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MONDAY, AUGUST 3 1,19 5 9 0 A THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER 4 Published Dally THE ADVERTISER CO. Established 1121 Second class pottage paid at Montgomery, Alabama NationalWhirligig Ry Ray Tucker WASHINGTON. rpuE utter lack of crusading zeal 1 on Capitol Hill today means that Congress will go home without adopting any of the ethical and political reforms of practices that have tended to bring Congress into general disre Prof. Cohen, Mobster What was to have been a capital joke seems to have blown up in the face of the American Bar Association. Mickey Cohen, the notorious West coast mobster, was paid a reported $2,500 to lecture at an ABA seminar on legal tactics in Miami.

When he arrived for the convention, Cohen told everyone, including the cops, he was going to "lecture the Bar Association about the evils of crime." For their part the cops were more interested in Cohen's connection, if any, with, a gangland mur-rer in Chicago a few days before while Cohen was there. Protesting his innocence, Cohen resented the poor communication In his stratum of society; "They should let somebody know when they are going to kill somebody." Billed as "Professor O'Brien," Cohen Alabama Kriilors Are Savins; Tuo Rig Ones The Huntsville Times rPHE legislature's vacation period (which is, incidentally, without payj is not only deserved, but needed, too. The worthy gentlemen of the legislature will need to be fully rested when they return to regular session on Sept. 8, for at least two major battles remain on the schedule: reapportionment and the anti-loan shark bill. Black Belters and loan shark lobbyists already are talking of trying to cut the regular session short in an effort to prevent action on these bills.

However, both bills long overdue-have considerable backing. Gov. Patterson has termed the loan shark bill the No. 1 Item of business, and he also is pledged to support reapportionment action. If he will support both of these bills as strongly as he supported the money bills, there will be at least a better than usual chance of some success.

Sterling Record Shelby County Reporter npiIE record of the Patterson Administration will be written large on the pages of history of Alabama. Already the legislature, whose members were elected along with Gov. Patterson, has completed more major legislation, many will say. than any session of lawmakers In the memory of living Alabamians. In passing it might be remembered that Gov.

Patterson held the line on requests for more money from the various departments of the state government. Only in such instances in which the need for more money -o 1ft 1 1 1 'Stop Stalling Of The Iteiich By Judge Walter 11. Join Cen. Clanton: Alabama's Hash Gallant if AS it 1 a And Fill It I pT He had a hard time raising the regiments but by July, 1863, he had raised 26 companies, mustered and armed and in the field. In the latter part of 1863 he was made a brigadier general of the Confederate Army.

No son of Alabama ever had a more distinguished record in the War Between the Union and the Confederacy than Gen. Clanton. After the war he returned to Montgomery and became a member of the firm of Stone, Clopton Clanton. At the Selma state convention in 1866 he was appointed chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic and Conservative Party, which' post he retained until he died in 1871. J'R.

DAVIDSON says: "When a bold voice was needed in Montgomery in 1867 to reply to the bitter tirades being made against the Southern whites, James Holt Clanton, fearless as usual, stepped forward to reply to Senator Henry Wilson of Mas.sa-rhusetts speaking in Montgomery on May 11. He- rallied about, himself the forces of opposition to Reconstruction, until that time somewhat without leadership, and Fleming says organized opposition to Reconstruction may be traced from that date. He is fairly considered the founder of the Democratic and Conservative Party, and finally the Democratic Party of Alabama. "Always a champion of justice and right, truth and loyalty to friends and to any cause to which he gave support, he led the fight against carpetbag rule in Alabama to the end of his life on Sept. 27, 1871." Gen.

Clanton was In Knoxville, defending the state of Alabama in a suit it had against the corrupt interests trying to control the Alabama Chattanooga Railroad. He became embroiled In a personal difficulty with David M. Nelson. Some words followed which Clanton took as a reflection on his bravery. Mr.

Davidson tells us: "I am not afraid of anything or any man," Clanton reportedly told Nelson, and other words fast led to preparations for an immediate duel, despite efforts of friends. Nelson ran into a saloon and procured a double-barreled shotgun from an adjoining store. Clanton was carrying a pistol on his person at the time. Accounts vary, but as Nelson reappeared he was partly sheltered by beer kegs, an awning post and a lamp post. As he took, deliberate aim by resting his gun against the awning post, Clanton saw him.

