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THE MIAMI NEWS 15 A Tuesday, March 16, 1976 What doth the man JOHN KEASLER nedy quite possibly may have. Lyndon Johnson drove his Lincoln fast around pastures and Gerald Ford likes to swim, ski and golf, apparently simultaneously. So? Again, who ARE all these people and what do we know about the kind of job they'll do, or are doing? In the Olden Days you knew what a king did. A king sat on a throne with a stick in his hand and said things like "Off with their heads!" or "Get my fiddlers three!" Then he would either lead the troops into battle or man the ramparts. Then collect taxes.

In pigs. I'm not advocating a re-kinged world. No. I'm firmly advocating a return to the Stone Idol. Not in a religious sense, in a political sense.

Ancient tribal leaders, chosen for their turned to a Stone Idol for final arbitration, or said they did. Well, O.K., we elect tribal leaders. That's Democracy. And we have a good idea of what Senators and Congressmen do. (Answer letters, and get in there and get it for the home district by hook or crook.) But what is it that a President does? That couldn't be done as well by a Stone Idol, and lots cheaper? (I've been watching Reagan.

He may be a stone idol.) We don't even know what presidents are supposed not to do. President Ford unconditionally pardoned ex-President Nixon for doing absolutely nothing wrong, then got his clubs and went skiing. Funny, yes. But practical? Look for a very heavy Stone Idol write-in vote, would-be Prexy. Or shape up with some ongoing info.

We're the boss, vou know. Not vice-versa. If we knew just one thing, out here in the provinces, it would make it a lot easier to know who to vote for to be President of the United States. What is It, exactly, that the President of the United States does? I've hesitated to bring this up first, but evidently nobody else is going to mention It. What does the President DO? Shouldn't this job have some set of public standards so we would know who was doing a good job, or who might be qualified to do a good job? I mean, hell, we keep hiring a President with our tax money.

Suppose we wanted to fire him? We wouldn't know what he was doing wrong. Inasmuch as we never knew what he was supposed to do right. Small wonder so many strange people run for the job. The one requirement seems to be staying out of jail, and that may be flexible. The only people who even pretend to know the answer to the question What is the President supposed to do are Washington pundits.

Their survival depends on it. Actually, they haven't the foggiest notion. (Over the years I've poured expense-account gin down pundit after pundit until all inhibitions were loose. "Whash a presh-dent DO?" they all end up mumbling. "Damfino! Lishen, whersha broads?" Most Washington pundits do not even know what a pundit Is supposed to do.) We live In the illusion or, quite possibly, the delusion that The President does something.

This concept is nurtured, and quite possibly spawned, by the fact that The President goes on vacation a lot. Should we be satisfied with this logic? It is one thing to define, say, music by the silence which surrounds it, thereby making an audible form. It is still another thing to deduce that because a person forev- er goes 'on vacation" that it follows he does anything at all. Has anybody checked this out? Isn't it quite possible that the entire national deficit is caused by HAVING a President? (All that campaigning, flying around, expensive dog food, etc.) This is not to imply I mean the incumbent President. At least, no more than the others.

I am apolitical. I do not want to be apolitical. I want to be rabidly partisan. But about what? Look at this group, or some of them, yearning to either be or stay President and take four of them only, and their reaction to the Florida primary. President Ford said he was "overjoyed" by the results: Ronnie Reagan said he was "delighted" with the same results; Carter happily said "Unbelievable!" and Wallace was "very proud." Even aside from the disturbing fact that all this sounds like Happy Time at Goofy Acres, what do these people WANT? There are flocks of presidential candidates.

Who are these people? Why are they running, and to do what? The little we ever know about the President tells us nothing about the job. His vacation, yes, and sometimes his hobbies. Nixon had no hobbies, John Ken- THE PEOPLE SPEAK Jackson needs beds to maintain quality While your editorial "Don't overbuild JMH," was undoubtedly written with the best of contain Inaccuracies. The officials of 1 i lc Health Trust and the University of Miami scnooi of Medicine are as aware as any body else is or tne overbuilding of community hospital beds. However, the type of beds needed at Jackson Memorial Hospital are not for the same use as In com-munity hospitals.

