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THI NASH VILLI TfNNESSCAN. W4Wy. I 10. 9 Dennis the Menace Han uham White: The Mcjority Will' Ignored VI eiier Pearson: lung Cancer Tobacco Gang Steam Roller Remap Amendment es Dorn gin ith, will totally overrun both houses of nearly tvery legislature in tha nation. No one denies, because no one can deny, that in both blanches of Congress those who wish to offer this amendment to the states have clear majorities, if not necessarily the two-thirds that would be required.

But the very-liberals, who are also in nearly every case very-urban politicians, are determined not to give these manifest majorities even an outside chance to put their case to Congress. Evil Beyond Compare They gimply want the whole business "bottled And bottling it up for them is "Manny" Celler. Manny is using the entrenched seniority of a committee chairman; a seniority that the very-liberals scream at day in and day out as an evil beyond compare when non-liberals use it, that is. And if as a top member of "The Establishment" in Congress even Manny's capacity for candid obstruction turns out not to be enough, then a band of very-liberal and shriek-ingly "anti-Establishment" men "I heard ycu say go-to-the-bathroom, but I missed the waih-your-hands part." McGill: Soil Engineers Today's Fanning Takes Brains The Supreme Court Adjourns By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON A great crime against what the very-liberals so tirelessly call "the majority will" is being committed at a 1 leisure in the House of Representatives.

This time, however, the country hear no righteoui outcries against that infamous process which ths very-liberals so tirelessly denounce as the "bottling up" of legislation desired by a majority. For this time the "majority will" that is being thwarted is not the will of the very-liberals, but only that of everybody else. This time the "bottling up" is being done to a bill desired by everybody else, but a bill iniplaeabiy op-rosed by the very-liberals. So this time the bad guys are good guys. Grace of Seniority Rep.

Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, N.Y chairman by grace of seniority of the House Judiciary Committee, is making it perfectly plain that he has no Intention whatever of allowing the House itself even to vote on a proposed constitutional amendment. It is an amendment demonstrably and in the highest degree "democratic" but it has the fatal defect of not being agreeable to the city constituencies of Celler and many another. For, should it be submitted by Congress to the states and ratified by three-fourths of them, it would permit the people themselves to decide how the upper houses of their state legislatures should be apportioned as between the urban and rural districts. In a word, the people would be allowed to decide whether an unelected Supreme Court has the right to proclaim, as it has done, that the seats in their upper legislative houses must hereafter be allocated on mere head-counts of population. Weighed Democracy It would permit the people, if they chose, to go on taking minority geographic needs and interests into account.

It would allow them to continue the principle of weighted democracy which is the bottom meaning of the whole American idea of government by check and balance. Failing some corrective on the court, the simple fact is within 10 years the city, masses, often boss-led to be Up1 ii ever in the Senate is waiting to com in with anotnor weapon that tKey Have never ceased to condemn. This is the filibuster, to prtvent a majority from having opportunity to vote on an issue a weapon which the head of the "anti-Establishment" forces. Sen. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, has made a career of attacking.

Still, there Is a very great human dfference between what Manny Celler is doing and what the professional critics of "The Establishment" are doing. Mannv has never claimed that there ought to be two standards and two rules for fair play, one set for his side and a different set for the wrong side. Manny accepts the right of the other side to use the traditional congressional processes to beat him if they can. Manny thus feels free, and is free, to use these processes himself in his own causes. The difference might be said to be simply this: Manny talks from the same side of his mouth all the time.

This is why Manny, though a liberal, is not a very-liberal. ment will probably resemble the old one. Bilateral relations with France and the United States should go smoothly. But there will probably also be a revival of border trouble with Morocco; the frontier has already been closed. Algeria is apt to cast its lot again with the world's most splenetic trouble-makers.

Syria and Indonesia were, after all, the first two governments to recognize the new regime; and Communist China gave it a most vehement endorsement. The moral, accordingly, is not that the more things change, the more they remain the same. The lesson is that it is very hard in the newly-emerging countries for even the most popular leaders to follow a course that is acceptable to Washington. Hoppe Elbie Jay's Real Foe- ii The GOP By ARTHUR HOPPE YORK Howdy there, folks. How y'all? Time for another tee-vee visit with the root-in-tootin' Jay Family, starring ol' Elbie Jay an acommodatin' man who even loves to accommodate his enemies.

In very hiirh-priced accommodations. As join up with ol' Elbie, be a-worrvin' things over with hi faithful foreman. Mc- leorge Smiles! Mi Bandy. They don't look none too hap- Elbie: This here Vee-yet-nam business has got me mighty down in the chin whiskers. Mctleorge.

