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14 PAMfA OAKY NlWf TcxAi Year Thursday, Aug. Qlhc flampa Daily Nmu0 A Watchful Newspaper EVER STRIVING FOR THE TOP O' TEXAS TO BE AN EVEN BETTER PLACE TO LIVE Our Capsule Policy The Pampa Newt it dedicated to furnishing information to our readert to that they can better promote and preserve their own freedom and encourage others to tee itt blessing. Only when man it free to control himself and all he produces can he develop to his utmost capability. The Newt believes each and every person would get more satitfaction in the long run if he were permitted to spend what he earns on a volunteer basis rather than having part of it distributed involuntarily. Tragedy or Comedy? We suspect the Senate Watergate Hearings have just about lost their box office appeal as they approach the recess date, mainly because the show seems to be getting nowhere and the comedy seemed to be playing out.

After all, how long can you laugh at the same routine? Laughter seemed to bother Sen. Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. He gave a stern lecture to former New York policeman Anthony Ulasewicz because the bagman's explanation of the payoff deliveries was made in a humorous fashion. Sen. Weicker said he doesn't think it is a laughing matter.

We disagree. The criminal acts in question are not funny, but the manner in which the "investigation" is being conducted is a riot. What could have been more laughable than Sen. Sam Ervin falling for the hoax telephone call? He announced to the national TV audience that Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz had telephoned him saying that President Nixon would release the tapes ol conversations made at the White House. Ervin didn't double check.

It would seem he should have been curious about Shultz making the call why would the Treasury secretary make such a call? Something of that nature more properly would have come from Presidential Counsel Leonard Garment. But Ervin fell for it and within minutes had to reveal that he was a victim of a hoax. Now if Sen. Weicker didn't think that was funny, he has no sense of humor. This, of course, is the weak spot of politicians, they just can't stand being laughed at.

But the comedy routine they are making of the investigation is going to have the whole country in stitches before they wind it up. We suspect that nothing conclusive as to placing the blame on efforts to obstruct justice will come from the hearings that has not previously been reported by independent investigation by the news media. We will be left with the decision of choosing which witness we shall beleive, which is precisely the position we were in before the hearings began. do not discount the hearings completely, however, because the thoughtful taxpayer can observe "live from Washington" just how powerful the political machinery of this country has become. But the lesson is valuable only if the taxpayer recognizes that political party labels have nothing to do with the use of such power.

We have learned that President Nixon made tape recording of telephone conversations and meetings in his various offices. But we also have learned that President Johnson and President Kennedy did the same things. We think it is unfortunate that the important issue in the Watergate affair has apparently been lost because people seem to accept the fact that both political parties engage in espionage and therefore why should we be so concerned? The fact that the Republicans broke into the Democrat headquarters seems to mean little to the American people. Who knew about the plans in advance is of little consequence except that we now have gnawing suspicions that some people may have been lying to us. But what is more important is that some people in positions of great political power engaged in activity to obstruct justice, and this should be the principal thrust of the investigation.

If we are to be a nation of law, then the law must be enforced, and political power should not be able to circumvent that enforcement. The senators conducting the so called investigation are guilty of using the televised hearings as a forum for promoting and furthering their own careers. We have seen little evidence of penetrating questioning, and the most boring part of the whole matter is that senators have been asking the same questions over and over of the same witness. It has become obvious that when the TV camera swings for a close up of a particular senator, he puts on his most serious face, pours over his notes and, in his most resonant tones says: Now you said you had a meeting on March 22 with John Mitchell and John Dean, is that correct?" Three senators previously may have asked the same question and the answer was always the same, but senator number four was not to be denied his moments before a national television audience. Now, senators, to the best of our recollection, we haven't watched anything that funny since Abbott and Costello's "Who'sOn First" routine.

And for a good closing act that would bring down the house why don't they let Martha testify? When asked what had sustained him through his ordeal in the Enemy prison camp, Army Major Floyd Thompson (longest-held prisoner of the Vietnam War) replied; "God, country, and the love of a good woman." The Review of the News Politics Do Get Bit On Dirty Side By PAUL HARVEY Sen. Charles Percy says in all his years of public life he has never seen any political chicanery to compare with Watergate. Sen. Charles Percy of Chicago said that? Oh, come now! What I am about to say is going to be construed as a defense of President Nixon. I can't help that.

