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PAGE FOUR—-Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald, Friday, January 20, 1989
L.M. -
Boyd
OPINION
PAPER INVENTOR
Q. Did the fellow who invented
paper mike a fortune?
A. One did. T'sai Lun of China in
A.D. 105 was amoung the many who
get the paper-making credit. He
became rich, started consorting with
the place crowd, and wound up killing
himself.
If a sentinel at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier is seen to let his rifle
touch the ground, he’s relieved of
duty.
A lady who still perculates her
coffee puts a thimble over the center
tube of the perculator so no grounds
get into the water.
Was a time when only pink and red
roses smelled like roses.
HANDGUNS
Veteran police never call a revolver
a pistol or vice versa. Neither do veter-
an police reporters. These handguns
are used in evidence and the terminol-
ogy is exact. It's a pistol if the
cartridge is fired either from the
breech or barrel. It’s a revolver if the
cartridge is fired from the revolving
cylinder.
What can you do with old railways?
Am told about 3,000 miles of same are
abandoned nationwide every year.
THANKS GRANDMA
If your grandmother tries to over-
feed you — many still do — you'd
better thank her most sincerely. So
advises a professional advise-giver.
It’s what she needs — your apprecia-
tion. Once, her rewards included
romance and money plus numerous
untold adventures. But in time, this
savant avers, your gratitude becomes
her foremost final payoff.
Pretty smart, the potato. After a
beetle's first bite into it, said potato
puts out a foul substance. So after the
second bite, the beetle goes “ptuii!”Or
something like that.
The Nile’s current flows north.
Under wind that blows south. So a Nile
sailor can go either way at will. Scho-
lars think it’s where the first sailboats
worked.
CLOSE FRIEND
Young lady, do you know anyone
you’d categorize as a “close friend”? If
not, you’re among the 23 percent who
likewise tell pollsters: acquaintances,
yes but close friends, no. Is it not
surprising so many are without special
friends?
The proverbial Chinese say:
“Experience is a comb that Nature
gives us when we're bald.”
You know that flying horse of myth
and marketing? Impossible critter.
Scientists say no wings a horse could
flap would ever support its body
weight. If it were a dog, maybe. Or
even a man.
CHRISTMAS TREE
No, sir, that blue spruce on the
Ellipse in Washington, D.C., was not
the Nation’s official Christmas tree. A
267-foot Sequoia called the General
Grant in California's Sierra Navadas
owns that distinction. So decreed by
Federal law in 1926.
British buyers of cake mix have
their fictional Betty Crocker, too, only
her name is Mary Baker.
Native jugglers have been observed
in so many separate places on earth
that scholars have come to believe
juggling is instinctive.
Another thing the meat packers
rarely mention is some beeves have
40-foot tapeworms.
Symphonies outdraw football
games, please note, by 23 million to 13
million.
Q. Don’t all sharks circle their prey
before they attack?
A. All except the great white. It goes
straight in.
Media prepares to
fight White House
“I told you not to graze the sheep downwind from Gadhafl’s pharmaceuti-
cal plant."
Let’s have kinder, gentler era
n—
VINCENT
I ail CARROLL
day-care center or a church program,
arranged to leave them with neigh-
bors or relatives, or, for that matter,
kept them at home with one parent.
The most popular child-care pro-
posal in last year's Congress was nei-
ther kind nor gentle. It was a dis-
criminatory bill favoring model
yuppie families. Worse, it would have
further undermined the role of par-
ents in child-rearing while boosting
the role of institutions.
• Housing and the homeless. A
kinder, gentler Congress will ignore
calls for the federal government to fi-
nance more low-income housing,
which lines the pockets of developers
and bankers while creating instant
slums. Government doesn't grow food
to help the hungry; it gives them food
stamps. It should assist those who
need housing through expanded use of
housing vouchers.
Better yet, Congress could threaten
to end housing subsidies to communi-
ties in the process of liquidating their
housing stock through such perverse
policies as rent control.
Today in History
It’s nearly official. Soon we enter
the kinder, gentler era promised last
summer by a rhapsodic George Bush.
Why, even Congress appears disposed
to new-found good will.