Appears to me as though our relentless enemies have got us in a tight corner. McGeorge: Well, sir, once the monsoon lets up, I think we should do better against the Viet Cong. Elbie: Not the Viet Cong, you idiot, the Republicans. McCeorge: The Republicans, Mr? But they're loyally supporting your stand in Viet Nam. Elbie (gloomily: And it's a mighty sneaky thing to do.

Now they're a-whoopin' it up for me to bomb Hanoi and make it a bigger war. If'n I do and we get a lot of casualties, they're going to start callin' it ol" Klbie's war. But if'n I negotiate a peace, they're going to talk about I sold Vee-yet-nam down the drain. It's a low-down, rotten trick they're playin'. McGeorge: But how do you know that's what they have in mind, sir? Elbie: Because that's what I'd do if'n I was them.

But we got to do what's best for the whole country, McGeorge. Better bring me in my global strategy analyzer. (McGeorge exits and returns wheeling in a huge computer with flashing lights and myriad dials McGeorge: Here it is. sir, your Ramjet 707 Global Strat-cgv Aiialyer. Elbie: "Fine.

Better start out asking it how our policy in Vee-yet-nam's been going so far. McGeorge (punching keys and reading a tape): It says, sir, that 74.2 per cent of the voting public approves. Elbie: That's right encour-agin'. Now ask it what'U happen if'n I get us bogged down in a bigger war out there. McGeorge: Just a minute, sir.

It says that an analysis based on a broad opinion sampling of left-handed truck drivers in Des Moines, Iowa, shows 68.2 per cent of the public would vigorously disap-juove. Elbie (shaking his head): And what if I negotiate a peace with the Viet Cong? McGeorge: m. Tha late-hour roll of insomnia sufferers in Duluth indicates 88.2 grave concern. Elbie (admiringly): My! Imagine a machine that can keep every single public opinion poll in its head. I don't know how I'd decide my global strategy without it.

McGeorge: Have you reached a decision, sir? Elbie: Yep. We got no choice. We'll have to negotiate. Now let's see, to get them to agree to be peaceable, we'll start out by offerin' them South Dakota. If'n they still hold back, we'll sweeten the pot with Nevada and toss in California.

Then McGeorge (slacked): But, sir, you can't let the Viet Cong have South Dakota! Elbie (irritated): The Viet Cong! I'm talking about ne-gotiatin' with the real enemy. Now get me Ray Bliss on the phone, you hear? Tune in again, folks. And meanwhile as you mosey on down the long trail of life, remember what Elbie's ol' granddaddy used to say: "In a tight corner, always show faith in your fellow man and be willing to deal; with luck, he won't ask to cut the cards. Snap Shots by Seig Brand new Sh.ny grill Slight bump Big bill. Gy Walt Kelly If Funny RAGE- with House leaders that the measure would be brought up on the House floor either Wednesday or Thursday when he would be back.

Hirris and Rovers, however, clearly induced Speaker John MeCor-niack to cull up the cigaret bill early. As a result. Moss, who bad led the fight for public health safeguards in the House Interstate and Commerce was not around to led the debate. Several other. in-cluding Republicans Reps Ponald Rumsfeld and Edwaid Perwinski of Illinois.

Democrat John Dingell of Michigan, plus most of the Californu ronprcssmrn. battled valiantly the tobacco lobby. Most of the debate was ludicrous. Champions of the lobby gave no real replies to testimony by the U.S. surgeon general.

Dr. Luther Terry, that excessive cigaret smoking was highly injurious to health and a probable cause of cancer. Instead, Rogers charged the Federal Trde Commission with trying to run this country" and accused Surgeon Gen. Terry of trying to "brainwash" the public and "destroy the tobacco industry. Rngeis is the congressman who has been the consistent champion of Madison Avenue.

Once before when the Fed-eial Communications Commission wanted to regulate TV commercials, the networks and the ad agencies reached down to Parma, to get an almost unheard of congressman to become the champion of New York's Madison Avenue. Two legitimate cheerleaders for the cigaret industry, Democrats Horace Kornegay and Harold Cooley, both from the tobacco-raising state of North Carolina, made emotional speeches about the oldest industry, dating back to the days of Sir Walter Raleigh. This seemed to have greater impact on the House than a warning by Michigan's Dingell that congressional inaction now on cigaret health hazards would force a later reappraisal of the "whole problem of tobacco." California's Roosevelt declared: "We do not preempt the right of states to act on drug traffic. Why do we prohibit the states in the matter of cigarets?" Replied Arkansas' Harris limply: "There are hundreds of drug manufacturers producing thousands of drugs. There are only a few cigaret manufacturers producing a comparatively small number of brands of cigarets, sold throughout the 50 states." Note A "labeling" bill passed by the Senate removes FTC jurisdiction over cigaret advertisine for only three year The House bill does this in perpetuity.

