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Page 4A PANAMA CITY KEWS. Panama City, Florida, Wednesday Morning. Feb. 22.1967 BINAMA CITY NEWS owe Near Sighted FOREIGN COMMENTARY A John H. Perry Newspaper Founded by John H.

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Branch offices in principal cities. BIBLE VERSE All the widows stood by Urn weeping, and owing the coats and garments Dorcas made, "en she was with them. Acts 939. When you gone will broken-hearted beneficiaries stand ound weeping? Inspiring The Chinese Many individuals are just as confused as the so-called experts about the fuU nature of the internal conflict which appears to have brought China to the verge of civil war. There is general agreement that the basic struggle is between the pragrnatists and realists -rsus an amorphous idealism which is generally attributed to the widespread influence of Mao Tse-tung.

There is further agreement that Mao Philosophy embraces hatred for the United (not uncommon in a communist state) nd also hatred for the Soviet Union (very un- immon in the monolithic communist movement.) Still, the experts are not at a loss to explain Tao's antagonistic attitude toward Russia. His lorification of manual labor is in basic con- Uct with the Russians' more sophisticated con- pt of work. At this point the explanations of ven the experts appear to break down. What throws them is trying to understand let alone explain the enormous influence a mental discipline which is neatly summar- in a small book entitled "The Thoughts of lao." To savor its contents, concentrate on a 'sw excerpts. "Study diligently and make progress every lay" "Unity alertness, earnestness and live- ness." 'Surmount every, difficulty to win vic- If the thoughts sound vaguely familiar, you ight have been guilty of sneaking a lock at ome dust-covered book in your grandparents ittic.

One writer says there hasn't been such a its collection of cliches since Benjamin Franka wrote "Poor Richard's Almanack." Could it be that the experts are simply too mbarrassed to quote from the book that is a lest-sdler in China? They shouldn't be because of its contents might suggest a logi- il plan for combating the effects of Mao's America" propaganda. Why not reprint millions of copies of the "Almanack" in Chinese and smuggle them into "hina? The books could be identified as contraband copies of an American best-seller. The Chinese would admire us for appreciating such great literature and decide that we couldn be all bad. More Repairs Needed Are costs of repairs for your car or cars your TV and radio sets, your other appliances -nd household equipment, getting you down? Chances are you're well aware that more and more of your income is going for such expenses but isn't that to be expected? Dont you have a lot more things that can get out of order than you had a few years ago? Our increased enjoyment of mechanical and elctronic devices adds up to one thing our standards of living are rising. We are spending than $10 billion annually for repairs and maintenance of the gadgets that new standards have brought.

That's about double what it cost to keep fewer appliances and such in operating shape a decade ago. This is another example proving what everyone knows by long experience that machinery and methods for getting things done with less work do not mean fewer jobs. Gadgets that have become so much a part of modern life in the last decade have created a need for services that amount to billions of dollars. Political Martyr? By LYLE WILSON United Press International The implication of felonius offenses by the Rev. Adam Gayton Powell is clear if unproven in the testimony of the select committee of the House of Representatives which inquired into the actions of this political Peck's bad boy.

Some or all of the acts which might lead to Powell's indictment on a felony charge took place in the District of Columbia, a federal jurisdiction. In federal law, any crime punishable by more than one year's imprisonment is a felony. Members of Congress enjoy an immunity from arrest and trial in some circumstances. But in his seat or out of it, Powell would be liable to arrest on any charge of an offense on the scale of felony as established by federal law. Article 1, section 6 of the U.S.

Constitution states the limits of congressional immunity from arrest and trial as follows: "They (members of Congress) shall in all cases except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from same." Perhaps Powell could survive as a political martyr with vast i among American Negroes even though he were tried and convicted of a felony. But such a felony conviction would be booby-trapped against Powell. A possible consequence of conviction of the commission of a felony 3s the loss of the civic rights, the right to vote and the right to hold public office. The loss of civic rights probably would cancel much of politician Powell's martyr muscle. Some of the bad dreams which kept select House committee investigators awake during the Powell inquiry were more substantial than the stuff of which dreams usually are made.

They were dreams of Powell being deprived of his seat in the 90th Congress, of martyr Powell returning to his sympathetic Negro constituency in Harlem, of martyr Powell being re-elected again and again and again so long as the House refused to seat him. Loss of civic rights would prevent Powell from parlaying the racial emotion of Negroes into a power position in New York or national politics. Congress cannot indict Powell, but it can refer his case to tiie Justice Department. The department could move, if facts warranted, to grand jury proceedings, indictment and trial. Powell's emotional, racist appeal has been for years that whitey dislikes him because he is a Negro who travels tost class.