Nelson fired and Clanton fell, dying in the street as he fired into the curb." Alabama was shocked at the death of her distinguished son. The capital city was draped in black. The body was returned to Montgomery and many thousands, white and colored, viewed the body of Gen. Clanton as It lay In state at the Capitol on Sept. 30, 1871.

During the funeral all business houses closed, "amidst the sad-est solemnity scarcely ever witnessed in our city." A rosewood casket, mounted with silver, was Interred in Oakwood as Alabama's tears flowed for her Gen. Clanton, rash gallant perhaps, but as Gov. Watts said, "no holiday soldier or sunshine patriot" was Gen. Clanton. The flag of his old regiment was folded about him as he was laid to rest and today he is often called "the Chevalier Bayard of Alabama-A a man without fear and without reproach." National Exhibit After Buddy Hackett finished his Chinese-waiter comedy routine at Grosslnger's, Siobhan McKenna took the stage to recite St.

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News Department AM 5-5J01 Circulation CH 7-7749 Sport Department AM 4-Ml The Conciliator Losses from the nearly two-month-old steel strike are now estimated at more than $2 billion, counting lost wages, sales, taxes, overhead, depreciation and salaries of non-production workers. And negotiators, if anything, are farther apart than when they first sat down to bargain. Indeed, Steel-workers President McDonald implies that he will now demand even greater concessions from industry. At the beginning or the strike, McDonald was arguing for a 15 increase in the average a.i hour pay of steelworkers. But that, he says, is now ar.d errDneous." The union is "starting all over again." Meaning, no doubt, that the will grow harsher.

Neither the industry nor the steel-workers favors the Prey dent's mm 3 the injunctive provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act to force an 80-day end tu the strike. Nor Is the President, who has btayeu out of the light, eager to use it. But it may come to that if the strike grinds on until it damages the whole economy. It is true, but hollow coming from McDonald, that "Taft-Hartley should not be used to settle a matter that could and should be worked out if genuine, sensible collective bargaining was inaugurated." McDonald's Idea of bargaining was to petulantly quit the talks entirely for three weeks and to return only at the urging of the government. Such a man pleads for "sensible" bargaining.

Summer And Smoke In a 1,000 years, according to some scientists, the whole world will have a tropical climate. This theory, which will find a receptive audience here in Montgomery after the summer of 1959, holds that the climate change can be blamed on the fires built by man in the past century. During that time, some 360 billion tons of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere. At this point the theory gets technical. Take it, Dr.

Gilbert N. Plass: Carbon dioxide and some other gases in the atmosphere influence temperature because their molecules absorb infrared radiation. The carbon dioxide blanket prevents the escape of heat released when sunlight strikes the earth and the trapped radiation warms the atmosphere in consequence. Today the atmosphere contains some 2,300 billion tons of carbon dioxide .03 of its total mass. In addition, substantial amounts are found in three other great reservoirs: Oceans, rocks and living organisms.

But the atmosphere and the oceans continuously exchange carbon dioxide with rocks and with living organisms so that an equilibrium with the air is maintained. However, studies of rock strata show that for the last billion years most of the world has had tropical temperatures, broken every 250,000,000 years or so by short glacial periods. During the last 620,000 years minutes as geologists measure time-there have been 10 distinct temperature cycles. The theory is that these were caused by man and his fires. In that, next 1,000 years, if we continue burning things, all the coal and oil will be gone and we will have multiplied the carbon dioxide tonnage of the air 18 times and the earth will be 22 degrees warmer, Palm trees will grow near the arctic circle.

pute, ine legisia-ors refuse to "clean Congress Will Not Clean lis Own House louse. The 0 1 I e-Adams revelations admittedly showed the need of a "code or-ethics" as a guide to the congressional conscience. So did disclosures that political and personal favoritism sometimes influenced the award of immensely valuable TV franchises. Although not figuring In the Harris subcommittee's inquiry, it has been shown that some members have intervened with executive departments and the alphabetical agencies on behalf of contractors and communities. They have sought and obtained favors denied to competitors who did not have "inside friends" at Washington.

