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BILL OF RIGHTS--No law. abrld ging the freedom of br tN right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of AMARILLO GLOBE-TIMES Page 30 Amafillo, Texas, Thursday, Pecember Santa's Workshop -Will Be Diarkeried Downtown Amarillo This Year the Amariilo City Commission: liad to cat' 'aU to accomplish certain necessary items wMcK were to have been covered by "monies from the bond issues. The 31,500 Christmas decora- one; of the casualties. All; of whicli brings up the ques- by the City-Park and Recreation Department. ft Following tKs defeat of city bond and financing issues earlier this year, Isn't Anvbody A familiar sight is missing from downtown Amarillo.

The big Christ- rrias tree, Santa's workshop (and its resulting line of children), tHe and sleigh, 'manger scene are all victims of a sliced city budget. For several years now these, Christ-; mas decorations have been erected on the lawn of Mary Bivins Memorial tion: is suchthe a library. They have highlighted down- city governmejtit in the.Srst:-place?-,.· town decorations and were handled the tion could not be unanimous. Oh the one side, it might be pointed out that building and maintenance of parks has been accepted as a city responsibility. On the other side, it could be said that Christmas decoration is not necessarily a function of a park department.

Regardless of the answer, the fact is that there is no- downtown Christinas tree in so far this year; The suburban-merchants have missed you at the luncheon, ed their own trees: and decorations, Eleanor. Miss Tribout is the most ex- while downtown has its gay tinsel citing speaker. She wore a stunning Polk.street. little suit; chalk-blue wool "With crys- Maybe the -downtown merchants tai buttons. It looked might undertake the responsibility of tured linen, but it actually was wool.

And she had on an adorable "Wonderful message, J. Plenty of food for thought and discussion. The fellow at our table noticed-heY legmning yshow his age, though, and we got to kicking around; quietly, of course; who'd succeed should've tuned to Red Skelton. There's a pro for you. He got off a real good one about a fellow who ran out of gas in the middle of the A bumper-to-bumper traffic on the -nation-wide, cooperate with the Post Freeway and Hm'mm.

How'd it Office Department to move millions of Christmas, letters and packages, early dispatch of accurately addressed mail facilitates delivery. Texas railroads are hiring several hundred extra employees just to handle mail, as are post offices in the state. In addition, such special equipment conveyor belts at depots, and walMe talkie radios -on tractors moving mail in terminals are being installed in the larger cities: by the 'putting the Santa Workshop and the towering back into the downtown area, jVToj I It is not too soon, to mail Christmas cards and packages, the Texas Railroad Association-urged today. '-'While the railroads in Texas and Voting Rights for Capital Folk Would Lead to Pav for the Devil "Enjoyed your sermon very much. Reverend.

The point you made about the difficulties missionaries have in getting the natives to attend services set me thinking. Did you ever consider installing -bowling alleys in the STREET JOURNAL. ALEXANDER For Sick Cities i An up-an-coming young man from Chicago dispensed some straight talk to city-dwellerS; the other He is Charles H. Percy, president of the Bell Howeli who served as chairman of-the platform committee of the Republican National Convention. Mr.

Percy addressed the annual dinner of the Greater Philadelphia Movement, which lias worked wonders in the Quaker City. The burden of Mr. Percy's remarks was: American cities are sick. Their cure lies not in Washington but at home in the hands' of an aroused citizenry, "local leadership and a few angry men." 'As Mr. Percy pointed two- thirds, of our nation's people live in 160 urban areas today.

These same places likely will contain four-fifths of the population by 1980, just 20 years from now. Then the speaker dealt it. out: "If any modern city in America ever becomes unfit to live in. it will be from neglect of responsibility by the businessmen, the bankers, the manufacturers, the working, people, the housewives, the teachers, and the religious leaders, the public officials-- people in all walks of life who take from the city but do not give back to it." The real beginning of better days for cities, he said, will from "local recognition of local However, Mr. Percy didn't decry outside help within reason.

