El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 16

GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND THEIR OWN WAY 'Everrrything liis Underrr Cccontrol' (Thinking jOut Loud film El Paso Herald -Post A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER ROBERT LEE Etfflor Mills avenue and Kansas street Fhone 5SZ-IMI SECTION PAGE 2 Tuesday November 2 1965 Close the Gates The New York mayoralty campaign is further proof that these ceilings are unrealistic Moreover they make virtually every person who runs for Congress an evader of the law The ceilings should be raised for the simple reason that running for office in these times requires a lot more money Make the ceilings realistic and there will be less odor of fraud in election campaigns But equally important make it an ironclad requirement that every penny raised and spent by a candidate or by anyone in his behalf be reported at places where the facts are easily available Congress for years has toyed with the idea of election law reform There was a Kennedy Commission report on such reform that apparently has been pigeonholed Indeed President Johnson when in the Senate fathered a good set of law proposals But these too got nowhere The going to come when some massive election fraud will shock Congress into action But it would be a doggone sight better if the next session without such a shock should overhaul the federal election rules Questions Purpose of Parade EDITOR: I always thought that the purpose of a newspaper was to report the news to the public as accurately as possible Either I am wrong or one of your articles in the Friday Herald-Port leaves much to be desired Students Parade Back UA is a very eyecatching headline The real purpose of the parade was not to demonstrate to Viet Nam they were demonstrating to two Texas Constitutional Amendments which are coming up to our Other news media never even mentioned the Viet Nam issue This arouses my suspicions The real news is reported in the last three paragraphs of the article Please make yoty future stories a little mors accurate BUI Lucker 2718 AAena street We quote verbatim from a press release issued by the college: of Texas Weston College fa El Paso angered by the aati-VM Nam demonstrations ee ether campuses plan a uwrretinu of their own an Friday They parade through downtown El Paso streets during the neon hour carry-teg plnrarile affirming their confidence In UA peBcy and urging voters to show their approval by voting in the Nev 3 rtate TteTnews release from the college went an to quote Fred Craft Association prerident as saying the demonstration grew from a spontaneous desire to da something positive to As OtiIlliwe media apparently did net get the release hut Mr Craft advises ns that ear story was Editor Right to Protest Curtailment Hit EDITOR: We the undersigned would like to express our deep concern over recent action taken by the municipal government The action of the City Council in their session of Oct 28 in rejecting the right of citizens to protest American policy in Viet Nsm is to be deplored Irrespective of the as to the merits of American policy or as to the wisdom of jthe planned protest we feel strongly that the basic constitutional right to tnhh has been curtailed Tha wmI feelings of the city-council men on this policy question should have played an role in (heir decision That it has and that legal grounds to refusal wen not cited by the council reflection on all of us as citizens of this community We strongly urge the council immediately to reverse its decision Individual and group rights must at all times be preserved in our Republic Baxter Folk James Caroline Barbara Blair Joyce Thompson Soto Smith Norma FuDcs Mackey Regers Margaret Salcido LiHa Avila Edward Weir Bernice Le Moose Inas Schweer Mrs JaequeHne WDBngham Frank Scott Viola Haaderson William Calhoun MkJvte Straw John A Hovel Edward A Leonard Reland Femme Mercia GrandstafL William Fisher Paol Scarbrough Lteyd Cooper Day Michael Blue Richard Trexler Carl Jackson Wayne Fuller Kenneth Shover Tim mass Clark Knowlton Robert Darter Jehu Haddax Waite CadweO Ray FMBp Dories John Richards Lee Van Zaat Carte Gisnusni Allen Seksw Hahrard Jehnrnn Richard Rnsaefi Philip Garrirau Robert RiegeL Gourd Dorothy Strand Thornton Fenfield EAvard Richeenw Richard WMmayer Kan Dana StOley Eleanor Hall Robert Tappaa Mr gpyrapauha Richard Spiete John a West Tony Stafford LOBan Coffingwood Robert Burlingame Raymond LaFeataiae Robert Each NeDa Francis (The signatories are testmctora or adbilnlrtrativo staff members at Tanas Western College) Should Let Protestors Be Heard EDITOR: Of course we all make mistakes during our lifetime but the refusal by the City Council of the request of former TWjC students to demonstrate in tho plaza was inexcusable I Regardless of your or my opinion the Constitution of the United States gives the individual tha right to protest or state bis views I quote here a remark made by Oscar Wilde many years ago when he said regarding a moral situation in France miHton Frenchmen be We should not forget that the of today will guide the ship of state and country Also I wonder how many millions of adults approve at the pitty-pat warn in North Viet Nam where the foe can attack our equipment and troops any time they choose Many conscientious Objectors are cowards" I personally back up the United Mates occupation of Viet Nam but ws should be morn Arthur Vaflmaar 8712 Fart beulevard American Revolution 1965 Ahead? What better time to consider the need for reform of our election laws than on a day like this when millions