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From The Guardhouse THE DAILY SENTINEL- 0mm Tcm Rep. Aspinall Cannot Be Bought By Anyone Ottar Cwrt ovrt W4, 1 Iage 4 Vlt bundsj. June Clean Up The Mesa I I I nl Yj 'V Spring Motors to the beautiful Ltoii Club ha come up with an ike on Grand Mca are rip'll l-Ua Ing that things are leu than beau lluw about the tiu up there this car, thank to the county doing Man habit of Jeanng clutter be- Lionx bind hJmwhcrvvtr hegoc. 14 and Kiwanfj Ilgy Sctiut and Gill Scout, tatter and lrah spread by care chinch groups, oung pcoj4esor- less campers and fishermen, pkni- ganiatwns service clubs of the wotk? The Civitan, Optim- ns? Iluw about I Gill Scouts. BARCLAY CMfJvoM Sf fcdaH Malt La summer ih Jamr! family wh to tt'aiZarglofl, f).

portly to Jw the kid the brr at huk it beauty the MMii capital and partly to Id thrm see the Mitutlon (4 tmf (edrfa! government. The idea was that if they have Srrfl Congress and the WLle House and the Supreme Court they will have I brttrf understanding ho Ouf jovrmmrri work. For meaner, thry now know the physical differ-ewe bdort-n the House and the Sen-ale Instead Just lumping them to ether unter the Capital dome. WHILE WE WERE in the House gallery, were able to spot Hep Wayne A spuial! our congressman during a roll call vole. And Ike typical tourists we nudged each ether and pointed at "our congressman" down on the House floor.

As we were leaving the man nest to me, who turned out to be a Washingtonian who deals with both the executive and legislative branches, turned and asked, ls Mr. Asp noli your congressman?" He then went on to say, "You art very fortunate. Not only is he one of the hardest working men in Washington, hes one of the mod honest he won't let himself or his staff become politically obligated to anyone so that there is a debt to be repaid I at-, er." ckers and trail nders are far worse than most can renumber seeing on Grand Mesa. Around each of the lakes, along highwais nd trails, are ample signs of the abomination Man leases behind when he goes out to enjoy It has been estimated that I would take thice or four nun mound two hours to clean up the area around most lake, Fun if it takes longer around the larger lake, this 1 ury little time in-olml if it is parceled ul to enough individuals. An organized campaign, spear headed by one of the local groups, specific club could assign a specific club to COOl IT MAN, IM 1UI CHIY OWE VCUC COT There shoul be something done about the clutter around the lakes all of them.

We dont btlicvo it 1 DU ')Cnaon cxh Lke or group of lakes. That Wnshlnafotl Scene should be the fuU responsibility tt0uld ,0 do of the forest Service. If we arc to dean. up woik at least weekly throughout the summer. It would ork onders on Grand Mesa.

More than that, it could be a means of the organizations doing continue having forests, for recreation or otherwise. Hanger must spend part their time ith more important, technical jobs than Impeaching President Isn't All That Simple picking up trash. Taxpayer rnon some pUjiC relations work, tn-ey should go to more Important ser ct)uragmg th0Mf on the Mcsa ,0 16 the Pcrrt it ht AmcrtCjei ihj (ho who are ScrLnd it Kae poiLC cppit be- 1 you fan the puNic WrvrLl 6fid SU(irt demon 7stf that It rctJOjfiu rally frn.Ue, thm you ul Lave AiptAail trt move IrgtslatloO through the Irtrrli Cnmtttfe Rut come into the committee uh hatf-bakrd Ur 3. unw1ed by yvwlcrt anl costing itilion aril you aren't going lo g4 much of a hearing. It is fair to uy that Aspinall is cranky, crtwl, exacting and demanding It is all too obvious that Aspinall has gotten to that stage in life where be no longer suffers fools gladly in fail he very definitely let people know what he thinks about things, which is an increasingly uncommon characteristic ot a politician.

