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THE GAZETTE GAZETTE Eyerette Ross Barr, Business Manager. Everett Ray Call, City Editor. James Eugene Lowther, Advertising Manager. Theodore Fairbanks McDaniel, Managing Editor. William Lindsay White, Editor and Publisher.

Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set Proper Notice irjROBABLY NOBODY else Ir here gives a hoot, but Johnny St. Cyr died last week. The Associated Press first carried the news in an n-line item from Los Angels: "Johnny St. Cyr, 76, a pioneer banjo artist of the New Orleans early Dixieland jazz era died today of leukemia The death of Johnny St. Cyr also drove one more nail into the coffin of "hot" jazz.

Mr. St. Cyr grew up with jazz in early- century New Orleans. Not long ago he a. reporter: "We played dance halls, weddings, funerals, riverboats and house parties.

I sure miss the old days." Many people also miss the music of those good old days. Mr. St. Cyr played with Kid Ory (the best jazz trombone man of them all); with Joe "King" Oliver (whose trumpet could be heard "a mile away on a clear with Jelly Roll Morton (remember the Jelly Rod and with Armstrong. Born in New Orleans, Cyr played there with his own string trio; Later he joined.Mar- tin 'Gabriel and then the old Tuxedo Band.

From 914 until jpip lie was with Kid Ory's "Brownskin Babies" (the trumpet man with that group was. Mr. I Armstrong). St. Cyr played in Chicago in the Roaring 'aos with King Oliver and returned to New Orleans in 1930.

For a while he had his own group called "Johnny St. Cyr's Hot Five." In recent years, the veteran of a half-century of jazz played on the Disneyland riverboat with "The Young Men From New Orleans." No doubt Mr. St. Cyr is most famous for the records he made with Louis Armstrong's early bands. The music of Armstrong's "Hot Five" and "Hot Seven" formed the base for decades of jazz.

The hot sound survived until the cool music took over shortly after the war. The cool jazz is fine for some; for those who like a restrained, pressured kind of music. But those who look to jazz music for an emotional release are not much served by the cool sound. The modern version of "Dixieland" is -not much help either. It is too artificial, too corny, too forced.

The real hot jazz built around the blues, no matter what the tempo. Bessie Smith could do it. And so could Bis. But as men like Bunk Johnson and Johnny St. Cyr die, true hot -jazz moves-further into history.

For these reasons, it did not seem proper to let Johnny St. Cyr slip away with only an n-line item on an inside page. He deserves a better send-off than that, The Wailing Place Withdraws From Race i Editor of The Gazette, Sir: I withdrew as a candidate for the office of Sheriff in favor of Leon Quimby. I have known Mr. Quimby for a number of and he is one candidate that each of you will respect and that was my reason for not filing for the office.

Mr. Quimby and I had several meetings in regard to his being a candidate, on each meeting I let it be known to him that I had talked it over with my backers and they each agreed to support Mr. Quimby if I didn't file for the office. I know he will make a good and honest sheriff. He is also well known and well liked by the members of both parties.

Respectfully, At Schmale, 627 State St. November Will Be Too Late la tht Winfitld Daily Courier: HEN YOU mark your ballot in your polling booth this November, it is a little late to evaluate the issues and candidates you are called upon to support or reject. Now is the time for every eligible voter to gather information and discuss with others the issues and their effect on the people, the community and the nation. 'Now is the time to take an interest in public affairs and support those candidates and measures that ap- pear to offer the best long run solutions to the problems before us. The United States plays a central role in a world of unprecedented change.

This fall every voter will be expressing his opinion of policies and proposals that involve war or peace, authority or freedom, national solvency or bankruptcy. An active and informed electorate is more vital tran at any other time in our history to the future of a free society under representative government. Smiles Rolla Clymer writes: "We wonder seriously about the pronunciation of Didde that industrialist at Emporia whose name ap- pears in the newspaper at almost every whipstitch. Is it "Did" or "Diddy" or whatever? Or is it just a monicker for a fellow who Has Done a lot already to make Emporia happy? Three doctors in Croydon, England, use a chauffeured automobile to fetch patients to their office. Jack WilsonAimagines it's the British If there was an easier way to meet men, we understand girls wouldn't buy bathing suits.