The Medical Center needs re-p acement of obsolete facilities at Jackson to pro-vide a single standard of dignified care to both indi-gent and private patients. In fact, it was for this purpose that the bond Issue was approved by Dade County in 1972. We are gravely concerned about the pressures being placed upon the Public Health Trust to discontinue any further construction of these replace-merit beds. A reduction of the number of beds at Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1,250 to 900 will result in a degradation of quality care because of the unique nature of Jackson, which is not a private or voluntary facility in the usual sense. 1 The combined efforts of the Medical School and the Public Health Trust have resulted in programs at Jackson Memorial Hospital which are unique to this hospital and not duplicated elsewhere in the community.

To continue these programs, Jackson must have patients from all sectors of the citizenry. The private patient is most important to the livelihood of the hospital. During the past three years private patient revenues have increased from $34 million to $56 million (62 per cent) in the 1,300 bed facility. On the other hand the ad valorem tax sup-port of the hospital has increased by only 6.8 per cent or to $29 million during the same period. These new revenues were obtained primarily because of the prominent physicians on the faculty of the School of Medicine and the specialized program available only in the Medical Center.

For nearly 25 years the faculty of the School of Medicine has been building a medical resource comparable to the greatest in this country to provide high quality sophisticated patient care to every socio-economic group. We have attracted outstanding physicians with promise of good facilities where they can render superb patient care, continue to do vitally needed research, and where they can teach students, who are, in the main, Florida residents, to follow in their footsteps. Unfortunately, when the objectives of the Medical Center appear to be within reach, this unrealistic spectre of beds is raised again and again. For over a quarter of a century Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Medical School have lived on faith and unfulfilled promises. A strong multi-service health center does not prohibit the development of excellent neighborhood health facilities to meet the needs of patients on a day to day basis.

In fact we think they are essential to health care. Finally, "not to ignore the realities of the community," it should be stated that the Medical Center is the third largest industry in Dade County and possibly the most important since it deals with the health care of all citizens. E.M. PAPPER, M.D., Vice President and and BERNARD J. FOGEL, M.D., Assistant Vice President U-M School of Medicine Don't pay for votes ANTHONY LEWIS HERB RAU Miamians who guided Carter The Famous eyes Broward branch Jimmy Carter's campaign in the Miami area was handled by two young men who got into politics as opponents of the Vietnam War and supporters of George McGov-em.

Michael Abrams, 28. and Ser gio Bendixen, 2b, stayed active in the Democratic Party after 1972. Abrams was elected Dade County chairman; Bendixen a national committeeman. blacks, the liberal unions, middle-class suburbs." "Miami is not 'the Bendixen said. "But we're beginning to feel like the South, the way liberals in the North are treating Carter.

They don't understand what it takes to be progressive and effective in the Democratic Party in the South. They say Jimmy Carter doesn't meet their standards. What they're really saying is that there's no room for Southern progressives in their party." Listening to the two of them, one realizes how sharply political perceptions still differ in the north and south of this country. But their views have more than regional import especially after the Florida primary and the emergence of Carter and Henry Jackson, at least for now, as the leading Democratic contenders. Some northern political people these days brush George Wallace aside as of no significance because Like so many Flo-1 ridians, they come from elsewhere.

LEWIS in Flushing, Abrams grew up N.Y., went to college here and stayed. Bendixen came' from Peru as a boy. But both speak now with, a consciousness of Southern politics. "For us in the South," Abrams said, "Jimmy Carter is a way to get back into the mainstream of the Democratic Party. He gets support here from young people, TODAY'S HEARTBURN Lot of youngsters just smiled when Ford administration announced it plans to eliminate school lunch subsidies.

They say only item on the menu anyhow is "Yuk." MIAMI CONFIDENTIAL: There are beauty contests and there are beauty contests. But the one that's scheduled for the Fontainebleau Hotel on May 17 is the Megil-la of the Year. At least, it'll be biggest swisheroo of the decade. Event is billed as Miss Florida Pageant for Female Impersonators. If nothing else, it'll give couple downtown businessmen opportunity to go out in public wearing some of those things theybave stashed away in their closets Over the weekend, local secretary was on receiving end of obscene phone call from another girl.

"I don't mind Women's Lib," she explained, "but this is going a bit too far!" The Famous, according to scuttlebutt, planning branch in Hal-landale There isn't a radio station in town these days that has full-time promotion dept. TOURISTS touching down on islands in the Eastern' Caribbean finding extra shopping dividends. Eastern Caribbean Dollar (better-known as the BeeWee Dollar) is based on value of British Pound. And you know what's happening to the British Pound these days. Last Thursday, for example, vacationers exchanging their U.S.

dollars at banks in Antigua received $2.41 in Bee-Wee Dollars. Year ago, exchange was $2 BeeWee to $1 U.S. New initiates in U-M's Iron Arrow society were Arthur Peavy director of Dade County's Park Recreation Division: Phil Halpern of TDA, and Dr. William Harrington of U-M's med school Tumulter Transport will be cruise ship F'airwind on its weeklong cruise in the Caribbean Mav 8. Both Milton Berle and Jack Carter will be aboard to entertain passengers.