BUT THERE IS a lot of deference brtween being irascible and telling your vote lo the "coal and oil industry for a thousand dollars. The former is an un endearing personality trait; the other, if not illegal, is immoral. So how do you answer the charge of vote selling? 1 think Aspinall has a very easy answer. For many campaigns now, even before there was anything in the law about it, Aspinall has filed with the Oerk of the House for public viewing a list of all his campaign contributors. Nd just some all And the amounts they put in.

There is no doubt that this has cut down oo the contributions. After all, there are Republicans around who agree with Aspinall and would tike to support him but can! be publkally identified as a contributor. THE PROBLEM THAT the Kentucky conservationist and his friends have is that they simply dont have Aspinall in their pocket. Aspinall has Insisted that they demonstrate where the energy to run this country will come from before he will go along with their ideas. When they cant force Aspinall to knuckle under to their demands, they then start a slander campaign, that he's "owned lock, stock and barrel," that he's on the take, that he can be bought.

Let me just cite an example of how the system is working. Last week a group called Environmental Action issued a statement denouncing Aspinall as an obstructionist preventing better ecology and calling for his defeat. It also said it was going to support Alan Merson for the Democratic nomination. What Environmental Action didn't say was that its Colorado contact man, the man who supplies it with information and ideas, is Merson's campaign manager. Who owns whom? All I know for sure is that no person, no group, no industry owns Wayne Aspinall.

vices than garbage collect ion. Yet it has to be done and that leaves it up to individuals or to organizations made up of individuals who care about the sp-, pearance of Grand Mesa, i Ben Carnes of the Redlands help keep the place dean. It would free Forest personnel for other work and would involve a lot of people in a vital effort, if a simple one. to improve an area many of us have loved and enjoyed for years. WASHINGTON On May JO, a small group of House Democrats.

led by Michigans John Conyers introduced a resolution to impeach the President of the United States. Three weeks later, to no ones great surprise, a letterhead committee took a double-truck ad in the New York Times to push the cause along. a No Smoking Policy AND THAT BRINGS me to point: 1 have been angry for two weeks about a story out of Kentucky hich started off reading: "A Kentucky conservationist says the chairman of the U. House Inte-rior Committee is owned lock, stock and barrel by the coal and oil Industry." Hogwash. If there Is a man on the face of this earth who Is not "owned it is Wayne Aspinall.

To the usual blandishments such as money for campaigns or other purposes, Aspinall is as independent as the proverbial hog on ice. It would be very interesting to be around to hear someone say, "Congressman, I gave you a thousand bucks in the last campaign and you are going to vote my way on this bill. Crash, bang, pow, zap. YOU DONT BUY Wayne Aspinall with money. In fact just plain dont buy Wayne Aspinall.

There is' only one way to get lo Wayne Aspinall. That is to convince him that whatever you are seeking is By tain elements, among them the clement of criminal intent. When Mr. Nixon ordered troops into Cambodia, did he commit a high crime? The ambiguities are compounded in the matter of federal Judge. They are civil officers, but they serve in a different status: Constitution says they shall hold their offices "during good behavior." I As George Norris once remarked, "it necessarily and logically follows that they cannot hold- their offices when they have been convicted of any behavior that is nof good." But who is to define good or ungood behavior in a judge.

As an effective -restraint on the abuse of power, the device- of im- peachment has patently failed. It will fail, of course, in the matter of the stupid resolution drummed up last month against Nixon. But the failure leaves, the problem of a refused removal unsolved and a potential danger unmet. If impeachment is a useless weapon, what weapon would The new pupil-personnel policies adopted by Dist. 51 School Board, are, in general, both reasonable and workable.

The board and the adminis- adults set examples for the youngsters. This is a harsh line for those who have been smoking for 20, 30 or 40 years, but it is the only JAMES J. KILPATRICK tration have done a good job of route possible for schools to take working them out and getting them in face of the knowledge of the written down. Now everybody dangers of smoking, know specifically what the pol- As for enforcement, it makes no ides are and who Is responsible sense to suspend the students, for each of them. They are in school to get an edu- a i a' a ,1 cation and the schools and the Mtol thlt'hcre" at, community wantthcrnKnotoutof Voice of Business solutely no way that the schools can morally provide areas for smoking.