As always, though, talking about a
new era is easy. The proof will only
surface in actual policy. For example:
• Education. Nothing is crueler
than consigning millions of urban kids
to lives of functional illiteracy, yet
that is what American public schools
do today Middle-class kids fare bet-
ter, of course, but even they learn
scandalously less than their counter-
parts in advanced countries around
the world — especially in science and
math.
A kinder, gentler Congress will rec-
ognize that public schools require
structural reform, not merely anoth-
er shower of money. Our schools al-
ready ingest more of the gross nation-
al product than does education in
moat countries. And we spend more
today per student than we did in 1980
when the supposedly mean-spirited
Reagan era began
• Child care. A kinder, gentler Con-
gress will not favor one form of child
care over another Rather than di-
rectly subsidize regulated day-care
centers, it will instead assist all par-
ents with young children through ex-
panded tax credits.
With such credits, families would
receive the same benefit whether
thev sent their kids to a franchised
• Regulation. Airline, trucking and
telecommunications deregulation
have saved consumers tens of billions
of dollars. A kinder, gentler Congress
will search out other areas of the
economy to unchain. It will start by
loosening Depression-era restrictions
on commercial banks. Meanwhile, it
will repudiate a host of well-meaning
proposals whose main effect would be
to shrink the job market — such as a
bill ordering private firms to provide
10 weeks of parental leave.
• Taxes and private savings. It's
time tax policy strengthened incen-
tives to save rather than stifled them.
A kinder, gentler Congress will autho-
rize tax-free accounts in which par-
ents can save for their children's col-
lege education. It will also index the
capital gains tax so inflation doesn't
strip investments of their accumulat-
ed value.
Admittedly, many people who extol
Bush's vision of a kinder, gentler na-
tion resist the policies outlined here.
They prefer the false political kind-
ness often practiced in the past, one in
which the state limits choices rather
than enlarges them and seizes addi-
tional private earnings rather than
fostering productivity and indepen-
dence. While loudly touting their own
compassion, in other words, such peo-
ple maddeningly conspire to save us
from ourselves.
If you’re casting about for a worthy
individual to add to your prayer list,
let me urge you to consider John Sun-
unu, the Republican governor of New
Hampshire who is preparing to as-
sume the role of chief of staff to Pres-
ident Bush.
The White House press corps, and
Washington's media elite in general,
are back in town after the holidays
and spoiling for a fight. Maybe the
American people chose Bush over Du-
kakis, but the media didn’t, and as far
as they are concerned the key ques-
tion is how much damage they can do
to Bush’s administration in the next
four years.
In grandly strategic terms, of
course, the media's target is Bush
himself, and ‘victory’' will come in
November 1992 if he is defeated for a
second term and replaced by a Demo-
crat. But meanwhile Bush is going to
be president for the next four years
whether the press likes it or not.
Moreover, having only recently re-
ceived the keys to the White House
from the American people, he is enti-
tled to at least a brief ‘honeymoon*
— a tradition which not even the me-
dia dare ignore altogether. Bush him-
self, therefore, is simply not available
as a target in the immediate future.
One might suppose, in that case,
that the choicest available alterna-
tive would be Vice President Quayle,
a well-identified conservative whom
the media accordingly detest, and
whom they like to think they cut into
bite-sized chunks during the recent
campaign. No doubt a Quayle front
will be opened in due course, and
maintained diligently thereafter.
But Quayle too, like Bush, has a
constitutional four-year term from
which he can be detached only by the
cumbersome and improbable process
of impeachment. Bringing him down
is, therefore, hardly likely to be the
media’s first priority.
Very well, then; who's left? This or
that Cabinet member may blunder in
some suggestive way a few weeks or
months down the road, and thereby
nominate himself for destruction. But
thus far Bush’s Cabinet nominees (if
one may generalize) seem to be wary
old trout, not easily lured by the press
corps' gaudy flies.
And that brings us to roly-poly,
THE CONSERVATIVE
ADVOCATE
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to
fast-talking, bluntly conservative,
‘acerbic* John Sununu, who as chief
of staff will almost inevitably have a
hand in everything that happens, or
fails to happen, around the Bush
White House. Almost by definition, he
will have to disappoint (- make ene-
mies of) a great many people — in the
White House itself, in the Cabinet de-
partments, in the executive agencies,
and of course on Capitol Hill. Wash-
ington being Washington, a fair num-
ber of these people will retaliate by
feeding the press, in deepest anonym-
ity, of course, whatever discreditable
tidbits (true, false or a little of both)
they happen to possess about John
Sununu.