What this country needs, says the Clay Center Dispatch, is a computer that sheds tears when it goofs. One way to attract attention, advises the Marysville Advocate, is to make the most of the faults we have. Rosey Wilson mentions in the Rotary Reminder a fashion expert predicts that if stretch pants get any tighter, they'll be replaced by spray paint. A married friend notes one way to carry a joke too far is over the T. L.

20 Years Ago June am, 1946 for Kahola Lake cabin by Merle Goff and Joe Lutz were approved. The Summer Bridge Club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. H. T. Lowther.

Mrs. P. R. Woodbury won high score. Guests were Marshall Randel, C.

O. Merideth, A. T. Sughrue, Lea Barr, Ralph Henning and WcoAtuy, and Edoa GiUaaffa. Tfee Neotho Rfcer was raced' iaf afeer reaching a ijr-foot flood en estimated in Lyon County.

Damage by the Cottonwood was slight. Mr. and Mrs. A. H.

Gufler sold their home at Twelfth and West Street to the Kappa Sigma Epsilon fraternity. The 7oth anniversary of Miriam Chapter, Eastern Star, was observed Wednesday Fanny Vickrey, oldest living past matron, gave a history of the chapter. Miss Ina Borman, matron, and Lawrence Ormsby, patron, presided; Forty Years County cattle were almost ready to be shipped to market and the rush was expected to be on within two weeks. GhettcvCity Urban Trend Matter of Fact by Joseph Alsop A EVERYONE KNOWS, but few quite dare to say, race prejudice on Capitol Hill is the prime obstacle to home rule for the District of Columbia. The lunatic system of congressional management of this city is perpetuated because the city's population is 63 per cent Negro.

But the prejudiced and ostrich- minded lawmakers who block home rule do not appear to have thought very much about the national facts. The most important fact to note is that the District of Columbia, far from being a special case, is merely the most advanced example of a countrywide urban trend. Where the District of Columbia is today, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago and most of the other major American cities will surely be within 10 or 15 or 20 years unless drastic measures to reverse the existing trend are taken with the utmost urgency. The school populations, which predict the future city populations, tell the story with stark clarity.

Briefly, 1947 was the last year when elementary schools of the District of Columbia had a hairline majority of white children. At that time, the district population was only about one-third Negro. In the intervening 19 years, white emigration to the suburbs and Negro immigration from the South have produced a district population that is close to two-thirds Negro. Large Percentage But Negro children now comprise 91 per cent of the pupils in the district's elementary schools. Furthermore, the district has lost one-half its white children of elementary school age in the last five years.

In 1960 there were 26,000 of them. Today, in all schools, including parochial and private, there are only about 13,000 against approximately 90,000 Negro children of the same age group in schools of all types. Thus, Washington in a few years is clearly due to be a city nearby nine-tenths Negro. But the Negro immigration and the white emigration that are jointly producing this result in Washington are not unique District of Columbia phenomena. They are nation wide urban phenomena which merely appeared a little later in other cities.

In Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis, to name five, the racial mix in the elementary schools has already passed the half-and-half point which Washington reached in 1947. Chicago, with an elementary school population containing only 52.3 per cent of Negro children, is nearest to Washington 19 years ago. The other cities listed are well down the road, with 66 per cent of Negroes in the St. Louis elementary schools, for instance.

Figures Reveal There are several things to be said about these figures. To begin with, it is fairly clear that the problem is most acute in Washington because Sen. Wayne Morse is the nearest thing the city has to a mayor of its own. A badly run city decays at the center; and there is no one to insist that Washington be well run. Secondly, the decay of the city center and the flight to the suburbs is not necessarily linked to Negro immigration.

It has also happened in cities like Minneapolis where the Negro population is trifling. But in these cities, where the tragic racial problem exists, the trend is far easier to reverse. Third, even the very unsatisfactory available studies of the emigration to the suburbs makes it unchallengeably clear that the schools are the heart of the problem. If Washington has lost half its white children of elementary school age in the short space of five years, this is because the people who move to the suburbs are primarily families with cbildren needing good schools. It must be added, however, that this primary movement of families with children is now being reinforced, in almost all American cities, by increasing construction of high-rise housing in the metropolitan areas.

The childless couples, the older people, the single men and women who used to stay in the city centers are now moving out to suburban apartments. Finally, the fact has to be faced that now, this instant, in this very week and month and year it is almost too late to reverse the trend the foregoing figures reveal. Even if the most massive programs are immediately launched, movement toward a better demographic urban pattern will not be easy to promote. A few more years of delay will make such movement all but impossible. A city which is predominantly Negro is bound to suffer from a hundred handicaps, most of them practically difficult to overcome.