"in the end he can't be nominated." Southerners who have been fighting uphill for years against racism and reaction regard that attitude as foolish, indeed dangerous. I think they are right. A second point of resentment for liberals here has been that Jackson benefitted from the northern liberal attacks on Carter. They do not think that Jackson is entitled to any liberals palms. "I originally chose Carter for pragmatic reasons," Abrams said, "to beat Wallace.

Then I got to know him and found him compassionate and basically decent, so he's my choice for the long run, not just as a vehicle to beat Wallace. What Jackson says on foreign policy is scary. And the people he's associated with here are the old pols, the conservative Democrats. "Our northern liberal friends forgot all about Jackson. They sat around and said Jimmy Carter was 'another But at the convention in July they'll come to us and ask: 'What did we do wrong? How did Jackson get Jackson would have many advantages in a competition with Carter.

He has a long record as a most effective senator, compared with Carter's one term as governor of Georgia. Jackson has good connections with the labor union movement. He has voted right on most traditional liberal issues. On the other hand, Jackson is vulnerable among many Democrats on foreign policy issues. His unremitting support for the Vietnam War, his call for aggressive tactics against the Soviet Union, his closeness to the national security hierarchy all these will worry some liberals.

But the question they will ask, and are already asking, is whether Carter really differs from Jackson on issues of war and peace. If Carter is going to convince northern as well as southern liberals, he will have to smile less and define his position on issues more. He will have to persuade people that in foreign policy, compared with Jackson, he is the candidate of peace and moderation. The South may fairly complain if northern liberals scoff at Jimmy Carter for his accent or his first name. But if they have to choose between him and Jackson, they are entitled to particulars.

i was iiuuicu iu vine iui me him nine, i ve always regarded voting as a privilege. Now one reader suggests financial incentives to increase voter turnout. Nowadays people complain of politicians being bought by money. Under this proposal nonvoters would be lured Into the ballot box by money. Heaven forbid the day when the government turns a privilege into a tax break.

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Box 615, Miami, Fla. 33152. AxJH LMi PEAVY HARRINGTON HALPERN i r- NEWEST KKK in town: Her-Bets, in the Atrium on NW 79th Avenue KKK that's Kosher Katering Kitchens. Joe Griffin has one for Weather The Weaver-man: "There was this guy who worked in a quarry and was always taking things for granite" Chip Group" is name of adult education class sponsored by Unitarian Universalist Society. At start of each session, each member gets packet of poker chips.

Every time he participates in discussion, must give up a chip. After they're all used, he has to shut up. Great way to silence the ultratalkatives Le Petit Bistro, new Coral Gables dinery on Miracle Mile, officially opens Thursday. Very smart place; 56 seats; reservations a must. But luncheon service (sans reservations) starts Monday.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed Barbara Tuchman Give equal mail service The cutting back of the mail service was fine until we learned by the news services that big businesses or tTie business establishments are still getting two and three deliveries a day. I think it's high-ly unfair to cut the public to several days a week and leave the businesses receiving two and three times a day service. CAROLYN ELLIS, Hialeah Keep Panama Canal I like Mr. Reagan because the ex-governor is opposed to giving away the Panama Canal which we built on land we paid for, which we defend and pay rent for. Surrendering this canal would hand Communist Cuba, under Fidel Castro, the key to the Pacific Ocean.

VICTORIA BECK, West Miami PR, JOYCE BROTHERS Hangover may be in your head Miami mishmash The "cures" include taking Vitamin buttermilk, bitters, raw eggs or oysters. For a hangover, fliers favor a few whiffs of pure oxy- son urhilp ntVtpris Hrpwnw Teach thugs embezzling? sure a "hair of thel x- TONY ABRAHAM says hurry, hurry if you want ducats, to St. Jude Miracle Ball Saturday at the Fontainebleau. Danny Thomas, Paul Anka and the Regeneration on tap Howard Downes, identified as resident of. Coral Gables, is owner of 48.6 acres of desert on the "Strip" at Las Vegas.