We all know it is a very serious health hazard. No one should be allowed to smoke in the schools. The prohibition should include instructors and other personnel as well as the students, since the Resolution of the problem lies in simply making a flat rule that there be no smoking whatsoever in any of the schools anywhere. Those who feel they cant live without an occasional smoke could leave the building and smoke on their coffee break, at noon hour or before or after school. i Give Thanks For Laws Congress Didn't Pass Now.

this was doubtless good for the Times, which collected nearly $18,000, in advance, for the space; and perhaps the incident demonstrates anew to a puzzled world that our free institutions have indeed a high tolerance for nonsense. But considering the sponsors, I am minded to say, the resolution and the advertisement together add up to something less than a great moment of history. NEVERTHELESS, the dumbshow does provide an opportunity for continued reflection upon the one theme that must always atsorb a political writer more than any other the nature of restraints on power. The thrust of the pending resolution is that the President has exceeded his own powers and has usurped the powers of Congress. In an effort to correct the situation, the sponsors' thus invoke one of the great counter-powers provided by the, Constitution the power of the House to impeach.

Af least on the impeachment, process provides an awesome restraint; but this is only on paper. In the whole history of the Republic, the House has voted no more than a dozen resolutions of impeachment, and only four of these have led to conviction on trial by the Senate. The last successful impeachment resulted in the removal of U.S. District Judge Halstcd L. Ritter in 1936.

Why has impeachment proved such a sometime thing? A plausible answer is our federal officers and judges, for the most part, have been tolerably honest men. Over the years we have seen a good many misfits, but very few rogues. Some Variables Long and detailed studies of houses with more than one bath-the effect of water quality on room. health in western Maryland has Also, the risk of fatal heart dis-shown a lower death rate from was higher. for disease for white males, age smokers than for nonsmokers, but WASHINGTON Think of the worst law you can imagine, consistent with our form of government.

Not a law already on the books, but one that is purely the product of your imagination. lower for both than for those who had ever smoked cigars. Again, heart disease risk for persons attending church in- 45-64, if they drink soft water. Then should we all drink soft water? Lets ask Dr. George W.

Comstock, professor of epidemiol- frequently was nearly twice that ogy at Johns Hopkins University, for persons who attended church By ARCHN. BOOTH SXKVtiV vie president of U. S. Chamber Of Commerco once a week or oftener. This is the sort of thing that any research turns up and sometimes the variables are more interesting (but no more decisive) than the research objective.

Before you consider drinking only soft water to avoid heart attacks, youve got to be male, be- After all, that seems to be an important piece of news. Dr. Comstock says we must look at the variables. (Thats the "but on the other hand information researchers feed into their reports which makes it hard for a layman to decided the obvious is obvious or not.) tween 45 and 64, have two bath-The doctor found that people rooms and a college degree, stop from lower social and economiclev- smoking cigars, go to church regu-els showed a greater risk of dying larly, move to western Maryland from heart disease than those who or stay away from epidemiolog-were better educated or lived in ists bearing questionnaires. Other Editors (London Times) VICTORIES OF A GENIUS Bobby Fischers victory over Tigran Petrosian in the candidates tournament in preparation for the world chess championship was a thrilling encounter.

Certainly, the result was expected. The American is not a champion who lets his admirers down. He is enjoying a run of breathtaking successes, which has never been paralleled in the annals of chess. Bent Larsen, the Danish master, who had the temerity to claim that he should rightfully occupy number one board, over Fischer in second place, the recent match between' the Rest of the World and Russia, was trounced 6-ft in the semifinals of the present championship. Chess, somelimes described as too serious for a game and too slight for an art, has one peculiar advantage over other kinds of contest.