Once a whole city has become a ghetto it la hard to think of any public Like Most Summit Meetings North Atlantic Federation Expounded These Days, by John Chamberlain ILL SUCCESS spoil Rock Hunter? Has success spoiled NATO? The hints are in the air, and not only because of President de Gaulle's intransigence about giving the NATO command the old heave- ho from French territory. The Belgians don't seem to be very happy about accepting transfer of NATO military headquarters to their soil. And from Eastern Europe comes the voice of the serpent, tempting the West to eat of forbidden fruit. President (for life) Tito attacks all military groupings, suggesting that if NATO were to go, then the "equal and opposite" Warsaw Pact would disappear, too. The Rumanians say this is what they meant all along when they were denouncing the quartering of troops on foreign territory.

Meanwhile, in this atmosphere, De Gaulle goes to oscow. Heaven knows what he will be proposing, but it is ominous that he felt he had to slap at NATO as a preparation for his mission to the East. Autumnal Feelings The recent hearings on the Atlantic Alliance, held before Senator Henry Jackson's subcommittee on national security, have positively dripped with autumnal feelings. After former Secretary of State Dean Acheson's appearance, Senator Jackson said, "Mr. Secretary, it has been like old times having you with us." Old times indeed! Acheson was hopeful for the future, but his sense of realism kept breaking through, "What has happened in Europe, the very success of our policy," he said, "has led to the belief in Europe that prosperity is power.

Of course, these are very different things." In New York, the book publishing firm of Random House compounds the autumnal feeling by putting out a tome by Richard J. Barnet and Marcus G. Raskin, co-directors of the Institute for Policy Studies, called "After twenty years: The decline of NATO and the search for a new policy in Europe." A Soviet attack on Western Europe, the authors say, is no longer credible: therefore, we cannot maintain an Atlantic Alliance based on that threat. What NATO does, so it is contended, is to foster the notion among the Eastern nations that the wealthy countries of the West are maintaining a rich man's club. This supposedly arouses poor nations to thinking they must acquire their own atomic potential.

But if NATO were to go, what then? It would certainly be every nation for itself in Western Europe. The Germans would want their share of nuclear military power. The French, worried about nationalism beyond the Rhine, would look to the East for "balance." Would this mean less tension in Europe, or more? Remembering that this is the sort of "balance" we had in 1914 and in the nineteen thir- policy permitted by the Constitution that will afford an effective remedy. Thus, now, this instant, in this very week and month and year, the United States is faced with the question of whether we wish to become a nation whose great cities are mainly Negro ghettos. (Copyright, 1966, The Washington.

Post distributed by the Lot Sjmdiau) ties, doesn't the question answer itself? American Analogy Thinking back, there the time, after the success'of Washington's army at Yorktown, when the young American confederation, victorious over Britain, started to fall apart. A wary group of patriots, led by Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay, watched with uneasiness the ruination of some of the state currencies, and the tendency of New York arid Pennsylvania, for example, to New Jersey as "a barrel tapped at both ends." The patriots watched, too, as Britain, France and Spain began eyeing the colonies' territory with a thought of picking up the pieces. But when things were darkest, a convention was held at Philadelphia. The analogy between 1787 and 1966 does not necessarily hold in all respects, for Western Europe is still sticking to its Common Market ideas, and DeG aulle, though he has denounced NATO as a specific way of organizing a defense, has not broken with the North Atlantic Alliance. But it is nonetheless a curious fact that, at this moment of low obb for the spirit of Western unity, the plan offered by Clarence Streit, that indefatigable champion of a North Atlantic Federation formed on the model of the U.S.A., is enjoying a spate of new popularity.

Even the "nationalist" Barry Goldwater is for it. Representative Paul Findley of Illinois reports that some forty-five per cent of the people in his Middle Western congressional district are for turning the Atlantic Alliance into a federalized system. Thirty-five per cent of Mr. Findley's sample held no opinion, and only some twenty per cent were against the idea. Is Clarence Streit's day coming? Not unless Western Europe decides to take his idea seriously.

