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PAGE HEBALD fcdii&wnl flags ; The newly expanded federal judiciary laces two big tests as the fall court term gets under way. It will be measured for the overall quality of its work, and by the vigor of Us as sault on a mountainous backlog of unsettled cases. On this latter point, Chief Justice Earl Warren, long an advocate of a drastic speed up, now renews his urgings. Recently the Judicial Conference of the United States, a co-ordinating group of top federal judges, adopted a resolution asking that the 11 circuits in the United States sys tem view as "judicial emergencies" all cases . appropriate for trial which have been pending jthree years or more; 7,085 cases fall into that class. ; Each circuit is urged to draw up a plan With a specific final deadline for the trial or other disposal of all such cases in Its jurisdic tion. The cleanup effort will be handicapped by the fact that only 37 of the 73 new judge ships established by Congress this year have been filled. Another 17 were named by Presi dent Kennedy but not confirmed by the Sen ate. The other 19 are still to be chosen. The President may further accelerate the attack on the case backlog by handing recess appointments to the 17 with pending nomina tions and perhaps another dozen. But on a handful of the pending nomina tions a fight may develop when Congress re Are All The Best Men Democrats? (Corvallii Cazett Times) In answer to the above question we know several people who, In their most unprejudiced judgment, would answer a resounding "Yes", But most people will admit that there are good thinking people in both political parties. : The subject that brings the question to tlte fore is that almost everyone in the Ken nedy administration seems to agree In princi ple that the best qualified Individuals should be selected for Federal judgeships, without regard to their political affiliations. Thus, it must be a coincidence that, to, date, almost all of those deemed best qualified happen to be . Democrats. Since taking office, President Kennedy has nominated 60 Democrats for places on the Federal bench and there are 48 more such posts waiting to be filled. Only three Republi cans have been chosen to be Federal district judges; in each case they were nominated originally by President Eisenhower and their nominations not withdrawn. :-. Mr. Kennedy, as a candidate In August One of the most difficult sen tences to say is: "I do' not know." Four words. Ten letters. They strangle in the throat. No one likes to use them. It Is like pub licizing one's ignorance. Many a time I've been on the verge of a clever lie in answer to a quesUon I barely understood. Lots of times I have entered a conversation and ventured a pro . found opinon, just to hear myself talk. This is tlie attitude of the imposing poseur. I have tat, with chest bared, through a medical examination which consisted of the doctor's opinions on Nikita Khrushchev's next move. He did not know but sadly, he didn't know that he didn't know. Good dentists have had me at their mercy with mouth open while giving me the low-down on the differences between religions. Carpenters havo conlided to me, while nailing boards In my house, who would be nominated for Pres ident of the United States, and why. My barber gives me long dissertations on the beauties of Rome. He has never been there. I have. Albert Einstein, one'of the great est mentalities of all time, was once complimented on his violin playing. He smiled shyly. '"I love the instrument," he said. "But I do not know it. I only fiddle." How big is a big man? One of the negative Indices Is his ability to use the words: "I do not know." Students are afraid to admit ig norance to the teachers. They are asked a question, and they hazard a guess. They take a chance. They do not understand that there is nothing shameful about ignor ance; stupidity Is the unforgiv AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Judiciary Judged 1960, specifically stated: "I would hope that the paramount consideration in the appoint ment of a judge would not be his political party, but his qualifications for the office." Bernard G. Segal, chairman of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, pointedly reminded the can didate that "Any policy of appointments based on qualifications will inevitably result in an ' appreciable number of appointments from the opposition party." Non-partisan intentions have a way of getting lost in the tough world of practical politics. Infighting over patronage is one of the reasons that a large number of judicial va cancies remain to be filled. We realize further that Mr. Kennedy has been rather concerned over such matters as Berlin and our prestige abroad so he doubtless has left the