He said railroads. Early mailing of gifts, marked "Do Not Open Until Christmas'' helps avoid disappointments of. packages delayed until after December 25,. officials pointed out. Checkers', Folks? During "his tenure in the White House.

President-elect John Kennedy probably will stifle although unintentionally at least one- American custom. That is the custom of the American public adopting the favorite pasttime of the president The hobby of a president immediately gains a wide following across the country. For instance, with Dwlght Eisenhower. an avid golfer, in- office, interest in golf soared in the United "However, it's doubtful that the American public is going to take too quickly to Kennedy's liobbies. His pasttimes are touch football and yachting.

Few adult Americans are in the physical condition to ship through a brisk game of "touch." And we, see even; less chance for yachting to sweep the -RocK HILL (S.C.) EVENTING HERALD. Picture a billboard showing a beau- tiful giri relaxin in a bikini sipping and CakllluS can the wong ch to the learning of mathematics, said a distinguished mathematician at a forum at Michigan State Universitv. The WASHINGTON How do people keep their freedoms? Not a a 'by a i raw democracy. Some us kicking, this idea around i at a luncheoni with K. editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong Standard.

Mr. Woo. a world traveler and one of the Free World's top newspapermen, was telling us that "d'emoc- racy rf in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong would instantly deliver the city of 2.8 million people over to tiie Communists -with the attendant loss of all civil rights and liberties. Three of us Americans, a man from the Associated Press, one from the United Press International and myself, were positioned to perceive that much the same thing would happen here in Washington if raw democracy set in under Home Rule. I don't mean that there are enough Communists here to take over the District of Columbia, but the ordinary freedoms and protections of minorities would vanish like lawn grass under the trampling of a mob.

Hong Kong and Washington both benefit from an informed, benevolent, and responsible colonial- type administration which could qualify as "consent of the governed," but never as self-government. Without British civil service in one instance, and the appointive commission system in the other, it's hard to see how either city could have' lived through certain historic convulsions and risen to become places of beauty, fame, relative prosperity and protected liberties. Hong Kong, about the physical size of New York City, has been a British colony since 1841, except for the Japanese occupation of World War II. It has a formal but completely untenable border with Red China, a population that is 99 per cent Oriental, great extremes of wealth and poverty, and the remotest sort of parental supervision from England under the most obsolete sort of colonialism. The United Nations boycott of Red China during the Korean War abruptly ended Hong Kong's long existence as a trading port Machinery and investment poured in.

Within a decade the colony became a manufacturing center with a Labor movement that is known to be dominated by the Reds. Refugees at. 75,000 a year, which is about the size of the birth rate, swelling the population, which is said to contain a gigantic network of Communist spies and propagandists. i all these diseases, wounds and neuroses of a body politic, Hong Kong lives on for one central good government. There are many imperfections.

The colony has become the dumping ground for senior servants whom Great Britain's shrinking empire can no for. This is monstrously unfair to a lot of able Chinese who have been educated in government administration. Social welfare never catches up to social needs: Private enterprise does not yield to the ameliorating pressures, as in the United States and West Hong Kong is' a. place of business but not to many of the entrepreneurs. And yet the efficient, impartial, strictly decent, essentially humane British system carries on.

Almost everything said about Hong Kong can be modified and translated to apply to Waslung- ton. There was the usual amount of editorial blubbering last Election Day over the absence a popular franchise. But if Washingtonians obtained the uninhibited right to vote, there would be the Devil to pay. Raw democ- Our Yesterdays 25 YEARS AGO Mr. and W.

R. Gowdy and daughters, Bessie Lee and Gertrude, have returned io their home at 1508 Buchanan after spending the holidays in Colorado. Reservations i to mount today as admirers in Amariilo and from all over the Southwest planned tribute to Dr. R. Thorns-en, at a silver anniversary banquet next Monday night.

