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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, March I, l6t NOTHING SPECIAL IW. B. S.I t; Since the size of the U.S. House of Rep resentatives was set at 435 in 1911, the na ' tion's population has doubled. It's no wonder periodic pressure builds, as it is doing again iii 1961, to lift the lid and let additional Mem bers of Congress pour in. Once a House member represented 33, 000 people. Now, on the average, he speaks for 410,000, and some districts have from 900, 000 to 1,000,000 people. Can a lawmaker real-' ly represent so many? Many have long complained that 80 per cent of their time is taken up with errand ' boy duty for their constituents. In the remain-. Ing fifth they have to try to think of the na tional Interest, and consider perhaps 5,000 bills in the legislative year. Obviously, logical argument can be made for boosting House membership. But it isn't logic that produces a spate of bills for that purpose every 10 years, when the law requires that state delegations to Congress be altered to reflect population shifts. It's the emotion of lawmakers who may stand to lose their seats,. With the total frozen at 435, the big pop ulation gainers inevitably profit at the expense of losers and smaller gainers. This time 21 seats would be cut away from 16 states, with Pennsylvania and New York each losing three, Massachusetts and Arkansas each two. : The losing states have to carve their congressional maps into fewer districts, some times endangering the status of established congressional leaders and even throwing them , Into battle against each other. From these comes the big pressure to boost House mem bership. ; ' i ' The trouble is, Congress just can't auto matically tack 'on enough new seats to bal ance the losses. The Constitution says the dis tribution has to reflect the states' relative population standing. So any increase, to 451 or 469 or whatever, is bound to benefit the big gainers as well as the losers. : In fact, to maintain this balance and still restore all the seats due to be lost by 1962 would require a new membership ceiling of B47 an increase of 112 members. Anything jess than that is a compromise that will help some but not all losers. ' ; It's not only this that works, against a major change in 1961. Wide feeling exists that ' MIAMI, Kla. Big John has gone home. Ho was here almost two months and they were rich ones. The little villa seems hollow and dusty without him. He used to boil a pot of prunes at 10 p.m. for tho morning breakfast. They were bubbling and steaming a long time. He made thick oatmeal and turned the heat off and put a lid on It My father likes prunes and oatmeal. I In the morning, t would sit read ing the mail as he set the table and heated the oatmeal and dropped two slices of toast into the, proper slots. He did it all by nimself. with no offer of help from mc, because he wanted to feel that he was pulling his owr, weight. After breakfast, before the last sip of tea was gone, he grabbed (he dishes, carried them to the sink, and washed them. Then he would sit on the couch, reading the morning paper, and fall asleep. At other times, we had long conversations about pol itics, the family, sports and the future. He seldom mentions any tiling I write about him and once I said: "Have you had time to read today's column?" He nod ded. It was about him. "Did you like it?" He looked sidewards nt mc, opened his mouth, and close it again. The snowy hair, neatly parted, and (he dignity of expression give him the look of a retired judge. Or one who has been caught. "What was wrong with it?" I said, He shook his head. "Nothing. I don't want to get into an argument with you." "Come on," I said. "What was wrong?" He looked at me and said: "Twinkling blue eyes, my eye. I haven't got blue cyos, twinkling or untwinkling." Status Quo JIM BISHOP: REPORTER... At What Point Do Blue Eyes Become Twinkling? "Holy mackerel!" 1 said. "Out of all the things I've written about you, you have to pick on one liny Item. What color are your eyes?" He curled his lip. "Why don't you take a look, Mr. Re porter? They've been brown all my life. Doesn't accuracy mean anything In your business any more?" I looked at his eyes. The brows are shaggy and gray and one has to look under them to see. "They're blue," I said. "They're brown," he said. "Okay," I said. "Then I can't de tect color." We started out to play golf. He was in new plaid shorts and a white shirt He wore dark blue tennis shoes and regular sox. They kept falling down. His teeth were grinding. One could hear the grat ing of the cup and saucer SO feet off. A woman passed by. "Excuse me," I said, grabbing my father, "what color are his eyes?" She glared at me. "I beg your par don," she said, I apologized. "He says they're brown. I claim they're blue." The lady became cool and composed. She knew that she wus dealing w ith two nuts and this was no time to panic. She studied my father. "Hazel." she said, "They're hazel." My father smiled gallantly. The lady was in his age group. "Thank you ma'am," he said. "You're right. I always put brown on my auto mobile license, but hazel is the proper word." Her chest started to heave a little. I didn't know whether to leave them, or stay. "Well." she said, "they're haz el all right. A little more blue than gray or brown, I'd say." She smiled shyly. "Sort of twink ling blue." I glared at my fath the House is already too unwieldy. Only four leading'countries, Britain, France, .Italy and India, have bigger assemblies than our House. In these awkward masses, the member's indi viduality tends to be buried. Speaker Rayburn is believed to be unwill ing to open the floodgates, and it is agreed his signal is required. Some seasoned heads think a short hike to 438, merely offsetting seats awarded to Hawaii and Alaska, is the most he might endorse. Certainly the chances seem strong that no bigger change will emerge from the House re view of these proposals that begins soon. Puerto Rico No Colony ' (Houston Post) The admission of. Alaska and Hawaii to statehood has stimulated agitation in Puerto Rico to become the 51st state. In the island's, general election two parties which favor a strong tie to the United States polled 90 per cent of the votes. Advocates of independence received a mere 3 per cent of the vote. Luis A. Ferre, Republican gubernatorial Tandidate, cited three figures in a resentful retort to a recent statement by Valerian A. Zorin, Soviet ambassador to the UN, demand ing the liberation-of all "colonial possessions" and listing Puerto Rico as one such. This, Ferre . said, was "an insult to the intelligence of the UN General Assembly and of the world." The recent election, he said, was "another clear proof of his people's allegiance to the United States." Whether Puerto Rico will press for state hood in the 1961 Congress remains to be seen. Hitherto its people have been happy with their territorial status. Of late they have suffered a business slump, with a high and rising rate of unemployment. Ferre argues that assurance of a definite advance toward statehood would boost confidence and improve the island's economy. On the other hand, Gov. Luis Munoz Marin has countered the statehood argument with the contention that the federal taxes Puerto Ricans would have to pay if the island should become a state would hurt too much. Pending the final determination of the question, the heavy migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States will bo stimulated to floodtide by their economic slump. er. We thanked the lady and de- parted "Well?" I said. Ho grunted. "She's color blind," he said. Sometimes he would tell an old story and we'd start laughing and he'd shake his head and wipe his eyes. He's Irish, and Roman Catholic to tho core, and his Gaelic stories are the best. He also made a lot of new friends: John Ogdcn, the maiu-e d'; Tom Pinker, the golf pro: a few stout ladies who wanted him to correct their golf swing, among other things: the cashier at the Crandon drug store, John Nucelli, the bell captain, and others. He had a ball, Norris Ander son, a reformed sportswriter, sent my father a note from Rocky Marciano. It read: "To John M. Bishop, the only man who ever beat the hell out of me. Rocky Marciano." The best laugh I had with him was the morning of the presi dential inauguration. He was in the bathroom, trying to hold his pajama bottoms up while shav ing, and I was at the television set, watching the inauguration. Cardinal Ciishing was delivering .1 long and eloquent benediction, and I yelled: "Come on out. You're going to miss the proceedings." My father came out of the bath room. He wos holding the pajama string in one hand, the razor in the other, and his face was half lathered. He looked at the cardi nal and he saw blue smoke coming up out of the lectern. "Isn't that just like the Irish," he murmured. "They're hardly in the White House and already they're setting fh-e to the Cap itol." . . . I muss him. - i By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA) - Inau guration of Brazil's new President Janio Quadros with a sweeping . reform program, just at the time President Kennedy begins his ad ministration, has given inspiration'.' to Executive Vice President T. Graydon Upton of the new Inter American Development Bank, which recently made Its first loan. Upton points out that a unique opportunity now exists for awak ening and mobilizing a new spirit in the western hemisphere. And he doesn't mean by lending it a lot of money, either. Upton Is a Republican and a Philadelphia banker Republican at that. After a varied experi ence in foreign investment fields he served as Treasury undersec retary with the Eisenhower ad ministration. But he was bom in Salem, Mass., and he's a Har vard man, which should make him acceptable to the New Eng land Democratic bunch running things here now. In an unpublicized paper before a conference of corporation ex ecutives at the School for Ad vanced International Studies in Princeton, Upton recently