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I'l 'I i THE POWER OF FAITH Rambling Cl In Rhyme 4-A Kingsport Timcs-Nfws -imUy Jjuia 11 The Rules Committee 1 xvN- V- X-X 1 ty1 tv'Lx "O' i 'i1 Vi a private citizen than the reader can speak as President We are pretty sure that President Kennedy would have preferred to say nothing at all about this business and to stay clear of it as he did the fight in the Senate over the filibuster But we can imagine Sam Rayburn saying to him Mr President if you speak out we will win If you do not we will lose But this may turn out to be something of a Pyrrhic victory Because it will be won at the cost of that unity and goodwill that Kennedy has tried to achieve The Republicans are angry over a step that reminds so many people of Franklin Roosevelts attempt to increase the membership of the Supreme Court in order to get the decisions he wanted The conservative Southerners are angry and in no mood to be agreeable when it comes to supporting administration bills Moreover those conservative southerners are all old hands at parliamentary finagling and know all the gimmicks by which legislation can be blocked and delayed and held up on points of order and so on Old John Rankin used to demonstrate how one man could use the rules to get things all tangled up So we will not be surprised if changing control of the Rules Committee fails to tie the hands of the astute Howard Smith altogether Macs Window By McAULIFrE A fellow says that after a girl marries she discovers that candy can be bought in ten cent bags too as well as in four dollar boxes That must be an old gag he "dug up It was true a numter of years ago Nowadays you can buy a pieie of candy for ten cents Yr Careful Joe went to the races He loved to see horses run He never bet on them at all And so he never won! But he never left the race track With a lighter purse He decided he would be no better And therefore be no worse Yr Jones had a bad cold in the head He went to the doctor and the docto said Take a real big drink and get into bed Now when Jones is warned about drafts At that advice he simply laughs He goes home and his medicine quaffs So remembering what he has been told Jones goes out of his wsy to catch a cold On that doctors advice he Is really sold! Yr When a boy is given to twitches Theres a very simple answer which is Hes wearing woolen underbritches And they Itches! Yr The ideal office force is one that can agree on the proper temperature of a room Yr And there is wonderful peace in that office when every one agrees when the windows should be open and when they should be shut Vr Of course in most modern offices there is no longer any arguments about opening and shutting dows Yr Instead there are arguments as to whether the thermostat should be turned up or down Yr How come the girls would rathef Dear Reader: A I write this rhyme the snow is failing gracefully leaving a white blanket everywhere 1 look Maybe at this reading the snow has melted and once again look upon the earth as it really is But the snow will come again if not this winter another so when it does look upon it's beauty see how many wonderful things you can find in delation to life when you: ANALYZE THE SNOW When the winter wind is blowing The trees sway to and fro And everywhere the eye can see There is ice and snow The streets are lined with tracks of cars A pattern so unique A fairyland a wonderland For all who look and seek Sometimes it falls like feathers And then again like rain Falling from the heavens Leaving neither mark nor stain Oh could wjibe as pure as snow As beautiHl to see What a captivating person We would always be Sincerely Juanita Whitehurst The battle over changing the Rules Committee of the House is scheduled to be settled Tuesday All the signs are that the change will be made as proposed by Speaker Sam Rayburn But by a very narrow margin The delay of the vote from last Thursday and the irritation of the Republicans over that delay would indicate that the administration was a little worried and needed more time to work on some of the fence-sitters It might also indicate that Sam Rayburn needed some time to bring up his secret weapon That secret weapon is tne open support of the President for the Rayburn Plan It was intended to serve notice on those who were wavering that the President wanted their support And if there is anything a member of Cpn-gress likes it is to be the decisive factor to winning a victory and have the President know it At his press conference President Kennedy spoke out Of course he said that he would not attempt to infringe on the responsibilities of the House to decide how to deal with the Rules Committee But that was a little thick coming as it did with the statement: As a private citlezn I do not think a small group of congressmen should have the power to prevent the fuU House from voting on a measure John Kennedy can no more speak as Abuse Of Power A most strange thing about the fight over the Rules Committee is the way everybody seems to ignore the main question as if by mutual consent and battle over something of relative unimportance Everybody is talking about the fight to get control of the Rules Committee away from Howard Smith of Virginia But that is not the important thing at all The real evil that has existed for many years and makes possible the career of Howard Smith is the ex-tradordinary and completely unwarranted powers vested in the Rules Committee We are not doing one thing to remedy that All we are thinking about is taking that power away from one group of men and then turning right around and giving it to another