of voters in states across the nation are going to the polls? The basic fault is that so far as federal elections are concerned from primaries or conventions through the general election there Is no adequate system for ascertaining what candidates spend or what Is spent in their behalf This opens wide the gates that could lead to fraud One knowledgeable estimate Is that persons running for office in the last presidential year spent about $200 million The mayoralty campaign that ends with election in New York City apparently has cost each of the two principal contenders about $15 million and certainly not the whole total spent in their behalf Federal law says candidates for the US Senate in next election can spend up to $25000 and candidates for the House up to $5000 unless state laws Impose lower ceilings The same law says each of the two national committees may raise and spend $3 minion each but so pan any other committee that operates In two or more states Think As time marches on it is increasingly apparent that one thing Is practically bound to lead to another In the words of the poet you cant win all The Post Office recently began switching from railroad cars to highway trucks to transport mail city to city This is supposed to speed up service and cut costs But it also cuts revenue for passenger trains many of which already were in the red from airplane and auto competition Railroads are hurrying to caned unprofitable runs just as the government Is appropriating millions to strengthen passenger service This Is an era of credit cards They are a great convenience to travelers who can avoid carrying a wad of money and maybe having their pocket picked they speed up bookkeeping saving money for the stores and restaurants But smart crooks have found ways to cheat with the cards costing the same stores and restaurants many annual millions There always will be we suppose schemers to develop on each new bit of progress Peace Corps at Five years ago today John Kennedy called for creation of a in a campaign speech at San Cow Palace The scoffers immediately said it would never work But now evident the Corps is an extremely creative force In American and an over-all success More thaw 10000 volunteers are In 46 countries Two thousand more are In training In many African nations the Corps has become a vital part of the And down In Miami we are extending democracy and fighting injustice by receiving new hordes of refugees from Communist dictatorship In Miami as elsewhere we are engaged in a war on poverty But this sudden migration threatens the jobs of many Miamians also threatens to incite new racial trouble at a time when the heat over desegregation has been dying down The railroads will solve their problems in time we think whenever the government removes its nose from their business and allows them to compete for freight Stricter security precautions will foil the credit card thieves or at least greatly limit their take The rest -of the country is morally bound to welcome some of the Cuban refugees thus sharing the obligation of hospitality with Miami But even these adjustments will produce new and often unexpected problems As they used to say in high school science every action begets an equal and opposite reaction What the country seems to need is more thinking ahead Society ment-guaranteed annual wage for everyone whether productive work was available for them or not Under his scheme people would Government checks perhaps for their entire working lives by doing social work or by merely staying in school Wilbur Cohen Health Education and Assistant Secretary to Legislation who is perhaps more responsible to the Social Security and Medicare programs than any other individual is somewhat more cautious one can really predict where we are he said recently are in the beginning of a wave Five yeers ago no one could have predicted we'd be this far today" ASSESSMENTS of the revolution (he calls it would have been rejected as dangerously radical in the early days of the New Deal Today they are almost classically conservative and deal in terms of shorter work weeks longer vacations and earlier retirement His most visionary nation today is the speculation that 25 years hence it may be commonplace for industrial workers to be given a sabbatical year with pay to travel rest or education and to remove them from the labor force The problem faced in trying to find values to replace toil and insecurity is that no society on earth has ever been affluent enough even to dream of a day when privation and drudgery would disappear No one quite knows what will happen if (and some authorities insist it is a big genuine lowercase cradle-to-grave social security ever becomes a reality The same thing is true of Medicare Government health insurance to the aged has outraged many doctors terrified hospital administrators and appalled star tiartriaw- But now that it is law it is difficult to pin down any real bedrock estimates of what it will da To its many detractors is an apparatus that will dilute and eventually destroy the relatively high level of medicine in the United States They point to the experience in Britain where three decades have proved insufficient time to iron out the bugs in a health scheme marked by doctor discontent since its inception Workless (Second of a Series) By RICHARD STARNES IIMU jtcrtppft-rfowora avow wrnor WASHINGTON In the American spectrum of virtues hard work is always in there fighting with mother love for first place In Puritan New England idlers were a good bet to wind up in the stocks Benjamin Franklin got