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Show P"I fyyw "W"mp ' u.np "VWP" Library Of Congress: 60 Million Items On File! 1 V irr f I. : mV I Itvv It started out as By WILLIAM CLAYTON United Press International N collection Originally, Congress created the library for information to members and committees of Congress. Within a short time, it was made available to other government agencies. In 1892, it was made available to tlie people. It lias a dual role now an intensive reference service to Congress and at tlie same time the national library of the United States. of books which he had inyen - Its books and pamphlets and films .. and photos are so jammed into .the ornate old ' granite building that one toried in a ledger annex falls about 2 million square feet Mumford also sought to dispel a few short of doing the job comfortably. other myths about the library. It is not a Those are some of the flavors and The library has several homes now. lending library, except for government ' Use. A high school student in Des Moines failings of the Library of Congress. At The main building is tbe Italian Renaisone time it consisted entirely of Presicannot automatically get everything for sance structure, rich in axhitectural his term paper by asking tlie Library of dent Thomas Jeffersons books, but has the across behind ; treasure, standing and ' Congress (the library usually advises grown now to a national library housing street from the U.S. Capitol. The main such people to try their local libraries nearly 60 million items. ""'t j annex is a sever?, modernistic building first). The; library was once just what the in the next block. a library of (and for) name suggests Tlie library has a special staff asTo overcome the problem of distance,; Congress. Today, it is much' more. signed to answering questions from con-- . - the library has built a pneumatic tube gressmen. Tlie staff prides itself on hail-- ; The Library of Congress is a national system through which books, encased in dling most of these questions in minutes, house. research' clearing . protective coverings, are shuttled be- - although in rare cases it takes days. If is a guide for world catalogue work. tween the main building and the annex. These workers get about 132,000 requests It Is exhibit hall, film theater, art Card catalogue sales are handled at annually for information sought by congressmen. another office. Facilities for the physicalIt is a mukeum. . ly handicapped reader and listener are The cataloguing operation lists books The librarys founding fathers never some blocks away. Some bibliography 1 in 15 languages, from Abazin to Yurak. envisioned any of this. The bill under work ft done Over on Massachusetts When the library completes its ambitious Avenue. which the library was set up in 1800 pro'goal of a worldwide compilation of vided $3,000 for such books as may be In four to five years, the library will - cataloguing, the listing alone will run to necessary for the use of Congress and have a new annex, with 2 million square ... approximately 600 volumes, largest pubup a suitable apartment for feet of space, to house these scattered lishing venture ever. containing them therein." Nowadays, facilities. Even aside from its books, the Libr$3,000 would barely pay the salary of the Until then, the venerable old main ary of Congress is a place of wonders. least of the library's approximately 4,000 building continues almost desperately The domed ceiling of its main reading workers. crowded. The heavily decorated sweep of room rises 195 feet from the floor. EveryThe library was boused, in the Cdpltol its entrance hall and main room are clut- where there is art on the ceilings, along , in 1814 when the British burned the buildtered with partitions., What used to be a the walls, In exhibit space. One counter ing. Jefferson had retired to Monticello,' long, stately room for Congressmen and : holds a Gutenberg Bible, held open by but he offfered his pesonal collection of their ft cubbyholed with offices. plastic clamps and occasionally rested reading books as a new Library of Congress.- Jef- ; Card files line a hallway. by being retired to a shelf. Nearby is the ferson listed the 6,487 in a ledger, giving first rough draft of Abraham Lincoln's nurtures The of matter crush printed them a value of $23,530. Gettysburg Address. tlie myth that the Library of Congress Far overshadowing their dollar value, must book contain each of a that Inside librarian Mumfords richly copy however, was the broad scope of knowlcomes out. ornamented office a painting in the to the contrast in contained, edge they Thats not the case, Librarian L. domed celling sums it all up in Latin: rather more limited subject matter of The written word endures. the old library. Quincy Mumford said. We are selective. . yV b '.?' Wx " ' VWn'. ' ' . .... . DESERET NEWS Jj 1 v. 2 A15 Tuesday, August 5, f969s. He Kept His Sights High a On A Hillilj . , , By HARRY JONES Juarez lives high on the hill overtook-- ? ing tlie beautiful valley and lake. Its ay childhood dream that has been readied ' : by . YOUR HEALTH feet High. 7hot ' Will Night ill It was a bit 'of a struggle. Juarez is Oi'soft?.