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Record, Helena, Montana, Sunday, My 3, Montana's Oldest Dally Newspaper in Continuous Publication Established in Helena March 24, 1874 The Silly Season Is Here Again The nearer we get to election time, the sillier and sillier seem to be the issues which politicians dig up in order fool the gullible. Take the one that the Democrats pulled out af the hat the other day. Governor Babcock, so the assertion goes, spends more time traveling and less time in his office than any other governor. They even wont him to prepare and keep a public log so that the people will know where he has be-sn every day and why. What the argument is supposed to prove, we do not know because the press handout did not say.

Perhaps it's supposed to show that Babcock is not doing his job cs Governor, but if he isn't, then there's nn obvious and quick solution for that, which would be to elect him United States Senator, where travel is one of the prerogatives. But we do not think that keeping regular office hours is necessarily the sign af being a good Governor. Any stupid politician can get to his office at 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning and stay there until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. And if he did he would prob Fourth of July Story One of the biggest Fourth of July stories ever' to break came when two Presidents died on the same day. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826 1 40 years ago.

Jefferson died on the day he probably did more than anybody else to make a. holiday. Adams was an old Revolutionary patriot also. Because of the poor communications in 1 826 not many persons halted their celebrating to pay tribute to the two men. There were no laws against firecrackers and other forms of celebration Guest Editorial No Curb on Debate PORTLAND OREGONIAN Historian Arthur M.

Schlesbger, warning tu a Smith College audience that a "new McCarlhyism" is to be expected as a result of emotionalism in public discussion of the Viet Nam war may be well taken, But Mr. Sehlesinger and he is not the first to say seems to be pointing his finger at supporters of U.S. policy in Viet Nam rather tlian at critics of this policy, of whom he is one. It seems to us that a number of extremist Sen. Wayne Morse been using the tactics made distaste ably receive a caller every 15 minutes who demanded some personal favor.

The Democratic statement inferred that because Gov. Babcock gets out and travels over the state that he is less efficient in office. It has always been our belief that most of the problems of Montana, and most of the people who hove problems, are outside of Helena. They are in the bigger centers of population ond they are also out in the sticks. When peopl-s get together in conventions or Other kinds of gatherings, they talk about their problems and fhey give to their grievances.

Even just looking at the surface af things it stands to reason that Gov, Babcock can be in much closer touch with the n-aeds and problems of Montona by traveling across it in every direction at every opportunity than he could by holing up in his office and seeing only those who ask for special favors. There may be issues in the coming campaign, but the one 'the opposition party has picked this time gives every indication of being a dud. then. It isn't difficult to imagine how patriots of 1 825 would have regarded such restrictions an their liberties, It is not difficult to visualize what would happen in this dny if two former Presidents, both of them highly prominent, died. Newspaper men would use Iheir bEst ability- in make-up to accord eoch a proper share of the spotlight.

Radio and TV men would literally tumble over each other trying to telf the story of the two former Presidents simultaneously. Minutes after the deaths occurred people would know the news. ful by the lale Sen. Joseph McCarthy to a far greater extent than have defenders of U.S. policy.

It's a sort of reverse McCarthy-ism, finding warmongers rather than Communists under the bed, they've been practicing. One sees no prospect that "degradation of debate" will be the result of the national division of opinion. Certainly, the Viet Nam war and related issues have been debated from he)! to breakfast and by citizens of ali degrees of knowledge and opinion. let Joe McCarlhy rest and get on with it, To the Point 10-Year-Old Has Answer to Those Who Say God Is Dead in This Modern World By RUSSELL KIRK My small friend aged 10, noticed a magazine cover that bore the legend, "Is God Dead?" Julie was not dismayed. "Thai's silly," she observed to the world in general.

"God isn't dead; he's in your heart." Wiser than a certain publicity-loving breed of clergyman and clivinny student, Julie hud not forgotten the Holy Ghost. God is not in our hearts only; but if His spirit may not be found there, then not are spiritually dead. The "God is dead" eccentrics argue that "God is inapplicable to modern circumstances" or that "God is out of date." He Dr. Jtujwlf hasn't adjusted to the Great Society. We Arc fo Adjust But God is not supposed to adjust to us; on the contrary, we are supposed to adjust to God.

If a human society finds God to be-a nuisance, then the not has fallen into error. Perhaps that society is in process of becoming a Hell upon earth, all unaware. I think of a maxim of the greatest of Polish poets, Adam Mickiewicz: "Your sou! deserves the stale to which it came, "If having entered Hell, you feel no flame. In essence, is a slate of total isolation from God; the damned may not look upon His face, So anyone who really believes that "God Is dead" already is in (fell at best, in Limbo, where (according to Dante) the "virtuous pagans" and unban-tized infants who never knew God spend elernily in an obscure, ir painless. Ignorance.