He pleads now that the House is conducting a lynching, northern-style. It would be a good idea to shift the Powell case to the federal courts if the facts warrant and not merely because a felony conviction would ground Powell politically. The federal courts consistently have sought to protect Negro citizens. If Powell were convicted of a felony in a federal court, not even would have the brass to claim ne was being ill-used because of his racet Deprived of this racist demagogery, Powell would recede into the distance. Quotes From News Playing Rough Politics By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Two things that can be said about President Charles de Gaulle with complete truth are that he believes wholly in his own irreplaceabflity and that he plays rough politics.

He demonstrated both earlier this month when he jumped the gun on the March 5 election campaign and took to the television microphones to declare that a victory for his parliamentary opposition would destroy French independence and make the country subservient either to the United States or the Soviet Union. Having thus disposed of the character and competence of his opposition, de Gaulle calmly sat back to await the returns. This very political speech was labelled non-political because it came in advance of the official three weeks permitted to the campaign. It was not unlike another he had made in November, 1965, while seeking his own reelection. If he were reelected, he said, "the future of the new republic decidedly be assumed." But if not, he warned, "no one can doubt that she will soon crumble and that France, this time without any hope of recourse, will be reduced to confusion more disastrous than she has ever known." From any other candidate such statements would be invitations to political suicide.

Among De Gaulle's critics there never has been agreement on Whether he causes the most irritation by what he says or by what he does. But Frenchmen have lived through a period of defeat, frustration and political chaos never experienced in the United states and whatever may be their irritation with their leader, they are expected on March 5 to return the favorable majority De Gaulle demands. Domestically, De Gaulle deals from strength. PAUL HARVEY REPORTS Why Not Student Spies? By PACI, HAKVKY Incredible! Our Central Intelligence Agency has been subsidizing school-age spies. Incredible! While our military has been paying the expenses of school- age boys to fight at the front Our CIA has been paying the expenses of school-age boys to defend our rear.

It's incredible, only because most of us did not think the CIA was that imaginative. Most officials have reacted to this disclosure with righteous wrath or indignant disgust. President has ordered Nick Katzenbach to "review" this subsidy. Senator Mike Mansfield, denouncing the practice as "big brotherism," demands a con- BOYLE'S BEAT Periodic Checkup Is Needed On Sanity Eating Out Probably more Americans today "eat out" than ever before, but they do not dine as elegantly. Many meals eaten away from home today consist of a double sandwich swallawett whole at a counter while somebody stands the back of the diner, waiting for his seat, the while ueering over his shoulder to ascertain whether he is procrastinating.

It was different in days of yore, when most meals were leisurely consumed at tables, complete with tablecloths and real napkins. The Drice ranged from 20 cents to two or three times that figure and if the occasion was something social there was usually a table d'hote meal to "be had somewhere for a dollar that was the suuerlor of anything that can be located today were the days. Food was plentiful and did not include leftovers of this and that, refabricated into a tasteless mess that a self- respecting dog would have spurned in the era of good eating. The danger in stock splits is that printing presses may be overtaxed printing the additional certificates. Stock market officials warn speculators against splurging in cheap stocks.

But what if they cwmpt afford the best? By United Press International WASHINGTON--Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara testifying that an end to U. S. bombing in North Vietnam might he interpreted as a sign of weakness: "In any case there are Asian leaders of other nations not involved militarily in South Vietnam who have recommended we not stop the bombing and who say that such action would be misinterpreted-" TOKYO--A broadcast from Peking Radio stressing the Red Chinese hard line attitude toward negotiations in South as the U.S. forces still occupy South Vietnam, no matter whether the U.S.

bombs the North or not, the U.S. continues to be the aggressor and that even includes if the U.S. stops the bombing of North Vietnam forever." WASHINGTON--Sen. -William Fulbright calling for an investigation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities and questioning the effectiveness of the three man panel set up by President Johnson, which includes the head of the CIA: "It is like asking Mr. Joe Fowler (treasury secretary Henry H.

