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MONDAY JANUARY 16 1961
News-Press Editorials
BIBLE THOUGHT
you put these instructions before the
brethren you will be a good minister of
Christ Jesus nourished on the words of
the faith and of the good doctrine which
you have followed Timothy 46
Doctrine As something that Is taught
Applied to religion it is something that
God (oche --Joeeph Shipp&
Mobocracy in Action
nEMOCRACY may be at a Junc-
ture in history where it needs
protection from its friends as well
as its enemies
The disorders in Belgium are a
- painful case in point - -
The sequence of events was
pie When the Belgians cut the Con
go adrift they were faced with in-
evitable economic difficulties at
home To meet them the present
government under Premier Eyskens
--proposed - an "austerity" legislative -
program
The Belgian Socialists disapproved
of the program In pr ote st they
called a series of strikes which have
added up to a near general strike in
many parts of Belgium To reinforce
their complaints they have marched
In the streets and indulged in riotous
disorders
Now it is clear that this is a politi-
cal strike—ainted at the very least
at defeating the austerity program
and at the most at unseating the
Eyskens government
But is this really the way to ac-
complish such ends in a democracy?
The political strike the riot the
overturning of cars and the stoning
of shops are these the processes of
democracy?
Of course they are not They are
the tactics and strategy of internal
warfare They represent the sub-
stitution of violence for the human
Intelligence They are as reprehen-
sible in the domestic sphere as war
Is on the international scene
What is truly stunning is that such
weapons should be so quickly resort
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
BY PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON — Now that It's official John
" F Kennedy won the U S presidency
with 303 electoral votes it can finally be re-
pyrted that there- are two S newspaper
editors who came within one vote of predict-
ing the outcome correctly
They are Joe Caraher publisher of the
Kalispell Mont': Inter Lake with a 302 pre-
diction and Louis A FAid of the Florence
Ala Times and the Sheffield-TuscambiaIluscle
Shoals Ali 'Ill-Cities Daily with a
304 prediction So they split the honor of being
grand champion political tieer
Eight other editors who also made written
replies to a poll of daily papers receiving this
column through Newspaper Enterprise Assn
made predictions of 300 electoral votes for
Kennedy
They would have won d Hawaii's three votes
had not switched in the recount All ten
edtiors are receiving appropriate certificates
as master prophets of IS060
Field is a two-time winner in this poll In
190 he come closest to predicting that Harry
S Truman would win the presidency with a
3104 electoral vote Fickl's prediction 11 years
ago was 300 Ile was one of only four editors
who predicted Truman would win All the
others thought it would be Dewey
This makes the Alabama editor one of the
most astute political oracles in the country
But he confesses he made no precise analysis
state-by-state for his forecast
"There is nothing involved in this but luck"
he says "Any editor can write down a 1111111-
byr—if he is not illiterate"
One of the intere4ng flidelights Is that the
papers of neither editor supported the Den14)-
trit S the campaign
The ALthattitt pitiwrs palehett by the TH
cgirs l'uhlishing Co in the prow esive Tenn
THE DOCTOR SAYS
By H T HYMAN M D
One of the oiliest pieces of
advice we sometimes give one
smother- Is "don't worry" As if
cfaing to worry would remove
a worrisome situation like
threatened loss of a )01) or the
critical Illness of a child
! In a refreshing switch on the
idrct worry" theme Dr Sam
oel Levine of the Harvard Uni-
versity' Ittedicod &taxi has
attentitm tó the merits of wor-
rying "The habit of worrying"
said Dr Levine In an address
to the Harvard Alum' Axsocia
lion "is one of the most pre-
cious -WiSefil that a practicing
rhyb ician can have The
perplesed physician will need to
worry shout his patients In fad
if he does not worry &hoot his
pi: f he is not likely to he a
ystelan
'11 lilly (go
seriously asick" Dr Levine said
"we would want our physician
to worry about us For the man
who attends his patient in his
office or in the skit room no
Mailer how expert he may be
and then dismisses the problem
from his mind will overlook
things from time to time
The physician must vParry when
he is otherwise unoccupied —
driving his motor car or taking
