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THE MARION STAR But With a Difference! Memorial Controversy By Charles Portis miNNYMEDE ENGLAND and hawthorn and blackberry Member or Associated Press Established Oct 8, 1877 Published Daily Except Sunday by Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. Page 6 Saturday, August 29, 1964 thickets. The plinth will be sit More Than a Running Mate uated in a copse of oak woods at the crest of the hill. "But if my cows got out," ha went on, "I don't think the trustees would pay the sum at the cost of belittling himself as the new leader of the Democratic party. President Johnson wants to be his own man.

Throughout all his deliberations, Sen. Humphrey was acutely aware of what was going on. The senator's friends were pushing him for the job. He was pushing himself. THE IMPRESSION that the choice was made at the last minute was contrived.

Sen. Humphrey had been chosen long before and encouraged to build up his public image before the convention. Long, long gone is the day when vice-presidential candidates were afterthoughts. They are assistant presidents today. No one has given the new role more thought than President Johnson, who has been alone in the presidency since last November with no right-hand man to help him out.

Another Sign of Fall Another sure sign of approaching fall: the annual Harding High School Band and Orchestra Food and Fun Festival next Tuesday. As the name would indicate, this is the primary fund-raising project of the school's band and orchestra parents' association and it usually is very well attended. The food always is good, it's reasonable and it is eaten in a friendly atmosphere against a backdrop of sprightly entertainment. Since much of the activity normally is outdoors an assist from the weatherman Alban M. Carey wasnt too happy when he learned that Britain's memorial stone to the late President Kennedy was to be placed in his cow pasture here.

"Oh, I wasn't against the idea of the monument, certainly," he said. "It was the way they went about it. They didn't consult me. They simply made their plans and then told me what they were going to do." "They" are the trustees of Britain's Kennedy Memorial Appeal, who are raising $2.8 million by public subscription to finance a scholarship program in honor of the late President. A small portion of the money will go to build a monument a simple plinth and stone steps on a hillside overlooking the historic meadows where the rebellious barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.

Group Capt. Carey (as the former RAF pilot prefers to be called) took action when he learned that a three-acre swatch of his grazing land was to become U.S. soil, courtesy of Parliament, as the monument site. He called his solicitor. ACTUALLY the hillside is a form of public property; it belongs to the Crown Estate.

Capt Carey leases 48 acres of it on which he keeps about 20 Red Polled cattle. On the rest of his farm, another 130-odd acres', he has 80 more cows. But he is really only a weekend, gentleman farmer. During the week he presides over a prosperous legal publishing firm in London, 18 miles away, and he is on the board of 16 other companies. After a few days of negotiation, Capt.

Carey and his lawyer reached an agreement with the memorial trustees and Crown commissioners: they would build him a new fence, and he would surrender the land without further ado. It will When President Johnson told the Demo- cratic National Convention his decision to ask for Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate had been one of the most serious decisions of his life, he was not just adding to the buildup for the party ticket. In an unusual job of background reporting, the Washington staff of The New York Times has put together the record of the decision and its implications. The implications are of immediate interest.

They have to do with the President's experience since last Nov. 22, when he succeeded to the presidency with no vice president to back him up. He intends to add significant duties and stature to the vice president if he and Sen. Humphrey win the election. For one thing, he intends to ask Congress to give the vice president an official residence a secondary "White House." He intends to put Mr.

Humphrey in charge of space policy, disarmament, the anti-poverty program, health, education, welfare and make him a traveling emissary to represent the United States abroad on ceremonial and diplomatic missions. THE STEADY accretion of responsibility that began with Richard Nixon in the Eisenhower administration and continued with Mr. Johnson as vice president in the Kennedy administration would be accelerated under Mr. Johnson as president and Mr. Humphrey as vice president.

It was because he had these responsibilities in mind, declares The New York Times report, that Mr. Johnson literally combed the list of potential nominees to find the man with the energy to tackle so many tasks and the political savvy to get them done. He knew the most popular choice he could make would be Robert Kennedy. But he knew, also, that choosing his predecessor's brother would look like a conscious effort to capitalize on the Kennedy name monses. I think I would have to do it." Clearly though, it wasn't the fence, it was the principle.