It will be interesting to see what conies out of the joint conference. Coin of the exhilaration of one who belongs to God. When Isaiah thought of God he said, "Behold God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song!" (Isaiah When a man who loves God thinks about God how can he keep from being happy? When he recalls the marvelous features that belong to an accurate concept of God he has every reason to rejoice. Before Jesus took leave of his servants on this earth. He said, "All power is given unto me." (Matthew 28).

The Lord that the Christian serves is not subservient to anyone. When the New Testament was ready to describe God it simply said of Him: "God is love." When the Holy Spirit made an effort to tell what Jesus was doing he said: "He went about doing good." Isn't it a glorious, joyous, happy thing to be loved by such a God? Paul reached the height of joy when he said it was a truth that knew no refutation: "Jesus Christ came to earth to save sinners of whom I am chief." POC WW. DOWLAS? Kraft: Ben Bella's Ouster A Case of History Missing Opportunity By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The congressional steam roller was never in higher gear than when the tobacco lobby rammed the so-called "cigaret labeling" bill through the House last week. The hill prohibits both states and the federal government from effective controls on cigaret labeling standards. It al.o prevents any regulation on cigaret advertising to protect public health.

This is the first time in history ttvtt the Federal Trade Commission has ever been barred from regulating advertising. One effect of the bill Is to keep hundreds of millions of advertising revenue in the hands of the TV network. For if there had been a health warning in cigaret advertising, as previously ruled by the Federal Trade Commission, cigaret advertising would have deserted the airways. Another fact: "Enforcement" powers of the legislation are iudicrous, since the tobacco industry can hide a health warning on the narrow, side panel of a cigaret package, instead of printing it on the front or back of the pack. Reps.

Walter Rogers, who led tha battle for the cigaret lobby, made sure that colleagues who supported them were not identified. There were no roll call votes at any time and there was only one "teller" vote. This requires congressmen to file down the aisle without having their names and position recorded. The teller vote occurred on an amendment offered by Rep. James Roosevelt to protect future Btate controls on the labeling and advertising of cigarets sold in interstate commerce.

This W'as defeated. The bill itself finally was enacted by a "voice" vote, with members shouting their positioas en bloc and with no record of individual positions. Some congressmen had been fearful that a future political opponent, running against them, could accuse them of voting for lung cancer. But when Rep. Philip Burton, demanded a roll call Reps.

Rogers and Harris passed out word to defeat the roll call. Missing Opponent These steam roller tactics were executed with the chief opponent of the bill, Rep. John Moss, absent. Moss was in Europe, arrived back in Washington a half hour after the final vote. Moss, a staunch defender of the public interest, this time put a trip to Europe ahead of the public interest because he thought he had an agreement Religion in Life 2 Sides io a By JIM BILL MclNTEER West End Church of Christ.

Sometimes a person asks: "Which is more in keeping with Christianity joy or somberness?" Isn't the appropriate answer "both!" There are truly two sides to the coin although some may have emphasized the somber side to the exclusion of the joyous yet Christianity does carry with it its great measure of happiness. Think of the songs that abound in the Bible rejoice with those that came from a prison at midnight, glow in the sweet psalms that speak pound or shelter, whichever it is. The little girl was so heartbroken, they tried to get the mother dog back, but were told she had already been "adopted." Mrs. Hale is anxious to get the dog back for her little daughter. Her name, as mentioned above, is Gentle.

Her nose is white, around her neck is rust, her back is black. And she just recently had the puppies. The Hale number is 227-912'. And Mrs. Hale says, "if v.c could just get this dog bark would be a prayer answer Tiffany Diamond The other dav Miss Sandra Locke, 1150 S.

Water Gallatin, noticed that picture of Tiffany's million dollar diamond in this newspaper. The lines with the picture said the price, because of the removal of the 10 per cent federal excise tax, had been cu' to Now Miss Lock o-t out her pencil and pap-r did a little figuring. The she came up with showed that Tiffany's followed the process of taking 10 per cent of the price, including the excise tax. and reducing the price of the diamond by that amount. She said that was the wrong way to figure it.

By that method, she adds, the firm stands to lose $10,000 on the deal, if they sell it. Just thought we'd pass along thll information to them. Most likely they wouldn't want to lose that much money on a deal. tion didn't work well on stupes. In the cotton states men began to try to grow lion's and poultry.