CONGRESS DEAF TO REFORMS Despite this evidence of the existence of an "invisible and backstage government," Congress refuses to establish a set of ground rules for Its relations with the executive branch and semi-Judicial commissions. Advocates of such a code compare these congressional intervenlngs with efforts to influence the decision of a judge or jury. But this argument has fallen on deaf ears. In fact. Senate Minority Leader Everett McKlnley Dirksen of Illinois defied his colleagues to frame any prohibition on these contacts.

He announced that he would "continue to represent my constituents in this way." So many members agreed with him. both Republicans and Democrats, that the proposal is dead. ELECTION SPENDINGS Another forgotten reform is the attempt to tighten the election laws governing the use of money in politics. As of today, the legislation against corrupt practices is a deliberate Joke, like the Hatch Act. These statutes limit the amount which candidates may spend, and restrict the amounts which individuals or corporations may contribute.

They fix a maximum for certain official political organizations. But they do not prevent a candidate from receiving vast sums from local committees which do not have to report their contributions or expenditures. As a result, the statutory limitations are meaningless. BIG MONEY TALKS The same observation applies to the ban on excessive corporate gifts. This prohibition, designed to prevent "big business" Interests from placing a member under heavy obligation, is easily bypassed.

The wealthy members of an oil, gas. railroad, banking or industrial family contribute separately the maximum allowable to each individual. Tho Rockefellers, MeHons, du Fonts, take advantage of this loophole at eery election. Big money, in fact, talks as effectively in politics today as it did in the Mark Hanna-Boies Penrose era. It Is not so successful in its investment, however, becau.se labor union funds also speak volumes.

REFORMS AFFECTING RACIAL. LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS It is still questionable whether reforms affecting racial and labor-management relations will become law at this session. The Republicans, despite Dirksen denials, would like to defer civil rights action until next year. Northern Democrats prefer no labor legislation at all. if it will antagonize their AFL-CIO supporters and contributors.

Death or delay to reform at this session undoubtedly means indefinite postponement. For even the most zealous crusaders run to cover In a presidential year. I Released by McClure New: paper Sj'tKllcale) Living Today Ry Arlie R. Davidson Being A Parent MORE than 807c of all married couples have children. But too many marriages are entered Into wun nttie serious thought of the requirements of the role of parenthood and the difficulties of giving wise and effective guidance to their children.

There is little preparation frv Viio im rntf nt AT I I I I The main interests I I A i 1 before marriage are DAVIDSON other and the ex- presslon of their love. Hence, cou ples neglect the importance of matching for good parents and adequate preparation for children to come. The ability to have children does not automatically make you skilled In the care and upbringing of offspring. Yet couples generally seem to assume that they will become good parents overnight. This Is a factor in failure.

Children need wise guidance for developing their potentialities. "Being a parent Is a skill more delicate than being a concert violinist," according to one mother. "A parent-plays a human thousand-stringed Instrument and what he or she accomplishes through that instrument Is important until the end of time." Buddy, Can You Spare A Buck? We have systematically rejected the notions of the sumptuaries who persist In writing America's obituary and listing the primary causes of death as luxury and leisure. However, from St. Louis comes a report so jarring we are mightily tempted to join the alarmists.

In that city, panhandlers are said to listen to portable transistor radios to ward off boredom while they wait for p.Vf L.4UT2TS. the official organ of the State Bar of Alabama, of which the writer of this column is editor, contains Its July, issue two articles of great hiMorical alue. i One is by Ronald Sklut, a law student At Yale University, and is a spiencia sKetcn 7y 'he life and times 'A John Archibs i Campbell, one of A of of a 1 Ala- 5 wished statesmen. and at one time a member of the Supreme Court of the United States. The other article by William H.

Davidson of West Point, is a paper read jon'RS by him at a meeting of the Alabama Historical Association last April at Tuscaloosa. Mr. Davidson's article is entitled "Brig. Gen. James Holt Clanton, Alabama's Rash Gallant." Gen.

Clanton in his lifetime was a great Confederate warrior, a leader of the white people in Reconstruction days and the founder of the Democratic and Conservative Party in Alabama. His memory should ever be kept green in the hearts and minds of the people of his state. Gen. Clanton was born in Georgia in 1827, and when he was eight years old his parents settled in Macon County, where he grew to young manhood. Gen.

Clanton was a fighter all of his life. He came from a fighting family. His grandfather, Holt Clanton, a Virginia rebel in 1776, served six years in the Virginia Continental Line. Gen. Clanton became very much interested in the filibustering movements against Texas, Cuba and Nicaragua, sometimes before 1860.

A mass meeting was held at Montgomery to anex Cuba to the United States and Gen. Clanton made a moving speech In favor of the Cubans. A committee was formed to raise money. Sixty volunteers from Montgomery made ready to go. Gen.

Clanton was elected commander of the company. Before they could get to Cuba the insurrection had failed and Lopez and many of his officers and men had been shot. QEN. CLANTON was admitted to practice law in 1850, and opened a law office here In Montgomery and later served as a member of the state legislature from Montgomery County. Gen.

Clanton was an outstanding horseman with a love of cavalry and he was elected to command the first regiment of cavalry raised in Alabama. He not only raised the regiment and organized it, but he drilled and equipped it and fought this regiment for the first year of its existence. Col. Clanton and his regiment were at Jackson, in 1862, and it was here that one of the generals labeled him by saying, "Col. Clanton i3 gallant to rashness." Col.

Clanton and his cavalry were at the Battle of Shiloh. When his regiment was ordered to attack, his commanding general reported that Gen. Clanton did so, "promptly, gallantly and successfully." His heroism at Shiloh brought him instant fame. He was more popular than ever when he left the command of the First Alabama and began raising troops again in 1862. was introduced as an expert on tax evasions and other crimes.

The man who invited him, Mclvln M. Belli, a San Francisco trial lawyer, protested amid the general outrage that he frequently produced "odd and interesting guests" at his seminars. He did that all right. Too bad John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly and Albert Anastasla weren't available for lectures on their particular fields of criminal law. Lawyers are frequently accused, and often wrongfully, of not being sufficiently aroused by law-breaking, as if they have a vested interest in crime which dilutes their moral indignation.

There are a few lawyers like that, of course; but mast have the same sensibilities as the rest of the community even though they defend, as they should, the right of every man to be represented in court, no matter how foul the deed. However, the appearance of Cohen in Miami did nothing to disabuse the nation of some of its dog-eared notions about the legal profession. (y astronomical Expatriate Man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgment and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook. James Bostcell, 17S5.

At least one Englishman today would disagree with Boswell and swear that most British cooks are be ruts. Dr. Cyril Hamwee, speaking to the New York Chamber of Commerce recently testified as an export: If you are given a salad I in Britain, you will be perfectly justified in losing your temper, because the English have not yet learned that tomatoes and beets can't be kept for four days in a lettuce salad. Lunch is a cut from the joint and two vegetables. One of the vegetables is sodden cabbage, wretchedly boiled in water.

It is maladorous in the cooking, disgusting to the eye, revolting to the palate and a burden upon all the digestive activities of the human body. Dr. Hamwee recently emigrated to Canada, having had all he could take of what Is, by general agreement, the world's worst cooking. We imagine Dr. Hamwee would find the Philosopher Nietzche's appraisal of the English diet more accurate than Bos-well's.

Nietzche described it in 1883 as "a sort of back-to-nature diet, a return to cannibalism." For Members Only The Alaskan delegation to the American Legion national convention lost its bid to integrate the honorary 40 8 Society, which restricts membership to whites only. The Hawaiian delegation also joined the protest movement, with the Rev. Edwin of Honolulu denouncing those who supported the restriction as "bastards of Satan." However, the b.o.s. element prevailed by a vote of 1,650 to 1,388. Since the 40 8 Is itself proof that men will always seek to establish clans and clans within clans, the Alaskan legionnaires should Inaugurate their own enclave, the 40 9, and restrict membership to Eskimos.