-- . J. Brown, vice, president - marke- ting. First Security Company . . . '1 Haunt Teddy Hearing Loss Is 'Borderline' By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: My son recently had three hearing tests at school and failed all. A specialist discovered he has nerve damage in both ears that cannot be corrected. My son is alert and does well with his studies, and the doctor said he doesnt need a hearing aid yet; however, he is just borderline. . Can you explain what his chances are for losing his hearing, and why doctors dont like to fit a child with a hearing aid if it can be avoided? We are very concerned. Mrs. T. L. Answer:- - The specialist, knowing the details of your sons problem, can answer your questions more accurately than I can. However, I do not think there is any unwillingness to fit children with hearing aids if they are needed. The point is that your son appears to be doing well In school; a truly deaf child usually is a poor student. Your boy is borderline, and has not reached the stage at which poor hearing prevents him readily. front-learnin- Hearing aids are not exactly inexpensive, and if he can get along successfully without one for a time, it will avoid the expense of having new ones fitted as he grows. In any event,' a hearing aid is not going to correct his nerve damage, but only compensate for it. I take it for granted that you have been told to have the youngster checked at intervals, to see whether any change in condition calls for some other decision. I cannot predict whether his hearing will continue to get worse, and it is quite possible that your specialist cant, either. Every effort should be made, however, to clear up any infection of nose, throat (tonsils and adenoids), sinuses, and the ears, with special concern for a condition called serious otitis. You should also be watchful for any indication that allergy is responsible for any of his trouble. Heredity and physical injury can cause nerve damage, but so can infection is one tiling we can and infection effectively guard against. Dear Dr. Thosteson: I have a blockage of my kidney, and my doctor wants me to have every six months. I would like your honest answer. Is it dantaken? I gerous to have too many am 33. Mrs. A. T. can be Answer: Too .many harmful but every six months isnt too many. It is essential that your doctor keep track of a condition like yours. Dear Dr. Thosteson: At the hospital they found I had diverticulosis. I didn't think it was called this until it became infected, and the doctor said it wasnt. B. H. Answer: You have things reversed diverticulosis is complicated by inflammation, then it becomes diverticulitis. Itis, not osis. You can have diverticulosis without infection being present. You ought la read my booklet, Dont Let Diverticulosis Throw You., when Send 25 cents in coin and a long, stamped envelop? to Dr. Thosteson, care of the Deseret News, DO. Box 1237, Salt Lake City, Utah . 84110. s - WASHINGTON With the possible exception of the one man whom he replaced as majority whip, probably all the Democratic membership of the Senate was distressed and disturbed over the recent plight of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Now that he has returned to the Senate, they are sympathetic and eager to help him. The Senate is a club in both reputation and fact, and even Sen. Tom Dodd, who had lost the respect of most of his colleagues by hir cringing defense of his personal use of campaign funds, has been received with though many scrupulous courtesy have hoped that he would senators resign. With Teddy it is different. For Teddy there has been genuine warmth and affection. This was not true in the case of his two elder brothers. Jack was absent a great deal. He was in the hospital with back trouble. He used to spend part of the winter at his fathers Palm Beach home, from which he came back to explain his negative vote against the Tennessee Valley Authority: I guess I was around too many of Dads economic royalists. Bobby chafed at the routine of the Senate, was frequently absent, never attended committee meetings unless they really interested him, and although his voting record was excellent, he was never a working member of the club. But Teddy has been continously on the job. He picks his Senate battles not because they