European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes saturday september 16, 1967 just what is a metaphor if not Lor mixing by Dick West Washington up Sev eral organizations in this country maintain congressional rating systems to help us confused laymen appraise our lawgiver. Which is mighty thoughtful of , however you compare their score sheets you encounter certain contradictions. Con Gressmen who get High Mark from one group receive Low grades from another and on the same subjects. This May leave a Layman More confused than Ever. It was for this reason that i recently began keeping my own scorecard. In my first interim report last june i put co Gresson probation for legislative deficiency but gave it an a i rhetoric and composition. I reasoned that no Congress that had a member who could describe a presidential message As being a lot of hot air mixed with some watered Down proposals could be All bad. In fact i went so far As to predict that congressional in fluence on american speech an letters would enable the United states to regain the world s mixed metaphor  prediction was promptly challenged by Jack Loughner managing editor of the san Francisco daily commercial news. In my chauvinist Way. I fee the title never has left our shores Loughner  said the record was set some years ago by the lat James v. Mcsheehy a san Francisco City official who declared that a certain Issue is water Over the Bridge and nowt is coming Back to haunt  very Well. Maybe the title does already reside in this country. But Mcsheehy s record no longer stands. It was broken just a few weeks ago by Fred v. Heinkel head of the  association. In com mending president Johnson for reducing Dairy imports Heinkel said we would have had Mil running out our ears if the president had not taken the bully the  furthermore Heinkel undoubtedly was influenced by such congressional phrase makers Asres. Gerald r. Ford r-mich., and Samuel l. Levine  Ford if Lincoln were alive today he would be turning Over in his  said Devine the image of this country has gone downhill As the result of soft headed  m not certain that Ford s assertion was original but certainly a downhill image is enough to cause entombed rotations by any resurrected  Congress has returned from its labor Day recess it will be interesting to see if it can continue to enrich our , As the trojans used to say Don t take any  irate alumnus drops bequest of $250,000 Philadelphia a University of Pennsylvania alumnus reportedly has with drawn his $250,000 bequest to the institution because of an editorial in the school newspaper calling for the resignation of University president Gaylord p.  paper the daily pennsylvanian in a copyrighted Story thursday said James Miller Gicker of Philadelphia informed them of the withdrawal in a Tele phone  editorial portions of which were picked up in news papers and quoted on the radio appeared last april 27.the daily pennsylvanian quoted Gicker As saying the University would pay for the Way the editorial was handled. A piece of paper Jefferson b. Fordham Dean of Penn s Law school of which Gicker is a graduate refused to comment other than to printout a bequest is Only a piece of paper until the person Dies an happily this gentleman has not  paper quoted Gicker As saying before or. Harnwell gets slopped out Over the air Waves of a 30-state area i thin the graduate alumni who have nothing but love in their heart for the University should be  germ warfare the editorial in question suggested the 63-year-old Harnwell should step aside in favor of a younger Man. It criticized him for his role in germ warfare studies which had been conducted by the University until re  said later he heard excerpts of the editorial read on local radio broadcast. This offended me and my wife deeply he said. I feel that the alumni should be consult Dover such matters before they go into print and become Public Issue that we have to hear about on the  said he did t care about the germ warfare Contro Versy one Way or the other. But i think this was shabby treat ment of the  City wins skirmish Over train no ticket to Georgia on Chattanooga Choo Choo Chattanooga Tenn. A Chattanooga won a skirmish wednesday in its Battle wit Georgia Over the final resting place of the general a famed locomotive stolen by Union sol Diers during the civil War. Chancellor Ray Brock after spirited hearing on a temporary court order to prevent removal of the antique Wood Burner to Georgia ruled that Chattanooga had made a Strong enough Ca Sefor him to keep the order in Force. General captured Chattanooga Cit officials seize the general whose ownership has become a major problem. Mayor Ralph Kelley leans from the cab while from left commissioners Bookie Turner a. L. Bender. Dean Peterson and Steve Conrad stand guard. A this Means that Chattanooga temporarily at least gets to keep the general which it has come to feel is the original Chattanooga Choo Choo. But the Louisville & Nashville Railroad immediately filed a new motion to sidetrack the in Junction. And Georgia gov. Lester Maddox already had announced that his state will a peal an Adverse , Cobb county ga., solicitor Ben Smith announced he would ask Georgia s attorney general to go to Feder Al  Georgia wants the relic enshrined at Kennesaw ga., where the Union soldiers swiped i from under the noses of the confederacy in april 1862. Chattanooga which swiped i again Early tuesday wants it returned for keeps to this Cit where it was on Public display for some 70 years. At one Point during the hear ing Chattanooga City atty. Eugene Collins suggested that no body has title to the locomotive because it was civil War Contra band. Submitted As part of Chattanooga s evidence were two pamphlets indicating the old Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad since merge with the in intended to enshrine the general in Chattanooga As a Public Trust. It also was noted that Public funds were collected to restore the general in Chattanooga in1891, and it was maintained by funds dropped in a Coin Box out Side the Union station where the general was displayed for some70 years. The general appears on the City s official Seal. Maddox in fking9-size juror Over Story Asheville . Up Georgia gov. Lester Maddox wednesday threatened to have United press International re porters thrown out of his office because of a up dispatch tuesday night on the Southern governors conference. Maddox referred to a dispatch which said Georgia governor Lester mad Dox accused Dixie governor tuesday of bowing to King Johnson by permitting the race Issue to be injected in the Southern governors  brandishing a copy of the dispatch Maddox said these words were not uttered. Any body who printed a lie like they did and does not apologize will not be Welcome in the governor s office. I am person ally going to invite them outland if they Don t go out i m going to have them  the up erred in ascribing the full quotation King Lyndon Johnson to Maddox. The Georgia governor used Only the word King but in a context to g o you \\0\\,tk& for the tadpole that made it Clear he was referring to the president. He told the governors the should be like John Hancock who wrote his name big on the declaration of Independence even though he knew the King would t like  we should speak with More truth about problems facing us he said. We should Tel the truth about the civil situation in our country. The riots did not have to be. We should speak out to protect the life and property of our people. That s our main responsibility. It looks like the governors Are taking the position that the King May not like what they relaying or the president May not like it and they re no speaking out Maddox said. The quotation Marks in up tuesday dispatch were mis placed. The paragraph should Nave referred to King Lyndon Johnson instead of King Lyndon