And Hawaii could follow with its, the 50 0, and admit only those of Polynesian extraction who know how to hula. Wait And See One of the supposed beneficiaries of the revised American flag was to have been the tattoo artist. But, according to reports, the bonanza has not materialized. Flag-decked citizens are loath to come in and have their chests punctured for Alaska and Hawaii when they might 'have to endure it all again for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and heaven knows what else later, was acute, were any substantial increases permitted. Now it should be possible to have legislation that will put the loan sharks out cf business.

And. who knows, it may be possible to do something about reapportionment. But if not another piece of major legislation is approved the Patterson Administration, including the legislature, have already made for themselves a large place In the history of our state. And Gov. Patterson is the youngest governor Alabama has ever had.

Risiht To Read The Brercton Standard WE MAY not agree with Miss Emily Reed and the way that she has headed the Library Service. We may not agree with some of the books that are on the library shelves. But we do agree with those in the legislature that hold that the individual has the right to choose what he wants to read and then read it. The furor kicked up in the legislature recently by senators opposing Miss Reed and willing to Impose censorship in the libraries of the state had best be explained in language that can be understood, language that is entirely free of politics; Shut Up, Texas Memphis Commercial Appeal ALASKAN, grown weary of hearing a Texan mourn over being from the second largest state, advised silence. "If you don't hush," he said, "we'll divide and you will be from the third largest state." Ill Washington By Cong.

George Grant HOUSE has passed the revised Housing Bill, but there is still a possibility that the President might veto the measure which would leave the FHA program without funds. This crisis coupled with the prospects of deadlock on the Federal highway financing program and increasing the interest rate on government bonds, has led to rumors of special session later to deal with A H' fact, the President I V- 1 hinted at such a move In his latest L. 1 AtfaLvi press conference GRANT before leaving for Europe. There appears to be little Indication that action will be taken on the move to increase the interest rates on savings bonds and on long-term government bonds. Thus the government will be faced with the prospect of short-term borrowing on all its obligations, while owners of savings bonds, now estimated at some will receive far less return on their Investments than they would from other bonds of equal value and security.

No matter how much opponents of a rate raise may resist, the facts of life must be faced. There would be little financial reward in buying government bonds when tax-exempt municipal bonds are available at better Interest rates, for example. RIDER-The House apparently will take action on civil rights, but in the Senate an attempt is being made to attach a civil rights amendment on the peanut bill. Peanuts have a hard enough time holding their own by themselves, but with civil rights on their back, the load will be almost too much for them to carry. GINGKO TREES Exclusive and tradition-bound Georgetown has a problem with one of its natural attractions, the gingko tree.

Each year, the female gingko bears a pulpy, odorous fruit which becomes a menace to shoes, rugs and air when It falls from the trees. The District Tree Superintendent has advocated the removal of female ginekos and their reolacement with male gingkos which do not bear fruit. Georgetown residents are unalterably opposed. So city workmen have two alternatives. They spray the blossoms in the spring to try to prevent pollination and they shake and sweep in August to prevent littered sidewalks.

The only way to tell the tex of the trees Is to wait for blooms, and since gingkos first blooms do not come for 12 years, it can be a long vigil. 1 The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons A COMIC who tried out a new night club routine rushed Into the Friars Club for a drink. He told Groucho Marx of. his nightmarish experience: His routine included a bit where he asked the audience, "Do you know who I am?" And a rlng-sider hud yelled: "Yes, you're a gum" "I saw your act," Groucho told him, "and If I were you I'd better get a retort ready because this won't be the only time It happens to you." rpHE Monte Carlo Casino refused to permit Henry Hathaway to film a scene there, showing a robbery. The management said It might give gangsters Ideas.

Hathaway shot the scene In a replica he ordered built. Melanle Kahane flew to Moscow to inspect the house whose interior she designed at the American MICHAEL TODD JR. entered show business with the glee club at Lawrenceville Prep. Todd survived the early eliminations, which were made Then, when he knew the glee club's director was busy young Todd said: "The prom's coming up. Ordinarily I'd rent a tuxedo for it.

if I'm going to tour with the glee club, I'll buy a tuxedo" The busy director waved him away: "Buy it" On the day of the final eliminations, the director asked "Todd, did you buy a tuxedo?" Todd nodded. The director eliminated someone else. (Copyright, 1M9, by Th Hull Syndlca'e, Inc.).