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PAGE TWO BRENHAM BANNER PRESS MONDAY SURE 29,1970
EDITORIALS - 7
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Editorials & Features •
. In Life’s Symphony
• Sometimes it seems that life today is too full of crises to
enlovable at least if you are a person who wares at all -
2Cout hat happens to the United States and to the world
Vietnam and the rest of Indochina, the Mideast, racial
clashes, the arms race, poverty and pollution, increases in
crime-these and other problems weigh heavily upon the
mind and conscience of many Americans. •
But daily living still goes on, everywhere, and once in
“awhile, perhaps, it is healthy to take a look at the events
that on any given week may. occupy the attention of an
American community. 1
Take Hazleton, Pa., a community of about 32,000 men,
women and children, an unknown number of dogs, some
cats, many goldfish, quite a few turtles and maybe a few
gerbils. Look at what Hazleton was doing around the
- - middle of June: -—— ’
• Four thousand Hazletonians attended the crowning of
the Polish Summer Festival queen, Kathryn Gayle Sobol,
and a fireworks display. •
• An antique auto show by the Hazleton Area Antique
Auto Club drew a good list of entries and many admiring if you are too lazy or did not that The Wall
spectators . superstitious to count up to 10 nor say I "A
- • Boy Scout Troop l?of st Scaephs Choneh held a bake. 13, you will never win any Street Journal to’ dusually
_.--sale--pr azeeds To buy tents and other camp equipment, major bridge competition ante yp elendly w mis Ad
"orii-usbetn J horse show and but you can still enjoy the ministration--said it, Why?
_ so The third 20a Surerient Mwaineesrar-ana game--------------- The Administration’s be- itary dictatorship.
riders, with anernoon and evening entertainment as a . North had err* = ECCM-E masts 1
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. A youth group held its annual car wash, and the of the one-diam response.
Hazleton Rotary Club inaugurated its new president while bid was eminently correct .
members’ wives applauded. emineny to they became a larger menace
• Cub Scouts took a field trip, and Hazleton State General to Tame Not that to that government. •
Hospital School of Nursing “capped" 25 women and two North was optimistic. He didWe were assured that the
men e two aces but it looked Cambodian intrusion would sh-
• The 1945 Hazleton High School graduating class met to him as if it would be up, orten the war and faciliate our
to plan its 25th reunion, and a resident of nearby Miners- jo his - partner to produce
ville. Pa., caught a state record black crappie fish in the the other seven tricks.
Sweet Arrow Lake (it was 29 inches long). . North made a comment to
- Now none of these events shook the world, or even that effect as he put down
jiggled it a little. But, in their way, they were important, the dummy, whereupon
* Because the world; war-torn and deteriorating as it may South assured him that there
seem at times, is made up of “little people" like pretty was a third trick concealed
Kathy Sobol, antique car fanciers. Boy Scouts and Cub among North’s cards.
Scouts, eighth grade graduates, Sugarloaf Valley equestri- South did this after count-
' ans, Rotarians, and men who like to fish for crappies, ing to nine tricks provided
Whether we live in a metropolis, a smaller city or the he could score with North’s
country, we somehow find our lives being enlivened or nine of hearts.
saddened by the little events that we share. We do what _ Resisting the temptation
we can, if possible, to affect the major events of our time, “ to go after more, South won
8 but when it comes down to everyday reality, family and the spade lead with his
immediate surroundings' are what we most often give the queen and played his king
highest priority: ■ of hearts. From then on it
And would anyone have it any other way? didn’t matter how East and
... West defended. South was
* 1 c I sure to establish that nine
MGY Day! scorpions Loose of hearts while dummy still
one --No of the Senate’s version of postal reform has held an ace an entry * .
4 Peiiea,′ % 22.777 a cay y..Supee Son o dm tool, aindoch ina--this year.
■ It permits transmission by mail of live scorpions for use - would have won the spade
• in research or antivenom production. iead in dummy and a heart
. * Postal employes are protected by packaging require- to his 10 This would have ... „„ .- - . with
ments. But what about passengers in airplanes, traveling been fine if East held the the President s policy after ally the semester ended with
with air mail? : queen but West did hold the Cambodla. nothing done.
. A Never fear..Only nonpassenger planes may be, used for queen Now, if West con- Whatever the President it is too late now, I sup-
* the scorpions. That’s reassuring. A few scorpions loose on tinued spades, South would might do with respect to such pose, to arrange a telethon
a flight to Miami would be more dangerous than a hijacker, still get that nine of hearts a sensitive consideration as with college students. How-
Even a hijacker can be reasoned, with. in But West just might see this, you’d expect carping and ever, that doesn’t mean that a close friend named Bill Ro-
* ------- — .-■--,.,,-4...............that spades would be hope- criticizing from the political something beneficial can’t be gers. Wonder whatever happ-
+ • less and shift to the seven left. salvaged from the governor’s* ened to him. .”