are easy, but because tiiey affect the broadest segment of the population the little people, in his short period as majority whip Ink Senate record has been magnificent. But old Senate hands, much as they like him, wonder whether he can con-- , tinuc to be effective following the tragedy on one occasion MERRY-GO-ROUN- D of Chappaqulddick. It is not that Senators are prudish. It Is, rather, the memory of that dead girl, left under water for nine long hours when earlier she might have been rescued. Thats the memory they think will come back to haunt Teddy, may in-- , fluence Senate debate. While he is in debate, while he Is drumming up crucial votes on a roll call, while he is arguing in committee, how many Senators will resist the picture of the pretty blonde, abandoned, with her face up, gasping for breath, while their colleague from Massachusetts failed to summon help? In the closed door intensity of party debate, when no record is being transcribed, it would be very easy for an opposing Senator to question Kennedys judgment by asking what kind of judgment he had exercised on the tragic night of July 18. What kind of judgment had he exercised when he passed by the Dyke house, with a light burning, only eight or ten feet from the road and less than a hundred feet from the bridge where the tragedy occurred? And what kind of judgment did the Senator exercise when he passed up other houses to walk back a mile and a quarter to the party cottage and even then not summon help? How can the Senator be so firm in his convictions regarding the need to abolish the oil depletion allowance, some Senator is almost sure to taunt, when he has exercised such erroneous judgment in the past? '' Senators do not say these things in the heat of formal debate, or if they do, they are quickly expunged from the record. But they can be virulent, even bitter, in whispered conversations on the floor or in Senate cloakrooms. It was only 30 years ago that Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee pulled a Bowie knife on Sen. Royal Copeland of New York and lunged at him on the Senate floor. And during tract o truck in foul weath- er conditions. The box-ca- r profile the ruad blocks ahead. One gropes through rain and flying hands spume, gripping the wheel. Just a couple of feet to the side, ?3 tons of steel are rolling along at 60 miles an hour. At last you get around; and behold: Another truck ahead. subcommittee resumes hearings this week on a nll that brings these A House recollections vividly t6 mind. The bill would set new permissible maximum width, weight, and length limits, for the interstate highway system, Truck and bus companies are Ardently supporting the bill ; the American Automobile Association, representing passenger car drivers, is just as dead set Against it. For my own part. I wish there were some way to find a compromise down a middle lane. Proponents of tlie bill make an excellent case up to a point; The present width and load limits were fixed 13 years ago, according to standards laid down in 1546. Since then, the interstate ... ... The Challenge Of Protecting One's Privacy the Civil War, Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina walked over to the Senate floor and, using a heavy walking stick, so beat up Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts that Sumner was incapacitated for three years. It is highly unlikly that Senators who get into a . wrangle with Teddy will pass up the opportunity to ask him how his conscience permitted him to ask the clerk of the Shiretown Inn at 2:25 a.m. to restrain a noisy party next door because he couldnt sleep, when his own conscience permitted him to forget about the girl he had abandoned in his submerged was misquoted: car. Or why did he happen to be wearing the .'first 45 rents he made each itig I Only said, I went to his mother. But there were other a neatly pressed coat and trousers at want to be LET that hour when he later testified that he fringe benefits. Like Russell L. Tracy alone. had jumped into the water with his giving the newsboys a diitie for every . clothes on and swam across Chappaquid-dic- k E on a report card . . . E for exdei-len- t. may People ' channel? , quote her, but its . In some respects it is not that these obvious no one Is But the house on the hill was still a questions will be asked, but rather that listening to V'hat dream. she said. Only last f Teddy will know they could be asked, Orson got himself an education. He which may put a damper on the courage week, a telephoto picture of her .apgraduated from the LDS High School - a pd, and energy of the promising young man peared in many papers showing her takthen junior college went or. to- the i in a from Massachusetts. swim private. ing