Let's All Play
'Find The Mandate'
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Dregon
Wedaesdiy, De. II, IK
The Old Philosopher '
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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
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. 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
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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
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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
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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. New York 19, N.Y.
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