rich by coining homely aphorisms celebrating the benefits of being early to bed and early to rise A century later Elbert Hubbard did the same thing extolling the benefits of honest toil until he became the leading prophet of rugged individualism Messrs Hubbard and Franklin would shudder at some of the thinking today Men concerned with die sort of nation which will emerge from the social revolution now going on foresee a time when work in its ancient and honorable sense will all but vanish Farm and factory fishing ground and mineshaft all will be tended by machines requiring very little human supervision PEOPLE MAY NEVER become obsolete but human hands as tools of production are almost certain to become quaint anachronisms Men whose thinking already has turned the corner into the 21st Century are deeply concerned at how society can retain its equilibrium when its two great balance wheels work and die quest for security have lost their significance It is true that we have not yet proceeded to the point of paying people for not working (except in retirement or on such shortterm basis as unemployment insurance) But few economists have not crossed slide rules with the problem and their answers have ranged from reasonably conservative proposal for ever earlier retirement (rejected by many as undesirable because it junks individuals near the peak of their abilities) to far-out proposals for Government subsidies co keep individuals off the labor market indefinitely Ferry in a document published by the Center tar tn Study of Democratic Institutions sent editorialists to their typewriters by proposing a Govern- Supporters of Medicare counter by pointing to Sweden which has possibly the highest level of public health in the world and the most highly developed system of government-supported medicine Neither case Is particularly analogous to the United States In spite of its problems most observers agree health scheme has worked reasonably welL And in spite of the success their system is not without some serious flaws But neither country has had to meet the same problems that will confront the United States Neither has any significant racial minority neither has our formidable problem of sheer size WHATEVER PITFALLS and roadblocks may be encountered it seems plain that to the United States Medicare is only a beginning Federal spending to medical research is expected to triple in the next decade possibly reaching $4 billion by 1975 Ten years hence public and private spending for health and medical care is calculated to reach the neighborhood of $85 billion annually In 1932 it was around $32 billion But more than simply a quantitative change is in prospect The bulk of spending to health win be done by government and most of left will be done by private insurance plans group health associations labor union welfare plans etc The individual who pays his own medical bills seems to be on the road to extinction More than economics is Involved in the coming revolution in medicine Equally far-reaching changes are taking place in the actual practice of medicine Group practice team treatment what worried doctors calMhe treatment is an unavoidable consequence of the dramatic advances which have been made and will be made in medical science Few who recently watched the President sign a $349 million cancer-heart disease stroke research bill doubted that these ancient scourges would one day be conquered But there is no such widespread confidence in the ability to make the boons of modern medicine available to all who need it NEXT: Revsiutioa conies to daotioo In Old El Paso school systems In Latin America its community development projects have raised living standards In food-short India where Hindus eat beef UJS volunteers have increased chicken and egg production a thousand-fold Other developed nations have followed our lead and put their own corps in the field We congratulate director Sargent Shrlver and his staff and the thousands of volunteers young and old who happily have accepted rugged living to do such useful Jobs TEN YEABS AGO mn ns is row me ms Mac Murchison at El Paso was trying again today to speed up a final decision by the Veterans Administration on suspension ef Ms Mortgage Investment Co from participating in the GL loan guarantee program A cool front moving into Texas will drop temperatures tonight 10 degrees under last night's 54 the Weather Bureau announced Judge Wm Ward has set Dec 2 as a tentative date for hearing on the city's suit to compel a reduction of Upper Valley telephone rates Alderman Tam Burnham was approached today at City Hall by a couple seeking a city mar-riaga permit they made him their best man With the holidays ahead you blame a turkey far turning chicken when the farmer brtnge out the ax Editor's Corner By Lee FIFTY YEARS AGO mn Tha Hmld af Nav Ifll Reports in Juarez of an unconfirmed nature claim that Villa is to get supplies cf ammunition from Japan on the west coast Ernest Ayton a British subject who was bring held by Mexican troops at San Juan de Heredia Durango has been released A bunting party composed of Wingo Elite Wingo and Lea veil left over the Southwestern Sunday morning to Mescaiero NJf to a week of hunting in the Sacramento Mountains El Ftso Hone Show Assn is showing some very convincing signs that the hone show to be held at Washington Park Nov 25 28 and 27 will be nothing abort of a huge declared A Krskauer today TWENTY-FIVE YEABS AGO Tm Hnn ran we Traffic Captain Snider today said the reserved parking zone to Constable Cook on the Wert ride of the Court House will be reduced to