Recognition as a pioneer pastor, citizen and friend will be given Dr. Thomsen, of the Central Presbyterian Church, when the dinner is given in the Crystal Ballroom of the Herring Hotel. --HOLMES ALEXANDER racy would not work here, very much better than it works in the Congo. The District of Columbia is a special case, requiring special treatment. The President, the Congressional committess, many fine citizens' groupSj the merchants and the real estate dealers, as well as a few very dedicated give, the Federal City something that City Hall could never deliver.

By great good luck, the new Commissioner is Mark Sullivan, a man of culture, attainment and dedication who typifies what is best in the administration of such a city's affairs. Freedom, fairness, public spirit and advancement all prosper without benefit of democracy, and all would be jeopardized if the new President and Congress do anything so foolish as to press for Home Rule. (Distributed by McNausht Inc.) falling flbot: Critic To The AMARILLO GLOBE-TIMES: For sheer inanity and utter nonsense it is difficult to surpass. "Potomac Fever" by Fletcher Knebel (whoever he may be.) I fail to see any reason for its existence on your editorial page. Such phrases as "famous words unuttered.

"Yankee taxpayers" are all detestable and completely Jacking in form, grade, candor and humor. When, fascinated by its crass stupidity, I happened to glance at the column. I am reminded of Macbeth's speech, i.e.: "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying H. COSTELLO 2635-B E. Dorado Drive Fletcher Knebel is one of the nation's outstanding Washington correspondents, the author of several books on the Washington scene.

But you've an inherent right to disagree with anything he says. However, you will let us continue, to use the column since there are some readers who enjoy it? EEP 1 1 A i A A i 4 t-V A J.J the federal government when ap- speaker, Dr. Mark Kac. fears a trend ftnnlri A rr propnate. could aid in dealing with problems of urban growth and change.

He noted that already "there is vast area--from A to of actual and potential cooperation between the federal and local government ranging from airports and armories to zoo administration." Mr. Percy doesn't fit the sterotype of "the angry young man." but we hope his words carrv jusc enough sting to get HERALD. toward making the learning of mathematics look easy. Dr. Kac, who is a professor in the subject at Cornell University, and should know, a i teaching has to be improved from kindergarten through college.

It can be learned by most people. But let's not minimize the unpleasantness of the subject." We were convinced from the very ENQUIRER. Illlloiis of Frustrated Youth Would Rather Be Known for Infamous Deeds The Polk Street Professor Texas Outlook this month has a little story that sure reminds me of Bob Bums' stories. Once there was a little boy six years old. His family was upset because this little boy had never said a word.

Not a word since he was born. And one mornin' at breakfast he suddenly said, "Mama, this toast is burned." Well sir, his family was overjoyed that the boy had spoken 'em. His mother- asked him why he'd never said anything before. The boy replied, "Well up to now everything's always been okay." For you coin collectors I think I have a hot tip. Save those 1952 nickels made in Denver.

They're goin' to be hottcr'a a firecracker in a few years. A two-dollar roll of those un- circulated nickels is sellin' for 95 smackers right now. And some of the coin dealers figure the same thing. Yes sir, I'm my change like a rattlesnake watches a little rabbit, lookin' for those 1952-D nickels Larry Holman at Canyon has always said every Friday as long as I can remember, That means, "It's Friday thank goodness." Well here lately on Monday he's developed a new series of letters to say. On Monday he says, That stands for, "Oh, heck, it's Monday" Speaking' of collectin' coins, the latest to Income interested Is Dr.

Wilson Lane, principal at Coronado School. Watch him if you trade with him he'll end up with your Sunday HARRIS I A Purely Personal Prejudices: Tiie only way relieve the world's ills is not by understanding a other, but by coch one understanding i m- self; for there can be no genuine rapport between persons who are ignorant of their own deepest motivations and needs. The man who is always in a hurry is the man who has no true destination all his ends are but means to other ends, and is hurrying to avoid the necessity of thinking about a final end. Being unqualified to give an opinion has never yet stopped anyone, for everyone considers himself a universal expert in the art of giving advice. Most of us prosper more through the errors of others than by the positive efforts of our- Delves.