a stroll in the street"
Later In his address Dr Le-
vine eonSidered the possible ef-
frets of worry on the worrisome
physician Ile cites the prevail-
ing opinion tiud coronary throm-
bosis and other forms of heart
disease are particularly common
among doctors Yet ben he
consulted his own records he
found that "physicians the of
coronary disease at exactly the
age OA the genet al pOputaio
ed to and that they should find so
many ready hands in tiny Belgium
a nation long seen in the worlds eyes
as one of its most orderly democra-
cies The Socialists in Belgium may
think of themselves as democrats
But they have not been living and
acting as democrats They hare been
trying to legislate in the streets with
rock and muscle
They have been a bad example to
the supporters of democracy every
where They have done no service to
themselves to their country or to the
cause of freedom Democracy is not
mobocracy
Every time a "democratic" rioter
throws a stone through ' glau he
breaks a windo w in democracy's
threatened - house And the - wind -
which then wafts in is an evil cur
rent generated In Communist Russia
Are the peoples in the democracies
thus to do the work of their ene-
mies? In too many instances it would
seem so---unlem they can awake to
realize that democracy is -served
only by democratic processes not
- by self-destructive internal warfare
such as haft plagued the Belgians
Dollars and Sense
TWENTY-SEVEN states and the
District of Columbia currently
have in effect "safe driver insur-
ance plans" w hereby drivers with
cident-free records are given dis-
counts and bad drivers are penalized
- with higher premiums
First introduced by insurance
companies in California in 1959 the
plans have been enthusiastically re-
ceived by motorists More impor-
tant than any money savings for in
dividuals is that the idea is one of
the best' incentives yet devised for
safe driving
Homo Sap Said That—
IF ONE should insist upon waiting
I for the sun to really rise one would
have to wait a long time
—A S Hock
Two Editors Share Honor as Campaign Seer
eistwe Valley maintain a politically independ-
ent policy in rintional affairs
The Kalispell Mont Inter Lake supported
Nixon for president "We believe that the Re-
NI) liean platform more closely fits the need
of the country" wrote Candler "It needs
le government control confikatory taxation
and !Oa lkun So we will support Nixon and
Lodge"
The two editors felt that the election would
go Democratic however and made their pre-
dictions on that basis This same view was
expressed confidentially by a number of other
editors In this national survey on political
trends in 1960
Fifty-nine per cent of the editors supported
Nixon Only 14 per cent supported Kennedy
The other 27 per cent were neutral
This Is a slight decline from the 1952 and
1956 polls Eight years ago 68 per cent of the
papers supported Eisenhower 17 per cent
Stevenson and 15 per cent were Independent
Four years later it was 62 per cent Eisen-
bower 19 Stevenson 19 Independent
This is a 9 per cent drop in Republican
editorial support in eight years a 3 per cent
drop in Democratic support and a 11 per cent
Increase in Independent papers But it still
leaves U S daily papers better than 4-1 Re
publican
Nixon carried 26 Mates to Kennedy's 27 with
Mississippi going for Sen Harry Byrd of Vir-
ginia Of the 50 states Kennedy won 14 and
- Nixon six with less than 52 per centbl the
total vote This Is too close to be decisive and
It i3 small wonder there weren't more prophets
predicting the election Outcome
Anyway with Kennedy's clectorel college
victory being greater than his state-by-state
and popular vote counts there is more merit
for the ciie of reforming the electoral cob
lege before the 1964 election
You'll Be Better to W (wry Concrontmisly
PAGE FOUR Groat Sciontific Ago
'The resards of the habit of
worrying tire great" Dr Le-
vine concluded "It enriches the
Ilk of the physician and (sr-
sists him) to do his comm)n
jiih uncommonly well"
There are of course limits
to the extent we should worry
about anything in Our complex
and demanding It is cer-
tainly wasteful to worry about
things a n d situations about
which we Can do nothing
' Still more wasteful is it to in-
flict our habit of worrying on
others unless we're prepared to
make a sincere effort to do some
thing about a worrisome silua-
lion But if worry is the spur that
stimulates greater efforts and
more useful action ana if it
can twip you "do a common job
uncommonly ' how about
raising a few wrinkles on your
owu brow?