selection of judges to some minor functionary, who is . not as interested in the President's campaign promises as he himself would be if he had time to go over the rather formidable list and do something about each one. JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . Admitting Ignorance No Shame; Being Stupid Is able crime. To be ignorant implies that one does not know; to be stupid Implies that one cannot learn. One time, I sal in the White House with Jim Hagerty and Dwight D. Eisenhower. We were talking about the President's dally routine and he said that he had a teacher come in three times a week to Impart the fundamen tals o( economics. I was shocked that he would admit that he did not know economics. Ho scemd to divine my thought. He parted his clasped "hands palms up. "My life has been spent in the United Slates Army," ha said. "They taught me to requisi tion everything I might need. An army officer learns to take. Now I must learn how to give." Sometimes I receive invitations to speak at a public function. These are always declined, with thanks. Why? Because 1 have heard writers make speeches. The men and women of my pro fession are the most pedantic bores since the days of ( h e Ro man senate. Most of them, as public speak ers, can resolve the problems o( the world In, 25 minutes. If there are any knots left untied when they conclude, they are willing to work them loose insthe ques-tion-and-answer period which fol lows the speech. Teiey know everything about everything. A goofl journalist should know a little bit about everything; no subject should be alien to his mind. But, It he is a proper journalist, he does not know enough about medicine to diag nose or prescribe, and not enough about plumbing to fix a leaky Friday. October 13, 11 Good turns. At least two, Irving Ben Cooper of New York and Ben Green of Ohio, face challenges on grounds of unfitness. This list may grow. Yet despite these simmering conflicts the administration's record on appointments has been dubbed "splendid" by Bernard Segal, head of the American Bar Association's stand ing committee on the U.S. judiciary. His group advises the government on all seriously con sidered candidates, but its recommendations are not controlling. These findings are released only after public hearings. Of 52 thus disclosed this year, the ABA rated 14 nominees qualified, 27 well qualified, nine exceptionally well quali fied. It disapproved just two. Both of the latter were subsequently confirmed anyway. Altogether the administration has had to cope with 120 appointments, since in addi tion to 73 new posts there are 47 vacancies created by death, retirement or expiration of term. The total comes to 30 per cent of the whole U.S. judiciary and compares with the 106 judgeships Franklin D. Roosevelt filled in 12 years. Laymen, noting the enormity of the job, can do little but rely on the bar association's professional judgment as to the administra tion's total performance to date. That judg ment clearly is that our federal courts are, generally, getting fresh injections of good quality. pipe in his home. The more he learns, the more conscious he be comes of the mental mountains which lie ahead. A noted preacher once said In me: "I just finished reading 'The Day Christ Died.' What a store house of knowledge you have!" 1 couldn't give him the truth, which is that I knew precious lit tle about the subject until 1 re searched the book. Eight or 10 hours a day for 14 months will make anybody look good. Then I had the best theological minds gi over the book, word by word, for errors. Winston Churchill was always reluctant to say: "I don't know." It required the combined persua sion o the Imperial General Staff to kill some of his ideas of war strategy. Franklin D. Roosevelt did not like to admit that he did not know, but he was clever at milking tlie minds of other men, listening and nodding, then ap propriating their ideas as his own. Adolf Hitler was lucky with a few strategical ideas, and thereafter thought that he had invented mili tary tactics. He was still waiting for a non-existent army to move into the line at Berlin when he committed suicide. He could not bear to say "I do not know." When Enrico Fermi, in an Italian laboratory, split an atom in 19:14, he did not know what he had done and he ad mitted it. He was attempting In screen neutrons, and he felt that his test hol failed. In reality, he had opened the door to the atom bomb. I must practice saying: "I do not know." It is going to startle my friends, and it will stun me. Gambling By LEON DENNEN . NEW YORK (NEA)-Berliners are again "voting with their feet" against communism. Only now it is West Berliners who are moving to West Germany for fear that their city will ulti mately fall into the clutches of Premier Khrushchev's East Ger man puppet, Walter Ulbricht. Western diplomats take com fort in the fact that the exodus has not yet reached the propor tions of a panic. Yet the mental picture of this retreat haunts me as I return from three months of reporting in Europe. Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday. Oct. 13, the 286th day of the year with 79 to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning star is Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1775, the Continental Con gress ordered construction of a naval fleet, thus originating the U.S. Navy. In 1792, the cornerstone of the President's house, the first public huilding to be built in Washington, D.C., was put down by George Washington. In 1943. Italy declared war on its former axis partner, Germany. A thought for today: AH Ibn-abu-talib, the Arabic philosopher said, "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare." Thoughts Therefore let us be grateful lor receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and let us offer to God acceptable worship, with rev erence and awe: Hebrews 12:18. First worship God. v He that forgets to pray Bids not himself good-morrow Or good-day. Thomas Randolph. 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In the view of West Berliners, the doom of their city was sealed last August when Ulbricht built his concrete wall which now sepa rates East from West Berlin and when the West failed to knock it down. THE WORLD AT STAKE This in capsule is how Leon Dennen, veteran Newspaper Enterprise Analyst, sees the in ternational situation after three months of Intensive reporting in Europe. Dennen has covered the Ber lin crisis and the Belgrade con ference of unaligned nations. He has talked with diplomats, In tellectuals, neutralist leaders, East German and Russian Com munists, West Gentian govern ment officials, labor leaders and men on the street in Germany, France, Yugoslavia and Eng land. His conclusions: Russia does not want war. Russia hopes to get the re wards of war from President Kennedy by negotiation. If the U.S. knuckles under in Berlin the West will lose West Germany to neutralism and NATO will collapse. It would be a grave error on the part of the Western leaders to underestimate the impact of this action on the German people. It would be another mistake to ignore its effect on Europeans of all walks of life or on the leaders of the neutralist nations whom I recently met at the Belgrade con ference. For the Germans, the open door of Berlin was precious because it was the last remaining breach in the wall between East and West Germany. Its slamming awoke the sense of national emergency. Ulbrichl's wall exploded the Answer to Previous Puttie 35 Decrees 43 Sand hill 37 Browns 44 Mentally sound breakfast bread 45 Chinese city S3 Food container 48 Feminine 40 Twists appellation 41 Food seasoning 47 Oore 42 German river 49 Wages S.S f g o s & f c o t n W B N 1D I "g p cIr e p"g e SjeT n t B SteT e r i D orm e Ajsle H ' p A i am gig" n Epfr a. u A C C BID tflK.MlE.iEL. & e t re CEfC e gIa t bT E" 1 p ' g E Maim o F Agl P U NpT g COW PTE" T e R.SJ S VE le o p ef g" a eTl rcTn. IbImi i g a l-Ia, g Isle t I B 13 14 I 15 IS 17 I IB It 110 III re ii rj rj pj i r rir r--nk u-J 4 d r-hf B ISS S 3! H 3 4i Hi hi tt 1 trpfjr a sr so- si a n H 3 Si myth that firm loyalty to the West means safety from Red encroach ment. Ordinary Europeans say they are no longer convinced that the West is in a position to negotiate with Moscow more than a face saving solution in exchange for recognizing the East German Com munist regime. A prominent East German Com munist who recently escaped West said: "Since Ulbricht was permit ted to seal off East Berlin, West Berlin is no longer a bulwark against communism. "West Berlin is still a symbol of freedom but what man in his right mind would fight an atomic war for a fading symbol?" East Germans asserted Ulbricht and his henchmen never expected to get away with the sealing of East Berlin so easily. They were nervous about possible Western countermeasures. When these did not come, nervousness gave way to arrogant self-confidence. Last summer Europeans were still certain that the unity of Ber lin would be preserved. As I left I heard the question: "Will the free world survive?" In Belgrade and in East and West Berlin, in Paris and London I was repeatedly asked whether President Kennedy actually meant it when he said: "We intend to have a wider choice than humilia tion or all-out nuclear war." . The American President still is popular among ordinary Europe ans. His courageous speeches are written in a language that Euro peans love to read. The right word spoken by the President at the right time usually gives to the man-in-the-street a lift. But gradually dismay