Police corruption in any city is inevitable as long as the urge to gamble is forbidden by law; one clear reason for the honesty of British policemen is the respectability of taking a flutter on the horses or the football pools in that sensible and civilized nation. It is a great, and frequent, fallacy to confuse the with the for instance it is "normal" to have no colds, but the average person has several a year, and the normal per- Today's Prayer Thou, 0 Lord, art in the midst of us, and we nr called by Thy name. We Jttlong to Thcc by creation and We could not'live a single moment without Thy sustaining grace. We praise Thee for the remembrance' of Thy goodness to us the years. We look forward to the future in the assurance that Thy love will be the same; in Christ, Amen.

Robert W. Burns, Atlanta, minister, Pcachtrcc Christian Church. I960, Notionol Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.) --SYDNEY J. HARRIS son is extremely rare to find. Our age has lost the necessary distinction between "notoriety'' and "fame," with the" result that miliions of frustrated youths (and their elders) would rather be known for infamous deeds than be ignored.

Auden has 'dubbed us the "Age of but the "Age of Publicity" is equally descriptive. Young wives who have teen unable to work out a satisfactory relationship with their mothers have great difficulty, on the whole, in handling female help in the home; when they hire an older woman as a maid, -they really want her to be a mother as well. When you want to know a man's faults, don't go to his boss, but to his subordinates and coworkers; the boss sees only a edited version of the man, while the others see the unexpurgated edition. Anybody can handle misfortunes that come from the outside but it takes real character to cope gracefully with the disastrous consequences of our own ingrained faults. 1WO, General Features Core.) Potomac Fever --By FLETCHER KNEBEL WASHlNGTON-MichiganYGov.

Williams is named Assistant Secretary of State for Africa. The appointment is well received in the Congo. They've already put him on the menu. 1 Ike appoints Nixon leader of the Republican party. That part is easy.

Now the trick for Ike is to' appoint Goldwater and Rockefeller as followers. Kennedy announces cabinet appointments from the stoop of his home in exclusive Georgetown. Off to the new frontier-- with the carriage "trade. Winston Churchill's 'doctors forbid a strenuous celebration on his 86th birthday. Knowing Winnie, it decided the strain would be too much for the doctors.

Republican Chairman Morton cries, "fraud" on the election. If they can't Avin. Republicans seem determined to hijack the marine band and force it to practice, To the The Democratic victory, may not have done much for the stock market-- but it sure did wonders for the stork market Russia orbits a five-ton space ship full of animals, insects and plants. If Khrushchev can't solve the farm problem, he'll unload it on outer space. (Released by Register ribune Synd.) Calls For Release of Atom Weapons to NATO WASHINGTON --With immense care the Kennedy Administration is preparing to meet head on early in the new year the a i problem o.n- fronting the The "Big WHITE the great question is this: whether to arm the West's indispensable military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with a common pool of atomic weapons under common control of all the NATO countries.

The decisions have, of course, not yet been made. But already weighty advice is being given by associates to '-President- Elect Kennedy for taking the plunge and genuinely sharing the weapon with the people who must share the dying if the ultimate disaster of Avar with the Bussians should come. Advice wholly to the contrary also is being offered to Mr." Kennedy, or at any rate shortly will be offered. "When, after his inauguration Jan. 20.

he does make the final and lonely Presidential determination it will be a determination hardly less fateful than that made by President Harry S. Truman to use the first bombs over Japan. Oversimplified a bit for the sake of brevity, the basic situation is 1 7 NATO is the one shield of true and actual military power, fte one shield of iron reality, of the Free World. But of NATO's 15 member nations only two. the United States and Britain, are truly strong atomically, each in its own right.

France has exploded two weapons, but has a long way to go perhaps even 10 years-to become a capital atomic power, acting on its own. The atomic weapons now available to the NATO commanders are the physical possessions of, and lie under the strict control of, --By WILLIAM S. WHITE the United States alone. Under our laws, severe barriers are- placed upon handling over any of our. atomic weapons'to any other nation or group.