Like things natural, things supernatural abhor a vacuum. If God is absent, Someone else will occupy His (iirone. Those who would replace faith in God, and obedience to divine commandments, by a muddy humanitarian-ism may discover too late that supernatural forces are at. work in this but Satanic forces. At first, those who have deserted God feel no name.

They may think they have achieved the Earthly when actually they sland in the vestibule of the Earthly Hell. Life Without God Before very long, ordinary life without God funis out to be not worth living. Violent excitements become necessary, to relieve the tedium of existence without God: Greedy getting and spending, forbidden sexual indulgence, violence. The true God absent, what William Butler Yeaia called "the Savage God" lays down his new commandments. Our "God is dead" anti-theologians think that old-fangled Jehovah is ridiculous.

But I call to mind another of the maxims of Mickiewicz, this one concerning ridicule; "It is noi a misfortune to be ridiculed. Kings, wise men, soldiers, poets, doctors, priests arc found laughable; all is found absurd except the diabolical In us, which is never ridiculed." God is not successfully mocked. And into the dead human heart, which lias cast out God, enters a domination which stifles all laughter. As we learn in the Gospel according to St. Matthew, "the last estate of that man was worse than the first." state, Page of Comment 'We Heard It Many Times Before But Let's Hear It Again Statehouse Scene Three Rough Days Seen As State Filings Close By THOMAS E.

MOONEY Independent Record State Bureau. Next week contains "the three roughest days in July." We do not. refer to the weekend celebration, but to what the several clerks in the Secretary of State's office expect to be the busiest days they will experience this year. For Thursday, July 7, at 5 p.m., is deadline for filing for state and legislative offices for the Aug, 16 primary election, Secretary of Slale Frank Murray has decreed that only mail filings that have been in his office by that hour will be accepted. That applies, too, to filings made in person, When a three-judge federal court took the the 39th Montana Assembly could not see its way clear to take reapportionment of the me.

court oruer specified that, since legislative of fices now will he sought in dis tricts, ratner mat by counties, all such filings must be in the lo! oltice ol the secretary of Previously, under Ihe county election candidates for membership in the. Assemblyl iuea ineir nominating petitions at county, courthouses. Less Than Expected To dale, tilinKs have fallen behind expectations. mere will oe 159 meniu in the 4Qth Assembly which con venes in Helena next Jan. 2 am if each of (he major political parties nominated the hare mini mum needed to fill the ticket total of nominees would be 31ft.

However, at the close of busi ness Friday, there were less than 250 candidates in the field, Of course there will be more. And that is the reason next Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday win iw "ine inree roughest days in July" for the workers who must process the filings. Acfually, although the first! legislative filing was lhat of! sen. tuowara sault last Jan. 10, the rate of entry into the legislative picture; has been slow.

Until Friday, the highest number to file in any one day was a dozen. Of course, the pace picked lap as the dead line neared and the best esti mates are that filings will be increasingly neavy Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The fact that July 4 is a Mon day, a holiday on which state offices are closed, also cuts into the filing time. But' as one of Ihe Secretary of State's assistants. Montana's Oldest Deify Newspaper Published by The independent Hccorrj, member ot Lee News papers of Montana, Ine.

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Campbell Mrtriwn Vwner rA.in.igir.-, Gladri LeFxi Htm Clarke 'said, "We're preparing for a real rough day Tuesday." Then, she added, the next two days also should produce scores of additional filings. Some Districts Short With only a few davs remain ing, however, some, unusual circumstances prevailed. mere were many new legisla tive districts which did riot have as many nominees as there are positions to fill. There were twu Senate and two House districts, different ones, in which no candidates had entered the lists. And there were 15 Senate and 19 House districts winch only nominees from one or the other of the two major parties had sought office.

Of course, this will chance befure the deadline but the possibility still exists that both parties will not nominate enough' candidates to provide contests at the general election in the fall, let alone the primary next month. Frrw.ier.tiy, the :r.c-re Itbve been counties where both parties did not nominate for legislative seats but rarely, if ever, has there been a situation where no one sougilt one of. the lawmaking jobs. Some Oddities Even before the deadline is ten died, a number of oddities are showing up in the legislative election picture. first ol ail, because oi trie.

consolidation of cour.lles into districts with fewer for each, at least 21 members of the 56-member 1G65 Senate can- Montana Belle mother. Independence Day is Ihc most important of ail American holidays. Because of this day 1 can go to the school of my choice and pick my own career, whether it be marriage or civil engineering. Providing my qualifications arc satisfactory, can draw the salary as a man in the same profession, This I can do whether or not my lamiiy nas been in this country 300 years or lias just come over on the last ship trom the old country. As a citizen, I can vote for the persons of my choice to run the country, or not vole if I don't wish to.