Fowler) to investigate the Treasury." WASHINGTON Former White House Press Secretary Bill D. Movers commenting on the credibility gap between the Johnson administration, the press and the my judgment the credibility gap, as it is called is due primarily to the ambiguity, the dilemma, the difficulty and the complexity of the Vietnam war. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) One of the problems everyone has to solve today is whether the world is getting balmier--or you are. The best way is to make a periodic checkup on yourself. To determine whether you have rained or lost your marbles, j''-'ire out your own sanity quotient periodically.

How can you do this? Quite simply. For example, here is a sample quiz by which you can rate yourself: Are you able to sit down and reason with your own children intelligently, thus helping them to improve their ways? If you had it to do all over again, would you be perfectly willing to relive your live exactly as you have up until now? Can you smile tolerantly when one of the guys you are playing golf with starts jabbering just as you try a game-winning putt on the 18th hole? When your neighbor buys a new car more expensive than the one you own, does it make you feel warm all over because someone you know is getting ahead? Are you pleased if, while preparing a backyard cookout, one of the guests steps forward with a suggestion on how to make the charcoal fire burn better? Should someone offer to fix a traffic ticket for you, would you become righteously indignant because you feel the law ought to take its course in such matters? After filling out your income tax forms each year, do you have the quiet satisfaction of someone who has done a good hard honest job? Do you make it a policy to pay up all your bills at least a week ahead of time to avoid any possible confusion? Are you the kind of ellow who refuses to bet on a sure thing because you think it's unfair to take money from suckers? Are you the type of husband about whom other wives say to their own mates, "Why can't you be more like him?" Do you make it a point never to lose your temper, no matter what the provocation? When you decide to give up a bad habit, such as smoking too much or cussing out the government, can you do it easily and without a single relapse? Well, now let's look at the-box score. Tf the answer to all the foregoing questions was "yes," there is.no doubt that you are an unusual case. You are theoretically 100 per cent normal. That means you are abnormally normal, the kind of a smug bore who drives everyone else around him out of their minds.

You are also probably so dully perfect and perfectly dull that your wife is planning to run off with the laundryman just to get away from you. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF gressional investigation. The National Advisory Board of the National Student Association is "shocked and insists any such practice was "unofficial" and "not sanctioned." And up and down the land, faculty "spokesmen" beat their breasts and cry, "Shame: Shame!" Now this is really something. When the Supreme Court recently decreed that a communist teacher cannot be fired, I heard not one faculty "spokesman" object. But now when it is learned that anti-communist students have been willingly cooperating with our government, the resultant indignation makes it sound as if these the patriots -are traitors.

And if our Intelligence has had the intelligence to accept information from exchange students during the past 15 years, the shame is that they invested only a picayune three million dollars, when so often we spend so much more for so much less. This is being puffed up into a cause celebre by anybody who wishes for any reason to discredit and discourage our country's efforts at espionage, but the rest of us should lot be confused by the switch-hitters. When this revelation was first whispered to me by a source on the University of Wisconsin campus long before anything broke in print it was represented to be "a nationwide scandal." The informant, in much men- a 1 anguish, divulged the "dreadful details" of how our government had "bribed" our exchange students in various parts of the world to watch and report political trends in critical of the world where we have no diplomats. I was told with' incredulous awe that some students even got draft deferments while they performed i government service. There was no "awe" -wer my i that many Peace Corps' personnel get draft deferments and more money for probably less service.

I suppose the "dreadfully disturbed," with their deliberate diatribe, will demand and get an "expose" of the CIA sufficient to embarrass us internationally, but you and I must not join them in condemning the good guys. (Gen. Fea. Corp.) By SAM CLARKE jerry Weeks of Mulberry Avenue tells a rather unusual story which happened to him recently and you might can it "seeing Aft-r coining out of a coffee shop here adjacent to a motel. Jerry headed back to his blue Mustang convertible parked nearby.

He got into the car and then noticed it was the wrong vehicle but same make, color and model. He quickly stepped out and saw what was obviously his car parked a short distance away with an attractive girl inside. She already had hung clothing in the back seat. Jerry walked to the driver's side and tapped on the window and the girl stared back at him saying "I don't talk to strangers." Persistent Jerry again rapped on the window and she again shunned him threatening to call the police. "Okay," Jerry said to her, "but if you drive this car you'll need these, as he waved his car keys in front of her face.

The" startled girl apoligized and returned to ner car. OVERHEARD Two men -were having 1 a mild argument in a local and one left he remarked: "I never forget a face but in your case I will make an exception." POSTAL PROBLEM If you think our local Postal employes aren't efficient you have another thought Eric Dittus, Bay high football player, was attend a special banquet recently which was by invitation only. Before he left the house his moth-sr gave him three letters to mail. He went to the Post Office and posted the "four" letters. Suddenly realizing his mistake he returned to the Post Office in the hope of getting the mailed invitation recovered.