Speaking broadly. 15 nations are pledged to fight all for one and one for all; but only one of those nations has the right to say when and how the bi.s weapon may be used. France, the geographic heart of NATO, likes this not at all. And there is rising resentment among some in Britain at. the American of certain weapons which, in case of war, would after all be from British soil, among other places.

Now some earnestly, believe that any sharing of the atomic weapon would only be to spread the possibility nuclear holocaust Others, of whom this correspondent is one. believe we must now fish or cut bait. We must consent to-give NATO a collective 1 or admit that we are preparing to let NATO go down the drain. And if we are going to give NATO atomic weapons for use under its common civilian authority a great Congressional battle is sure to come over the new laws that will be required. For these reasons arming NATO will be resisted in Congress: pride in our exclusive possession; fear of the intentions and sense of responi- bility of this or that allied nation.

But how long can you expect to keep effective allies if you go on telling them that they will be allowed to cany the pistol big daddy alone will carry the machine gun having in mind that most of them simply cannot make a machine gun of their own? Politically, the outlook is plainly this: The sooner Mr. Kennedy grasps the nettle the less likely it is to sting him overmuch. Profound legislative changes such as this, though at no time easy, will be the harder to bring off the longer he has been in office. The hour to move, therefore, will be while the nettle is still small and the rose of his popularity as a new president is in full bloom. I960, United Feoiures Swdicote, Inc.) Scientists Map As Matter-of-Fact SOUND.

ANTARCTICA. Nine scientists here plan to zigzag their wav to the South Pole during the next three months. Their attitude can only be described as matter-of-fact. They don't even think it's vital if they can't make it all the way to the Pole. Their route calls for a couple of large zigzags on the way from McMurdo Sound so they can carry out the real purpose of the traverse, wluch is scientific observation.

Since this is only the sixth time men have traveled to Pole overland--Amundsen. Scott, Fuchs, Hillary and the Russians came before this attitude marks a significant change in Polar exploration. Although Fuchs and the Russians, working during the International Geophysical Year, did some scientific work on the way to the Pole, the main object of all these previous trips was to reach the bottom of the world. But it's different today. "If we don't make the Pole by Feb.

15, we'll just leave the Sno- cats, where they are and fly out," Dr. Albert Crary, Washington, D. C. traverse leader, said. "It would be nice to get to the Pole so that we can check, our observations along the route with observations already proved out at the station.

Other than that, there's no scientific reason to reach 90 degrees south overland once again." Crary holds to this opinion despite fact that, if he makes it to the Pole he will be the first man in history to have stood on both the North and South Pole. Between them, the nine scientists on the trip will investigate the elevation of the snow surface, the thickness of the ice, the type of rock "under the ice, annual snow accumulation, and gravity. They will survey any mountain ranges they come across, do a limited amount of geology and biology and make surface weather observations. All these things arc what the trip is for. The way they have mapped-it out, the journey from here to the, Pole will be 1,200 miles, Thcvl --WADSWORTH LIKELY have been delayed in getting started and the reason for the delay is that their expedition--Sno-cats, fuel, a large drill, delicate scientific instruments, food, radios- will weigh.

a. total of 68 tons. The nine men and all tlie equipment have to be fitted into the two large Sno-cats. each weighing .11 tons, a third smaller cat and the trailer sleds which will be carried inside huge Rolygon tires attached to still another trailer. Planning and began years ago.

The Sno-cats. especially built for tlu's trip, were sent down by ship during the 19591960 summer. Jack Long. Madison, chief engineer of the trip, arrived then, planning to spend the winter working on installing equipment in the huge tractors. But he found it necessary to use that time to build the inside of a large garage and workshop for the vehicles so that work on the cats themselves (CONTINUED ON PAGE 31) THE AMAKlLtO Combining tne Amarlno Globe, established Feb.

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