Since the media weren’t born yes-
terday. thev will offer to give equal
time to Sununu’s side of tne story.
Some of them will even promise to
float, with equal assurances of ano-
nymity, any attacks he may wish to
launch against his tormentors. With
any luck, Sununu and most of the key
figures in the Bush administration
can be set at each other’s throats in a
matter of months, while leading Dem-
ocrats on the Hill roll their eyes heav-
enward and solemnly deplore the
blood-letting.
Just how Sununu can avoid this fa-
miliar scenario, or survive it, I simply
do not know. Luckily he will have the
wise counsel of President Bush, who
knows exactly how the game is played
and may have some sound advice for
his chief of staff — who is shrewd,
loyal and also wasn’t born yesterday.
But meanwhile you can bet that the
Washington press corps has already
elected — by acclamation — its first
victim in the new administration.
John Sununu will need all the prayers
he can get.
Our Language
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, Jan. 20, the 20th
day of 1989. There are 345 days left in
the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On Jan. 20, 1981, Iran released the
52 Americans it had held hostage for
444 days, minutes after the presidency
passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald
Reagan.
On this date:
In 1265, England's Parliament,
representing districts, cities and
boroughs, met for the first time.
In 1801, John Marshall was
appointed U.S. chief justice.
In 1887, the U.S. Senate approved
an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in
Hawaii as a naval base.
In 1936, Britain's King George V
died. He was succeeded by Edward
VIII.
In 1937, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt became the first chief
executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20
instead of March 4, because of the 20th
Amendment to the Constitution.
In 1942, Nazi officials held the
notorious Wannsee conference in
Berlin, at which they decided on their
“final solution’’ calling for the exter-
mination of Europe’s Jews.
In 1945, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt was sworn into office for an
unprecedented fourth term.
In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in
as the 39th U.S. president, then
surprised onlookers as he, his wife
Rosalynn and daughter Amy walked
from Capitol Hill to the White House,
instead of using a limousine.
In 1986, the United States observed
the first federal holiday in honor of
slain civil rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr.
In 1987, Anglican Church envoy
Terry Waite disappeared in Beirut,
Lebanon, while attempting to negoti-
ate the release of Western hostages.
Ten years ago: Iranian opposition
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
living in exile in France, issued a state-
ment to his supporters in Iran, saying,
"I will join you very soon.”
Five years ago: Johnny Weissmull-
er, who won five Olympic gold medals
as a swimmer and went on to movie
stardom as Tarzan, died in Acapulco,
Mexico, at age 79.
Today’s birthdays: Comedian
George Bums is 93. Movie director
Federico Fellini is 69. Actor DeForcst
Kelley is 69. Bandleader Ray Anthony
is 67. Actress Patricia Neal is 63.
Former astronaut Edwin “Buzz”
Aldrin is 59. Comedian Arte Johnson
is 55. Actress Dorothy Provine is 52.
Actor Lorenzo Lamas is 31.
by Jeffrey McQuain
Spell tragedy with raged in the mid-
dle. Never put more than one d in the
word, even though that would hardly
be a tragedy.
Q. When you say a house has been
built well. Is it well-buUt or well built?
A. Use the hyphen When the modifi-
er comes before the noun: “a well-
built house.” When the noun comes
first, drop the hyphen: “a house well
built.” Such a well-known question re-
quires a rule that can be well
enforced.
A stroll or leisurely walk is an am-
ble. The risk of spelling amble cor-
rectly, however, may involve a
gamble.
Lament mourns aloud or cries out
in grief and regret. Someone might re-
gret not knowing lament, but that sit-
uation is hardly lamentable.
Q. When you use Senior or Junior af-
ter a name, do you need a comma be-
fore It?
A. Authorities agree that the abbre-
viations Sr., and Jr., are acceptable,
but they disagree about a comma. Use
a comma if you prefer, as in Martin
Luther King, Jr., although Martin Lu-
ther King Jr. is often seen in newspa-
pers. Consistency counts, however, in
this senior-level decision, so don't use
a comma sometimes.
Eminent stands out in quality or
character. An eminent authority on
spelling clues will agree that mine
stands out in this adjective.
Preach delivers a sermon or ear-
nestly lectures. To remember the
vowels in preach should not be beyond
anyone's reach.