After considerable searching the unaddressed invitation was discovered and he made the banquet on time. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY B. R. Calhoun of Okaloosa County gave this thought for the day. "It's easy to be brave from a safe distance." WISH GRANTED Terri Hedson, 13.

of Fort Myers. is going to get her carload of snow the first she's ever seen the end of this week. William J. Quinn, president of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad, ordered an express refrigerated car be loaded with some of Chicago's abundant snow and sent to the girl. Terri had written a note saying: "I was born in Florida and have never seen snow.

I was wondering if you would please send me some snow." Quinn said an empty refrigerated car was scheduled to bs sent to Florida for fruit loading and this one will be filled with snow for Terri. 1-11- HE PARENT of 1967, insists Art Linkletter, is as difter- ent from the parent of a dozen years ago as a lunar expedition is from the voyage of Magellan, As proof, Linkletter recalls that when his first-born child had a nosebleed, he and his called three specialists and virtually collapsed with fright. The other day the Linkletters were sitting in their just- carpeted living when their fifth, child, Richard, came in with his proboscis just pouring forth gore. Mrs. L.

looked up and cried, "Richard, don't you dare bleed on my new carpet!" Have you any idea what a "canty quaff is? It's what the Scotsman calls a lively, tangy drink, and supposedly that what was being sipoed by Dean Jonathan Swift, very old at the tune, when somebody showed him an early edition of his own. "Gulh- ver's Travels." The good Dean riffled through its pages, then remarked with gusto, "My God, what genius I had then! From the notebook of Colonel Francis Duffy: 1. Nothing ruins friendship more quickly than one lady infringing on. another's symptoms. 2.

A miser isn't much, fun to live witfc-ftut he makes a won- dl One of taking vacation movies is that you have to get back home to find out what you saw. I Chfldren seldom misquote you; they repeat what you shouldn't have said word for word! 1967, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kiag Syndicate Today's Almanac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 1967 with 312 to follow. The moon is in its first quarter.

The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born today arc under the sign of Pisces. Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts of England, was born on this day in 1857. On this day in history: In 1819, Florida was ceded to the United States in a treaty with Spain.

In 1879. Frank Woolworth opened his first "five-cent" store in Utica, N.Y.. and was disappointed after a few xveeks because sales averaged only two dollars and 50 cents a day. In 1931, 100 women in Miami, organized a "Carrie Nation brigade" to fight bootleggers, speakeasies and gamblers. In 1953, some 250 persons were killed during an earth- wuake in northeast Libya.

A thought for the clay- American novelist Ernest Hemingway once wrote: "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." Stories Answer to Previous Puzzle ACROSS 1 Narrative. Short, entertaining story 13 Verbal 14 Ransomed 15 Story illustrating a moral truth 17 Come upon 18 Wapiti 19 Primary color 20 Terra (brown-red earthenware) 21 Roman god of underworld 22 Article 23 Seraglio 26 Shame!" 27 Fruit beverage 30 Essayist Lamb 31 tale (silly story) 33 Allegorical story 35 opera (melodramatic serial) 36 Library sound 37 Choler 38 Verbose 39 Employ 40 Dance step 41 Aesopian story 44 Timetable abbreviation 45 Help 48 Medicinal plant 49 Type of novel 51 Bed 54 Presently 55 Formal emy 56 Gup for breath DOWN 1 European shark 2 Soviet lake 3 Songbird 4 Guido's high note 5 City in France I JUqum 7 Masculine nickname 8 Symbol for cerium 9 English novelist 10 Leave out 11 Portable shelter 12 Icelandic saga 16 Topmost edge 20 Masticate 21 Transaction 22 Sea phenomenon 23 Pile 24 European mountains 25 Public disturbance 26 Feather barb 31 Folklore monster 32 Egyptian goddess 34 French river i cdunsf 38 Heartfelt 27 Shakespearean 39 Moslem council stream 28 Lifeless 29 Discern 40 Ordinary language 41 Reality 42 Winged 43 Dnn. individual 44 Greek war god 45 Wild ox of Celebes 46 Sacred iinagA 47 Car damage 50 Serpent 52 Pronoun 53 Nickel (symbol) NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN..