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TTTTT TTT vf 9 ir ar i7 rV W. i 4. t- 1 7 TT SMO- CJltUTy, NtY n. 1H4 INDEPENDENT Pag -3 rt i Not a STATISTICS do not bear out Sixty per cent of all college charges heard in Congress and outs wind up in uniform. About 40 per cent of all youths street or college demonstrations SAYS Poor Boys War eamin4 the ed as unfit Most are not physical- CU OS UllllU InUSl are HUl JMljfWUir ly acceptable.

A large proportion cannot pass mental tests. Youths from poor families have the lowest draft acceptance. About 75 per cent of all Negroes examined for the draft between July 1964 and January 1966 were rejected. The largest percentage of those rejected for the draft are those who failed to finish high school. 5D Till L.

B. THE EXERCISE OF POWER, By RovWand Ifvans' and. Robert Novak. New American Library, $7.95. Thirty-five years ago.

B. Johnson arrived in Washington. With the advent of the New Deal a few years after the young Texan became a protege of Franklin D. Roosevelt and soon gravitated -to the. center of power, learning the lessons that were to servelmn so wellin the Senate.

No majority leader, authors Evans and Novak ppint out, ever held a firmer grip. on the Senate, and none is ever likely to do sq. This book; is a detailed examination of the Johnson system as it actually worked then and works Johnson was able to cross party lines and sectional divisions, and whip such unlikely-bedfellows as conservative Republicans, Dixiecrats and liberal Democrats into line to push through a bill He accomplished such miracles as breaking that holy of Senate holies tradition, and keeping debate to an absolute minimum. Johnson mad the Senate jump to his whip, but, say the authors, Under the Johnson System, the Senate enjoyed a golden era. And the full fruition of the system came-in 1957 when it achieved the impossible: the passage of the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction, without a filibuster and without splitting the Democratic party.

There are many Johnsons, say Evans and Novftk, political columnists who have covered LBJ for 20 years. But, they add, A single theme of power runs through them all Johnson was bom with the instinct of power, and. long before he reached the White House', he knew ex-actly where it rested, how to obtain it, and mosf important, how to exercise it sometimes with restraint, sometimes without. NAT HONIG. MEDICINE AND YOU By BEN ZDfSER ldn INw AN.

EXCESS of a-trace' inetal, cadmium; may be involved in essential hypertension high blood pressure of unknown origin. The finding is that of a Dartmouth Medical School researcher Trace metais are elements-found in tiny amounts in the body. 1,1 1 1 Laboratory rats-given-traces of cadmium began to develop high blood pressure when they were about one year old. Once the disorder developed, it remained uhtil death. Meanwhile, another study shows that, the amount of cadmium 'in the air of 28 American cities shows a marked correlation in the death rate from hyptertension and hardening of the arteries.

1 A PRESCRIPTION drug for the prevention of Asian flu is. expected to be available-in pharmacies ty the first of the year. The drug, amantadine, will be known by the trade name Symmetrel. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just recently gave its approval for marketing of the drug.

NITROGEN DIOXIDE, an air pol-Jutant, can reduce, resistance to infec-tion even ii.low concentrations. The contention is that of an inves qt that Viet Nam is a "poor boy's ura lL statd in these aces that only youths who are unable to afford to go to college wind up in Viet Nam. as draftees, and an unfair, proportion of them are poverty-stricken Negroes. CHARTS prepared from Pentagon figures show that only 60,000 draftees are serving in Viet Nam. This is about one of every seven men there.

Of our total armed forces of 3.2 million, only 414,500 are rest are volun- 1H kr NU. he Aypoerrfe you swing on your own fine, but, on far, you disgrace tho British imagt!" tigator with the Illinois of Effects on humahs remain to be technology Research Institute. determined. Richard Ehrlich, Ph. O.

director The report the Journal of the of the Lite Sciences Research Di- Am'ncan Medicl Aasoaattcn. vision of the Institute, says that this air pollutant can reduce resistance of f.r.l labdratory animalaooiiespiratoryjn fection. RECENTLY Defense Secretary McNamara -announced plans to take in 100,000 of these rejected youths a year. Most of them are r-masses: 500 are training in the United ldea is to give them educational States or serving in Europe and training to bring their abilities up other countries. to draft set off As for the number of Negroes burst of charges that the whole ob-in Viet Nam there' is a high per- ject was to get poor boys to send centage of them in the Army, This -to Viet Nam, thus taking the pres-: -is.

largely because many are regu- sure off rich boys in college. But 1 lar troops who have re-enlisted one the fact is it would be a program' or more times. It is apparent these of great help to these young peo-men prefer Army life to that of a pie. If they can be helped with ed-civilian. They represent about j20 ucation to fit themselves do per cent of the Army but less their part, they will get the great-than 10 per cent of the total armed est benefits, forces.