gloved perfectly the hand for President Kennedy's proposed "Alliance for . Progress" "Alianza Para Pro grcso" with Latin America. Upton admits that "Operation Pan-America" is now burned out. It was conceived by the Brazilian poet-politician Augusto Frederico Schmidt. It was promoted by Bra zil's previous President Juscelino Kubitschek. It was documented by the Organization of American States "Act of Bogota," and a promise of half a billion dollars from the United States. But, says Upton, "the fire of Operation Pan-America has hard ly survived a barrage of finan cial arguments, opposing econom ic concepts and conference dead locks." In this vacuum, "the voice of Fidelismo presents to the people an attractive alternative to that which they do not have. "What is needed in this ele ment," says Upton, "is the de velopment of a counter mystical force to Castro which, by its in- tensity, will create reservoirs of i . capital by individual and group effort, tlie greater share Latin American. "There is today a surprising lack of any attempt to mobilize the spiritual and emotional strengtn of Latin America In sup port of the current struggle for economic and social progress," Upton declares. V"A new Simon Bolivar for Lat in America cannot yet be identi fied." Upton continues, "but the concept is there. It could bubble up from the bottom. But more ef fectively it should come from the lop. and here one can catch glimpses of a future pattern. "One can visualize." says Up ton, "an address by the Presi dent ol the United States, deal ing only with Latin America, in the inspiring framework of his inaugural words. "One can foresee a meeting of the presidents of the Americas to rekindle the fire. One can guess at the desirability of forming a public relations staff to develop . . . widespread acceptance (of the concept) in Latin America and the United States." These are perhaps strange words to come Irom a Philadel phia Republican banker. But in EDSON IN WASHINGTON Latin America Is ' Relations Problem this connection "Business Week" has just reported that the Com munist bloc is now spending be tween $100 million and $200 mil lion a year to help Castro export his Cuban revolution throughout Central and South America. There , ' is no comparable effort by the , Organization of American Slates to block it. " . What is apparently needed Is an effort such as Nelson Rocke feller another Republican made for the Democratic Roose velt administration when he was made coordinator of inter-American affairs In World War II era. Rockefeller's job then was lo keep Latin America from going Nazi. The job today is not just' to keep' it from going Commu nist, but to make it free, .inde pendent, strong and stable. , Progress Edition Comment, 'Your Progress Edition is ter , rific! Just one mistake you should supply a small boy with each copy. I'm ton old and weak to carry it. ' , Charles Duncan Dean, School of Journalism University of Oregon ' Is Bonanza in Klamath Coun ty? Your paper seems to have lorgottcn alxmt this section. The people out this way are proud of their school, park, and cemetery. The mayor says there is no un employmentso different to most sections. If you are going to tell of the resources of the county make it complete. Annie L. Romtvedt Bonanza, Oregon I have just had the opportunity of going through your 1961 Prog ress Edition and I really want lo congratulate you on an outstand ing job. I have an idea that the people of Klamath Falls and the area were simply flabbergasted when they received their copies and that the reputation of the Herald and News must have been very substantially enhanced by this production. CongratulaUons again. Lou Rubin Newspaper Advertising Service Co. San Francisco, Calif. I have jdst spent an hour look ing over your special edition of . Inst Sunday and have barely got started on it. Please accept my congratulations on a very fine job, quite remarkable for a city the size of yours, especially if all the work was done there. I am particularly interested in ' the article by C. A. Henderson, your county agent. 1 was the as sistant state leader of county agents when the work was start ed in your county and knew both Mr. McCall and Mr. Glaisjer: in fact, the latter was a particular friend of mine and used to sec him here quite often for several years between first and second world wars: have lost track of him now. - M. O. Evans Evans & Ayies. brokci-s Los Angeles, Calif. Congratulations on an outstand ing job as exemplified by your Progress Edition which reached me today. 1 have been through it several times and am routing It . on to some of the rest of the boys here who I know will be as interested in It as I was. I was particularly impressed by Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, March 8, the 67th day of the year with 298 more in 1961. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Venus. On this day in history: In 1841, famed jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., was born. . In 1894, New York state became , the first state to pass a law re quiring dogs to be licensed. In 1917, strikes and riots in St. Petersburg marked the beginning of the Russian Revolution. In 1944, French authorities in Algiers adopted an ordinance re forming the status of Moslem Algerians. It enunciated the prin ciple that French Moslems of Al geria should enjoy the same rights and submit to the same duties as French non-Moslems. your technique of having an ad vertiser sponsor your color sec lion covers. I thought, too, that your own ad was one of the out standing ones in the whole edi tion. The illustration particularly had terrific' impact. R. B. Gifford " .' Advertising Manager ; The Oregon Journal Thanks, my good friend, for sending along your Progress Edi tion. What arc you trying to do' Run the mills out of newsprint? That was a whopper! I'll bet you beat all records for a new high. Your territory certainly seems to be progressing and I hope it continues that way. Russell W. Young Advertising Manager The Seattle Times THE DOCTOR Knee Joints Tough But Require Care By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for NEA The knee is a very complicat ed structure as many readers of these columns have discovered to their woe. And it is capable of taking a terrific beating without complaint as you must have re alized when you watched a base runner hook-slide into the shin guards ol a catcher, get up, dust himself off and walk to the dug out. Next time you carve a chick en, you can learn a little about the knee. It's a joint formed by the under surface of the drum stick (femun and the upper sur face of the larger leg bone (tib ia). To open the joint, you'll have to cut through a tough wrapping of tissue. When you get through this joint capsule, you'll see that Ihe articulating surface of the fe mur is shiny white and is made up of two knuckles that are built to rock back and forth on the table-like surface of the under lying tibia. If now you feel your own joint, you'll discover the protective kneecap. But what you'll have to take my word for are the in ner workings of Ihe joint. First of all. there is a pair of cush ions (joint cartilages' that sepa rate joint surfaces. Then, there arc cross-lie (cruciform' 1 1 g a ments that prevent twisting. And The lady at the supermarket checkout counter was unloading her four cakes of soap, two bot tles of hand lotion, a bottle of . suntan lotioc, a jar of face cream, a pair of canvas work gloves, two knitting needles, four small flashlight batteries, two maga zines, a phonograph record, six glasses, a quart of milk, a dozen eggs, a tv dinner and package of frozen chicken. As the lady paid her bill, s,ie commented, "Food is so expensive nowadays. No wonder the farmers are getting rich." "In this article I'm reading, " Smithers told his wife, "woman philosopher says that a woman can fool ail men some of the time and she can fool some men all of the time." His wife pondered the state ment for a moment. "Well, I'm no philosopher," she announced caustically, "but if you just leave them alone long enough, all men make fools of themselves most of the time." And something for parents, too: The average child spends 25 hours a week in the class room for J6 weeks a year, or a total of 900 hours. During the year, he suends 3,285 hours in bed. This leaves a total of 4.573 In the year when parents have the major responsibility for a child's learning. Sunday's fashion section re minds me that Easter is not far off. There is much evidence that ' Easter was not originally a Chris tian festival but a festival which . celebrated the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The word "easier" comes from the Teutonic goddess of spring. Eoslre. Easter bonfires, especially common in Nordic countries, could probably be traced lo ancient Saxon rites. Yet pagan Easter has been con- , verted and given a Christian meaning. I spent an hour or so listening to Charley Henderson outline the agriculture industry of the Klam- . ath Basin, and one time I rode home on the same plane from Portland with Ted Hyde, and we talked about cattle, and I know everything about the cattle busi ness which information I am proud to puss along to any and, . all who .can use it. ' ' ,' Cattle are animals that are bred and raised in the western states to keep the producer brokj and the buyer crazy,' Cattle are born in the spring, mortgaged in the summer, pas tured in the fall, and given away in the winter. They vary in size, color and weight, and the man who can guess the nearest weight and market grade is called a livestock buy er by the public, a robber by the rancher, and a poor busi nessman by his banker. The price of livestock is deter mined in Chicago and goes up . after you have sold and down aft er you have bought. A buyer for an Oregon packer was sent to Chicago to watch the livestock market. After a few days' delib eration he wired his office to this effect: "Some say the market will go up and some say it will go SAYS then there is a clear joint fluid that keeps the various