I've criticized this Administration altogether as freely as I have praised it; nonetheless, any effort to keep Watergate in perspective is certain to be construed by some as an effort to justify wrongdoing. My home base city is Chicago. Election after election I've watched machine politicians play the game the way the city's electorate expects tilt the voting machines; vote winos for four bits and dead people for free; lose enough ballot boxes to reverse a defeat so that the pomposity and santimonimity of some politicians in this present instance makes me sick! Two wrongs won't make Watergate right. Ten wrongs or ten thousand wrongs won't. But a recitation of some recent history might remind the instant saints in our midst that in love, war and politics some fight dirty.

As President, J.F.K. told a Chicago audience, "I rode into the White House on Mayor Daley's coattails," which indeed he did. With the electoral votes of Illinois, Mr. Nixon would have been elected President decisively in 1960. Yes, there was a postelection fuss over "ballot boxes dumped into Lake Michigan," but there was no indictment of anybody, certainly not Dick Daley, and not the slightest implication by the news media to connect John Kennedy with the skulduggery.

And in Texas, also decisive in defeating Mr, Nixon in 1960, there was subsequently exposed corrupt election machinery such as jamming voting machines in Republican precincts and misread ballots. In Angelina County, there were only 86 voters who voted. Yet, guess what? The official tally for Angelina County was 24 for Nixon and 148 for Kennedy! In other words, 86 voters voted 172 votes. However, when the New York Herald Tribune prepared 12 articles proving vote fraud, that paper was dissuaded from publishing that evidence by Richard Nixon, who said, "Our nation cannot afford to be torn by the agony of a constitutional crisis." More distressing to me than politicians spying on one another is the difficulty we've had in finding a nonpartisan someone of incontrovertible integrity to conduct the investigation. An idealist might imagine that our law schools and our law courts would provide an inexhaustible supply of invariably just jurists.

Yet, look at the trouble we've had finding even one man we can all trust. That has to be sadder by far than the much publicized law violations. Yet it does help us understand why Scripture says that when the Master Fisher of men calls the final roll there won't be many keepers. Wit And Whimsy By PHIL PASTORET Our local bar operates on the "pay as you glow" principle no credit. "The Waltons" is about the only family ever known to make the Great Depression pay off.

Inside Washington Percy Well Papular Sttppert Bv ttOBfiitT S. ALLEN Stf THAN ACDWTMWCAM'TJUMPOrcuroCIJOOMf BRUCE BIOSSAT Puerto Rico eyes industrial future By Bruce Biossat The stuff they serve from the vending machine is known around here as "instant coughing." The boss grumps we're always too early to the office, and always too late to work. WORLD ALMAMC FACTS Will Rogers was famous for his homespun hurnor and became one of America's most beloved humorists. He became known as the "cowboy philosopher" because of his political and social witticisms, The World Almanac recalls. Rogers poked fun at everything and everybody, but had an uncanny knack ol making the objects of his humor enjoy his salty comments.

SAN JUAN P.R. (NEA) Puerto Rico, caught in a slight economic downturn and saddled with at least 12 per cent unemployment, is nevertheless plunging ahead with vigorous plans for growth as if it were kind of a miniature Japan. It already has over a billion worth of petro chemical plants on which it hopes to found a host of labor intensive satellite industries producing varied byproducts in demand in the huge mainland American market. Now it wants a great deep water port capable of taking today's oil tankers of 200,000 tons and more, around which it expects even larger refineries and petro chemical works would be established. Led by serious, quietly driving 36 year old Gov.

H. L. Hunt Writes OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA Offshore oil resources of Red China have been reported discovered in the last couple of years which may be almost as vast as those of the Middle East, possibly larger. Who knows if the facts are otherwise or if the "quiet" treatment is being given the information so as not to stir up controversy. Whatever the truth, we can expect the U.S.

taxpayer to be called on, either openly or behind the door, to finance the finding of oil and producing it. Also, U.S. technology would be essential for rapid and efficient production. We should know better than to put our dependence and our capital in foreign oil resources, especially those in communist countries. It is too simple to cut us off from the supplies, once we have become dependent upon them.

There could be some advantage in playing off the Red Chinese against the Soviets, who also reportedly have vast petroleum resources needing development, but we had better look to our own resources and those of dependable allies for development first. It once was thought that the continental U.S. held most of the world's oil reserves. This was simply because free citizens of Republic USA. developed the incentive and the know how, through the profit motive system, to find uses for what once was a mere nuisance which spoiled the water and ruined farm land where it seeped out of the ground.