In 1966 Negro draftees have Some Negro demagogues have -equaled about JI: per-cent of the- said 40 per cent of the men fight--total: They represent 12 per cent ing in Viet Nam are Negroes. This of all men of draft age. is completely false. Those who are there are mostly volunteers who IT TRUE college tudepts oh deserve te greatest praise from all tlie a ve rage- have whovwouIf which delay their1, being drafted, have us surrender in this war are. Blit the average age of college doing all they, can to deceive their graduates is 22 years and on grad- listeners as to the facts.

Selective uation most than are going into Service Chief Hershey was asked one of the branches of the armed if it was true pom: boys with under-, services. Those who go into post- privileged backgrounds are not fur-graduate work may be deferred an- nishing their proportionate share other year or more. But they are in todays armed forces. His an-a minor percentage of all college swer was: Certainly, because students, and under new rulings they havent been able to go to the they are eligible to be drafted to lower schools and they arent able age 35 rather than the age 26 lim- to get Into service two and a itation that has been in effect, quarter million of them. LAC.

GEORGE ROBESON For Free Speech, Try Tenth Street ITS JUST AS WELL that the peace vigilon Pine Avenue last Saturday was a siient one, I checked the local lawbooks and discovered that free speech is prohibited on Pine and a few other downtown streets, as well. And parts of the beach. Mario Savio need not come down here to liberate us from totalitarian rple, however, because the law seems to- be- municipaL- jjj- jong as they -got- tat are dml mreta sinUra' got their infraction than their observance. The law. Section 4420 of the Mu- RjghL TfiiCipal person rom holding, conducting participat- ing in or being in attendance at any ONLY THING the.

Federal t-S! AP 'Ha. Jig Ul SArUig preaching or de-Foodand Drug Administration brewery, and Reardon is not personal ly involved between Busch and Sinatra Enterprises. I dont care who buys if. Beans public meeting or ac-liver ing any address or dration--in the complished Hactionagaxnst reduc7" livering any Long Beachs new beer-baron is Frank Sinatra. Sinatras lawyers have been negotiating with the Bureh Corporation to take over the distributorship ever since Beans decided to call it nine innings and go to the showers.

The sale will be handled by the ing company called Figuretone (among other names) was to ban interstate shipment of the electronic device the company uses a unit which sends' electrical currents through the body through pads applied to the Skin. The currents were supposed to cause mus-. cular contraction which, in turn, would reduce girth. Figuretone has an office in Lake-wood, where the devices are sold. The FDA charged that advertised claims of weight-reduction or increases in caloric consumption were not supported by feet and some before and after- photos used jn ads.were.'tikenl; on the same day; further, that some customers who gave testimonials to remarkable results had a financial interest in the sale of the machines and had not experienced any benefits at all.

1 The permanent injunction was granted by the U.S. District: Court, after the manufacturer and national distributors (they're brothers) made no' contest andsigned a Consent area of the old Rainbow Pier or anyplace around the Municipal Auditori-um, or any approaches to it And then it includes, in the prohibited area, both sides of Pine Avenue between Seventh Street and Fourth Street; along Fourth Street to Long Beach Boulevard; south on the-Boulevard to the high tide line, wherever1 that is, along the tide line to-Magnolla Avenue, north to Fourth Street and east back to Pine again. Thats a pretty big slice of downtown ih which it is illegal to preach or deliver an address or oration, or listen to one. It means that -every strpetcomer preacher who khoiits to night shoppers on Pine Avenue is breaking the law. And I hope I'm in time to warn the.

Christmas bell-ringers from the Salvation Afmy and the Volunteers of America that theyd better just ring the bells and keep their mouths shut "BEANS REARDON, one of baseballs' best-known and most colorful "umpires been runninga Budweiser beer distributorship in Long Beach for 20 years, but hes decided its time to -sell out and go into semi-retirement, which means he might do anything but sell But it makes little difference. A warehouse in Los Angeles has plenty machines left, and no interstate ship-, ment is likely to be necessary for a lAnd-theguywhorwants-to-belong timer Business goes on as usual -4 Si L- J. A m. -4-.