group of men That does not make sense It is not the power of the present chairman of the committee that needs to be curtailed but the power of any man who is chairman of that committee We are not doing that at all The newly-organized committee may be willing to facilitate the passage of bills the administration wants But the men on that committee will have the power to block pro-liberal bills One is just as bad as the other Both are equally wrong We are in complete agreement with the idea expressed by President Kennedy when he said No small group of congressmen should have the power Imprisoned In England for his faith of the age of 25 William Penn wrote: My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot for I owe my conscience to no mortal man" Drew Pearson: Last Man In The Parade Hear America By PHYLLIS BATTELLE Almost everyone I know who worked arxj frolicked at last weekends inaugural extravaganza is suffering from something The ment chief advised the President to launch a brand new study of The man wha rode last in the back and forth taking off the inaugural parade was Gov Peter fish maladies run from scotch palsy Coleman of Samoa most distant Govenor Coleman is a deep-sea the problem before talking to the fectlZZlhng'u) "we'ar through compound fracture of the possess 0f the USA Governor diver and once made a dive of Russians McCloy a Republican jt how Long underwear digestive tract to simple delu- and Mrs Coleman were born in 129 feet to the bottom of Pago reported that disarmament plan- haj become lonf overwear the South Seas and are accustom- Pago Harbor to explore -J r- 6 die than wear long underwear when it would not show but are hen I keep thinking said a 29- cdi to 90-degree sunshine in Jan- wreckage of an oil tanker sunk slipshod and amateurish that it 1 would be dangerous to negotiate A lot of people for whom Presl-with the Russians along the same dent Kennedy is now the fair-lines haired boy will in a little while Congressman John Blatnik of be trying- to snatch him bard Minnesota who lives on the edge headed because he does not do year-old wire service man That uary gut by the time they rolled during the war I can keep up with Jack Ken- down Pennsylvania Avenue it was nV Yr nedy It can kill you 6:15 qute dark and an jcy wjnd House Presi- My ai ment is rather exotic I td rWed most 0f the soecta- MOUSTms Kinir ltKWmma vpnc naa vnasea "i051 or me spetia dent Kennedy believes the eco think I have late-blooming virus tors from the grandstands The tors irom tne granasranas me nomc and foreiffn do1cv nrob- coupled with fever ennui and new President of the United States facil the XtmnaZfar of Lake Superior the biggest what they think he should do lems facing the nation are far graver then the Eisenhower administration ever let on He is at fresh-water lake in the world really doesnt need to worry about Yr The first forecast for 1964 If rather dizzy spells Since I am however was still there He doff-confined to bed on a diet of ed His hat in salute and applauded juice and throat lozenges my He applauded not merely be- to prevent the full house from voting on a measure The accent should be NO small group We agree that Howard Smith and William Colmer did just that and it was indefensible But when the shoe is on the other foot is it not just as indefensible? But nobody got excited about this abuse of power until it became part of the conservative battle against liberalism The purpose of the Rules Committee Is to facilitate the smooth flow of legislations and prevent the confusion of many bills coming to the floor at once It never was intended that this committee should use its own judgment in deciding whether a bill should be permanently killed The committee has frequently done that in the past and it can do so in the future Howard Smith was not the first Rules Chairman to act as a little czar and he will not be the last unless Congress takes remedial action Increasing the membership leaves the Rules Committee with the same power that Howard Smith exercised If the Congress really wished to act on the statement that NO small group should be able to block action it will strike at the root of the trouble It would review and revise the powers of the committee so that this sort of thing would be impossible By simply enlarging the committee it is leaving itself open to the charge of playing politics and packing the committee mnst depressed by the gloomy clan watT for himelf and c5In Kennedy is renominated for Presi-iuse the Governor of Samoa had i stituents However he is the No -iPn Inhncnn will NOT dent Lyndon Johnson will NOT cause the Governor of Samoa had 1 advocate of cleaning up the re-nommated for Vica presi- -v mind jumps restlessly vivd mem- ory to vague remembrance stuck it out t0 bitter end but Iook Ph he Wi the Lub Like the press secretary who because the Governor administers deliberately hid from Ve waters of the USA and has offered dent called me in my Washington ho- a of Polynesian Islands Sle And "he are so Jnv thr water pollution bills tel room just before I tookoff whfch main joo per cent loyal Kan-nohcv saster-Uos the for the inaugural ball to cover it to the USa Unlike the British ernn and Cba-handcd for ABC Radio Please she Samoan Islands which will become if Vu ba "andcd nlrarleH Rememher for bVuvens famoan slanas "ncn wu to him that Kennedy address to pleaded Remember for heaven lndependent November the the ti sake not to call Mrs Kennedy American Samoas cherish their people And there are so many "'T vu fnrin-nnNv I I Ei -B Blatnik -1 country will require an increase in the current water supply of holders mercan cnensn