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Tu«id«y. Doctmbor 17, 1968
Editorials And Features #
Top Court
. ^ , Watchers
Nixon Has To Contend Ready
With Postal Problems
Tucked in with ail the problems the
Nixon administration will be inheriting
come January soil be at least one pending
proposal for solving a problem.
If for no other reason, it should be
welcome as relief from monotony. But
there is some cause for hope that the new
team in Washington will see more in it
than that
Involved are t,he U.S. mails and a
recommendation, submitted by a special
presidential commission, that the Post
Office be removed from politics by-
converting it from a cabinet department
into a non-profit government corporation.
The proposed agency would be managed
by professionals, would have considerable
autonomous control over its own budget
and personnel, areas of authority long
jealously held prerogatives of Congress,
and would, if is anticipated, eventually
pay its own way. eliminating chronic
deficits currently running at $1 billion
yearly.
As the brainchild of former Postmaster
General Lawrence O'Brien, the
commission started out with the blessing
of the Johnson administration. But its
findings ran into the opposition of
O'Brien’s successor, Marvin Watson, most
of the postal unions and key congressmen
on committees dealing with Post Office
affairs. Not surprisingly, the corporation
proposal has been gathering dust since last
summer.
It should be dusted off and it appears
very likely that it will be. Implementing
legislation is expected to be introduced in
the new Congress. And if President-elect
Nixon’s campaign statements calling for
full consideration of the commission’s
recommendations are any indication, he is
sympathetic.
There can be little argument that the
mails are in bad shape and badly in need
of overhauling. It may turn out that the
corporation proposal is not the best way
of accomplishing this but, at the very
least, it deserves a hearing.
Not So Merry
And now a good word for the mailman.
Estimates are that some 10 billion
pieces of Christmas mail will have been
delivered on time and reasonably intact by
the overburdened couriers by the time the
holiday season comes to its merciful end.
that is as mufch' mail as a major country
such as France moves in an entire year.
Put another way, it is 50 gifts, cards and
letters for every man, woman and toddler
in the nation.
This may be the season to be merry for
the rest of us, but for the mailman it’s a
month of the miseries.
THE DOCTOR SAYS
Open Heart Captures
Meaning of Christmas
By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT, M.D,
Hit Or
Myth
Ever since the world be-
gan, the young have sought,
hot very Successfully, I fear,
to change it—to rid it of hy-
pocrisy, bigotry and conflict.
In an agony of frustration,
many of the youths of today-
have become “flower chil-
dren.” Their watchword is
Love. The Christmas season
is certainly the time to give
some substance to the uni-
, versal need for love and
never was this need greater
than in fast-fading 1968.
This love must, however,
be more than tolerance or an
absence of hate. It must be a
desire to be of service to
others, born of understand-
ing and compassion. It must
not be an artificial "turning
on” with "mind-expanding”
drugs that temporarily blot
out reality and often have
harmful effects both on the
user and, later, on his off-
spring. If we are to capture,
the true meaning of Christ-
mas, we must do so with an
unclouded mind and-an open
heart. ■ ,
Q—The doctors tell my
mother, 66, She is too old to
have her tonsils out. She has
frequent sore, throats and
spits up curdlike lumps from
her tonsils. What do you ad-
vise?
A—Most enlarged tonsils
have deep crypts in which
cheesy material, made up of
bacteria and dead cells from
the lining of the crypts,
form. No one is too old to
have his tonsils out but, un- .
less your mother’s tonsils
are definitely infected or in-
terfere with her swallowing,
there is no reason why they
should come out. . As strate-
gically placed lymph nodes,
they perform a useful func-
tion in preventing local in-
fections in the head and neck
from getting into the blood
stream. Removal of the ton-
sils will not of itself prevent
subsequent sore throats.
Q—I am past 65 and have
red. swollen tonsils. Aren't
tonsils supposed to dry up in
older people? If not, can they
be treated without an opera-
tion?
A—Tonsils that are en-
larged in childhood may or
may not shrink as one grows
older but they do not disap-
pear completely. They do
not have to be treated at any
age just because they are
there, although this was the
practice some 40 or 50 years
ago,
Q—How long can one use
ipdine in the treatment of
goiter without injury to other
organs?
A—It may be used indefi-
nitely if the dosage is care-
fully adjusted to your needs.
IHvmpoptr enterprise Asm.)
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
No, Gwendolyn, .•‘Drink to
Me Only With Thine Eyes”
is not the temperance
society's theme song
If man could travel at
. the speed of light, , he’d
still have to waste three
hours getting to and. from
the time machine.