T J 1 : to do DEhteT ha But The Wall Street Jour- Suereston. e
Today In History * • to win with the king and nai- and the customarily con- it occurred to me that Nixr
—---—__I Vuer Ill ■ 113IV1 | play a secon<j heart. East servative senator s from Geor- on could use this means ol
Be United Press International could grab his ace, lead a gia are usually found on the By PHIL PASTORET,
me u st me arrac second diamond, knock out political right, establishing closer contact if you re planning to win
oday oneax suns 1M 1 145 the * * - arres ♦ dummy’s ace and leave that The Administration cannot with other groups that feel any money from one fellow
the 180th day of 1970 with 185 ed 2,700 Jews in an attempt nine-spot of hearts high and dismiss these as either left- alienated or isolated from the we know—don’t gamble on
... to follow. to put down terrorism in Pal- dry. wind acifatore or lihoralintol-nrocident it
The moon is between its last estine, (Newspoper Enterprise Assn.)
quarter and new phase. .. In 1961 the United States
The morning stars are Mer- orbited three satellites at the
cury and Saturn, same time.
• The evening stars are Ve- In 1964 the sister of Cu- Q The bidding has been
nus, Mars and Jupiter, ban Premier Fidel Castro de- West
Draft-age men in the Unit- fected to Mexico. Pass
ed States born on this date ........You South hold:
are number 353 in the lott- A thought for the day: Bri- 42 VAK54 4Q842 4K397 eaty commitments for their
~ ' tish poet Lord Byron said, „ What do you do now? security--in Latin America,
On this day-in history: "I speak not of man’s creeds. A—Bid four clubs. Your part- Europe, the Middle East, other
* In 1852 American statesman They rest between man and his ner has shown some strength parts of Asia--”
Henry Clay died in Washington, maker.” • and your double is a sound one. As we say In the Missouri
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The Shift of Power
To White House
By BRUCE BIOSSAT '
NEA Washington Correspondent
Paul Harvey- This whole thing involvils 4
House establishment
a ,-. I F I business than some
Pres dent s Friends Dovish’or urtee ^^w^
-------* . has been either too innocent or tinged too much with an
As have Peru, Panama, Bo- attitude of patient wait and see
livia, Brazil, Uruguay--in our . The reality is that. President Nixon’s creation olan
own home hemisphere.cic of Mange smite "not"te el. nue department and
But wouldn’t a multiplicity agency operations, is a big whack at the cabinet system
of land wars involving our for- Evidently,' not many know it but, .when the new set up
ces in Latin America-be pre- was first laid before the cabinet a few months ago. many
1 ‘‘ members—in the words of a source close to some- re-
acted violently." '
Already deprived of power over policy through-a process .
invoning ... resident, the White. ..
and the cabinet is a 'much stormier *
government watchers seem to have
• By PAUL HARVEY
Banner Columnist
When President Nixon goes
on TV to explain his Indo-
china policy, he seems to be
making a lot of sense.
But later, you get to mul-
ling over this entire involve-
- ment and it doesn’t make sense
at alL
Ozarks, let’s shuck right down
to the cob. Most'everyone, in
the Administration and out,
now concedes that it was a
mistake to involve American
troops in a land war in Asia.
Most everyone agrees that
we must disengage ourselves.
tty silly?
We say we’ll give in on ev-Paul Harvey, are you sugg- autdu, ue ..... .. __________,.
erything except "self-deter- esting we should just pick up of attrition that.has seen this authority pass to the White
mination” for the people of and leave Indochina as is? House over recent years, the cabinet leaders tear prob
South Vietnam. - . 1 don’t think there’s any ar- ably with sound reason, that the new creation will leave
They don’t have self-deter- gument about that. The only them very little useful control at all.
=mination now; they have a mil-questions are how soon and The trouble with judging the change wisely is that per-
how many die first.-=D mower relationships got entangled, maybe inevitably.
-________________in quite legitimate presidential condemovers howlostamen—.-
acein _. . policy and get it past Washington's huge bureaucratic ice,
.' bergs into the open waters of real execution
war since the Cambodian op- The Lighter Side--. The charge on the President’s Ash commission to review
eramon. ... , . the cabinet system was laid out early in the game before:....., —
We chased the enemy from -Y p ■ , A . I | | the big chunks of power around the White House began to
the border sanctuaries in- PINAnt IAusle sica he grabbed off
biSouth’s twonedump,tet to Cambodia’s interior where IresiGeNT COuId USC Nixon, from the outset. saw what any incoming president
Northemar“ehentedIto they became a larger menace would have to see The White House staff has been grow
g to that m---ment _ is. ing apace for years, not just to take on some of his In. - .