But it would be interesting to know What a Findley- type questionnaire would turn up in the NATO nations. (Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) GPs Plot for Advisors By A rt Buchwald A RECENT DISPATCH from South Viet Nam reports that the American GIs are getting sore about the political strife in the cities and it's beginning to rub them that they have to do a lot of the fighting alone. There was a time in the Viet Nam war when it was very rare for an American GI to see a Viet Cong soldier. But this has all changed. The American GI has seen all the Viet Cong he wants to, but it's very rare now for him to see a South Vietnamese soldier.

Two GIs were discussing this in the central highlands the other day. "Remember the good old days," one of them said, "When we were their advisors." "That was before my time," the other one replied. "Frankly I've never seen a South Vietnamese soldier. What do they look like?" "It's been so long since I've seen them myself, but, as I remember, they look a lot like the Viet Cong, except of course they have American uniforms." "Charlie Baer was in Saigon recently and he said he saw some South Vietnamese soldiers. They were guarding Gen.

Ky's palace. He said they looked first class." "I hear they're great at fighting Buddhists." "I heard the ones at Hue were great at fighting Gen. Ky's troops." "There's nothing like having highly trained troops on your side." Rumor Heard "There's a rumor going around that the South Vietnamese troops soon be sent out of the cities to fight the Viet Cong." "I heard that rumor before, but I doubt if there's anything to it. If they pull out of the cities who's going to guard the government?" "Why couldn't we guard the government for a change and let the South Vietnamese fight Viet Cong?" "That would be interfering in the affairs of another country and we're not supposed to do that. But I did hear they're thinking of attaching a South.

Vietnamese soldier as an advisor with each American outfit to keep up our morale." "That would be nice," the other soldier said. "What would he do?" "He could explain to us what we're doing out here." "Do you think it would help much?" "It might. Let's say they sent out one advisor. He would probably ask for an assistant, and then the assistant would ask for a jeep and driver, and the driver of the jeep would ask for a machine gunner, and before you know it, we'd have a lot of South Vietnamese soldiers in the field." "Do you believe it would work?" Started With 20 "How do you think we got here? We started out with 20 advisors in all of South Viet Nam and now we have 285,000 soldiers. It would be great if we could do the same thing to them." "I understand that the South Vietnamese are very anxious for us to lick the Viet Cong and they'll support us in any way they can, short of widening the war." "They say there are no atheists in foxholes in South Viet Nam," his friend said.

"There are no Buddhists, either." "Well, I guess we'd better get started again. President Johnson says we're not only fighting for the South Vietnamese, but. we're fighting for free people everywhere." "Where are the free people fighting?" "Damned if I know. They must be around here somewhere." 1966, Publiihtrs paper Syndicate) READING Mrs. Sparks and son, Brad, are visiting her sister, Mrs.

E. O. Burton, and family. Tuesday, June 21,1988 You Should Buy and Read LSD (Continued from Monday) NE OF THE FIRST theories about LSD was that it wai a mimicker of The idea offered hope of finding a chemical cure for schizophrenia, as well as of increasing the psychiatrist's empathy with a schizophrenic by giving himself "madness in miniature" and thereby knowing what his patient was going through. Some of the LSD-induced symptoms are indeed similar to the feeling of being outside one's body, for instance, or of coming apart.

But the all-important difference is that the LSD taker almost always knows that the hallucination he is experiencing is caused by the drug and is not real. The psychiatric hopes for LSD were followed by the spiritual ones. British-born Orientalist Alan Watts, who spent six years as an Episcopal priest, says flatly that "LSD is quite emphatically a new religion. The God-is-dead thing is not unconnected. The standard brands have not been delivering the goods.

This is technological mysticism." The first big impetus toward this sort of mysticism came from the late writer-mystic Aldous Huxley, who in The Doort of Perception (1954) furnished a superseductive account of his experience under the influence of mescaline. Huxley recalled that earlier mystics had used fasting or self-flaggelation to achieve a spiritual state. Nowadays, he argued, such measures are no longer necessary, since we know "what are the chemical conditions of transcendental experience." Fasting and flagellation, sensory deprivation and repetitive prayer, may indeed have produced chemical or metabolic changes as preconditions of samadhi, satori, or the beatific vision. It has even been suggested that many extremes of asceticism were developed because, for some reason, drugs ceased to be available. But, to the orthodox Christian, "technological" or "chemical" mysticism is either blasphemous or absurd.