is begin ning to creep in. The ordinary European can hardly be blamed for being confused and frightened by the conflicting statements on Berlin and the recognition of Com munist East Germany by influen tial Americans such as Senators Mike Mansfield and J. W. Ful hright and Gen. Lucius Clay, President Kennedy's special emis sary in West Berlin. Europe watched as in a state of hypnosis like in a tale by Kafka the construction of Ul brichl's wall behind which ter ror will prevail and freedom will be excluded forever more. One be gan to sense how the credit of our President and of America was ebbing away. "What does the future hold in store for us?" ordinary people began to ask me. "Is Kennedy's new frontier Ul brichl's wall?" was one sardonic question. Only closed minds are against East-West negotiations about Ber lin. But the consensus of Euro peansintellectuals, labor leaders and ordinary men was that Presi dent Kennedy must insist on the razing of Ulbricht's wall before he sits down to negotiate with Khrushchev. They are convinced that If the Allies permit Khrushchev to vio late all existing agreements on the four-power control of all Berlin his puppet Ulbricht will only be encouraged to further aggression. If the West can be frightened by Moscow's atomic blackmail why should not the Communists use it again and again to impose the Kremlin's will on so-called "hostage" nations like Britain and France and ultimately on the United States as well? The memory of Musich and the disastrous war that iotlowed is still fresh in the minds of Europeans. o o EDSON IN WASHINGTON... Thant Dark Horse For Top UN Post By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) Men tion of U Thant of Burma as a dark horse possibility to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold brings intcj Western limelight a little-known Asiatic diplomat. There is no assurance yet that . U Thant,. Mongi Slim of Tunisia or anybody else will or will not get the job. As it moves into its fourth week of debate without hav ing done anything, the general assembly is still trying to find an acceptable formula for naming Hammarskjold's successor. Numerous intermediaries from the Soviet Union have all brought out different versions of Russian proposals. Every one was a feel er. None was reduced to writing nor made definite enough for se rious negotiations. It was for this reason that the United States felt it necessary to restate its unchanged support for an interim secretary-general with . full authority, named by the gen eral assembly without a control ling group of three or four or five undersecretaries, and without po litical representation of any kind. Selection of U Thant may be a compromise solution for this otherwise insurmountable diffi culty. He has not pushed himself as a candidate. When his name was first suggested just after the assembly convened, the Burma statesman said he would have to ask his government if he could accept. That approval has been given. He has been coming to the U.N. for 10 years, and for the last four has been head of Burma's perma nent delegation. He knows the po litical ups and down of the U.N. skyscraper and the sideways movements of its delegates' lounge. He has the respect of his col leagues in the Afro-Asian bloc of new nations and was their chair man last year. One principal criticism of his candidacy is that he has never held a high position in his own government. But neither had Trygve Lie nor Dag Hammar- ; skjold when they were named secretary-general. Their reputations were national and regional. U Thant is 51 years old. After graduation from Rangoon Univer sity he became a high school teacher and headmaster. He was on the board which reorganized the educational system when Bur THE DOCTOR Now Is To Get By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Q Do you still favor flu shots? A More than ever. But you must see to it that you get Influenze Virus Vaccine. Not influenza bacillus vaccine. Nor a mixed "cold" or "respira tory" vaccine that contains influ enza bacilli as one of its many ingredients. Because of an unusually high death rate in high-risk groups last winter, many health officers advocate inoculations before Nov. 1 of the pregnant, persons 65 years old and above, diabetics, cardiacs, hypertensives, asthmatics and all others who suffer from any chron ic and debilitating disorder. Those who were immunized last year need only a single shot: oth ers require two shots, he second shot to be given about two months after the first. Q If food is left in cans and kept in the refrigerator, can it cause poisoning? A No So long as it is not con taminated in any way, especially by fingers, after the can has been opened. Q Is face-peeling safe? Does it remove wrinkles and creases? A To answer the