lne'r of the ahead UnemploymtM Mr Gold- Will government jobs 120 per cent Thats equal to the account for a Iot the ncr increase Jackm Avoid it like the ol a cue warning dangers jacMe Avoid it liKe tne plague tles t0 tje American mainland Kennedy's advisers have warn- I told her But we always Samoa became American in 1900 a'd that he must stop his habit of addltl0naI of 140 New York called Mamie Mamie when the US Navy was looking improvising out of text in his Ore- Cltys and wil1 re1uire the nw Speaking of Mr Goldberg if The Eisenhowers didnt mind for a good harbor in the South red schc Evev word he I guess But we would prefer cpa- and discovered Paeo Pago Pa ea speres' trvery a ne Mrs Kennedy to be known as SI Tt 's as Present wH have re- Kennedy Today the jet age has made that of about 12 Colorado rivers he can pull off few more stunts Boiled down to its simplest llke the settlement of the railroad terms Blatnik the water stnke- we Wl11 regarding him The First Ladv or 'Mrs John says resources problem confronting us as Gold Mine is that the demand of 600 billion gallons of water per day by 1960 if you bite your finger nails equals the known water supply and wear dentures you are going available to the entire country to be badly handicapped if you This is a frightening prospect are called on to fight tooth and and one we must begin to do nail something about now before it is Yr tqo late of course not many people who Blatnik figures that President wear dentures bite their nails Kennedy will not veto water anti- They say it is a very unsatisfac-pollution bills torv operation Plans For Sounding Out Reds xvu ons around the world: Kennedy If ou must use bar amos4 vleless- Samoa Inside reason why Governor Van- Kennedy it you must use IS building a huge jet runway in- diver of Gem-via a turned dnan her first name it is pronounced stead VeorSa as 1turned down Jak-wah-lyn But try to keep it mrr for Secretary of the Army was a forme! wnn't vmi? 3 Governor Coleman presides over speech he made criticizing Brazil It was understood that none of fhBrifish nZeof its Gov the important ladies at the five Jr JT Vandr( kad Just com various balls was to wear white a I Armercac and This an edirt was unofficially atves members They live warned that the United States requested in order that Jacqueline iandVhTn thTsa' IIW Br8Zil'S would stand out fas if there was hundred mies- and when the Sa' of racial intermarriage John some doubt) from the other fe- waverT Manhattan male viris mons goes out by snort-wave ra- Bank now Kennedy disarma- V' dio and a government boat is sent UTten I earned that Mrs Stew- jck he eglslators ard Udall was wearing white chiffon with an underskirt of Asked how the jet age had white-and cocoa stripes I called changed the South Sea Islands for reconfirmation Is it true Governor Coleman explained: Mrs is wearing white? It was the war which changed Yes said a hospitality com- the South Sea Islands Most of us mittee spokesman After a pause had to drop our normal way of But we hope considering the making a living fishing and underskirts she'll come out farming to help the war Now beige we have had to learn to fish all Then it was reported that Mrs over again Peter Lawford (Pat Kennedy) Recently we acquired a modern would wear white chiffon and ncv fishing vessel from Japan Mrs Joseph (Rose) Kennedy and we follow the Japanese sys-would wear white lace Another tern of putting out a fishing line phone call to headquarters and perhaps 73 miles long with smaller another voice apologizing It lines and hooks every five or ten isn't exactly what we'd have liked feet The line is secured on glass But we sepm to have no control balls with flags attached and over the Kennedys every few hours the boat patrols Ralph Loetc DD: We Need Extra Mark Twain once wTote a de- lightful yarn about a steamboat had enough steam to move or enough steam to I its whistle But there was not enough steam to do both of those things at the same time There are two youngsters walk past our home on the way to school When they become in- volved in lively chatter they stop to talk Then they walk Jhey don't to have Power The enslavement of minds and time when evtn the phrase utv the tyrannizing of peoples is no dor your own steam is antiquat-that handiwork of God The decima- ed tion of nations and the imprison- Only that man who has enough ment of men because of their reverence to be humble enough faith is no act of God openness of mind to receive the But then these are not sym- guidance of God beyond him who- bols of' light either In our time enough courage to know his own Wre have learned again how evil limitations and enough faith to evil can be see the possible goal only such a The other day I went to the hos- man will find the empowerment pital to make a call I pressed for his dreams seem enough steamthe elevator Button before I no- When a -man stands alone for both activities the same ticed the little sign announcing trying it undir his own steam time the elevator was out of commis- he is indeed alone In this world of computers and sion Along with other visitors I When he stands in the knowl-mathcniatica! propositions no one trudged to the fourth floor edge of the presence of God has correctly estimated the amount We are so quickly lifted by our is not indulging in a mental trick of "steam in an individual Our gadgets that we forget that we There he knows that of myself real problem is that we think that might ever need some steam of I can do nothing with Him I we have enough steam of our own our own to climb We live in a can do all things and enough moral resourcefulness Side