Q. My teacher said that most
shouldn’t be used with all. Why
shouldn’t it?
A. Most all uses most as an informal
shortening of almost, the word you
should use in this construction. Almost
all dictionaries agree that most all
may be objected to in formal writing.
Inflict gives or imposes, usually
something unpleasant. I might insist
that you write this word 100 times, but
I won't inflict such punishment on you.
To fall in drops or a small stream is
to trickle. Watch the spelling of trick-
le - there's a real trick to this word.
OUR LANGUAGE AD-VICE: To-
day's Ad-Vice Award goes to a salt
substitute that advertises this advice:
“Cut down on salt for better health."
If it were really “salt for better
health,” you wouldn’t need to cut
down. Instead, try “For better health,
cut down on salt’ — at least that's one
substitute.
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Congress promises to be good for a price
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Parents
are universally familiar with a favor-
ite ploy of ill-behaved children. They
promise to improve their deportment
in return for an ice cream cone, candy
bar or some other treat.
Unless the parents are thoroughly
exhausted or exasperated, they usual-
ly respond by firmly noting that (a)
the kids’ proposal involves an unac-
ceptable bribe to terminate bad be-
havior, or (b) good conduct is the ex-
pected norm and deserves no reward.
That same reasoning ought to be
applied to the members of Congress
who now are promising the nation
that they will abandon one of their
more unconscionable practices if they
are first rewarded with a huge pay
increase.
The ethical lapse in question in-
volves the acceptance of honorari-
ums, not only for making speeches but
also for such passive activities as par-
ticipating in plant tours and attending
breakfast or luncheon briefings on
pending or proposed legislation.
Congressional rules place a ceiling
of 22,000 on the amount legislators
may accept on each occasion. In addi-
tion, there are limits on the amount
they may receive each year — 40 per-
cent of the salary or 135,800 in the
Senate and 30 percent of the salary or
To be effective, the prohibition on outside
income must include consulting, advisory and
other professional fees.
128,850 in the House.
But with hundreds of special inter-
est groups passing out honorariums,
the total mounts up quickly. In 1987,
senators received 83.1 million and
representatives received 28.7 million.
The proposal linking a congressio-
nal pay increase of more than 50 per-
cent annually — from 289,500 to
2135,000 — with abandoning honorar-
iums has been advanced not by mem-
bers of Congress but by the Commis-
sion on Executive, Legislative and
Judicial Salaries. (The pay raise will
take effect nearly next month unless
disapproved by Congress.)
But the concept of exchanging a
salary increase for an honorariums
ban has its origins on Capitol Hill. For
example, in early August of last year
— two months before the commission
was even organized — House Speaker
Jim Wright, D-Tlexas, publicly en-
dorsed such a proposal.
“The appearance of it has been
made to look evil, so let’s get rid of
It,’ said Wright, unable or unwilling
to acknowledge that the acceptance
of thousands of dollars from strang-
ers promoting legislative agendas is
more than a matter of “appearances”
or ‘looking* evil.
Although the scandal surrounding
hooorariums has been building for
years, Congress has never attempted
to take remedial action and now
wants to postpone reform until after
it receives the pay increase — but the
legislators may lack the commitment
to perform the difficult task.
TO be effective, for example, the
prohibition on outside income must
Include consulting, advisory and other
professional fees. If not, special inter-
est groups could continue to transfer
cash to lawmakers
Similarly, legislators must deal
•nth payments from outsiders, osten-
sibly for services rendered, to their
spouses and other members of their
families. In some cases, those ar-
rangements are entirely legitimate.
In other instances, however, their
only purpose is to indirectly enrich
Finally, there is the matter of the
solons abiding by the letter but not the
spirit of the laws and regulations they
write to govern themselves. One nota-
ble example is the House rule that
limits to three days the length of trips
members may take, usually in con-
nection with a speech, at the expense
of sponsoring organizations.
By giving speeches to several dif-
ferent interest groups meeting in the
same city, however, representatives
have been able to construct extended
free vacations of a week or more at
lavish resorts for themselves and
their families.
It is precisely because of such
cheating and corner-cutting that the
country has lost so much faith in its
lawmakers - and is in no mood to
give them a big raise in return for a
vague promise that they will abandon
their bad habits sometime in the
future.
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