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REPORTS PROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
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THERE ARE CROWING indications that the Congress will
remain in session this year until late November, or possibly even
into December. In fact, nearly year-long sessions have become the
rule rather than the exception.
I have long questioned this practice. I doubt the wisdom oi
requiring members of Congress to stay in Washington for a lull
II or 12 months. I know it is not necessary. I his is particularly
true of a year like this one.
Legislative work could of course be speeded up. in committee
and on the floor. I his would result in sizeable savings ot both time
and money. But equally important. 1 believe Senators and Repre
sentatives ought to be able to leave the coniines of official Wash
ington and return to their constituencies for at least a reasonable
portion of the year. Government, even at the national level, should
remain as close to the people as possible. This after all is the
essence of a representative democracy.
♦ * *
ASIDE FROM APPROPRIATIONS to fund the operation of
the government, there are several important issues facing the
Congress this year, such as steps to curb inflation, the surtax, tax
reform, the anti-ballistic missile system controversy, education,
job training, and self-help programs for the needy.
All these demand our attention. They are vital to the well
being of all Americans and to the security of our nation. These
arc high priority items on the legislative agenda, but 1 fail to see
why they should consume a whole year.
And beyond these issues. I for one do not believe that this is
the time for new and expensive ventures in the legislative field.
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THE CONGRESS AND HIE ADMINISTRATION are being
accused in some quarters of inaction. However, in my judgment,
this is in keeping with the mood of the public al the present time.
I do not believe a majority of the people want to see the Con
gress or the new administration rush pell mell into a vast array of
far-reaching programs that will cost more money at a time when
oppressive taxation ami inflation already plague the nation.
The people want and need more time to sit back and take stock,
to reassess and evaluate. The same is true of the Congress. Wc
would do well to complete the business at hand and adjourn sot
the year as early as possible.
(not prepared or printed at yovrmntcnt expense)
QUICK QUIZ
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Q What is the meaning United States immune from
of the name Catherine? arrest?
A This Greek name a —There is nothing in
means pure. the Constitution which
grants him immunity.
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masses to stifle artistic expression!**
To Soothe the Savage Breast
TIMELY
QUOTES
!-♦/ United Press International
NEW YORK—A city official
reacting to a proposal by
planning consultant Walter Tah
bit to convert a cemetery into a
park with ample woods "to
camouflage lovers:”
"Docs Mr. Thabit have plans
to exhume the remains of
500,000 people and transport
them to other cemeteries, or
are the lovers. . . expected to
gambol on the graves?”
PARlS—Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge to the North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong
delegation at the peace talks on
the willingness of the Commu
nists to enter into meaningful
negotiations on the war:
"If your side rejects these
proposals out of hand or even
refuses to discuss them, the
gravest doubt will be cast on
your interest in a negotiated
settlement of the war.”
WASHINGTON—George Wi
ley, president of the National
Welfare Rights Organization, on
the refusal of the federal
government to involve the
NWRO in welfare reform
planning and administration:
"To me it raises serious
questions about whether HEW
plans to have positive relations
with grass roots organizations."
WASHINGTON—Senate Ma
jority Leader Mike Mansfield,
reacting to the possibility that
the ABM proposal which he
opposes, may win approval in
the Senate today:
"We will win in the long
run.”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Aug. 9,
the 221st day of 1969 with 144 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry, Mars and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1831 the first train in the
United States to be powered by
steam made a run between
Albany and Schenectady. New
York.
In 1902 the Prince of Wales
was crowned King Edward VII
following the death of his
mother, Queen Victoria.
In 1945 more than half of the
Japanese city of Nagasaki was
destroyed when America
dropped its second atomic
bomb.
In 1962 Judge James Parsons
of Chicago became the first
Negro to be named to a U.S.
Federal District Court,
A thought for the day:
Admiral Chester Nimitz said,
"’’A ship is referred to as a ‘she’
because it costs so much to
keep one in paint and powder.”
THOUGHTS
SATURDAY
The heavens are telling
the glory of God; and the
firmament proclaims his
handiwork.—Psalms 19:1.
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I love to think of nature
as an unlimited broadcasting
station, through which God
speaks to us every hour, if
we will only tune in.—
George Washington Carver,
American agricultural sci
entist.
B viewpoint
These two
got involved
John Wallace, 26, and Mike Alexander,
14, are two people who got involved in
Griffin.
The other day John Wallace happened
along just after six-year-old Andrew Bark
ley ran in front of a car on East Solomon
street and was desperately injured. Mr.