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Goodwill
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From the Charleston Daily Mali
It bothers Americans that for all of their good Intentions
they are often heartily disliked in the red of the world It puzzles
them that for all of their generosity they are so frequently rejected--even
as their material assistance is readily accepted
It seems to make little difference in fact bow much money
or bow many "goodwill tunbassadors" the United States exports
Wherever Americans go they are sure to be met by an uncouth
mob yelling "Yankee go home" or something equally disre-
spectful and hostile The explatuition is really quite simple AO it
takes is a little imagination supplied in this case by Dr Henry
S 'leper of the World Council of Churches
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Imagine if you will the worlds eniire population reduced
- - to a village of 1000 inhabitants Of these 1000 only 60 would be
Americans But these 60 would own and enjoy half the worlds
wealth The other half would be unequally 'distributed among
the remaining 940 persons
About 330 ot the population would be Christians: the other
670 almost anything of the worlds varied faiths Eighty of the
villagers would be Communists outnumbering the Americans by
20 and 370 others would be under Communist domination
In such a community the non-white would outnumber the
whites 'NO to 300 And just to sharpen the comparison- the
Americans would have a life expectancy of 70 years the other
940 less than 40 years
In such a community it is not hard to figure out who would
be hated the most It would be the rich white religious and po-
litical minority living in comfort in the big house on the hill
owning everything worth owning and assuming casually and
often blatantly that their good fortune was the divine reward toe'
their superior virtues It would not help much to point out that
they often gave as much as a days pay to the Community Fund
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Front Ow Alabama Journal Montgontory
J Edgar Hoover is condemning the use of the words
"Juvenile delinquents" He thinks it outrageous that mature
males from sixteen to 21 years ot age should be called juvenile
delinquents when they commit rape murder theft burglary
and a doses other kinds of major crime Mr Hoover is right
To call such criminals juvenile delinquents instead of by their
right name of banditg rapists and murders is an effective
way of arousing public sympathy for such offenders when
they deserve no sympathy
They are old enough to know botter and they are strong
and husky enough to conunit any makt crime That they should
be called "delinquent" instead of their right name and should
be termed "juvenile" when they can commit any crime that a
grown man can commit is a misuse and abuse of words that
ought to be corrected Those who commit murder and rape are
something other than delinquents and they are something other
than juveniles
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BRIDGE
By CiSWALD JACOBY
At the 1900 fall natiotuds Cur-
tis Smith a young bridge teach-
er from Austin and the writer
finished setond in the open
team and then went on to win
the open pairs from the largest
field In bridge history
While I hay won many tour-
aaments before (this was my
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Opening lead—IP 3
ittth national title) this Is the
first victory that I can ascribe
almost entirely to system -
Curtis and I had worked for
several months on what we are
calling the Jacoby-Smith sys
tent It is designed for every
Otbe from begimier to expert and
I am so certain of Its superior
ity over all other systems that
I am going to discuss it thor
oughly in these columns
The system as a whole is
much simpler than most Ameri-
can systems We don't use weak
two bide We don't use moot of
the other so-called weak won-
der bids that look good but don't
seem to work
The basic feature of the sys-
tem is that we on preetically
all 12 point hands while in other
American systems the minimum
opening bid Is set at 13 or 14
points Thus most tables pweted
today's hand out at the nation-
els Curtis opened the bidding