"One doesn't enjoy being difficult, but after all, the individual has some rights." He laughed and pointed down at the Runnymede meadows. "That's what that business was all about down there." Curiously enough, the 58-year-old Capt. Carey is a former American. He was born, the son of a retired British Army officer, in Charlottesville, Va. "My father tried his hand at farming there, but didn't do very well at it.

I wasn't quite one year old when he brought the family back to England. I was 20 before I got a British passport, and I had the devil of a time getting it then. The Air Ministry pulled some strings. I was in the RAF already." One got the impression perhaps wrongly; he was frank enough now that Capt. Carey does not broadcast the fact of his trans-Atlantic origin.

At any rate, he does not divulge it in his Who's Who biography. THE CHAIRMAN of the ap- peal committee, London's Lord Mayor Sir James Harman, hopes to reach the $2.8 million goal in time to get the scholarship program going next year, and the Kennedy plinth dedicated by next June, the 750th anniversary of the Magna Carta. The appeal fund, begun last May, now stands at $728,000. Capt. Carey may even be there for the June dedication.

"I'm happy enough now," he said, picking up his terrier, Jenny Wren, by a hind leg and giving her a good shaking. "Your President Johnson was right about this sort of thing. Dogs love it." Jenny Wren broke free and ran. "I started out with a grievance and now I'm getting a new fence. It's to be a rail fence.

You know, I had rather hoped for wire." 'Irresponsible Ruling' By Raymond Moley The clamor at Atlantic City, at which preordained decisions were loudly arrived at, temporarily obscured an issue facing the 1901 apportionment was unconstitutional and that a new one should be given giving major attention to representation would be welcome. The cause is a worthy one, since proceeds are used to help pay for band and orchestra equipment and a variety of other expenses. The festival is a community fixture that is awaited with anticipation from year to year, and we're hopeful the response will be bigger and better than ever. Congress, 50 semi sovereign states, and American citizens generally. At issue is what to do about the June 15 decision of the Supreme County Fair on Upswing Again Kavmund MuluY Court com manding the reapportionment of both houses of state legislatures solely on the basis of population.

In the House of Representatives the Tuck bill was passed be an "invisible fence" at the bottom of a moat. "Three acres of this land doesn't mean much," said the captain, kicking at a nettle, or what is called thistle here. The hillside is covered with it that directed at Alabama, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Colorado. These were sweeping decisions flatly declaring that both houses of state legislatures should be apportioned according to population distribution. In this, the majority opinion boldly usurped the authority of states and read new and strange meanings into the Constitution.

But the charges of usurpation are not all. The court's decisions are irresponsible. Justice Stewart, who concurred in Baker vs. Carr, pointed out in dissenting in these 1964 cases that the court's "dra-conian pronouncement" makes the legislatures of 50 states unconstitutional. Utter chaos may result, unless Congress finds a way to check this interference.

Stewart said further, states differ in interests and constituencies. What "might be best for South Dakota might be unwise for Hawaii with its many islands or Michigan with its Northern peninsula. Montana with its vast distances is not Rhode Island with its heavy concentration of people." He also asked, if this principle of "one man, one vote" prevails, why have districts at all? Why not hold "all elections at large?" This is the issue, and it involves the essential nature of the republic itself. according to population. Then there was another decision, in 1963, striking down the county system in Georgia.

Early this year, a federal court directed redistricting of Georgia's congressional districts, declaring that "As nearly as practicable one man's vote in a congressional election must be worth as much as another's." Justice Frankfurter's dissent in Baker vs. Carr was the finest and, as it proved, the final one of his career. He contended with great vigor and logic that apportionment was a political, not a judicial concern. HE ALSO denied that apportionment strictly on the basis of population was consonant with the established principle of representative government. His pertinent language was that the concept of "one man, one vote" was "not the English system, it was not the Colonial sysem, it was not the system chosen for the national government by the Constitution.

is not predominantly practiced by the states today." Justice Harlan also dissented in a forceful opinion. The cases which have provoked the present crisis in Congress, decided this June, were mented, of course, with the fate of each department in the hands of a chairman and an assistant. All the divisions were superbly handled this year, which is a tribute to the interest, dedication and know-how of those in charge. We'd like to say a good word here for Harold J. Grigsby, not only because as fair secretary he was the coordinator for the whole effort but also because this was the first exposition in which he served in that capacity.

Long-time manager of the Marion division of the Ohio Edison Mr. Grigsby came out of an extremely brief retirement to take the fair board position and the fine attendance record must be most gratifying to him, as indeed it should be. It takes a lot of hard and enlightened work by a great many people, plus ample amounts of luck, to make an outstanding success of a county fair. The need for good fortune lies mainly with the weather. All the proper ingredients were present for the 114th Marion County exposition, which began a week ago today and ended Thursday night.

Total paid attendance was 18,584, a most encouraging gain of 3,163 over 1963's figures. This showing was extremely important, since it demonstrates clearly that the fair should be continued. Everyone connected with it will start the task of preparing for next year's event with renewed enthusiasm. Planning and staging the fair is seg Soviets Copy U.S. By Seymour Freidin by the very significant vote of 218 to 175.

In the debate and vote on this measure, party lines played no significant part. Voting for the bill were 122 Republicans and 96 Democrats; opposed were 140 Democrats and 35 Republicans. THE BILL if enacted into law, would deny to the federal courts jurisdiction over all cases involving the apportionment of state legislatures. In my judgment, and in that of many distinguished lawyers, the Tuck measure is perfectly constitutional. In the Senate a milder ap Night, Gracie' The special fondness most of us feel for our favorite entertainers filled the cup and overflowed for Gracie Allen.

We loved her, and we loved George Burns, her partner, for loving her, too. When Gracie called it a career in 1958 we went right on loving both of them and George knew it and mentioned her in his monologues. Why all this love for people so remote they never know we exist? Because they become part of the bright side of our lives. We associate them with mirth and whimsy. They convert into fun so many things that we didn't know were funny.

They are ourselves as we would like to be, making sense of nonsense and vice versa. They put sparkle in the drabness of routine living. How was it George used to say, "Say goodnight, And she would say, "Goodnight, Gracie." And all of us repeat it now, with a lump in the throat, "Goodnight, Gracie." We loved you, too. Today in History ephermeral bogey of colonialism. The Soviet decisions, however, shrewdly inflated pride that promptly tailed off in a spate of anti-American declarations.

To keep some of his most faithful delegates in line, Khrushchev then turned closer to home. He will appear in Czechoslovakia ostensibly to hail the 20th anniversary of the Slovak revolt against the Germans. The regime there is the most wary of inducing changes, although it purged a few veteran higher-ups in the sacred crusade of anti-Stalinism. PERHAPS THE most notable event of recent times in Czechoslovakia has been the restoration of legality to the late, great writer Franz Kafka. Khrushchev, so often at bitter odds with artists and writers, couldn't possibly have any use for the satirical mcisiveness of Kafka.

He will not be in Czechoslovakia, THof' LVead Kafka' "The Trial but to make certain Czech comrades have not retreated from his own upcoming convention trials. The Russians hate borrowing political habits from America, but they're doing just that knocking non-conformist heads together for a Communist convention. Powered by restless Premier Khrushchev, they are whipping reluctant delegates into line for a preparatory conference a few weeks after the U.S. general election. This is supposed to set up the Red Chinese for the real crunch capitulation on Moscow terms or expulsion at a world Communist meeting in 1965.

Having to go after delegates to compel them to fall into line is still pretty new, tiresome and frustrating for the U.S.S.R. For years the Soviet party proposed and comrades promptly deposed. The Soviet Chinese battle for control of party apparatus has given other parties room to wheel and deal. It led to a mold of non-con-formism called polycentrism, first so described by Italian Communist boss Palmiro Togli-atti, who died Aug. 22 from a stroke he suffered on the Soviet Black Sea coast.