I nifato escapably enlarging burdens but to serve as a v ital pi od
I ylvIllUll 1 V VUAIIIIU 1 V CI 1 V to the glacial bureaucracy . . - -
-------—===========--------- ---= It was his early dream publiclyvoiced before he took
withdrawal. Now it appears so. By DICK WEST “Oh, yes. Good to hear no office, to someno 1520. me
many South Vietnamese may WASHINGTON (UPI) - In om you,'Wally. Long time, no departments, thrust power back into cairey frin.eicom.
have to stay in Camdodla that early spring, when the White see. Do you have a question press the White House staff
it may lengthen the war. So House was considering ways for me?" The actuality has been just the opposite Even before the
far it has retarded-not ac- to improve communications “Yes, I do, Mr. President, new reorganization plan surfaced, he had bin tthe largest
celerated -- our own troop with the youth of America, I would like to know how you White House staff on record, 1 olicy formation as con
withdrawal rate. - a Republican governor sugges- feel about my proposalfor cut- centrated in his es a is imen mor < in eve . over
Now former Hawks, of the ted that President Nixon en- ting down the size of the Wh- The President's undeniable preference for reign OX
stature of Georgia’s Sen. Her- gage in a telethon with college ate House staff and ' mak- domes tinamMics iusre when mat Deen-nied ami. W
ing more effective use of your John Ehrlichman and Robert Haldeman, *
Cabinet." „ i . By men who ought to know, they. are described as
don t believe I m farni— supreme domestic’power-wielders who work in.close tan
liar with that proposal, Wally dem Haldeman is the final guardian of, the President s
Why don’t you send me a mem - door (deciding whom he shall see 1, Ehrlichman holds
on it?" - : crucial policy sway over the wide domestic spectrum
“I sent you a memo three which the President tends to neglect:
man Talmadge, are switching, students.
Talmadge says the United 1 hope everyone knows what
States is overcommitted mil- a telethon is because they are
itarily, economically and pol- difficult to explain in print,
itically throughout the world. You almost have to see one to
He says the burden of trying believe it.
to carry on to war in South- However, the basic idea is
east Asia is too great, too that college students would call
months ago. How can 1 make
certain that it comes to your
disruptive, too costly for 045 in questions about mattersthat
own country. - were troubling them and the attention?
He urges that we get all President would answer over "Why don’t you try leaking
our troops altogether out of television, it to the press?”
pe no ---------- ,—. ------At first, the. White House “...Mr, President, this
222 W 572 Russell, Tong-seemed receptive to the sug= — is Bill Rogers over at Sta- . It tle a
time respected voice in mill—t*^«^*^A^itini&^4BK^;.U“--™w~^
tary affairs, also “broke with ther kept cropping up, and fin-
It is the view of knowledgeable people with lines into the
White House that somewhere along the route the Ash
commission studies got diverted from Nixon s announced
dream .
What we have got. in fact, is a further enlargement of
White House power, engulfing the already enormous hut.
little appreciated anonymous authority of the Budget -
Land-urther draw ing off responsibilities hitherto
“Start Farm ============================
On the surface a good cascan-be+T---R A.
. . . ordering Not only has the bureaucracy grown as an
That s the department that us- obstruction, but the White House staff working as a prod
ed to be involved in U.S. for- has been increasingly lost in a tangle of confusing decision
eign policy.”
“I remember. I usedto have
“No, the State Department.
BARBS
making More bodies and better structure make sense, in
theory: 1 ,
But the realistic watchers say the true prospect is that:
matters will get worse, not better They see another
bureaucratic layer, potentially suffocating being sand
wiched into the White Howe establishment itsell which
already is topheavy with faceless power-users in crucial
spots like the Budget Bureau ,
And they see more power than ever in the personal
realm, for the Mini filling team of Ehrlichman-and Hade
man, notwithstanding George Shultz s imaginative capaci-
ty and the President's mgh regard for him
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lectuals. Specifically,! was thinking
But the very fact that Pre- ' about possible telethon be-
sident Nixon’s policy sounds so tween the President and his
plausible when he explains it "Cabinet. Portions of which mi-
on television demonstrates the ght go something like this:
effectivemess of the old ar- ", Thant vAn Tahnand
guments in favor of “those
nations and peoples who rely
on American’s power and tr-
... Thank you, John and
by Coker & Penn
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by Frank O’Neal
We never cry over spilt
milk—the stuff's watery
enough as it is, these
days:
Considering the speed at
which it moves in our town,
they should call it "public
antsportation."
Martha. Now let’s have the
next call.’1
“Mr. President, this is Wal-
ly Hickel."
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