Only those with capital could get into the cattle and dairy business. Mather soon business began to force out the small dairyman, the small poultryman. and the small pig grower. Cost became paramount. The farmer who didn't know about cost and couldn't accept the latest technology had two strikes against him and often had to stand and take the third.

He didn't know how to be efficient. Pig Grower Cost Today, for example, the agricultural engineers in their convention talked about a r.ew discovery which cuts costs for pig growers. A new system has been designed which automatically mixes a "slurry" (liquid mixture of feed and water), which the hog injects directly into his mouth. Having determined the average hog's eating rate and mouth dimensions, they have designed a feeding nozzle which delivers the measured amount of slurry each time the hog bites on the nozzle and depresses an actuator. The hog may not be smart about anything but eating.

At any rate, the hog learned to use the nozzle quite readily. It was found that the hog could consume 0.15 pounds of dry feed per minute from this nozzle when it was mixed with water at a 3-0 ratio. This is V2 timet as fast as he could consume feed from a conventional feeder. It is estimated that one nozzle can serve five or six hogs. The feed and water can be automatically metered into a system serving an installation 30 feet by 100 feet and divided into 36 stalls.

Such a building would hold 400 hogs at approximately 11 per pen. The operating costs as well as the equipment costs would be quite low. Experiments now are going forward to adopt such a system for feeding cattle. The engineers sit around and talk about an automatic vibrator which packs fruit under pressure superior to hand-labor methods. Driving back home from the convention one sees along the highway, which 30 years ago was lined with cotton fields, the small suburban housing developments, pastures, fields given over to pine trees, and, half-hidden back in the fields old abandoned barns and farm houses.

If Grandpa is looking down from Heaven he unquestionably is shaking his head uncomprehendingly at the new makers of revolution. to Earth but I have been told that a farm fish pond will produce 200 pounds of fish each year. Lester Flatt, the smooth emcee and guitarist-vocalist of the Flatt and Scruggs team, said fishing hasn't been so good this season. Bet he doesn't watch for the good fishing days in our Sunday almanac. King-Size Problem Mrs.

Jerry Hale, 3312 Leon-dale Terrace, has a king-size problem on her hands. A while back their: Jittle 4-year-old daughter's dog. Gentle, had puppies. The familv decided they couldn't keep all of them, so the mother dog and her puppies were taken to the Humane Association By RALPH McGlLL ATLANTA Sitting by the podium waiting to speak to the American Agricultural Engineers, one heard his mind say: "These men do not look like revolutionists. They are neatly and quietly dressed.

They are not the gray flannel suit types, nor do they seem to be the "organization man" of present classification. But revolutionists they are, drivinq people off land that, God forgive them, they had never served well, not know-ing how. The driven ones have helped fill the cities of America. Many of them are helplessly unskilled. The hands of the older ones are curved to fit the handles of plows or of hoes.

Some know the skill of tractor driving and of combines. But these are primitive tools. The engineers, nationally gathered, met in an air-conditioned building at the University of Georgia, called "The Center for Continuing Education," a gift of the northern Kellogg Foundation. The Center stands hard by "Ag Hill." where is located the state's agricultural college. 'Ag Hill' Taught Cotton Until the early 1920s "Ag Hill" taught cotton.

In the 1930s It struggled with the boll weevil disaster that signaled an end to cotton's dominance. There were the long years of preaching a gospel of change to pastures and livestock, cattle, pigs, dairying. There was, in the '30s, pitifully little money. There was even less know-how about the new ideas of the changes that had to come. There had to be pastures for cattle and there were few pastures.

Long years had to be spent in long research on grasses and nutrition for cattle and dairy cows. There was not much knowledge of diseases and these were many and the losses were extensive. There was a great reluctance to move from row crops and to accept new ideas. Mechanization came first to cotton. The Mississippi Delta first was excited by flame weeders which moved through the lonq miles of cotton rows like Pygmy fire-breathing dragons.

The cotton picker also was an excitement. Cotton began to leave the Piedmont areas and the hill country because mechaniza Down snake and made a pet of it. That is, they thought it was a king snake. But a while back they found out it was a queen snake when it started laying eggs. Terry and Mona were showing the queen snake and her eggs to our field man Jimmy Brown when he snapped the picture.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Puckett, their parents, are very understanding. Their dad said children should be taught about the snakes they can catch and about those they can't. Unless there is some objection, I'd just as soon not catch any snake.