and while he was held to one
no-trump the plus wm all he
needed for a good score
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IrellAY SOU
the Ulmer Room i
Arise shine for your light
has come (Isaiah 60:1 RSV)
PRAYER
Our Father we thank Thee
for the heavenly light Thou
didst send to us through Jesus
Christ Ile lp us we beseech
Thee to reflect this light we
have-seen in him so that the
needy world may see and be
lieve In His name Amen
o' So They Say
may mit agree with a lot
of people but I think the first
step we should take would be
In making additional se h oo I
miens available for the stu-
dents who want to go to school
--IfourSaloe Sam Rayburn
We are a sovereign state
with all rights' to establish re-
lations with whomever we de-
sire and in whatever manner
we consider best furthers the
natkinal interest
— it111 Itoa Cuban foreign
luilos4er
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CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY -
Dem? Modern Machine
PHILADELPHIA—Sen John
F Kennedy's Presidential tie
lion victory depended in large
-- part on get-out-the-vote - trete -
piques developed by Philadel-
phia's ultra modern Democratic
machine
In only a decade these space-
age tactics have turned the one-
time Republican stronghold in
to a Demo Cratis bastion which
this year carried Penrisylvanta's
crucial 12 electoral votes for the
first time since 1944
Kennedy's strategy to win the
election was to corral the big-
city vote Ile did Ile carried
virtually all large northern cit
les
When the Kennedy melon
wide registration' drive w a s
kicked off in Philadelphia in late
July the Philadelphia Demo
Committee opened up all
of its files to the Kennedy staff
to ahow them how it conducted
its registration and get out the
vote drives
Corrunittee Chairman William
J Green Jr went to other key
urban areu at Kennedy's re-
quest to explain his Conimittee's
methoda of getting out the vote
The tuitional Democratic drive
proved to be so successful in
large urban areas In 10 that
a spokesman told Congressionid
Quarterly the petty plans to
double its efforts in urban areas
in the 1964 Presidential contest
Philadelphia Democrats aould
be hard put to beat tlwir 1960
record however By using both
jet age scientific techniques and
old fashioned neighhoulload fa
vors the highpowered 1)emo-
crotit machine turned out a 33 1-
654 majority for Kennedy on
Nov II The total vote cast wee
915250 the highest voter turn-
out In the city's long political
history
Kennedy's majority was the
highest ever won by tiny can-
didate In Philadelphia The ma&
sive Democratic vote In
de!phia snowed under Vice
President Nixon's 195000 lead
coming to the Philadelphia line
The l'hiladelphia majority for
Kennedy to dramatize the point
was three times his popular
plurality nation wide
l'hiladelphia was regarded as
an urban Republican stronghold
a decade ago IL wee the lied
a the great Northern industrial
cities to go Democratic at the
local level The city voted in
Joseph S Clark a Democrat
as its "reform" mayor in 1951
to end 17 years of cm rule at -
city hall
l'hiladelphia was also the hut
of the large industrial cities to
get a Democratic political bow
Big-city Democratic machines
are disintegrating in this mod-
ern age But not in Philadelphia
where Green a member of the
U S House of Representatives
took over the l'hiladelphia Dem-
ocratic Committee in 13 and ----
has built up one of the moot
powerful political machines in
the country
Green supplements the shoe- -
leather a 319e precinct lead-
ers with political experts sta-
tistical analysis and public opin-
ion surveys In 1954 he eppeint-
ed as his administrative 83Silt- -
taut Joseph F Lockard a grad-
uate of Harvard University In
1955 Green appointed E John
Bucel a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and for-
tner Gallup pollster as the
Committees political analyst
By using scientific mirveys
the Committee found that the
bigger the voter turnout the
bigger the Democratic vote
Philadelphia Whin atm the last Also the Re Publicise orgaoks-
r the large Industrial cities to tion failed to get out Its vote on
et a Democratic political bow election day Whereas Kennedy
Big-city Democratic machines votes amourded to about 104 per
