1 1 a i"pa ' ' s-R-pr -a -a" -s anrr a r r-B-Sr g 1 n a a-Iff" n 1 u r -u 1 1 J trw t a a isi pi a a 3" 3 5T a ar- b si riously interested in its schools is to devise a system for selec tion of board members that will insure the recruitment of able citizens and which keeps patron age at a minimum. School Districts The . local school district remains the key to good public education. The ap proximately 40,000 school districts existing today should be reduced to about 10,000 by 1970. Experts have mentioned 2,000 as minimum enrollment for an efficient district. In 1957 more than 40,000 out of a total of 52,907 school systems had enrollments of less than 300. Small school systems do not provide a sound basis for school finance. Small schools cannot provide an ade ; quale educational program. . Other Editors' Opinions Challenge Constitution (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) If there's one thing that Thom as Jefferson and Alexander Ham ilton had in common and they didn't have everything in common when it came to political philos ophy it was a peculiar disinter- . est in setting forth America's national goals. . Here they were, two key lead ers of the emerging nation that was but the fringe of an undevel oped continent, and yet, out of igj norance or worse, they failed to instruct ' the people on how the great, rich territory to the west could be tamed and used. It is odd, when you think of it now, that historians have been so generous to these two and you can include George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and many others. After all, this was the late Eighteenth Centiuy, the age of progress and enlighten ment, not the medieval era of ' political reaction and stagnation. So, without strong leadership, without adequate planning, with out progressive minds in the fore, the little nation was left to drift. And drift it did. Merchants and artisans, uninstiticted by Wash ington, went their muddled, profit seeking way. And pioneers, un aware of national pui pose and unsoothed by social security, piled themselves and their families into covered wagons and set out for the unknown. Was that the way to make the most of the national inheritance? Was that the way. bereft of a national goals commission and dynamic planning, to meet the challenge of England and France and Spain, those European pow. ers which dominated internation al trade and controlled most of the world's riches? How much better H would have been had the Federal Government determined who would trek west to do what. How much better if the government had alerted the people to the mercantile race, and provided the vigorous leader ship the times demanded. Obvi ously Americans striving as in dividuals could not hope to con quer 1.500 miles of wilderness, much less produce the articles of commerce that would make th U.S. equal and more to Europe's efficient systems. Perhaps it is time wo rewrote our history books. Perhaps it is time our forefather'; wore remem bered for their failure to rally the people to the future's challenge (JOHN McKELWAY IN THE WASHINGTON POST.) Look. Look. See. Look and see the house. The house is white. It is a white house. The white house has a garden. What is in the garden? There 'is grass in the garden. The grass is green. There is something else in the . garden. What is it? It is a football. Is the football lost Who lost . the football? Did Jack lose the football? Yes. See Jack looking for the football. Jack is in the garden by the white house looking for the football. It is a touch football. Wait! . ( Jack sees, the football, Jack does not pick up the football. la Jack looking for the football? No. Jack is looking for something else. What is Jack looking for? Look. See Bobby. Here comes Bobby. See Bobby in the garden with Jack. Jack and Bobby are in the garden. What are Bobby and Jack doing in the garden? ' They are looking for the foot ball. No. They are not looking for the football. Jack and Bobby are looking for something .else. Wait! Here comes father. What is father doing in the garden? Father, Bobby and Jack are looking in the garden. Here comes mother. Mother and father, Bobby and Jack are in the garden looking for some thing. Here comes Ted. Here comes Eunice. Here comes Pat. Here comes Peter. Here comes Sar gent. Here comes Jackie. THE DOCTOR SAYS ... Sclerosis Hard Disease To Spot By HAROLD T. HYMAN. M.D. Written for , Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Approximately 500,000 Ameri cans suffer from multiple scler osis (MS) and allied disorders (disseminated, lateral and amyo trophic lateral sclerosis). So little do we know of these crippling diseases that they're called "scleroses," which simply means "hardenings." So discouraging have been the results of previous therapeutic ef- (THE MEDFORD TRIBUNE) On Nov. 8, the voters approved by a big margin a proposal to ' empower the Legislature to revise Oregon's Constitution, if it so . elected. The Oregon Journal now sug gests how this might be accom plished. ts idea is that an in terim committee, composed of both legislators and a consider able representation of non-legislator members from many fields, including the law, be empanelled to draft a proposed new constitu tion for submission to a later Legislature. We don't think the Legislature, torn as it is with factionalism and burdened down with some 1,500 bills each session to say nothing of serving with insuffi cient