to study busHill Indian on campus up Modern Senators on the whole are Privacy, od rather the seeming inva- iness administration. o. and kindly respectful. Newspapermen sion of a celebritys privacy, is a very some in Theres selling news and politicians are not. And there rre saleable item. magic papers. It seems to plant a boys feet.sol- many of both who resent the manner in The former First Lady, Jacqueline idly on the ground. Theres no room which the Kennedy juggernaut operates y even though all White here to tell how he became a successful to suppress newspaper criticism of the Kennedy Onassis, House employes were thought to have auto dealer in three cities before joining , Kennedys and to squelch political oppotaken a pledge not to write about her and First Security. vj-vsition to the Kennedy clan. The Kennedy is the her subject family's private lives, He was one of the leaders of banking juggernaut has been quiet of late. But it of a recent book by her former personal who got up from the desk and went ,out ; full scenes in behind the from emerged Mrs. secretary, Mary Gallagher. for business instead of waiting for iir.tjpi ' force the othei; weekend when ghostwritDuring the recent moon shot, all of come into the bank . . . business for the er after ghostwriter, ranging from Robert McNamara to Arthur the astronauts wives and their children bank and to the state. Hes a crack member of Ramptons Schlesinger, who flew all the way back were constantly asked the most personal from Romania, converged on Cape Cod. questions. Raiders he fights as hard as he tUd, to keep his news corner. ,, Alan Westin in his recent book, PriThis is a mass display of strength which arouses resentment, not sympathy., vacy and Freedom, asserted : Life's been good. He has a nice fami' There' are many politicians also who Few values so fundamental to sociely. One daughter, Cheryl, was Miss Utah have come to grips with theKennedy poback in 1956. And this year, his pretty;-wifty as privacy have been left so undefined litical machine, carefully greased, in social theory or have been the subject Evelyn is getting her master equipped with advance men, bands, priof such vague and confused writing by science degree in special education: , vate airplanes, advance publicity and social scientists . . . of . he best But all . . that Evelyn got hundreds of thousands of dollars of camhome on the hill. Privacy is the claim of Individuals, paign funds surreptitiously spent in the groups, or institutions to determine for for. right places but never accounted themselves when, how, and to what vy.,;; Wit's End They, too, have memories and they will extent information about them is comnot be as respectful as Senators. municated to others. I know a girl who looks her best for a The individual desire for privacy Is man . . . shes looked everywhere! never absolute since participation in society is an equally powerful desire., Thus, each individual is continually engaged in personal adjustment process in which he balances the desire for privacy with on weight. At about this point in the dethe desire for disclosure and communicabate, however, the proponents run out of tion of himself to others, in light of the gas; the remainder of their case is much environmental conditions and social less impressive. norms set by the society in which he The bill proposes a Federal length lives. The individual does so in the face limit of 70 feet. Its too much. Oregon of pressures from the ' iriosity of others now allows up to 75 feet on designated and from the processes of surveillance limit, that every society sets in order to highways, and Nevada has a but 27 elates hold to 65 feet, Iowa limits enforce its social norms. In 1970, the U.S. Census Bureau hopes length to 60 feet, and 20 states have a limit. Both the Bureau of Public to survey some CO per cent of the AmeriRoads and AASHO recommended 65 feet. can population by mail, the remaining 40 In asking for this added length, the truck- per ci nt by interview. ers are getting grabby. The c ensus would like tlie answers to Proponents of the bill emphasize that other questions, including the number no state of children ever born, the bill is only permissive income from all would have to approve the higher limits; sources. the value of your property, and they point out that the new dimenyour source of water, your phone numsions would apply to tlie interstate highber, etc. These questions seem relatively innocuous in comparison to the kind of ways only. The answer to this is, or whos kidding whom? Once the questions Congress authorized between 18S0 and 1910: higher limits were authorized, the truckers lobby would roll into high gear; few If an idiot, what is the size of his legislatures would