Glances meeting in Quito Ecuador If the Cubans and Latin-American Communists want to stir up trouble as they have at other recent hemisphere gatherings this is their dish There have been anti-US demonstrations in Quito because this country has supported an arbitration decision on the old Peru-Ecuador border quarrel It would be easy to whip up anti-Yanqui sentiment again if that is still the Communist line In May the North Atlantic Treaty foreign ministers will meet in Oslo Norway The idea of completely changing the NATO concept by giving it nuclear armed forres of its own is now being studied bv the NATO Council in Pans The issue may he ready for decision at Oslo If not this important question will he deferred to the NATO December meeting in Paris In the meantime some solution of the Algerian question is hoped for And there will be elections in West Germany in September ywith thq chancellorship at stake Communist pressures play an important part in both matters If the Russians and Red Chinese continue their support of the Algerian nationalists it will be the equivalent of Communist opposition to President De Gaulle of France And the Russians are concerned over close relations between France and Germany particularly of those between De Gaulle and Chancellor Adenauer Khrushchev is under pressure from East German President Walter Ulbricht to force a showdown on the-status -of-Berlin The Russtansare on something of a spot because of the Moscow declaration to achieve a settlement of the Berlin situation by peaceful means Khrushchev must show what he can do on this before a general congress of the Commu-rist party in Moscow in October the month after the German elections This' meeting was postponed from a date set for this spring Delay has begn widely attributed to a that the Russians wanted more tima to size up the Kennedy administration to determine how much co-operation there might be between thfe two great powers Today's Bible Tliought By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON CNEA) The Kennedy timetable for feeling out Russian intentions toward the new administration is set Feb 7 the Geneva Conference on limitation of nuclear weapons testing will reconvene If some progress is made it will be a good sign If the meeting breaks up again it will be an indication that the Russians dont want a ban the US may be forced into resuming tests On March 7 the UN General Assembly reconvenes in New York There is no hint yet whether Khrushchev intends to return for this session and turn it into another shoe-pounding affair Secretary of State Dean Rusk has told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he favors international negotiation by diplomats instead of by heads of state That would preclude Kennedys attendance at the UN and would seem to rule out even Rusk's own appearance At anv rate the current view is that the -is not the place for any summit conference such as Khrushchev has been trving to promote again That would seem to leave it to Steve meaning new US ambassador to the Adlai Stevenson to make-the first feel-out of Russian inentions on future negotiations Rusk will get his first chance to weigh Russian intentions at the Southeast Asia Treaty Council meeting in Bangkok Thailand later in March If the Laos situation is still critical and if the Russians Red Chinese and Communist Vietnamese are still aiding the leftist forces in Laos SEA TO will have to face up to a decision on how to meet this threat There will be a similar foreign ministers meeting of Central Treaty Organization powers at Ankara Turkevr" in April This area is rela- tively quiet offers no immediate 'crisis In May however' the Organization of American State is scheduled to hold its' postponed KiiigspoH Timeslews A Independent Newtoeper 230-22 Merket Street Ktneporf fena PHONE CIRCLE Mi2J Edwards Jr President end Publisher Bea Haden Vice President Ralph Otsier General Manager W-J -McAuHffe- Editor at Editorial" Pig EHt Bmklev Mead pf Newt Department Associated PrM i AF" Fhotofas tmernaftonAJ Out Our Way I for any problem What difference does It make if we believe in God or not Why should we express any dependence upon God? We can make it on our own Or so we think Yet in the tight places there is the knowledge deep within us that none of us possesses enough steam to Jiandle those enormous situations 'A Russian wrote a bit of verse' (perhaps it was more poetic in its original' (han in translation): And here we have our Sputniks No secret this newborn planet i But this symbol of intellect and light Is made by us And not by the God of the Old Testament Theres just enough showing between those lines to reveal a troubled-conscience! He is right too There is so much here that has not been made by the God of the -Old and the Testaments The schenning of clever people trying to do' things on their own is not of Gods making Nor is the distortion of laiv- guage by diabolical mipds making our world into a devilish (Babel 1 i 1 Br of evil men nor de -sire-to-be -with thenrProverbs 24:1 NltKHMH Advertttmg Reprgyn-t- tUmo5 RPSI Gvm 1 Sindm tne Eater Rot Uffict ar Ktnesoort Ten aecond ciatw mail WAIL RUBM R1PTIOS RATFS FJRS7 POSTAL ONE OM 1 MO i MIT Daif? eatf ftuadar S4 50 Daily wrthotfi Ebndav i S9 be i 1 Iic imcs' Daily Tonic teas rsfl 12 90 The Aawsciated Pre a aiciuwvefy entitled to rhr few oafehcatioB ol aif newt dsnatrhea ro at tirse credited in dun as atao m'a local pubiiahed fee raid 2STo man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in th? choice of his company Jeremy Taylor 1 1 Tve-bteij jidmiring- your eyelashes! Mind if I try then) on? 1 A i XXX'A Y-v f- 3.