Ground will be site of $150-mil-lion Xanadu Hotel, with 1,755 rooms in 22-story pyramid design. Owner of Xanadu is identified as Tandy Mc-Ginnis of Bowling Green, Ky. Spring meeting of La Chaine des Rotisseurs, the international gourmet society, set for May 8 aboard cruise ship Sun Viking, docked at Dodge Island. Menu's being whipped up by Henri Du-cluzeau, former chef at French Embassy in Washington, who is director of food operations for Poseidon Services a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line Today's Calorle-Carbohydrate Counter: 1 tablespoon bread crumbs, 25 calories and 4.7 grams carbohydrate. dog (another drink)! -I is the sure cure.

11 wnat causes 1 mere is "2 expectations of what ought to happen. He reports placebo effects arising from this kind of situation. For example, at a party everyone was drinking Manhattans except one young woman, who went around eating the cherries from everyone else's drink. She got roaring drunk and even had a hangover the next morning. "That wasn't pharmacology at work," observes Dr.

Murphee. "She couldn't have had more than a couple of drops of alcohol. That was the placebo effect the power.of belief." Psychiatrist Morris Chafetz, director of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, feels that the morning- reason 10 oeiieve- flint- cij-ttvtn nannla Art Buchwald's column advocating that street criminals, who average $9.75 per take, be taught white-collar crimes in prison was hilarious. Or was it? Buchwald said white-collar criminals who, for example, embezzle a million dollars from widows and orphans, are ones to be looked up to and respected, while street criminals are treated with contempt by the police and society In general. And how about his conclusion: "When the average street crime convict discovers how much money there is in white-collar crime, and how little risk there Is In getting punished, we can expect a dramatic drop in street crime, which is the only kind that seems to shake anyone up in this country." Come on, Art, you're putting us on aren't IRIS POLAND, Miami Beach suffer a hangover simply because they Dr.

Henry Murphee, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at Rutgers Medical School, feels that becoming very drunk and then feeling miserable the next day may simply have to do with a person's HEATHCUFF after syndrome is largely the result of simple overexertion on a physical, psychological or social level, or a combination. If you are either tired or strained when you begin drinking, alcohol may offer a temporary anesthesia and analgesia. If your fatigue originally resulted "from physical exhaustion, drinking provides a false sense of wellbeing which may cause you to overdo. If on the other hand, you began drinking when you were mentally strained, the alcohol temporarily kills the strain. The next morning when the strain reappears, it may come as a hangover.

"Even if a person feels in good mental and physical shape before he begins drinking," Dr. Chafetz notes, "the particular social circumstances in which he partakes of alcohol may have an enormous impact on the way the drug affects him I think that when you are bored, when you are someplace you can't stand being, you tend to hold yourself with a certain degree of tenseness. However much alcho-hol you drink, it suppresses your own sense of that tension for the time being. You do experience it later on, however, in the form of a hangover." Bernhard Kempler, a professor of psychology at Emory University, offers this advice to those with hangovers: "Don't feel sorry for yourself and moan over what a terrible hangover you have. That is the cmcial point, because every symptom you feel is measurable in intensity partly by the attention you pay to it." Ask Social Security How to get back surplus MHT DEPOSITS -JL $824.85, the maximum Social Security contribution for 1975.

The balance is your credit, which you can claim on your 1040 income tax Unborn need protection In a letter March 4. L. Levin asks, "Where were you sanctimonious right-to-lifers when millions of pounds of bombs were being dropped on peasants and underprivileged children of Asia?" This right-to-lifer was collecting food, clothing, medicines and toys; packing them and sending them to Vietnam via Friends of Children of Vietnam. This right-to-lifer was adopting two Vietnamese children. The words "And whoever receives one such little child for mv sake, receives Me" Matt.

8: 5-6, can be applied to the unborn as well as to the underprivileged Asian child. JANET PHILLIPS Miami Vice-President, Right-to-Life Crusade By ARTHUR FOGELSON Mlmt PUtrkt Miiml Niwt tcll Stcwrity Q. I worked three jobs last year two of them part-time. Social Security was taken out of my pay on all of them, and 1 know I must have paid over the amount the law requires. How can I get back the surplus? A.

You can claim the excess contributions on your federal income tax return. When you get your W-2 forms, add the Social Security contributions withheld bv your employers. Then subtract Got a question for Social Security? Write: Ask Social Security, The Miami News, Box 15, Miami, Fla 33152. We'll get your question, to the proper authorities and have it answered..