resist. And as spokeshead (large, small or natural)? men for counties and cities have obIf deaf, mute or blind, are his parserved, the new behemoth trucks would ents first cousins or otherwise related? have to get on and come off the inter"If chronically diseased or physicalstate system by way o? old highways and defective bridges not meant for the mastodon size. ly detective, specify disease or of body. "The President sees plenty of pipe; Tho truckers say that larger trucks part If is tlie insane, person Jewish, aids saying 'Get out of Vietnpf will produce economies in freight expenses, which economies in turn will be V.ept in a cell or restrained by a mechanif you really want his attention, but device? passed along to consumers. It seems ical hold up one that tells him HOW!" . doubtful. Consumers have not seen many Ironically, it would seem that most such economies lately. The truth is that people treasure and can control their From photos takon (or tho Dtsertt News pupuli , daily Birthday feature. own privacy, but they enjoy invading this bill would benoi it truck and bus comllill.lim:lllllllil!llllllll!l!lllllllili;i!l!lllli!ll!llillilllllllll!illimi'-it lei's but leave others. that. at panies. Okay, y ... ho 4- . . . ... -- ... p Of Bigger Trucks The At one time or another, every motors ist has known the miserable experience sometimes the terrifying experience of trying to pass a the guy with Ute, infectious smite:,' Now you know why Orson uses the Initial J only oil .his business card. Orson was born down around Juarez'iiT taco land south of 4he border. Actually it was the Church colony down there. family had a huge ranch high in the Siqiv..' ra Madras. Mr. Brown DR. JOYCE 6-Year-- By DREW PEARSON more But when Orson was five the fire- - ' works started it was Independence Day, Mexican style a revolution. Tne family had to flee to the safety of '? the U.S. They made the trip to El Paso'' Tex., by train. It wasnt exactly a first-cabin type trip, because they had, "to share the accommodations with a few cattle! Ho also remembers the flatcars because they carried machine guns. His cousin George Romney of the BROTHERS President's Cabinet came on the ScHtu?', train, and became a cattle puncher just to get enough room to sit down. That train didnt carry any of thS4,' 35,000 head of cattle of the Brown Ranch. So it was quite a change for Orson and 7 the rest of the family to settle in IdbUof ' . and then Utah. i4 f In those days, there was a seniority ' system. You worked a comer and if 'an-- r other newsboy tried to take over, you 'gave him a knuckle sandwich.? Orson came from a long line of guyA-wI want to be alone was said so stuck up for their rights his Jay' many years ago by Greta Garbo that it Orson P. Brown, was a ? in tiler, the standard all appears practically ;, dictionary of quo-- t sheriff in Colonia Morelos. a t i o n s books. So Orson kept his corner. But the Garbo maintains, house high on the hill looked a long v however, that .she away: - is 195 doing than just dream- - gal-ler- v. Ceiling of Library's main reading room y We try to get the really important publications, not only in this country, but also in tlie world. Thom- as Jefferson's personal WASHINGTON The lovely, soaring dome of the main reading room would put many a national capitol to shame. Books travel under the library by pneumatic tubes. A substantial share of the worlds knowledge is within its walls. rW1W1'p CV 'V"p)rv V JAMES J. KILPATRICK highways have come into being. It is a plausible contention that these magnificent freeways are capable of handling wider and heavier loads than the old primary highways could take. The bill would permit the. States to loads authorize an increase in single-axl- e from 18,000 to 20,000 pounds; an increase in tandem-axl- e loads from 32,000 to 34,000 pounds; and an increase in the gross load limit from 73,280 pounds to a higher figure obtained from a length and axle formula. Tlie maximum permissible width would be increased from 96 to 102 inches. These changes are recommended by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roaus. They are not opposed by tlie American AssociOfficials ation of State Highway (AASHO). The point is made that roughly half the states already permit these higher load limits, under a grandfather clause inserted in the basic Federal act of 1936. The proposed increase in maximum width would make it possible for trucks to carry cargoes (such as that come in multiples of eight feet;, the extra six inches, it Is said, also would contribute to greater stability and to greater safety. " So far, so good. The ordinary motorist may wince at tiie greater width, but it is hard to object to the proposed new limits ply-boar- BIG TALK unh-hun- ! |