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Show Thursday. January Opinions IF a TRee Fans , ft Y 1 iN THS I y no W I FoReST arJP tf ons Y it) TueRe To HeaR iT, PoeS iT fr I enate Resists Rule Change everyone Senate does business is arcane and it is time for some changes but no one wants to make any. Reforms are a popu- lar notion, but from time to time, nearly every senator makes He Doesn'f Wonf To Eaf Hs Canine states. Our nation's once fevered tradition of an "open door" has been violated, perverted, profaned. A "legal immigrant" to the United States is subject meticulous scrutiny, medical tests and Paul Harvey frequently years of delays. An illegal comes in any time and makes himself at home. Third World and from Haiti a host of parasitic diseases now infect our stateside population, dis- eases for which Americans have no natural immunity and which our medical professionals are ill equipped to diagnose or to treat. The number of AIDs victims in the United States doubled last year! From the Caribbean and Mexico Dengue Fever. And virulent tropical hemorrhagic fevers which kill half or more of our victims. Tuberculosis had been abolished in the United States, virtually eradicated. - best-know- n, was veering all over the place when it was brought to a.halt by the line: "Shakespeare did not have to contend with" such and low terms as "sugar-fre- e calorie." "How true!" you must concede of that observation. Shakespeare did indeed live before the days of sugar substitutes. Although his works are heavily laced with references to the real thjng, of aspartame and saccharin he says nothing. Would the play about King Richard II have achieved the same degree of literary eminence had Shakespeare written: "Your fair discourse hath been as artificial sweetners...? Or would the Immortal Bard have achieved immortality had he, putting words in Hamlet's mouth, have obliged the Melancholy Dane to mutter, "We do low calorie o'er the devil him- self?" I think not. My gut feeling is that the Avon dramatist would have invented more deathless prose than that devised by i Q minority in the n Senate, defends out- matter how unpopu- When President Ronald Rea gan is inaugurated Jan. 21 for his second term, he will repeat the same oath taken by every American President beginning with George Washington. The time-honore- d oath is prescribed in Article II of the Constitution: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." The oath or affirmation (the Constitution uses both terms) seems so simple in contrast to the awesome powers and crushing burdens of the office! By tradition, four words generally are added to the Constitution-specified version. History says Washington, the first Chief Executive, completed the oath, then with closed eyes whis- pered: "So help me God!" That established a pattern for succeeding Presidents. The oath is taken with the right hand raised and the left hand on the Bible. When sworn Republican senators are saying it's time to stop talking and to begin making changes to help restore its repu- tation as "the world's greatest deliberative Democrats are sitting majority will really act. After all, most of those Republican senators have for years been the minority, and virtually all of them have had occasion to tie the entire legislative process up to block the passage of some bill Senate Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas will this year be responsible to see that some important legislation clears the Senate and he has been one of the leaders in calls for reforms. Dole complained that debate on bills gets "sidetracked for hours and even days" because senators come up with amendments having nothing to do with the issues involved and because of "logjams of essential legislation." Sen. Republican Charles Mathias, who is presiding over this week's hearings, noted that the Senate often "sinks into chaos" but he questioned whether any rules could be enforced. "How are we going to enforce the rules when the Senate is going to be unruly0'' the Maryland Republican asked. All of those concerns are valid, but in the last few years, a few senators have abused their power to make sure they have been heard. There is a big difference in making sure a point of view is heard, and resorting to blocking vital legislation to hold the whole nation hostage over some trivial issue. The Senate must remain the last place on earth where the minority must be heard but since there is an in- creasing tendency to it is abuse that right time for change so the nation's business can proceed. By United Press International St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger ... Deng Xiaoping has discovered capitalism and has told his followers that "... it cannot To nations born in the demoa natural admen for the makers of sugar-fre- e products. After all, it was Shakespeare who wrote that "yon thin grey lines that fret the sky are messengers of the day." A copywriter for a modern advertising agency might simply note that "dawn is breaking." That Shakespeare was hung up on