re disintegrating hi this mod- cent of the total DemotTatic reg
rn age But not in Philadelphia istration the vote for NI on
'here Green a member of the amounted to only about 10 per
S House of Representatives cent of their Philadelphia GOP
sik over the Philadelphia Dem- registration
Talk Committee In 13 and lie Democratic vicitwy ia
an Wilt up one of the most Philadelphia On Nov co4a-
)werful political machines hi pulled Geen Into the national
le country limelight as the "boss" of the
Green supplements the shoe- most dricient Democratic city
ether of 319e precinct lead- machine In the nation The once
's with esPertle st-s- potent Gor machine in Phila
stical analysis and public opin- dews was badly rocked
n surveys In 1954 he appoint- rut b 1 may be the bia
as his administrative &Min- noon triw ibe Democratic party
int Joseph F Lockard a grad- in philodelphia A king m000l-
ite of Harvard University In dering ford between claiit now
65 Green appointed E John a United States Senator and
wef a graduate of the Uni- Green may break out in the open
Tsity of Pennsylvania and for- if and when Clark seeks re-clecler
Gallup pollster as the tion in 12 Green's machine
immittees political analyst operations do not enthuse lkrn
BY using scientific mirveys ocratie Intellectuals such as his
e Committee found that the ' torlan Arthur M Schlesinger
'Ter the voter turnout the Jr a key Kennedy advisor who
gger the Democratic vote has termed Green "the know
nothing revolt Incarnate"
Both Pennsylvania and Phila
matter of &Aphis must give ground as the
EZineillr result of the 19G0 census to
California and le o a Angeles
which have taken their long
held place as the iudion's see
ond largest state and third larg
) est city Pennsylvania will have
4 1 only 29 electoral votes in the
1964 election to California's 40
Each state has 33 electoral votes
In the 1960 election
T be Creeks didn't "take"
when they wrestled In the type
of wrestling called "pancra-
tium" few holda tvere barred
Wrestlers could hit kick twist
limbs struggle on the ground
and even strangle Just t w o
things were forbidden: biting
and gouging
Great emphasis is put on regis-
tration and get out the VIA
drives in I'hiladelphia Quotas
--- are -set for tYffy precinct on
election dity The 1080 quota was
based on a 250000 Democrutic
majority in rhiladelphia
Itegiatrigion and voting re
sults are carefully checked by
precinct and wards and are II
lustrated by charts and graphs
to precinct and ward kaders
Those who fail to peoduce dan't
get patronage — the bread anti
butterof politics
The Democratic organization
smile out broadsides regularly
using professional direct mail
techniques to as precinct and
ward leaders: Lockard on Nuv
21 sent out a kttr to precinct
leaders reminding them that reg-
istration books opened again in
the city on lie I
"We work 365 days a year Lockard told CQ 'We are vet-
ting new registrations flPr Lho
1961 rketiom This is a rood
time for district tprecimii lead-
ers to clean up tiwir street (-milieu
while the NM eletivin la
fresh in their minds It bi a won-
derful time for our astral Vivi-
ers to pick off 5 or 10 soft 1(e
pulAicans in each precinct" be
said "in the wake of the land-
"We Democratic victery"
"Registration desks were act
up at three selected department
Mores Dec a so Malady!:
phians could register while they
do their Christmas 'hopping
"We believe in going wiwre
people are to get awm regis
tered Inekard said
By iiing salL
I phia r I lc
matte finally overcame a Re-
publican lead in registration in
1957 and the Democrats now
have a lead in registration of
178036 over the Republicans
Paring campaigrzs the Gieen
organization expects its precinct
leaders- to see all- of the resi-
dents in their precincts at least
once and preferably twice A
precinct averages about 650 rte
Merits in l'hilailelphirt --
As Rued and his poils had
predicted in 1957 Kennedy prob
ed to be an etremely popular
candidate in us
1960 Catholics Negroes a a d
Jews vated ahnotit en bloc tor
him Uncertain tabu( market
positions in the area also made
the Democratic ticket popular
with lower and middle class
voters fearing growing anent--
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