second part first, face-pceling will not perma nently remove wrinkles or creases. As to its safety, that depends on several factors. If the peeling is done by the application of chem icals, such as powerful acids, it is risky whether done by a beauty parlor operator or by a doctor. Naturally the risk is less if it's done by an experienced physi cian. Again, if the peeling is done surgically, whether with a scalpei or sandpaper, the factor of scae ring is so difficult to gauge that most operators carry very heavy insurance against claims of disfig urement. Finally, if your vanity so far exceeds your common sense that you feel you mSt trifle with your appearance, go get yourself a sun burn. You'll peel almost as well and the cost of your folly will oe considerably reduced. Q I met a diabetic reccnQ wno wears a locket that gives her name and address and the name, ma became independent after the war. In 1947 he became press direc tor for the Burmese government and then director of broadcasting. He became secretary to Prime Minister U Nu in 1953, then secre tary of the cabinet. American newspaper corres. pondents who have covered U Thant's office in both Burma and New York have found him to be a talented executive in a quiet, gen teel way. He is also a tough administra tor; unyielding, impossible to push around. He did some effective work in curbing Burmese Com munists, At the U.N. he has on occasion squelched even Gromyko in short, pointed speeches he writes himself, in longhand. U Thant is a Buddhist. A man of that faith would be something different in high international councils, but its philosophy might contribute a great deal to world peace. In his speech during U.N. gen eral debate last year. U Thant pointed out that the main obstacle to peace was the world's division into two hostile, ideological camps, "each suspicious and fearful of the other and both scrambling to entice recruits into their respec tive ranks." This would seem to mark U Thant as a neutralist. But he ob served that peace cannot be es. tablished by passive neutralism. U Thant lias urged continuous efforts to reach some agreement on disarmament. And he has been an active supporter of the idea that a ban on nuclear testing is an essential preliminary to an agreement that will halt the arms race. He supported Red China Chou En-Iai's proposal of 1959 for clearing Asia and the Pacific of all nuclear weapons, not ques tioning its good faith. ' . , U Thant supported Secretary General Hammarskjold's actions in carrying out security council resolutions in the Congo. He declared that his government saw no need to modify the secretary-general's functions nor to re organize his office. "The Congo," he said, "marked tlie start of a new phase in U.N. evolution. It is our fervent hope that it will emerge as the world's indispensable agency." With the world in a period of acute crisis, he regarded as a most hopeful sign the fact that all significant campaigns in the cold war are being fought out in the U.N. SAYS ... The Time Inoculation address and phone number of her doctor. Can you tell me where such a locket can be obtained? I am an epileptic and I think I should be provided with something like that. A Write for an application blank to Medic-Alert Foundation, a nonprofit organization at Tur lock. California. Or, in Canada, to 176 St. George St., Toronto 5, Ont. Q Some time ago you recom mended the Papanicolaou test for the early detection of cancer. You said it was painless. I cannot let that statement pass unchallenged, as I took the test with my moth er and two sisters and we all were utterly shocked at the pain. Why do you mislead your readers that way? A I cannot imagine what could have been done to you, your mother and your sisters. But I can promise you that thera need be no pain in the collection of material for the Pap test. . And, even if there were, univer sal application of the test could save the lives of 95 per cent of the 17.000 women who die each year as the result of cancers situated at the mouth of the womb. Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ar predates your comments and questions but regrets that the heavy volume of his mail doesn't permit him to answer each indi vidual letter or post card. How ever, he will comment in columns like the above upon matters o general or unusual interest. i For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "How to Combat the Com mon Cold," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care Herald and News,' Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City SU lion. New York 19, N Y. ' THEY SAY. It blew the whole to'jj away. !t the darn thing didn't even tour'o the school. . O Tim VTardC'piipil at Dougherty. Tex., public school, alter a tor. ydfl O h town of 180 people. o -r3