Of course, Santa lives at
the North Pole rather than
the South Pole. You never
heard Santa go “Ho-ho-ho,
you-all.” did you?
Do it now. It wtll give)
you more time the rest of
the day to correct it,
Bible Verse
THEREFORE WILL 1 divide
him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoii
with the strong; because he
hath poured out his soul unto
death: and he was numbered
with the transgressors; and he
bare the sin of many, and
made intercession for the trans-
gressors. Isaiah 53:12
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AUSTIN (Spi - PLAIN
TALK: According to the
Brownsville Herald, Rio Grande
Valley law enforcement officers
biamed parents and "gutless
judges” for current marijuana
problems. "A dope peddler is
like a pickpocket, he’s got to
operate in crowds," said
Brownsville Police Chief Gus
Krausse, Most of our marijuana
problems originate because an
awful lot of kids in the Valley do
an awful lot of dancing, surfing
and attend night parties with
combos.
"You'd be surprised how many
parents come crying with
pregnant daughters,” he said.
"But when you let 15 and 16 year
old girls go to places where 19
and 20-year-old boys are — some
ofthem just out oi the service--
you're looking for trouble ....
Judges have a responsibility to
the citizens of a community. It's
easy to put a juvenile on
probation and say 'I'm gonna
save a soul,’ but when a judge
puts one boy on probation and
saves one soil, he’s enticing 100
souls to take a chance and go
wrong,
"There’s just one way to deal
with a bad apple0— separate it
from the rest of the apples in the
barrel,” he said. "When a far-
mer has insects in his fields, he
knows he must get them out,”
What this country needs is an-
nother violence committee ap-
pointed by the President to dig
into the findings of the violence
committee which created such
violent feelings over ts report on
violence.
DEEP SIX: Writing, in the
Austin American, DERRO
EVANS said U.S. Postmaster
General Marvin Watson believes
that sometime during the next 12
years the term of the President
will be changed and that it
should be changed to six years
with a one-term limit "The
presidency, for one thing must
be above politics,” Watson said.
“Therefore, the president should
not be compelled to play any
kind of politics in seeking a
second term . . Our next step
will be to accept the format of
the six-year presidency,”
Watson predicted. "When we
achieve this, we will have made
a remarkable step forward. Four
years is too short a period. Eight
years is too long. One six-year
lernr gives the man and the
party enough time to accomplish
the mission chosen by the
electorate.”
Nixon probably can't be cer-
tain he's getting a four-year
term, since the Supreme Court
has such a phobia for change and
he is supposed to take the oath
from Chief Justice Earl War-
ren. And he shouldn't get
over-confident just because it
says four years in the Con-
stitution.
THOUGHTS
Never measure the height
of a mountain until you have
reached the top. Then you
will see how low it was.—
Dag Hammarskjold, former
U.N. secretary general.
By SEN. "EV" DIRKSKN
None of Richard Nixon's ac-
tions will be watched with
greater interest than what he
does with respect to the U.8.
Supreme Court.
Certain echoes of the Abe
Fortas case can now be clearly
heard, and it would be strange
indeed if the first session of
the 91st Congress, which will
convene on Jan. 3, does not
deal with the naming of justices
to the court, including the mat-
ter of finding a chief justice
to replace Earl Warren upon
his long - planned retirement
It is fair to say the court has
lost public esteem There are
reasons for such a development.
There are those who have tak-
en exception to the liberality
of. the court’s decisions. Others
differ sharply with the court on
the school prayer case, some
don't like the many 5-to-i split
decisions of the court, and many
Americans feel that the high
court should have taken a dif-
ferent course in still other
cases. Whatever the reasons,
the court has suffered in public
esteem.
The Constitution empowers
the President to nominate just-
ices to the court, a power that
can be exercised exclusively by
him. The nomination, of course,
has to be presented to the Sen-
ate for confirmation, and if the
nominee fails to win Senate
approval he cannot be seated
as a member of the Supreme
Court.
A proposed constitutional
amendment to provide a differ-
ent method of selection will
be offered in the 9lst Congress
by Democrat Sen. Sam Ervin
Jr. of North Carolina, a former
chief justice of that state’s
supreme court.
Over the years, and especially
in that period when the court
was sharply divided and turned
in what appeared to be all too
many 5-to-i split decisions, the
opinion of a single justice of
the court was, in fact, determin-
„ ing social, political and eco-
nomic policy.
The very thought of such a
thing is dreadful to contem-
plate.
What Sen. Ervin proposes is
that, when a vacancy occurs,
the President shall convene a
conference of the presiding
judge of the highest appellate
court in each state and the
chief judge of each of the U.S.