But before he was stricken he agreed re- The Name Is Stone nito Mussolini concluded a conference on the Eastern front. In 1943, Danish warships were scuttled in the harbor of Copenhagen in an uprising against the Nazis. In 1945, William Halsey took the battleship Missouri into Tokyo Bay. Ten years ago A bus overturned in the State of Jalisco, Mexico; 19 persons were killed when a passenger lit a match, igniting gasoline. Five years ago Indian Prime Minister Nehru told his Parliament of continuing Chinese Communist aggression along India's northern frontier.

One year ago The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nuclear test ban treaty. Today is Saturday, Aug. 29, the 242nd day of 1964. There are 124 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1809, poet, author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Mass.

Though he lectured on medicine at Harvard, his "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" made him famous and turned him to a literary career. His son, who bore the same name, became a Supreme Court justice. On this date: In 1916, Paul von Hindenburg was appointed chief of the German army general staff. In 1935, Queen Astrid of Belgium was killed in an auto accident in Switzerland. In 1941, Adolf Hitler and Be proach is proposed.

This is the Dirksen amendment, which would postpone action to allow the state legislatures elected this year or next to reapportion before 1966. Presumably, this stay of execution would permit Congress to consider and present to the states a constitutional amendment clarifying the basis upon which states may in their own right set up the legislatures which make the laws under which their people must live and which they should obey. Several decisions of the Supreme Court in 1962, 1963, and this year have thrust the federal courts into this matter through a devious and highly questionable extension of the vague powers conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment. Space permits only a brief summary of what the Supreme Court decided in split decisions. The opinions of the court and the dissents would themselves fill a sizeable book.

THE FIRST affirmation of the new doctrine by the court's majority was in Baker vs. Carr, decided in 1962. This concerned the apportionment of seats in the Tennessee General Assembly. This declared, in effect, that architectural frills." He believes everything worth building should be built to last. Come to think of it, what would you expect an architect named Stone to think about this matter? On the whole, though, we agree with him when he talks about the "colossal mess we've made of the face of this country." Not because of disagreement about the best kind of architecture, however, which is architect Stone's beef, but because of despair over the lack of any architecture at all just piles and rows of new boxes at best and dented and broken boxes at worst.

An outburst by Edward Dwell Stone, the famous architect, has been getting the attention it deserves, because it concerns a prevailing trend in modern architecture. "If you look around you and you give a damn," expostulated Mr. Stone recently, "it makes you want to commit suicide." He was referring to architecture that he considers "commercial" and reflecting "catchpenny materialism." He thinks Americans are betraying the future generations "to whom we should have felt an obligation." And what is behind his sour outlook? "Permanence is associated with stone," he explained, "not with glass, or tin, or The Czechs, like almost all luctantly to the meeting and big European parties, were nrettv rnnvpntmn. tama in convention. News of Other Years reaction to Anv- vS? w'r StLkes against Narth Viet Nam.

They maintained re- stramt even after Red China circularized all of them to provide evidences of tangible support. mT feCently mrades ned to keep the Chinese circu- m- But the Red Chinese spilled it themselves in Europe. Its ironically interesting how he Russians and Chinese, for heir own propaganda reasons, teak the gist of their battle to Westerners. Cotton Corners By Truman Twill 40 YEARS AGO An audience of more than 1,000 heard a program given by members of various church choirs of the city, the Lecture-Recital Club and the Canto Club at Chautauqua Pavilion. 20 YEARS AGO Moscow forecast an early rout of Hungary as Russian legions thrust GRIN AND BEAR IT By George Licfrty Dear Nephew: We are on the mark, getting set and raring to go for the big political sprint of 1964.

I never feel I understand fully what's going on, but whatever it is I love it. When you think of all the ways human beings have picked political leaders, you can be sure ours is unique. In times past, people have done it by Divine Right, contests with clubs and spears, mysticism, marriage and even, on rare occasions, systematically searching for the right man. But only in America has the task been performed with hokum. And it is no accident that no one ever achieved this much political stability before.