Then if I don't like the way tilings are being done, I can write letters lo those in office telling them what I think they should do, And I need have no fear of my safety or the safety of those 1 love because I do- I rtr.ow that mv ch dren wi get a good or better education not return, even if all of fhem filed for re-election, which they not ao. Already, one senator, Ratoli Beck of Powell Counfv. has filed lor the District 22A seat which he held during the 1963 session. He went to the Senate lor the session of 1965 but reap portionment cut his term there short by two' years. This year ne was tacea witn seeking office strictly from his own eoun ty, fo represent the people of county, or to seek one of two Senate seats now available in a district composed of Deer Powel! (his county) and uranue counties Records show heavily Demo cratic Deer Lodge County (Anaconda) gave Sen.

Warren Davis votes in 1964 (and he was unopposed), more than were cast for Deck and his opponent in Fowell County plus all tnose cast for two eandidales for the in Granite County. Gran lie eiectefl no senator in lUM So, Beck's reasoning appears to be it is better' to try' to. rep resent the people of his county in the House than to maitc a Republican i agains the strongly Democratic vote which always comes from more popu lous Deer Lodge County. And, strangely enough, no otners lue-netore the deadline, he will be facing the same man, Joe Brand, a Democrat, he beat two years ago in the Senate race. Other oddities are certain to develop before next Thursday at nVlnrV aft rnliffhhql Idays in July untold.

Independence Day Most Important of Holidays By BELLE JARDINE Tomorrow's the Fourth of July. I love every minute of it; the picnics and rodeos, me firecrackers and ringing bells, But Ihere is more to it than that. To me as a woman, a wife and than have, that they will gel trie religious training ot choice and theirs. If they or get into trouble we are entitled tn as fair a trial as a person tan possibly get when judged by otner numan beings, we xnow what it Is fa live in a free coun try. And once a person has known freedom they will usually fight for it.

This day has caused men to give up their careers and llieir lives in order lo preserve it! America lias been a dream; dream come true to millions people. And despite red tape and 1axes it can til I be a dream to millions more it they will do everything possible to preserve the true meaning ot independ ence Day. Don't Blame Me The fishing party was hope lessly lost in uie aeep woods, with suDDlics rurL-ilru! low. "I thought you claimed to be the best guide in said one member. "I am," shrugged Ihe guide.

now think we're some where in Manitoba." Dick uaike, Wonewoe Reporter. To Your Good Health More Trichinosis in US, By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: Please give me some reliable tips on protection from trichinosis.

As a foreigner, I learned very soon atter arriving in the United a that one. has fo be very careful in eating pork here. Before World War If and probably now, too. people in so Euro Momer pean countries enjoyed even raw ground pork without any danger from this parasite. self do not care for raw meat, but I would like lo be sure of ime way to avoir! trichinosis.

K. Well, you know how peonle arc. We think there's nothing like the good old U.S.A. (and maybe there isn't) and the rench why anyone would drinK a thing ou-French wine, and Gen. Gaulle Ihinks-well, vou know The Russians prove lhat they invented everything, and nobody, not even the Russians, can figure out what ihe Chinese think.

We all like to believe that we" are best. The fact is that the united Slates has more trichinosis than manv European and some other countries. One simple and very good reason is the Europe ail countries quite a few years ago paid more attention to siamp ine on I trichinosis than we did They were aided by an odd fac tor. Trichinosis is a disease whicl results from an almost invisibly small organism, a tiny worm. The worm in dormant form is swallowed by a person or animal; then It hatches, produces new generations of tiny, works which work their way through (he body, and finally, after much irritation, become en cysted" or nest down in muscle fibres.

They may remain snoozing for a lrtTiB time hut if the meal In which they have nested is ultimately eaten again, they, emerge in the digestive tract ar.ri renew tne wnoie process. In hurope and elsewnere iccrf is dearer than here. People eat it up. Here we throw out an mense amount of food that is' offered at the table but not cat-en. Some of it (pork, not fully contains surviving tri- trocbinosis oreanisms).

Some of our garbage is fed to hogs. A hog gets (he acquires a big crop of the worms, and can pass the initia tion on to anyone who eais ine Letter to Editor the unless the pork is thoroughly-cooked. Cook Pork Thoroughly uoowng until tr.c meat is gray) destroys the danger. But if pork contains the organism, and is only "cooked pink," people who eat the meat can get the disease, and if leftover scraps are fed to pigs, or other ani-mals, ihe whole process repeals. (Cows, chickens, horses not eat meat, aon i pass tne parasite on.) in :r.e united btates, we don't (alk much about trichinosis.