pay is in any position to do a competent job of rewriting the constitution during a regular . session. But an interim committee, well chosen, could serve as sort of a "little constitutional convention," and present its work to the Legis lature, which then could adopt, reject or amend it. If it approved it by a two thirds vote of both. houses (not an easy thing to get, these days) it would go to a vote of the peo ple. If they, in turn, approved it, it would become the state's basie charter. And we need one. The United States Constitution takes up sev en pages in the Oregon Blue Book; Oregon's takes I up 21 pages. It is cluttered, not only with a lot of obsolete provisions, but also many "special interest" provisions placed there (by vote of the people) after aggressive campaigns. This sort of thing be longs in the statutes, not in the Constitution. But it will be found that re writing the Constitution will not be an easy job. There will be ob jections voiced to many proposed deletions, and there will be inevit able suggested additions for "spe cial interest" type legislation. But if a good interim commit tee can come up with a draft -Constitution good enough to meet w ith approval of two-thirds of the Legislature, it would have to be a good one. In such a case, a majority of the people probably would go long with it. They are all in the garden lookv lng for the mandate. Who has the mandate? Where is the mandate? What color is the mandate? Is the mandate large or snfallf Who had the mandate? Dwight David had the mandate. He had the mandate for eight -years. He got the mandate from Harry. Harry got the mandate ' ' from Franklin. Herbert lost the mandate and gave it to Franklin. ' Calvin had given it to Herbert. It is hard to keep the mandate. " It is hard to get your hands on it. Dwight David tried to 'give it to Richard. Did Richard get the mandate? Does Richard have the man-' date? Is Richard hiding the mandate' that belongs to Jack? Does the mandate really belong to Jack? If the mandate belongs to Jack, why doesn't Richard give it to Jack? Maybe Richard doesn't know he has the mandate. , Does Jack think Richard hat the mandate? Does Richard think Jack has the mandate? ' Who has the mandate? Does Jack need the mandate? If Jack, or father, or mother, or Jackie, or Ted, or Bobby, or Eu nice, or Sargent, find the man date, what will they do with it? Look. Look and see. See Baby Caroline. Here cornel Baby Caroline. No one is watching Baby Caro line. They are all looking for the mandate in the garden. Baby Caroline has two ducks. . Wait! Baby Caroline has the man date! Look. She is feeding the man date to the ducks. forts that a physician-patient one declared "after each treatment, regardless of initial improvement, I have been worse worse than before I started treatment." (When Doctors Are Patients: W. W. Norton.) Because there is now reliable evidence that MS, at least, may be responsive to newly introduced forms of treatment, the following summary of its outstanding char acteristics may help to reduce the usual five-year lag between the onset of symptoms and the estab lishment of the diagnosis and thus encourage patients to seek help in the early phases of the disease when treatment holds forth its greatest promise: Whatever the cause of MS, manifestations of the disease re sult from injury to nerve sheaths which resemble the insulation of electric wires and cables. If the bared nerve is only slight ly damaged and the injured sheath manages to make a rapid recovery, the manifestations soon disappear. When this occurs, the) patient is said to have gone into spontaneous remission. This is one explanation of tha apparently good results that have followed . so many different types of treatment. If, on the other hand, the) sheath does not recover until af ter the bared nerve has been vital ly damaged and destroyed, mani festations of the disease are in tensified.. This is described as an exacerbation. Under these circumstances, the) same type of treatment that gave good results during the remission is now rated as being useless or even harmful. MS rarely starts before tha age of 20 or after the age of 50. Its highest incidence is in the 20 to 35-year age group. It occurs more often in women than men in the proportion of three to two. It occurs more frequently in north than south. The earlier symptoms of MS, which must be particularly sought in the relatives of the patient, are fleeting episodes of double vi sion, weaknesses of hands or legs, difficulties in maintaining balance, dizziness, trembling of the fin gers when an effort is made t carry out a specific action like) picking up a glass of water, defec tive memory, emotional instability and curious jiggling movements of the eyeballs (nystagmus!. Because these manifestations come on gradually and lend to fade in and out, the diagnosis is rarely established for five years after appearance of the first symptom. Thereafter, the disease pro gresses so slowly that another ten years may elapse before the pa tient is significantly incapacitated. So little docs the affliction in volve vital structures that most patients live out their normal life span. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "Understanding Mental Illness," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman. care Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Sta tion. 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