Hokum works. IT STRIKES some of its severe critics MANY COMMUNIST parties in power are coming to the Moscow preparatory parleys. Those that will had their arms twisted long and hard. The Poles, for example, don't want a showdown with the party of Mao Tse-Tung. It would make the dogma of Communism a nonsensical split personality.

This is the first fear of comrades in power. Running it a close second, virtually, a coexisting coequal, is the probability of the Russians turning attention close to home and imposing the old time, old line discipline. An irrevocable split, plotted for action in the preparatory conference, is certain to be carried out at convention time. It will, that is, unless the Red Chinese yield, which not even the Russians dare delude themselves about anymore. Instead, the defiant Chinese comrades caused the Russians to lament that Mao was up to some more dirty tricks.

Why? He caused Asians and Africans to keep the Soviet Union out of the next mammouth Asia Africa conference. As is well known, complained the Russians, the U.S.S.R. happens also to be an Asian power. It got that way through fierce czarist conquests, which the Communists expanded. Anyway, putting on their best diplomatic face, the Russians said they'd abstain lest their presence mess up Asia-Africa harmony.

Such an altruistic condition doesn't happen to exist among Asian and African nations. They share mutual distrust of each other and are united only on the i.C-A believe. At any given moment, we are divided between belief and disbelief. This is how we save liberty. Nobody ever commands blind allegiance.

One faction claims its favorite doesn't get into his pants one leg at a time like other mortals, but the opposition makes sure this claim is challenged sharply and often. Partisans on one side would have you think their man is 10 feet tall, but partisans on the other side make sure you know he is the same dwarfish size he always was. BUT THEY never have a chance to be dictators and that's what has paid off in our two-party system. The opposition is always lying in wait of would-be despots to trip and whittle them down to size, or a little less. So now we are starting another campaign to pick a peerless leader.

Some people dread it. I love it. Your aunt loves it. Everybody should love it. You know your choice, and you know ours.

For once we agree. It's going to be a slam-bang campaign, everybody says. I hope so. The more slam-bang and hokum the better. I have no patience with people who think campaigns should be logical, fair, reasonable and clean.

Campaigns never have been. They've been crude, rowdy and loud. We've saved our freedom with hokum. Don't knock it. COTTON CORNERS UNCLE GEORGE deeper into Hungarian held Transylvania.

The Free French and the American Navy joined in threatening Japan with new power blows, leading Rear Adm. Alfred E. Montgomery to "look with confidence to the future and early extermination of the Japanese." 10 YEARS AGO Employes of the Marion Plant of the B. F. Goodrich Co.

began working under a new contract signed in Cincinnati which granted them a pay increase of six cents an hour. Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) said he would call no defense witnesses in the Senate's new investigation of his conduct. Gems of Wisdom Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitor. Ralph Waldo Emerson In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation.

Facts in Brief Every American man, woman and child who wears glasses is only an accident away from serious eye damage or blindness, strong shatter-resistant safety-glasses on every person wearing glasses could end this unnecessary threat to vision. Children never outgrow crossed-eyes, according to the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Unless competent help is received in time, they may actually lose vision. The Marion Star 1U N. state gt.

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ter May 4. 1895. at Post Ofiice. Mar-- ct 01 Congress March 3. 1878.

mA6ZeFi'ing representanvt! John W. Culien Co. as unworiny ot ine nation it serves, may seem like a mockery of self-government. It may defy understanding. But it gets results.

We govern ourselves without bloodshed. It works because the American people believe in it. I believe in it. Your aunt believes in it. You believe in it.

Your missus believes in it. Your kids will believe in it when they are old enough to know what's worth believing. We have a great capacity for imputing attributes to our choice for political leadership that exist only in our imagination; we can believe what we want to believe. But we have an equally great capacity for not believing what we don't want to "Imagine making their own preserves, jellies, pies and bread must be a lot of real nuts around!".