We still have, probably, almost as much petroleum and natural gas to be found under our own land and offshore waters as we have found already. It simply remains to provide the incentive to go out and find it and create the means to produce it efficiently and economically. Let's get at it. To one man, the world is barren, dull and superficial, to another rich, interesting and full of meaning. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher.

Rafael Hernandez Colon and a veteran economic developer, Teodoro Moscoso, the island's unique commonwealth government is trying to lure not just more U.S. industry (some 120 of the top American manufacturers already have plants in Puerto Rico), but to draw in the ambitious Japanese, to pull in some European firms, and to interest its island neighbor, the Dominican Republic, in becoming a vast supplier of foodstuffs for its swelling 2.8 million population. The periodic visitor (this is my sixth trip to assess the island's development over the past 15 years) is inevitably keenly impressed with the optimism, unflagging yet always hard headedly realistic, which marks its leadership. Puerto Rican leaders understand fully that their economic fate is closely tied to conditions in mainland America. The mainland is the key source of their development capital and the great outlet for their products.

Trouble there is trouble here. Though they are 1,600 miles from Washington and the gloom of Watergate, they naturally fret over the uncertainties and the doubts it stirs. Still, Puerto Rico keeps constantly in mind that it is mainland America's fourth biggest market. And, while the first flush of its stunning tourist boom is long gone and the giddy days of the first hopeful industrial invasion have given way to harder long range planning, the spirit of advance stays high. Puerto Rico has opened a development office in Tokyo.

A leading Japanese electronics manufacturer today has plants here employing 600 people and is expected soon to lift that total beyond 1,000. Off its experience in building its initial complex of petro chemical plants, Moscoso says in an interview that the islanders think they have the technical know how to get seriously into shipbuilding (a field wherein Japan today has 50 per cent of the world's business). It is estimated some 11,000 persons are sufficiently trained to make a suitable shipyard work force. Moscoso and others well understand that Puerto Rico, for all its "showplace" gains of the past, can't stay on an upward course simply by luring industries which invest great sums in plant but need relatively few workers. The island's unemployed are restless, and as is seen everywhere in the world, they are drifting into the cities to complicate already swamping urban problems, So key element is moving the petro chemical industry past its basic stage and into the "satellite" phase calling for plants making plastic products, synthetic fibers, etc.

That's where the vital jobs are. Puerto Rico's tourism lost its bloom when its flashy, cost ridden hotels took on an image of a combination Miami Beach and Las Vegas. But here, too, bright new ideas are afoot. Your Health Don't Abuse Any Laxatives By Lawrence Lamb, M.D< Dear Dr. Lamb I have an occasional flareup with my diverticulosis.

Would you please explain this condition to me. I'm on a low residue diet, and am told to take a laxative every day. Is it necessary to have a daily elimination? Every bottle or can warns one that prolonged use of laxatives may result in dependency. Are laxatives the onlv wav? 4 Dear Reader Diverticula are small herniated pockets along the intestine. Often they are along the'left colon.

These little side pockets literally are herniations of the inner lining of the colon into pocket-like formations. In many people they cause no symptoms, in others they become in- flammed and produce symptoms similar to appendicitis, or they may even bleed. I have discussed this problem before. Many authorities feel that diverticula are associated with poor function of the bowel, specifically spastic colon and constipation-type prob JL 1 A 1 lems. Dr.

Denis Burkitt feels that the lack of bulk in the American diet is the reason this problem is so common in our society. It's not very common in societies that have a great deal of cereal fiber in their diet. His studies, and others, have resulted in a change in thinking by most doctors about what kind of diet a person should have, to prevent or manage a problem of diverticulosis. Other than acute inflammatory problems, which are a special problem, most of these individuals are better off if they have a diet which contains an appreciable amount of bulk. This is just the opposite of the low residue diet that you've mentioned.

The colon contracts in a rhythmic fashion to move the food residue along. If there's not much residue in the colon, it overcontracts and goes into spasm. This starts off the chain of events that leads to spastic colon, constipation, and related problems. By using something to provide sufficient bulk, such as the natural cereal fiber that should occur in eating whole cereals or unrefined cereals, this problem is avoided. The diverticu- la are an outgrowth of prolonged poor bowel function.

Obviously, a chemical laxative is certainly not the answer to this problem. Bulk expander type laxatives are useful in a number of conditions and do not have the same harmful effects. Chemical laxatives propel food through the small intestine too rapidly and end up disturbing the function of the colon. Most specialists in gastroenterology would not recommend a laxative regularly for a person who has diverticula. Quite the contrary, they would recommend a bowel training program directed toward prevention of spastic colon, constipation and related problems.