All the games of the past hundred years can be played out, move by move, by each new generation of players. Many of Fischer's games' are destined for such immortality. Though Fischer has no doubt of his own ability he has yet to attain the highest rung in the chess world This is what makes his matches against Boris Spassky next spring so absorbing a prospect. Spassky is certainly the best chess player in the Soviet Union, which has for so Jong had a monopoly of the world championship. He, like Fischer, has pow- ers which no opponent for some time has been strong enough to test to the full.

Fischer on this occasion must beware of overconfidence. Whatever the outcome, chess stands to be greatly enriched. In short, -why is it that we are unable to give credit for leaviifg well-enough alone? -Most -of us are quite, willing to admit that that is often the wisest policy. Instead, the way things stand now, we judge our politicians the same way we judge our movie stars by the amount of exposure t(iey get (although, so far anyway, there is a considerable difference in what, is getting exposed). And the amount of exposure a politician gets is determined by the nufnber of things he does, whether they needed doing or not.

OF COURSE, a much more sensible approach would be for all of us to learn to recognize the virtue of not meddling; to identify the perpetrators of constructive inactivity and heap honors upon them. The Congress will- soon come to grips with some Major Issues. Following the introduction of many Bold Solutions. there will be much debate on the Critical Problems of Our Times. And the risk we all run, every session, is that out of all this will come laws written for their initial publicity' impact, rather than as reasonable approaches to complex problems.

Rarely has a Congress faced issues petter suited to this headline-grabbing process: Welfare health care, revenue sharing. Nor does it improve the chances that sweet reason will, after all, prevail, to have several legislators running for the Presidency. Notice, as the election approaches, that a flat "no to one of these social welfare proposals will be considered inadmissable under the rules of the game. Only substitutions are permitted. Such reasoning leads the government into new programs that are neither needed nor wanted by a majority our citizens, simply because no one will risk a negative image by pointing that out.

So please, as the year wears on, make it a point to contact your congressman often. Ask him what he hasn't done for you-lately. And thank him for it. The Daily sentinel The Sentinel Publishing Owner I. N.

Bunting, Publisher 18931911 Walter Walker, Publisher, 1911 1956 Preston Walker, Publisher, 1956 1970 The possibilities are so limitless that even picking the "worst that" might be legislated in a particular category say, taxes, or welfare, or regulatory authority would be a hard job. it is certainly not difficult to conjure up a selection to choose from. NOW, WITH those legislative horrors firmly in your mind, ask yourself if you have ever thought of being grateful for the things your elected representatives do not do for you. We Americans have a dangerous hangup when it comes to judging a legislature, one that stems from our usually admirable passion for efficiency. It goes like this- Efficiency is good.

Productivity is a sign of efficiency. Therefore, a productive legislature is an efficient legislature is a good legislature. And how do we measure the "productivity" of a legislature. By the number of laws it passes, of course. Thus, a Congress which passes few laws is labeled a do-nothing Congress, and condemned out of hand for it.

A legislator who introduces few laws is considered derelict, or worse, ignored. The same attitude colors our perception of the Presidency. A President who proposes no radical social programs, engages in no dangerous overseas adventures, and keeps his hands off Congress is called a weak" President. And we all know that weak Presidents are bad. we A better answer is- that swifter and simpler remedies exist through the conventional procedures of removal by resignation or by outright dismissal.

Impeachment is a kind of 16-inch gun; it is a whole lot of trouble to get the thing loaded and fired. A third answer lies in the uncertainty that continues to surround the power itself. Our Constitution may be the noblest political ipipeachment provision, the founding fathers were nodding. THEY FELT prospective abuse of power by judges and by other officials some method to remove bad men who would not resign but they were not much impressed by English models. In.the end, they came up with ambiguous hash.

A majority ot the House can impeach a President, a Vice President, or any "Civil officer of the United States. That seems clear enough, but the reference to civil officer" has provoked divided opinion from the start. Such persons, Jin any event, shall be removed fromjjoffiee on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Treason and "bribery" give no trouble, but what is a "high crime'? Or a high The word crime, at law, embraces cer- cot 0100 mu TTROGRAPHr MUSS WORK U7. COKMADO mu ADVtRTtSNG acauxs l. 171 Kenneth E.

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