sugary phrases is apparent to even a casual admirer of his works. "Sweet are the uses of adversity," he wrote at one point. And at another, "Sweets to the sweet.' But what words might he have employed if science and textbook publishers had known 1600) what they know now (circa 1985)? Would he have sipped "lite" beer, covered his toast with a then (circa "dietetic" spread or munched ' men shall "beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks." Vice President ment under the Constitution took place April 39, 1789 on the balcony of the Federal Hall in New York City, U.S. capital at that time. Thomas Jefferson, third President, was the first Chief Execu- Coolidge of these is charity." Dwight D. Eisenhower chose verse 12 of the 33rd chapter of Psalms at his second inaugura- - term of his N. La Verl Christensen Editor Emeritus Starting his third term, greatest Cool-idg- e Vermont. The oath was administered by his father, a notary public, by the light of a kerosene lamp. tive inaugurated in Washington, D.C., the new permanent capital. Some presidents have opened the Bible to selected passages for the swearing-i- n ceremony. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President, rested his hand on an ancient family Bible opened to the 13th chpter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians whose 13th verse reads: "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the Calvin succeeded to the White House at the death of president Warren G. Harding. In the emergency, "Silent Cal" took the oath of office at 2:47 a.m. Aug. 3, 1923 at his farmhouse in tion: "Blesed is. the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom He hath chosen from his own inheritance." When Richard M. Nixon took the oath at his first inauguration, his wife Patricia held two family Bibles. Appropriately in that Vietnam War era, the 37th President opened the Bible to Isaiah's vision of a time when was elected to a own in 1924. This time he was sworn in by former President William Howard Taft, serving as Chief Justice in that period. Herbert Hoover, the 31st President, also was sworn in by Taft. It is traditional for the Chief Justice to administer the oath, of course. But that touch of dignity had to be compromised a bit when Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in hurriedly at Dallas after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Nov. 22, 1963. China Getting More Capitalistic cratic fold this seems Dick West in for his first term in 1981, Reagan rested his hand on his mother's bible, held by his wife Nancy. Chief Justice Warren Burger administered the oath. The first presidential inauguration of the new U.S. Govern- Newspaper Samples harm us." reaction, sooner or later, all such nonbelievers will come to their senses. But what is happening in China is not natural, it's revolutionary. ... Deng has tried to soothe his critics by saying that the change will not be that wrenching. But to a nation in which a majority were weaned on strict communist teachings the words ring hollow. To empathize, think for a moment as to what your reaction would be if you picked up tomorrow's paper only to read that the president had declared that democracy would still be considered the preferred belief but that "a little communism will not hurt us." ... This may turn out to be the Chinese leader's largest problem. But for the moment the world should pay heed to this startling charge and lend a hand only when it can be considered a helping hand. "low sodium peanuts? Not for a minute, or however long it takes to stir a cup of kindness sweetened with products from which the sucrose has been removed. Shakespeare, perforce, would have come up with his own warnings and admonitions. "Yon thin grey canapes that fret the hors d'oeuvre table are messengers of obesity," he might have written. Certainly nothing as unpoetic, and unpolitic, as "too many cocktail party tidbits will make The Boston Globe The Reagan administration plan to develop space weapons is now a major issue, both at the negotiating table in Geneva and in the budget debate in Congress. ... The president may actually believe in the dream of a leak-pro- you other Pentagon procurement fat." about its rules. they didn't like. Residential Oath Very Important Censoring Bard? truism. If ever your attention is arrested, you might as well cop a plea. It does no good to say with the poet "Saki," that "his socks compelled one's attention." Very few modern magistrates will accept that as an alibi. You might as well admit that your attention tends to wander and throw yourself on the mercy of the court. My own attention, I'll confess, one-ma- lar his ideas. A (UPI) major textbook publisher is reported to have edited out some of William Shakespeare's if raunchiest, lines from copies of plays sold to Virginia high schools. Maybe the editors felt obliged of protect young minds from Elizabethan smut, Solution by wondering how censorship might affect the continuing controversy over the banning of certain sugar substitutes. As I was browsing through a recent issue of the magazine "Dynamic Years," my attention was arrested by a literary g finds himself a near Helms, who often no From the soul-searchin- on the sidelines waiting to see if the Republican N. He describes the Senate as the last place on earth that one man can stand up and be heard, any condition little body." But an indication that nothing too serious is expected to come of all the talk is that for the time being, at least, the the individual. ' This week the Senate has been involved in a personal use of one of those outdated rules to block a bill he opposes. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-C, is one who is suspicious of changes. dated rules like the filibuster as the bastion of Why Are Teachers WASHINGTON 27 I U.S. in - Page The Herald Comments agrees that the way the I THE HERALD. Provo. Utah. The Herald, its readers, syndicated columnists and cartoonists discuss vital issues Almost The author of a cooking column writes, "We Americans have an untapped nourishment resource in our streets, in our living rooms." He says, "In much of the rest of the world people eat dogs; why don't we?" Instead of us feeding dogs, he says they should feed us. And he's serious. So am I. I don't want to eat my dog and I resent and reject the noxious notion that our enlightened country should be imitating the most backward ones. Carl Sandberg said it: "When a nation goes down or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from." Of all of the debilitating plots concocted by the enemies of our nation, none has been more effective than the Mariel boatlift. Communist Castro was thus allowed to empty his asylums and his prisons and dump the most diseased, depraved and diabolical of his "wretched refuse" on us. Damming the streams of Florida with the carcasses of sacrificed chickens and deploying themselves and their narcotics network across a dozen 17. 1985 missile defense. Other Star Wars proponents more aware of the gaping holes in the concept realize that once the program crosses the hazy line between study and development to deployment, it will dwarf all bringing perhaps a trillion dollars in contracts to the aerospace industry. That estimate was offered by former projects, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger at a recent conference on space weaponry. There is no way to understand the crash program urgency asprosigned to this gram except as an effort to break through the restaint of common sense and impart unstoppable momentum to an unnecessary spending binge. Star Wars is so deeply in the budget and this administraion plans to keep it off the negotiating because altable at Geneva though it is not serious defense, it is very serious money. half-bake- d The (Providence, R.I.) Jouraal- - Buileuu lest one miss Quiet the reaction to President Reagan's renomination of Edwin Meese for attorney general. The outrage that followed Meese's nomination for the post last winter drowned out all else in Washington. ... Leftish journals used the Meese affair as an excuse to list all the Reagan appointees who had ever been charged with anything, however The petty or unsubstantiated. "sleaze factor" became an early campaign issue. Meese demanded an independent investigation of his affairs. ... In September, (special prosee cutor Jacob) Stein issued a report exonerating Meese. Its release was followed in the media and on Capitol Hill by a deafening silence. ... Common Cause, which leaped Shhh! on the bandwagon hounding Meese, has ... issued a re- early port (that) ... says, in essense-tha- t despite the lack of damning evidence, Meese remains a' creep, so there! What the report actually says is that Edwin Meese remains a conservative. This is what galls so many about his nomination. But Congress cannot reject at least historically it has not represidential nominees jected for ideological reasons. ... Meese has been twisting in the wind long enough. Now Reagan has renominated his friend and counselor. He deserves a speedy confirmation. 385-pag- Naugatuck (Conn.) Dally News The import quotas on Japanese automobiles imposed four years ago and extended for a year each year since, have outlived their usefulness. They were imposed originally as a temporary measure to give the American automakers a chance to produce the vehicles people wanted, i.e., smaller cars. the number of the much sought-afte- r Japanese automobiles available to AmeriBy controlling cans, the government helped Detroit pull itself together and 4 ' I, I 7. I, cores L .tf.ii'...., I be in tune with the 1980s. The unemployment problem due to auto industry layoffs here was eased a good deal. In 1980, the industry lost $4.2 billion and this year it shows an estimated $10 to $11 billion prof t. OK, OK, the quotas have done th'r job. but now it is time for a rtiurn to a basic principle of the U.S. economy: The free market. Should the quotas remain in effect, the U.S. auto industry and its workers will have no incentive to work efficiently and truly compete in the world market. '. |