Haven't checked this with the fish management people, Call for Georgia Ann Wood: ington also ran smoothly. Six months ago indeed, when two American planes crash-landed deep in Algerian territory for reasons known only unto the U.S. Navy the Algerians raised no fuss about returning either pilots or planes. But the army had, and Ben Bella in his innocence allowed, far more ambitious schemes. Care and feeding of the army became the principal drain on the national income, and led also to a solid alliance with the Soviet Union.

At the insistence of the Army, the veteran Kabyle leaders were driven into revolt, exile and prison. Border War Started To satisfy the army a border war with Morocco was undertaken. And under army pressure for a more active Algerian role in international affairs, Ben Bella placed his country, along with China, Indonesia, Syria and (sometimes) Ghana and Cuba, in the camp of the world's radical trouble-makers. But by March of this year, when I last visited Algeria, it wa evident that Ben Bella had had enough, and was getting ready to change. He moved to patch up relations with Morocco.

He refused to follow the Syrian lead in taking an extremist position against Israel. In the preparations for the coming meeting of Afro-Asian, or Bandung, powers in Algiers, he took a broad reach of measures to undo the expected domination of Communist China. He Invited Latin-American countries to sen-e as observers. He championed the admission of a Soviet delegation. He courted the more conservative French-speaking African states in hopes of bringing them to the meeting.

To Peking he sent a special mission designed to induce in the Chinese a more moderate mood. Kabyle Re-entry Most important of all, Ben Bella initiated the first steps toward the re-entry of the moderate Kabyle leaders into Algerian politics. He pardoned one, released two others from detention, sent another on an important diplomatic mission, and entered into negotiations with two others who were in exile. He was on the point of bringing still another of the old Kabyle leaders into his government, perhaps as defense minister. The re-entry of the Kabyles would have given Ben Bella a counterweight against the army.

It thus threatened the eminence of Colonel Boumedi-enne. And it was in those circumstances that Ben Bella was unseated by military coup. The new Algerian govern- By JOSEPH KRAFT WASHINGTON The coup in Algiers presents a case of history missing an opportunity. For President Ahmed Ben Bella was deposed at just the moment, and precisely because, he was moving toward a new policy a policy that would have meant more sense for his own country, and found more favor in this country. This is not to say that Ben Bella was a great leader, or even a very good one.

He came from an exceedingly simple peasant background. Before becoming head of state, his whole adult life consisted of being, first, a soldier in the French army; next, a terrorist and gun-runner in the nationalist movement; and finally, a prisoner in French jails. He emerged from this experience with a head full of the usual stuff about revolutionary brotherhood and that sort of thing. The Kabyle Group It was, of course, not these silly ideas, that enabled the Algerian nationalists to prevail against the French in their long struggle for independence. On the contrary, the war, and the exceedingly complex peace negotiations, were managed by a group of moderate nationalist politicians who became known, from their place of origin inside Algeria, as the Kabyles.

With independence won, however, the Kabyle leadership faced two immediate problems. There was the army, under Colonel Houari Bourne-dienne, which opposed the peace settlement. There was Ben Bella, a popular hero, who opposed the continued leadership of the Kabyle group. In the struggle that followed there took place the usual making of strange bed-fellows. Ben Bella and the army joined forces.

Together, they beat down the Kabyle leadership. Thus it happened that in the new Algeria Ben Bella became Number One and Bou-medienne became Number One prime. Native Shrewdness Ben Bella had enough native shrewdness to understand his country's economic dependence on France and. to a smaller extent, the United States. He regularly negotiated oil contracts with France for the development of Sahara oil, and he even let the French test nuclear weapons in the desert.

Bilateral relations with Wash By ELMER HINTON A touching; appeal comes from Mrs. Ollie Seibers, Route 1, Walling. would like to ask a favor," she says, "of you and your readers to help me find my sister. "We were separated when we were small children after our parents died. We were born I Kentucky but moved to Tennessee before our father 'J HAL- is? C-E LT-, I PVsJ.

99 P-J ACTUALLY. TRY hW '0 5-C C4. Elmer and mother died. "Her former name was Georgia Ann Woods and she would be around 75 to 80 years old. I am 77 and I have searched for her all my life, but in vain.

I once heard she might be running a restaurant in Old Hickory, but I never could find her. "If she is still living, she would be the only member of our family, besides myself, still alive. Our father's name was Mark Woods. "If I could find her it would mean a lot to me and I feel my life would be complete." Through the help of the partyliners in the past, ma'am, we have been able to reunite some families who had been separated under similar circumstances. We hope it turns out as well for you.

King Snake Pet The Puckett children Terry, Douglas and Mona of White Bluff caught a king I Mona and Terry Puckett and Pet Snake A king turned queen mighty fast.