structures and surfaces moist and lubricat ed. Here are some of the many things that can happen to t h e knee: The capsule may tear, al lowing the joint fluid to escape, thus causing the surfaces to scrape and wear away. The cruciform ligaments may break loose, causing joint surfaces to grind on one another. The carti lages may become displaced and get to moving around (joint mice). Or they may suddenly get stuck between joint surfaces -(knee lock). Then, to add to the general confusion, there may be an outpouring of joint fluid (wa ter on the knee), undoubtedly in tended as an effort on nature's part to protect injured structures. Now all this is nasty busi ness. Sometimes, the knee hurts all the time. You limp. And next thing you know you're having trouble with the opposite hip or ankle. Or you get to think you're all over your woes and suddenly the joi.it locks and you shriek with pain Then, you sort of walk on eggs for a while, fearful of a recurrence. And you're usual ly right in .your assumption. Or your knee swells in front (house maid's knee) or behind (baker's cyst). Or it gets all swollen un til it looks like a bagpipe. One way or other, it must be I' down. I say the same. Whatever you do will be wrong. Act at once." When you have light cattle, the buyers want heavy ones: when you feed heifers you find they want steers, and vice versa; when they're this, they should be that; and when your steers are fat, the buyers tell you the market on tal- low is all shot to hell. You got 'em too do'gone fat! Does history repeat? The fol lowing, neighbor, came from one of the great students of the past, Prof. James H. Breasted, in de scribing how the Roman Empire came to fall: "The financial burden of this vast organization, begun under Di olectian and completed under his successors, was enormous. For this multitude of government of ficials had all to be paid for and supported. "The amount of a citizen's tax es continued to increase until fi nally little that he possessed was . free from taxation. The penalty of wealth --eemed to be ruin, and there was no motive for suc cess in bus'ness when prosperity meant ruinous over-laxation. . ' "He enacted laws forbidding a man to forsnke his lands or occu pation. The societies, guilds, and unions Into which men of var ious occupations had long been or ganized were now gradually made obligatory (closed shop) so that no one could follow any calling or occupation without belonging to such a society. Even the citi zen's wages, and the price of goods he bought and sold were, so far as possible, fixed for him by the state. "Staggering under his crushing burden of taxes, in a state which , was practically bankrupt, the citi zen of everv class had now be come a mere cog in the vast machinery of government." The recent stories about gam bling, slot machines, et al, re minds mc of the tale about the young lady wearing a long mink coat who went to a dice table in Las Vegas and insisted on betting a thousand dollars. After she overcame . the objection that this was over the house limit, she was given the dice to roll. She took off her mink coat, revealing her complete nudity. She rolled the dice once and exclaimed, "Made it!" She collected her winnings, donned the mink coat and left. "By Ihe wjy," said one of the housemen, "what was her point?" The other shrugged, "I didn't notice, either." I have noticed, pver the years, that many newspaper readers look over the heads of stories in the paper, and draw all of their conclusions from those heads. For instance, in Sunday's paper, we nad a headline that said that Klamath County farm income had declined in 1960 which it had. But. as the slorv pointed out, the decline came from about a U'i million loss in potatoes, because of the early frosts. It does not indicate, how ever, that jgriculture is a declin ing industry in the Basin. I think the story emphasizes the impor tant and progressive role of ag riculture in our economy. clear that no amount of external treatment can conceivably influ ence the internal disturbance. , You may not enjoy the .prospect of an operation. But the longer you postpone what has to be done, the more difficulties you are building up for yourself. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "Anticipating Retirement," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care of the Herald and News. Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City S t a tion. New York 19, N.Y. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ft-Will Ex-President Elsenhnw er now regain his rank of five star general since leaving the White House? A-A special act of Congress would be required to restore it. Eisenhower resigned his.commis sion in 1932 when he was nom mated by the Republicans. 9-Who founded London's West minster Abbey? A-Edward the Confessor in lOfio. Q-DId Edison Invent the first incandescent electric lamp? A-Ycs. Q-How much of Egy pt Is de . en? A-Ninety ,Ven per cent. Q-tthere It Ihe nation's larg est university chapel? A Princeton University. '