The man who gets to a mountaintop in a funicular has the same view as the man who climbs the peak, but the effort of getting there is important too; the vision is not all, and manuals of contemplation often advise against paying too much attention to "beauty." Indeed the Christian concept of grace never earned, never under man's control seems to nullify the idea that a man can attain a mystical experience by taking a pill. Psychedelic mystics tend to look toward the Eastern religions, in which, as one puts it, "you rap (have rapport) with the word; you rap with dogs and trees and everything makes sense." Dropping Out of Life The leading American psychedelic Timothy Leary, 45, who began to experiment with the drugs in 1960 when he a psychologist working at Harvard's Center for Research in Personality. Harvard fired him and an associate when their project seemed to get out of hand. Leary then moved his experiments to the vicinity of Acapulco but was expelled by the Mexican government. Early this year a Texas judge sentenced him tentatively to 30 years in jail and a $40,000 fine for transporting half an ounce of marijuana and failing to pay tax on it (he is out on He still runs the International Foundation for Internal Freedom (I.F.I.F.

for short), which is dedicated to making LSD and psilocybin as available as chewing gum. Leary calls himself a Hindu, uses Eastern symbolism along with psychedelic experience to reject the outward- looking, "goal-directed" American attitude (disciples like to quote him to the effect that "Buddha was Leary is overfond of using the word "game" to'put down the concerns men usually take seriously. Not 'that He would eliminate game playing: he says he only wants the for what they are. In practice, however, this requires a degree of judgment far beyond the capabilities of most mortals. Many a youthful LSD user, newly impressed with what suddenly seems to him the irrelevance of his activities, has dropped out of school A few weeks before he is due to graduate; soon thereafter he is dropping out of life as well, cultishly convinced that he and his psychedelic set are superior because they have Seen and they Know.

LSD has two major effects. For one thing, it tends TO shatter and dissolve the usual web of associations and habit patterns. A telephone, for instance, is suddenly nothing but a black plastic object of a certain shape how outrageous and funny to see someone pick it up and talk to it as though it were a person. The boundaries that normally separate things from each other, or from oneself, may be dissolved also. This may cause the impression that one's limbs and torso are liquefying and flowing away or that one is is in such close rapport with others in the room that one can read their thoughcs or that the barriers of logic have disappeared to reveal a tremendous insight, for instance, that death and life are are the same The other major effect of psychedelic compounds Is a vastly increased suggestibility.

Say "I'm so happy!" and savor the ecstasy; say "Miserable me!" and feel the hot tears of self- pity. This souped-up sensitivity may account for the apparent vividness of ordinary colors under the influence of the drugs, though tests show that vision is actually impaired slightly. It certainly reinforces the horrors. LSD cultists say that sessions should be carefully prepared, under the guidance of an experienced "leader." Leary calls this "perhaps the most exciting and inspiring role in society. A leader is a liberator, one who provides illumination, one who frees men from their lifelong internal bondage." Diagnostic X-Ray Such rhapsodizing is pure pretentious guff to most of the psychiatrists and psychologists who have worked with LSD, psilocybin and mescaline; they consider it the kind of happy talk that exerts a strong appeal on just the sort of unstable people most likely to be injured by the drugs.

Under the influence of LSD, nonswimmers think they can swim, ana others think they can fly. One young man tried to stop a car on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard and was hit and killed. A magazine salesman became convinced that he was the messiah. A college dropout committed suicide by slashing his arm and bleeding to death in a field of lilies. Says Las Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney one of the country's leading LSD experts: "If we can tolerate use of LSD, why not Russian roulette? Or why not let children play with hand grenades?" Chicago Psychiatrist Dr.

Marvin Ziporyn, who has administered LSD to some 50 patients since 1960 besides taking it himslf along with hw attorney wife sees LSD's laying bare of the personality in purely diagnostic terms. "LSD is, if you life, a psychiatric X-tay," he says. "With LSD you have no greater vision of the universe than you did before. It no more expands your consciousness than an X-ray expands your lungs when you gee them on the screen. All you do is get a better look." No responsible authority favors use of LSD without close icientific supervision.

Oh the other hand, no responsible authority wants to stop research into the potentially vast possi- bilitiei of LSD and other "mind drugs." New substances are already forecast, notably a "smart pill," derived from RNA, to speed up the learning process; this has given rise to the slightly uneasy crack that in a few years "people won't ask you what you're reading, but what drugs you're taking." Some of drugs may be bubbling even how in the retorts of Dr. Hofmann, who was back in the Basel lab last week after receiving from Stockholm's Karolingska Institute an honorary degree for the discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide. Time.