This is achieved by changing the diet at a suitable time to one that contains a satisfactory amount of bulk and establishing regular bowel habits. One might need to use a bulk expander or, at interims, a small tap water enema in the process of training the bowel. In a nutshell, I do not agree with the type of program you're on if it is being provided to you for a treatment of diverticulosis. WASHINGTON Sett. Charles Percy has a well heeled start as an already avowed presidential aspirant.

Running for reelection last year, the Illinois liberal Republican demonstrated impressive financial backing as well as wide voter support in defeating a Mayor Daley endorsed Democratic Congressman by a 1,146,988 majority. Through a number of campaign committees, Percy collected more than $645,000 and spent $597,000. Contributors included bankers, businessmen, labor organizations and notably Cyrus Eaton of Cleveland, multi millionaire board chairman of Chesapeake Ohio RR, and long time friend of top Kremlin leaders with whom he has exchanged expensive gifts. Another financial supporter ($3,000) was Roger Stevens, wealthy executive director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, huge marble structure on the Potomac in which the government so far has put some $60 million in public funds and is now spending more than $2 million a year for upkeep. Percy's various campaign committees and their financial totals are as follows: Citizens for Percy, Businessmen for Percy, Percy for Senator, Executives for Percy, Lawyers for Percy, 7,240.

Sen. C.H. Percy, Re-elect Percy, Chicagoans for Percy, 3,498, and C.H. Percy Testimonial Dinner, 2,500. Who They Are Biggest single contribution to Sen.

Percy's campaign for a second term was $24,000 from the Republican Senatorial Committee, Washington. This money is listed under the Citizens for Percy Committee. The four other largest contributions also were funnelled through this Committee Senators for '72, New York, Impact Organization, Chicago. Senator Charles Percy. Washington, D.C., Seymour Graham, Marpack Chicago.

$7,500. Other prominent contributors through this Committee were: John D. Rockefeller, N.Y., Laurence Rockefeller, $1,000 Fowler McCormick, Chicago, Edgar Bronfman, head Seagram Distilleries, N.Y., $1,000. Also United Auto Workers V- Chicago, Real Estate Political Education Committee, Chicago, Retail Clerks Active Ballot Club, Chicago, Johnson Johnson Good Government Fund, New Brunswick, N.J., Legislators for '72, New York, Business Industrial Political Action Committee, Washington, Santa Fe Employes Good Government Fund, Chicago, $1,000. Under Businessmen for Percy, the following are listed as contributors: James Linen, of Time, Political Awareness Fund, Los Angeles, Action Committee for Rural Electrification, Washington, United Auto Workers Committee on Political Education, Detroit, Political Action Committee, Arlington, David Rockefeller, Chase Manhattan Bank, N.Y., Norton Simon, head of Hunt Foods and Industries foundation and other funds, leading art patron, 13 808 During a recent radio interview, Percy was asked if a well known sportsman had contributed $25,000.

"I don't know," replied Percy. "The reports have been filed; they are all public knowledge, and I would have to look it up to see who it was and how much was contributed." Marked Man That Exploratory Committee set up by Percy early this year to take soundings on his presidential prospects Is another demonstration of his. financial potency in politics. So far, the committee has taken in $23,000, and spent $17,000. This expenditure went to a "political consulting firm" in Washington.

Heading the committee is Thomas Houser, Chicago attorney and long time political ally of Percy, who has managed several of his campaigns. The 53 year old Illinois liberal Republican has no illusions about his chances of getting any help from President Nixon. He is acutely aware of the letter's widely reported comment that Percy "will never be President as long as I have anything to say about it." Privately, the this disapproval may be an asset. It's not deterring him from continuing to oppose administration's stands which include persistent opposition to Vietnam policies, voting against Supreme Court appointees, the anti ballistic missile and supersonic transport, and co sponsoring the appointment of a special Watergate prosecutor. Percy also is indicating intentjon to vote to override the Presidents of a number of other measures passed by Congress.

It is Percy's belief that "ability to win" will largely determine who the 1976 GOP presidential candidate will be regardless of whether he is in the good graces of the President or not. In Percy's far from modest opinion, he has amply demonstrated "ability to win." Unlike a number of congressional colleagues, Percy, a muiti millionaire, has never made a public disclosure of his personal holdings. Instead, after repeated press efforts to obtain that, he announced he had placed all his assets in a blind trust. Guessing Game As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. Robert Southey, English poet.

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