Wallace got involved. He gave the little
boy artificial respiration and saved his life.
The second involvement came the other
night when Zach Hutcherson, an employe
at Holiday Inn, dived into the swimming
pool and didn't come back up. Mike Alex
ander, 14, son of the night auditor and a
student at Gordon in Barnesville, dived in
and pulled the victim from the depths of
pool. Mike saved his life.
Thank goodness Army veteran John Wal
lace and student Mike Alexander got in
volved. Two people who would have been
dead if they hadn't are alive today because
they did.
We salute them.
To Reach the
Unreachable Star
The accusation is often made, especially by the younger
generation, that America is a nation of hypocrites. We
proclaim a lot of noble ideals in our Declaration of Indepen
dence and Constitution but we fail to live up to them.
Adolf A. Berle, professor emeritus of latv at Columbia
University, recently made a reply to that charge which
bears repeating, even though he is well past 30 and is a
senior member of the Establishment.
Addressing a gathering of school superintendents in New
York, the former assistant secretary of state, ambassador
and government consultant agreed with the accusation of
national shortcomings.
“A good teacher, far from denying this, would at once
admit its truth,” said Berle. “But he would add something
surprising.
“He would say that no society would be worth the price
of admission if it did not proclaim ideals which were be
yond its present realization. For that matter, no man ever
lived up to his ideals either.
“If ever American society fulfills all its ideals, it would
be because the ideals were outrageously low. Seeking goals
beyond your reach is essential—in fact, it is the first prin
ciple of government.”
History, said Berle, is the record of the painful attempts
by society to seek levels beyond its immediate reach and,
if ever it has realized them, to seek still higher goals.
Another way of putting it might be to paraphrase the
words of the poet: A nation’s reach should exceed its grasp
—or what’s a younger generation for?
Too many youthful reformers, however, blessed with
instant wisdom, appear ready to throw out the baby with
the bath water and the teachers along with their teachings.
Their reach, regrettably, exceeds their grasp of history
or of human nature.
Where were you
in 1933?
GAS HOUSE GAZETTE
If there’s anything wrong with this country, it may be
because 60 per cent of the population have no recollection
whatever of the Great Depression. And the Great Depres
sion was a Great Teacher.
Many people think the depression weakened us, both in
dividually and as a nation. Yet sociologists who look be
neath the surface tell us the opposite is true.
Adversity strengthens us, it seems, both physically and
morally. Statistics and the lessons of history tell us that
after each depression our country has bounced back and
gone on to ever higher standards of living. And it is cer
tainly true that this country got up off the canvas in 1941
to fivht and win the most terrible war in history. That was
hardly the performance of a weakling.
Shakespeare summed it up rather neatly when he said
“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, though ugly and
venomous l.ke a toad, wears yet a precious jewel in its
head.”
It’s nice to know that the dark and chilling clouds of de
pression have a silver lining. Perhaps the real question is:
Can we survive continual prosperity?
Chuckling
With Ye Editor Sf
With case prices what they are, instead of “eat, drink
and be merry,” it’s “eat, drink and beware.”
• •••••
“It is but a short stop from the critical to the hypocriti
cal.”—Monroe Advertiser, Forsyth, Ga.
• •••••
Headline over a Drew Pearson column reads, “Sena
tors respect, admire Ted Kennedy.” Well, ye editor is
not a senator and he does not.
BERRY'S WORLD
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"Hi, folks! How are you all enjoying Julie’s tour of the
upstairs today?"
MY
ANSWER, JR
Establishment
I re a d where one of your cri
tics has said th a t you are “an
apostle of the Establishment."
lie mentions your friends h i p
with presidents, and other lead
ers in politics. How do you ans
wer this? R.E.H.
The men who run our govern
ment need our prayers as much
or more than anyone else. The
separation of church and State
doesn't necessarily mean that
the whole leadership of the coun
try is alienated from God.
I have found that men in high
public office become more aw
are of their need of Divine gui
dance than the average citizen
seems to be. Most presidents
don't go to church just to make
an impression, or Just to set an
example, as some think. They
go to God because they have
nowhere else to go. Many peo
ple think of the President as a
slick, wheeler-dealer, who at
tacks every problem with poli
tical astuteness. I happen to
know that many of their decis
ions are wrought in soul-search
ing deliberation and prayer.