take care of four cars two to tha constable and 2 to the justice of the peace Charges that the Phelpe Dodge Refining Carpi promised to reward employes who would supply information on CIO onion activities and that the company formed a labor union to combat CIO activities win be heard at a National Labor Relations Board hearing in the Federal Courthouse today Mrs Mary Downer of 2121 San Jose street dropped a purse containing $80 and some change in Plaza Park yesterday The purse contained important personal papers Congress Acts for Conservation The Fence By DR CONNER Twenty-four thousand fans minus tile ones who favored Arizona sat stunned Saturday night as tho Temps Arizona a football team returned to ye gridiron after halftime and beat the Texas Western Miners Ruefully Coach Dobba ruminated that they meaning us let the thing get away on they or ns and we got beat But to all such circumstances there is always a bright iM and out of this detent will come an outstanding and tiirill-ing development Now front nut of the nowhere there will appear on ye gridiron again with proper publicity fan fare the one and only invincible fancy-stepping lovely girl r-iij Diggers pm and I had to drive down to the neighborhood store for more saw so many I said A few minutes later my bride answered the bell or treat smell my feet me something been here said my bride accusingly have said the small voice explains a I said A relative quiet descended about 8:30 pm with only a few late-com-ers collecting their loot thereafter They got bigger as the night wore on Virtually the last callers were three boys well over the age of costuming When we opened the door they burst into song wish you a Merry Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas and a HAPPY NEW they chorused And fled giggling into the night IT WAS THOUGHTFUL of them I guess but really not quite ready for Christmas let alone the new year Despite all the dire threats that were voiced throughout our town Sunday night I know of a single trick that was played Unless of course you consider what happened Baturday night at the Sun Bowl Texas Western treated Arizona State and Arizona State tricked them anyhow Horribly "Trick or treat smelt my feet "Give me something good to eat" what the small goblin at the door said and it so charmed my bride that she gave him an extra piece of candy It was that kind of Halloween up at our place Sunday night WHAT WITH THE population explosion and all it seems to me that more kids than ever before were out doorbell ringing They started as soon as darkness fell and they kept going until 9 pjxt which obviously must be the curfew hour in most El Paso homes It was not all ghosts and goblins by any means Daniel Boone rang our doorbell So did a flapper from the Roaring Twenties Likewise devils and a fairy princess We ran relays to the doors my bride my daughter and I To me each small figure waiting with an open bag was Just another small figure completely unidentifiable Not so to my bride and daughter they would say Peggy How are you Mike? You're late And so on Obviously they knew them all dozens of them I had not realised my neighbors were quite so prolific As already noted the flow of children was in excess of recent years We ran out of goodies around 8 The Rivers and Harbors Act provides to the Dickey-Lincoln School Dam above the confluence of the St and A1 la-gash Rivers in Maine This means that the ADagash will not be dammed and this great wild river of the East wiH be saved to canoeists City folks will get more benefit from farm subsidies Farmers will be paid to take land out of production to use it to open space conservation and recreation The Housing Act provides funds to cities to acquire a built-up area clear it and turn it back into open space Grants are provided for landscaping and beautification In signing the Highway Beautification Act President Johnson said it not all we wanted or aH the people deserve But we have to crawl before we can walk He added: assure jou we are going to niii waste disposal act authorizes research to find ways to dispose of solid waste such as metallic junk It gives the Secretary of Health Education and Welfare authority to require all cars to have exhaust control beginning in 1988 A Mg achievement Is the Water Resources Planning Act It establishes a Water Resources Council of members of the Cabinet with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall as chairman Construction agencies like the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation will have to respect fish and wildlife and natural recreation values before dams can win approval of this council Joint federal and state river basin-planning commissions are authorized to plan the conservation and use of the waters of the basin as a unit rather than piecemeal NEW ENGLAND has already asked to such a commission 9f EDWARD I MEEMAN li illHH llRMnl CsmsrwHoii Edttor The 88th Congress earned the name and the 89th if it continues when it resumes in January the kind of work done in its first year will inherit that good name This Congress set aside 11 new park areas asked by the National Park Service chief of which are the As-sateague Island National Sea- Mecmaa shore and the Delaware Water Gap and Whiskeytown Recreation areas the latter in California The Water Quality Act provides well -designed machinery to federal and state action to clean up the streams and lakes of America The clean air and BWNvaHinas sonitas sscmi (a mind that thieves had taken his hat and coat and wallet and $158 but when they tori: hit false teeth that was too much 1 4.