We don't like to admit lhat it exists. However, it does, and informed estimates are that from 15 lo 20 per cent of Americans encounter this disease af one time or another, sometimes not recognizing, it, and perhaps half the time having it so mildly lhat no symptoms are recognized. Still, it can he serious. About 10 or more years ago we had some heavy outbreaks, Europeans, used "safe" pork, ate smoked (not cooked) sausage. They got sick.

To avoid a danger, you must know it exists. We have trichinosis here. We have to be wary of pork. If we cook it thoroughly, we will be safe. If we wash our hands carefully' after cutting up raw pork, we will be safe.

But if we don't admit that the dangw is here, we'll keep on having I his trouble. And maybe not knowing what hit us. However, pork, properly cooked, is a most nutritious meat Dear Dr. Molner; Is it passi ble for seminal fluid to- be released involuntarily before climax has taken place? Mrs. J.

C. Yes. Note to L. SL: "Kenophnbia" is abnormal fear of large, empty spaces, fhe reverse of claustrophobia' or. fear of being in a confined space.

What about constitpalion? Many can be relieved of It, both mentally and physically, by reading the booklet "The Way to Stop Constipation." For a copy write tri Dr. J. G. in core of Independent Record, enclosing a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope, and 20 cents in coin lo cover printing and handling. Dr.

Molner welcomes all reader mail, but regrets that due to the tremendous volume received daily, lie is unahle to answer individual lelters. Readers' questions arc Incorporated in his column whenever possible. Russell Kirk Is Wrong in Report on Rutgers Affair Editor, Independent Record: After reading your column by Dr. Russell Kirk in the June enition ot ine independent Record, I was very deeply concerned at the information and contradictions it contained. I am a 10G6 graduate of Douglass College, (he women division of Rutgers University and I served as President of the Studenl Body this past year.

As a result, i was very muen involved in, and well aenuninlcd wilh the Getiovcsc affair. Dr. Kirk stated that "clearly there is a most active 'peacenik' cell at Rutgers." I attended Rutgers University for four years, I know the majority of our mcuiiy and student body, and to say (hat (here is a "most active peacenik cell at Rutgers is a gross misrepresentation. Yes, both students and faculty have discussed over and over again all sides to the Viet Nam issue and none of the faculty including Dr. Genovese impose their political viewpoints on their students, or vice versa.

And, as often as students discuss Viet Nam they attend Reserve Officer Training Corps classes that arc preparing them to light for the United Slates In which they too will risk their lives. Rutgers has one of the largest ROTC programs in the United Stales. Also, fhe majority of the faculty has served in Armed Forces. Rutgers has had sneakers rm. resenling all points of view including the more conservative I9fi5 New Jersey gubernatorial candidate wayne Dumonf, Sen ator Strom Thurmond, ant writer Ayn Rand to name just a few.

No one, including Mr. Du-monl and Dr. Genrjvese has been denied the opportunity to express his point of view. This is essential in an inslitulion re sponsible for the development of a well educated person who must hear all sides and be able lo draw his own conclusion of Ins own accord. I personally know of no stu dent including myself who agrees with Dr.

Genovese' statement, but I also know of no student who feels that Dr, Genovese should be fired or not allowed to express his point of view. I would also like lo make clear that the advertisement to which Dr. Kirk is referring and which was signed by several Rutgers professors, did not "demand Uiat we abandon Southeast Asia to (he Communisms" as Dr, Kirk stated, but that the United States and all other countries let Southeast Asia determine for itself what type of government it desires. This is far different from "abandoning Southeast Asia to the Communists." Since when is self-determination syn onymous witli Communism? If it were, we would need to probe deeper into the problem and ask wny. Before I close, would like lo point out that Dr.

Kirk appears fo conlradict himself. He is questioning (he very foundation of America's democracy-freedom to when he questions Dr. Genovcse's right to express his point of view, especially in a state university. If Dr. Kirk were to get his way and have Dr.

Genovese removed from Rutgers for expressing his point of view, would lie not be doing the same thing thai Communist China's MaD Tse-lung Is doing by forbidding writers and scholars to express their points of'view? Haw would Dr. Kirk like fa write in a "Communist" America which denies free speech? Respectfully yours, Lynne Miles Feiss 1007 Hiawalha, True Vision Saul Bellow, prize-winning American novelist, has voiced disgust Willi Ihe predominant role of disgusl in the fashionable literary reaction lo fhe modern world. The two-lime winner of the National Book Awards for fiction leld ihe Congress of Ihc International P. E. N.

(Poets and Playwrights, Essayists and Novelists) lhat today's writers believe "it is enlightened to disenchant, to hate, to experience disgust." It Is obvious that life is neither all good nar all evil, lhat destiny's script has been wriflea neither by Pollyanna or Ihe Marquis de Sade. It helps lo have this view expressed ty an eminent writer..