The "Leadership” carries res
ponsibilities for the rest of us,
who are sometimes spiritually
negligent. The Bible says: "Ho
nor all men. Love the brother
hood. Fear God. Honor the King
(the Leadership).”
QUICK QUIZ
Q — W hi c h was the
nation’s worst coal mine dis
aster?
A— The highest toll in a
U.S. mine accident was the
361 lost at Monongah,
W. Va., Dec. 6, 1907.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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At Roman gladiators’
contests, the crowd could
decide whether the van
quished should be killed or
not. Waving handkerchiefs
meant life, while turning
thumbs down meant death,
The World Almanac says.
The ancients noticed that
after death a person’s
thumbs seem to turn into
his palms, so to the Ro
mans “thumbs down”
meant death, and now it is
an expression of disap
proval.
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Religious Briefs
Priest’s Stories
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (UPI) -
A collection of personal stories
of 12 Catholic priests who have
left the active ministry has been
edited by the Rev. John A.
O’Brien and published by
Hawthorne Books.
Father O’Brien, research
professor of theology at the
University of Notre Dame, says
in a preface that he first turned
down the invitation to edit such
a book but changed his mind
when the U.S. Bishops decided
to study new conditions facing
the American Church, including
compulsory celibacy.
A Library
From Stamps
ST. LOUIS (UPI) -
Construction of a library 8,500
miles away at Martin Luther
Seminary in Lae, New Guinea,
will be aided by $35,000 raised
through sale of stamps collected
by members of The Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod.
A check for that amount was
presented by Raymond E.
Hodges, president of Stamps for
Missions, to the Rev. Dr. Oliver
R. Harms, president of The
Lutheran Church-Missouri
Synod, and co-sponsor of the
New Guinea seminary.
In the Stamps for Missions
project, individuals and groups
in many LC-MS churches save
and sort stamps and ship several
tons a year to church
Writers
novelist,
Thomas
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band
38 On the
sheltered side
39 Undertake
42 Man’s name
43 Factual items
44 Exclamation
of satisfaction
45 Symbol for
i illinium
46 Cry of
~ satisfaction
48 Roman
household
gods
51 Soviet river
53 Put an end to
56 Get up
57 Female sheep
58 Greek portico
59 Distinct part
60 Basic color
61 Soothsayer
62 Disorder
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Indian
2 Typist’s
expunger
ACROSS
1 English
theologian
and historian
5 19th-century
French writer
9 American
poet
12 By mouth
13 Retired to
sleep
14 Footed vase
15 College cheers
16 Telegraph
(coll.)
17 Cushion
18 Canadian
writer (1849-
1919)
20 Droop
22 Preposition
23 East Indies
(ab.)
24 Winglike
parts
27 Scent
29 Rogue
31 Equal
32 “Emerald
Isle"
33 Philippine
sweetsop
34 German
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Dynamism Urged
For Church Union
NEW YORK (UPI) - The
church that results from the
proposed union of nine major
Protestant denominations must
be “equipped for service in a
rapidly changing world,” says
The United Church Herald,
monthly periodical of the 2
million-member United Church
of Christ.
Referring to the Consultation
of Church Union, the formal
effort to bring about such a
union, The Herald said:
“The massive tasks facing the
churches in the 70s — the need
for renewing congregations in
small towns and suburbs as well
as in the inner city; the need for
self-giving senice to starving,
suffering humanity; the need for
ministering to the lost and
lonely — may be overlooked
. completely if the nine
denominations become
preoccupied with putting a
, structural jigsaw puzzle
, together.”
j Stories in Glass
, WASHINGTON (UPI) -
There are 53 story-telling
windows in the new National
’ Presbyterian Church and Center
5 here. They are made of 60,000
! individual pieces of cut colored
1 glass. Each piece was
1 individually shaped and cut.
Answer to Previous Puxxle
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mathematician
34 English
dramatist
• 35 Moslem man’s
name
37 Busy insect
40 Like titmice
41 Postulate
> (logic)
42 Sea duck
43 Italian
medieval poet
47 Bohemian
reformer
49 Cuckoopint
50 Hardens, as
cement
52 Man’s
nickname
54 Female deer
55 Boating
implement
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3 Perennial
plant
4 Otherwise
5 Jurisprudence
6 Japanese sash
7 Succinct
8 Mental image
9 Young dog
10 Speechmakers
11 Witch of
(Bib.)
, 19 French poet
21 German
classic
25 Malayan
gibbon
26 City in
ancient Gaul
28 English river
30 Roman
philosopher
31 French
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