Circuit Courts of Appeal. A total
of 60 judges would thus be eli-
gible to attend. By majority
vote, the conference would be
empowered to select five or
more persons whom it deemed
qualified for a seat on the U.S.-
Supreme Court. Those names
would be submitted to the
President who then would se-
lect one and send it to the Sen-
ate for confirmation. If that
nominee were not confirmed,
the others would in turn be se-
lected and sent to the Senate
until one received confirmation.
Obviously, such a new plan
for selection will require an
amendment to the Constitution,
and that means that both the
Senate and the House, by a
two-thirds vote, must first enact
a resolution for an amendment
that then must be ratified by
three-fourths of the 50 states.
This proposal will be wideb-
and vigorously debated because,
among other things, it takes
away from the President the
actual, exclusive, unlimited
power that he now has to sub-.
mit his own choice for justices
of the court.
Presently, there is no actual
or stated pattern under whieh
justices or the chief justice are
considered. Certain it is that
after the experience of the Sen-
ate in the Fortas case the sen-
ators will be sharply alert to the
qualifications of anyone .who is
named to the high bench.
It is entirely possible that
President Nixon may be called
upon to make a number of ap-
pointments to the court. The
Ervin proposal will be a long
Ume in becoming reality, if it
does receive final approval of
the needed majority of states.
Justice Hugo Black is past 80
and may retire. Justice John
Harlan has an aggravated eye-
sight condition, and Justice
William Douglas is said to
have a heart ailment which con-
ceivably could incapacitate him.
Time alone may give Mr.
Nixon the duty of making a
number of appointments.
The President-elect is a law-
yer. and until right now a
practicing lawyer. He is quite
familiar with the general views
of the various bar associations
on court appointments. He is
also familiar with the general
attitude of the country, and it
is certain that before makmg
any appointment to the Supreme
Court he would explore not only
the qualifications of a possible
appointee but also the likelihood
that if he sent a name to the
Senate the appointee would be
confirmed.
Washington Merry- Go-Round-
Public May Get Voice
In Highway Locations
By DREW PEARSON
AND JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Secretary
of Transportation Alan Boyd,
one-time Florida cracker who
has become s defender of Negro
ghetto residents, is leaving an
important precedent for his
successor. Gov. John Volpe of
Massachusetts, the big build
er.
Secretary Boyd is holding
hearings this week which will
set a definite policy of giving
the public the right to get in
on the ground floor regarding
. the routing of future thruways.
In the past, thruways - have
frequently been routed by state
federal engineers, and only after
the plan was firmly fixed was
the public consulted regarding
the route. This meant that
those whose residences and
businesses would be torn up by
the bulldozers had almost
nothing to say about it.
Secretary Boyd has decreed
that this is wrong, that there
should be two bearings, as fol-
lows;
1. Early, before the route is
definitely fixed and when the
public can express its pros and
cons;
2. After the engineers, con-
sidering public protests, have
tentatively fixed the route.
This week the highway lobby,
made up of tire, oil and gas
and concrete Interests, plus the
Automobile Manufacturers Asso-
ciation, is testifying before
Boyd’s Transportation Depart-
ment against the two step high-
way hearing rule.
THE LOBBY, however, is not
likely to change Boyd. He has
watched the local battle in the
District of Columbia where
people rebelled against thruways
disrupting their homes and the
beauty of the Potomac. They
were backed recently by the
U.S. Court of Appeals which
ruled that the people had a
right to be heard before a final
decision was made.
The District of Columbia con-
troversy is certain to go to
Congress where Rep. William
Natcher of Kentucky has mys-
teriously become the great
friend of the highway lobby-
even to the point of threatening
to ban a subway for the na-
tion's capital unless it agrees
to thruways. A lot of people are
very curious as to why Natcber
has become the one-man cham-
pion of the highway lobby.
In Nashville, Tenn., also,
there’s been a revolt against
highways which will put Negro
businesses on dead-end streets
at the very same time that the
federal government is trying to
promote black capitalism. A
two-step hearing system might
have avoided this.
New Secretary of Transport*
tion John Vo^se baa been both
an efficient governor of Mas-
sachusetts and an efficient high-
way builder. The John A. Volpe
Construction Company Is one
of the biggest in the nation.
But the latter has put Volpe
dose to the concrete lobby It
will be interesting to see how
he lines up regarding thruways.
KEEP AN EYE on Waiter
Annenberg, publisher of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide,
Seventeen, and owner of five
TV stations, to become Secre
tary of the Navy. The President-
elect was recently entertained
at Annenberg’s palatial estate at
Palm Springs, Calif., along with
Gov. Ronald Reagan of Cali-
fornia .... Bill Paley, chair-
man of CBS, is in line to be
ambassador to England. His
brother-in-law, Jock Whitney,
publisher of the now defunct
New York Herald Tribune,
served there under Ike. Paley's
vice president, William Stakes
pea re, was Nixon’s TV adviser
during the campaign, also mas-
terminded the "cabinet extrava-
ganza” in which RN announced
his new official family ...
Democrats are still smarting
over the way the networks
manhandled coverage of the
Democratic convention at Chi-
cago. They figure it cost Hubert
Humphrey more than the 499,
000 votes by which he lost to
Nixon. They believe that the
heads of all three networks, not
merely CBS, deserve ambassa-
dorships.
Sen. “Scoop" Jackson, D
Wash., bowed out as Secretary
of Defense in the Nixon Cabinet
because he was skeptical of
working with a GOP Cabinet
also figured it would dampen
any future prospect to become
Vice President or President.
Jackson, a handsome, attrac-
tive Senator, and former Chair-
man of the Democratic National
Committee, will probably go
places within his own party . ..
When he was in the House of
Representatives, Jackson took
young California Congressman
Richard Nixon under his wing.
They have been good friends
ever since . . . Sargent Shriver
continues to have "in-law”
trouble. When Hubert Humphrey
wanted to make him his Vice
Presidential running mate last
August, Hubert telephoned Sen.
Teddy Kennedy, Shriver’s broth-
er-in-law, and got a blunt no.
The Kennedys didn't want Shriv
er built up for a future candi-
date for President against Ted
dy . . . After Shriver was of-
fered the U.N. ambassador-
ship by Nixon, be flew to Wash-
ington to confer with his broth
er-in-law. This time Teddy was
not enthusiastic. If Shriver be-
comes part of the Nixon ad-
ministration, it might embarrass
Kennedy when he runs for
President in 1972 and has to
attack Nixon.
HUBERT HUMPHREY, criti-
cized during the campaign for
poor organization, will have to
expand die so-called “Minne-
sota Mafia” in order to rebuild
the Democratic party, During
the recent campaign, HHH had
to rely chiefly on his Minnesota
friends, plus Larry O'Brien, He
got a late start and had trouble
getting other support.
As titular leader of the Demo-
cratic party, the vice president
now must perfect an organize
tion to every state, according
to Democrats who are suspicious
of the Minnesota Mafia. ”
TIMELY
QUOTES
When someone is spend
ing millions on a film, 1
don’t think it's too much to
ask you to take your clothes
off. It’s not like asking you
to change your religion or
anything.
—Genevieve Waite, South
African actress, on nudity
in her new film.
Bridge
Tips
By Oswald & James Jacoby
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West North East South
Pass Pas* 2 *
Dble 5 9 Dble Pass
Pass Pass
Opening lead— *K
South’s opening of two dia-
monds was one of those
weak two bids that have be-
come standard equipment
for American experts. Not
that this particular one was
standard. A weak two should
be based on a six-card suit
and South , ad only five dia-
monds
West’s double was for take-
out and North jumped to five
diamonds to jam the East-
West bidding.
sat East,
between a five-heart bid and
a double. He was not going
to pass because his ace, king
and queen represented a lot
of strength after everyone
else had hid.
He decided to double on
the well-established theory
that, If you are going to get
the worst of a hand, at least
get the worst with a plus. He
was certain that he could
beat five diamonds. He
wasn’t certain that he could
make five hearts.
Actually, he would have
had no trouble making five
hearts and scoring 450
points. He did a trifle better
against five diamonds.
Clubs were opened and
continued, with South ruffing
the third lead. South, led a
low heart and Bobby' Gold-
man played his jack just in
case South held the queen
and 10.
If Billy had simply let that
jack hold, South would have
saved a trick by working out
spade end play but Billy
overtook the jack with his
queen and led a spade. After
this, there was no way for
South to go down less than
three tricks and Billy and
Bobby scored 500 instead of
450.
This doesn't seem like
much but in a World’s
Championship those 50s
mount up.
Q—The bidding has been
West North East South
1W
Pass t * Pass ?
You, South, hold;
*J 4 WA K 98 7 ♦KJI *Qtt
What do you do now?
A—Bid one no-trump. You
have a minimum hand of no-
tramp pattern,
TODAY’S QUESTION
You bid one no-trump and
your partner bids two hearts.
What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
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